Pete Finestone was the second drum

Drum

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mer of the punk rock

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 band Bad Religion

Bad Religion

Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979. Their current line-up consists of Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz , Jay Bentley , Greg Hetson , Brian Baker and Brooks Wackerman . Gurewitz is also the founder of the label Epitaph Records, which has released almost all of the...

. He played in the band in 1981-1982 and again from 1984 to 1991.

Pete attended Chaminade College Preparatory Middle School, but was expelled in the middle of his 8th grade year. He then attended Taft High School, where he met the rest of Bad Religion.

Pete recorded some of the tracks on Bad Religion's 1981 debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is the first full-length album released by influential punk band Bad Religion, which was released on June 1, 1981. Released months after the release of their self-titled EP, it was financed by a $1,000 loan by guitarist Brett Gurewitz's father. Its success surprised the...

. After the release of that album, he departed, then returned two years later to record the EP Back to the Known

Back to the Known

- Trivia :* Track 3, "Bad Religion", is actually a remake of the song from their 1981 self-titled EP.* A recent fan poll cited "Along The Way" as one of the band's best songs.- Credits :* Greg Graffin – vocals, production* Greg Hetson – electric guitar...

(1985). When Bad Religion brought the How Could Hell Be Any Worse? line-up back together in 1986, Pete recorded the band's first three reunion albums, Suffer

Suffer (album)

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(1988), No Control

No Control (Bad Religion album)

- Release history :- Notes/Trivia :* Track 2, "Big Bang" was featured on video game Tony Hawk's Underground.* Track 3, "No Control" quotes Scottish natural historian James Hutton, "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."...

(1989) and Against the Grain

Against the Grain (Bad Religion album)

-Release history:-Personnel:* Greg Graffin – vocals* Brett Gurewitz – guitar, backing vocals* Greg Hetson – guitar* Jay Bentley – bass guitar, backing vocals* Pete Finestone – drums* The Legendary Starbolt – mixing...

(1990), which are widely considered to be among Bad Religion's most important works.

Pete left Bad Religion again in the spring of 1991, due to his role in drumming for The Fishermen and to raise his family. It seems to have been an amicable departure, as he was thanked in the booklet of the Generator

Generator (Bad Religion album)

In October 2011, the album was ranked number three on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992.-Track listing:#"Generator" - 3:21#"Too Much to Ask" - 2:45#"No Direction" - 3:14#"Tomorrow" - 1:56...

album, which would be Bad Religion's first release with Pete's replacement Bobby Schayer

Bobby Schayer

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. In a 2003 show in Las Vegas, Finestone reunited with Bad Religion to play the drums for "Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell" with the band live on stage.

Pete is from the San Fernando Valley town of Northridge, roughly 20 miles north of Los Angeles, where Bad Religion is centered, and makes a living building workout machines at a local business. He was a former music student of original Circle Jerks

Circle Jerks

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 drummer Lucky Lehrer

Lucky Lehrer

Lucky Lehrer is a drummer from Los Angeles, California, voted the best punk drummer of all-time by fanzine, Flipside. He was originally trained in jazz but most famously played in LA punk rock bands, particularly the Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Bad Religion, Darby Crash Band and LA's Wasted Youth,...

 and is featured in Bad Religion's 1989 European tour documentary Along the Way

Along the Way

Along the Way is the first live concert DVD from punk band Bad Religion. The concert footage was taken from fourteen different European stops on their 1989 tour for the album, Suffer...

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Pete is still drumming today and is rumoured to be playing in several bands including Black On Sunshine and Jackass as well as doing studio work and film scoring. There's even a Peter Finestone tribute page in honour of his drumming talents.

Pete also composed music for the recent film score, The Still Life set to be released in 2007 with Dave "The Snake" Sabo, Skid Row; Adrian Young

Adrian Young

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, No Doubt

No Doubt

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; Dizzy Reed

Dizzy Reed

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, Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...

; Darius Rucker

Darius Rucker

Darius Rucker is an American musician. He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld and Dean Felber...

, Hootie and the Blowfish; Delaney Bramlett

Delaney Bramlett

Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...

, Bonnie and Delaney and Friends; Eddie Hedges, Blessid Union of Souls

Blessid Union of Souls

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; Dean Dinning, Toad the Wet Sprocket

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; Louise Post

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, Veruca Salt

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 and Sonny Mone, Crazy Horse

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