Want Josh Freese to join your band? Got $75,000?
Chatting with Josh Freese on the phone for five minutes: $50.
Floating in a sensory-deprivation tank with Josh Freese, followed by dinner at Sizzler: $500.
Getting a signed snare from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour + dinner with Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez at Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles + you get to drive off with Josh Freese’s Volvo station wagon: $10,000.
Taking shrooms and cruising Hollywood withDanny Carey of Tool in his Lamborghini, then having Josh Freese join your band for a month: $75,000.
Josh Freese’s hilarious list of supposedly legit limited-edition packages for his next solo album, Since 1972: priceless.
“Uhhh … dude … who’s Josh Freese?”
OK, so most people probably don’t know Josh Freese, even those who live in his various Southern California stomping grounds.
Freese, a native Floridian who came of age in Orange County and currently resides in Long Beach, is a drumming virtuoso who has risen from being a 12-year-old prodigy backing a Top 40 covers band on the Tomorrowland Terrace at Disneyland to becoming one of the most sought-after session sticksmen in the biz.
He’s an official member of three bands: the Vandals (since 1989), Devo (since 1995) and, should it ever reconvene, A Perfect Circle (since 2000). (Since 1972, by the way, refers to when he was born, on Christmas Day.)
But he has played on more than 250 albums for almost as many artists, and of every stripe: Chris Cornell, Clay Aiken, Rob Zombie, Avril Lavigne, Rhett Miller, Puddle of Mudd, the Offspring, Kelly Clarkson, Good Charlotte, Daughtry, Ween, Gavin Rossdale, Katy Perry.
He was Nine Inch Nails‘ drummer for the past three years. He was (technically)Guns N’ Roses‘ drummer for three fairly inactive years at the end of the ’90s, and he contributed to Chinese Democracy, including co-writing the title track. He provided drums for the two new Replacements tracks on the 2006 compilation Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? He backed Sting at Live 8.
