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Bill Gibson, vero nome William Scott Gibson (Sacramento, 13 novembre 1951), è un batterista e compositore statunitense noto prevalentemente per essere il batterista degli Huey Lewis and the News. Carriera. Inizia la sua carriera a metà anni settanta, quando fonda una band chiamata SVT.
- Huey Lewis
- Johnny Colla
- Bill Gibson
- Sean Hopper
- John Pierce
- Stef Burns
- Johnnie Bamont
- Marvin Mcfadden
- Rob Sudduth
LEAD VOCALS, HARMONICA – Huey was born a long time ago in New York City. He moved to Marin County, California when he was 4 years old (better sandboxes!). At the tender age of 13, he went east to boarding school at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he began to play the harmonica … After graduating, he hitch-hiked throughout western Euro...
GUITAR, SAXOPHONE, VOCALS – John Victor Colla was born July 2, 1952 in Sacramento, California and raised in Suisun City, California. He’s an old friend of Huey Lewis’ who played in Clover’s rival group, Soundhole, in the early part of the 1970’s. Johnny has been a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for over 30 years. Having also play...
DRUMS, PERCUSSION, VOCALS – Bill Gibson was born in Sacramento, California and began playing music last century at the ripe old age of 7. Wanting to be a Saxophone player, his elementary school band teacher gave him a clarinet to become familiar with the mouthpiece. Bill played the clarinet but never graduated to the Sax. At age 12, Bill’s dad, an ...
KEYS, VOCALS – Sean Thomas Hopper was born March 31, 1953 in San Francisco, California. Sean has played in bands longer than any other member of the News, his first band being the ‘Round the Bend Blues Band’ while in 8th grade. When Huey joined the Bay Area group Clover in 1972, Sean joined with him, and he traveled to England with Huey and the gro...
BASS – John Pierce has been the bass player for Huey Lewis and the News since 1994. John did appear with the News for a brief stint in 1986, in support of the album ‘Fore’. John enjoyed that month with the band while the hit “Stuck With You” was number one on all the US charts. Eight years later his dream of being a permanent member became a realit...
GUITAR, VOCALS – Born in Oakland, California, Stef Burns grew up in neighboring Walnut Creek. He started playing his dad’s guitar around age six and got his first electric guitar at age seven. The young Stef started to play in bands when he was still in elementary school. In 1979, his first real club band was Omega, a large funk band with horns. Si...
BARITONE AND TENOR SAXOPHONE – A San Francisco native, musician and surfer, who grew up in the musically diverse environment that the Bay Area offers, Johnnie Bamont has had the opportunity to perform with numerous jazz, classical, latin, R&B and funk groups. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Music at San Francisco State University, and plays sopr...
TRUMPET – Marvin McFadden has been a working trumpet player in the SF Bay area since 1979, when he, right out of high school, was picked up by the R&B group, Confunkshun, with whom he played and recorded for five years. Between that time and his 24 year tenure with Huey and the News, he has also played or recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, G...
TENOR SAX – Rob Sudduth is a Sonoma County native, a saxophonist whose direct, soulful style is the result of his experience in San Francisco’s eclectic music scene and years working in New York City’s dynamic environment. He is equally comfortable performing with blues, jazz and rock bands, and blends the genres effortlessly. He brings the honesty...
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
Clover's main competition in the Bay Area jazz-funk scene was a band called Soundhole, whose members included drummer Bill Gibson, saxophonist/rhythm guitarist Johnny Colla, and bassist Mario Cipollina (brother of John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service). Like Clover, Soundhole had spent time backing singer Van Morrison.
Years active. 1970s-present. Member of. Huey Lewis and the News, Sons of Champlin. Formerly of. USA for Africa. Bill Gibson is an American drummer. Since 1979, he has been the drummer for Huey Lewis and the News. Since the band's hiatus in 2020, he is currently a member of the Sons of Champlin .
Bill has been a Yamaha Drum Artist since 1985. His current kit is the Absolute Maple with the Beechwood bass drum. Bill currently resides in Marin County, California.
Mini Bio. Bill Gibson was born on November 13, 1951 in Sacramento, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Big (1988), American Psycho (2000) and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994).
