Yes, that's a real name of a really great drummer! Over the years of trippin' over stuff on Napster and YouTube I came across this guy in my music searching three distinct times without even knowing it was the same man!
I got into "titties'n'beer" when lookin' up stuff on Napster about Frank Zappa. After I downloaded it and played it, it was silly (like a lot of Zappa songs), but what really caught my attention was the titties (or the girl those titties were attached to) name was the same name of a busty girl I used to know...so I got a kick outta that! Many years later I would see this video of the live performance of the song and was amazed that this guy not only did the voice of the devil, but also was the drummer and sang, too. I do voices so I thought that was neat and I have always loved when a drummer could sing, too...a true physical & musical feat! I'll do a post on Frank Zappa in the future.
A separate time I came across this drummer/singer was when looking up as much about John Wetton (lead singer of my favorite band: ASIA) as I could which would bring me to many groups. The group right before ASIA for John Wetton was UK which is a remarkable pre-ASIA-esque sound that you shoud definitely look into. This post is about Terry Bozzio, though and it's sorta crazy he went from from Zappa to...here, replacing prog-rock drumming legend Bill Bruford in UK which says a lot in itself to fill his shoes. His kits are so elaborate and his progressive rhythms are great...but he's also a singer that sounds great harmonizing in UK. Of course, I'll be doing more posts about John Wetton in the future which will include more of UK and Terry Bozzio.
Not the first Missing Persons song/video I ever got into, but this one shows off Terry Bozzio's talents in drumming/singing. The Lady Gaga-ish singer (decades before Gaga) is Dale Bozzio...yup...they were married for years...and they met through performing in Zappa's entourage. Yes, Terry Bozzio was also in this group, each "era" or Terry brings about a different look/style (this time with glam-rock hair/make-up), but something that's always the same is the progressive percussion talents and his unique voice. He can harmonize and has a great range with them high notes in this song whilst drumming...wow! When I started to piece together that this was the same drummer in all these videos my mind was blown. I'll make a future post about Missing Persons, too.
Back to Zappa again, there is an infamous drum score in the song: "The Black Page" and here, Terry talks about the story of how Zappa showed it to him first. Of course, this is a promo for a collector's drum signed by Terry, but it's still an interesting look at him, Zappa and this song. Look up live performances of this song from back when Zappa was alive and more recent Zappa on Zappa videos of the song (including one with Steve Vai on guitar).