Longineu "LP" Parsons III

Longineu Parsons III is a platinum awarded recording artist, MTV Video Music Award winner, and founding member/drummer of nineties power punk band, Yellowcard. He is a former drummer for New Years Day, and Adam Lambert, and band leader of his father's band, Tribal Disorder as well as his own band LP3. He has been featured in Drum Magazine, and is sponsored by Soultone cymbals. As a founding member of the band Yellowcard, LP's controlled nuclear-bomb-blast drumming was the catalyst for the band's 2003 platinum awarded album entitled "Ocean Avenue." The album charted in the Top 30 of the Billboard 200, as well as the Top 10 in New Zealand. The album's title track was a seminal pop punk song, charting on the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 singles chart, and was certified platinum in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America in July 2004, The follow-up single, "Only One," was certified Gold. The album was then certified Platinum, and remains as Yellowcard's commercial peak. Yellowcard's fifth album, Lights and Sounds (2006), was an even bigger success on the Billboard 200, peaking within the Top 5. After his success driving Yellowcard to stardom, Longineu "LP" Parsons went on to become a co-leader of Tribal Disorder, a band featuring LP's father, accomplished jazz trumpeter, Longinue II. In 2012 he released his first solo album, "Defining Me." In 2017, LP and Tribal Disorder keyboardist Zac Chester, formed LP3. The band's taut musical arrangements and gale-force-wind improvisation, are the result of over a decade of performing together in Tribal Disorder, and The Longineu Parsons II Quartet. Augmented by the mentoring of Von "The Professor" Barlow, both bands are must-see acts.