Patrick Muzingo

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Patrick Muzingo (born September 27, 1965)^[1] is an American drummer. He started playing the drums at the age of 12. Hailing from Los Angeles, California, he grew up in the 1970s and 80s with a family that boasted other musicians. Muzingo experienced the first wave of Pool skating, was one of the original Eagle Rock ramp (featured in Thrasher, Transworld Skateboarding and others) crew, witnessed many genres of music in its infancy including the first wave of Punk rock and the late 1980s signing spree of rock bands in Los Angeles.

Muzingo reflects (from a 2005 interview) on growing up during these important times- "Its funny, I used to skate with so many now famous skaters. I even entered contests where I beat a few skaters that are now multi-millionaires. With the music thing I saw friends go from living with various girlfriends to owning huge houses and selling multi-platinum releases. I was in some pretty cool situations. I got to grow up with many now successful/ famous people. Unfortunately, I saw many talented people fall to dependencies that lead to their own demise."

Skateboarding was a passion of his until 1983 when he had to make the decision to either go the distance skating or make the commitment to play drums full-time. He decided to go the route of a musician which proved to be the right one. From 1985 to late 1986 he decided to call San Francisco home and was playing with The Pirates of Venus which featured members of Decry, Verbal Abuse and Tales of Terror. The then "SF sound" was not "paying the bills" so he decided to split back to LA. Within 2 hours of his arrival back home he was called by Chris Gates from the Big Boys and Poison 13 (which he had met touring through Texas with Decry back in 1984) to join a then up and coming six-month-old Junkyard. Muzingo was already a fan of Gates so it was a no brainer.^[2]

From 1986 until the present he has recorded for Junkyard as well as MCA artists Suckerpunch, Sex Pistol Steve Jones and country rockers Speedbuggy USA. There were many other acts that he sat in with but none released anything worth mentioning.