Bryan Mantia
Encyclopedia
Bryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock
drummer
. He has played with bands like Primus
, Guns N' Roses
, Praxis
and Godflesh
, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits
, Bill Laswell
, Bootsy Collins
and Buckethead
. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.
to an Italian-American father and a Japanese American
mother, Mantia became interested in such 'groove heavy' artists as James Brown, Led Zeppelin
, and Jimi Hendrix
early on, but it wasn't until he was 16 years old that Mantia began playing drums. Shortly thereafter, Mantia acquired the nickname "Brain" while playing in a high school concert band, due to his obsession with the complex Anthony Cirone book, "Portraits in Rhythm." Mantia continued to perfect his drumming skills, by studying at such music schools as the Percussion Institute of Technology
in Hollywood. The mid '80s saw Mantia join the San Francisco Bay Area
funk-rock band, the Limbomaniacs, who broke up later in the decade, but reformed to issue a lone full-length in 1990, Stinky Grooves.
From there, Mantia played with a variety of other outfits, including M.I.R.V.
(Cosmodrome, Feeding Time on Monkey Island), MCM and the Monster (Collective Emotional Problems), and Tom Waits
(Bone Machine), before co-forming the funk/experimental supergroup, Praxis
. Included in the group were Parliament/Funkadelic veterans Bootsy Collins
(bass) and Bernie Worrell
(keyboards), as well as masked guitarist Buckethead
and producer Bill Laswell
- resulting in multiple releases throughout the '90s, such as Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
, Transmutation Live
, and Warszawa
. Mantia continued to work with Buckethead outside of Praxis - playing on such solo Buckethead albums as Giant Robot and Monsters and Robots
.
The late '90s saw Mantia appear on releases by Godflesh
(Songs of Love and Hate, Love and Hate in Dub
) and longtime friends, Primus
(whom Mantia was briefly a member of in 1989, before a broken foot led to his exit). His second go-around with Primus proved more fruitful, as Mantia toured extensively with the trio and played on the albums Brown Album
, Rhinoplasty
, and Antipop
. Mantia also contributed to a side project with Larry Lalonde
called No Forcefield, releasing two albums. Already boasting quite an impressive musical resume, it was about to get even greater, as Axl Rose
invited Mantia to join his overhauled version of Guns N' Roses
in 2000 (at the insistence of Buckethead, who was brought onboard as Slash's replacement). Mantia appeared with the group throughout sporadic live dates in 2001 and 2002, while continuing to lay down tracks for Guns N' Roses' long awaited studio album, 'Chinese Democracy
'.
Brain's Lessons: Shredding Repis On the Gnar Gnar Rad is a VHS drum workshop Published by Alfred Publishing. In the video, Brain goes through some of the techniques he feels are important, including Go Go, Funk Patterns, the Ostinato and the Up Down Technique. The video is shot to look like a home movie and includes many humorous moments including a sit down steak dinner with his parents right in the middle of Brain "shredding" on a toy drum set. Although silly at times, the video is extremely informative for drummers looking to learn the hard grooves he is known for.
Mantia appears on several songs on BT's 2003 release Emotional Technology
as well BT's score for the 2003 film Monster.
In the early summer of 2006, after 4 warm-up dates in New York City, Mantia toured Europe with Guns N' Roses. On June 21, 2006 it was announced he was taking a short break from the GN'R tour to spend time with his wife, who gave birth to a baby girl on July 4, 2006. Since leaving to be a father, replacement drummer Frank Ferrer
has been performing in most of the band's shows. In the Fall of 2006, Ferrer was promoted to an official member of the band, which fueled speculation that Mantia had resigned or been fired from Guns N' Roses. As of November, 2008, Mantia is no longer listed on the band's official MySpace
page. However, Axl Rose mentioned him "working on things for the band" during his fan-forum interviews in December 2008.
