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Matt Chamberlain Birth name Matthew Chamberlain Born April 17, 1967
San Pedro, California, U.S.Genres Rock Occupations Musician Instruments Drums Years active 1986–present Labels Geffen, Loosegroove, Ropeadope Records, Kufala, Web of Mimicry, Blue Note Associated acts Tori Amos, Critters Buggin, Ten Hands, Billy Goat, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Pearl Jam, Saturday Night Live Band, Weapon of Choice
(See Discography for others.)Website www.mattchamberlain.com Matthew Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967 in San Pedro, California) is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.
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Biography
Early life
Matt Chamberlain was born and raised in San Pedro, California. His father Sonnie Joe Chamberlain and mother Maria Victoria Ponce. He grew up air drumming and using pots and pans as makeshift drums.[1] Chamberlain began playing drums at the age of ten. He was influenced by the local San Pedro music scene and by getting in to all ages shows at the Dancing Waters Club (Minutemen, Black Flag, Firehose,) and by listening to the drumming of John Bonham, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, and Terry Bozzio.[2] Chamberlain received his first set of drums at the age of fifteen, and studied with David Garibaldi, Murray Spivack, Chuck Flores, and Gregg Bissonette. Three years later, he was awarded a scholarship to study at North Texas State University where he studied with Henry Okstel. Chamberlain quit college and started playing professionally in the Dallas, Texas Deep Ellum scene in the mid-1980s.[1]
Musical career
His first notable work was with Ten Hands, a locally popular Denton, Texas band. Ten Hands briefly enjoyed heaps of acclaim and an impressive following in the band's home state. In 1988, Chamberlain left Ten Hands to join Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, with whom he toured and recorded from 1988 until 1991 when the band broke up. He can be heard playing on the band's 1990 album, Ghost of a Dog. In the summer of 1991, he briefly joined the band Pearl Jam and toured with the band before the release of its debut album, Ten. He can be seen in the band's first video, "Alive". Chamberlain said, "I toured in the van with them, played a bunch of clubs—I had a good time, definitely had a good time. They wanted me to join the band, but Edie Brickell & New Bohemians had just broke up, I had just got off the road after touring for four years straight—I could not imagine doing it again."[3] For his replacement, Chamberlain suggested drummer and friend Dave Abbruzzese.[4] Chamberlain left Pearl Jam to join the house band for Saturday Night Live during the 1991-1992 season where he was able to play with and back up artists such as Johnny Winter, Charlie Musselwhite, Jon Faddis, Steve Turre. Leon Pendarvis and work with comedians Steve Martin, Chris Farley, Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey on musical skits.
At the end of 1992, he moved to Seattle, Washington to start the band Critters Buggin with Skerik and Brad Houser. The band has since released six albums and is currently active. In 1993, Chamberlain toured as a member of the funk band Weapon of Choice. In 1996, he received career boosts after performing on albums by The Wallflowers (Bringing Down the Horse) which he won a Grammy for "best recorded performance" and Fiona Apple (Tidal).[3] In 1998, Chamberlain began working with singer-songwriter Tori Amos, with whom he gained recognition. He performed on her 1998 album, From the Choirgirl Hotel, and since then he has contributed to several of Amos' albums and tours. He has worked on combining live and looped drums, often creating loops on the fly and then playing along to them. Amos has introduced Chamberlain as "the human loop" at her concerts.[5] He was nominated Musician Of The Year at the 2004 CMA's.
Since the mid-1990s, Chamberlain has become well-known as a session drummer, having appeared on over 200 records with sales well over 80 million worldwide. The diverse range of artists that Chamberlain has contributed his drumming to the tours and albums of include Peter Gabriel, The Wallflowers, Fiona Apple, Sam Phillips, Kanye West, Weapon of Choice, David Torn, Tori Amos, Chris Isaak, Macy Gray, Stevie Nicks, Dave Navarro, Kevin Max, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Stone Gossard, Martina McBride, Garbage, Elton John, Natalie Merchant, Anika Moa, David Bowie, Brad Mehldau, Keith Urban, Liz Phair, John Mayer, Finn Brothers, William Shatner, Jon Brion, Robbie Williams, Shakira, Morrissey, Indigo Girls, Sean Lennon, Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Dido, Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby, and Regina Spektor.
