Prairie Prince

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Prairie Prince with The New Cars in Dallas, Texas in 2006

Prairie Prince (actually Charles Prince Lempriere * 7. May 1950 in Charlotte , North Carolina ) is an American rock and roll - drummer .

Career

Prince is a member of The Tubes and founding member of the Journey group . He worked with many musicians, including a. with Chris Isaak (on the first four albums), Todd Rundgren , Brian Eno , David Byrne , XTC , Tom Waits , Paul Kantner , George Harrison , Dick Dale , Glenn Frey , Richard Marx , Bill Spooner, Neil Hamburger, John Fogerty and Tommy Bolin .

He is also active as a draftsman and, among other things, designed B. the cover of Todd Rundgren's album Healing . Together with Michael Cotten he created numerous stage decorations for artists such as Bette Midler , N'Sync , The Tubes and Todd Rundgren.

In 2006 he toured The New Cars with Todd Rundgren, bassist Kasim Sulton (who also played with Rundgren's Utopia band), Cars guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes .

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