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BassistA Bassist is a person who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). He or she may also be a Musical Artist...
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| x Marty Dieckmeyer |
Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass player for the rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981. Dieckmeyer did the lead vocal on the song "Props" from the ¡Alarma! album in 1981. (This was not a serious vocal, however -- it was done in one take with the tune...
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| x Kira Roessler |
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Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1961) is an American musician and dialogue editor. She replaced Chuck Dukowski as bass player in Black Flag. She is sister to The Screamers' keyboardist Paul Roessler. She joined when the band heard her sitting in with L...
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| x C'el Revuelta |
C'el Revuelta was the last bass player to play in the hardcore punk band Black Flag before the band broke up in 1986. Revuelta was only a band member for a short period of time and did not record any studio material with them, although he did play...
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| x Mike Davenport |
Michael Sean Davenport was born in 1968 in Orcutt, California.
He was the bass guitarist of the Pop punk group The Ataris and joined the band prior to the album Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits.
After numerous recordings, tours, and a major...
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| x John Lightman |
John Lightman is a legendary bass guitar player in Memphis, Tennessee. He replaced Andy Hummel in Big Star, appearing on Big Star Live and Nobody Can Dance.
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| x Greg Kriesel |
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Gregory David Kriesel (born January 20, 1965, in Glendale, California), best known by his stage name Greg K., is an American bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the punk band, The Offspring.
Kriesel is one of the founding members of the band...
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| x John Maurer |
John Maurer (born July 14, 1964) played bass guitar for Social Distortion from 1984 to 2004. He was replaced by Rancid's Matt Freeman. He joined Social Distortion after the departure of Brent Liles.
In his later career he started two bands, Foxy and...
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| x Dave Farrell |
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David Michael Farrell (born on February 8, 1977), more commonly known as Phoenix, is the bassist for the band Linkin Park.
Farrell was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts but moved to Mission Viejo, California when he was five. He attended Mission Viejo...
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| x David Wm. Sims |
David William Sims is a bass guitar player.
Born on September 17, 1963 in Austin, Texas, he is best known for being a member of the bands Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard.
He is now an accountant in New York City and has a blog called Too Big to...
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| x Steve McDonald |
Steve McDonald (born 9 September 1950) is a New Zealand composer, singer, and instrumentalist. He performed in several rock bands, including Human Instinct, before embarking on a solo career. He has composed musical scores for television shows and...
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| x Max Collins |
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James Maxwell Stuart Collins III (born August 28, 1978) is the lead singer and bass guitarist of Eve 6. He authored most of the band's songs. He met lead guitarist Jon Siebels in high school, and the two formed a band. In May 2003, Collins was...
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| x Robert DeLeo |
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Robert Emile DeLeo (born February 2, 1966 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American bass player and harmony vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone. He is the younger brother of Dean DeLeo,...
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| x Neil Busch |
Neil Busch was the bass guitar player and sampler/sound manipulator for rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead up until his departure in July 2004. Now he is the singer and pianist/keyboardist of the Sagittarians.
In 2004 Neil Busch...
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| x B.B. Dickerson |
Morris "B. B." Dewayne Dickerson (born August 3, 1949 in Torrance, California) was the bass player for the 1970s Latin–funk group War.
He is still active in the current rendition of the band and also loans his voice to many of the band's most famous...
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| x Eric Judy |
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Eric Scott Judy is the bass guitarist and founding member of the indie rock band Modest Mouse. He has a wife and two children, and resides in Seattle, Washington.
After meeting, Judy, Isaac Brock and Jeremiah Green began jamming in a provisional...
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| x Brent Liles |
Brent Harrold Liles (September 7, 1963 – January 18, 2007) was the bassist for Social Distortion from 1981 - 1984 and later was the bassist for Agent Orange from 1985 - 1992. He appeared on Social Distortion's 1983 classic debut Mommy's Little...
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| x Bill Leen |
Bill Leen is a bass player from Tempe, Arizona. He is a member of the band Gin Blossoms, which he co-founded in 1987 with his longtime friend Doug Hopkins.
Leen studied English and philosophy at Arizona State University, before leaving during his...
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| x Robert Sledge |
Robert Sledge is an American musician, best known for his work with Ben Folds Five.
Robert Sledge began playing bass guitar at the age of eleven. At the same time his brother was playing guitar at his house so he also learned how to play the guitar...
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| x Darryl Jennifer |
Darryl Jenifer (born October 22, 1960 in Washington, D.C.) is the bassist for hardcore punk band Bad Brains. Darryl began playing in the band when they first started in 1976 as a jazz fusion quartet under the name Mind Power. In 1978 they focused...
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| x Trevor Dunn |
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Trevor Roy Dunn (born January 30, 1968) is an American musician. His primary instrument is bass and double bass. Dunn has a degree in music, learning double bass at college.
Dunn began playing bass as a teenager. In high school, Dunn formed Mr....
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| x Juan Croucier |
Juan Croucier (born on August 22, 1959 in Santiago De Las Vegas, Cuba) is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.