In 2005, he released a self-titled solo album on Web of Mimicry Records that he describes as "an imaginary soundtrack to an Asian-Western-Sci-Fi-Horror Movie." He is in a group called the Slow Music Project with Bill Rieflin, Peter Buck, Robert Fripp, Hector Zazou, and Fred Chalenor. In August 2007, Chamberlain and musician Bill Frisell released the debut album for the musical project Floratone. In 2010 Drum Magazine named him one of the 15 Greatest Groove Drummers Of All Time.
In 2011 he started a solo Electro/Acoustic project called "Company 23" He will be releasing a recording for this project and doing shows in 2011.
Discography
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians discography
Year Title Label Track(s) 1990 Ghost of a Dog Geffen All 2002 The Ultimate Collection Hip-O "Woyaho" and "Stwisted" Critters Buggin discography
Year Title Label Track(s) 1994 Guest Loosegroove All 1996 Endless Records complication one Endless "Sweat Box" Host Loosegroove All 1997 Monkeypot Merganzer Crittersbuggin.com All 1998 Bumpa Loosegroove All 1999 Amoeba Loosegroove All 2000 Taxi Independent All 2004 Stampede Ropeadope Records All 2009 Live In 95 at the OK HOTEL - Seattle - aka Sorry for the Reverb Crittersbuggin.com All Tori Amos discography
Year Title Label Track(s) 1998 From the Choirgirl Hotel Atlantic/WEA All 1999 To Venus and Back Atlantic All 2001 Strange Little Girls Atlantic All 2002 Scarlet's Walk Epic All 2003 Tales of a Librarian Atlantic "Angels", "Mary", "Spark", "Bliss", "Playboy Mommy", "Sweet Dreams", "Jackie's Strength", and "Snow Cherries from France" 2004 Carved in Stone: Live at Red Rocks, Vol. ll Outlook Music "A Sorta Fairytale" 2005 The Beekeeper Epic All The Original Bootlegs Epic All 2006 A Piano: The Collection Rhino Most of Disc C, all of Disc D 2007 American Doll Posse Epic All except "Yo George", "Fat Slut", "Devils and Gods", "Programmable Soda", "Velvet Revolution", and "Dragon" Legs and Boots Epic All 2009 Abnormally Attracted to Sin Universal Republic All THRUSTER! discography
Year Title Label 2004 THRUSTER! Kufala 2005 Live: Seattle, WA 4/2/04 Kufala 2007 Green Heat THRUSTER! Solo discography
Year Title Label 2005 Matt Chamberlain Web of Mimicry Slow Music Project discography
Year Title Label 2006 Live at the Croc Self-released Floratone discography
Year Title Label 2007 Floratone Blue Note Organica discography
Year Title Label 2008 Organica: ONE Independent Contributions and collaborations
Year Group Title Label Track(s) 1992 Pearl Jam Stanley, Son of Theodore: Yet Another Alternative Music Sampler Epic/Columbia "Alive" (live) 1993 Bakers Pink Bakers Pink Epic Some 1994 Satchel EDC Epic "O" Wild Colonials Fruit of Life DGC Some Prose & Concepts Procreations Loosegroove "Fossils" 1995 James Reynolds Power Moves Miramar All Aaron Neville The Tattooed Heart A&M Some Various artists Acoustic Earth Sonic Images Some Wes Martin 3 Pound Universe CMP All Peter Gabriel Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen A&M "Suzanne" James Reynolds Miramar Collection, Vol. 2 Miramar "Leap of Faith" Red Shoes For Nancy House Where You Live Rudy All 1996 Daniel Tashian Sweetie Elektra Some The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse Interscope All Gus Gus Almo Sounds Some Fiona Apple Tidal Epic All except "Shadowboxer" Kristen Barry The Beginning.The Middle.The End Virgin All Sam Phillips Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop) Virgin Some 1997 Pigeonhed The Full Sentence Sub Pop Some Andrew Dorff Hint of Mess Sony All Brendan Lynch Brendan Lynch PolyGram Some Kimberly Bass Sacred Ground Band Together - Garrison Starr Eighteen Over Me Geffen - Skyward Skyward C/Z "Taxi De L'Espace" 1998 McKinley Big Top Shop Talk Samson Music All Fiona Apple 1998 Grammy Nominees MCA "Criminal" Weapon of Choice Nutmeg Phantasy Loosegroove Some David Torn The Collection Times Square Some David Lanz Songs