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Shane Gaalaas is a critically acclaimed drummer and solo artist.
Shane grew up in the small town of Innisfail, Alberta - not exactly Rock Central but not something that stopped this third generation Canadian of Norwegian decent from being consumed by music early on. He began playing guitar at age nine and picked up the drums a year later spending countless hours practicing.
In 1987, he enrolled at Grant MacEwan Music College in Edmonton, Alberta to study jazz, percussion, and piano, and for the next three years toured extensively with Canadian circuit bands. Throughout 1991 Shane recorded and toured with guitarist/producer Paul Dean.
In 1993 Shane moved to Los Angeles to study at the Musician’s Institute (P.I.T.), from which he graduated with Vocational Honors and the ‘Rock Drummer of The Year’ award a year later. It did not take long for Shane to land a drum gig with Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Yngwie Malmsteen in time for the recording of the ‘Magnum Opus’ album. Extensive touring followed throughout the US, Japan, and Europe, and when Malmsteen went on hiatus in 1995, Shane, along with bassist Barry Sparks, moved on to the Michael Schenker Group, Vinnie Moore, and eventually legendary German guitar master, Uli Jon Roth (ex-Scorpions).
It was during his MSG stint when Shane first crossed paths with guitarist/producer Jeff Kollman at a Phoenix rehearsal studio. The duo connected instantly and have been in each other’s musical lives ever since via a number of projects and albums, such as highly acclaimed hard fusioneers Cosmosquad, $ign Of 4, featuring UFO vocalist Phil Mogg, the ‘Voice of Rock’, Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze) and his HTP off-shoot with former Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner, as well as the yet-to-be unveiled Crumb Bros.
Shane grew up in the small town of Innisfail, Alberta - not exactly Rock Central but not something that stopped this third generation Canadian of Norwegian decent from being consumed by music early on. He began playing guitar at age nine and picked up the drums a year later spending countless hours practicing.
In 1987, he enrolled at Grant MacEwan Music College in Edmonton, Alberta to study jazz, percussion, and piano, and for the next three years toured extensively with Canadian circuit bands. Throughout 1991 Shane recorded and toured with guitarist/producer Paul Dean.
In 1993 Shane moved to Los Angeles to study at the Musician’s Institute (P.I.T.), from which he graduated with Vocational Honors and the ‘Rock Drummer of The Year’ award a year later. It did not take long for Shane to land a drum gig with Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Yngwie Malmsteen in time for the recording of the ‘Magnum Opus’ album. Extensive touring followed throughout the US, Japan, and Europe, and when Malmsteen went on hiatus in 1995, Shane, along with bassist Barry Sparks, moved on to the Michael Schenker Group, Vinnie Moore, and eventually legendary German guitar master, Uli Jon Roth (ex-Scorpions).
It was during his MSG stint when Shane first crossed paths with guitarist/producer Jeff Kollman at a Phoenix rehearsal studio. The duo connected instantly and have been in each other’s musical lives ever since via a number of projects and albums, such as highly acclaimed hard fusioneers Cosmosquad, $ign Of 4, featuring UFO vocalist Phil Mogg, the ‘Voice of Rock’, Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze) and his HTP off-shoot with former Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner, as well as the yet-to-be unveiled Crumb Bros.
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