Chad Wackerman
Biography
Chad Wackerman (born March 25, 1960) is an American jazz, jazz fusion and rock drummer, who has played with Frank Zappa and Allan Holdsworth. He has worked as a band member, session musician, sideman, and bandleader. He is the older brother of drummers John Wackerman and Brooks Wackerman, and the father of singer and songwriter Sophia James.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2015
4½
2016
Flex-Able
1984
Them Or Us
1984
Sleep Dirt
1979
Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
1968
Jazz From Hell
1986
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
1982
The Man From Utopia
1983
Make A Jazz Noise Here
1991
Guitar
1988
Broadway The Hard Way
1988
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
1991
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3
1989
Does Humor Belong In Music?
1986
Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
2021
Halloween 81
2020
Läther
1996
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6
1992
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4
1991
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Sampler)
1988
Flex-Able Leftovers
1984
Road Games
1983
One Shot Deal
2008
Credited work
1,326 releases · 153 albums · active 1980–2026
- Performance · 4,325
- Other credits · 141
- Production · 23
- Engineering · 4
Studios: UMRK · Music Grinder Studios · The Palladium, NYC · Hammersmith Odeon
Frequent collaborators
- Frank Zappa
- Zappa
- Allan Holdsworth
- Various
- Bill Watrous
- Steve Vai
- Steven Wilson
- Andy Summers