Andrew Weiss (musician)

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Andrew Weiss is an American musician, composer, audio engineer and record producer.

Life and career

Born in Chicago, Weiss spent most of his youth growing up in central New Jersey where he later started playing bass with local bands while attending Princeton High School. In 1982 he teamed up with

Sim Cain (drums) to form Regressive Aid, an instrumental new wave band that released a 4-song EP in 1983 and a 6-song LP the following year. Around this time, Weiss began his experimentations with electronic music and recording. This led to a collaboration with his friend Jeff Rusnack, partnersinWonder, and together they founded Bird'o'Pray Records, a cassette only label that featured electronic and alternative music, including the first releases by the New Hope, Pa. duo Ween
.

In 1985,

, dubbed Wartime, on which Weiss wrote, played, and recorded all the music himself while Henry wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals.

From 1987 through 1992, Weiss toured the world and recorded 7 albums with the Rollins Band acting not only as their bassist, but writing much of the music as well. During this period he also produced four albums for Ween, two for Skunk, and participated in 3 tours and 4 albums as bassist and songwriter for the industrial all-star supergroup Pigface. In 1992, Weiss departed the Rollins Band to devote more time to Ween (as their live bassist) and Pigface projects. The years since have found him recording and playing bass with, among others, the Butthole Surfers, Chris Harford and Yoko Ono (with whom he did a world tour in 1996), while continuing his production/engineering work with Ween (six more releases), a collaboration with the premier Japanese band Boredoms (Z-Rock Hawaii), the 'P' album (featuring Johnny Depp, Gibby Haynes, Flea, Steve Jones, & others), Yoko Ono, and Akron/Family.

Weiss has also been a producer and engineer of albums for a number of Central and South American bands including six albums with

Sundance Channel. Weiss' most recent work was being the bassist with Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
. Weiss is still maintaining his Zion House'o'Flesh studio in New Jersey.

Partial discography

Year Album Artist Role
1987 Life Time Rollins Band bass
1988
Do It
1989 Hard Volume
1990 Turned On
GodWeenSatan: The Oneness Ween producer, engineer, mixer, bass
1991 The Pod producer, engineer, mixer
1992 Pure Guava
The End of Silence Rollins Band bass
1994 Electriclarryland Butthole Surfers
Chocolate & Cheese
Ween producer, engineer, mixer, bass, keyboards
1995 P P producer, bass, mellotron
1996 Planet Ultra Urban Dance Squad mixing, vocal producer
Dopádromo Babasónicos producer, mixer
1997 Babasónica
The Mollusk Ween producer, engineer, mixer, bass, keyboards
1999 Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990–1998 bass
Miami
Babasónicos mixer
2001 Jessico producer, recording engineer, mixing
2003 Quebec Ween producer, engineer, mixer, keyboards, bass
Infame Babasónicos producer, mixing
Cuatro Caminos Café Tacuba asssociate producer and engineer[1]
2005 Anoche Babasónicos engineer
Shinola, Vol. 1 Ween producer, engineer, mixer, keyboards, bass
2007 La Cucaracha
The Friends EP producer, engineer, mixer, keyboards
2011 A Propósito Babasónicos bass
2013 Romantisísmico producer
2015 Strangers to Ourselves Modest Mouse
2021 The Golden Casket

References

  1. ^ "Cuatro Caminos". Café Tacuba. Retrieved November 3, 2024.