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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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| x Marty Dieckmeyer |
Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the Christian rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981. Dieckmeyer sang 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...
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| x Kira Roessler |
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Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1962) is an American bass guitarist, singer and Emmy award-winning dialogue editor. She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag.
While sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3, members of Black Flag...
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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 (born 1968 in Orcutt, California) is a musician. Davenport was bass guitarist, for The Ataris, joining the band in 1995 prior to the album Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits in which Davenport co-wrote the song "In...
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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...
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| x John Maurer |
John Maurer (born July 14, 1964) was the long time bass guitar player 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...
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| x Dave Farrell |
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Dave "Phoenix" Farrell (born February 8, 1977) is an American musician best known as the bassist of the rock band Linkin Park.
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| x David Wm. Sims |
David William Sims (born September 17, 1963 in Austin, Texas) is an American musician, best known as the bass guitarist of the bands Scratch Acid (with whom he initially played guitar), Rapeman, and the Jesus Lizard. In addition, he has recorded or...
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| x Max Collins |
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James Maxwell Stuart Collins III (born August 28, 1978) is an American musician, best known as the bassist and lead vocalist 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....
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| x Robert DeLeo |
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Robert Emile DeLeo (born February 2, 1966 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American bass player, songwriter, 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...
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| x B.B. Dickerson |
Morris "B.B." Dickerson (b. 3 August 1949, Torrance, California) was the bass player for the 1970s Latin–funk group War, and before that The Creators.
Coupling a funk feel with a Latin and reggae influences, former War bassist Morris "BB" Dickerson...
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| x Eric Judy |
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Eric Scott Judy (born November 16, 1974) is the bass guitarist, background vocalist, and founding member of the indie rock band Modest Mouse. He has a wife and two children, and resides in Seattle, Washington.
He started playing bass because no one...
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| x Robert Sledge |
Robert Sledge (born March 9, 1968) is an American musician, best known for his work with Ben Folds Five.
Robert Sledge began playing bass guitar at the age of eleven. His brother was playing guitar at his house so he also learned how to play the...
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| x Darryl Jennifer |
Darryl Jenifer (born October 22, 1960) is the bassist for the hardcore punk band Bad Brains. He appeared in TV's Illest Minority Moments presented by ego trip and the three-part ego trip's Race-O-Rama.
Brn in Washington, D.C., Jenifer released his...
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| x Trevor Dunn |
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Trevor Roy Dunn (born January 30, 1968) is an American composer, bass guitarist and double bassist.
Dunn came to prominence in the 1990s with the experimental band Mr. Bungle. He has since worked in an array of musical styles, notably with singer...
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| x Juan Croucier |
Juan Croucier (born 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 well known metal bands Dokken and Ratt during the...
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| x Chi Cheng |
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Chi Cheng, (born July 15, 1970 in Davis, California) is a Chinese American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American band Deftones.
Cheng went to school for a little while at CSU Sacramento. He is the author of a collection of...
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| x Kevin Rutmanis |
Kevin Rutmanis (born October 17, 1958) is an American bass guitarist. He is of Latvian descent. In late 1985, along with his younger brother Sandris Rutmanis, Thor Eisentrager, and then Jayhawks drummer Norm Rogers started the band The Cows. After...
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| x Derf Scratch |
Derf "Fred" Scratch (born Frederick Charles Milner III, Oct 30, 1951– July 28, 2010) was 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....
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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 best known as working as the bassist (and sometimes the vocalist) of punk rock group Ramones from 1989 to 1996.
Christopher J. Ward was born in...
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| x Paul Barker |
Paul Barker (born February 8, 1958 in Palo Alto, California), also referred to as Hermes Pan, is the former bass guitarist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004. Prior to Ministry, Barker provided bass for...
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| x Joe Principe |
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Joe Principe (born November 14, 1974) is an American musician. He is the bass guitarist, backing vocalist and co-founder of the American punk rock band Rise Against. He primarily uses Fender basses, Mesa amps and cabinets, and he uses pick-playing...
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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 Tony Lombardo |
Tony Lombardo was the bassist with the pioneering punk rock band Descendents between 1978 and 1985. Lombardo was part of the original Descendents lineup with guitarist Frank Navetta and drummer Bill Stevenson.
This lineup's first release was the...
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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 former bassist for metal band Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad. and current bassist for metal bands 3 Inches Of Blood, City of Fire and Zimmers Hole.
