This band featured their high school friends - Brian Biggs on guitar, Doug Burns on lead vocals, Sante Bologna on keyboards, Rick Kastruba on trumpet, Burt Snover on trombone, and Eric Kott on saxophone.

The following year, Gregg and Matt started Grand Circus Park, named after a park in downtown Detroit. With Bill’s recommendation, Gregg got to play with many professional groups in the area, including The Brookside Jazz Band, The Austin/Moro Band, and a progressive big band called Concertjazz. Soon after, under the direction of Bill Baker, Gregg became the drummer of the Warren Mott High School Jazz band. By this time, both Gregg and Matt were performing professionally in and around Detroit with their dad’s band The Buddy Blair Band, a name their dad chose because he thought Bissonette was just too hard to remember! (Bud’s band when he was young was called Buddy Bissonette and His Bouncing Bulgarian Bean Band!)

That same year, Gregg began taking drum set lessons from popular Detroit drummer Myron MacDonald.Īt 15 years old, Gregg won a scholarship to attend the Interlochen School of Music summer band program in Michigan. Proficient in both instruments, Gregg would trade off between drums and trumpet with the Warren Michigan Wildwood Elementary School Band.Īt 14, Gregg and his brother Matt started a band called Today’s People, inspired by their junior high stage band/jazz band performances while at school under the direction of their teacher, expert drummer Jerry Hasspatcher. At the same time, Gregg also started taking private trumpet lessons from Jim Ruffner. By age 11, Bob had started Gregg on reading drum set music.

Gregg’s dad was his first teacher, and at age 10, Gregg started taking private rudimental snare drum lessons with Bob Yarborough, a local teacher in Warren, Michigan. Gregg started playing on his dad’s drum kit from about the age of 5! His brother Matt is a bassist and producer, and their sister Kathy also lives and works in concert promotion in LA. Gregg’s dad Bud was a drummer and his mother Phyllis played piano and vibes. The Detroit native comes from a family of talented musicians. His perfect balance between professionalism, strong work ethic, and congeniality make him a wonderful colleague and session artist, and a much-respected name in the music industry. Gregg’s incredible sense of humor comes across clearly whether he’s recording or teaching at a drum clinic. Gregg’s warm, easy-going down-to-earth manner is refreshing from one of the top drummers in the world. Gregg Bissonette has become known as one of the most versatile drummers in the business, his broad experience ranging from big band, blues, and rock, to Latin, fusion, and much more. Label: Not On Label (Gregg Bissonette Self-released) Gregg Bissonette - Warning Will Robinson (2013)

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