Tris Imboden

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Tris Imboden
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Tris Imboden in 2013
Background information
Birth nameGregory Tristan Imboden
Born (1951-07-27) July 27, 1951 (age 72)
GenresRock, adult contemporary, jazz
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Drums, percussion
Years active1970 (1970)–present
Website Official Chicago website

Gregory Tristan "Tris" Imboden (born July 27, 1951) is an American rock and jazz drummer. As a performer, he has been in studio sessions and on tour with some of the most notable and highest-selling musicians of all time. [1] He was the drummer for the multi-platinum band Chicago from 1990 to 2018. [2] He is a multi-platinum selling artist. [3] As an educator, he has been a drum clinician and author of tutorial materials. [v 1]

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Some of Imboden's most notable work include recordings with Neil Diamond, Kenny Loggins, Firefall, Richard Marx, Steve Vai, Roger Daltrey, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Chicago, Anita Baker, Julio Iglesias and Stevie Wonder.

In addition he has toured the world with rock and jazz acts such as Kenny Loggins, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Firefall, Cock Robin, Michael McDonald, Chicago, and other notable groups.[ citation needed ]

As a full-time band member, Imboden's career has included Honk, the Kenny Loggins Band (including "Who's Right, Who's Wrong" featuring Michael Jackson, [d 1] the six-time platinum [d 2] Number One hit "Footloose", and "I'm Alright" from Caddyshack), and Chicago. His career with Chicago has seen the release of thirteen albums, several of them certified as platinum. [1]

Biography

Aside from a brief, early, move to Germany, Tris Imboden was raised in various beachside communities of Orange County in Southern California. [4] As a primarily self-taught, lifetime career musician, his musical interests were stirred by seeing a parade when he was five years old.[ citation needed ]

I still remember the day my dad took me to a Fourth of July parade in Huntington Beach. This marching band from Compton came down the street and the cadence that they were playing almost made me hysterical. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. [5]

... the drum section was just smoking ... I was so deeply moved. But I knew at that moment that was what I was going to have to do. [6]

So from that point on I was always drawn toward drums. [5]

— Tris Imboden

His formal training began from grade school; and until there was an available position in the percussion section of the school band, he drummed at home on a practice pad and studied basic music theory on the trumpet at school. He ultimately reached the position of second chair trumpeter before switching to the then-available percussion section in junior high school. [7] [8] He currently resides in Malibu, California, and on the island of Kauai, Hawai'i, where he is an avid surfer. [7]

Career

Imboden began his adolescent career in various surf bands, and then achieved professional status in a high school band called The Other Half. The band performed at venues ranging from sock hops to Hollywood's venerable Teenage Fair, where Imboden said their popularity "clogged the whole entrance". [5] : 21  Out of Newport Harbor High School, Imboden cofounded Honk in 1970. [d 3] After recording some demo songs, the band's first album was the soundtrack for the surf movie Five Summer Stories , [v 2] crediting Imboden as composer, producer, drummer, harmonica player, and vocalist. Imboden established a career trend, ultimately lasting through to Chicago, of occasionally being featured on harmonica. The song "Pipeline Sequence" reached No. 1 on Hawai'i radio. [4] [d 4] Being a member of Honk provided Imboden with formative future career experience as the band built their studio recording skills, their touring skills, and innumerable industry contacts. They worked with bands which would eventually serve as Imboden's future professional base, by touring with Loggins and Messina, Jackson Browne, and The Beach Boys—and by opening Chicago's concerts. [7] Honk went on hiatus from 1976 to 1986, when they established a tradition of periodic reunion concerts in their original home area of Southern California, as band members' schedules permit.

From 1977 to 1986, Imboden became a full-time recording and touring member of the Kenny Loggins Band, and then would do part-time work with them until 1989, for a total of 12 years of collaboration. During his full-time tenure there, he composed and performed the drum set arrangements for popular 1980s motion picture soundtracks: Caddyshack and Footloose . [7]

From the end of his full-time duration with Kenny Loggins in 1986, until 1989, Imboden's career became a full-time composite of various part-time session recordings and live performances with various groups. His consistent work throughout that entire duration included the following: part-time work with Kenny Loggins; stage support for Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, Al Jarreau; and "Queen of Funk-Soul", Chaka Khan. [4] [7] In 1986, he performed drum set overdub sessions for Neil Diamond's Headed for the Future album. This album provided a venue for Imboden's studio session collaboration with a then-member of Chicago, Bill Champlin. [d 5] In 1988, he was a studio session player with former member of Chicago, bassist/lead vocalist, Peter Cetera, on Cetera's solo album titled One More Story. [d 6]

In 1990, his career reshaped by joining the multi-platinum Chicago. With the departure of founding drummer Danny Seraphine, Imboden joined the band as the full-time drummer [7] in time for the band's 1991 release titled Twenty 1 . [d 7] As an integral part of Chicago for the latter half of the band's 56-year total career, Imboden would contribute to twelve Chicago records, and to tours alongside The Beach Boys, Earth, Wind, & Fire, and The Doobie Brothers. Since 2012, his drum set was accompanied by Chicago's newest full-time member, veteran auxiliary percussionist Walfredo Reyes, Jr. [9] On January 17, 2018, Imboden announced his resignation from the band to focus on family time with his new wife and due to the band's schedule of touring intensely for the most of each year.[ citation needed ]

