Given the question: What type of details about bruce gary can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: bruce gary -lrb- 7 april 1951 -- 22 august 2006 -rrb- was best known as the drummer for the music group the knack . he was nominated for two grammy awards as a stage performer , producer , and recording artist . born in burbank , california , the young gary was a bundle of energy and for that reason his parents allowed him to set up the drum kit that his cousin had offered him after getting bored with it . gary left home at 15 and was drawn to the musical scene of topanga canyon , california . he made friends with guitarist randy california . in the 60 's and early 70 's he played with bluesman albert collins . by the time he was twenty-four he was touring and recording with former cream bassist jack bruce and guitarist mick taylor , who had just left the rolling stones . this stellar lineup also included jazz pianist carla bley . gary also worked with dr john in the 70 's . in 1978 he found himself in a band with singer doug fieger , guitarist berton averre , and bassist prescott niles . fieger and averre brought in a tune they 'd written about sharona alperin , a teenage girl fieger was obsessed with . despite his initial reservations about the song , gary came up with a beat to match '' my sharona '' 's stuttering style . he later said he approached the song like a surf stomp . as he explained , drummers in surf bands often play songs using no cymbals , just kick drum , snare drum , and toms . he also borrowed from the drum part to '' going to a go go '' by smokey robinson and the miracles . the final ingredient , he said , was the drum rudiment called a flam , in which one drumstick strikes the drum just before the other does ; the flam registers as a single beat , but with a particularly full sound . gary 's immediately recognisable kick-and-snare-drum intro helped propel the power-pop anthem to the top of the us charts . the knack 's debut album '' get the knack '' sold 6 million copies . after the breakup of the knack in the early 1980s , gary became an in-demand drummer for studio work and live...
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