Claude Coleman Jr. (born August 29, 1974)[1] is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock group Ween.
[2] He has also worked with Eagles of Death Metal, Chocolate Genius, The Wooden Soldiers, Elysian Fields and 3 Input Woman.
Coleman survived a near-fatal car crash on August 7, 2002, in which he suffered multiple pelvic fractures and brain injuries.
[3] During his extensive and difficult recovery, members of Ween organized a series of benefit concerts on October 7 and 8, 2002, hosted at New York's Bowery Ballroom.
[5] Since 2017, he has co-owned and actively managed SoundSpace@Rabbit's, a music rehearsal and art studio facility inside of a 1947 Black-owned tourist court and soul food café known as Rabbit's Motel, in the historically African-American district of Southside, Asheville, North Carolina.