Troy Patrick Farrell

Troy Patrick Farrell is not a band but a hard rock drummer, born and raised in Griffith, Indiana, whose path in music began at a young age and eventually carried him deep into the Los Angeles rock scene. At the young age of 12, Farrell took up the drums, and he moved to Los Angeles shortly after high school, once he had just turned 18. The first real rock star he met was Tod Howarth, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist from Frehley's Comet, and that became the first band he actually got into. From there he built a career as a working sideman, a driven musician who traveled the world with fourteen national tours and six international tours. Farrell's breakthrough came through his association with Mike Tramp, the Danish-born frontman and founder of the glam metal band White Lion. In 2001, good fortune was in his favor when a friend was unable to take a job as the drummer for Tramp's solo tour, and Farrell landed the job; in 2005, Tramp decided to put White Lion back together. Farrell played on White Lion's fifth studio album, Return of the Pride, released in 2008, as well as the live album released in 2005, Rocking the USA. That reunited lineup, as documented on Wikipedia, resulted in the 2008 album "Return Of The Pride" with new members Jamie Law on guitar, bassist Claus Langeskov, drummer Troy Patrick Farrell and Henning Wanner on keyboards. Alongside White Lion, Farrell also became known for his stint behind the kit for the post-grunge band Tantric, and for session and touring work with a striking list of hard rock names.

Over the course of his career Farrell's résumé grew to include collaborations with some of rock's most recognizable players. He has played with Jani Lane of Warrant, Bulletboys, Gene Loves Jezebel, Tod Howarth of Frehley's Comet, John Corabi of Motley Crue and The Scream, CC Deville of Poison, and Gilby Clarke of Guns N' Roses, in addition to his long stints in White Lion and Tantric, putting out DVDs as well as live and studio albums. His globetrotting with White Lion took him to remarkable heights, as through his time in the band Farrell hit nearly 40 countries, with standout shows in soccer stadiums in India where the band performed its final shows there in front of over 40,000 people. He also found his way into other high-profile rock circles, including Gilby Clarke's band and his own all-star project Lost Angels, in which he shared the stage with musicians like John Corabi, Eric Dover and Ryan Roxie. Farrell has remained active in rock circles into the present day, still closely tied to the White Lion legacy that defined much of his career. Mike Tramp has carried on the White Lion legacy since returning to music in the mid-2000s, performing with guitarist Marcus Nand and long-time band members Jerry Best on bass and Troy Patrick Farrell on drums. Beyond touring, Farrell has built a side career as a media personality, working as a digital creator and host of This That & The Other Radio Show with TPF. His reputation endures as one of hard rock's most reliable and well-traveled sidemen, a drummer whose steady hand helped carry a beloved glam metal legacy into a new era.

It is fitting that a drummer with such deep roots in the touring rock circuit found his way in front of Wayne Dennon's lens as well. Wayne photographed Troy Patrick Farrell's band on one occasion back in 2006, capturing a moment from that era of White Lion's ongoing revival, and the resulting 29 photographs remain part of this archive today. Those images have since been viewed 21,551 times by visitors to this site, a quiet testament to the enduring pull of the music Farrell helped bring to stages around the world, and to Wayne's dedication in preserving it.