Tris Imboden

Discography

Select discography
YearArtistAlbumCreditAchievement
1972 Honk The Original Sound Track
from Five Summer Stories 		Composer, producer,
Harmonica, Percussion,
Drums, Vocals [d 8] [d 9] [d 4]
1979 Kenny Loggins Keep the Fire Harmonica, Drums [d 1] [10]
1984[Original Soundtrack] Footloose [Original Soundtrack]Drums Billboard #1
6× platinum [d 2]
1986 Neil Diamond Headed for the Future Drums, Background Vocals [d 5] Billboard 200 #20
1986 Howard Hewett I Commit to Love Drums (Tracks 2, 3, 5, and 9)
1987 Richard Marx Richard Marx Drums Billboard #1 single [d 10] [d 11]
Billboard 200 #8 album
3× platinum [d 12]
1987[Original Soundtrack] St. Elmo's Fire Drums [d 13] Billboard Hot 100 #1
Grammy nomination
1990 Steve Vai Passion and Warfare Drums (Tracks 7, 9)
1991Chicago Twenty 1 Drums [d 7]
1994 Crosby, Stills & Nash After the Storm Drums
1995Chicago Night & Day: Big Band Harmonica, Drums
1997Chicago The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997 Drums [d 14] (Tracks 7, 10)"Here in My Heart": AC #1
"The Only One": AC Top 20
Billboard 200 #55 [d 15]
1998Chicago The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II [d 16]
1998ChicagoChicago's First ChristmasDrums
1998ChicagoChicago 25: The Christmas AlbumDrums
1999ChicagoChicago XXVI – The Live Album
2000Steve Vai7th Song:
Enchanting Guitar Melodies – Archive		Drums
2002ChicagoVery Best of Chicago:
Only the Beginning		Harmonica, Drums
2003ChicagoChicago Story:
The Complete Greatest Hits
1967–2002		Harmonica, Drums
2003ChicagoChicago: The Box [Bonus DVD]Harmonica, Drums
2003ChicagoChristmas: What's It Gonna Be SantaArranger, Drums
2008Chicago Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus Harmonica, Drums
2011ChicagoO Christmas ThreeArranger, Drums
2013ChicagoThe Nashville SessionsDrums
2014Chicago Chicago XXXVI: Now Drums

Videography

YearArtistTitleCreditAchievement
1972 Honk Five Summer Stories
(film soundtrack)		Composer, producer,
Harmonica, Percussion,
Drums, Vocals [d 8] [d 9] [d 4]
1980 Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins Alive Drums [v 3]
1989Tris ImbodenLatin Rock for GringosDrums, instruction [v 1]
2012Kenny LogginsKeep the Fire
(film soundtrack)		Drums [v 4]
2002 Chicago A&E Live by Request: ChicagoDrums [v 5]
2004ChicagoSoundstage Presents Chicago LiveDrums [v 6]
2005Chicago Chicago & Earth, Wind & Fire –
Live at the Greek Theatre 		Drums [v 7]

Equipment

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References

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Discography

  1. 1 2 3 Keep the Fire, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "RIAA Gold & Platinum: Footloose soundtrack". RIAA . Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ Honk, summary at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Five Summer Stories soundtrack, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 Headed for the Future, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ One More Story, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 Twenty 1 personnel credits at AllMusic. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Honk (1972). The Original Sound Track from Five Summer Stories (Music LP). Granite. OCLC   32445211 . Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Honk (1992). The Original Sound Track from Five Summer Stories (Music CD). Hollywood: GNP Crescendo Records. OCLC   26590578.
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  12. ↑ "RIAA Gold & Platinum: Richard Marx". RIAA . Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  13. 1 2 St. Elmo's Fire soundtrack, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  14. 1 2 The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  15. ↑ Tris Imboden at AllMusic. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  16. 1 2 The Heart of Chicago Vol 2, credits at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  17. ↑ "You Don't Know What You're in For, credits at Discogs". Discogs . 1976. Archived from the original on December 19, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
  18. ↑ Kenny Loggins Alive, audio track list at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  19. ↑ "The Secret of My Success: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack credits". October 17, 1990 [1987]. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
  20. ↑ The Secret of My Success: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack Billboard 200 at AllMusic. Retrieved July 1, 2013.

Videography

  1. 1 2 Tris Imboden, Cecilia Noël. Latin Rock for Gringos (DVD). OCLC   310746149 . Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ Five Summer Stories (DVD video). Laguna Beach, California: MacGillivray Freeman Films. 1994 [1972]. OCLC   82292272.
  3. ↑ Kenny Loggins Alive, audio tracklist at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ Rice, Jake. Keep the Fire (A/V stream). Archived from the original on November 22, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  5. ↑ Live by Request: Chicago, overview at AllMusic. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  6. ↑ Soundstage Presents Chicago Live, overview at AllMusic. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  7. ↑ Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire: Live at the Greek Theatre at AllMusic. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
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