1. Scott Rockenfield is best known as the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensryche, which he co-founded in 1982, and the hard rock band Slave to the System.
17 Facts About Scott Rockenfield
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Scott Rockenfield started playing music at the age of 11, after he saw some drums in elementary school and wanted to play on them.
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Guitarist Kelly Gray, who would be a guitarist in Queensryche between 1998 and 2002 and with whom Rockenfield played in Slave to the System, went to the same high school and graduated in the same year as Rockenfield.
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Scott Rockenfield cites Judas Priest, Boston and Kiss as his early influences, and later he became a big fan of Neil Peart and Rush, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, The Police and Pink Floyd; bands that were progressive and, "really pushed the envelope".
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Together with guitarist Michael Wilton, whom he met at Easy Street Records in Seattle, Scott Rockenfield formed the band Cross+Fire in 1980.
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Scott Rockenfield was with the band until 2021, however he was on indefinite hiatus from 2017.
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In 2001, Scott Rockenfield collaborated with former Queensryche guitarist Kelly Gray and the Brother Cane members Damon Johnson and Roman Glick in a hard rock project named Slave to the System, releasing one eponymous album.
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In 2008, Scott Rockenfield released a solo album, named The X Chapters.
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In 2013, Scott Rockenfield played drums on the Headless album Growing Apart, which includes vocalist Goran Edman and the Italian guitarists Walter Cianciusi and Dario Parente.
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In 2017 Scott Rockenfield took a hiatus from Queensryche which was originally supposed to last for a few months but then prolonged indefinitely.
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Former singer Geoff Tate later expressed concern for Scott Rockenfield, suggesting that he was in a difficult life situation and current singer Todd La Torre suggested it was unlikely Scott Rockenfield would ever return to the band.
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Scott Rockenfield has since filed a lawsuit alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and wrongful discharge.
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Out of all the members of Queensryche, Scott Rockenfield is the most active musically outside of the band Queensryche.
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In 2010, Scott Rockenfield founded Hollywood Loops, that specializes in sound effects for film, television and video game composing.
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Scott Rockenfield uses ddrum drums, Paiste cymbals, Pearl and Gibraltar hardware, Attack drumheads and Easton Ahead drumsticks.
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Scott Rockenfield married Cara Kaye Whitney on September 28,1991 after dating each other for 5 years.
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Scott Rockenfield later married Misty Scott Rockenfield, but they divorced early 2017.