Brandon Holder started playing drums at the ripe age of ten, after watching the drummer in his father's church play. Recalls the drummer: "The way the drums moved and drove the musicians thrilled me every Sunday. After learning one beat layed out by the church drummer I set out to learn the drums on my own."



For four hours a day Brandon Holder would pound on the drums in the church until he discovered John Bonham and started to cultivate his sound based on Bonham's driving bass drum. Brandon Holder found a band in the church and started playing club gigs at The Nitro (a local punk club) at the age of fourteen and eventually caught the attention of a well respected band called Baby M.



Brandon Holder moved to Chicago with them and played for several years until the band started to fizzle. Upon returning to Tulsa he joined two bands of note, Pit Bulls on Crack and Phat Thumb headed up by Travis Fite.



The diversity of these two bands, one being thrash metal and the other a New Orleans funk band, propelled his drumming in a new direction. At this time Brandon Holder's mind was a sponge and Travis tuned him into lots of new potential influences like the Meters, and G Love.



Adapting the sounds of the deep south with a root in hip hop his drumming once again took on a new light. Brandon Holder: "My next adventure was a 7 piece band called Fuzz where I met my best friend and writing partner for life, Beau Charron. We just seemed to click in the John-Paul kind of way." They formed a band called Miniver Cheevy and have been recording songs for their masterpiece to this day.



More recently Brandon Holder was asked to play drums for Leon Russell and has been on the road with him playing dates up and down the east coast and some in the middle too.