Mini Biography :Bryan "Brain" Mantia he was born in 1964 in the South Bay city of Cupertino, California to an Italian-American father and a Japanese American motherBryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits and Buckethead (solo and with Guns N' Roses). He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.
Brian “Brain" Mantia has played with some of rock's more cult/fringe artists (Praxis, Primus, Tom Waits, Buckethead, Godflesh), as well as more mainstream ones (Guns N' Roses). Raised in the South Bay city of Cupertino, CA, Mantia became interested in such ‘groove heavy' artists as James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix early on, but it wasn't until he was 16 years old that Mantia began playing drums.
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