from an English Garden Narada Some Adam Cohen Adam Cohen Columbia "Cry Ophelia", "Don't Mean Anything", "This Pain", "Sister", "Beautiful As You", "Amazing", and "It's Alright" Chris Isaak Speak of the Devil Reprise Some Bruce Hornsby Spirit Trail RCA Disc One 1999 Various artists Message in a Bottle: Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture Atlantic - The Corrs Talk on Corners: Special Edition Atlantic "Queen of Hollywood" Chuck Negron The Long Road Back Hip-O Some Macy Gray On How Life Is Epic All Willy Porter Falling Forward Six Degrees Some Dave Koz The Dance Capitol Some Melissa Etheridge Breakdown Island Some Chantal Kreviazuk Colour Moving and Still Columbia Some Fiona Apple When the Pawn Epic All except "I Know" 2000 Macy Gray Grammy Nominees 2000 RCA "Do Something" Jessica Riddle Key of a Minor Hollywood "I Want You" and "Symphony" Evan and Jaron Evan and Jaron Columbia Some Splattercell Oah 75 ARK "Idiomsnacktreat" The Wallflowers Breach Interscope All Macy Gray and Rosie O'Donnell Another Rosie Christmas Sony "Winter Wonderland" Vonda Shepard Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas 550 Music/Epic/SME Some The Malachy Papers Demons Endless Some 2001 dc Talk Solo ForeFront "Return of the Singer" and "Be" Stevie Nicks Trouble in Shangri-La Reprise "Candlebright" and "Sorcerer" Macy Gray Keeping the Dream Alive: Race to Erase M.S. Sony "I Try" Dave Navarro Trust No One Capitol/EMI All except "Venus in Furs" Carolyn Dawn Johnson Room with a View Arista Nashville Some Kevin Max Stereotype Be ForeFront All except "Union of the Soul" and "On and On" Miranda Lee Richards The Herethereafter Virgin Some Stone Gossard Bayleaf Epic "Bore Me" and "Fits" Martina McBride Greatest Hits RCA "When God-Fearin' Women Get The Blues", "Where Would You Be", "Concrete Angel", and "Blessed" Garbage Beautiful Garbage Mushroom "Can't Cry These Tears" and "Cup of Coffee" Elton John Songs from the West Coast Universal Some Shelby Lynne Love, Shelby Island All Natalie Merchant Motherland Elektra All Macy Gray Epic Records: A Season of Soul and Sounds Sony "Winter Wonderland" 2002 Chromeflies Chromeflies Koach All Shannon McNally Jukebox Sparrows Capitol Some Aja Daashuur Before the Beginning Warner Bros. Some Lisa Loeb Cake and Pie A&M "The Way it Really Is", "Bring Me Up", and "Someone You Should Know" Anika Moa Thinking Room Atlantic All except "Falling in Love Again", "I Talked To You", and "God in His Culture" Ty Herndon This Is Ty Herndon: Greatest Hits Epic "If The Road Runs Out", "A Few Short Years", and "I'd Move Heaven And Earth" Abandon Jalopy Mercy Stank Face Laboratories Some Sheila Nicholls Wake Hollywood Some Little Big Town Little Big Town Sony "Don't Waste My Time" David Bowie Heathen Iso Some Seven and the Sun Back to the Innocence Atlantic Some Brad Mehldau Largo Warner Bros. Some Andy Stochansky Five Star Motel RCA Some Two Loons for Tea Looking for Landmarks Sarathan All The Devlins Consent Nettwerk Some Lifehouse Stanley Climbfall DreamWorks "Just Another Name", "Take Me Away", "Empty Space", and "The Beginning" OK Go OK Go Capitol Some Nichole Nordeman Woven & Spun Sparrow Some Lisa Loeb Hello Lisa Artemis "The Way it Really Is", "Bring Me Up", and "Someone You Should Know" Keith Urban Golden Road Capitol Some Faith Hill Cry Warner Bros. Some Christina Aguilera Stripped RCA "The Voice Within" Jeffrey Gaines Toward the Sun Artemis All 2003 Pay the Girl Pay the Girl TVT Some Lisa Marie Presley To Whom It May Concern Capitol Some Lillix Falling Uphill Maverick Some Liz Phair Liz Phair Capitol Some Teitur Poetry & Aeroplanes Universal Music Group All Sara Evans Restless RCA/BMG All Martina McBride Share: Songs of Hope, Awareness and Recovery for Everyone Compendia "Cheap Whisky" John Mayer Heavier Things Aware/Columbia "Clarity", "Bigger Than My Body", "Home Life", and "Wheel" David Bowie Reality Iso "Bring Me the