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| Name = Josh Freese
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| Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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| Born = {{birth date and age|1972|12|25}}
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| Origin = [[Orlando, Florida]]
| Instrument = [[Drums]], [[percussion]], [[guitar]], [[bass guitar|bass]], [[keyboards]]
| Genre = [[Hard rock]]<br> [[Heavy metal]]<br> [[Alternative metal]]<br> [[Punk rock]]<br> [[Alternative rock]]<br> [[Industrial rock]]<br> [[Industrial metal]]<br> [[Pop punk]]<br> [[Post-grunge]]<br> [[Post-punk]]
| Occupation = [[Session musician]], [[Drummer]]
| Years_active = 1988–present
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| Associated_acts = [[The Vandals]]<br>[[Seether]]<br>[[Devo]]<br>[[A Perfect Circle]]<br>[[Nine Inch Nails]]<br>[[Guns N' Roses]]<br>[[Black Light Burns]]<br>[[Viva Death]]<br>[[The Offspring]]<br>[[Static-X]]<br>[[Head (US band)|Head]]<br>[[ASHES dIVIDE]]
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| Notable_instruments = [[Simmons (electronic drum company)|Simmons]] electronic drums
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'''Josh Freese''' (born [[December 25]], [[1972]]) is an American [[session musician|session]] drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of [[The Vandals]], [[Devo]], [[Viva Death]], [[A Perfect Circle]] and [[ASHES dIVIDE]], and recently he rejoined [[Nine Inch Nails]] as the Lights in the Sky Over North America 2008 tour is about to begin.<ref>[http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/14/features/story05.html "Reznor's edge cuts NIN's bleak outlook."]-Star Bulletin. Accessed on [[January 14]] [[2008]]. </ref> Freese has appeared on more than 200 records.
==Background==
Josh Freese was born in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], [[Florida]], but has lived in [[Southern California]] since he was 6 months old. Having been brought up in a musical family (his father conducted the Disneyland Band, and his mother was a classical pianist), he was surrounded by music from an early age and began playing the drums around the time he was 7 or 8 years old. He started playing professionally at the age of 12 (in a Top 40 band at Disneyland). There he played electronic drums which led to an endorsement deal with the [[Simmons (electronic drum company)|Simmons]] electronic drum company. There is an old Simmons commercial (directed by Mitch Brisker), featuring Freese on the additional content section of [[The Vandals]]' ''[[Live at the House of Blues (Vandals album)|Live at the House of Blues]]'' DVD.
At the age of 15, Freese started touring and making records, first with [[Dweezil Zappa]] and then with [[The Vandals]]. Freese has worked with many respected artists in the last 15 years, as a first call session drummer and sometimes as a temporary replacement. Josh has a younger brother [[Jason Freese]] who plays keyboards in [[Green Day]], has also recorded and toured with [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]], [[Goo Goo Dolls]], [[Liz Phair]], [[Dr. Dre]] and [[Weezer]]. Josh currently lives in Southern California with his wife and their two sons. Josh is expecting his third child later this year.
==Solo==
In 1998, Freese went solo by recording a number of songs that he wrote and performed himself (including bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals). The result is the 6-song [[EP]] ''Destroy The Earth As Soon As Possible'', released under the name 'Princess' by T.O.N/Stone Lizard Records.
In 2000, the songs "Caffeine and Vaseline" and "Rock N' Roll Chicken" were revived for the 12-song album ''The Notorious One Man Orgy'', this time released under Freese's own name by [[Kung Fu Records]]. With guest appearances by the likes of [[Stone Gossard]], [[Warren Fitzgerald]], [[Michael Ward]], [[Lyle Workman]], and his brother Jason, the ''N.O.M.O.'' offers a hard driving [[pop-punk]] musical insight into what it is like to be Josh Freese on a daily basis.
