T.B. is currently overdubbing vocals and keyboards on the TB/Billy Sheehan duo album. 1st time Terry has sung on a record since Missing Persons!! Out soon on magna carta.

"Alternative Duets" cd's now available.

Classic Rock Revisited interview with Terry

web notes,

remember when we announced the 1,000,000th hit? well that was just the baby faze of this site..we now have 13,350,000 hits on the site...averaging a million hits a month...thanks to all the loyal Terry fans who have made his site a success! please add any comments or suggestions for this site here
thanks!!
ej

TB notes,
"Aug.6 i make a duet cd w/Billy Sheehan.
mid aug a trio cd w/Alex & Gerald (from Vienna-they organised the Chamberworks premier).
sept to Innsbruck, Austria for an orchestra gig w/Michael Riessler.
mid sept - euro clinics for Sabian.
end sept-trio dates in Vienna/other cities in Austria w/Alex & Gerald.
thanks!!"

Hi everyone,
I'm going in the studio tomorrow w/ Omar Dykes (from Omar and the Howlers). He is a really soulfull Texas blues master who also happens to be my neighbor (our kids are friends, etc. and I always wanted to do something w/ him) so we're doing a few tracks for his next album.

Then, I record for Jordan Rudess (keybord player for Dream Theater) on his solo project for the Magna Carta label.

I have pretty much finished my home remodeling project for now and I'm looking forward to playing again. Then it's off to Europe for a 5 week tour - the highlite of which is:

1. The mojo theater tour of holland where i'll be playing a one man show of solo drum compositions (2 sets w/ intermission per night)
2. going to Dublin, Ireland (which I've never been to before. and,
3. going back to Rome to play and visit friends (I have not been there since Jeff Beck in the early 90's)

"Bozzio, Wackerman Duets from spring 2000"

Terry and Chad Wackerman will be releasing a video and CD highlighting the best improvisational moments from the spring 2000 tour...The video will include 2 new pieces by Chad and 1 from Terry as well as 2 duets (long improvisational) and possibly the "Black Page"...The CD will be called "Alternative Duets" or "Private conversations overheard by an invited audience"...There will be 1 or 2 CD's depending on amount of material...it is being edited and mixed now and will hopefully be available by spring 2001 here!!.........

"pic's from the road"

this is a pic of famous race car driver Patrick Carpentier who is also a dw drummer and fan of Terry..... Also, Terry played Drum Day-LA....House of Blues - Los Angeles, California (w / Stephen Perkins, Tommy Lee, Sheila E, and Chad Wackerman, and the grand finals of Guitar Center's national drum off contest) in Hollywood, CA on December 9th............

The New Bozzio, Levin, Stevens Record, "Situation Dangerous" has a release date of Mid-August. The 2nd record from BLS² is on Magna Carta Records and will be available at record stores as well as online here.....

July 31, 2000
For Immediate Release
DANCING TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUMMER:
Louisville Ballet presents FREEFORM 2000
featuring percussionist Terry Bozzio
Labor Day Weekend

No doubt the Louisville Ballet dancers know their moves, but come Labor Day Weekend those smooth arabesques and pirouettes may meet their greatest rhythmic challenge in percussionist Terry Bozzio. Bozzio, one of the world's greatest masters on the solo drumset, is the featured musical artist for Louisville Ballet's second annual improvisation program, FREEFORM 2000. Last year's guest was "Futureman" bassist Victor Wooten of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, marking the premiere of this event.

"We had quite a successful performance with FREEFORM last year and a very good audience turnout," said Louisville Ballet artistic director Alun Jones. "It was our biggest crowd at Iroquois Amphitheater in many years, and I feel it had a lot to do with the intrigue surrounding the program: classically trained dancers improvising their steps to the music of a popular artist."

The concept of FREEFORM is certainly a shift from the Louisville Ballet's regular subscription series which this year boasts the classic Swan Lake among more family-oriented programs like Alice in Wonderland and Where the Wild Things Are. FREEFORM seems to cater to another audience: college students, young GenXers, jazz aficionados bent toward the acid and fusion variety, fringe-ballet fans who tend toward modern and contemporary dance basically, people who are looking for something new and different. And that's exactly what the Louisville Ballet promises with FREEFORM 2000. And exactly what Terry Bozzio himself expects.

"I have not performed with dancers in the past, but I am quite confident that the interaction between my music and the dancers will be quite natural and magical," said Bozzio. "I feel that drummers and dancers have many things in common: both sweat and share a visceral physicality in their respective art forms, and this has to be tempered with grace and a sophisticated expression of emotion. I anticipate an interactive experience of listening, watching and responding to each other in an environment where anything can happen."

