Nate Mendel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nate Mendel
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Dec 2, 1968(1968-12-02)
Age	56
Birthplace	Richland
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Nate Mendel Biography

Nate Mendel is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on December 2, 1968 in Richland, Washington, United States. Bassist, one of the original members foo fighters’ Grammy-winning rock band. He also played in Sunny Day Real Estate.

Dave Grohl, the lead singer of the Foo Fighters, invited him to join the group when it was first starting out. was the Foo Fighters’ lead singer and invited him to join them when they were just starting out.

Nathan Gregor Mendel (born December 2, 1968) is an American musician for the bands Foo Fighters, The Jealous Sound, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Fire Theft. In 2015, he announced he is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist for his new project, Lieutenant.

Mendel’s main set-up consists of Fender Precision Basses with GHS strings, played through Ashdown amplifiers. Mendel described the Precision as “iconic” in both its looks and its sound. The bassist’s preferred P-Bass is his first, a 1971 model sold to him by the lead singer of Christ on a Crutch which Mendel adapted to be easier to play. Mendel also plays Lakland basses, particularly the Bob Glaub Signature, one of which was employed on the Foo Fighters’ seventh album, Wasting Light. He uses a Fulltone Bassdrive pedal, though Mendel downsized the usage of effects pedals as the Foo Fighters rose its number of musicians – “Now that we have three guitar players, there’s a lot of distortion going on, so I try to keep it clean and stay in line with the kick drum. That way, I know that even if we’re playing a big echoey venue, at least the bass will come across with some bite and precision.”

He had a son and a daughter with his ex-girlfriend. He married Kate Jackson on April 14, 2014.

Nate Mendel Net Worth

Nate Mendel is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nate Mendel 's net worth $40 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began his career with a punk band called Product of Rape, and later began his professional life with Diddly Squat.

He wanted to “play lots and lots of notes very fast” at first, but he later learned melodic technique.

Mendel was born on December 2, 1968, in Richland, a mid-sized city in southeast Washington. His first instrument was the violin. As at the age of 13, Mendel started to get interested in rock music and joining a band, a friend who played guitar suggested him to play bass guitar. Mendel stated that “as I picked up that bass guitar I went on a 20-year detour into punk”, helped by his town usually having concerts of DIY punk bands such as Scream. This led to a “pretty limited musical education”, as despite taking some lessons with a bassist from a local band, Mendel mostly taught himself to play, and “it was all hardcore punk rock, like Minor Threat, Black Flag and Bad Brains. Instead of studying the bass playing of someone like John Entwistle, which would have given me a foundation of how to play. I just wanted to play a lot of notes really fast.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Nate Mendel Dating?

According to our records, Nate Mendel married to Kate Jackson. As of December 1, 2023, Nate Mendel’s is not dating anyone.

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Responding to coverage of the Alive & Well benefit in Mother Jones magazine, Mendel wrote “I am not a medical professional, and I am relatively new to these questions, but I am convinced that those who have tested HIV positive and those sick with AIDS are being done a disservice by not having all the information available to them.” The Foo Fighters no longer list Alive & Well as a supported charity on their website as of 2008.

Facts & Trivia

Nate Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Nate Mendel celebrates birthday on December 2 of every year.

He has one son, Noah, with his former girlfriend. In September 2011 it was reported by Billboard.biz that Mendel was dating Sub Pop publicist and director of marketing, Kate Jackson. They married in October 2014. Nate attended Hanford High School in Richland, WA. He was an avid skateboarder as well as BMX racer in the Washington St. Region. He also regularly contributes to the official Foo Fighters blog. At the Foo Fighters Oklahoma City, Oklahoma show on September 30, 2015, Dave Grohl introduced the band and stated that Nate flew home for the birth of his son, Cormac Bloodmoon Mendel, and back the next day to be in Oklahoma City to play the show.

Top Facts about Nate Mendel

1. Nate Mendel is an American bassist and songwriter.
2. He was born on December 2, 1968 in Richland, Washington.
3. Mendel is best known as the bassist for Foo Fighters.
4. He was also a founding member of Sunny Day Real Estate.
5. Mendel has played with other bands including The Fire Theft and Juno.
6. He started playing bass at age 13 and joined his first band at 15.
7. Mendel’s influences include Paul McCartney and John Entwistle.
8. He has been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards with Foo Fighters.
9. Mendel has a signature Fender Precision Bass named after him.
10. His net worth is estimated to be around $50 million USD

How did Nate Mendel meet Dave Grohl?

By 1995 Nate was living in Seattle and was friends with Dave’s then wife, Jennifer Youngblood. His own band, the now legendary Sunny Day Real Estate, had hit the rails after their singer found God, and Dave asked him to try out for the Foos – not that he had always been a fan of Nirvana.

Is Nate Mendel still in Foo Fighters?

He has remained a bandmember ever since , being one of the only original members in the Foo Fighters current line-up along with Grohl and former Nirvana live guitarist Pat Smear.

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Who is the bass guitarist for Foo Fighters?

Nate Mendel

Are Dave Grohl and Pat Smear friends?

As with In Utero, Smear toured behind the Foo Fighters debut album. The friendship between Grohl and Smear was already solidified through Nirvana. “For the last year of the band [Nirvana], it made the band a lot more fun to be in, having Pat in the band,” Grohl later explained on The Howard Stern Show.