Disco King" and "Fly" Martina McBride Martina RCA Some Matt Nathanson Beneath These Fireworks Acrobat All 2004 Bruce Hornsby Greatest Radio Hits RCA "See the Same Way" Van Hunt Van Hunt Capitol All Carolyn Dawn Johnson Dress Rehearsal Arista Nashville Some Finn Brothers Everyone Is Here Nettwerk All Steven Curtis Chapman All Things New Chordant All Keith Urban Be Here EMI Some William Shatner Has Been Shout! Factory "I Can't Get Behind That" and others Jon Brion I Heart Huckabees: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Some Luke Temple Luke Temple Mill Pond All Elisa Pearl Days Sugar Srl All 2005 Kanye West "Late Registration" Roc-A-fella Records Uncredited Some Magdalen Hsu-Li Smashing the Ceiling Chickpop All Gratitude Gratitude Atlantic Some Susie Suh Susie Suh Epic All Lisa Marie Presley Now What Capitol Some Luke Temple Hold a Match for a Gasoline World 2:30 Publicity "Make Right With You" and "In the End" Anna Nalick Wreck of the Day Columbia Some Lisa Loeb The Very Best of Lisa Loeb Geffen "Bring Me Up" Erin McKeown We Will Become Like Birds Nettwerk Some Nerina Pallot Fires Idaho/14th Floor "All Good People" Meganut That Would Be Dope Unknown Some Faith Hill Fireflies Warner Bros. Some Larry Carlton Firewire Bluebird All Jess Pillmore Reveal Lujo Some Natalie Merchant Retrospective: 1995–2005 Elektra "Build a Levee", "Not in This Life", and "Motherland" Keith Urban Days Go By EMI Some Black Lab See the Sun Blacklab World Some The Corrs Home Atlantic "Spancill Hill", "Peggy Gordon", "Black is the Colour", "Buachaill Ón Éirne", "Moorlough Shore", "Old Town", and "Bríd Óg Ní Mháille" Sara Evans Real Fine Place RCA All The Long Winters Ultimatum Barsuk Some Robbie Williams Intensive Care Chrysalis All Teddy Thompson Separate Ways Verve Forecast Some Shakira Oral Fixation Vol. 2 Epic "How Do You Do" and "Don't Bother" 2006 Mellowdrone Box Red Ink "C'mon Try a Little Bit" Rhett Miller The Believer Capitol All Kenny Rogers Water & Bridges Capitol Nashville Some Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors Attack All Daniel Powter Daniel Powter Warner Bros. All Chris Isaak Best of Chris Isaak Reprise Some Yoshida Brothers Yoshida Brothers III Domo All Bruce Hornsby Intersections (1985–2005) RCA "Preacher in the Ring, Pt. 2" Landon Pigg LP RCA Some Moshav Band Misplaced Jewish Music Group Some Johanna Kunin Clouds Electric Bear Island Music - Shelby Lynne The Definitive Collection Hip-O "Killin' Kind", "Wall in Your Heart", "Break Me Open", "Jesus on a Greyhound", and "I Can't Wait" Indigo Girls Despite Our Differences Hollywood All Zucchero Fly Polydor/Universal Music Group Some Sean Lennon Friendly Fire Capitol All except "Wait for Me" and "Friendly Fire" Cody McCarver Peace, Love and Coondawgs Aspirion Some Josh Groban Awake Reprise/143 Some The Corrs Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection Atlantic Some Sarah McLachlan Charlotte's Web: Music from the Motion Picture Sony Classical "Ordinary Miracle" Steven Curtis Chapman Now and Then Sparrow "All Things New", "Much of You", "Only Getting Started", "Last Day on Earth", "What Now", "Please Only You", "Coming Attractions", "Big Story", "Believe Me Now", "Angels Wish", "I Believe in You", and "Treasure of Jesus" The Youngs Hand Up, Head Down Mimicry "Satellite of Love" 2007 Black Lab Passion Leaves a Trace Blacklabworld.com Some Mika Life in Cartoon Motion Casablanca All Viktor Krauss II Narada All Brandi Carlile The Story Columbia All Bethany Dillon Waking Up Sparrow Some Martina McBride Waking Up Laughing RCA All David Torn Prezens ECM "Miss Place, The Mist..." Jon McLaughlin Indiana Island Some Quodia The Arrow 7D Media Some Missy Higgins On a Clear Night Eleven All Sara Bareilles Little Voice Epic Some Cole Deggs & The Lonesome Cole Deggs & The Lonesome Columbia Some Elisa Caterpillar Universal "The Waves" Jessica Callahan Jessica Callahan Blindstick