Claude Coleman Jr. (born August 29, 1968)[1] is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock groupWeen.[2] He has also worked withEagles of Death Metal,Chocolate Genius, The Wooden Soldiers,Elysian Fields, 3 Input Woman andSkunk. Coleman has also served as a touring member ofMike Dillon's band on multiple occasions.
A multi-instrumentalist, Coleman is also the singer/songwriter for his own group Amandla. In 2006, he released his second album as Amandla, titledThe Full Catastrophe.
Coleman survived a near-fatal car crash on August 7, 2002, in which he suffered multiple pelvic fractures and brain injuries.[3] During his extensive and difficult recovery, members of Ween organized a series of benefit concerts on October 7 and 8, 2002, hosted at New York'sBowery Ballroom.Josh Freese performed with Ween in Coleman's place. Coleman eventually recovered, and remained an active member of Ween until their dissolution in 2012 and since their reunion in 2016.[4]
Coleman is also active in music education through thePaul Green School of Rock, and through the New York City music program Music Ascension.[5]
Since 2017, he has co-owned and actively managed SoundSpace@Rabbit's, a music rehearsal and art studio facility inside of a 1947 Black-owned tourist court and soul food café known as Rabbit's Motel, in the historically African-American district of Southside, Asheville, North Carolina.[6]
