Terl Bryant

"I recall being about 6 years old, sitting behind my dad in his sports car banging on the back of his seat whilst some groovy rock music blasted out on the radio. All of a sudden..............he pulled the car over, and in frustration shouted,” if you going to bang on the back of my seat - DO IT IN TIME!”... from then on I was focused.



I became mad about drums and got my first drum set when I was 12, I practised hard at home working out the beats on my favourite records; Deep Purple , Captain Beefheart , Bob James , Deodato , Peter Frampton , Beatles etc., and by 15 I was playing in local pubs.



I moved to London aged 17, but turned down an audition for Adam and the Ants (before their huge success). At 18 I joined a Bedfordshire based called 'Stranger', which later became 'Tobruk' (remember them??). I left soon after we auditioned singer Fish (singer)Fish (later of Marillion ), who was travelling the UK looking for a band to join. Two of the band didn't want him while the bassist and I thought he was fantastic. He was obviously going places.



I left the UK for California in 1981, and ended up playing and living in Newport Beach. I soon joined a band called the 'The Dining Cocktails’, fronted by the fabulous Chris Gaffney. Walter Trout ( Canned Heat ) would sometimes come and sit in with us."

• '' Psalm '' (1995)


• '' Beauty...As Far As The Eye Can See '' (1997)


• '' Timbrel '' (1999)

• Official Psalm Drummers website


• Official Iona website


• Official Iona Band biography


• Iona Band biography