26 Facts About Eddie Hoh

Edward Hoh was an American rock drummer who was active in the 1960s.

Eddie Hoh performed at the seminal 1967 Monterey Pop Festival as a member of the Mamas and the Papas touring band.

Eddie Hoh was born and raised in Forest Park, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.

However, they did not appear in the concert film and it is unknown if Eddie Hoh recorded with Hill.

In September 1965, Eddie Hoh joined members of the Modern Folk Quartet as the group was venturing into electric folk rock.

In 1966, Eddie Hoh contributed drums to Scottish singer Donovan's third album, Sunshine Superman.

Eddie Hoh accompanied Donovan during area engagements with ex-MFQ member Cyrus Faryar on electric violin.

Donovan's experiences at the Trip club were recounted in "The Trip" and Eddie Hoh's "fine drumming" was noted in a review of the song.

Around the same time, Eddie Hoh recorded with a studio group named the Giant Sunflower, which included future record producer Val Garay.

Eddie Hoh became a part of the Mamas and the Papas touring group and on June 18,1967, they appeared as the final act at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Eddie Hoh became the Monkees' studio drummer and played on many of their songs.

One of the songs with Stills is an eleven-minute version of "Season of the Witch", which Eddie Hoh had originally recorded with Donovan in 1966.

Eddie Hoh contributed drums to the mostly instrumental fusion 1968 album by Mandel, Cristo Redentor, featuring another staple of late-sixties FM radio, "Wade in the Water".

When Michaels' album was released, the personnel listing seemed to indicate that Eddie Hoh had only recorded one of the songs, "My Friends".

Later, Eddie Hoh recorded four demos with Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young after their final recordings for Buffalo Springfield.

Eddie Hoh is credited with the drums for Kim Fowley's Outrageous album.

Eddie Hoh drummed on What That Is, the 1969 album by rhythm and blues performer Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

Goldberg and Eddie Hoh participated in a demo session with ex-Sweetheart of the Rodeo-Byrds Gram Parsons, who was looking to form a new country rock group.

When Parsons later hooked up with other musicians to form the Flying Burrito Brothers, he invited Eddie Hoh to become their drummer.

Eddie Hoh played on their early recording sessions, but by then had started to develop a substance abuse problem.

Some time after a last album with Harvey Mandel, Eddie Hoh apparently stopped recording and performing.

Eddie Hoh was out of the public eye for the remainder of his life.

Eddie Hoh died in a nursing home in Westmont, Illinois, on November 7,2015, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.

Since most of Eddie Hoh's recordings were as a session drummer, his credits are sometimes unclear or nonexistent.

Albums with some tracks known to have been recorded without Eddie Hoh are marked with an asterisk.

Eddie Hoh appears on several compilation and career retrospective albums by artists with whom he worked.