Billy Gould

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Billy Gould
Background information
Birth name	William David Gould
Born	April 24, 1963 (1963-04-24) (age 46)
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Funk, punk, rock, Metal
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter, Producer
Instruments	Bass, Guitar
Years active	1979—present
Associated acts	Black Diamond Brigade Brujeria Harmful Fear and the Nervous System Fear Factory Faith No Man Faith No More Shandi's Addiction The Animated The Chickenfuckers

Billy Gould (born William David Gould, April 24, 1963, Los Angeles, California) is an American musician and producer. He is noted for playing bass in the band Faith No More.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Faith No More

Gould started playing the bass while he was at Loyola High School in Los Angeles with future Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum. His first band during these early years was named "The Animated," a genre-bending new wave outfit. In the early 1980s he moved to San Francisco to begin his studies and got involved with several underground bands. At this time he met drummer Mike Bordin and guitarist Jim Martin. Soon after that Gould formed a band with Bordin, keyboardist Wade Worthington, (Quickly replaced with Roddy Bottum) and guitarist/vocalist Mike 'The Man' Morris named Faith No Man, which eventually became Faith No More.

In the mid-nineties Gould began to work as producer and in 1997 he co-produced Faith No More's last record Album of the Year with the former Swans drummer Roli Mosimann. Since then, he has become the CEO of Koolarrow Records and worked on various projects as a producer or guest musician.

In February 2009, it was announced that Faith No More would reform for a tour and possibly recording. ^[1]

[edit] Other Collaborations

In the 1990s Gould sometimes played with the Mexican grindcore band Brujeria. He was also involved in several supergroups, such as Shandi's Addiction (with Maynard Keenan, Brad Wilk and Tom Morello) as well as Black Diamond Brigade (with Norwegian rock musicians Euroboy, Torgny Amdam, Tarjei Strøm and Sigurd Wongraven). Furthermore, he played with Wayne Kramer and Fear Factory, and produced CMX's Vainajala album. His latest musical efforts are a guest appearance on Romanian nu-metal band Coma's new album, and the production of the new album for the German rock band Harmful, and have also toured with them the whole year 2007 as guitar player. The band is having a break and Gould continued his work back in U.S. again.

More recently, Gould has joined up with the all star band Fear and the Nervous System, formed by Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer. The band also features Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman.

During the same year, Gould has started as bassist in Jello Biafra's new band The Axis Of Evildoers along with Ralph Spight (Victim's Family) on guitar, and Jon Weiss on drums. They made their debut at Jello Biafra's 50th-birthday celebration June 16 and 17, 2008 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The band has since been renamed Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine and an album Audacity of Hype is due out on 20 October 2009.

[edit] Equipment and style

For most of Faith No More's career, he used a Zon bass, but started with an Aria in Faith No More's early days. In the music video for Evidence^[2], he can be seen with a Fender Jazz. He began with Peavey amplifiers, then moved to Ampeg amplifiers. He is known for employing a wide variety of playing styles.

[edit] Discography

[edit] As a band member

[edit] Faith No Man

• 1982: "Quiet in Heaven/Song of Liberty"

[edit] Faith No More

• 1985: We Care a Lot
• 1987: Introduce Yourself
• 1989: The Real Thing
• 1992: Angel Dust
• 1995: King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
• 1997: Album of the Year

[edit] Brujeria

• 1993: Matando Güeros
• 1995: Raza Odiada
• 2000: Brujerizmo

[edit] Fear and the Nervous System

• 2009: Untitled debut album

[edit] Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

• 2009: Audacity of Hype

[edit] Harmful

• 2007: Seven

[edit] As a featured musician

• 2005: Fear Factory – Transgression, "Echo of my Scream", "Supernova"
• 2006: Coma – Nerostitele, "Mai Presus De Cuvinte"

[edit] Remixes

• 1995 "Engove" – instrumental remix of "Caffeine", originally by Faith No More. Appeared on Metallurgy, Vol. 1
• 1997 "Pristina (Billy Gould Mix)", appeared on Last Cup of Sorrow single.
• 1998 "Du riechst so gut", remix is however credited to Faith No More

[edit] References

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