Jason Rullo

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Jason Rullo, born on July 17, 1972 in Hackensack, New Jersey, is the drummer for the progressive metal band Symphony X, . He has been featured in the Modern Drummer readers' polls and is considered to be one of the top 30 rock drummers of all-time. He also performed on the 2003 self-titled album by Redemption, a super group including Michael Romeo (also of Symphony X) and members of Prymary and Fates Warning.

[edit] History

"I had taken a few lessons for piano and guitar but nothing had really grabbed me yet. Then my mother read that hitting something was a good form of therapy, and since my father had just passed, she was concerned about that. I was 11 at the time and she asked if I wanted to get some sticks and a pad and I lit up at the idea. Then a cousin of mine told me he had a drumset sitting in his closet collecting dust and offered it to me, so of course I jumped on it. I had grown up listening to Stevie Wonder and bands like Earth, Wind, and Fire but by that time my main influences were Alex Van Halen and bands like Iron Maiden...but at that time I would also play to anything that came on the radio. I had lessons for only about 4 months and I was more interested in playing Van Halen songs than practicing my rudiments. That first set was a vintage Slingerland pearl black 4 piece."

Symphony X
Russell Allen | Michael Lepond | Michael Pinnella | Michael Romeo | Jason Rullo
Thomas Miller | Rod Tyler | Thomas Walling
Discography
Studio albums: Symphony X | The Damnation Game | The Divine Wings  of Tragedy | Twilight in Olympus | V: The New Mythology Suite | The Odyssey | Paradise Lost
Live albums: Live on the Edge of Forever
Compilation albums: Prelude to the Millennium
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