Croucier attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for the metal bands Dokken and Ratt, Croucier was...
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| x Martin Crandall |
Martin Lesley Crandall (born April 20, 1975) is the former keyboardist of The Shins, who also played bass guitar during some live performances, allowing fellow band member Dave Hernandez to play electric guitar. This happened as The Shins move away...
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| x Chi Cheng |
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Chi Cheng, (born July 15, 1970) is an American musician and the bass guitarist in the band Deftones.
Cheng attempted a BA in English Literature from CSU Sacramento and is the only member of the band with such an accomplishment. He is the author of a...
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| x Andrew Weiss |
Andrew Weiss is a bass guitarist and producer.
He produced and played bass for most of the Ween albums; for Greg Ginn's post Black Flag band Gone; and for ex-Black Flag singer Henry Rollins' Rollins Band from 1987 to 1993. Weiss was also a member of...
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| x Kevin Rutmanis |
Kevin Rutmanis was born Kevins Roberts Visvaldis Rutmanis in the Bronx, New York in 1958 to Latvian immigrants. Kevin's family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska afterwards. Rutmanis completed a public school education where he excelled in music playing the...
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| x Derf Scratch |
Derf "Fred" Scratch is best known as the original bass guitarist for, and former member of the punk rock band Fear.
Scratch played bass for Fear since the band's formation in 1977. Scratch met John Belushi during this time in Los Angeles. Belushi...
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| x C. J. Ramone |
Christopher Joseph Ward (born October 8, 1965), better known as C. J. Ramone, is an American musician known as the bassist for punk rock group The Ramones from 1989 to 1996.
Christopher J. Ward was born in Queens, New York, though he lived in Deer...
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| x Paul Barker |
Paul Barker (born February 8, 1958 in Palo Alto, California), was bass guitarist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004. He sometimes uses the alias Hermes Pan. He joined Ministry in 1986 for the Twitch tour...
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| x Joe Principe |
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Joe Principe is the bass guitarist and co-founder of the punk rock band Rise Against. He is known for his elaborate bass patterns in their songs. He primarily uses Fender basses, Mesa amps and cabinets, and he uses pick-playing exclusively.
He is...
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| x Scott Thunes |
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Scott Thunes (pronounced "too-nis") (born January 20, 1960) is a former bass player with Frank Zappa, Wayne Kramer, Steve Vai, Andy Prieboy, Mike Keneally, Fear, The Waterboys and others.
He played with Zappa's band from 1981 to 1988, and plays on...
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| x Jeph Howard |
Jeph Howard (born Jepharee Michael Howard) was born on January 4, 1979 and plays bass guitar for band The Used. A common nickname of his is Jepha. Jeph is a vegetarian and involved with PETA. . He is also an "eagle" scout in Scouts of America.
He...
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| x Tony Lombardo |
Tony Lombardo was the bassist with the pioneering pop-punk band Descendents for 6 years. Lombardo was part of the original Descendents lineup in 1979 with guitarist Frank Navetta and drummer Bill Stevenson. This lineups first release was the single...
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| x Byron Stroud |
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Byron Stroud (born February 12, 1969 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is the bassist for metal bands Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad and Zimmers Hole.
Byron Stroud has been involved in the Vancouver heavy music scene since the 1980s....
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| x Michael Ivins |
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Michael Lee Ivins (born March 17, 1963 in Omaha, Nebraska) is the bassist and one of the founding members of The Flaming Lips.
Along with Mark Coyne and Wayne Coyne, he formed The Flaming Lips in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. According to Wayne,...
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| x Traa Daniels |
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Mark "Traa" Daniels (born December 30, 1970) is the bass guitarist of the San Diego, California rock band P.O.D.
Daniels has been a part of P.O.D. since 1994, and has since released nine albums - Snuff the Punk, Brown, Payable on Death Live, The...
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| x Matt Lukin |
Matt Lukin (born August 16, 1964) is an American musician, best known as a bassist and founding member of the Melvins and Mudhoney.
Lukin co-founded the Melvins in 1982 with Buzz Osborne and Mike Dillard in Montesano, Washington, where the trio had...
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| x Johnny Rod |
Johnny Rod (born December 8, 1957) is an American bass guitar player. One of the early bands he was active in was King Kobra, from 1983 to 1986. In 1986 he joined the heavy metal band W.A.S.P.. In late 1992 he quit the music business and moved to...
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| x Rik Fox |
Richard Suligowski (born 1955 in Amityville, New York), better known as Rik Fox, is an American heavy metal bass guitar player.
Fox was born in Amityville, New York on Long Island, and raised in the Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. While...
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| x Patricia Morrison |
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Patricia Morrison (born January 14, 1962 in Los Angeles) is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter. She worked with The Bags, The Gun Club, The Sisters of Mercy, and The Damned.
She became a fixture of the Los Angeles, California punk...
