Pat Mastelotto

What gets me about Pat Mastelotto is the sheer range hiding behind one drum kit. He held down the pop hits with Mr. Mister, then walked straight into the controlled chaos of King Crimson, which is about as steep a left turn as a drummer can make. The session credits seal it for me: that's his playing on the Rembrandts' "I'll Be There for You," the Friends theme practically everyone alive has heard. I love when a musician can be both an arena pop machine and a fearless experimentalist with Stick Men and O.R.k. He's the kind of player whose name I had to look up but whose grooves I already knew.

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Name (English)

Pat Mastelotto

Name (Japanese)

パット・マステロット

Reading

ぱっと・ますてろっと

Born

September 10, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Chico, California, United States

Occupation

drummer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

• Official sitehttps://www.patmastelotto.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Mastelotto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471953

Tags

• California
• drummer
• musician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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