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Phil Buerstatte (drums)
Phil played drums on the La Sexorcisto tour.
Ivan de Prume (drums)
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Ivan de Prume is a heavy metal drummer best known for his work in White Zombie.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, de Prume met Rob Zombie and recorded Pig
Heaven in 1986. All in all, de Prume performed almost all the White
Zombie albums from Pig Heaven to the double-platinum hit record La
Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1.
Ivan de Prume left the band in 1992 to pursue a career as producer and
studio owner. His Burningsound Studios was home to recording sessions
from, among others, L7 and Paul Raven and Tommy Victor of Prong. He also
began de Prume Productions and produced two short films.
He also made a cameo appearance on the Jack Off Jill album "Covetous
Creature" along with former Marilyn Manson guitarist Scott Putesky.
In 2003 de Prume formed a new band, Healer, along with Scott von Heldt
(Kurai/Theater of Madness); violinist Martin St-Pierre (Cirque du
Soleil); vocalist Kate St-Pierre (Los Angeles Opera); and guitarist
Andrew Kline (Strife).
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Tom "Tom 5" Guay (guitar)
Tom Guay (or Tom 5) joined White Zombie while studying art at Parsons School of Design
which he attended from 1985 to 1989. Guay was usually credited as Tom
Five, reportedly because his style sounded like five guitarists playing
at once. He played guitar for the metal band Angel Rot from 1988 to 2003 and performed as singer for the Black Sabbath tribute band Rat Salad. He currently sings and plays guitar for Sonic Medusa.
Tim Jeffs (guitar)
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Tim Jeffs (born Timothy James Jeffs September 22, 1965) is an
artist, musician, and Art Director. He was born in Rockville, Maryland.
He currently lives in Dumont, New Jersey with his wife Jane Jeffs,
daughter Jenna and, son Harrison.
He is a former guitarist and member of the band White Zombie, and appears on the second EP Pig Heaven and also on the five disk box-set Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
Other members of the band along with Tim were Rob Zombie, Sean Yseult,
and Ivan de Prume. He was college roommates with Rob Cummings aka Rob
Zombie
at Parson School of Design in New York City during the 1980's. He
also
holds the position of being the first guitarist to play live with the
band, appearing in White Zombie's debut show at CBGB's in New York
City
on April 28th, 1986. Other songs he recorded with White Zombie were:
"Slaughter the Grey" which was the B side of the Pig Heaven EP, "Follow Wild", "Rain Insane", "Paradise Fireball", and "Red River Flow" which are all unreleased White Zombie songs.
Check out our Special Feature "Tim Jeffs Early White Zombie Bio 1983-87" . Tim tells the story of the early days with Rob Zombie and White Zombie - plus exclusive photos of the early days!
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Peter Landau (drums)
Peter played drums on Gods Of Voodoo Moon.
Paul "ENA" Kostabi (guitar)
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Paul Indrek Kostabi (born October 1, 1962) is an American artist,
musician, and producer. Going by the nickname "ENA", he is the son of
Estonian war refugees who fled to the United States following the Soviet
occupation of Estonia. He is the brother of artist Mark Kostabi.
Kostabi was a founding member of the following bands: Youth Gone Mad (1981) White Zombie (1984) and Psychotica.
In 2002, Kostabi joined friends Dee Dee Ramone and CJ Ramone on
"Blitzkrieg Bop" at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, along with
Daniel Rey, Christian Martucci, Stefan Adika, and Marky Ramone. This was
the last time these Ramones ever shared a stage. Paul has also
performed and recorded with Dee Dee Ramone (solo), False Alarm
Hammerbrain and Los Gattos.
Kostabi in 2006 opened a recording studio in Piermont, New York. Where
he records and produces such bands as the Willowz and Los Gattos
Paul teamed up with Ramones bass player and song-writer, Dee Dee Ramone,
to produce a series of paintings that were displayed in galleries all
over the world. In 2002, "Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone" was
released on picture vinyl LP by trend is dead! records. The album
featured artwork and music made by Kostabi and Ramone.Kostabi also shows
his paintings at Quadreria, Follin Gallery.
Mr. Kostabi is also promoting the NYC artist, Glint and has prepared
album artwork for "Mode To Joy." He will also be creating the art for
Glint's upcoming release, due out in 2008.
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Mark Poland (drums)
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In May of 1994, Mark performed with White Zombie doing a tour of Japan (replacing Buerstatte). He was asked to join the group but declined the offer in order to work on his own project with brother Chris, and the group "Mumbo's Brain."
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John Ricci (guitar)
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John Ricci was born January 14, 1956. He played guitar on White
Zombie's album Make Them Die Slowly. He also played for Exciter from
1980-85, 1992-93 and 1996 to the present.