Collector's Series Maple drums in Tony Williams Yellow Lacquer with Custom Yellow Hardware
18x24 Bass Drum
8x12, 9x13 Toms
16x16, 16x18 Floor Toms w/ Legs
6x14 Edge Snare
9000 Single Bass Drum Pedal
9500 Hi-Hat
9300 Snare Stand
9700 Straight/Boom Cymbal Stand (x6)
9900 Double Tom Stand (x2)
9100 Throne
14" A Mastersound Hi-Hats
19" A Medium Thin Crash (2)
20" K Crash/Ride
20" A Deep Ride
20" A Medium Thin Crash
22" Oriental China "Trash"
Technics SL-1210MKZ Turntables with a M44Gs stylus
Vestax PMCO5PRO DJMixer
Limbomaniacs
Praxis
Bullmark
Giant Robot
Godflesh
Pieces
Primus
Buckethead
El Stew
No Forcefield
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
Serj Tankian
Buckethead and Travis Dickerson
Guns N' Roses
Science Faxtion
Travis Dickerson
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
. He has played with bands like Primus
Primus (band)
Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane. Primus originally formed in 1984 with Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth, later joined by Lane, though the latter two departed...
, Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
, Praxis
Praxis (band)
Praxis was the name of an ever-changing musical project, led by prolific producer Bill Laswell. Praxis combine elements of different musical genres such as funk, jazz, hip-hop and heavy metal into highly improvised music...
and Godflesh
Godflesh
Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...
, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
, Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
, Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
and Buckethead
Buckethead
Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...
. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.
History
Born in 1963 in the South Bay city of Cupertino, CaliforniaCupertino, California
Cupertino is an affluent suburban city in Santa Clara County, California in the U.S., directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 58,302 at the time of the 2010 census. Forbes...
to an Italian-American father and a Japanese American
Japanese American
are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity...
mother, Mantia became interested in such 'groove heavy' artists as James Brown, Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
, and Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
early on, but it wasn't until he was 16 years old that Mantia began playing drums. Shortly thereafter, Mantia acquired the nickname "Brain" while playing in a high school concert band, due to his obsession with the complex Anthony Cirone book, "Portraits in Rhythm." Mantia continued to perfect his drumming skills, by studying at such music schools as the Percussion Institute of Technology
Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school located in Hollywood, California. Although not a regionally accredited school, the school offers a variety of unaccredited Bachelor Degree, Associate Degree and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music...
in Hollywood. The mid '80s saw Mantia join the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
funk-rock band, the Limbomaniacs, who broke up later in the decade, but reformed to issue a lone full-length in 1990, Stinky Grooves.
From there, Mantia played with a variety of other outfits, including M.I.R.V.
M.I.R.V.
M.I.R.V. is a band based in the San Francisco, California, Bay Area. Founded in 1994, it initially consisted of the band's namesake guitarist and singer Marc "Mirv" Haggard, bassist Craig McFarland, drummer Jeff Gomes, and guitarist Bryan Kehoe, who also contributed vocals and keyboards...
(Cosmodrome, Feeding Time on Monkey Island), MCM and the Monster (Collective Emotional Problems), and Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
(Bone Machine), before co-forming the funk/experimental supergroup, Praxis
Praxis (band)
Praxis was the name of an ever-changing musical project, led by prolific producer Bill Laswell. Praxis combine elements of different musical genres such as funk, jazz, hip-hop and heavy metal into highly improvised music...
. Included in the group were Parliament/Funkadelic veterans Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
(bass) and Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell
George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...
(keyboards), as well as masked guitarist Buckethead
Buckethead
Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...
and producer Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
- resulting in multiple releases throughout the '90s, such as Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
Note: Track 8 starts out with the Giant Robot theme, that is also featured on Buckethead's Bucketheadland album. The track also contains a version of one of the many themes Akira Ifukube wrote for Toho production's Godzilla films.-Personnel:...
, Transmutation Live
Transmutation Live
Transmutation Live is a live album compiled from a live Praxis performance in Zurich, Switzerland, in the summer of 1996. Transmutation Live features an incarnation of Bill Laswell's free jazz/rock/hip-hop collective...
, and Warszawa
Warszawa (Praxis album)
Warszawa is a live album made by the supergroup Praxis released in 1999 by the label Innerhythmic.The album contains 3 of the most influential members of the supergroup, bassist and producer Bill Laswell, guitarist Buckethead, and drummer Brain...
. Mantia continued to work with Buckethead outside of Praxis - playing on such solo Buckethead albums as Giant Robot and Monsters and Robots
Monsters and Robots
- Notes :* The songs "Jowls" and "Scapula" are both re-recorded versions of songs of the same names on Giant Robot .* The song "Night of the Slunk" has a similar riff as "Jump Man", but longer with less distortion....
.
