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- Bruce_Gary abstract "Bruce Gary (7 April 1951 – 22 August 2006) was best known as the drummer for the music group The Knack. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards as a stage performer, producer, and recording artist.Born in Burbank, California, the young Gary was a bundle of energy and for that reason his parents allowed him to set up the drum kit that his cousin had offered him after getting bored with it. Gary left home at 15 and was drawn to the musical scene of Topanga Canyon, California. He made friends with guitarist Randy California. In the 60's and early 70's he played with bluesman Albert Collins. By the time he was twenty-four he was touring and recording with former Cream bassist Jack Bruce and guitarist Mick Taylor, who had just left the Rolling Stones. This stellar lineup also included jazz pianist Carla Bley. Gary also worked with Dr John in the 70's.In 1978 he found himself in a band with singer Doug Fieger, guitarist Berton Averre, and bassist Prescott Niles. Fieger and Averre brought in a tune they'd written about Sharona Alperin, a teenage girl Fieger was obsessed with. Despite his initial reservations about the song, Gary came up with a beat to match \"My Sharona\"'s stuttering style. He later said he approached the song like a surf stomp. As he explained, drummers in surf bands often play songs using no cymbals, just kick drum, snare drum, and toms. He also borrowed from the drum part to \"Going to a Go Go\" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. The final ingredient, he said, was the drum rudiment called a flam, in which one drumstick strikes the drum just before the other does; the flam registers as a single beat, but with a particularly full sound. Gary's immediately recognisable kick-and-snare-drum intro helped propel the power-pop anthem to the top of the US charts.The Knack's debut album Get the Knack sold 6 million copies.After the breakup of The Knack in the early 1980s, Gary became an in-demand drummer for studio work and live performance with some of the premier musicians of the era including Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Harry Nilsson and Doors guitarist Robby Krieger. He also worked with blues masters Albert King and John Lee Hooker.In addition to his work as a drummer, he achieved recognition for his work as a producer - recording new albums with The Ventures and co-producing (with Alan Douglas) a series of seminal archival recordings of Jimi Hendrix including the Blues compilation.He died at the age of 55 at the Tarzana Regional Medical Center in Tarzana, California of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.".
- Bruce_Gary activeYearsEndYear "2006".
- Bruce_Gary activeYearsStartYear "1969".
- Bruce_Gary associatedBand The_Knack.
- Bruce_Gary associatedMusicalArtist The_Knack.
- Bruce_Gary background "non_vocal_instrumentalist".
- Bruce_Gary birthDate "1951-04-07".
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- Bruce_Gary birthPlace United_States.
- Bruce_Gary deathDate "2006-08-22".
- Bruce_Gary deathPlace California.
- Bruce_Gary deathPlace Tarzana,_Los_Angeles.
- Bruce_Gary deathPlace United_States.
- Bruce_Gary genre Blues.
- Bruce_Gary genre Blues_rock.
- Bruce_Gary genre Rock_music.
- Bruce_Gary occupation Musician.
- Bruce_Gary occupation Record_producer.
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- Bruce_Gary wikiPageWikiLink Doug_Fieger.
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- Bruce_Gary wikiPageWikiLink Stephen_Stills.
- Bruce_Gary wikiPageWikiLink Tarzana,_Los_Angeles.
- Bruce_Gary wikiPageWikiLink The_Knack.
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- Bruce_Gary wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bruce Gary".
- Bruce_Gary associatedActs The_Knack.
- Bruce_Gary background "non_vocal_instrumentalist".
- Bruce_Gary birthName "Bruce Gary".
- Bruce_Gary born "1951-04-07".
- Bruce_Gary born "Burbank, California, USA".
- Bruce_Gary died "2006-08-22".
- Bruce_Gary died "Tarzana, California, USA".
- Bruce_Gary genre Blues.
- Bruce_Gary genre Blues_rock.
- Bruce_Gary genre Rock_music.
- Bruce_Gary instrument "Drums, percussion".
- Bruce_Gary name "Bruce Gary".
- Bruce_Gary occupation Musician.
- Bruce_Gary occupation Record_producer.
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- Bruce_Gary yearsActive "1969".
- Bruce_Gary subject Category:1951_births.
- Bruce_Gary subject Category:2006_deaths.
- Bruce_Gary subject Category:20th-century_American_musicians.