Billy Gould

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Billy Gould

William David Gould (born April 24, 1963 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American musician, music producer and entrepreneur in the rock business. He became known as the bass player for the rock band Faith No More .

Life

He learned to play the electric bass as a schoolboy and moved to San Francisco to study, where he soon founded a band that was renamed “Faith No More”. As the songwriter and bassist of this band, he shaped the style that was originally referred to as funk metal and later as crossover . With his band Faith No More, Gould achieved several hits and awards.

Since Faith No More split up in 1998, he has been running his own record company called Koolarrow Records , which specializes in underground bands from a wide variety of countries and styles.

In addition, he is often active as a producer, guest musician or as a member of supergroups . Since the mid-1990s he has been involved in a grindcore project by several well-known musicians, known as Brujeria , which poses as a Mexican group of revolutionaries in the Zapata tradition . In 2002 he left the band to devote himself to other projects. In 1994 he was involved with members of Rage Against the Machine and Tool on Shandi's Addiction , who contributed to a tribute album for Kiss . In 2002 he produced the second half of the Beatsteaks album Living Targets . In 2004 he released a Kiss cover with the Scandinavian all-star formation Black Diamond Brigade and took part in the Punkvoter campaign , which, together with other musicians, campaigned against the re-election of George Bush . In 2005 he was a guest musician on the Fear Factory album Transgression .

In November 2006, Gould produced the 2007 album by the German band Harmful . Subsequently, Gould got on as the second tour guitarist. In 2008 he joined the band of Korn guitarist James Shaffer , Fear and the Nervous System , and Jello Biafra's birthday band Axis of Merry Evildoers . In 2009 he recorded the album Audacity of Hype with the same band under the name Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine . In the summer of the same year he went on a world tour with his old band Faith No More, the last concert of which took place in December 2010 in Chile and was continued in 2011 with festival appearances in South America.

In May 2011 he appeared again on the EP Enhanced Methods Of Questioning as bassist for Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine and with the project The Talkin Book , which deals with sound collages .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Harmful newsletter of December 2, 2007
  2. Faith No More Reunion Tour Dates. (English)
  3. discogs.com
  4. ^ The Talking Book. Koolarrow