The late '90s saw Mantia appear on releases by Godflesh
Godflesh
Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...
(Songs of Love and Hate, Love and Hate in Dub
Love and Hate in Dub
Love and Hate in Dub is an extended play remix release from the industrial metal group Godflesh. The album remixes songs from their 1996 album Songs of Love and Hate, with a more ambient, dub and drum 'n bass flavor...
) and longtime friends, Primus
Primus (band)
Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane. Primus originally formed in 1984 with Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth, later joined by Lane, though the latter two departed...
(whom Mantia was briefly a member of in 1989, before a broken foot led to his exit). His second go-around with Primus proved more fruitful, as Mantia toured extensively with the trio and played on the albums Brown Album
Brown Album
- Personnel :* Les Claypool – bass, vocals* Larry LaLonde – guitar* Bryan "Brain" Mantia – drums* Produced by Primus* Engineered by Les Claypool* Production coordinator: Jill "Galaxy Queen" Rose* Studio assistant: Tim "Soya" Soylan-Critical reception:...
, Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty (album)
-Critical reception:In his review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the EP as "another small treasure for fans." He notes that "the band hasn't chosen any surprising covers" but "makes up for it with great performances" and "startling arrangements that are often unpredictable",...
, and Antipop
Antipop
Antipop is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Primus, released on October 19, 1999 before their hiatus in 2000-2003. It is also the last album with drummer Bryan Mantia....
. Mantia also contributed to a side project with Larry Lalonde
Larry LaLonde
Larry "Ler" LaLonde is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Jay Lane...
called No Forcefield, releasing two albums. Already boasting quite an impressive musical resume, it was about to get even greater, as Axl Rose
Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he enjoyed great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disappearing from the public eye for several years...
invited Mantia to join his overhauled version of Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
in 2000 (at the insistence of Buckethead, who was brought onboard as Slash's replacement). Mantia appeared with the group throughout sporadic live dates in 2001 and 2002, while continuing to lay down tracks for Guns N' Roses' long awaited studio album, 'Chinese Democracy
Chinese Democracy
Chinese Democracy is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released in November 2008 on Geffen Records. It is the band's first studio album since "The Spaghetti Incident?" , released exactly 15 years before Chinese Democracy, and their first album of original studio...
'.
Brain's Lessons: Shredding Repis On the Gnar Gnar Rad is a VHS drum workshop Published by Alfred Publishing. In the video, Brain goes through some of the techniques he feels are important, including Go Go, Funk Patterns, the Ostinato and the Up Down Technique. The video is shot to look like a home movie and includes many humorous moments including a sit down steak dinner with his parents right in the middle of Brain "shredding" on a toy drum set. Although silly at times, the video is extremely informative for drummers looking to learn the hard grooves he is known for.
Mantia appears on several songs on BT's 2003 release Emotional Technology
Emotional Technology
Emotional Technology is the fourth album by electronica artist BT. Transitioning towards a poppier sound, the album features some of BT's well-known hits, including "Somnambulist", "The Force of Gravity" and "Superfabulous". "Somnambulist", also known as "Simply Being Loved", holds the Guinness...
as well BT's score for the 2003 film Monster.
In the early summer of 2006, after 4 warm-up dates in New York City, Mantia toured Europe with Guns N' Roses. On June 21, 2006 it was announced he was taking a short break from the GN'R tour to spend time with his wife, who gave birth to a baby girl on July 4, 2006. Since leaving to be a father, replacement drummer Frank Ferrer
Frank Ferrer
Frank Ferrer is an American rock drummer and session musician. In October 2006, Ferrer became an official member of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses after serving as the band's emergency substitute drummer for Bryan Mantia on several occasions during the band's summer 2006 European tour...
has been performing in most of the band's shows. In the Fall of 2006, Ferrer was promoted to an official member of the band, which fueled speculation that Mantia had resigned or been fired from Guns N' Roses. As of November, 2008, Mantia is no longer listed on the band's official MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
page. However, Axl Rose mentioned him "working on things for the band" during his fan-forum interviews in December 2008.
Drums
DWDrum Workshop
Drum Workshop is a drum and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California. Their slogan is "The Drummer's Choice".-History:...
