EchoBrain

The origin of EchoBrain began at a Super Bowl party in 1995, when Metallica bassist Jason Newsted invited a handful of neighbors to his house to watch the game and jam in his home studio, known as "The Chophouse." The veteran musician was impressed with a local 16-year-old jazz/funk drummer named Brian Sagrafena and the two spent the rest of the evening working through their favorite Tower of Power tunes, eventually missing the end of the football game. Sagrafena, the son of a drummer who spent a stint in the '70s San Francisco funk/soul band Sassafras, was never a Metallica f...