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| x Brian Ritchie |
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Brian Ritchie (born 21 November 1960) is the bass guitarist for the folk/punk/rock band Violent Femmes. His distinct sound comes from using Ernie Ball acoustic bass guitars, which is very uncommon in rock music. He is also one of the more high...
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| x Dan Southwick |
Dan Southwick is a founding member and bassist for Altamont. He also played bass guitar for Acid King between 1996 and 1998.
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| x Jason Thirsk |
Jason Matthew Thirsk (December 25, 1967 – July 29, 1996) was the former bass player of the California punk rock band Pennywise who grew up in Hermosa Beach, California.
Thirsk, who had been in rehabilitation for alcoholism and also suffered from...
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| x Joe Loeffler |
Joseph "Joe" Loeffler (born September 12, 1980) is a former bass player–backup singer of the Chicago hard rock band Chevelle. He replaced original bassist Matt Scott in 1996 after the band had been formed in 1995 by his brothers Pete (singer,...
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| x Dave Allen |
Dave Allen is the former bass guitarist for the hardcore band Glassjaw. From Long Island, New York, he started his music career in another hardcore band, Tripface.
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| x Tony Choy |
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Tony Choy is an American bass guitar player. He was a session musician for some well-known technical death metal bands such as Atheist, Cynic and the Dutch band Pestilence. His playing is very jazz-oriented and he has provided a lot of new ideas for...
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| x Ben Kenney |
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Ben Kenney, Sr. (born on March 12, 1977), is a musician from the United States, and the bassist for the band Incubus.
Ben Kenney played guitar for the hip-hop group The Roots before he joined Incubus in 2003 after the departure of bassist and...
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| x Lori Black |
Lori Black, (born April 9, 1954) at Santa Monica, California also known as Lorax, is the daughter of Shirley Temple Black and Charles Alden Black. She played bass guitar for Clown Alley and for The Melvins. It was mistakenly reported that Lori now...
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| x Jeff Morgan |
Jeff Morgan was the bassist for the hip-hop thrash metal band Mutha's Day Out. He was 15 years old when the band first came together in November 1991, and was the youngest in the band. He first played a 4-string Ibanez bass guitar in the band, then...
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| x Mikey Way |
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Michael "Mikey" James Way (born September 10, 1980) is the bass guitarist for the band My Chemical Romance and is the younger brother of the band's frontman Gerard Way.
Michael James Way was born on September 10, 1980 in Newark, New Jersey, where he...
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| x Glen Benton |
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Glen Benton (born September 21st, 1967) is an American heavy metal musician best known as the vocalist and bassist for the death metal band Deicide, although he prefers not to use the 'death metal' terminology. He is also the studio vocalist for...
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| x Oteil Burbridge |
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Oteil Burbridge, (born August 24, 1967) in Washington, D.C., is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during...
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| x Ross Valory |
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Ross Lamont Valory (born February 2, 1949 in San Francisco, California) is Journey's noted bass player. Along with Neal Schon, he is the only original member of the band still performing with the group. Aside from his termination from the group...
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| x Klaus Flouride |
Geoffrey Lyall (born May 30, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan), better known as Klaus Flouride, is best known as the bassist for the San Francisco, California, punk rock band Dead Kennedys from the group's inception in June 1978 until the band's break-up...
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| x Johnny April |
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Johnny "Old School" April (born March 27, 1965), is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the Alternative metal/Hard rock band Staind.
April was born in Enfield, Connecticut, where he worked autobody and cook before joining Staind.
He...
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| x Brian Marshall |
Brian Aubrey Marshall (born on April 24, 1973) is the current bassist for the bands Creed and Alter Bridge. He originally came up with the name for the band "Naked Toddler" and later "Maddox Creed", but it was later changed to what it is today ...
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| x Stefan Lessard |
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Stefan Kahil Lessard (born June 4, 1974) is an American musician, most famous as the bassist for the Dave Matthews Band.
Lessard was born in Anaheim, California, to musicians Ron and Janaki Lessard. After moving a number of times during his...
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| x Joe B. Mauldin |
Joe Benson Mauldin, Jr. (Born July 8, 1940, Lubbock, Texas) is ranked among the top rock bassists and became a recording engineer at Gold Star Studios, the legendary Los Angeles studio that became the hit factory for Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and...
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| x Rick Burch |
Rick Burch (born February 4, 1975 in Mesa, Arizona) is the bass guitarist for Jimmy Eat World. He is from Mesa, Arizona. He became bassist for Jimmy Eat World in 1995 after the former bassist Mitch Porter left due to "personal reasons".
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| x Eddie Spaghetti |
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Edward Carlyle Daly III, better known as Eddie Spaghetti, or "Your Worst F*#@ing Nightmare" is the lead singer and bassist for the American rock and roll band The Supersuckers. He has a penchant for wearing cowboy hats and aviator-style sunglasses....
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| x Randy Bradbury |
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Randy Bradbury (born September 20, 1964 in Long Beach, California) is the current bass guitar player for the Californian punk band Pennywise. He joined in October 1995 when founding bass player Jason Thirsk left the band for reasons related to...
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