Collector's Series Maple drums in Tony Williams Yellow Lacquer with Custom Yellow Hardware
18x24 Bass Drum
8x12, 9x13 Toms
16x16, 16x18 Floor Toms w/ Legs
6x14 Edge Snare
9000 Single Bass Drum Pedal
9500 Hi-Hat
9300 Snare Stand
9700 Straight/Boom Cymbal Stand (x6)
9900 Double Tom Stand (x2)
9100 Throne
Cymbals
ZildjianAvedis Zildjian Company
The Avedis Zildjian Company is a cymbal manufacturer founded in Istanbul by Armenian Avedis Zildjian in the 17th century during the Ottoman Empire. At nearly 400 years old, Zildjian is one of the oldest companies in the world...
14" A Mastersound Hi-Hats
19" A Medium Thin Crash (2)
20" K Crash/Ride
20" A Deep Ride
20" A Medium Thin Crash
22" Oriental China "Trash"
Electronics
Akai MPC 60 II, 3000 LE, 4000Technics SL-1210MKZ Turntables with a M44Gs stylus
Vestax PMCO5PRO DJMixer
Selected discography
- Brain's Lessons: Shredding Repis On the Gnar Gnar Rad – 2002 instructional video
- Brain's Worst Drum Instructional DVD Ever – 2008 instructional video
Limbomaniacs
- Stinky Grooves - 1990
Praxis
- Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)Note: Track 8 starts out with the Giant Robot theme, that is also featured on Buckethead's Bucketheadland album. The track also contains a version of one of the many themes Akira Ifukube wrote for Toho production's Godzilla films.-Personnel:...
- 1992 - SacrifistSacrifist- Personnel :*Praxis:**Bootsy Collins - bass and vocals**Buckethead - guitar**Brain - drums**Bernie Worrell - keyboards**Mick Harris - vocals**Yamatsuka Eye - vocals**John Zorn - saxophone**Bill Laswell - bass...
- 1994 - MetatronMetatron (Praxis album)Metatron is the third album of Bill Laswell and Buckethead's project Praxis. This album concentrates on the core band of Buckethead, Brain and Laswell, rather than featuring a large number of guests like the earlier albums....
- 1994 - Live in PolandLive in Poland (Praxis album)Live in Poland is the first live album made by the supergroup Praxis, released in 1997.This album contains songs of their last two albums Metatron and Sacrifist, one song from Buckethead's album Giant Robot plus "Tarab" first heard on Nicky Skopelitis' album Ekstasis recorded June 29, 1996.The...
- 1997 - Transmutation LiveTransmutation LiveTransmutation Live is a live album compiled from a live Praxis performance in Zurich, Switzerland, in the summer of 1996. Transmutation Live features an incarnation of Bill Laswell's free jazz/rock/hip-hop collective...
- 1997 - WarszawaWarszawa (Praxis album)Warszawa is a live album made by the supergroup Praxis released in 1999 by the label Innerhythmic.The album contains 3 of the most influential members of the supergroup, bassist and producer Bill Laswell, guitarist Buckethead, and drummer Brain...
- 1999 - Tennessee 2004Tennessee 2004Note: Track 8 is derivative of The Interworld And The New Innocence from the Transmutation album-Personnel:* Praxis:** Buckethead - guitars** Bill Laswell - bass** Bryan "Brain" Mantia - drums** Bernie Worrell - keyboards...
- 2007 - Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)-U.S. Release :-By Song:-General Credits:*Produced and arranged by Bill Laswell*Created at Orange Music Orange, NJ*Engineer: Robert Musso*Assistant: James Dellatacoma*Drums and Amps/Set up: Artie Smith*Mastered at Turtle Tone Studio...
- 2008
Bullmark
- Interstate 76 soundtrack - 1996
Giant Robot
- Giant Robot - 1996
Godflesh
- Songs of Love and HateSongs of Love and Hate (Godflesh)Songs of Love and Hate is Godflesh's fourth official album. It was released in 1996 on Earache Records. This album shows a slight change in Godflesh's sound, incorporating more electronica and hip-hop elements while toning down the crushing heaviness of earlier releases...
- 1996
Pieces
- I Need 5 Minutes AloneI Need 5 Minutes AloneI Need 5 Minutes Alone is an album by Pieces, another band name for one of the many collaborations between guitarist Buckethead and drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, released February 17, 1997 on John Zorn's Avant Records label. This album is out of print and was available as a Japan import only...