As a solo drummer Bozzio has earned an international reputation after playing for years alongside the legendary Frank Zappa, as well as with Missing Persons, UK, Jeff Beck and others. With a percussion array that spans sixteen feet and consists of dozens of drums and cymbals, Bozzio's impressive setup is matched only by the technical voracity and unconventional style of his playing. His odd tempos and rhythms and surprisingly musical passages will pose a significant challenge for the Louisville Ballet dancers. But they're ready for anything.

"We'll be testing ourselves in the studio to prepare for the actual performance," said Elena Fillmore, a company dancer. "This program will be more difficult than last year's because we won't have the melody to lead us, just the rhythms. So we'll need to be ready to react to any beat with any part of our bodies, far beyond the range of classical movement."

FREEFORM 2000 will take place Saturday, September 2nd, 8:30 p.m. at the Iroquois Amphitheater in Louisville, Kentucky. Advance purchase tickets are recommended for those coming from out of town. Prices are $12 for general admission and $20 for limited reserved seating. Tickets are available through any Ticketmaster outlet, www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 502/361-3100.
FREEFORM 2000 is sponsored by the City of Louisville Board of Aldermen, the Public Radio Partnership and Louisville Eccentric Observer.

We've just finished the first week of dates on our 20 date DW Drum Day tour of the Southeast and it has been a fantastic experience!

This is the first time Chad is playing a complete program of solo drum music and the response from the audience has been ecstatic as he whips through his beautiful, melodic compositions over odd time signature ostinato patterns and dazzles everyone with his technique and musical sensitivity!

His titles include the complex 7/8 piece "All Sevens", the metallic oriented "Bellz", a Zappa inspired "The Grey Chair" (from his new CD 'Scream') and a solo based on an Allan Holdsworth melody called "Water on the Brain".

Terry has been wowing the crowds with his latest composition "Harmonic Etude" as an opener to his performance (this piece features his Bozzio/DW piccolo toms tuned to a diatonic scale in which he arpeggios through actual harmonic chord progressions achieving a classical effect like a Phillip Glass composition!) - Truly stunning!!!

He has also been playing the powerful African influenced "Djon Don" from his "Drawing the Circle" CD, as well as the Middle Eastern based "Ufuk", "Jazz for One" and the classical composition "Quintessence" (in 5/16 featuring his Bozzio/DW Bass Drum Sound Enhancers with Tambourine jingles!)

After getting a standing ovation for his devastating linear-funk piece "Klangfarben Melodie" (from Solo Drum Music CD vol. II & III- and his new DW Video "Live in Concert") Terry brings Chad back out to play (for the first time in 25 years!! )the infamous "Black Page" written for Terry by Frank Zappa in 1976, as a duet!!!!- a RARE drumming event indeed!!! 

Then the two virtuosos TEAR IT UP by spontaneously improvising an "instant" composition which is different every night and can span the gamut of sounding like a classical, jazz, ethnic, or balls out rock-punk-funk pyrotechnic jam! 

Many of these jams are being recorded for a possible upcoming "duet" CD which you won't want to miss out on as it happens LIVE!!!

Be sure to come out and see this amazing show- tickets available at the door.

Terry is playing this saturday, March 18th, 2000 at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas as part of the South By Southwest Music Festival. He will be opening for John Paul Jones and Blues Traveler....Be There!

As I finished the Bozzio/Levin/Stevens mixes in LA I got a call about a session I could do before leaving for home.
Richard Gibbs (ex-keyboardist for Oingo Boingo) was producing and co-writing music with Jonathan (lead singer) and James AKA "Monkey" (lead guitarist) of "KORN" for a movie soundtrack for the yet to be written screenplay of the sequel to Ann Rice's "Interview with a Vampire".
Read the rest of this and view pictures here.

As promised when we first put this site up, terrybozzio.com will include a premium content option that will include video clips, Mp3 files, a private gallery, quarterly Live chat with Terry, and a drum lesson page. As to the cost and timing of this, we will post details as they become available...

Bozzio-Levin-Stevens has recorded another album for Magna Carta at Stagg St. studios in Van Nuys, Cal.
Steve Stevens is overdubbing guitar parts at his home studio. They will mix in february.
Release date will probably be summer 2000. BLS is hoping to tour later this year,
now that they have 2 albums of material.

       

Terry and Jon Voight (kidding!) Terry and Mark Craney whooping it up with the Woodland Hills Drum Club while in LA doing the BLS album.

