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DANNY MONTGOMERY

About Me

I am a musician who studied composition and orchestral percussion, with Peggy Lucchesi at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In my 100+ years as a professional musician I have had the fortune to have recorded or performed with the following artists: Christine Lakeland, Alex Chilton, Johnette Napolitano, Percy Sledge, Ray Charles, Mose Allison, Taj Mahal, Tower of Power, JJCale, Billy Paul, Randy Jackson, Cindy Bullens, Jerry Harrison, Elliott Murphy, Benmont Tench, Steve Wynn, Sal Bernardi, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Bros., Dr. Ross, Thad Beckman, The Shirelles, Mark Patterson, Olivier Durand, Alberto Rionda, Jorge Otero, Hugo Race & Marta Collica, and a host of cultural criminali that Interpol would love to get their hands on. . . These days I winter in San Francisco, and do most of my work in Europe, in the spring, summer and fall. I lived and worked in Paris for over 15 years, and now make my home in Modigliana, Italy. And in Asturias, Spain, I continue to record with Xana Records recording artists Avalanch, Stormy Mondays and Stunned Parrots. . . 2009 brings to America a new president with brains and a heart in the right place. Huzzah! In April I head back to Europe to work on projects in Italy, France and Spain. Back again working with Antonio Gramentieri and the "greatest little festival in the world", Strade Blu. Big thanks to LANTEC drum sticks. And I am looking forward to working with the folks at STOCCO DRUMS. . .If you are in Italy this summer, drop me a line . . .Danny

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/04/2007
Band Members: American Express since 1984
Influences: Dr. Suzi Mumm Fiyzgerald,Ross Blaufarb, Dimitri Schostacovich, Mel Brooks, Steve Allen, Leonard Cohen, Jim Keltner . . . Todd Rundgren, Chopin, Count Basie, Jerry Garcia, Julia Childs, B.B.King, Justice Rose Bird, Stanley Kubrick, Mike O'Neil, Jim Harrison. . .(list in progress)! Special thank you to LANTEC DRUMSTICKS! Special Thanks to CYNTHIA MCLEAN and PATRIZIA MANCINELLA for the great photographs.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Xana Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

STUFF

                                            HEISENBERG AND GODPrologue: At the birth of the universe, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal and the Observer Effect were unknown.  .  .When bored with the ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 10:29:00 GMT

Take Five, and Call Me

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Got...This collection explores the interaction between music and the brain.
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 03:27:00 GMT

OMAHA DREAMS

                                                    OMAHA DREAMSSeveral miles west of Omaha, Nebraska, on route 20, there is a bar called the Alibi. From the outside it looks like one of those classic...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:08:00 GMT

JESUS AND THE BOSS

                                       JESUS AND THE BOSSThis is the second in a series of Easter pieces that began last year with a story titled Jesus and Allissandro Del Piero. Later I changed the t...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:11:00 GMT

THE SKATE KEY

THE KEY"From my lips, into the ear of God.". . . Gilbert Lawrence hadn't made this wish in many years. . .The first of Gilbert Lawrence's marriages ended on morning two thousand, five hundred an...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:18:00 GMT

A STORY FROM A SUMMER I SPENT IN BALZUCCA, ITALY

                                      THE MAN WITH NO TEETHBalzucca, Italy the summer of 2007"It is like wiping with your left hand. Clumsily, you alert your ass to the fact that it is being serviced ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 09:46:00 GMT

JESUS AND DAVID BECKHAM

                       Jesus rarely attended Easter service. Easter Sundays generally fell in the month of March. And on Sunday mornings in the month of March, the winter football league was in the mi...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:34:00 GMT

GRACE

In the center of the city of Modena, Italy, is the piazza Grande. It is bordered on one side by the imposing cathedral, Duomo, two sides by shops, and the fourth side by a restaurant, the Cafe Concert...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:03:00 GMT

ERR PORT

ERR PORT Without reason, without rhyme Out of mind, out of time Beyond the reach of sanity, abandoned by humanity ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:20:00 GMT

THE SHOPPING CART THIEF

(this was a weird thought that came to me while standing in line, at one of those monster co-op grocery stores called the Berkeley Bowl. It is a work in progress) . . . . . .and though the job of...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:20:00 GMT