- 1997
Primus
- Brown AlbumBrown Album- Personnel :* Les Claypool – bass, vocals* Larry LaLonde – guitar* Bryan "Brain" Mantia – drums* Produced by Primus* Engineered by Les Claypool* Production coordinator: Jill "Galaxy Queen" Rose* Studio assistant: Tim "Soya" Soylan-Critical reception:...
- 1997 - RhinoplastyRhinoplasty (album)-Critical reception:In his review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the EP as "another small treasure for fans." He notes that "the band hasn't chosen any surprising covers" but "makes up for it with great performances" and "startling arrangements that are often unpredictable",...
- 1998 - AntipopAntipopAntipop is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Primus, released on October 19, 1999 before their hiatus in 2000-2003. It is also the last album with drummer Bryan Mantia....
- 1999
Buckethead
- ColmaColma (album)Colma is the fourth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. It was released on March 24, 1998, on CyberOctave records. The album was recorded for Buckethead's mother because she was sick with colon cancer, and he wanted to make an album which she would enjoy listening to while recovering.The title of...
- 1998 - Monsters and RobotsMonsters and Robots- Notes :* The songs "Jowls" and "Scapula" are both re-recorded versions of songs of the same names on Giant Robot .* The song "Night of the Slunk" has a similar riff as "Jump Man", but longer with less distortion....
- 1999 - Cuckoo Clocks Of HellCuckoo Clocks Of HellThe Cuckoo Clocks of Hell is the thirteenth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. It was released on April 20, 2004 via Disembodied Records...
- 2004 - Kevin's Noodle HouseKevin's Noodle HouseKevin's Noodle House is an album by Buckethead and Brain, released on the label TDRS Music in October 2007....
- 2007 - A Real Diamond in the RoughA Real Diamond in the RoughA Real Diamond in the Rough is the twenty-fourth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, announced on April 27, 2009 for a May 1 release through the TDRS Music label...
(tracks 2, 4, & 7) - 2009 - Best RegardsBest RegardsBlue Disc:Green Disc:Yellow Disc:Purple Disc:-Credits:* Buckethead – guitar.* Brain – drums, keyboards.* Melissa Reese - keyboards, percussion.* Art: Buckethead, Brain & Melissa.-References:...
- 2010 - Brain as HamenoodleBrain as HamenoodleBrain as Hamenoodle is an album by Buckethead and Brain, was expected to be released on October 15, 2010 but was released 2 days before the announced date. The album comes in a CD jacket....
- 2010 - Kind RegardsKind Regards (album)Kind Regards is a 3-CD set released by Buckethead, Bryan "Brain" Mantia and Melissa Reese. It was slated for release on October 15, 2010 but was released 2 days before the contemplated date. This is also the second volume of the "Regards" collection...
- 2010
El Stew
- No Hesitation - 1999
No Forcefield
- Lee's Oriental Massage 415-626-1837 – 2000
- God Is an Excuse – 2001
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
- The Big Eyeball in the SkyThe Big Eyeball in the SkyThe Big Eyeball in the Sky is the 2004 album by Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, known by fans as "C2B3", released on Les Claypool's own Prawn Song label.- Reception :Hal Horowitz of Allmusic gave the album an above average review, writing:...
- 2004
Serj Tankian
- Elect the DeadElect the Dead-Personnel:* All Songs Written & Performed by Serj Tankian - Stunning Suppository Sounds '...
- 2007
Buckethead and Travis Dickerson
- The Dragons of EdenThe Dragons of Eden (album)The Dragons of Eden is an album made by guitarist Buckethead, producer and keyboardist Travis Dickerson and drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia. It was released September 17, 2008 through Dickerson's label TDRS Music....
– 2008
Guns N' Roses
- Chinese Democracy - 2008
Science Faxtion
- Living On Another FrequencyLiving On Another Frequency-Notes:* The song "At Any Cost" features parts of the song "Gigan" from the album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock by Buckethead.* The song "I See Rockets" features parts of the song "Lotus Island" from the album Inbred Mountain by Buckethead.-Personnel:...
- 2008
Travis Dickerson
- IconographyIconography (album)Iconography is the debut album of the keyboardist Travis Dickerson. Released December 30, 2009 on his label TDRS MusicThe album also features the collaboration of several artist's that have worked with him over the years, including drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, guitarist Buckethead, keyboardist...
- 2009