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Trevor Done From Mr. Bungle On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Trevor Dunn is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #73 – Trevor Dunn.

Who is Trevor Dunn?

I’m a sucker for weird music. The weirder..the better. This works for me whether the genre is heavy or jazzy. Trevor Dunn fits the mold for this personal fascination to perfection. Most may know him as a founding member of Mr. Bungle (the band that featured singer Mike Patton of Faith No More). And, while he rose to prominence during the 90s, his passion for experimental music and the evolution of bass playing has never let up. He has worked with saxophonist/composer, John Zorn, Secret Chiefs 3 and his own avant-garde jazz rock alternative ensemble, Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant. With that, he also played with Patton in Tomahawk. Other bass work includes Sean Lennon, Brian “Head” Welch (from Korn) and many more. Most recently, Mr. Bungle released, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo, last October (along with a streaming live event last Halloween). The album is a re-recording of their earliest material (that fans were begging for). Trevor described re-recording their earliest material with the addition of former Slayer Drummer, Dave Lombardo, and founding Anthrax member/guitarist, Scott Ian, like “we were finally utilizing our Ph.Ds in Thrash Metal. All we had to do was go back to our original professors for some additional guidance and talk them into joining us. Turns out we were A+ students… We were haunted for 35 years by the fact that this music wasn’t given it’s due respect. Now we can die.” But, Trevor is not dead, and he’s not even close to being done with music and playing the bass. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #73 – Trevor Dunn.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.