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Trevor Dunn

Trevor Dunn is an American musician. His primary instrument is bass and double bass. Dunn has a degree in music, learning double bass at college. Dunn prefers to play simple bass lines in other's compositions choosing to support song structures.

Biography

Early Days

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. With a background in metal, Dunn branched out his musical abilities playing jazz around San Francisco while immersing himself in different music. His playing on Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante displayed Dunn's maturity as a player as the compositions shift from different musical stylings several times in every song.

Beyond Mr. Bungle

Like the other members of Mr. Bungle, Trevor Dunn is reluctant to talk about what exactly caused their break-up in 2000 (Dunn is especially hesitant about the subject). For that matter, Dunn is reluctant to talk about Mr. Bungle in general, though he claims to have enough material for a book about the band (and enough unreleased songs for a companion album). He initially stated that he was going to release a book, but it has since fallen into obscurity ("That book concept is FAR from being a reality. It's just a hazy thought in my mind at this point. Part of that haze includes demos, rehearsals, prank phone calls, unused photos, etc. The amount of unseen/unheard material I have collected over the years is somewhat baffling. Believe me, it's not going to happen anytime soon"). He is now involved with Fantômas and his own band Trevor Dunn's Trio-convulsant, both bands signed to Mike Patton's record label Ipecac Recordings. [1][2]

Band membership

He has also contributed to or played with:

Instruments

In the early days of Mr. Bungle he played an Ibanez bass built sometime in the 1980's, and later on, he used a Peavey Fretless, an Alembic Europa 5-String and a double bass. He mostly uses a 1975 Fender P-Bass tuned to BEAD for Fantômas. He plays double bass with Trevor Dunn's Trio-convulsant.

Selected Discography

with Mr. Bungle

with Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant

  • 1998 - Debutantes & Centipedes
  • 2004 - Sister Phantom Owl Fish

with Shelley Burgon

  • 2005 - no title - (metaphysically titled - How Far is Far?)
  • 2006 - Baltimore

with Fantômas

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Trevor Dunn (second from the right) and Fantômas

with John Zorn

Album Collaborations

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Fantômas Biography". Ipecac.com. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  2. ^ "Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant Biography". Ipecac.com. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
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