Dennis Leeflang
| Dennis Leeflang | |
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Dennis Leeflang performing live with Lita Ford in Cleveland, September 2009
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| Background information | |
| Born |
22 May 1979 Leiderdorp, Netherlands |
| Genres | Pop rock, Heavy metal, hard rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, producer |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Associated acts | |
| Website | www |
Dennis Leeflang (born 22 May 1979, Leiderdorp) is a rock drummer, currently living in Los Angeles. He is most known for his work with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal of Guns N' Roses. Other artists he has worked with include Lita Ford, Within Temptation, Sun Caged, Epica and The Saturnine.
After having laid a solid foundation through playing snare drum in several marching bands between ages 8 and 12, Dennis Leeflang started playing the drum set at age 13, playing along with records of bands such as Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Iron Maiden. He started playing with local hard rock bands. After mixed successes with local Dutch bands, Leeflang's career took off in 1996, when he joined Dutch gothic rock band Within Temptation at age 17 as their first official drummer. With Within Temptation, Leeflang recorded the demo tape Enter at his home rehearsal studio.
Leeflang played with various other Dutch rock and metal bands between 1997 and 2004, including Epica and The Saturnine, before relocating from the Netherlands to New York City, shortly after having departed his band Sun Caged, of which he was a founding member. In 2006, Dennis re-joined The Saturnine. The band would continue as an inter-continental recording project with occasional live performances in Europe.
Leeflang had been Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal's live drummer for European tours since 2002, but became his full-time drummer once having moved to New York in 2004. Though having recorded a song for a Jimi Hendrix tribute album with him in 2003, Leeflang's album debut with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal was the 2005 album Normal, followed by the 2008 album Abnormal. Throughout 2011, Dennis has released one song a month with Bumblefoot of which several were renditions of classic songs such as The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever", as well as original songs which Thal and Leeflang co-wrote at Leeflang's studio in 2009, just before embarking on the Lita Ford tour together. in 2015, Leeflang and Bumblefoot released the long awaited new Bumblefoot album Little Brother Is Watching, which included backing vocals by a crowd of 100 loyal Bumblefoot fans.
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