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Ummm, where to start?

When I read my "Baby book" that my parents had prepared for me,
it said that at the age of three years old I was humming all
the guitar solos to the music they would play on the radio etc.

I guess it started way back then. I have always had an intense
passion for music, but gladly i didn't pursue the guitar..haha

My brother and I recieved our first drumkit in about 1978.
With brotherhood comes competitiveness, and we both pushed
each other to improve and out-play the other.
My brother, Trent Bryson-Dean is an amazing drummer now by any standard.

Anyways, we destroyed our first drumkit pretty quickly, leaving me
to play many an hour on a beanbag we had in our loungeroom,
whilst listening to music such as Led Zeppelin or the Police
with headphones on.

We finally got another drumkit in about 1983. What a wait that was!
I had figured many things out without a drumkit and things came
very naturally to me on my new blue Tama Swingstars.

Two years of hard practice and I was in my first Rock N' Roll band.
I haven't looked back ever since!

At first I was totally a rock pig, but my entire idea of the drums
changed when i heard the Chick Corea album "Inside Out".

Dave Weckl's playing was something i had never experienced
and I was forever destined to be a fusion musician after hearing "Inside Out"

In May 1991 I was lucky enough to see the John Mclaughlan Trio in my
hometown of Brisbane, Australia.
The passion and technical profficiency that I experienced that night
was definately a spiritual experience.
My life was changed! I knew my place in the universe!

Music is my life, my passion, my sanity.
I feel I communicate best when I am behind my drumkit, improvising.
Talking is almost like a secondary type of communication.

I feel very priveledged indeed!



SOME MORE MEMORABLE BANDS INCLUDE:
{in chronological order}

Hurlan {means "screaming" in German} - 1985
Zookeepers - 1985
Kickstart - 1986
Monty's Pythons - 1986
Wet Season - 1987
The Girlies - 1988
Jjag - 1989
The Motherless Sons - 1990
Pink Floyd the Concept - 1992
Pink Feat - 1992
The Move - 1993
Breathe - 1994
Jump Club - 1995
The Australian Red Hot Chilli Peppers tribute show - 1996
Arabian Goatfish - 1996
Tania Self - 1997
Max - 1998
Dogboxo - 1999
Canadian Dry - 2000
Blue Sofa Sundae - 2001
Indaba - present