Brian Tichy

Brian Tichy (born August 18, 1968) is an American musician, best known as having been the drummer for Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Sass Jordan, and Ozzy Osbourne.

Since attending Berklee College of Music from 1986 until 1990, Tichy has toured/recorded with a multitude of artists including Billy Idol, Ozzy Osbourne, Seether, Velvet Revolver, Foreigner, Pride & Glory, Glenn Hughes, Sass Jordan, Slash's Snakepit, China Rain, Whitesnake and most recently The Dead Daisies.

While Tichy has primarily toured and recorded with others playing drums, he has fronted his own band, Ball, in which he sings and plays guitar.

Due to the demise of his record label (Time Bomb Recordings), Ball's American Aggression CD never was formally released.

The Idol/Tichy writing partnership sparked the recording of Billy Idol's first CD since 1993.

Tichy joined Foreigner in 1998 and remained until 2000.

Ball did manage to release a CD, The Grand Human Disaster Scenario (only in Japan) in May 1999.

This CD contains what were essentially the demos that led to the record deal with Time Bomb at the end of 1999.

His increasing role as co-songwriter with Billy Idol that started at the end of 2003 limited his time to focus on Ball.

Devil's Playground (Sanctuary Records) was recorded in 2004 and contained 8 Idol/Tichy tracks.

The CD was released in March 2005 and they toured for the remainder of the year.

While writing in 2006 for a follow-up Idol CD, Tichy and Idol recorded a Christmas album.

This was done on their own, in Idol and Tichy's rehearsal studio with Tichy performing drums, guitar, and bass, as well as engineering and co-producing.

Happy Holidays by Idol was released in November 2006 through Best Buy and in Europe.

He rejoined briefly in 2007 substituting for Jason Bonham.

Tichy filled in for Seether drummer John Humphrey in April 2007, toured with Foreigner through spring of 2009 (replacing Jason Bonham), and recently completed a multi-year involvement with Billy Idol.

He has written music for television and film, and recorded with European female metal singer Marya Roxx.

He then returned from 2008 until 2010, recording the album Can't Slow Down.

During the 2009–10 tour with Foreigner, Tichy hung several speed bag wall units inside the bands equipment truck and created the "Speed Bag Truck", hosting area speed bag enthusiasts from various areas when the band played in their town.

Some of the best speed bag talent in the U.S. joined Tichy in the truck before concerts, punching away.

Soon after, he began promoting his own punching skills via his YouTube videos for both physical fitness, and also as a musical instrument.

He was the drummer of Whitesnake from 2010 to 2013.

His surname means silent in Czech, Slovak and other Slavic languages.

On September 25, 2010, Tichy organized, produced and played in the drummer tribute "Bonzo, The Groove Remains the Same", commemorating the 30th anniversary of the death of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham.

Tichy was announced as the new drummer for Whitesnake on June 18, 2010.

He returned for one show in summer 2011, substituting for Mark Schulman, who had recently lost his father.

In 2011, Tichy formed S.U.N. (Something Unto Nothing) as guitarist, with vocalist Sass Jordan, bassist Michael Devin, and drummer Tommy Stewart.

Tichy rejoined Foreigner for the month of August 2012 for live performances, replacing the departed Schulman once again.

He always planned to incorporate the speed bag into his drumkit, which was first unveiled during his appearance on "That Metal Show" on VH-1 classic, in April 2012, using a UBS1 freestanding floor frame from UBS1S Balazboxing.

This is the first known inclusion of a speed bag by a professional drummer as a rhythm instrument in a major public appearance.

instruments performed by Tichy except keys by Derek Sherinian

Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Supergroup, The Osbournes, Punk'd, Pimp My Ride, and countless others.

Other artists Tichy has toured with:

After several years of worldwide touring, Tichy quit Whitesnake on January 4, 2013, as he planned to focus more time on S.U.N.

Tichy became a speed bag enthusiast while on tour with Foreigner and quickly got with some of the best speed baggers around to learn and increase his own skills.

In 2014, Tichy joined 'Sweet & Lynch', featuring Michael Sweet, George Lynch and James LoMenzo.

In 2015, he became a full-time member of Operation: Mindcrime and The Dead Daisies.

Tichy began playing drums at age eight and started playing guitar at age 12.

His earliest influences include Kiss with Peter Criss as his main influence, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden with Nicko McBrain, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Van Halen

In 2018 Tichy replaced Shane Gaalaas as the support drummer for Japanese rock band B'z, a band he had worked with previously as a session musician.