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Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946, in Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
, England
England

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) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
. He has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
, Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter is the name of:* Ian Hunter , English singer-songwriter, formerly frontman of Mott the Hoople* Ian Hunter , South African/British actor...
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
, Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. It evolved from a Paul Kantner album project entitled Blows Against the Empire , featuring an ad-hoc group of all-star musicians who called themselves Jefferson Starship....
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Whitesnake
Whitesnake

Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
, Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar

Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
, UFO
UFO (band)

UFO is a British hard rock/heavy metal music band formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal music and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, and Journey
Journey (band)

Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
.

as almost the drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an English/American rock music band that formed in London in 1966. Originally comprising American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until 1969, in which time they released three successful studio albums....
 when in an audition Hendrix was unable to decide to pick either Dunbar or Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell

John "Mitch" Mitchell was an England drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience....
 - the latter won Hendrix's coin flip.

Dunbar led the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, who wrote
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
 the song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 "Warning", covered
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
 on their debut album.






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Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946, in Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
. He has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
, Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter is the name of:* Ian Hunter , English singer-songwriter, formerly frontman of Mott the Hoople* Ian Hunter , South African/British actor...
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
, Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. It evolved from a Paul Kantner album project entitled Blows Against the Empire , featuring an ad-hoc group of all-star musicians who called themselves Jefferson Starship....
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Whitesnake
Whitesnake

Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
, Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar

Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
, UFO
UFO (band)

UFO is a British hard rock/heavy metal music band formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal music and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, and Journey
Journey (band)

Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
.

Career

He was almost the drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an English/American rock music band that formed in London in 1966. Originally comprising American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until 1969, in which time they released three successful studio albums....
 when in an audition Hendrix was unable to decide to pick either Dunbar or Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell

John "Mitch" Mitchell was an England drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience....
 - the latter won Hendrix's coin flip.

Dunbar led the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, who wrote
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
 the song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 "Warning", covered
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
 on their debut album. Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation issued a number of album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s.

Subsequently, Dunbar founded a short-lived progressive rock band called Blue Whale, which debuted with a tour of Scandinavia in January 1970. Following the recent collapse of the original lineup of King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
, Dunbar unsuccessfully tried to recruit Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson....
 as Blue Whale's guitarist. Fripp, in turn, unsuccessfully tried to recruit Dunbar as King Crimson's new drummer.

Dunbar was later the drummer for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, featuring on album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s such as Waka/Jawaka
Waka/Jawaka

Waka/Jawaka is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1972. The album is the jazz music-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo, and, as the front cover indicates, sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats....
, and The Grand Wazoo
The Grand Wazoo

The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent Zappa's foray into big band Fusion , the logical progression from Hot Rats, which used a much smaller lineup....
, as well as the film 200 Motels
200 Motels

200 Motels is a 1971 in film musical film film featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, produced at Pinewood Studios, England. Directed and written by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, with special material written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and Jeff Simmons ....
. In 1974 he played on the soundtrack for "Dirty Duck", a Chuck Swenson adult animated movie. In the mid 1970s, Dunbar joined Journey for their first four albums; he left and joined Jefferson Starship for three albums. In 1985, Dunbar joined Whitesnake, and drummed on their 1987 album, Whitesnake
Whitesnake (album)

Whitesnake is the eighth studio album by British hard rock band of the same name , released in 1987. The album was a major crossover hit and one of the top-selling albums in the glam metal genre, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States alone ....
. He also spent some time working with Eric Burdon
Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
 and The Animals
The Animals

The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
.

More recently, in 2005, he drummed on Jake E. Lee
Jake E. Lee

Jakey Lou Williams , known as Jake E. Lee is a guitarist best known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne and the band Badlands ....
's solo
Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context....
 Retraced
Retraced

Retraced is a Jake E. Lee solo album....
 album.

Currently, Dunbar is recording a new album of material for Direct Music with Mickey Thomas of Starship, and musicians such as Jake E. Lee, former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne.

Discography


With Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

  • The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (1968)
  • Doctor Dunbar's Prescription (1969)
  • To Mum, From Aynsley & The Boys (1969)
  • Remains To Be Heard (1970)


With Blue Whale

  • Blue Whale (1971)


With John Mayall & Bluesbreakers

  • A Hard Road
    A Hard Road

    A Hard Road is a 1967 Electric Blues album recorded by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Peter Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums and John Almond....
     (1967)
  • Looking Back (1969)
  • So Many Roads (1969)
  • Thru The Years (1971)


With Frank Zappa

  • Chunga's Revenge
    Chunga's Revenge

    Chunga's Revenge is an album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970. Zappa's first effort of the 1970s marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie on a Zappa record, and signals the dawn of a controversial epoch in Zappa's history ....
     (1970)
  • Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971)
  • 200 Motels
    200 Motels (soundtrack)

    The 200 Motels OST is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa's 200 Motels....
     (1971)
  • Just Another Band from L.A.
    Just Another Band from L.A.

