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Scott Thunes ( TOO-niss; born January 20, 1960) is a bass player, formerly with Frank Zappa, Wayne Kramer, Steve Vai, Andy Prieboy, Mike Keneally, Fear, The Waterboys, Big Bang Beat, and others.




Early life


Thunes was raised in San Anselmo, California.




Career


He played with Zappa's band from 1981 to 1988, and plays on such albums as The Man From Utopia, Them or Us, Broadway the Hard Way, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Does Humor Belong In Music?, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, Make a Jazz Noise Here, and Guitar, a double-album compilation of Zappa's live guitar solos.
His most prominent bass performance can be heard on Frank Zappa's Valley Girl, which peaked at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100.
He played bass on Frank Zappa's Jazz from Hell, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1988.
More recently, he is touring on bass as part of ongoing The Zappa Band tribute group, made up of ex-Zappa band alumni Ray White (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Keneally (guitar, keys, vocals), Robert 'Bobby' Martin (keyboards, sax, vocals), and Zappa Plays Zappa alums Jamie Kime (guitar) and ZAPPA archivist Joe “Vaultmeister” Travers (drums, vocals). In 2021, The Zappa Band tribute group opened for King Crimson multiple times.
Thunes is currently a Teaching Artist, for the Rock Band program at Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School in Novato, California.




References






External links


Interview
Scott Thunes with the San Francisco Free Jazz Collective

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• The Man from Utopia
• Does Humor Belong in Music?
• Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
• Jazz from Hell
• Scott Thunes
• John Thune
• Fear (band)
• The Waterboys
• Thune (surname)
• Automatic (Dweezil Zappa album)
• Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
• Steve Vai
• Fear of a Punk Planet
• Zappa Plays Zappa