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John Tempesta (drums)
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John Tempesta (born September 26, 1964 in New York City) is a rock
drummer who has worked several bands, namely Exodus, Testament, White
Zombie. He also played with former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie as a
solo artist, and served as drum tech for thrash outfit Anthrax for a
while.
In 2000, he played drums on one track of Tony Iommi's self-titled solo album.
He played with the band Helmet in 2004-2005 but left to join The Cult.
In October 2004, he recorded with the band Scum of the Earth, composed
of John and his brother Mike Tempesta who was formerly the guitarist of
Powerman 5000, Riggs (former Rob Zombie guitarist), John Dolmayan
(System of a Down), Seven, and Clay Campbell released
Blah...Blah...Blah...Love Songs for the New Millennium, an interesting
pop-heavy release sounding very reminiscent of the White Zombie / Rob
Zombie sound, produced by Ben Burkhardt at Belt of Orion Recording in
Hollywood.
On February 14, 2006 he was hired as the new drummer for The Cult.
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Sean Yseult (bass)
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Sean Yseult (born June 6, 1966 in North Carolina as Shauna Reynolds) is
an American rock musician. She has played various instruments with
different bands over the years, most notably her bass work with the band
White Zombie. Her father, Michael S. Reynolds, was a noted biographer
of Ernest Hemingway. She married Supagroup musician Chris Lee on January
12, 2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She currently lives in New
Orleans.
Sean played bass in White Zombie for 12 years before they disbanded in
1998. In 1996, she participated along with Jay Yuenger in the tribute
band to The Germs called Ruined Eye. After the break up of White Zombie
in September of 1998, Sean started playing bass for the band Rock City
Morgue. She formed the Famous Monsters in 1995, a band also graced with
the presence of Katie Lynn Campbell, current bassist for the Toronto
based C'mon.
In September 2006 it was rumored Sean took over on bass for the
influential punk rock band The Cramps for the Halloween tour
(October/November), but has stated in a recent interview (posted on Sean Yseult: The Unofficial Fansite ) that she is not the permanent bassist for the group.
Before her days as a bassist, Sean pursued her degree in graphic design
at both Parsons The New School for Design in New York and the North
Carolina School of the Arts. Recently, Sean has begun a line of scarves
featuring large geometric images with bold colors. They are available at
boutiques nationwide, as well as online at Yseult Designs
. Ms. Yseult has also recently joined artist Louis St.Lewis in forming
the collaborative art duo of Lewis & Yseult and their mixed media
pieces have been well received by critics. Recent shows include
exhibitions in New Orleans, North Carolina and Paris as well as CBGB's
315 gallery in NYC to benefit the ailing nightclub. Sean has also been a
member of The Rawk Show - Fine Art by Musicians, in Texas.
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Jay "J" Yuenger (guitar)
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Jay Noel Yuenger (born December 26, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois), also
known simply as "J.", is a rock guitarist best known for his work with
White Zombie.
Through his mother, a classical soprano and voice teacher, Yuenger was
exposed to music early, played piano and sang in children's choirs.
Growing up in the diverse Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's south side
(one of the only truly integrated neighborhoods in the city, rich in
culture and history and home to the University of Chicago), Yuenger was
exposed to soul, jazz, folk, and the electric blues and attended the
Kenwood Academy. His father, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was
posted as bureau chief in several cities and Yuenger lived in Washington
DC, Moscow, and London before he was 12 years old.
As a teenager, Yuenger's interests quickly progressed from pop to hard
rock to hardcore punk. He began learning guitar and played a small part
in the early 1980s Chicago hardcore scene, forming the teen punk band
Rights of the Accused in 1982. They released the 7" EP, Innocence, in
1983 and opened for several noteworthy groups including Minor Threat,
MDC, the Big Boys, Flipper, and Discharge. Yuenger left the band in
1985, attended college, and by 1987 had moved to New York City. After
several failed attempts at forming groups in New York and New Jersey, he
met the members of White Zombie in early 1989 and auditioned
successfully to join the group as their guitar player. The band released
the previously recorded Make Them Die Slowly on Caroline Records,
toured the US and Europe, and recorded the God of Thunder 12" EP (also
issued on Caroline). In 1990, the group signed to Geffen Records and
recorded their major label debut, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1,
which eventually went on to sell over 2 million copies. During the next
five years the band was almost constantly on tour, pausing only to
record the triple platinum-selling Astro-Creep: 2000. They also
contributed songs to various movie sountracks and compilation albums and
ended up selling over 6 million records worldwide. Since the official
disbandment of White Zombie in 1997, Yuenger has lived in Los Angeles,
Chicago, and New York and has worked as a recording engineer and record
producer. In 2004, he recorded King Louie Bankston's King Louie One Man
Band LP entitled Chinese Crawfish, which was released on Goner Records.
He currently lives in New Orleans and built a recording studio that
opened in 2007.
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