    Just Another Band from L.A. is a live album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1972 . It was recorded live in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA....
     (1972)
  • Waka/Jawaka
    Waka/Jawaka

    Waka/Jawaka is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1972. The album is the jazz music-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo, and, as the front cover indicates, sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats....
     (1972)
  • The Grand Wazoo
    The Grand Wazoo

    The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent Zappa's foray into big band Fusion , the logical progression from Hot Rats, which used a much smaller lineup....
     (1972)
  • Apostrophe (')
    Apostrophe (')

    Apostrophe is an album by Frank Zappa, his eighteenth, released on April 22, 1974 in both Stereophonic sound and quadraphonic formats. An edited version of its lead-off track, ?Don?t Eat the Yellow Snow?, was Zappa?s first chart single, reaching position 86....
     (1974)
  • Playground Psychotics
    Playground Psychotics

    Playground Psychotics is a two-CD live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It was originally released in 1992 through his mail order label, Barking Pumpkin, and was re-released in 1995 through Rykodisc....
     (1992)
  • Joe's Domage
    Joe's Domage

    Joe's Domage is an album featuring music by Frank Zappa, posthumously released on October 1, 2004. It is the second in a series of releases put together by archivist Joe Travers which started with Joe's Corsage ....
     (2004)


With David Bowie

  • Pin Ups
    Pin Ups

    Pin Ups is a 1973 covers album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records . It was his last studio album with the bulk of 'The Spiders From Mars', his backing band throughout his The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars phase; Mick Woodmansey was replaced on drums by Aynsley Dunbar....
     (1973)
  • Diamond Dogs
    Diamond Dogs

    Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released by RCA Records in 1974. Thematically it was a marriage of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Bowie's own glam-tinged vision of a post-apocalyptic world....
     (1974)

With Lou Reed

  • Berlin
    Berlin (album)

    Berlin is a 1973 album by Lou Reed, his third solo album and the follow-up to Transformer . In 2003, the album was ranked number 344 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     (1973)


With Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson

Mick Ronson was an England guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer. He is most well known for his work with David Bowie from 1970 to 1973, Bowie's glam rock period, including being part of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars band....

  • Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1974)
  • Play Don't Worry
    Play Don't Worry

    Play Don't Worry is the second album by former member of The Spiders From Mars, Mick Ronson. It contains mainly covers arranged by Ronson for his own sound, covering everyone from Pure Prairie League, The Velvet Underground, and Little Richard....
     (1975)


With Ian Hunter

  • All American Alien Boy
    All American Alien Boy

    All American Alien Boy is the second solo album of Ian Hunter. Because of management issues, Mick Ronson wouldn't appear on this album. Instead he brought in Chris Stainton in order to act as balancing force in the studio....
     (1976)


With Journey

  • Journey
    Journey (album)

    Journey 's self-titled debut album, Journey, was released in 1975 on the Columbia Records label. Unlike their later recordings, the debut release is a progressive rock album, in the jazz-fusion vein....
     (1975)
  • Look into the Future
    Look into the Future

    Journey second album, Look into the Future, was released in January 1976 on the Columbia Records label.For their second album, the members of Journey toned down the overt progressiveness of their first, self-titled release, in favor of a more focused, commercial approach....
     (1976)
  • Next
    Next (Journey album)

    Next is the third album by Journey , and was released in 1977 .Journey continued the formula from 1976's Look into the Future, but this album retains much of Journey's jazz-flavored progressiveness from the first album....
     (1977)
  • Infinity
    Infinity (album)

    Journey 's fourth album, Infinity, was released in May 1978 on the Columbia Records label.Looking for a stronger lead vocalist, Journey briefly enlisted front man Robert Fleischman and even recorded one track, "For You", which would later appear on the Time 3 collection, and Fleischman's solo album, Perfect Stranger....
     (1978)

With Sammy Hagar

  • Nine on a Ten Scale
    Nine on a Ten Scale

    Nine on a Ten Scale is Sammy Hagar's first solo album....
     (1976)

With Jefferson Starship

  • Freedom at Point Zero
    Freedom at Point Zero

    Freedom at Point Zero is a 1979 album by Jefferson Starship. It was the first album for new lead singer Mickey Thomas . The single, "Jane", peaked on the charts at #14....
     (1979)
  • Modern Times
    Modern Times (Jefferson Starship album)

    Modern Times is a 1981 album by Jefferson Starship. Grace Slick appeared on this album after a three-year absence. She returned near the end of the recording sessions, providing background vocals on some tracks as well as lead vocals on "Alien" and lead vocals on the single "Stranger" as a duet with lead singer Mickey Thomas ....
     (1981)
  • Winds of Change
    Winds of Change (Jefferson Starship album)

    Winds of Change is a 1982 album by Jefferson Starship. It was the first studio album produced after Grace Slick rejoined the band as a full member....
     (1982)


With Whitesnake

  • Whitesnake
    Whitesnake (album)

    Whitesnake is the eighth studio album by British hard rock band of the same name , released in 1987. The album was a major crossover hit and one of the top-selling albums in the glam metal genre, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States alone ....
     (1987)


With UFO

  • Covenant
    Covenant (UFO album)

    Covenant is the 16th album by the British hard rock band UFO . It is a limited edition 2-disc album, with disc 1, entitled Covenant, containing entirely new material, and disc 2, entitled UFO Live USA, containing a collection of classics performed live....
     (2000)
  • Sharks (2002)


With Jake E. Lee

  • Retraced
    Retraced

    Retraced is a Jake E. Lee solo album....
     (2005)


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