Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, best known for his work in Skinny Puppy, was born on a farm in Alberta, Canada on February 1, 1964. Dwayne began his music career in the band Psyche in 1982. He was then recruited to join the band Voice, which recorded Anno Di Voce in 1985. Dwayne was also a member of the band Water, a side project of his that opened for Skinny Puppy in 1985 in Edmonton, Canada. Shortly after that, Skinny Puppy began looking for someone to take Bill Leeb’s place. Impressed with Dwayne’s earlier performance, he was recruited in 1986 to join Skinny Puppy as a keyboardist and programmer. According to TGWOTR promotional material, “Goettel’s talent for sampling and soundscapes synergized with Key’s ominous electronics and percussion, and Ogre’s hard-hitting stream of consciousness lyricism, to form a truly unique paragon of industrial electronicaâ€. Dwayne was the youngest member of Skinny Puppy and the only one to have any type of musical training. Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse was the first Skinny Puppy album that Dwayne worked on, though the bulk of Dig It and One Time One Place were already done.
While working on Skinny Puppy, Dwayne also worked on many side projects, including: Hilt, The Tear Garden, Download, and Doubting Thomas among others. Dwayne appeared briefly in the movie The Doom Generation and also in the trailer for the unmade movie Chunk Blower. In 1993, Dwayne and Phil Western created Subconscious Records in order to release the Duck/Philth Split 12â€. Dwayne remained a member of Skinny Puppy until their breakup in June of 1995 when Ogre left the band. His final record with Skinny Puppy, The Process, was released after his death. Dwayne was 31 when he died on August 23, 1995 of a heroin overdose.
Music Projects: Psyche, Voice, Water, Skinny Puppy, aDuck, Download, Doubting Thomas, The Tear Garden, Hilt, Lee Chubby King, Cyberaktif, and Lung Goblins.
This site contains information about Dwayne’s music projects, interviews, and pictures. Please take a look through the blogs for more information. The following bulletin thread contains some personal stories about Dwayne that a few people have shared: http://litany.prongs.org/index.php?topic=604.0
Please contact me through PM if you have any pictures, articles or anything you think should be added to the site.
Many thanks to Chuck the Plant for the Duck/Philth split pictures and to skinnypuppy.hu for the split designs.
