Anastasios (Toss) Panos is a Greek-American drummer who has played or recorded with

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. He is also the owner of Tossimos Recording Studio.

Early life

Panos was born in Athens, Greece. He moved to

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at age two. At age seven, Toss started learning the drums by playing along to songs that he heard on the radio. He grew up listening to

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. His early influences included

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. By age ten Toss was playing gigs at Greek nightclubs on the weekends.

Career

At age 19 he left San Diego and began studying at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles where

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would be one of his first teachers. After his graduation, Toss was offered a teaching position there which he accepted. His early gigs included working with guitarist

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, a long time member of Frank Zappa's band, until he was invited to audition for

's touring band in the early 90s. He brought a tape of him playing with The Fire Merchants to the audition and immediately got the gig. After Toy Matinee ended, he would continue working with Kevin Gilbert live and in the studio where he played drums on his cover version of "Kashmir". In 1994 Kevin would produce Fire Merchant's "Landlords of Atlantis" album. At the same time Toss performed on jingles, movies and on

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. In 2000 Toss joined

's band for a series of live and studio performances. Around that time he also met Robben Ford, with whom he collaborated on two albums, "Truth" and "Soul on Ten". In 2004, he connected with

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for a series of live shows and album recordings. His most recent project "Shogun Warrior" with Jeff Babko went on indefinite hiatus in 2012. Currently Toss Panos is part of Galactic Booty Co., made up o
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, Inception, Man of Steel), Curt “Kirkee B” Bisquera on Drums (

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Discography (excerpt)

- ''Hat'' (1992) *

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- '' American Matador'' (1993) *

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- ''Landlords of Atlantis'' (1994) * Kevin Gilbert - '' Thud'' (1995) *

- ''Sluggo!'' (1998) *

- The Star Spangled Banner (2001) *

- Live 2000 (2001) *

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- ''Resident Aliens: Live Bootlegs'' (2001) *

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- ''Cry'' (2002) *

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- ''View'' (2003) *

- ''Mad Love'' (2004) *

- ''Como Me Acuerdo'' (2004) *

- "Draco Al Natural" (2005) *

- "Draco y El Teatro Del Absurdo" (2007) *

- "Draco Rosa Teatro Live" (2008) * The Michael Landau Group - ''Live'' (2006) *

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- ''Passages'' (2007) *

- ''Truth'' (2007) *

- ''Thanks in Advance'' (2008) *

- ''Soul on Ten'' (2009) *

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(2010) *

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- ''Three Fates Project'' (2013) *

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- ''Transition'' (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Panos, Toss 1964 births Musicians from Athens Progressive rock drummers Living people Musicians Institute alumni American people of Greek descent