Gene Trautmann | |
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 Trautmann performing with Eagles of Death Metal in 2006 | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Drummer |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Member of | Sumo Princess |
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Gene Trautmann (born 1966) is an American drummer, best known for his work with rock bands Queens of the Stone Age, Dig and the Miracle Workers, and as a touring member of Eagles of Death Metal. He has also contributed to releases by The Desert Sessions.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Trautmann started playing drums along to records when he was 11 years old. [1] He has cited KISS' appearance on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special in 1976 as influential in his decision to play music. [1] Trautmann began playing in punk bands in high school and eventually joined the garage rock band The Miracle Workers. [1] After graduating from Oregon Episcopal School in 1985, Trautmann moved to Los Angeles with the band and played with them on several albums, in addition to touring the United States and Europe. [1]
Following Brant Bjork's departure from Kyuss in 1994, Trautmann auditioned for the band and played with the group for two weeks before the spot eventually went to Alfredo Hernández. [1] Trautmann was later briefly a member of the band Dig from 1997 to 1999, playing on their 1998 album Life Like. [2] In 1999, Trautmann contributed to The Desert Sessions compilation Volumes 5 & 6 . He joined Josh Homme's post-Kyuss band, Queens of the Stone Age, in June 1999 and contributed drums to four tracks on their 2000 album Rated R . [3] Trautmann departed the band in September 2001 during the recording process for Songs for the Deaf due to scheduling conflicts and featured on two tracks off the album released the following year. [4] [3] He would later join Homme's other band Eagles of Death Metal as a touring member from 2006 to 2008. [5] In 2017, Trautmann formed the bass-and-drums collaboration Sumo Princess with Abby Travis. [6]
| Year | Artist | Title | Song(s) |
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| 1984 | The Miracle Workers | 1,000 Micrograms Of. . . The Miracle Workers | |
| 1985 | Inside Out | ||
| 1987 | Overdose | ||
| 1988 | Motor City Madness | "Little Doll" | |
| 1989 | Zebra Stripes | Zebra Is Her Name | |
| The Miracle Workers | Primary Domain | ||
| 1992 | Mouth | Foreword | |
| 1993 | The Miracle Workers | Live At The Forum | |
| Nineteeneightyfourway | |||
| 1995 | Anatomy Of A Creep | ||
| 1998 | Dig | Life Like | |
| 1999 | The Desert Sessions | Volumes 5 & 6 | "I'm Dead", "Punk Rock Caveman Living In A Prehistoric Age", "Take Me To Your Leader", "Rickshaw" |
| 2000 | Queens of the Stone Age | Rated R | "Feel Good Hit of the Summer", "Monsters in the Parasol", "Quick and to the Pointless", "Tension Head" |
| 2001 | Alpha Motherfuckers – A Tribute to Turbonegro | "Back To Dungaree High" | |
| 2002 | This Is Where I Belong – The Songs of Ray Davies & The Kinks | "Who'll Be The Next In Line" | |
| Songs for the Deaf | "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire", "Go with the Flow" | ||
| Earthlings? | Disco Marching Kraft | "Disco Marching Kraft", "Gentle Grace", "Family Ford" | |
| 2004 | Nick Oliveri | Demolition Day | "All I've Got" |
| Forever Changing Concept / Mario Lalli & Friends | R&B Records Presents | "Monoxide Dreams", "The Golden Age Of Cellblock Slang" | |
| 2006 | Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator | Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails | "All I've Got", "Four Corners" |
| Brats On The Beat | Ramones For Kids | ||
| Evil Beaver | Models Of Virtue | ||
| 2007 | In The Spirit Of Resilient Optimism | ||
| 2008 | Killroy | Football Chants & Angry Rants | All tracks except 5 and 10 |
| 2010 | Fatso Jetson | Archaic Volumes | "Monoxide Dreams" |
| 2011 | The Twilight Singers | Dynamite Steps | "On The Corner" |
| Sara Johnston | Trespassing | ||
| Manna | Shackles | "Soul To Keep", "Drumming Song" | |
| 2012 | White Hills / Farflung | To Find The Secret Door / Fade | "Fade" |
| Farflung / Black Land | Orbital Decay / The Ecstasy Of Awakening | "Orbital Decay" | |
| Farflung / Black Rainbows | Farflung & Black Rainbow | "Lupine", "Punching Holes In The Twilight" | |
| 2012 | Drag News | Drag News EP | |
| 2016 | Atomirotta | II | |
| Farflung | 5 | "Lupine" | |
| The Shit | Rue Du Chocolat | "Asshole" | |
| 2017 | Nick Oliveri | N.O. Hits At All Vol.2 | "Back To Dungaree High" |
