David Ellefson
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David Ellefson , usually short Dave Ellefson (born November 12, 1964 in Jackson , Minnesota ), is an American bass player and best known for his activities with the band Megadeth . He is considered to be the calm and mediator of the band.
Career
Ellefson was a founding member of Megadeth in 1983. After a dispute with Megadeth singer and guitarist Dave Mustaine , who was reselling rights to Megadeth recordings without Ellefson's permission, he left the band in 2002 and did not rejoin until 2010.
After leaving, he played briefly at Soulfly . In 2004 he also founded the thrash metal band Temple of Brutality . Among other things, he then ran the band F5 with the former Megadeth drummer Jimmy DeGrasso .
In January 2010 he released the CD Kingdom of Evil of their newly founded melodic metal band Angels of Babylon together with the former Manowar drummer Rhino . On February 9, 2010, he announced his return to Megadeth on his homepage.
On January 14, 2014, an EP called Altitudes & Attitude was released, which Ellefson recorded with Frank Bello . The band is also called Altitudes & Attitude and is complemented by Jeff Friedl (The Beta Machine). In 2019 her debut album called Get It Out was released .
On February 12, 2017 Ellefson won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the Megadeth song Dystopia (from the album of the same name ) at the 59th Grammy Awards together with Dave Mustaine , Kiko Loureiro and Chris Adler . In 2019 he played two tracks on Mark Morton's album , Anesthetic .
After he published his first autobiography My Life with Deth in 2013 , which he wrote together with Joel McIver - with a foreword by Alice Cooper - the follow-up More Life with Deth appeared in 2019 , which he wrote with his business partner Thom Hazaert. This time McIver wrote the foreword, numerous well-known rock and metal musicians such as Cooper, Brian Welch or KK Downing took part.
Ellefson also operates a music label , Ellefson Music Productions and EMP Label Group . He also founded Ellefson Films in 2019 and released the horror film Dwellers with Drew Fortier .
Discography
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- With Megadeth
- Solo (as David Ellefson)
- Sleeping Giants (2019)
- With others
- Soulfly - Prophecy (2004)
- F5 - A Drug for All Seasons (2005)
- Avian - From the Depths of Time (2005)
- Temple of Brutality - Lethal Agenda (2006)
- Necro - Death Rap (2007)
- Killing Machine - Metalmorphosis (2006)
- F5 - The Reckoning (2008)
- Tim "Ripper" Owens - Play My Game (2009)
- Angels of Babylon - Kingdom of Evil (2010)
- Gus G. - I Am the Fire (2014)
- Johnny Wore Black - Walking Underwater Pt. 2 (2014)
- Metal Allegiance - Metal Allegiance (2015)
- Operation: Mindcrime - The Key (2015)
- Metal Allegiance - Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty (2018)
- Altitudes & Attitude - Get It Out (2019)
- Mark Morton - Anesthetic (2019) (Titles 4 and 10)
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Altitudes-Attitude-Get-It-Out/master/1488958
- ↑ MEGADETH Wins 'Best Metal Performance' GRAMMY Award . In: Blabbermouth.net , February 12, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ↑ David Ellefson Readies 'More Life With Deth' Memoir Follow-UP , loudwire.com
Web links
- David Ellefson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- David Ellefson's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ellefson, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ellefson, Dave |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jackson , Minnesota |