Marco Minnemann

Marco Minnemann in Aarhus, 2016

Marco Minnemann (born December 24, 1970 in Hannover) is a German drummer,^[1] composer and multi-instrumentalist. He lives in San Diego, California.

Marco Minnemann has published a number of solo CDs. On most of them he performs all instruments and vocals.^[2] He is known for developing a very advanced drum technique called interdependence allowing him to play various patterns with each of his feet or hands, and has published several instructional books describing this concept.^[2]

Minnemann provided additional guest voices in the Titmouse-animated series Metalocalypse on Adult Swim.

In 2011, he was the runner-up in a series of auditions for Dream Theater after Mike Portnoy left the band in 2010.^[3]

Marco also performs with several other groups. He was a member of the German Crossover band Freaky Fukin Weirdoz from 1992-98, with whom he recorded 4 albums, and from 1998-99 he was a member of the German Rock band H-Blockx and recorded the album "Fly Eyes" with them. Since 2011^[4] he has been a member of Steven Wilson's studio band and, on occasion, his touring band as well. He is a member of the rock group The Aristocrats^[5] and has performed with Joe Satriani since 2013.^[6] Currently he is also the drummer for The Mute Gods, which is a project of Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo, Steven Wilson Band) and appears on their album "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me".

Books

• Ultimate Play Along Drum Trax.
• Extreme Interdependence: Drumming Beyond Independence (With Audio CD) – Nov 2001
• Maximum Minnemann 2006

DVDs

• Marco Minnemann: Live in L.A. – October 2007^[7]
• Extreme Drumming - 2003
• The Marco Show - 2006

Discography

Solo

• The Green Mindbomb (1998)
• Comfortably Homeless (1999)
• Broken Orange (2003)
• Normalizer (2003)
• Housewifedogandtwokids (2007)
• A Mouth of God (2008)
• Catspoon (2009)
• Normalizer 2 (2010)
• Symbolic Fox (2012)
• Above The Roses (2016)

with Mario Brinkmann and Fabio Trentini

• Disarmed (2005)

with Minnemann/Brinkmann/Trentini/Zimmer

• Play the Police (2007)

with The Aristocrats

• "The Aristocrats" (2011)
• "BOING! We'll do it live" (2012)
• "Culture Clash" (2013)
• "Tres Caballeros" (2015)

with ""Trey Gunn""

• Modulator (2010)

with Mike Henderson

• "The Veneer of Logic" (2013)

with Illegal Aliens

• Thickness (1996)
• Red Alibis (1997)
• Time (1998)
• International Telephone (2000)

with ""Mike Keneally""

• Evidence of Humanity (2010)

with ""Tony Levin and Jordan Rudess""

• Levin Minnemann Rudess - 2013
• "From the Law Offices of Levin Minnemann Rudess" - 2016

with Minnemann/Brinkmann

• Motor (2002)
• "The Shining" (2010

with ""Plini""

• The End of Everything (2015)

with Shiloh Sheray

• S+M (2011)

with ""U-Z Project""

• Ultimate Zero Tour (2011)

with Waken Eyes

• Exodus (2015)

other appearances:

• Orchids (2002)
• Mieze (2004)
• Swine Songs - Best Of (2006)
• Contraire de la chanson (2006)
• "EEPS" (2014)
• "Celebration" (2015)
• Evil Smiles Of Beauty/Sound Of Crime - 2012

Selected recordings with other artists

1990s

• FFW - "Senseless Wonder" (1992)
• FFW - "Mao Mak Maa" feat. Nina Hagen (1993)
• FFW - "Culture Shock" (1995)
• H-Blockx - "Fly Eyes" (1996)
• FFW - "Hula" (1997)
• Keilerkopf - "Keilerkopf" (1998)

2000s

• Paul Gilbert - "Burning Organ" (2000)
• Wolfgang Schmid "Special Kick" (2001)
• Wolfgang Schmid "A Swift Kick" (2002)
• Paddy Kelly (2002)
• Nena - "feat. Nena" (2003)
• Paul Gilbert - "Spaceship One" (2004)
• Paul Gilbert - "Spaceship One Live" DVD (2005)
• Mario Brinkmann - "Engineer" (2007)
• Illogicist - "The Insight Eye" - (2007)
• Necrophagist - Summer Slaughter Tour Live DVD (2008)
• Ephel Duath - "Through My Dog's Eyes" (2008)
• Mike Keneally - "Scambot" (2009)
• UKZ - "Radiation" EP (2009)
• Dr. Zoltan Øbelisk – Why I Am So Wise, Why I Am So Clever, and Why I Write Such Good Songs (2009)

2010s

• Tony MacAlpine (2011)
• Musical Mind Meld (w Jordan Rudess and Daniel Jakubovic)
• The Aristocrats "The Aristocrats" (Bryan Beller, Marco Minnemann, Guthrie Govan) (2011)
• Mike Keneally/Andy Partridge - Wingbeat Fantastic (2011)
• Steven Wilson – Catalog / Preserve / Amass - Live (2012)
• Steven Wilson - Get all you Deserve - DVD/Blu-ray (2012)
• Paul Cusick - "P'dice" (2011)
• Forward Shapes - "Legacy" (2012)
• U.K. Live (with Eddie Jobson, John Wetton), DVD, 2CD (2012)
• Sylencer – "A Lethal Dose of Truth" (2012) - (Guest Drummer on "Wired in the Blood")^[8]
• The Aristocrats – "BOING! We'll Do it Live" (2012)
• Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories) (2013)
• Aaron Ruimy/Marco Minnemann – "A Few Minor Modifications" (2013)
• Matte Henderson with Marco Minnemann - "The Veneer Of Logic" (2013)^[9]
• Ephel Duath - Hemmed by Light, Shaped by Darkness (2013)
• Mike Keneally - You Must be This Tall (2013)
• Steven Wilson - Drive Home, Blu-ray/DVD (2013)
• Nathan Frost - Synecron (2013)^[10]
• The Hushdown - Radio (2014)
• Syndone - "Odysseas" (2014)
• Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)
• Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova (2015)
• Amadeus Awad - Death Is Just A Feeling (2015)
• The Aristocrats Tres Caballeros (2015)
• Mike Keneally - Scambot 2
• Steven Wilson - Transience (2015)
• The Mute Gods - Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (2016)
• Steven Wilson - 4½ (2016)
• Pitts Minnemann Project - The Psychic Planetarium (2016)

References

External links

• Marco Minnemann discography at Discogs
• Official website