Fred Coury
Fred Coury (born October 20, 1967 in Johnson City ( New York )) is an American musician and drummer member of the blues rock band Cinderella .
biography
Coury was born in Johnson City to a Lebanese family. He took violin lessons at the age of five and made his first public appearance at the age of six. Between the ages of eight and ten he attended the Conservatoire Libanais in Beirut , and at the age of 10 he also learned to play the trumpet . He learned to play the drums from the age of 13. Coury names Neil Peart , Peter Criss , Bobby Blotzer, John Bonham , Eric Carr , Tommy Lee and Tommy Aldridge as his role models.
Coury was a founding member of Chastain in 1984 and played in London in 1985 . With the latter he played the album Non Stop Rock in 1985 . When Cinderella recorded her debut album Night Songs in 1985 , producer Andy Johns sorted out the group's drummer, Jim Drnc, because Johns said he was not good enough. The recordings were carried out with the help of the drummer Jody Cortez, Jim Drnc was then replaced by Fred Coury as a band member. Coury recorded the song Shake Me for this album with the group . After the very successful tour for this album, Coury helped out with Guns N 'Roses when their drummer Steven Adler broke his arm in December 1987. The next studio album, Long Cold Winter , Cinderella recorded again with Andy Johns. The album was mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, who were also at the controls on the successful Guns-N'-Roses album Appetite for Destruction . Coury toured the world with Guns N 'Roses during the recording and only took part in the recordings for the new album sporadically. The list of drummers who supported Fred Coury as guest musicians was therefore particularly remarkable : Cozy Powell and Denny Carmassi were involved in the recordings. Powell had been suggested by Coury.
In 1990 the band released their third album Heartbreak Station , on which the blues-oriented line of the predecessor was consistently continued. When recording the eleven tracks, Cinderella used gospel singers, brass instruments and significantly more piano than with the previous ones. In addition, John Paul Jones arranged the strings of a thirty-piece orchestra in the songs "Heartbreak Station" and "Winds of Change". In terms of success, however, they could not build on the first two albums. The band canceled a European tour planned for the beginning of 1991 for fear of attacks against the backdrop of the just inflamed Gulf War.
During the US tour for this album vocalist Tom Keifer one suffered neurologically -related paralysis ( paresis ) of the laryngeal muscles . The tour had to be canceled and the recordings for the follow-up album Still Climbing were delayed until 1994.
Coury was still in the creation of the song 1992 Hot and Bothered involved, the group for the film Wayne's World added had. He then left the band and founded the band Arcade with the former Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy , with whom he recorded two albums for Epic Records . After the release of the last Cinderella album, Still Climbing, which also contained the recording of Hot & Bothered , but flopped commercially, the group disbanded in 1995. Not least thanks to a documentary broadcast by MTV about the rock bands of the 1980s, Tom Keifer , Jeff LaBar , Eric Brittingham and Coury got together again in November 1996 for a benefit concert in New Jersey. Although Cinderella has officially re-existed since 1996, no new studio album has yet been released. The final musical mark was a re-recorded version of the ballad Don't Know What You Got for the sampler VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped . In the summer of 2005, the band toured the United States with Ratt, Quiet Riot and FireHouse under the Rock Never Stops banner . A new live album was released on November 6, 2009 and a European tour took place in 2010. In June 2011 the band gave their first concert in Germany in over ten years on the occasion of their 25th anniversary in Mülheim an der Ruhr .
Coury is now an established composer of sporting events and television formats in the United States. In his studio Double Forte Music he works for NBC, among others . For this company he wrote the music for all four seasons of the series The Night Shift . He also composes for the LA Kings and the Portland Trail Blazers
Discography (excerpt)
- Chastain : Mystery of Illusion (1985)
- London : Non Stop Rock (1985)
- Linear: Caught in the Middle (1992)
- Arcade: Arcade (1993)
- Arcade: A / 2 (1994)
- Arcade: A / 3 Live and Unreleased (2001)
- with Cinderalla
- Night Songs (1986)
- Long Cold Winter (1988)
- Move Over for Stairway to Heaven / Highway to Hell (1989)
- Heartbreak Station (1990)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c - Official website (English)
- ↑ Booklet of the CD
- ↑ Oliver Klemm: Cinderella. The second part of the fairy tale . In: Metal Hammer / Crash . International hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. June 1988, p. 120 f .
- ↑ Cinderella: Completed roller coaster ride, interview with Tom Keifer , Classic Rock online, accessed October 1, 2019
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coury, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th October 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johnson City, New York |