David Hungate

David Hungate
Genres	Pop rock, soul, funk, smooth jazz
Occupations	Musician, bassist
Instruments	Bass guitar, trombone, trumpet, guitar
Associated acts	Toto

David Hungate (born August 5, 1948) is a bass guitarist,producer,arranger noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977 to 1982. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside. He also played the bass on "You're the One That I Want".

Hungate played on Toto's first four records, including multiple Grammy award-winning album, Toto IV. He left the band shortly after its release for a career as a session musician in Nashville. Hungate, who plays many instruments including guitar,trumpet,drums,piano has arranged, produced and recorded with several country artists such as Chet Atkins. In 1998, Hungate rejoined his former TOTO bandmates in Europe for a series of live shows promoting Toto XX: 1977-1997. An archive release of previously unreleased studio & live songs. He was also a primary member of AOR supergroup Mecca fronted by Joe Vana and Fergie Frederiksen, the latter also of Toto fame. In 1990 he released a solo album entitled "Souvenir" (on CBS). Jeff Porcaro played drums on some of the tracks on the album.

Hungate attended North Texas State University College of Music, where he played bass in the One O'Clock Lab Band the year that it performed at the 1970 Montreaux Jazz Festival. He is the son of the late US Congressman (and later Federal District Judge) William L Hungate.

As of 2012, Hungate,now 64, still resides in Nashville and is still an active & highly sought-after studio musician and on occasion tours with top acts such as Vince Gill.

External links

• David Hungate featured page on the Party Of The Century international music project