Pentti Glan

Quick Facts

Intro

Finnish musician

From

Finland

Musician Drummer

Work field

Music

Gender

Male

Birth

8 July 1946 People who share this birthday

Age

77 years

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Biography

Pentti Glan a.k.a. Pentti “Whitey” Glan is a Finnish drummer born on July 8, 1946 best known for his work with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed.

Musical career

His first serious band was the Canadian soul band The Rogues (later called Mandala) which he formed with keyboardist Josef Chirowski and bassist Don Elliot. At the time they had already played together in some other bands like Whitey & The Roulettes. Mandala had their first hit single with "Opportunity" with original singer George Olliver recorded at Chess records.

In 1966 he played several shows with Mandala in Ontario and recorded the first two demo songs of his career ("I Can't Hold Out No Longer" and "I'll Make It Up To You"). Roy Kenner had replaced George Oliver. When they played their first shows in the USA they performed at the Whiskey A Go Go a now well-known club. They recorded their only album Soul Crusade in 1968 which produced at the hit single Loveitis but they disbanded in 1969 due to several line-up changes and poor album sales.

He formed another group called Bush in 1971 with Mandala bandmates. Domenic Troiano, Roy Kenner and Prakash John. They released a self-titled album and toured with Steppenwolf and broke up after.

After that he became a session drummer playing on the first and second album of Steppenwolf’s John Kay. In 1974 He began touring with Lou Reed playing on two live albums and one studio album. In 1975 He joined Alice Cooper for the recording of his first solo album Welcome To My Nightmare and subsequent tour and later appeared on the live album The Alice Cooper Show while touring with the band. He toured with Alice Cooper from 1975 to 1979 during the Madhouse Tour supporting Alice’s From the Inside album. He also appeared in the movie The Rose as the drummer of The Rose Band.