Mark Fuller

American drummer/percussionist and engineer/producer, long time contributor to Thinking Plague.

Fuller spent 2 years at the University of Colorado at Denver studying traditional music performance but quit to move to the San Francisco bay area in order to study Tabla with Zakir Hussain and the late Ustad Alla Rahka. After 3 years of study, Fuller gave up the notion that he could perform with world class Indian musicians, shaved his head and joined the burgeoning punk scene in San Francisco. In 1981 he moved back to Denver and began a long associationwith Thinking Plague founders Bob Drake and Mike Johnson, Ron Miles, Kim Stone (Spyro Gyra), Bruce Odland, Jill Sobule, Mark McCoin and many others.
He was often heard with Bob Drake in original music projects, as the two of them seemed to form the rhythm section of 1/2 the groups in Denver during this time, 1981-1989.
Fuller led a band called Big Foot Torso for several years up to 1993 but after showing considerable promise, the project fell apart without recording testimony.
By this time he had developed considerable skill with recording techniques and had engineered, mastered and/or produced over 50 albums from 1989-1993 with local artists.

For a time, Fuller put his music career on hold, and devoted himself to racing hi-level amateur mountain bikes, and came close to winning the Colorado state championship in 1996 and '97. During this period he worked little in music save for a number of sound design jobs with Mark McCoin and his work on tracks later to appear on Thinking Plague's "In Extremis".

He left Colorado in 1998 and returned to the West Coast of the USA working at times in Seattle, San Francisco and for 2 years ran a studio in Los Angeles in conjunction with a small film company. It was an ill fated but educational adventure and it left him in debt and homeless for a period of years.

Fortunately, Fuller was able to recover. He spent the years 2002-2005 supervising a home for developmentally disabled adults, and re-committing himself to music and production. Throughout, he has maintained contact with the Colorado cabal of musicians associated with Thinking Plague and other Denver music stalwarts.