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Frank Ferrer

Frank Ferrer (born 1966) 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. Ferrer is also a member of The Psychedelic Furs, as well as, a former member of Love Spit Love. He has recorded and worked with several high profile musicians including The Beautiful, Robi "Draco" Rosa, and Sarah Clifford.




Frank was born March 25, 1966 and raised in New York. He has stated at an interview at the School of Rock,Chatham, NJ that at age 11 he saw a Kiss concert and it was there he first started to love Rock music.




In 1992 he joined Love Spit Love, which featured guitarist Richard Fortus. Since then he has gone on to play with other bands such as the second incarnation of the Psychedelic Furs and Honky Toast (both of those bands also featured Fortus), The Beautiful, The The, Pisser, The Compulsions, Robi "Draco" Rosa, Sarah Clifford, Gordan Gano and was a founding member of NYC heavy-groove legends Ratchethead. He has also toured with Doro Pesch and Tommy Stinson.




In July 2006, Frank Ferrer joined Guns N' Roses during their European Tour to replace Bryan "Brain" Mantia, who had returned to the United States for personal reasons.




Ferrer has since become full-time drummer for G'N'R, and recorded a portion of the drum parts for the album Chinese Democracy.




Ferrer has also worked with other artists including Rebecca Blasband, Jive Jones, Sarah Clifford and GanoRyan.




Ferrer's daughter Olivia is a member of the band Supercute!, an indie pop band.




Tours:

• The Beautiful USA
• Love Spit Love USA/EUROPE
• Rebecca Blasband USA
• Robi "Draco" Rosa Latin America/Puerto Rico/USA
• Doro Pesch Germany
• The Psychedelic Furs USA/Canada/UK
• Gordon Gano USA
• Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour 2006 Europe, North America
• Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour 2007 Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan
• Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour 2009/2010 Asia, North America, South America, Central America, Europe

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