Matt Walker (drummer)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Matt Snyder |
| Born | 1969 Wilmette, Illinois |
| Genres | Rock, alternative, experimental |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Associated acts | Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins, Cupcakes (band), The Most Dangerous Race, Ashtar Command, Impossible Recording Machine, Garbage, Morrissey |
| Website | mattwalker |
Matt Walker, born in May 1969, is a Chicago-based musician. He is known for drumming with Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins and Morrissey.
Matt Walker began his career in Chicago in the mid-1980s, when he began playing drums for the Chicago bands Scott Bennett & The Obvious, The Clinic, Brad Peterson and Peat Moss and Tribal Opera until joining the band Filter in 1994. Matt toured with Filter in support of the album, "Short Bus" until 1996. Filter toured with The Smashing Pumpkins in Europe and when Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was fired after a heroin overdose, Walker was hired to replace Chamberlin. He finished the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness tour with the band (1996–1997) and all of their dates up until the beginning of the Adore tour. Walker also recorded the song "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" with the band on the official Batman & Robin movie soundtrack, as well as several tracks on The Smashing Pumpkins Adore. He also worked with Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan on the soundtrack for the movie Ransom and with Pumpkins guitarist James Iha on Iha's solo album Let It Come Down.
In 1998, Walker's own band, Cupcakes, was signed to DreamWorks Records and subsequently left the Pumpkins to record the Cupcakes album.
Walker was replaced by John Mellencamp's drummer, Kenny Aronoff, for the Pumpkins "Adore" tour. Walker did, however, play with the Pumpkins again at their last show before their first break up, on December 2, 2000. He played percussion on an alternate version of the song "Muzzle" and drums on "1979", while the original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin played acoustic guitar.
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