Mike Mills (musician)
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958 in Orange County , California , USA ) is a founding member and bassist of the former US alternative rock group REM , he also plays guitar , piano and organ as well as numerous other instruments that he repeatedly contributes to songs. He also sang with REM Backing Vocals .
Mike Mills also played together with his bandmates Peter Buck and Bill Berry as well as Warren Zevon from 1984 to 1987 in the supergroup project Hindu Love Gods .
biography
Mike Mills grew up in a musical family. His mother was a pianist and his father a tenor in the church choir. Mike received classical training on the piano, tuba and sousaphone .
He attended the same school in Macon, Georgia as REM's future drummer, Bill Berry. The two met while auditioning for the band Shadowfax .
After Bill Berry and Mike Mills graduated from high school, they both enrolled and moved to the University of Georgia in Athens . In 1980 they met Michael Stipe and Peter Buck and broke off their studies to found the band REM together with them.
Mike Mills plays golf , tennis and baseball in his spare time and still lives in Athens today. He is not married and has a son who was born in 1989.
music
Mills turns the bass into a melody-defining instrument with relatively simple lines. In many REM songs, the bass is in the foreground - in front of the guitar. An example of this is the song The One I Love .
Mills rarely appears as a lead singer. This was most recently the case on the album Out of Time , to which he contributed the tracks Near Wild Heaven and Texarkana .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mills, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mills, Michael Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician, bass player for REM |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orange County , California |