Career
Gregory took the name Bryan after Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones whom he was a big fan of. He met Cramps member Lux Interior at a mutual job they shared at a record store in New York City. He shared his birthday with fellow member Poison Ivy. He was known for his oozing guitar sound, wild stage antics, and long black and white striped hair.
He appeared on The Cramps first two albums Gravest Hits and Songs the Lord Taught United States
He abruptly left the band in 1980, with a van full of most of the band"s equipment. Number police report or proof was established.
He was later replaced by Kid Congo Powers from the Gun Club. After the Cramps, Gregory went on to play in Beast from 1980-1983.
Gregory had a social reunion with Lux, Ivy & Nick backstage at a Cramps show in Saint St. Petersburg, Florida in the early 1990s.
Lux dedicated the last song of the night to Bryan. At the time of his death Gregory had been losing interest in his music goals. Gregory drove himself to the emergency room for a check up at 4 a.m.
Once there, he was transferred to another hospital, Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Anaheim, California, where suddenly and unexpectedly he was felled by a multiple systems failure.
Gregory was an avid science fiction and horror film fan, and especially fond of characters such as Frankenstein"s Monster. In addition to his love of music he also designed jewellery, did charcoal drawings, clothing art design, theater makeup and horror costume design in Cleveland, Ohio and Florida.
Gregory supported Native American causes and was reported by his mother (now deceased) to be a descendant of Civil War general William Sherman. Although his religious background was Catholic in his youth, he experimented in several religious cults and found them unsatisfactory.
Gregory"s ashes are buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.
His noisy style of guitar playing was an inspiration to people like Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, as well as numerous other artists who would go on to make up the British shoegaze scene of the mid-to-late "80s.