==Work history==
Freese started his drumming career with "Polo" whose featured performances were at the [[Tomorrowland Terrace|Tomorrowland Terrace Stage]] in Disneyland from 1985-1987. Freese has since been a member of [[punk rock]] band [[The Vandals]] since 1989, and has played on all the band's albums since then, with the exception of 2000's ''Look What I Almost Stepped In...'', on which current [[Bad Religion]] drummer [[Brooks Wackerman]] deputised due to Freese's commitments with [[A Perfect Circle]]. In 2004, [[The Vandals]] released a live DVD as part of [[Kung Fu Records]]' ''[[The Show Must Go Off!]]'' series. The DVD is of particular interest to Josh Freese fans thanks to the inclusion of the Josh Freese-cam, a camera focused on Freese for the entire duration of the show, also including a picture-in-picture of Freese's [[kick drum]] pedal. The band starting work on a new album for a release in 2007.
Freese was a member of [[Guns N' Roses]] from 1997 to 2000, replacing [[Matt Sorum]] and signing a 2-year contract. He recorded the song "Oh My God" for the ''[[End of Days]]'' soundtrack and pieces for the unreleased ''[[Chinese Democracy (album)|Chinese Democracy]]'' album, supposedly having co-written the music to the title track. He left the band in 2000 to launch [[A Perfect Circle]] and was replaced by [[Bryan Mantia|Bryan "Brain" Mantia]].
He has drummed for [[A Perfect Circle]] since their first album, and is considered one of the core members. As of 2006, the band is "on hiatus". Since then, founder [[Billy Howerdel]] has started up a new band ([[ASHES dIVIDE]]) with drums contributed by Freese.
Freese took over from drummer [[Ron Welty]] for the recording of the [[The Offspring]]'s 2003 album "[[Splinter (The Offspring album)|Splinter]]" after Welty's departure from the band. Freese is credited for playing drums on the album, but [[Atom Willard]] later took on the position as the band's fulltime drummer. In August 2007, [[Atom Willard|Atom]] left the band. He would eventually be replaced by [[Pete Parada]]. In the meantime, Freese was called upon to record the new [[The Offspring|Offspring]] album, "[[Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace|Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace]]".
Freese participated in [[Sting (musician)|Sting's]] "Broken Music Tour" in [[April 2005]] with guitarist [[Dominic Miller]] and guitarist [[Shane Fontayne]]. The tour kicked off April 1 in [[San Jose, California]] and ended on May 14th in [[New York]]. Josh also appeared with Sting during the record breaking '[[Live 8]]' concert. In an interview with a drum magazine he would describe this as 'the greatest show of his life'. In fall of 2005 he recorded new material with Sting in [[Italy]] at the singer's [[Tuscany]] estate but plans for release have yet to be set.
Josh Freese has recently contributed drum tracks for [[Lostprophets]]' third album, ''[[Liberation Transmission]]'', recording all his parts in two days. [[Travis Barker]] was originally earmaked as the session drummer of choice for the album, but producer ([[Bob Rock]]), who had worked with Freese before, wanted him instead.
Freese's latest project was announced on April 1st, when it was reported that he had provided the drum tracks on two new [[The Replacements|Replacements]] tracks, due to appear on the upcoming greatest-hits package.
Freese toured with [[Nine Inch Nails]] on their 2005-2006 ''[[With Teeth]]'' tour after the illness of drummer [[Jerome Dillon]]. Freese contributed live drum tracks to the songs "HYPERPOWER!" and "[[Capital G]]" on the Nine Inch Nails album ''[[Year Zero (album)|Year Zero]]'', which was released in 2007. Freese continued touring with Nine Inch Nails throughout 2007 in support of ''Year Zero'', mainly outside of the U.S. He recently rejoined Reznor and company for the Ghosts I-IV/The Slip tour.
Freese also completed drum tracks for the band [[Black Light Burns]], which consists of Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit, Big Dumb Face, From First to Last) and [[A Perfect Circle]] band mates, Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails) and Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv).
Josh also played on "[[Rebel Hiss]]" which is the first single from [[Jubilee]] which is ex-bandmate (and ex lead guitarist for Nine Inch Nails) [[Aaron North]] on guitar and vocals, [[Michael Shuman]] on bass and Jeff Lynn on guitar. Jubilee is the first band to use the revolutionary new software [[Topspin]] that [[Ian C. Rogers]] and [[Peter Gotcher]] (who invented Pro Tools) are behind.
