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Chris Chard

Chardology - where science and art meet to make some funky bass lines.

About Me

Freelance bass player/producer. Logging over 500 live shows, 5 albums and numerous single-song recordings during the past two years. My primary focus is playing the right part for the right tune. Whether it be supporting an emotive, acoustic singer-songwriter or holding down the groove in a live-band RnB/Hip Hop ensemble, I strive to create solid, pop-sensible bass lines live, in the studio and on the road.
Current projects: Keegan Smith and the Fam, Matt Vrba, Acoustic Minds, Breanna Paletta, Marv Ellis and the Imaginary Friends, Jeremy Serwer, Kuku.
Past projects: Rye Hollow, Kerosene Dream, Bart Ferguson, Dave Coey, Gravity, Wayne Richards and Southern Nights, Tracy Klas, Cornell Gunter's Coasters, The Marvelettes
Shared a stage with: Tori Amos, Cowboy Junkies, Hootie and the Blowfish, Johnny A, Dada, Tracy Byrd, Glen Phillips, Marcus Eaton, Stephanie Schneiderman, Tony Furtado, Das Efx, Old Dirty Bastard
Background Artist:
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My Interests

Music:

Discs in my regular rotation this month:

Martin Sexton - Seeds, Live Wide Open
Matt Vrba - Go (pre-release)
Keegan Smith - Live @ Mississippi Studios
Radiohead - Kid A, In Rainbows
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Charlie Hunter - any album
Greyhounds - Liberty
Steely Dan - any album
Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night, The Way Up, pretty much any album
John Mayer - Continuum
Black Crowes - A Southern Harmony...
Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual
Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Peace Beyond Passion
Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Next Step
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Television:

Time for TV, um no...when there is time: 24 or Lost

Books:

LOTR, The Celestine Prophecy, Siddheartha, The Alchemist, The Four Agreements, Throreau's Walden, and many others.

Heroes:

Now accepting appliations..

My Blog

||:Play, sleep, drive:||

This past weekend in review:Friday: 9:30pm - 12:30am - Show @ Thirsty Lion in Portland, OR 2:30am - In bed Saturday:5:15am - Wake/shower 6:00am - On the road, heading south 12:30pm - Switch drivers, h...
Posted by Chris Chard on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:25:00 PST

DC High School Film documentary

I just got out of the recording studio layin' a bass line on a song written by my good friend and artist, Kuku (see him in my top friends). He wrote this song for a documentary that's being made abou...
Posted by Chris Chard on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:19:00 PST