Bassist
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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 or a Musical Group Member.This type has no properties of its own.
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| Marty Dieckmeyer | Person |
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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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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| C'el Revuelta | Person |
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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| Mike Davenport | Person |
Michael Davenport was born in 1968 in Orcutt, California, sometimes credited as Mike Davenport.
He was the bass guitar of the Pop punk group The Ataris and joined the band prior to the album Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits.
After...
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| John Lightman | Person |
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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| Greg Kriesel | Musical Artist |
Gregory David Kriesel (born January 20 1965, in Glendale, California), best known by his stage name Greg K., is an American bass guitar and backing vocalist for the punk band, The Offspring.
Kriesel is one of the founding members of the band...
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| John Maurer | Person |
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...
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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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| David Wm. Sims | Musical Artist |
David William Sims is a bass guitar player.
He is known for being a member of the bands The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid and Rapeman.
He is now an accountant in New York City.
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| Steve McDonald | Person |
Steve McDonald (born September 9, 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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| Max Collins | Musical Artist |
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 guitar Jon Siebels in high school, and the two formed a band. In May of 2003, Collins was...
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| 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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| Neil Busch | Person |
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 of 2004. Now he is the singer and pianist/keyboardist of the Sagittarians.
In 2004 Neil...
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| B.B. Dickerson | Person |
Morris "B. B." 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 tracks...
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| Eric Judy |
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Eric Scott Judy is the bass guitar for the indie rock band Modest Mouse. He has a wife and two children, and resides in Seattle, Washington.
After meeting in high school, Judy, Isaac Brock and Jeremiah Green began jamming in a provisional home next...
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| Brent Liles | Person |
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 left Social Distortion on New Year's Eve 1984, with the band's drummer...
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| Bill Leen | Person |
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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| Robert Sledge | Person |
Robert Sledge is a bassist, best known for his work with Ben Folds Five. Before playing with Ben Folds Five he was bassist for the band Toxic Popsicle. Sledge also played bass with metal band Lexx Luthor, a band which spawned another famous musician...
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| Darryl Jennifer | Person |
Darryl Jenifer (born October 22, 1960 in Washington, D.C.) is the bass for hardcore punk band Bad Brains.
Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys has praised Jenifer's playing, calling him an "unbelievable bassist."
Jenifer, Darryl
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| 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 plays simple to complex grooves depending on the feel of the song.
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| Juan Croucier | Musical Artist |
Juan Croucier (born Juan Carlos Croucier on August 22 1959 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.
Croucier attended Torrance High School in Torrance California along with his Ratt bandmate Bobby Blotzer. Formerly a...
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| Martin Crandall | Person |
Martin Lesley Crandall (born April 20, 1975) is the keyboardist of The Shins, who also plays bass guitar during some live performances, allowing fellow band member Dave Hernandez to play electric guitar. This has happened as The Shins move away from...
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| Chi Cheng |
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Chi Cheng, (born July 5, 1970 in Stockton, California) is an American musician, the bass guitar in the rock band Deftones.
Cheng attempted a BA in English Literature from Sacramento State and is the only member of the band with such an...
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| Andrew Weiss | Person |
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...
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| Kevin Rutmanis | Person |
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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| Derf Scratch | Person |
Derf "Fred" Scratch is best known as the original bass guitar 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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| C. J. Ramone | Person |
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...
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| Paul Barker | Film music contributor |
Paul Barker (born February 8, 1958 in Palo Alto, California), was bass guitar, 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 as...
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| Joe Principe |
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Joe Principe is the bass guitar and co-founder of the punk rock band Rise Against. He is known for his elaborate bass patterns in their songs. Some of the finest examples of his playing are the bass intro/outro on "Like the Angel", and the bridge on...
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| Scott Thunes | Person |
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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