Hi,  I'm a drummer from Liverpool and this site is to put up recordings of my new and previous bands demos, studio recordings and session recordings I've played drums on over the years (some live, some to a click).  
I teach drums at the moment with Mersey Drum Lessons and also available for session work/ live work (with session work I'm more looking for experience so I might even do it for free if it looks like fun!) I make a great emergency stand in drummer too. 

I started drumming when I was 19 in 2001, my first major influence was Dave Grohl, a good solid aggressive but tasteful rock drummer to lay the foundations down but now I've got too many influences to mention and this is probably because of my love of progressive rock/metal especially featuring the likes of Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater and Virgil Donati of Planet X.  It's a genre which is boundless and encompasses nearly every other genre.  This led me immediately to seek out other styles like jazz, latin, classical, death metal, drum n'bass and fusion with a whole new perception and enthusiasm for music and practising.  I have discovered so many awesome drummers out there I could write a novel.  
If I were to recommend anything else I'd suggest watching Jojo Mayer and Thomas Langs drumming DVDs, they massively improved my technique.

I joined Choc Electrique about 2009 and am still in them today, which is a melting pot of original material ranging from prog rock, indie, punk, funk, metal, drum n'bass, jazz and anything else we can cram in.  There's link to Choc Electrique above - please check them out. 

I also create music under the name "Fatt Jengo" which gives me a chance to indulge in odd meters, polyrhythms, irrational time signatures, drum solos as well as composing/ producing music on a laptop with FL 12.  At first I was just composing and didn't actually plan to attempt to play the drum parts so gave myself a big challenge.  There's a link to that too and my Youtube channel with me drumming on some of the Fatt Jengo tunes which I can play so far.

The years of the songs on this page so far includes previous bands Reism (now based in Norway), The Real Police (The Police cover band), Spearwater (rock/ indie), The Covernant (pop cover band), Trojan Bus (rock/ blues/ funk/ fusion) and current band Choc Electrique as well as a session recording with The Snides (punk) from a few years ago.  There's a few more recordings to find and a quite a lot more bands I've been in over the years but these are the bands I've recorded professionally with in recording studios or at least using professional equipment.  I have written brief notes on how things were recorded if you click the song descriptions too.

Thanks for listening! (and reading!!)  :)

JOHN C SAMMONS is following