Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson has played with several bands around the Chicagoland area for the past 12 years. He has performed on both steel pans and drum set at clubs such as Metro, Double Door, and Martyr's, festivals such as Taste o' Chicago, conventions at McCormick Place, lounges such as Windsor's Lounge at the Palmer House Hilton, and private parties.

Scott has also recorded drum set, steel pan, marimba, and Latin percussion for many other local musicians around the Chicagoland area and in addition to performing, also owns Upbeat Music, a music lesson studio located in beautiful downtown Chinatown.

Terry Peeples

Terry Peeples is currently an adjunct assistant music professor at Lewis University where he teaches all the percussion classes, History of American Music, History of American Pop Music and a music appreciation class called Music for the Listener. He is also on staff at Minooka High School where he arranges music for the marching drumline.

Mr. Peeples has a masters, bachelors and an associates degree in percussion performance and a minor in education from Western Illinois University, Illinois State University, and Joliet Junior College.

Mr. Peeples is currently a member of the Percussive Arts Society, is on the Vic Firth Education Team and the Central States Judges Association where he is an Adjudicator of Marching Percussion.

He was the winner of Chicagoland's Best Drummer Contest in 1991 sponsored by WBBZ The Blaze, and also the Drumset 2001 Individual Champion at the Senior Drum Corps Finals in Syracuse, NY.

Mr. Peeples is a freelance musician in Chicagoland in which he plays jazz, rock, blues, hand drum and steel drum gigs.

Lucas Gillan

Aside from being the program director for popular Internet jazz radio station AccuJazz.com, Lucas maintains an active freelance drumming career in the Chicago area, having performed with artists like Bob Perna, Jerry DeVivo, Josh Moshier, Greg Spero and The Right Now. He has performed at numerous area venues including the United Center, the Jazz Showcase, Andy's Jazz Club, the Velvet Lounge, the Drake Hotel and Pete Miller's.

Tony returns to the group after a one year hiatus in some crappy community college in Tennessee. "Thank God you guys took me back" or something regarding that sentiment is how Tony greeted us at our first rehearsal after being apart for 1 year, 1 week, and 3 days. "Never again! Never again . . . will I seperate myself from this pecussionist's haven, this joyous band of rhythm, melody, groove, and improvisation". And that, my friends, is what the 4 in The Pantastic 4 refers to. No Tony, thank you.

Ron Stark

Ron received his music education at DePaul School of Music, where he focused on guitar performance and was DePaul Guitar Ensemble Concertmaster for three years. He has participated in master classes with Oscar Ghiglia, Mark Maxwell, and Anne Waller, and attended on scholarship two sessions of Southern Methodist University’s SMU-In-Taos Classical Guitar program. Ron has studied under Brian Torosian (Northeastern University), Mark Maxwell (DePaul University) and Robert Guthrie (Southern Methodist University), and has performed as a soloist for concerts hosted by the Fox Valley Arts Council, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the City of Naperville, as well as many other venues. Ron has been a private guitar instructor for over 15 years; his experience includes designing and teaching the Naperville Park District guitar program for several years. Ron has also contributed his talents to many charitable fundraisers and events, including the Kendall County Arts Guild and the Healing Arts program for Edward Hospital. Ron is currently Executive Director of the Fox River Academy of Music and Art (in Oswego, IL), and, in addition to his involvement with The Pantastic 4, performs regularly as a soloist and with the Fox River Academy Guitar Ensemble.

Bob Ferraris

Bob teaches bass at Lewis University and several other locations around the Joilet area. He is one of the best bass players I have ever played with but refuses to use email, is difficult to reach by phone, and rarely returns phone calls. Luckily, Terry communicates with him face to face when they happen to run into each other in the halls of Lewis U.