Bill Gibson

Bill Gibson was born in Sacramento, California and began playing music last century at the ripe old age of 7. Wanting to be a Saxophone player, his elementary school band teacher gave him a clarinet to become familiar with the mouthpiece. Bill played the clarinet but never graduated to the Sax. At age 12, Bill’s dad, an architect by trade but also an amateur drummer, gave him his first pair of drumsticks and took him to see all the great big band jazz artists of the day. The Count Basie and Duke Ellington big bands were favorites to go see, along with Buddy Rich’s band. Bill became obsessed with the drums, and at the age of 14, got his first set of drums. So he later became the drummer of Huey Lewis and the News.