Freese was credited for "phantom percussion" on the [[1995]] album [[Blackgrass]] by [[The Dwarves|Dwarves]] front-man [[Blag Dahlia]]'s pseudonym Earl Lee Grace.
He has been the drummer in DEVO since 1995, with the notable exception of their 2003 shows in Japan.
==Equipment==
[[Drum Workshop]] [[Drums]], Pedals, and Hardware<br>
[[Paiste]] cymbals<br>
[[Remo]] drumheads<br>
[[Vater]] H220 drumsticks
[[Drum Workshop]] Drums
1. 18" x 22" DW Bass Drum<br>
2. 6" x 14" Paiste Spirit of 2002 Snare<br>
3. 5" x 14" DW Aluminum Shell Snare<br>
4. 8" x 10" DW Tom<br>
5. 10" x 13" DW Tom<br>
6. 14" x 16" DW Tom<br>
7. 16" x 18" DW Floor Tom
[[Paiste]] Signature Series Cymbals
A. 14" Dark Crisp Hi-Hats<br>
B. 18" Full Crash<br>
C. 18" Power Crash<br>
D. 21" Dry Heavy Ride<br>
E. 19" Full Crash<br>
F. 20" Dry Crisp Ride<br>
G. 20" Power Crash<br>
H. 18" Sound Formula Thin China 20" (top), inverted Full Ride w/rivets (bottom)
'''Nine inch nails setup:'''
GC interview regarding his NIN and APC setup:
GC: What are the differences, if any, between your live setup and your studio setup?
Josh Freese: It depends on the studio situation or the live situation but my set up never gets that crazy or out of the ordinary I don't think. You can pretty much always count on starting off with the basic Ringo 4 piece set up and add from there. With the Vandals that's all I use. With Devo add a second rack tom. With NIN keep only 1 rack but have 2 floors and a 3rd floor off to the left of my hi-hat (with NIN the drums are all about 2 inches bigger than I normally would use.....14 rack. 24 floor, 18 and 20 inch floors.....16 off the side of my hihat. With A Perfect Circle 2 racks and 2 floors, 2nd snare off the left of my hihat....more cymbals with APC too. With Sting there are 3 racks but smaller sizes and only 1 floor. Never too many cymbals (except with APC I guess). In the studio my drums are usually something really basic a 4, 5, or 6 piece kit with lots of snare and cymbal choices.
==Discography==
*[[12 Stones]] - ''[[12 Stones (album)|12 Stones]]''
*[[3 Doors Down]] - ''[[Away from the Sun]]''
*[[A Perfect Circle]] - ''[[eMOTIVe]]''
*A Perfect Circle - ''[[Mer De Noms]]''
*A Perfect Circle - ''[[aMOTION]]''
*A Perfect Circle - ''[[Thirteenth Step]]''
*[[Abandoned Pools]] - ''[[Humanistic (album)|Humanistic]]''
*All Day - ''First EP''
*[[ASHES dIVIDE]] - [[Keep Telling Myself It's Alright]]
*[[Avril Lavigne]] - ''[[Let Go]]''
*Avril Lavigne - ''[[Under My Skin]]''
*Avril Lavigne - ''[[The Best Damn Thing]]''
*[[Bic Runga]] - ''[[Drive (album)|Drive]]''
*[[Black Light Burns]] - ''[[Cruel Melody]]''
*[[Bob Mothersbaugh|Bob]] and [[Mark Mothersbaugh]] - ''[[200 Cigarettes]]'' Soundtrack
*[[Boxing Gandhis]] - ''Howard''
*[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] - ''[[Once More, With Feeling (Buffy episode)|Once More, with Feeling]]'' Soundtrack
*[[B'z]] - ''[[Eien no Tsubasa]]''
*[[Chris Cornell]] - ''[[Euphoria Morning]]''
*Cinematic (upcoming record)
*Clay Aiken - ''[[Measure of a Man (album)|Measure of a Man]]''
*Crumb - ''[[Romance Is A Slowdance]]''
*Crumb - ''[[Seconds, Minutes, Hours]]''
*[[Danny Elfman]] - ''[[Freeway (1996 film)|"Freeway"]]'' Soundtrack
*[[Daughtry (band)|Daughtry]] - ''[[Daughtry (album)|Daughtry]]''
*[[Desert Sessions]] - ''[[Volumes 9 & 10]]''
*[[DEVO]] - ''[[Pioneers Who Got Scalped]]''
