Jerry Harold Speiser (born 12 August 1953) is an Australian musician. He is best known as the drummer and a founding member of 1980s pop/ new wave group

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Biography

In an early session, he played on Greg Sneddon's ''Mind Stroll'' album in 1974, Sneddon was also part of the initial Men at Work line-up. He was also a drummer in a local band called Numbers in 1978 and early 1979. Following Men at Work's break-up in 1985, he briefly joined pop band FX (featuring keyboard player John McCubbery), and then

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's band One World as a guitarist. In 1986, he and former Men at Work producer and sound engineer Peter McIan had a short stint with American band The City, where he played the drums while McIan played keyboards and produced the album ''Foundation''. After that, Speiser joined pop rockers

where he played the drums in the single "You and Me" from their album ''The Usual Suspects''. Speiser (Drums/vocals) and Ben Fitzgerald (Guitars/vocals) co-founded a guitar-driven style rock band Where's Claire? In 1990, they were joined by Andrew Midson (Bass/vocals) and Brenden Mason (Guitars/vocals) and released their first commercial album, ''Long Time Coming'', in 2002. He also formed his own low keyed rock band The Working Stiffs and had a single called "Who Can It Be Down Under?" By 2012 Speiser was a drummer for an Australian band After Burner.

References

External links

* http://www.dirtyrascal.com.au/
Where's Claire? on MySpace

Jerry's Cross Rocks' page

Jerry's MySpace page

* http://www.afterburnerband.com/index.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20120402133459/http://www.elwoodrsl.com.au/afterburner.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Speiser, Jerry 1953 births Living people Australian drummers Australian new wave musicians Australian rock drummers Male drummers Men at Work members