Sam Coomes

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Name = Sam Coomes

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Img_capt = Sam Coomes on stage with Quasi at the Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, California, February 27, 2008.
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Alias = Blues Globlins
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Sherman, Texas, United States
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Origin = Portland, Oregon
Instrument = Bass guitar, guitar, violin, banjo, keyboards
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Genre = Inde
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1983–present
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Associated_acts = Quasi, The Donner Party, Heatmiser, Pink Mountain, Motorgoat, Elliott Smith
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Samuel J. Coomes is an American musician, and currently half of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss. Coomes was also a member of the mid 1980s folk revival band The Donner Party and replaced Brandt Peterson as the bassist for the 1990s Portland grunge band, Heatmiser.

Biography

Coomes was born in Sherman, Texas in 1964 and moved to southern California as a child. He started playing in The Donner Party in San Francisco in 1983 and released two albums with them before they disbanded in 1989. He formed Motorgoat in Portland in 1990 with Janet Weiss (formerly of Sleater-Kinney) and they released two cassettes and one 7" single before disbanding and becoming Quasi in 1993. Coomes released a solo album under the name Blues Goblins in 2003 and sometimes performs under that name. He also performs on keyboards and vocals with the Oakland, California-based band, Pink Mountain. [ [http://www.myspace.com/thepinkmountain Pink Mountain Myspace page] ]

Coomes currently lives in Portland.

ession work since inception of Quasi

Coomes has done much recording work with other bands, mostly on keyboards and bass.
*Bugskull
*Built to Spill - Coomes has performed as a guest keyboardist on several tracks. He appears on every Built to Spill album since "Perfect From Now On"
*The Go-Betweens
*Goldcard
*Heatmiser
*Sleater-Kinney - Coomes played the Mellotron on "All Hands on the Bad One" on the song "Milkshake 'n' Honey."
*Elliott Smith - Coomes played bass on the 2000 album "Figure 8" on the songs "Stupidity Tries," "In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)," and "Pretty Mary K". He also played bass and sang backup vocals on Elliott Smith's song "Pretty (Ugly Before)" on Smith's posthumous 2004 album "From a Basement on the Hill". Quasi also served as Smith's backup band on a couple of tours.
*The Takeovers [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/36553-blues-and-boogie-shoes-all-that-is-holy-turn-to-red Pitchfork article on The Takeovers] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.theequasi.com/ Official Quasi webpage]
* [http://www.quasi2x2.com/ Another Quasi webpage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/theequasi Quasi Myspace]
* [http://www.trashtreasury.com/html/heatmiser-11-21-1992.html Heatmiser Live Recording - 11/21/1992] - Full concert audio recording, as well as video clip of the song "Dead Air"