
NoisyBoys.com, home page for Ken Burton (seasoned drummer, available for work in South Florida)
You can go to Ken Burton's MySpace page for performance schedules and music. Here we'll be also be providing product reviews, concert reviews, and other music industry related information.

Ken Burton plays

Rock,
Blues, Country, Gospel since 1969
Performance
Bio
Ken Burton started playing in
high school, taking lessons from a local Montana teacher, Dr. Ralph Campbell,
and participating in clinics at the University of Montana.
Burton was the lead drummer in the Polson High School Stage Band, playing
swing and jazz, soloing
and performing with the highest honors in statewide competitions.
After high school, and some music education at the U of M, Burton helped
form the progressive rock band Papa Tuba, which covered artists from the
Grateful Dead to Yes, Frank Zappa to Led Zeppelin, as well as many original
tunes. Papa Tuba performed
over a three state area, as well as outdoor festivals with over a thousand
attendees (not a bad accomplishment for a drummer not yet 21 years old).
Burton left Papa Tuba to
move to Oregon, where he played for a groundbreaking church – Life Church, of
Salem Oregon –- playing an early incarnation of in what would become the
current wave of church praise and worship music (his music director and senior
pastor, Mike Herron, is currently an artist and worldwide representative
for Integrity Music). Burton
also helped form the Salem, Oregon band No Lies, which
covered the mainstream of what was current CCM, as well as many original
numbers. No Lies performed
in both Oregon and Washington in many church and non-church venues (again,
serving as a forerunner in crossing over from the “sacred” to the
“secular.”)
Current Kit (All Ludwig, natural maple unless noted):
American Classic Maple 14x26 Bass Drum
American Classic Maple 8x10 Tom, 10x14 Tom, 16x16 Floor Tom, 16x18 Floor Tom/Bass Drum
American Classic Maple 6x13 Snare Drum
Supraphonic Chrome over Brass 5x14 Snare Drum
Supraphonic Hammered Bronze 6.5x14 Snare Drum
American Classic Birch 5x14 Snare Drum
Supraphonic 3x13 Piccolo Bronze Snare Drum
Sabian cymbals: 21" AAX Stage Ride; 20" HH Natural Raw Ride; 20" HH Rock Brilliant Ride; 20" Paragon Crash; 19" AAX Studio Crash; 16" Paragon Brilliant Crash; 15" HH Xlposion Crash; 15" HHX Evolution Crash; 15" HH Medium Thin Crash; 14" AA Rock Ride HiHat over Paragon Bottom; 10" Chopper.
This kit has been assembled and designed to play out as anything from Classic Zeppelin to Club 4 piece to full 7 piece. Here's a photo of my Ludwig fusion configuration...
Genres Played
Jazz in High School, Progressive Rock, Country, Blues, CCM
professionally.
Contact
Located in South Florida; Cell: 561-255-9776 Email: ken@noisyboys.com Archive of the old
Noisy Boys web site
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