Greg Bissonette

Gregg Bissonette
Bissonette in concert
Background information
Born	(1959-06-09) June 9, 1959 (age 58) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Genres	rock, pop, jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Associated acts	David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Ringo Starr, Spinal Tap, Steve Vai, Electric Light Orchestra
Website	www.greggbissonette.com

Gregg Bissonette (born June 9, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American drummer. He has been a touring, session recording, and full-time drummer in many jazz and rock bands. He is also known for his instructional videos, drum clinics, and for having been a member of the David Lee Roth band.

One of Bissonette's first recordings is Brandon Field's The Other Side of the Story in 1985. It featured David Garfield on keyboards. A few years later Bissonette would start playing shows with Field, Garfield and Steve Lukather on guitar and with John Peña on bass as Los Lobotomys. These shows took place at the Baked Potato, a jazz club and restaurant in Los Angeles, California, playing rock, Latin, jazz and more.

In 1990 and 1993, Bissonette released drum videos Private Lesson and Playing, Reading & Soloing with a Band, respectively. Private Lesson covers a variety of topics including double bass drumming, rudiments (featuring a backsticking technique from the snare drum solo Tornado by Mitch Markovich), playing with a metronome, brushes, and more.

Bissonette played drums on Santana's multi-platinum album Supernatural.

In 2007, Bissonette recorded on the album La La Land by Daniel Glen Timms.

Bissonette can be heard on a number of rock instrumental and progressive rock albums, including the following: Temporal by Shadrane, Deep Forest by Deep Forest, Bass Invader by Martin Motnik, Inner Galactic Fusion Experience by Richie Kotzen, Shadow King by Steve Fister, Revolution Road by Rocket Scientists, In The Eye Of Time by Vox Tempus, Bug Alley and the soundtrack to the movie The Endless Summer II by Gary Hoey, Instrumentality by Marco Cardona, and a number of albums by Steve Vai.