Drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (BLACK STAR RIDERS, Y&T, MEGADETH, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES) was interviewed by "Road Stories". You can now watch the chat in two parts below.Jimmy relocated from Pennsylvania, to the bustling musical Mecca of Los Angeles nearly three decades ago. "I moved to L.A. hoping that someone like Ozzy would be looking for a drummer, and lo and behold, I landed the gig with Ozzy playing on 'The Ultimate Sin' album," says DeGrasso. Though the Ozzy gig was short lived, Jimmy spent three years with the critically acclaimed Y&T before leaving the band in 1990. The skate-punk flavored SUICIDAL TENDENCIES followed in 1992 as well doing a "fill-in" tour with ALICE IN CHAINS in 1993. DeGrasso then toured the world with ALICE COOPER from 1995 to 1998, played on the "Fistful Of Alice" album in 1996 and returned to Alice briefly in 2001. Jimmy played on Dave Mustaine's (MEGADETH vocalist/guitarist) solo album, "MD.45", in 1995 and then received a call back from Mustaine, in 1998, to join MEGADETH as a permanent member and continue the band's "Cryptic Writings" tour. DeGrasso recorded and toured behind MEGADETH's "Risk" album in 1999-2000, "The World Needs A Hero" in 2000-2001 and was featured on MEGADETH's first-ever live CD and DVD offering, "Rude Awakening", in 2002.Next Jimmy recorded a CD titled "The Reckoning" with the band F5 along with his old friend David Ellefson of MEGADETH. In 2008 Jimmy toured the world performing drum clinics in support of Sabian cymbals, Evans drum heads and Promark drumsticks. Also introduced was his signature cymbal by Sabian. In 2013, Jimmy was invited to join the new band BLACK STAR RIDERS featuring much of the current lineup of THIN LIZZY. They recorded their first album, "All Hell Breaks Loose", in January 2013 with producer Kevin Shirley. The album came out in May 2013 on Nuclear Blast Entertainment.
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