Muzz has been playing
professionally for nearly 30 years, half of which has also been
devoted to teaching. He came to the forefront of the Boston music
scene in the ‘hey-day’ of the mid to late 80’s. At that time he
along with Charlie Farren and David Hull (of the recently disbanded
Joe Perry Project (Aerosmith)) formed Farrenheit and within a year
of it’s formation found themselves recording a debut CD in L.A. for
Warner Brothers records.
On the strength of that album
as well as his friendship with Boston’s lead singer Brad Delp,
Farrenheit toured for 6 months across the country opening for Boston
on their Third Stage tour. Often they played multiple nights
(Worcester Centrum, 9 nights – LA Forum, 3 nights) and as Muzz puts
it "our second show on that tour was opening the Texas Jam at the
Cotton Bowl in front of 80,000 people and things couldn’t have been
better."
Towards the beginning of the 90’s Muzz started to perform with other
artists as well. Some of these were ‘Ultra Blue’ which was fronted
by ace guitarist Robert Holmes of ‘Till Tuesday.’ He also did a
stint with New England fun group ‘The Fools.’ In an interview from
that time Muzz is quoted as saying "Every drummer in the Boston area
has played with The Fools at one time or another from, Jonathan
Mover to Joe Pet. Where else can you have this much fun?!"
At the end of 1991 Muzz and Charlie Farren started to experiment
with another group simply called Farren which also highlighted the
talents of Phil Bynoe (who has recorded and toured with Steve Vai)
and Igor Koroshev who went on to record and tour with ‘Yes.’
Through Muzz’s involvement and recording with Igor he was enlisted
by ex-Cars bassman and vocalist Ben Orr for a two-year stint in ORR.
During this period Muzz also was performing at clinics of his own as
well as with ex-Sammy Hagar and current Boston lead guitarist, Gary
Pihl at some of his recording clinics for Tascam. He, along with
Brad Delp and other close friends formed BeatleJuice, which he
describes as a group of consummate musical chameleons and equally
great friends.
In the past several years he has recorded with Michael Sweet, Ben
Orr, Farrenheit, Fusion guitarist Bobby Enick, Yes’s keyboardist
Igor Koroshev as well as many others.
He also formed another group featuring all Police and Sting material
called ‘Juice In The Machine’ with the other members of BeatleJuice.
Muzz remains active as a drum instructor in all levels. He is
sponsored by Zildjian Cymbals, Sonor Drums, Silverfox Drumsticks,
and Grover Pro Percussion. all of which he will be promoting at his
live shows as will in some upcoming clinics.
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