Dave Abbruzzese Biography

Dave Abbruzzese( Born David James Abbruzzese ) is an American musician who was the drummer for the American rock band Pearl Jam from 1991 to 1994. He

replaced drummer Dave Krusen in 1991, shortly before the release of the band’s debut album, Ten. Abbruzzese played on the band’s following records, Vs. and Vitalogy. Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. However, Abbruzzese was not included on Hall’s list of inductees.

Dave Abbruzzese Age

David James Abbruzzese an American musician who was the drummer for the American rock band Pearl Jam was born May 17, 1968.

Dave Abbruzzese Height

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Dave Abbruzzese Marriage

He married Laura Whisman, on September 2, 2006, and now they are separated. He currently lives in Mesquite, TX. Abbruzzese has a daughter, Francesca, from a previous relationship. She was born in Jerome, Arizona in 2003 and is currently living with her mother in Austin, TX. On 9/26/2014, an arrest warrant was issued in his name for drug possession and felony manufacture of a substance charge in Texas.

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He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, but grew up in Mesquite, Texas, where he attended Vanston Jr. High. He grew up drumming on his dad’s tackle boxes. While living at home the only thing in his bedroom (besides a bed) was his drum set. Abbruzzese dropped out of North Mesquite High School at an early age and began to focus on playing more than ever. He started playing in the Texas music scene, performing in such bands as Segueway, Flaming Hemorrhoids, and Course of Empire, and along the way, he formed a band called Dr. Tongue, a three-piece, funk-influenced band that gigged in the Dallas and Denton area.

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Dave Abbruzzese Education

He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, but grew up in Mesquite, Texas, where he attended Vanston Jr. High. Abbruzzese grew up drumming on his dad’s tackle boxes. While living at home the only thing in his bedroom (besides a bed) was his drum set. Abbruzzese dropped out of North Mesquite High School at an early age and began to focus on playing more than ever.

Dave Abbruzzese Career

In 1991, Abbruzzese got a call from drummer and friend Matt Chamberlain, whom Abbruzzese knew through the Texas music scene, in regard to filling in for him in the band Pearl Jam when he left. Chamberlain had his eyes set on G. E. Smith’s band on Saturday Night Live. Abbruzzese left for Seattle, Washington to meet and become acquainted with the members of Pearl Jam. Although his musical tastes were far diverse from the other members, Abbruzzese chose to join Pearl Jam, playing his first show on August 23, 1991.

Initially, Abbruzzese was reluctant to join the band full-time. Then after his second show with Pearl Jam, Abbruzzese went straight down to his local tattoo parlor and had bassist Jeff Ament’s stick figure drawing from the sleeve of the “Alive” single tattooed onto his left shoulder. Abbruzzese joined the group and played the rest of Pearl Jam’s live shows supporting the Ten album. Abbruzzese toured extensively for Ten and performed on MTV Unplugged and a Saturday Night Live appearance. The band found itself amidst the sudden popularity and attention given to the Seattle music scene and the genre known as grunge.

With Abbruzzese, the band recorded its second studio album, Vs., released in 1993. Upon its release, Vs. set at the time the record for most copies of an album sold in a week, and spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard 200. Vs. was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 1995. From Vs., the song “Daughter” received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and the song “Go” received a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. Abbruzzese toured extensively for Vs. and performed on a Saturday Night Live appearance. Abbruzzese wrote the music for the Pearl Jam songs “Go”, “Last Exit” and “Angel” (from the 1993 fan club Christmas single). He played with Pearl Jam through April 17, 1994. In 1994, the band began a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. Although Abbruzzese performed on the band’s third studio album, Vitalogy, he was fired in August 1994 due to personality conflicts with the band members, four months before the album was released. Ament stated, “Dave was a different egg for sure.

Dave Abbruzzese Net Worth

Dave Abbruzzese is an American musician who has a net worth of $3 million. Dave Abbruzzese was born in Stamford, Connecticut in May 1968. He is best known for being the drummer of the rock band Pearl Jam from 1991 to 1994.

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It may have looked like the members of Pearl Jam were extending an olive branch to former drummer Dave Abbruzzese when they issued a statement praising each of the “individually great players” that have passed through the lineup and said they were “looking forward to seeing them” at the band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 7. But Abbruzzese insists there’s a lot more to the story.

Abbruzzese, who served a three-year stint with the band coinciding with its initial rise to fame from 1991-’94, had earlier urged the band to “do the right thing” by honoring ex-members who weren’t part of the lineup inducted by the Hall. Although inducted acts have no control over which members of the band are included in their Hall of Fame enshrinement — a quirk that’s been a public point of contention for bands such as Kiss and Guns N’ Roses — Pearl Jam’s apparent invitation to the ceremony at least seemed like a public show of goodwill.

Except, as Abbruzzese recently pointed out on his YouTube channel (via Alternative Nation), what the band really said was “they welcomed the idea of the event granting the possibility of all the drummers to be in the same room” — which, he succinctly noted, “isn’t an invite.” Ultimately, he says he was never officially invited to attend by Pearl Jam or the Hall — and given the way he feels the group lumped him in with fellow ex-PJ drummers Dave Krusen and Matt Chamberlain, both of whom served shorter stints, he might not have been interested in being part of the audience anyway.

“Nothing to do with those guys as people or players. Respect… but as a contributor? A band member? A definitive contributor to the energy and power of where the band went?” wrote Abbruzzese. “The sacrifices, the work, the physical and emotional contributions… not to mention the personal weight of carrying on through and after the unceremonious and disrespectful way I was fired. I gave this band all I had to give every single moment I was in it. I never played for a paycheck. I never let the band down. I never let the music down. I never let the fans down… not once. I suppose that is why I am still such a point of contention.”

Calling the whole thing a sign of “disrespect the core fans that took this band to heart back when all we were to become we had to earn and also, most importantly, we had to prove we deserved every single time we took the stage,” Abbruzzese concluded by praising his “old friends for managing it all so well” and adding, “I don’t know if I heard anyone say it, but you’re welcome and thank you, too.”

Amidst the flurry of Hall of Fame-sparked hurt feelings, Abbruzzese’s been on a creative tear lately; the drummer’s Bandcamp page includes a flurry of recently released works, all uploaded in an effort to raise money for the recording and release of a proper solo LP.