Fred Coury:
When you’re listening to your hometown radio station 93.3 WMMR and your friend Jacky Bambam plays Arcade!! Still a great feeling!!! Thanks, pal. #nothintolose
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Cinderella’s Fred Coury was a child prodigy, classical violinist at 7 years old. Accepted into the Berkeley School of Music…but decided to rock on the drums (amongst the myriad of instruments he plays) instead!
At age 5, Fred Coury started taking violin lessons. At age 6 he participated in his first public performance. Between the ages of 7 and 9, he studied at the Beirut Conservatory of Music in Beirut, Lebanon. At age 10, he added the trumpet to his repertoire. Finally, at age 12 he started to play the drums. By the age of 13, he was playing local bars with the band Sunjammer. As a teen, Coury was accepted to Berklee School of Music in Boston for violin.
Coury has played in other bands including London and Chastain and was playing with Ozzy Osbourne in 1985 filling-in for Randy Castillo who had a leg injury, before he joined Cinderella. He got into Cinderella when drummer Eric Singer (KISS, Badlands, Alice Cooper) told him about the gig and encouraged him to audition. Coury sent in a cassette and because, as far as everyone knew, according to Circus magazine, he was the drummer for Ozzy, that may have helped him score an audition.
Coury left Cinderella in 1991 and joined Stephen Pearcy of Ratt to form the band Arcade. He also briefly substituted for Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler in December 1987 when health issues forced Adler off the road. Coury also filled in for Rikki Rockett during Poison’s slot at the Comstock Rock Festival on July 15, 2009, due to the fact that Rockett having had baby the day before, and in 2017 he filled for Night Ranger when his friend Kelly Keagy took a brief leave from tour.
Fred Coury spends most of his time in his Los Angeles recording studio Double Forte Music composing for television and sports. A multi-award-winning composer, he has scored all four seasons of NBC’s hit series ‘The Night Shift’ (TV series), WGN America’s original series Almost Paradise and also scored the opening then for the NBC series ‘The Wall’. He composed and created the original musical score for the 2019 feature film FULL COUNT. An avid hockey fan, Coury combined his love of the sport with his musical skills to create the Goal Song and sonic identity for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team. In 2017, The L.A. Kings series ‘Black & White’, which Coury scores, was nominated and won an Emmy Award. He also provides the sonic identity for the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team, with whom he won a second Emmy award.
Who is the voice of the raven in the Munsters clock? Well, it’s my pal Fred Coury. Yep, bet you didn’t know the drummer from Cinderella is a master impressionist. 🦇🦇🦇🦇 #robzombie #themunsters
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Fred Coury: “So weird. In my car today, Apple Music was on shuffle. “Calm Before the Storm” came on. Haven’t heard it in a very long time. Turned it up and loved it! Verse 1 about Nikki Sixx Verse 2 about yours truly. Stephen Pearcy was on point this record. No idea today was our anniversary!” (Posted on Feb. 20th)
On February 20, 1993, Arcade (featuring Cinderella’s Fred Coury and Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy) released their debut self-titled album. The album would prove to be a mild success, peaking at #133 in the United States on the Billboard 200 chart and producing two singles that would land in the Top 30 of the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart: “Nothin’ to Lose” and “Cry No More.”
Arcade “Calm Before the Storm”
Arcade “Nothin’ to Lose”
Drummer Fred Coury (Cinderella/Arcade) has combined his love for hockey with his musical skills to create music for the Los Angeles Kings . The series is called ‘Black & White’ and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2017.
In an interview with LAKings.com, Coury talked about how his relationship with the Kings started.
“I’ve known Luc [Robitaille] since the early 80s. Guys would come to the studio when we were recording and we just got to be friends. [My band] would be playing the same arenas as they were playing. I used to go to all the games back then out here and we struck up a friendship and then fast forward many, many years, to about four years ago. A friend of mine who worked with the Kings played a song for Luc, it was the song “Kings 2007,” and Luc said ‘I love this’ and said, ‘I have an idea about this.’ He always talked about when he stepped on the ice what would make his hair stand up on the back of his neck and get him amped for the game, and it was all music driven. He asked if I would be interested. It all came from Luc.”
The intro song called “Thunder March,” penned by Coury, plays when the Kings are first coming onto the ice. Asked about what kind of reaction the track gets, Coury said:
“That one was a trippy one because when I was writing it, we wanted to keep it orchestral but I wanted it to be heavier that any heavy metal song ever. The difference with the Power Ride song is it’s energetic; it’s powerful as is the Kings theme but this one is darker, it’s more ominous and it kind of has a frown on it. I needed it to be heavy because the way the production staff lights up the arena, its red, it’s dark and that music plays and everybody gets on they feet because they know what’s coming next. I’m happy that one came out the way it did.”
Working on another #LAKings Black & White episode this morning. Wonder what this one is about?? #season3 #black&white #nhl @EastWestSounds pic.twitter.com/xBx8vIYuwK
— Fred Coury (@fredcoury) October 16, 2017