Doane Ethredge Perry is an American musician, composer and author
Education
After hearing The Beatles, he decided to take up drums, because of what he describes as "the possibility, however unlikely that might have been, of young girls chasing me down the street, if I took up the drums." By the time he was 14, he was working with his own band on weekends, and continued to do so until he graduated high school at the age of 17. He attended Browning, Saint Bernard"s and Collegiate Schools in New York City. Later he briefly attended New York University and extension programs at The New School, Rutgers, and Juilliard, followed by extensive private musical study in jazz and orchestral percussion.
Career
He worked from 1984 to 2011 intermittently as drummer and percussionist with the band Jethro Tull. From New York City, Perry began playing the piano at age seven and then took up drums at eleven. By the time Perry was 18, he turned professional while simultaneously attempting to attend college.
This led to a serious conflict, finally resolved, when he opted to pursue music full-time.
He began gaining a broader musical background in a wide variety of styles, which included genres such as rock, popular, jazz, fusion, Rhythm & Blues, classical, world and folk. from 1988–1996. He continues to perform solo clinics at Drum Festivals and Music Colleges around the world.
In 1992, he released a critically acclaimed instructional video entitled Creative Listening, still widely used in the curriculum of music schools in the United States of America and abroad. Jethro Tull
In 1984 Perry joined Jethro Tull as drummer and percussionist to replace Gerry Conway.
He continued to record and tour until the band"s demise, and was its third longest standing member.
Perry played on numerous Jethro Tull albums and DVDs. Equipment
Doane Perry has used a wide variety of equipment over the years. He uses different drum kits depending on several factors, such as whether he is performing live or recording in the studio.
On recent Tull tours and records, he has been using Premier"s Artist Series maple drums, but occasionally uses birch Genistas or maple Signia Series drums, Paiste cymbals, DW Pedals & Hardware, Pro Mark Drumsticks, Remo Drum Heads, Rhythm Technical Percussion, LP Percussion.
Membership
He is a member of the faculty of the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, Ca. He is the second member of Jethro Tull to have been born in the United States. (the first was drummer Mark Craney).
Nevertheless, with Ian Anderson and Martin Barre being the only stable members of the band since the 1980s, Perry was substituted through the years by several different drummers, including Gerry Conway, Dave Mattacks, James Duncan Anderson, Mark Mondesir and Scott Hammond.
