Trey Spruance

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At the Secret Chiefs 3 concert (2009).

Preston Lea "Trey" Spruance III (born August 14, 1969 ) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. He plays electric guitar , keyboards, and a range of string and percussion instruments in a variety of experimental rock , metal and jazz projects .

Live and act

Spruance grew up in Eureka, California . His career began in the mid-1980s in the experimental avant-garde rock band Mr. Bungle , which he founded with Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn . In 1991 Warner released the group's debut album. When Jim Martin , the guitarist of Faith No More , in which Patton had been involved since 1988, left in 1994, Spruance stepped in for the 1995 album King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime . He left the band before the next tour. Since then, Spruance has worked on numerous side projects, including Faxed Heat and The Three Doctors, and has continued to be involved in recording Mr. Bungle. In 1996 he founded his most important and best-known project, Secret Chiefs 3, with Dunn and Danny Heifetz . In the 1990s began his occasional collaboration with John Zorn (including as Weird Little Boy with Zorn and Patton).

He is considered "one of the most underrated, versatile and most experimental rock guitarists of the modern age".

Spruance is the owner of the music label Mimicry Records. He is the producer on many of the albums released there.

Discographic notes

  • John Zorn Elegy (1992, Eva Records)
  • The Three Doctors Band Back to Basics - Live (1994, Amarillo Records)
  • Faith No More King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (1995, Slash)
  • Plainfield She's Not My Daughter, She's My Wife! (1997, Crippled Dick Hot Wax!)
  • Faxed Heat Exhumed at Birth (1997, Amarillo Records)
  • Weird Little Boy Weird Little Boy (1998, Avant)
  • Asva Futurist's Against the Ocean (2005, Web of Mimicry)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "One of the most underrated, versatile, and experimental rock guitarists of modern times" , AllMusic biography , accessed on October 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Spruance, Trey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spruance, Preston Lea III (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1969