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Doane Ethredge Perry is an American musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

, composer and author. He has been working since 1984 as drummer and percussionist with Grammy award winning band Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

Early life

From New York City, Perry began playing the piano at age seven and then took up drums at eleven. After hearing The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

, he decided to take up drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

because of what he describes as "the possibility, however unlikely that might have been, of young girls chasing me down the street if I took up the drums." By the time he was 14, he was working with his own band on weekends, and continued to do so until he graduated high school at the age of 17.

He attended Browning, St. Bernard's and Collegiate Schools in New York City. Later he briefly attended New York University and extension programs at The New School, Rutgers, and Juilliard, followed by extensive private musical study in Jazz and Orchestral Percussion.

Musical career

By the time Perry was 18, he turned professional while simultaneously attempting to attend college. This led to a serious conflict, finally resolved when he opted to pursue music full time. He began gaining a broader musical background, in a wide variety of styles, which included genre

Genre

Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

s such as Rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, Pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

, Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, Fusion, R&B, Classical, World and Folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

. He has appeared on over 100 successful records within his musical career in various musical capacities as a performer, composer and producer, that have achieved gold to multi-platinum status. He has worked with Lou Reed, Pat Benatar, Bette Midler, Todd Rundgren, Teo Macero Big Band, Stan Getz, Michael Brecker, Anouska Shankar, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Peter Cetera, Dweezil Zappa, David Foster, Michael Omartian, Marc Shaiman, Snuffy Walden, Diane Warren, Bernie Taupin, Kitaro, Jon Anderson, Greg Lake, Dionne Warwick, Phyllis Hyman, Michel Colombier, Liza Minnelli, Peter Allen, Laura Branigan, Dragon (a.k.a. Hunter), Tommy Emmanuel, Vince DiCola, Thread, Maxus, Jess Roden, Bobby Kimball, Gary Brooker

Gary Brooker

Gary Brooker, MBE, is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and founder of the rock band Procol Harum. Brooker was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 14 June 2003, in recognition of his charitable services.-Early life:Brooker was born in...

, Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

, The Chieftains, Dave Mason, Bill Champlin, Brenda Russell, Jim Messina, Katey Sagal, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Charles Aznavour, Jimmy Giuffre Big Band, Baird Hersey and the Year of the Ear, Spencer Davis, Martha and The Vandellas, amongst dozens of others, in addition to the many other accolades that fill his resume. He has worked extensively on television and film scores, TV commercials and Broadway shows, in addition to many records, DVD's and tours with internationally renowned artists, having been a highly sought after drummer for years before landing a spot in Jethro Tull, one of the most acclaimed, ground breaking, unique and intricate of progressive rock bands.

Member of the faculty of the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, Ca. from 1988-1996.
He continues to perform solo clinics at Drum Festivals and Music Colleges around the world.
In 1992, released a critically acclaimed instructional video entitled “Creative Listening”, still widely used in the curriculum of music schools in the USA and abroad.

Jethro Tull

In 1984 Perry joined Jethro Tull as drummer and percussionist to replace Gerry Conway

Gerry Conway (musician)

Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...

. He is the second member of Jethro Tull to have been born in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

; (the first was drummer Mark Craney

Mark Craney

Mark Craney was a drummer for the rock band Jethro Tull from June 1980 to May 1981...

). He continues to record and tour with the band today and is the third longest standing member of Jethro Tull.

He has played on the following Jethro Tull albums and DVD's:

Live at Hammersmith 1984

20 Years of Jethro Tull (Boxed Set) - CD & Video

Crest of a Knave (Grammy award winner-1989)

25th Anniversary Box Set - CD & Video

A New Day Yesterday - DVD

Rock Island

Rock Island (album)

Rock Island is the 17th studio album by the British rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1989.The album continued the hard rock direction the band took on the previous effort, Crest of a Knave...

Jethro Tull - In Concert

Catfish Rising

Catfish Rising

Catfish Rising is the 18th studio album by the British rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1991. It is the first Tull album to feature keyboardist Andrew Giddings.-Vinyl edition:Side One# "This Is Not Love" – 3:56# "Occasional Demons" – 3:48...

Roots to Branches

Roots to Branches is the name of the 19th studio album by the band Jethro Tull. It carries characteristics of Tull's classic 1970s art-rock and folk-rock roots alongside jazz and Arabic and Far Eastern influences. All songs were written by Ian Anderson and recorded at his home studio...

J-Tull Dot Com

J-Tull Dot Com is the name of the 20th studio album by the band Jethro Tull. J-Tull Dot Com was released four years after their 1995 album Roots to Branches and continues in the same vein, marrying hard-rock and art-rock with Eastern music influences...

Through The Years

Nightcap

The Very Best of Jethro Tull

Live at Montreux 2003 - CD & DVD

Living With The Past - CD & DVD

The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is the 21st studio album released by Jethro Tull, on September 30, 2003 . The songs are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music...

Aqualung Live

Jack in The Green-Live in Germany - DVD

Jethro Tull - Classic Artists - 40th Anniversary-Fully Authorised Story - DVD

Live at AVO Sessions 2008 - CD & DVD

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Jethro Tull members - solo recordings:

With Ian Anderson - Divinities - 12 Dances With God

With Martin Barre - The Meeting

With Dave Pegg - Box of Peggs

Equipment

Doane Perry has used a wide variety of equipment over the years. He will use different drum kits depending on several factors, such as whether he is performing live or recording in the studio. On recent Tull tours and records, he has been using Premier's Artist Series maple drums, but will occasionally use birch Genistas or maple Signia Series drums, Paiste

Paiste

Paiste, a Swiss manufacturer and designer, is the world's third largest manufacturer of cymbals, gongs, and metal percussion. Paiste is an Estonian/Finnish word which means "shine"...

cymbals, DW Pedals & Hardware, Pro Mark Drumsticks, Remo Drum Heads, Rhythm Tech Percussion, LP Percussion.

Personal life

In 1990 he married actress Heather Woodruff. They currently reside in Woodland Hills, California.

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Early life

Musical career

Jethro Tull

Equipment

Personal life

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