Terry wanted me to tell all of you about a limited edition poster that will be for sale very soon. It is a vinyl coated, canvas poster that measures 40"W x 46"L. This will be a signed, numbered, limited edition poster that will surely be a collectors item. There will only be 1000 posters made.
Thanks! EJ (webmaster)
You can place your orders here.

11/99     Possible Upcoming Recording Projects

I've recently signed a record deal with Magna Carta to do a few records in group collaboration projects.
The proposed collaborations are listed below, and I would be interested to hear from you on what collaborations you find most interesting or desirable. This might help me to encourage the record company to pursue the projects by your show of support for it. Please post your opinions on the bulletin board.

Bozzio, Levin, Stevens (this is happening in Dec. 99)

Polytown w/David Torn & Mick Karn

Les Claypool and Buckethead (from Primus) w/TB

Tony Hymas (from Jeff Beck & Lonely Bears) w/ Steve Lukather(Toto) & TB

Patrick O'Hearn-Warren Cuccurullo &TB

Alex Macacek-Gerald Preinfalk(from Chamber Works Premier in Vienna) &TB(possibly w/Patrick O'Hearn as well)

Ogre (from Skinny Puppy) Mark &TB

Jennifer Batten (from Michael Jackson & Jeff Beck)-Tony Franklin (Jimmy Page's The Firm) &TB

Undecided line ups possibly including the following musicians:

TM Stevens

Adrian Belew

Michael Brecker

Tom Coster

Michael Riessler

Terje Rypdal & Victor Bailey

The following is a "wish list" of musicians I'd like to play with someday under mutually benificial conditions but whom I have not contacted(if anyone wants to let them know or try to put something together please go for it!):

Joe Zawinul

Wayne Shorter

Miroslav Vitous

Jan Hammer

Robert Fripp

Alan Holdsworth

Bjork

We ran out of gas 5 min. outside the town we played last nite-we were already late-its a diesel truck and if you run out of gas it will not start without pumping the air out of the fuel system-so we were towed to the gig without power steering or brakes, in pouring rain-an hour late!!!
-it gets better!!!-
We get the drums up in 45min.!!! break our personal best record!!!-we're thinking there's no time to mic and sound check so i say, "yeah, and some poor sucker dragged his whole pa rig here and set it up for nothing!!-so the guy standing next to me, Bjiorn, who had been helping us set up says "yes, that would be me!!!" -oops-

So, we mic w/ 4 mics and it sounded great w/out a sound check!!!
Now ,as i leave the gig, Roger from the shop says, "please-I want to meet you and get an autograph"-it's raining, were outside,and late for a restaurant that's going to close-so I say can I come by the shop tomorrow and do it then? (as he was not going with us) he says yes please, make sure you do, it's really important to me etc. This morning we get a call and this same person walked into a dark stage elevator at the gig to turn on the light so they could load out the drums, and the elevator was not there!!!-He fell 7' into the dark shaft and got a fractured skull,and smashed his nose & face and got several cuts and bruises when he landed on all the machinery and gears at the bottom of the shaft!!!-He had to go to the hospital and we didn't get to meet!!!-So, I sent him a personal note card and autograph w/my condolences and best wishes to get well soon,and now we're speeding to the next town!

Universal Percussion Day
9/5

With Oscar Wu

WithOscar and wife Annie

The Universal Percussion Day in Youngstown, OH. was a huge success! We had over a thousand people, performances by Hillary Jones, Charlie Adams, Tommy Igoe, a wonderful marching band, and myself. And many dealers from all over the US came as well to participate in the event which helped charities with a food drive to be donated to the needy in war-torn Kosovo.

We all got to see and tour the state of the art facilities in Universal's new location and enjoyed some great meals & conversations over the Labor Day weekend event.

Hillary, Tommy, and Charlie all played great!! We jammed together at the end and it was fabulous, a very musical collaboration that went into several grooves and feels with all listening, soloing and accompanying with taste!

And my old Texas buddy Herb Brochstien from ProMark was in attendence with his lovely wife.

But the best part for me (because I'm lucky enough to play by myself or with other great drummers quite often) was the day after the event when Tom and his wife Jane took me to some local antique shops and bought me some vintage pens & a wonderful Parker Vacumatic pen display case from the 1930's!

But then the topper was to ride go-karts with Tom,Wayne and Tom's daughter ( who kept yelling "Faster-faster" as I drove her around the track!!!) For a dad on the road, it was almost like being at home!!