| Sun Trash | Sun Trash | ||
| 2018 | Atomirotta | III | All tracks except 4 |
| 2019 | Sumo Princess | When An Electric Storm | |
| 2020 | Atomirotta | IV |
Kyuss was an American rock band, formed in Palm Desert, California, in 1987. The band disbanded in 1995, and since then, members of Kyuss have gone on to form or play in several notable bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Screaming Trees, Fu Manchu, Dwarves, Eagles of Death Metal, Mondo Generator, Hermano, Unida, Slo Burn and Them Crooked Vultures.
Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Seattle, Washington. The band was founded by vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme, who has been the only constant member throughout multiple lineup changes. Since 2013, the lineup has consisted of Homme alongside Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita, and Jon Theodore. The band also has a large pool of contributors and collaborators. Queens of the Stone Age are known for their blues, Krautrock and electronica-influenced style of riff-oriented and rhythmic hard rock music, coupled with Homme's distinct falsetto vocals and unorthodox guitar scales.
Queens of the Stone Age is the debut studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released by Loosegroove Records on September 22, 1998. It was primarily written and recorded in April 1998 by founding member Josh Homme and his former Kyuss bandmate Alfredo Hernández, with Hernández playing drums and Homme singing and playing the rest of the instruments. Homme also produced the album alongside Joe Barresi. Bassist Nick Oliveri, also a former member of Kyuss, would join the band by the time of the album's release. Queens of the Stone Age received generally positive reviews from critics, who placed it in the stoner rock genre and drew comparisons to krautrock bands such as Neu! and Can, as well as to Kyuss and other metal bands.
Songs for the Deaf is the third studio album by the American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on August 27, 2002, by Interscope Records. It features guest musicians including Dave Grohl on drums, and was the last Queens of the Stone Age album to feature Nick Oliveri on bass. Songs for the Deaf is a loose concept album, taking the listener on a drive through the California desert from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree, tuning into radio stations from towns along the way such as Banning and Chino Hills.
Rated R is the second studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age. It was released on June 6, 2000, by Interscope Records. Rated R was the band's first album for the label, as well as their first to feature bassist Nick Oliveri and vocalist Mark Lanegan.
Nick Steven Oliveri is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a former bassist of Kyuss and later Queens of the Stone Age from 1998 to 2004. Oliveri is also a solo artist and frequent contributor to his friends' albums and tours, including Winnebago Deal, Masters of Reality, Turbonegro, Moistboyz, Svetlanas and Big Scenic Nowhere among many others. He is currently the frontman of his project, Mondo Generator, a punk and metal hybrid that he formed in 1997, and the co-founder of the stoner rock power trio, Stöner. He has also worked periodically with the Dwarves since 1993.
Joshua Michael Homme is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the founder and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, which he formed in 1996. Homme is the band's primary songwriter and mainly sings lead vocals and plays guitar. He also plays drums in the rock band Eagles of Death Metal, which he co-founded in 1998.
The Palm Desert Scene is a group of related bands and musicians from Palm Desert, California. Their hard rock sound – sometimes described as desert rock – contains elements of heavy metal, psychedelia, blues, punk, alternative, grunge, and other genres. It often features distinctive repetitive drum beats, a propensity for free-form jamming, and "trance-like" or "sludgy" grooves. The involved musicians often play in multiple bands simultaneously, and there is a high rate of collaboration between bands. The Palm Desert Scene is also notable for fostering stoner rock pioneers Kyuss. The term "stoner rock" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "desert rock". However, not all Palm Desert scene bands are "stoner rock" and not all stoner rock bands sound exactly like those in Palm Desert. Palm Desert has been named by Blender magazine as "one of the top seven rock n' roll cities in America".