Byron...
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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. He has been a member since 1994 and has performed on all of the bands official records.
The band has released nine albums - Snuff 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 guitarist/vocalist Buzz Osborne and drummer Mike Dillard in Montesano,...
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| x Johnny Rod |
Johnny Rod (born John Tumminello 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.. Johnny Rod used both Fender (the Fender...
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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. He was mainly active during the 1970s and 1980s both in the New York City and Hollywood Rock and Metal scene.
Fox was...
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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 former bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes.
In addition to his bass playing, Ritchie is proficient at the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute. He acquired a Jun Shihan (shakuhachi...
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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.
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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 suffered from...
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| x Joe Loeffler |
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Joseph "Joe" Loeffler (born September 12, 1980) is a bass player/backup singer formerly of of the Chicago hard rock band Chevelle. Joe joined the band in 1995 after it had been formed by his brothers Pete (singer, guitarist) and Sam (drums). He was...
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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 electric bassist. He was a session musician for some well-known technical death metal bands such as Atheist, Cynic and the Dutch band Pestilence. He is one of the few bass players in metal that extensively uses the Slap &...
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| x Ben Kenney |
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Benjamin Lee Kenney, Sr. (born on March 12, 1977), is a musician from Brielle, New Jersey, 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...
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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 is an American businessman. He is best known for founding Global Heritage Fund (GHF), a non-profit organization that works internationally to preserve cultural heritage sites in the developing world. Since 2002, Morgan has served as GHF...
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| x Mikey Way |
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Michael James Way (born September 10, 1980), better known as Mikey Way, is an American bassist for the band My Chemical Romance.
Mikey Way was born September 10, 1980 in Newark, New Jersey, to Donna Lee (née Rush) and Donald Way. He has Italian ...
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| x Glen Benton |
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Glen Benton (born June 18, 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 was also the studio vocalist for Vital...
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| x Oteil Burbridge |
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Oteil Burbridge, born August 24, 1964 in Washington, D.C., is a Grammy Award-winning 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...
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| x Ross Valory |
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Ross Lamont Valory (born February 2, 1949 in San Francisco) is Journey's noted bass player. He and Neal Schon are the only original members of the band still performing with the group. Aside from his termination from the group during the Raised on...
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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, 1974) is an American musician and songwriter best known as the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Creed and Alter Bridge. He also co-owns a bed and breakfast called Mango Moon in Costa Rica.
Marshall...
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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. (July 8, 1940) is ranked among the top rock bassists and became a recording engineer at Gold Star Studios, the Los Angeles studio that became the hit factory for Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and other major 1960s rock...
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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. Randy was supposed to...
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| x David Freiberg |
David Freiberg (born August 24, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. He was vocalist and/or bass guitar player with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
Freiberg began his career as a coffee house...
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| x Tyler Rebbe |
Tyler Rebbe, is a bass guitarist, who has played in a number of different, mainly punk rock, bands since the late 1980s.
Tyler's two main bands are Pulley, for which he has been a member since 1997, and Death By Stereo, which he joined in early 2005...
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| x Adam Russell |
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Adam William Russell (born April 14, 1983, in North Olmsted, Ohio) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball.
In 2004, Russell was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the sixth round as the 179th...
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| x Pat Badger |
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Pat Badger (born Patrick John Badger, July 22, 1967, Boston, Massachusetts) is the bassist in the band Extreme. He is also a former member of Daemon, In The Pink, Super Trans Atlantic, and Tribe of Judah.
He sang backing vocals on both Dweezil Zappa...
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| x Brian Cole |
Brian Cole (September 8, 1942 – August 2, 1972) was the bass guitar player and one of the founding members of the 1960s folk rock band The Association.
Cole was born in Tacoma, Washington. He died in Los Angeles, California of a heroin overdose at...
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| x Eddie Breckenridge |
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Eddie Breckenridge (born Edward Carrington Breckenridge on November 15, 1979) is the bass guitarist of the post-hardcore band, Thrice. Breckenridge joined the band having virtually no experience playing the bass (he was a skating buddy of soon to be...
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| x Tony Garnier |
Tony Garnier (born Saint Paul, Minnesota, August 18, 1956) is an American bassist (both double bass and bass guitar), best known as an accompanist to Bob Dylan, with whom he has played since 1989. He is Dylan's longest-running sideman, and has...
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