*DEVO - ''[[Tank Girl (film)|Tank Girl]]'' Soundtrack
*[[Devo 2.0]]
*[[Dweezil Zappa]] - ''[[Confessions (Dweezil Zappa album)|Confessions]]''
*[[Blag Dahlia|Earl Lee Grace]] - ''[[Blackgrass]]''
*[[Emm Gryner]] - ''[[Public (album)|Public]]''
*[[Evanescence]] - ''[[Fallen (album)|Fallen]]''
*[[Filter (band)|Filter]] - ''[[Anthems for the Damned]]''
*[[Fuel (band)|Fuel]] - ''[[Angels & Devils]]''
*[[F.Y.P.]] - ''Toys That Kill''
*[[Flying Traps]](Various Drummers)
*[[Gavin Rossdale]] - ''[[WANDERlust (Gavin Rossdale album)|Wanderlust]]''
*[[Good Charlotte]] - ''[[The Young & the Hopeless]]''
*Gordon
*[[Guns N' Roses]] - [[Oh My God (Guns N' Roses song)|Oh My God]] (''[[End of Days (film)|End Of Days]]'' Soundtrack)
*[[Hayden (musician)|Hayden]] - ''[[The Closer I Get]]''
*[[Head (US band)|Head]] - ''[[Save Me From Myself (album)|Save Me From Myself]]''
*[[Hoku]] - ''[[Hoku (album)|Hoku]]''
*[[Infectious Grooves]] - ''[[Sarsippius' Ark]]''
*[[Institute (band)|Institute]] - ''[[Distort Yourself]]''
*[[Jamie Blake]]
*[[John Doe (musician)|John Doe]] - ''Freedom Is...''
*Josh Freese - ''[[The Notorious One Man Orgy]]''
*[[Jubilee]] - ''Rebel Hiss Single''
*[[Juliana Hatfield]] - ''[[Only Everything]]''
*[[Kelly Clarkson]] -''[[Thankful (Kelly Clarkson album)|Thankful]]''
*Kelly Clarkson - ''[[Breakaway (album)|Breakaway]]''
*[[Lazlo Bane]] - ''[[Short-Style]]''
*Lazlo Bane - ''Transistor''
*[[Leona Naess]] - ''[[Comatised]]''
*[[Lostprophets]] - ''[[Liberation Transmission]]''
*[[Magnapop]] - ''[[Rubbing Doesn't Help]]''
*[[Mary Lou Lord]] - ''[[Got No Shadow]]''
*Mary Lou Lord - ''[[Martian Saints EP]]''
*[[Maypole (band)|Maypole]] - ''Product'' <!-- correct band link? -->
*[[Meredith Brooks]] - ''[[Blurring the Edges]]''
*[[Mike Ness]] - ''[[Cheating at Solitaire]]''
*Monster In The Machine - ''Butterfly Pinned''
*[[Mötley Crüe]] - ''[[Red, White & Crue]]''
*[[Nash Kato]] - ''Debutante''
*[[New Radicals]] - ''[[Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too]]''
*[[Nine Inch Nails]] - ''[[Beside You in Time]]''
*Nine Inch Nails - ''[[Year Zero (album)|Year Zero]]''
*Nine Inch Nails - ''[[The Slip (album)|The Slip]]''
*Palo Alto (upcoming record)
*[[Paul Westerberg]] - ''[[14 Songs]]''
*Paul Westerberg - ''[[Eventually]]''
*Paul Westerberg - ''[[Suicaine Gratifaction]]''
*Paul Westerberg - ''[[Besterberg]]''
*[[Ann Danielewski|Poe]] - ''[[Haunted (album)|Haunted]]''
*[[Possum Dixon]] - ''[[Star Maps]]''
*Princess - ''[[Destroy Earth As Soon As Possible]]''
*[[Puddle Of Mudd]] - ''[[Come Clean (Puddle of Mudd album)|Come Clean]]''
*[[Queens of the Stone Age]] - ''[[Lullabies to Paralyze]]'' (track "[[In_My_Head_(song)|In My Head]]")
*[[Radford (band)|Radford]] - ''Sleepwalker''
*[[Revis]] - ''[[Places for Breathing]]''
*[[Rhett Miller]] - ''[[The Instigator]]''
*[[Rickie Lee Jones]] - ''[[Ghosty Head]]''
*[[Rob Zombie]] - ''[[Mission Impossible 2]]'' Soundtrack
*Rob Zombie - ''[[Educated Horses]]''
*[[School Of Fish]] - ''[[Human Cannonball (album)|Human Cannonball]]''
*[[Seether]] - ''[[Disclaimer (album)|Disclaimer]]''
*Seether - ''[[Disclaimer II]]''
*[[Seo Taiji]] - ''[[6th Album Re-Recording and ETPFEST Live]]''
*''[[Strange Days (film)|Strange Days]]'' Soundtrack
*[[Shawn Mullins]] - ''[[First Ten Years]]''
*Slider - Sudden Fun
*[[Static-X]] - ''[[Beneath... Between... Beyond...]]''
