Bryan Mantia has played with bands such as Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis, and Godflesh, and with other performers such as Tom Waits, Serj Tankian, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Les Claypool, and Buckethead.
20 Facts About Bryan Mantia
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Bryan Mantia has done session work for numerous artists and bands.
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Bryan Mantia attended the Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood, California, during the mid-1980s to further hone his craft.
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In 1989, Bryan Mantia joined Primus briefly, before breaking his foot, forcing him to pull out of the band.
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Bryan Mantia recorded with Buckethead on many of Buckethead's solo albums, including Monsters and Robots, Colma, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, and Bucketheadland 2, among others.
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Sometime in 1995, Bryan Mantia was approached by his cousin, who was managing Mr Bungle, to join industrial metal band Godflesh as their drummer.
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Bryan Mantia accepted the offer and performed in their 1996 album Songs of Love and Hate as well as Love and Hate in Dub.
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However, Bryan Mantia was unable to commit his time in Europe and left the band the same year.
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Some time later, Bryan Mantia rejoined Primus, touring with and recording for four years with the group, appearing on The Brown Album, Rhinoplasty and Antipop.
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In March 2000, Bryan Mantia joined the revamped lineup of Guns N' Roses after being recommended to singer Axl Rose by Buckethead.
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In 2003, Bryan Mantia appeared on several songs on BT's 2003 release Emotional Technology as well BT's score for the 2003 film Monster.
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Bryan Mantia toured several legs of the Chinese Democracy Tour with Guns N' Roses from 2000 until 2006, when he left the band to take care of his newborn child.
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Bryan Mantia was credited with writing the songs "Shackler's Revenge" and "Sorry".
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Parts of Bryan Mantia's drumming on the album were note-for-note re-recordings of Josh Freese's parts, who left the band before Bryan Mantia joined.
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Bryan Mantia continued to occasionally work for the band on yet to be released remix material.
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Since leaving Guns N' Roses, Bryan Mantia has primarily been focused on music behind the scenes as a composer and producer.
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Bryan Mantia had a brief stint drumming with The Crystal Method in 2013 and 2014.
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In 2017, Bryan Mantia toured with Buckethead and Dan Monti as part of Buckethead's live show.
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Bryan Mantia has partnered with musician Melissa Reese on several projects, a composing team dubbed "Brain and Melissa".
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Bryan Mantia has worked with Tobias on several other stock music tracks.