About Pat

Radio interview with Joe O’Connor, Phoenix 92.5 FM radio, Dublin

 Pat  was born in Northern California, started drummering at 10 and moved to Los Angeles at 17.  1st top ten pop record was Martin Briley in 1980. After providing beat  bravado for four Mr. Mister albums and two #1 singles: "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie", Mastelotto  duly accepted an invitation to provide the backbeats for XTC, Cock Robin,  The Rembrandts (#1hit),  Jude Cole,  Tina Arena, Michael Penn, Hall & Oats, Pointer Sisters, Patti Labelle, Robyn Hitchcock, the Sugercubes  . . .  and in 1993  David Sylvian and  Robert Fripp."

                                                     . . . . Leading to . . . .

In 1994 The double trio formation of the legendary KING CRIMSON. Mastelotto partnering Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Trey Gunn and Robert Fripp. 

In 2000 the double duo (Belew/Fripp/Gunn/p@). 

In 2008 with Belew/Fripp/Tony Levin  joined by Gavin Harrison and Pat on drums.

In 2014 the King Crimson Elements Orchestra Featuring Fripp/Levin/P@ with Jakko Jakszyk, Mel Collins, Gavin, Bill Rieflin and Jeremy Stacy

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Since moving to Austin, Texas  he continues his outside work  for an ever increasing international clientele like Steven Wilson, Kimmo Pohjonen,  Markus Reuter, Lorenzo Feliciati , John Paul Jones, Flower Kings, Steve Hackett, Peter Kingsbery, Isuldurs Bane and also local Austinites Trail of the Dead, Abra Moore, Chrysta Bell, Malford Milligan, Mastica,. . . 

Pat has spent a lifetime jumping genres from pop, to prog-rock ,to electronica to world music and the unlimited boundaries of Crimson providing a natural segue for Mastelotto's  entry into one of the more extreme improvised experiments : HoBoLeMa - with  Alan Holdsworth, Terry Bozzio and Tony Levin. As well as  continuing ongoing  world tours with band/projects: TU, KTU, TUner, TUnisia, and Stick Men, ORK and Komara while still a member of King Crimson.

Sept 2013 the phone rings again as Crimson moves to  GoMode starting in NY in 2014 as a three drummer KC.  King Crimson celebrated its 50th anniversary in with 50 sold out shows all around the world in 2019.