*Static-X - ''[[Shadow Zone]]''
*[[Sting (musician)|Sting]] - ''[[Live 8 Music Relief Concert DVD]]''
*[[Suicidal Tendencies]] - ''[[The Art of Rebellion]]''
*[[Taxi Ride]]
*[[Tender Fury]] - ''[[If Anger Was Soul.....]]''
*[[The Calling]] - ''Two''
*[[The Damning Well]]
*[[The Daredevils (band)|The Daredevils]] - ''[[Hate You]]''
*[[The Dwarves]] - ''[[The Dwarves Must Die]]''
*[[The Format]] - ''[[Interventions + Lullabies]]''
*[[The Indigo Girls]] - ''[[Shaming of the Sun]]''
*[[The Lovemakers]] - ''[[Times of Romance]]''
*[[The Martinis]] - ''[[Smitten (album)|Smitten]]''
*[[The Offspring]] - ''[[Splinter (The Offspring album)|Splinter]]''
*The Offspring - ''[[Greatest Hits (The Offspring album)|Greatest Hits]]'' on the song ''[[Can't Repeat]]''
*The Offspring - ''[[Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace|Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace]]''
*[[The Summer Obsession]] - ''[[This Is Where You Belong]]''
*[[Unwritten Law]] - ''[[Elva (album)|Elva]]'' on the song ''Up All Night''
*Unwritten Law - ''[[Here's To The Mourning]]''
*[[The Vandals]] - ''[[Fear of a Punk Planet (album)|Fear of a Punk Planet]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[Glory Daze]]'' Soundtrack
*The Vandals - ''[[Hitler Bad, Vandals Good]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[Hollywood Potato Chip]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[Internet Dating Superstuds]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[Live Fast, Diarrhea]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[Oi to the World!|Oi to the World!: Christmas With the Vandals]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live]]''
*The Vandals - ''[[The Quickening]]''
*[[The Veronicas]] - ''[[The Secret Life of... (album)|The Secret Life Of...]]''
*[[The Wailing Souls]] - ''[[Psychedelic Souls]]''
*[[Lee Ving]] - ''S/T (EP)''
*[[Viva Death]] - ''Self Titled''
*Viva Death - ''One Percent Panic''
*[[Ween]] - ''Quebec''
*[[Thermadore]] - ''[[Monkey On Rico]]''
*[[Tommy Stinson]] - ''[[Village Gorilla Head]]''
*[[Tracy Bonham]] - ''[[Down Here]]''
*Tracy Bonham - ''[[The Burdens of Being Upright]]''
*[[Wayne Kramer (guitarist)|Wayne Kramer]] - ''The Hard Stuff''
*[[Xtra Large]] - ''[[Now I Eat Them]]''
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.thejoshfreesehotline.com Josh Freese Hotline]
* [http://www.drummagazine.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=594]
* [http://www.joshfreese.com Josh Freese's personal website]
* [http://www.ninwiki.com/Josh_Freese Josh Freese on the NinWiki]
* [http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Josh_Freese.html Josh Freese at Drummerworld]
* [http://cruelmelody.net Cruel Melody - Black Light Burns Fansite]
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