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Chuck Treece
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, United States
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Drums
  • guitar
  • bass
Years active1982–present

Chuck Treece (born May 30, 1964) is a session musician and professional skateboarder from

Pew Fellowships in the Arts.[1] Chuck currently plays bass in a thrash metal band called ACTiVATE. Treece drummed on the album, Mass by Canadian ska band, Bedouin Soundclash
.

After recording on The Movement’s Album Set Sail Gary Jackson (drums) and Jason Schmidt (bass) joined The Movement as full time members of the band.

Life

Treece grew up in

skate rock band, stating that in addition to himself, band members Tristan, Ethan and Zeke were also active skaters.[4] Treece also played guitar with New York hardcore band Underdog and recorded on their 1989 LP "Vanishing Point". In 1991, he also released a solo album on Caroline Records
titled Dream'n.

Starting in 2001, Treece was also a founding member of Philadelphia punk band Stiffed. The band helped launch the chart-topping solo career of Stiffed's vocalist Santi White under the stage name of Santigold, who credits Treece as "the person that got me to sing."[5]

Most recently, Treece joined producer Chris DiBeneditto at Philadelphonic Studios to record the drum tracks for

Black Cat
in Washington DC for a benefit show for area musician Doc Night.[citation needed]

In 2022, Treece joined Michael Hampton to form the funk/punk fusion group Punkadelic. With Hampton on guitar and Treece on bass and drums, Punkadelic performed both original music and Funkadelic covers in Philidelphia, Mexico, and live on the radio at WOCM Ocean 98 in Ocean City, Maryland. Punkadelic released 2 singles and an original EP titled Collective Consciousness in 2023.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Questions of Practice - The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage". 16 October 2016. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
  2. ^ "Philadelphia City Paper article". Archived from the original on 2007-12-29. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
  3. ^ Cornelius, Michael. "Skaterock - Features - Chuck Treece". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
  4. ^ Smallwood, Doug (1984). "Interview with McRad". Light at the End of a Tunnel. p. 9. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  5. ^ Thompson, Stephen (11 November 2022). "Santigold: Tiny Desk Concert" (Video). National Public Radio. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  6. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070924172229/http://www.oldschoolskateboarding.com/features/chuckTreece/index.html. Archived from the original on 2007-09-24. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ Punkadelic official website

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