Dave Riley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dave Riley
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Jul 30, 1960(1960-07-30)
Age	64
Date Of Death	December 24, 2019
Birthplace	Hattiesburg
Country	United States
Birth City	Mississippi
Horoscope	Leo

Dave Riley Biography

Dave Riley is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on July 30, 1960 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States.

In Detroit, Riley worked as a recording engineer at a studio where funk artists George Clinton and Sly Stone recorded. His engineering credits include Parliament’s Trombipulation (1980) and Funkadelic’s The Electric Spanking of War Babies (1981). He moved to Chicago in 1982 and became bassist in the punk band Savage Beliefs, who released one EP, The Moral Efficiency of Savage Beliefs (1983). He met Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango at a punk show at the Cubby Bear, where Durango, drunk and vomiting in the club’s restroom, complimented his playing style. Big Black was getting ready to release their Racer-X EP (1985), but bassist Jeff Pezzati was amicably departing the band to focus on his job, fiancée, and primary band Naked Raygun. Big Black’s leader, singer/guitarist Steve Albini, was also impressed by Riley’s playing in Savage Beliefs and gave him a copy of Big Black’s first EP, Lungs (1982), telling him “Listen to this, and if you don’t think it sucks, then maybe you can play with us someday.”

Riley joined Big Black the week of Racer-X’s release in April 1985, while also keeping his day job as a litigation law clerk. He learned the group’s repertoire, and they began writing songs for the band’s first LP. That May, Riley produced and played saxophone on Ward, an EP by Chicago experimental band End Result which came out on Albini’s Ruthless Records label. Big Black’s Atomizer came out in 1986; in Our Band Could Be Your Life (2001), author Michael Azerrad remarks that “Riley’s gnarled bass sound combined explosively with the brutally insistent hammering of the drum machine while his funk background gave the music an almost danceable kick”. The album was polarizing due to its aggressive, violent music and lyrics, but won praised in the national press and became an underground success, selling 3,000 copies upon its release on Homestead Records. This led to a tour of Europe that year, on which the band met an enthusiastic response. “It was kind of overwhelming for a while,” Riley told Azerrad; “Needless to say, I got used to it really damn quick. People actually appreciated what you were doing and it was kind of cool. It was much different from America. We were treated with respect in Europe.”

Dave Riley Net Worth

Dave Riley is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dave Riley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Michael Riley (July 30, 1960 – December 24, 2019) was an American musician who was the bassist in the punk rock band Big Black from 1985 until the band’s dissolution in 1987. Riley moved to Chicago in 1982 from Detroit, where he had worked as a recording engineer. He played on Big Black’s two studio albums, Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987), as well as their Headache EP (1987), several singles, and two live albums. After Big Black, Riley recorded tracks with several other artists before being incapacitated by a stroke in 1993, losing the ability to walk. He became a blogger, and published a book in 2006 titled Blurry and Disconnected: Tales of Sink-or-Swim Nihilism. He died in late 2019 from squamous cell carcinoma.

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Big Black reunited for a short performance on September 9, 2006 at Touch and Go Records’ 25th Anniversary festival. Albini did not invite Riley to participate, later saying that “We haven’t kept close contact post-Big Black, but it’s been close enough to know that he wasn’t in a condition to play. I didn’t want to put him in an awkward position of trying to play, but not being able to do it.” Instead, they called upon original bassist Jeff Pezzati and played four songs from his tenure with the band.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dave Riley celebrates birthday on July 30 of every year.