Happy Birthday to Eric Singer

Today, May 12th, I wanted to wish an happy birthday to Eric Singer, one of my favorite drummers ever.
He played drums for Gary Moore and in Black Sabbath in the late 1980s, then was part of Kiss' frontman Paul Stanley's solo band during his 1989 solo tour. In 1990/1991, he was the live drummer of Alice Cooper's group before joining Kiss in 1992 (picture) after Eric Carr's death in november 1991, a band he'll be part of until 1996 and the original line-up Reunion. In 1998, he reunites with Alice Cooper for the Rock N Roll Carnival Tour but quits to go tour with Queen's lead guitarist Brian May, only to work with the Coop' again in 2000 for the Brutal Planet album and tours. In 2001, he's back in Kiss as Peter Criss' replacement(and since then, he has worn the Catman make-up when performing in Kiss) but the original Catman would return in 2003 (though more because a 3rd original member next to Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley was required to make the projects of the band come true (concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (recorded and released as Symphony Alive IV) and co-headlining tour with Aerosmith) than because the 2 wanted him back). Since 2004, Eric Mensinger (that's his real name) has been part of both Alice Cooper's band and Kiss, though the masked foursome from New York is his priority and has been his main focus since 2008 with the Alive 35 Tour, the album Sonic Boom in 2009 (first brand new Kiss studio album we've heard since 1998 Psycho Circus) and the tour going along with this new effort.
He also took parts in several side-projects such as Badlands or ESP (Eric Singer Project) in the 1980s et 1990s as well as to numerous tribute albums (Queen, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith or Van Halen).


Discography (partial):
Black Sabbath - Seventh Star (1986)
Black Sabbath - Eternal Idol (1987)
Gary Moore - Wild Frontier (1987)
Badlands - Badlands (1989)
Kiss - Revenge (1992)
Kiss - Alive III (1993)
Kiss - MTV Unplugged (1996)
Kiss - Carnival Of Souls (1997)
VA - Humanary Stew (Alice Cooper tribute album) (1999)
VA - Not The Same Old Song And Dance (Aerosmith tribute album) (1999)
Eric Singer Project - Lost And Spaced (1999)
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet (2000)
VA - Runnin' With The Devil (Van Halen tribute album)  (2000)
The Cult - Rare Cult (2002)
Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper (2003)
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider (2008)
Kiss - Sonic Boom (2009)