Los Angeles native, Gil Sharone, is highly regarded as one of the most versatile session and touring drummers in the world and is known for his creativity, authenticity and strong pocket. He is a multiple-time industry award winner as a drummer, but will often wear other hats as a co-writer, producer, and an educator/clinician. Gil came to notoriety in the rock world as a former member of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Puscifer, Marilyn Manson, Stolen Babies, Team Sleep and Jerry Cantrell. However, he is widely known as an expert in other genres. Reggae, ska and rocksteady were part of his earliest influences along with jazz, funk, hip hop and fusion. Gil has established himself in the Jamaican drumming world, authoring an award winning DVD and book entitled Wicked Beats, out on Hudson Music. Gil has played with reggae and ska legends Eek-A-Mouse, HR of Bad Brains, The English Beat, Slightly Stoopid, Morgan Heritage, Long Beach Dub All Stars and reggae/dub outfit, Gil, Migs and Rog. Gil’s work further extends into film/television, working with top industry composers including Tyler Bates, Bear McCreary, David Sardy, Timothy Williams and Paul Haslinger. His work can be heard in Deadpool 2, Guardians of The Galaxy 2, Agent Elvis, all John Wick movies, horror trilogy X, Pearl and MaXXXine. Gil has also contributed both as a player and co-writer with Tyler Bates and Michael Elizondo on the DC Comics: Dark Nights Metal Soundtrack and the feature film, Locked. Currently, Gil is an active member of Marilyn Manson and his own projects, Anti Quant with Todd Wilkinson of Team Sleep and also the genre bending music collective, Saudade, where you can hear his jazz fusion collaborations with jazz greats John Medeski, David Torn, Robert Thomas Jr., Dr. Know, Felix Pastorious and Chuck Doom.