Bassist

Kira Roessler (b. 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.A. punk group DC3. Before joining Black Flag, she was majoring in applied engineering at UCLA (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...

Michael Davenport was born in 1968 in Orcutt, California, sometimes credited as Mike Davenport. He was the bass guitar of the punk rock 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 label release with The Ataris, Davenport left the group in late 2004 after an unconfirmed conflict of interest with founding member Kris Roe. With his time in The Ataris behind him, he is now the bassist of Versus...

Greg Kriesel (born Gregory David Kriesel, January 20 1965, Glendale, California) is an American bass guitar and backing vocalist for the punk band, The Offspring. Kriesel is one of the founding members of the band alongside Dexter Holland. He plays an Ibanez custom ATK300 bass, and his hobbies include golf and collecting hats. He was on the track and field team in high school along with fellow bandmate Holland, and was also in the Math Club. He currently lives in Cypress, California.

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 High School. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he met future bandmate Brad Delson in 1999. He plays the bass guitar, electric guitar, cello and violin. On occasion, he has played an upright bass at concerts. Farrell...

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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, who plays guitar. Robert bumped into Scott Weiland (who would eventually become lead singer of STP) at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach. They soon realized that they were both dating the same woman. After she moved to Texas, Weiland and Deleo...

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. He now lives in Southern California and tours with Howard E. Scott, Lee Oskar and Harold Brown as the Lowrider Band.

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 Social Distortion drummer Derek O'Brien. The two would once again be bandmates in the late 1980s to the early 1990s with Agent Orange. Liles also briefly played guitar for the band Easter (band) and Chaotic Stature. He also appeared in the 1983 documentary Another...

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, Sully Erna of Godsmack. After Ben Folds Five broke up, Robert Sledge performed for one summer with the short lived rock group Brother Seeker, a band comprised of Robert and former Squirrel Nut Zippers members Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher. According...

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. Dunn began playing bass as a teenager. In high school, Dunn formed Mr. Bungle with vocalist Mike Patton and guitarist Trey Spruance. Mr. Bungle's early compositions mixed thrash metal, hard rock, and funk with an air of adolescent humor and vulgarity....

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 the keyboard-drenched reverb of their debut album Oh, Inverted World towards the cleaner guitar driven sounds of their album Chutes Too Narrow. Crandall is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, but spent some of his high school years in Las Vegas...

Andrew Weiss is a bass guitarist and producer. He produced and played bass for most of the Ween albums, played bass for Greg Ginn's post Black Flag band Gone, and also played bass with Rollins Band from about 1987 to 1993. He was also a member of Regressive Aid, along with Sim Cain and William Tucker. He has also played with Yoko Ono, Gone, Pigface and the Butthole Surfers, presumably not in the same gig. Andrew also played with and produced Johnny Depp's band "P". In 2001 Andrew produced a...

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 loved Fear and was their biggest booster; the two became good friends and cocaine abusers -- this period is well documented in the Bob Woodward book 'Wired'. Belushi got Fear a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live that essentially ended in a semi...

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 a touring bassist, before which he was a member of The Blackouts with his brother Roland Barker and Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin. He became an official member on the classic 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey. Although many Ministry...

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 such albums as The Man From Utopia, Them or Us, Broadway the Hard Way, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch and Guitar, a double-album compilation of Zappa's live guitar solos. Thunes is no longer involved in professional music. He lives...