Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1961) is an American bass guitarist, singer and dialogue editor. She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag.
She is sister of keyboardist Paul Roessler, founding member of The Screamers.
While sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3, members of Black Flag heard her playing, which led to her being asked to join Black Flag to replace founding member of Chuck Dukowski. Roessler was majoring in app...
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Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1961) is an American bass guitarist, singer and dialogue editor. She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag.
She is sister of keyboardist Paul Roessler, founding member of The Screamers.
While sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3, members of Black Flag heard her playing, which led to her being asked to join Black Flag to replace founding member of Chuck Dukowski. Roessler was majoring in applied engineering at UCLA, and Black Flag's subsequent tours were worked around her school schedule, which was a condition for her to join the band. Her bass playing was featured on five of Black Flag's studio albums. She remained in the band until completing touring behind their In My Head album in the autumn of 1985, then graduated UCLA in 1986.
After Black Flag, she formed the two-bass duo Dos with Mike Watt (to whom she was married between 1987 and 1994). Dos have performed intermittently into the early 2000s. She wrote or co-wrote songs...
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