Some Marco Benevento Live at Tonic Ropeadope "Clouds", "Record Book", "Fearless", "Sabbath", "We're Using Time for Fun", "You Must Be a Lion", "Intro", and "Nobody Does It Better" Katrina Carlson Here and Now Kataphonic All Two Loons for Tea Nine Lucid Dreams Sarathan Some Jesca Hoop Kismet Red Ink "Summertime", "Seed of Wonder", "Money", "Dreams in the Hollow", "Love Is All We Have", "Intelligentactile 101", and "Out the Back Door" Ben Lee Ripe New West All Vanessa Carlton Heroes & Thieves The Inc. Some Carrie Underwood Carnival Ride Arista Nashville Some Andy Davis Let the Woman Big Helium Some Eyvind Kang The Yelm Sessions Tzadik Some David Bowie Bowie Box Set Sony/Columbia Some 2008 Marco Benevento Invisible Baby Hyena Some Stebmo Stebmo Southern Lord All Sarah McLachlan Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2 Nettwerk/Arista "Ordinary Miracle" Various artists Fierce Angel: Angels Fall, Vol. 2 Fierce Angel "Where I Stood" and "Happy Ending" Vanessa Amorosi Somewhere in the Real World Universal Music Australia Some Judith Owen Mopping Up Karma Courgette All George Stanford Big Drop Smash All Elisa Dancing Universal/Sugar Some Trey Gunn Music for Pictures 7d Some Sugarland Love on the Inside Mercury Nashville Some Meiko Meiko Myspace/Lucky Ear/DGC Some Daniel Powter Under the Radar Warner Bros. Some Vonda Shepard From the Sun Redeye All Sarah McLachlan Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan Nettwerk "Don't Give Up on Us" and "U Want Me 2" Ilse DeLange Incredible Universal Music Group All Serena Ryder Is It O.K. Atlantic All Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows Original Signal Some Dido Safe Trip Home Sony BMG Some 2009 Marco Benevento Me Not Me The Royal Potato Family "Golden", "Now They're Writing Music", "Mephisto", "Friends", and "Run of the Mill" Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug Vanguard All Martina McBride Shine RCA Some The Wallflowers Collected: 1996-2005 Interscope "One Headlight", "6th Avenue Heartache", "Three Marlenas", "The Difference", "Invisible City", "Letters from the Wasteland", "Hand Me Down", "Sleepwalker", and "I've Been Delivered" Yoshida Brothers Prism Domo All Casey Driessen Oog Thirty One Tigers All Kate Voegele A Fine Mess Myspace/Interscope Some Regina Spektor Far Sire Some Crosby Loggins Time to Move Jive All Six Organs of Admittance Luminous Night Drag City All 2010 Stevie Ann Light Up Universal All Herbie Hancock The Imagine Project Herbie Hancock Records Dave Matthews "Tomorrow Never Knows" Of Montreal False Priest Polyvinyl Records All Sarah Mclachlan Laws of Illusion Arista Some Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart Epic Some Modular Eyvand Kang, Viktor Krauss, Dan Phelps, Matt Chamberlain Independent All Brad Mehldau Highway Rider Nonesuch All Danny Barnes Pizza Box ATO All Ilse de Lange Next to me Universal All Bill Horist Covalent Lodge North Pole Records All References
- ^ a b "Matt Chamberlain". Mimicry Records.
- ^ Donald, Billy. "The Exclusive Interview with Matt Chamberlain". Drum Channel.
- ^ a b Scanlon, Tom. "Drummer to the stars calls Seattle home". The Seattle Times. July 24, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-09-18.
- ^ Peiken, Matt (1993-12). "Dave Abbruzzese of Pearl Jam". Modern Drummer. http://pearljamhistory.no.sapo.pt/PJArticles_Interviews_12-xx-93_-_modern_drummer.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
- ^ Jacobs, Jay S. Pretty Good Years: A Biography of Tori Amos. Hal Leonard Corporation. 2006.
External links
- Official website
- Matt Chamberlain at Drummerworld
- Matt Chamberlain at Allmusic
- Matt Chamberlain at the Internet Movie Database
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- Indigo Girls members
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- Musicians from California
- Pearl Jam members
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