For most guys, it’s work enough being in one band. Josh Freese plays regularly in at least three.

Freese, born on Christmas Day of 1972 in Orlando, Fla., is a regular member of The Vandals, Devo and A Perfect Circle. He’s also a renowned session musician and a traveling artist with Nine Inch Nails.

When Freese was an infant, his parents moved to Southern California, where his father conducted the Disneyland Band. His mother was a classical pianist, as well, and Freese was surrounded by music throughout his life. His younger brother, Jason, is a keyboardist who has worked with such acts and artists as Green Day, Jewel, Goo Goo Dolls, Liz Phair and Dr. Dre.

Freese took up the drums at around 7 or 8 years old and began playing as a pro at the age of 12, in a Top-40 cover band at Disneyland. He played electronic drums and the exposure scored him an endorsement deal with Simmons.

At just 15 years old, Freese began touring and making records, first with Dweezil Zappa and then with The Vandals. In 1998, he went solo by recording a catalog of songs he wrote and performed himself, even the bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals. The result is a six-track EP “Destroy the Earth As Soon As Possible,” released under the name “Princess” by T.O.N./Stone Lizard Records. In 2000, the songs “Caffeine and Vaseline” and “Rock N’ Roll Chicken” were revived for a full, 12-song album “The Notorious One Man Orgy,” which Freese released under his own name on Kung Fu Records.

Freese has continued to play with punk-rockers The Vandals since 1989, appearing on most of the band’s albums (the exception being 2000’s “Look What I Almost Stepped In …” which saw him replaced by Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman. He filled in for Freese while Freese fulfilled his commitments to A Perfect Circle, for whom he stepped in when Primus drummer Tim Alexander bowed out. His third “full-time” gig is as the drummer for Devo, for whom he’s played since 1996, except on their 2003 tour of Japan.

Freese was a member of Guns N’ Roses from 1997 to 2000, recording the song “Oh My God” for the “End of Days” soundtrack and laying down tracks for the never-released “Chinese Democracy” album. He left to join A Perfect Circle. Freese has also drummed for The Offspring on their 2003 album “Splinter,” joined Sting’s “Broken Music Tour” in April 2005 and appeared with Sting during his “Live 8” performance, and contributed drum tracks for Lostprophets’ third album, “Liberation Transmission.”

He toured with Nine In Nails in 2005-06, replacing Jerome Dillon, who fell ill; Freese is touring with the act again in 2007. Freese also has completed the drum tracks for an album by the band Black Light Burns, which also includes of Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit), Danny Lohner (NiN) and Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv).