Geoffrey Lyall (born in 1949 in Detroit, Michigan), better known as Klaus Flouride, is best known as the bassist for the San Francisco, California, punk rock band Dead Kennedys from the group's inception in June 1978 until the band's break-up in December 1986, although he also produced four solo albums during the 1980s and 1990s. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. A bass player (bassist is a Musician who plays a Double bass, Bass guitar, keyboard bass or wind The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Dead Kennedys was an American Hardcore punk band from San Francisco, California.
Flouride began working on a solo album following the release of Dead Kennedys' second album, 1982's Plastic Surgery Disasters, coming out with the 12" single "Shortnin' Bread" (with "The Drowning Cowboy" as the B-Side) in 1982 and the EP Cha Cha Cha With Mr. In Popular music, a solo album is an Album made by a current or former member of a band. Flouride in 1985.
After the breakup, Flouride returned to his solo career, releasing Because I Say So in 1988 and The Light Is Flickering in 1991, the latter album including the song "Dancing with Shauna Grant". Shauna Grant (born Colleen Marie Applegate on May 30, 1963 – March 23, 1984) was an American Nude model and
Flouride also works in the studio as a producer and mixer and has done projects with the Hi-Fives, Ape, and Bad Posture. The Hi-Fives is an American Rock and roll band from the San Francisco Bay Area He and his former band-mates also became embroiled in a protracted lawsuit with former frontman Jello Biafra over reimbursement for band income and band material, which was settled in 2000 in the favor of East Bay Ray, Flouride, and D. H. Peligro. Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) more widely known by the Stage name Jello Biafra, is a musician who first gained Raymond Pepperell, better known as East Bay Ray, is the lead guitarist for the well known West Coast punk band Dead Kennedys. DH Peligro (b 1960 St Louis Missouri, real name Darren Henley) was the Drummer for the hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys from
In 2001, Flouride reunited with Ray and Peligro under the Dead Kennedys name, taking on Dr. Know vocalist Brandon Cruz as a replacement for Biafra. Dead Kennedys was an American Hardcore punk band from San Francisco, California. Brandon Edwin Cruz (born May 28, 1962, in Bakersfield California) was an American Child actor and is currently a Punk rock Jeff Penalty replaced Cruz in 2003. Jeff Penalty (b Jeff Alulis and raised in Broomall Pennsylvania) is the former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, joining them in 2003
Flouride wrote one song for the Dead Kennedys, "Dog Bite", which appears on the EP In God We Trust, Inc.. In God We Trust Inc is a Hardcore punk album by the Dead Kennedys; it is now reissued with the Plastic Surgery Disasters album
Klaus Flouride's bass style integrates not only typical punk-rock bass playing (heavy use of a pick, most of the time downstroke, fast tempo and bass notes stuck to the root notes of the guitar chords) but also contains elements from jazz music and exotic types of music. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States This list is split into four separate pages List of styles of music A-F List of styles of music G-M List of styles of music N-R
Main Klaus Flouride bass gear includes a Sherwood Green matching-headstock Fender Jazz Bass from 1966 that he has been using throughout the Dead Kennedys early years and still owns and uses today on stage. The Jazz Bass (or J Bass) was the second model of electric bass guitar created by Leo Fender. The bass is covered with stickers, the biggest being the "DK" signs that stands for Denmark, and the pickguard is stained with blood. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Other basses such as a black Fender Precision Bass and a blue Fender Bass VI have also been used. The Fender Precision Bass (sometimes shortened to the " P Bass " is an electric bass guitar, and was the first widely-available model of the instrument The Fender Bass VI, originally known as the Fender VI, is a six-string electric bass by Fender.
Equipment
Flouride used "an Acoustic 150b amp, and an Acoustic 402 cabinet with stock speakers at last thru 'In God We Trust'", before getting a Traynor Mono Block B amp to replace the Acoustic head. Recent pictures show a Gallien Krueger stack made of a 2x10 and a 1x15 cabinets, powered by a Gallien Krueger 1001 RB II head. An unknown Boss pedal can be seen in the same pictures.
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