Name: | Scott Rockenfield |
Occupation: | Drummer |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | June 15, 1963 |
Age: | 57 |
Country: | United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
Scott Rockenfield
Brief Info
American drummer and composer who was nominated for a Grammy Award and has been a member of the Seattle metal band Queensryche, as well as the group Slave to the System.
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Before Fame
Scott Rockenfield started learning to play the drums at age eleven and later formed the band, Cross+Fire, in 1980.
Biography
Biography Timeline
Together with guitarist Michael Wilton, whom he met at Easy Street Records in Seattle, Rockenfield formed the band Cross+Fire in 1980. They covered songs from popular heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Before long, guitarist Chris DeGarmo and bassist Eddie Jackson joined Cross+Fire, and the band name was changed to The Mob. In 1982, they recruited Geoff Tate on vocals and the band continued under the name Queensrÿche. Rockenfield has been with the band ever since, however he has been on indefinite hiatus since 2017.
Rockenfield married Cara Kaye Whitney on September 28, 1991 after dating each other for 5 years. Rockenfield and Whitney divorced in 1996. They did not have any children between them. Rockenfield later married Misty Rockenfield, but they divorced early 2017. They have three children. His hobbies include photography.
In 1998, Rockenfield and Speer created a music and video work named “TeleVoid”, for which they received a Grammy nomination in the “Best Longform Video” category. In 2010, Rockenfield founded Hollywood Loops, that specializes in sound effects for film, television and video game composing. That same year, he also composed and recorded drum tracks for the Activision video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. In 2013 he scored the trailer to the films After Earth and he will be scoring the trailer for the 2014 remake of RoboCop. For these trailers, Rockenfield creates the music, and James “Jimbo” Barton is the acting mixer and producer; Barton has also worked with Queensrÿche on several of their albums. Rockenfield does a lot of his work, most notably the recording of his orchestral arrangements, in the Klaus Badelt Studios in Santa Monica, California.
Rockenfield and Paul Speer wrote and recorded an instrumental progressive rock album in 2000 entitled Hells Canyon, which is inspired by places and events in the Idaho region of Hells Canyon. The album received good reviews. In 2001, Rockenfield collaborated with former Queensrÿche guitarist Kelly Gray and the Brother Cane members Damon Johnson and Roman Glick in a hard rock project named Slave to the System, releasing one eponymous album. Their album was re-released in 2006 on Spitfire Records. In 2008, Rockenfield released a solo album, named The X Chapters. In 2013, Rockenfield played drums on the Headless album Growing Apart, which also includes vocalist Göran Edman and the Italian guitarists Walter Cianciusi and Dario Parente.
In 2003, Rockenfield founded RockenWraps, which supplies customized drum wraps to artists and companies such as ddrum, and Bucketdrums, which are 3.5 and 5 gallon buckets fitted with 12″ drum heads. He launched two personal websites in 2012, scottrockenfield.com and scottrockenfield.net.
In 2017 Rockenfield took a hiatus from Queensrÿche which was originally supposed to last for a few months but then prolonged indefinitely. Former singer Geoff Tate later expressed concern for Rockenfield, suggesting that he was in a difficult life situation and current singer Todd La Torre suggested it was unlikely Rockenfield would ever return to the band.
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Currently, Scott Rockenfield is 58 years, 1 months and 10 days old. Scott Rockenfield will celebrate 59th birthday on a Wednesday 15th of June 2022.
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