Gary Wehrkamp
| Gary Wehrkamp | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 11, 1970 Butler, New Jersey, USA |
| Genres | Progressive metal, progressive rock, rock |
| Instruments | keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, vocals |
| Labels | Inside Out, Magna Carta |
| Associated acts | Shadow Gallery, Amaran's Plight, The MayBabies, JR Trio, MullMuzzler, Ayreon, Amaran’s Plight, Roswell Six, Explorers Club, Warlord, Redemption, Outside the Wall |
| Website | Shadow Gallery Official site |
Gary Wehrkamp (born May 11, 1970 in Butler, New Jersey) is an American musician, songwriter and producer. He is most notably a member of the American progressive rock band Shadow Gallery.
Gary made his foray into music as a self-taught drummer and vocalist at the age of ten. He took up guitar and bass in his teens and performed in various bands for local dances and private parties. He began performing regularly as a drummer with the band Blak Sox in 1981, playing covers and originals at numerous camps in New Jersey.
On May 25, 1986, he performed with the band Nuthin Fancy in the national event “Hands Across America”.
At age 18, Gary won a piano and found himself improvising for hours each day, crafting his talent of composing music. Since then he has only worked as a full-time musician. Gary performed in many New Jersey and Pennsylvania bands playing originals and covers. In 1992, Gary toured the U.S. playing shows to audiences of 40,000+ fans with the band, The Boxtops.
Gary left The Boxtops in 1993 to join the progressive rock band Shadow Gallery. Since then Gary has been a composer, as well as performing guitars, keyboards and vocals in the band.
He also manages the day-to-day affairs for Shadow Gallery through their publishing company, ROOM V MUSIC.
Shadow Gallery has released seven albums worldwide through Magna Carta Records (until 2003) and Inside Out. The band has been noted as one of the most important and innovative progressive metal bands to come out in the last decade.
“Shadow Gallery is a band with an extremely loyal fanbase, an irrefutable integrity, and a unique sound that will doubtlessly guarantee its continued existence for years to come.”
Gary has been a musician, composer, producer, or engineer on over fifty albums throughout the past three decades. Some of these most notable projects are:
Gary wrote an original score for the Steve Coombs film, “A Walk in the Park”, which premiered in NYC on June 11, 2001. The same year, Gary was involved in a project called Sounds like Christmas, that featured artists such as John Wetton (King Crimson), Steve Walsh (Kansas), and Trent Gardner (Magellan).
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