Athanasios Tsoukas

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Zacky Live at the Ludwigsburg Drum Days, 2006

Athanasios "Zacky" Tsoukas is a Greek born drummer .

He started drumming at the age of 10 after making Greek music with his uncle and taking five lessons with a Hungarian teacher in Germany.

biography

In 1989 he recorded his first CD with the band Attack , two more CDs with "Attack" followed. In 1995 Zacky joined John Hayes (guitarist for Mother's Finest ). In 1996 he was a guest student at MI for (Music Institute) in Los Angeles , followed by a Juliane Werding tour in Germany in 1998 . In the same year Zacky recorded the "5000 Watts" CD.

In 2000 he played with the band Fair Warning in the opening act for Status Quo and then a tour of Japan. He then joined the band Soul Doctor , with whom he recorded 3 CDs. Another Japan tour, two European tours and various festivals followed.

In 2002 Zacky played a world tour with the Afghan singer Farhad Darya . In 2003 the Italian singer Al Bano hired the Greek drummer. Zacky played a world tour with him in 2005. In the same year he was commissioned to drum up the new CD from Al Bano's daughter, Christel Carrisi . Furthermore, Zacky played with the Swiss singer and actress Mia Aegerter a Germany tour together with Ronan Keating , as well as a Switzerland tour and various festivals.

From 2004 he was a permanent drummer in the Helmut Zerlett Band .

Zacky is currently back with the band Soul Doctor. He was also a permanent member of the band Errorhead until 2016. Errorhead was the band of guitarist Marcus Deml , who was voted one of the top 3 "Guitar Heros" 2005 by "Guitar Player" magazine in 2005.

Between 2017 and 2018 Zacky was the drummer of the metal band "Almanac" around guitarist Victor Smolski , with whom he recorded the current album "Kingslayer".

Discography (excerpts)

  • 1989: Attack - Destinies of War ( ZYX Music )
  • 1994: Attack - Revitalize (Iceland Records)
  • 1995: Attack - The Secret Place (Iceland Records)
  • 1997: 5000 Watts - Life of Choice (High Gain Records)
  • 1998: Mickey Meinert - Everything without guarantee (Blaze Records)
  • 1999: John Hayes - Don't Ya Wanna (Goodlife Records)
  • 2000: John Hayes - Feel Tension Release (Goodlife Records)
  • 2001: Soul Doctor - Soul Doctor (Masacre Records)
  • 2002: Soul Doctor - Systems Go Wild (Point Music)
  • 2005: Soul Doctor - For a Fistful of Dollars ( Frontiers Records )
  • 2006: Zacky - Ka Lei Dos Cope (Fuego Records)
  • 2007: Mafuba - Nothing comes to the end (7Hard)
  • 2008: Errorhead - Modern Hippie (Lion Music)
  • 2010: Errorhead - Modern Hippies Live At Your Home (Live-DVD, self-distribution)
  • 2010: Errorhead - Live (live, House-Master-Records)
  • 2012: Errorhead - Organic Pill (Rock The Earth)
  • 2014: Errorhead - Evolution (Lighthouse Records)
  • 2017: Mickey Meinert - Movement ( Timezone )
  • 2017: Almanac - Kingslayer ( Nuclear Blast )

Equipment

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guitar Hero Award . Errorhead.com. Accessed on December 18, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.errorhead.com  
  2. ↑ Moves - Mickey Meinert. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Artist-Page Zacky Tsouka's Pearl Drums. Retrieved April 28, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Artist Page Remo drum heads. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
  5. ^ Istanbul Mehmet Artists. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
  6. ^ Wincent Drumsticks Artists. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tsoukas, Athanasios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsoukas, Zacky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek drummer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century