Sim Cain is an American drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 probably best known as a member of the hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 group Rollins Band

Rollins Band

Rollins Band was an American rock band led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.They are best known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s...

 from 1987 to 2000. Critic Michael Azerrad describes Cain's drumming as "a brutal but brainy style that was positively electrifying."

Biography

Cain was born in London

London

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, but moved to Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is best known as the location of Princeton University, which has been sited in the community since 1756...

 at three years old.

One of his earliest bands was the instrumental group Regressive Aid

Regressive Aid

Regressive Aid was an instrumental band consisting of Simeon Cain , William Tucker , and Andrew Weiss , managed by Tom Burka. Cain and Weiss later played in the bands Gone, a three pieced punk instrumental rock outfit and in the Rollins Band...

, and Cain came to greater prominence with Greg Ginn

Greg Ginn

Gregory Regis Ginn is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer. He is best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976 to 1986....

's Gone

Gone (band)

Gone is a three-piece punk-based instrumental rock band, formed by Greg Ginn in late 1985. Originally, Gone was a side project to his main group, Black Flag.-Biography:...

, another instrumental group. His greatest mainstream recognition came with the Rollins Band, however, as the group scored several hit songs on MTV ("Low Self Opinion" and "Liar") during the 1990s.

Cain has also recorded with David Poe, Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...

, and David Shea, and is a regular member of Elliott Sharp

Elliott Sharp

Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...

's blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

-oriented Terraplane group. He also appeared on Ween

Ween

Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...

's 2004 album, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. In the early and mid-2000s, he has appeared regularly in concert with blues guitar great Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Sumlin is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer, best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing is characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic...

. He was the drummer for the J. Geils Band

J. Geils Band

The J. Geils Band is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts, best known for its 1981 single, "Centerfold" which charted #1 in the U.S. in early 1982. The band played R&B-influenced blues-rock in the 1970s before moving towards a more pop-influenced sound in the 1980s...

 in 1999 for a reunion tour.

As of 2008, Sim plays regularly with the Billy Hector

Billy Hector

Billy Hector, born 1956, is a blues guitarist and singer-songwriter from Orange, New Jersey, Hector, who considers himself a workingman’s musician, has been performing and producing albums for over 20 years. Hector’s guitar style is a combination of Jersey Shore blues and rock n roll...

Band, a seminal blues outfit from the New Jersey shore.