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Full Chris Chaney Biography
Chris Chaney was the bass player in the last incarnation of Jane's Addiction, after Flea and Eric Avery, as well as a member of Alanis Morissette's touring and recording band from 1995 to 2002. He is currently playing bass in both The Panic Channel, formed with Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, also formerly of Jane's Addiction and Steve Isaacs on vocals; and Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, formed by Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters, who he played with while touring with Alanis Morissette, both of their first major "pop" gigs.
Chris was raised in a self-proclaimed "musically rich neighbourhood" where members of The Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana lived in close proximity. The Mill Valley native (or "stoner-ville" as Chaney calls it) also lived just blocks away from pop-culture mecca, where some of the "Ewok Village" scenes were filmed for various Star Wars production such as Return of the Jedi and several made-for-TV movies. He attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, the same high school that the late rapper Tupac Shakur attended briefly the year after Chaney graduated.
"I grew up in a dream place compared to L.A. where I live now," says Chaney. "It doesn’t have the natural beauty you know it’s got the smog and the big dry desert valley. I mean I still love it but sometimes you grow up and you don’t realize how lucky you are. I was spoiled rotten in a natural kind of way."
Upon graduation of High School Chris moved to Boston and spent 2 and 1/2 years studying at the famed Berklee School Of Music before moving to Los Angeles to primarily play jazz, where he first made a name for himself playing at famed The Baked Potato and R&B in the house band at Dragonfly, in which he comments "That was an amazing, educational gig. We played everything from Aretha to Soundgarden, and we backed 20 singers a night," It was with some trepidation that Chris took his first tour with Alanis Morissette in 1996: "“Taking the Alanis job was a hard decision. The ball was really starting to roll for me in L.A.; I had a variety of gigs, and I was playing almost every night. Lots of guys were saying, ‘You’re finally playing jazz at the Baked Potato, and you’re going to leave that behind to play pop music?’ But I’ve always loved playing any music that I think is good. I liked Alanis, I liked her songs, and I liked the band—so I took the gig.”
Chaney should not be confused with Chris Cheney, lead singer/guitarist of the Australian band The Living End.
In the past 13 years Chris has built up a reputation as a top-level professional bassist, having recorded and/or toured with a wide variety of artists such as the previously mentioned Jane's Addiction, all-star cover band Camp Freddy, Alanis Morissette from 1995 to 2002, Celine Dion, Michelle Branch, Ben Taylor, Carly Simon, Rob Zombie, Andrew W.K., Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem, Will Hoge, and the song "I'm Still Here" from soundtrack to the animated movie Treasure Planet with The Goo Goo Dolls' Johnny Rzeznik. He is currently in the band, The Panic Channel, with the famous guitarist, Dave Navarro. They are currently on tour with Rock Star Supernova.
As of the June 2003 issue of Bass Player magazine, Chris' gear listing for recording and touring is as follows:
The vast majority of Chaney’s electric basses are all strung with D’Addarios—“just about every kind they make.” As to what particular basses Chris will bring to a recording session, "If I’m going to do a whole record and I’ll be somewhere for a while, I’ll bring all of ’em. But if I’m called to play on just a song or two, I usually show up with a P-Bass, a Jazz Bass, a fretless, an acoustic bass guitar, and maybe something else. I have just three double gig bags, so everything has to fit in those—and it all has to fit in my trunk!"
When player larger venues, Chris plays through:
- Two Aguilar DB 750 heads
- Two Aguilar GS 412 4x12" speaker cabinets
“It’s all about options,” Chaney explains of his massive custom rack. “No studio bassist wants to hear, ‘Do you have one of those?’ and you do, but it’s at home. This rack is a pain to move, but everything I’ll ever need is in there, and it makes me feel comfortable in the studio and on the road. |
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