Brant Bjork is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the drummer and founder of the influential Californian stoner rock band Kyuss. Bjork has also been a member of Fu Manchu, Mondo Generator and Vista Chino, the latter with former Kyuss members John Garcia and Nick Oliveri. He is currently the frontman and co-founder of the stoner rock power trio, Stöner. Bjork is one of the more notable figures in the stoner rock and Palm Desert scene and maintains a prolific solo career with over a dozen released albums.
Troy Van Leeuwen is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. Joining the band in 2002, he is the second-longest-serving member of the band, after founding member Josh Homme. Van Leeuwen is also a member of the supergroup Gone Is Gone and has fronted his own projects, Enemy and Sweethead. As of 2021, Van Leeuwen is a co-producer and musical contributor to the anonymous American hardcore punk musical collective the Armed.
Christopher Allen Goss is an American record producer and musician. Best known for producing records for Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, he is regarded as an important figure in the development of stoner rock and desert rock genres. Goss is also the lead singer and guitarist of the hard rock band Masters of Reality.
Alfredo Hernández is an American drummer best known as a former member of desert rock bands Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Brant Bjork and the Bros and Yawning Man, and as a current member of the band, Avon.
Cocaine Rodeo is the debut studio album by American rock band Mondo Generator, released through Southern Lord Records on 18 July, 2000. It was compiled of material recorded by vocalist/bassist Nick Oliveri with drummer Rob Oswald, vocalist/guitarist Brent Malkus, and his ex-Kyuss bandmates Josh Homme, Brant Bjork and John Garcia. Recorded in 1997, the material was shelved for three years due to disinterest from the band to release it and Oliveri's full-time commitment to Queens of the Stone Age.
Joseph William Castillo is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age from 2002 to 2012. He is currently a member of Circle Jerks, The Bronx, DOOM Regulator and Zakk Sabbath and Sugartooth, with former bands including Danzig, Wasted Youth, California Breed, Zilch, and Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts.
Mondo Generator is an American rock band founded in 1997 by Nick Oliveri. The band has released seven studio albums, four EPs, one live album and one video album.
Josh Homme is an American rock musician who has released 18 studio albums and collaborated with over 25 different artists. He started playing guitar in the 1980s and formed a band with Palm Desert, California schoolmates John Garcia and Brant Bjork, initially under the name Katzenjammer, then Sons of Kyuss, and later shortened to simply Kyuss. The band released an EP called Sons of Kyuss (1990) when Homme was 16 years old, before going on to record four critically acclaimed studio albums and a greatest hits release without breaking through to mainstream success. After the breakup of the band in 1995, Homme considered abandoning his music career, but was persuaded by vocalist Mark Lanegan to join the Screaming Trees on tour as second guitarist.
Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Kyuss and Sleep.
Gamma Ray is the debut EP by Gamma Ray, a musical project by former Kyuss guitarist Josh Homme, released in 1996 by Man's Ruin Records. After the breakup of Kyuss in 1995, Homme recorded the Gamma Ray material in Seattle with producer Chris Goss, bassist Van Conner, and drummer Victor Indrizzo. Former Kyuss singer John Garcia contributed backing vocals to the track "Born to Hula". After the release of the EP, Homme received a cease and desist order because the name Gamma Ray was already in use by a German power metal band. He changed the name of the project to Queens of the Stone Age, and both of the Gamma Ray tracks were re-released the following year by Man's Ruin on the Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age split EP, which featured some of the final studio recordings by Kyuss and debuted the "Queens of the Stone Age" moniker for Homme's new project. The split EP also included a third track from the Gamma Ray recording sessions, "Spiders and Vinegaroons".
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