Dom Howard

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Dominic Howard
Full name	Dominic James Howard
Date of birth	December 7th, 1977 (age 30)
Place of birth	Stockport, England
Height	5' 8" (1.73m)
Instruments	Drums, percussion
Other roles	Producing
Current gear	Tama drum kits

Dominic James Howard - commonly known as Dominic/Dom Howard - is the drummer of Muse. Dom also plays any percussion parts needed on studio recordings, as well as a very brief rhythm guitar part on "Unintended".

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[edit] Childhood

Dominic james Howard was born in Stockport, England on December 7th, 1977, before moving to Devon with his family at the age of 8. Howard became interested in music and began to play drums when he was 11 years old, inspired by a jazz band he had heard at his school, Teignmouth Community College.

While at TCC, Howard played drums for Gothic Plague, a band which Bellamy later auditioned for and got in. Gothic Plague split up soon after, but Matt and Dom remained friends and had the intention to create a new band, for which they needed a bass player who could also provide backing vocals. Chris eventually joined the boys as bass player for a new band which would be known as Rocket Baby Dolls, who won a battle of the bands contest at Broadmeadow Sports Centre in Teignmouth, after which the three boys decided to forget about university and undertake a career in music with their new band, Muse.