Trey Spruance

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Preston Lea Spruance III or "Trey Spruance" (born 1969 in Eureka, California) is an American composer and musician. His primary instrument was originally guitar, but over the years he has become more multi-instrumental, including vintage electric organs, trumpet, sampling, saz, and various eastern string and percussion instruments. Spruance has performed with a multitude of (mostly) underground artists including John Zorn, Eyvind Kang, Mike Patton, and Trevor Dunn, as well as recording with Patton's more mainstream group Faith No More on their controversial album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. He was also, with Patton and Dunn, a founding member of Mr. Bungle. His playing style ranges from Experimental Jazz to Death Metal to Surf Guitar, and more recently he has combined these with Turkish, Afghani, and various Arabic styles in his band Secret Chiefs 3.

Spruance is the founder/owner of Web of Mimicry Records, which has released a variety of different bands including Estradasphere, The Youngs, Danubius, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Brazzaville, and Sir Millard Mulch, amongst other projects (including many of his own).

In 2004 Spruance produced the album, "Death After Life" for the Oakland, CA based death metal group Impaled, also contributing guitar solos for the songs "The Ressurectionists", and "Medical Waste". Other production duties have included "I'll Have What's She's Having" (2004) by The Tuna Helpers, Faxed Head's completely demented "Chiropractic" (2001) and Mr. Bungle's analog masterpiece, 1999's California.

Since Mr. Bungle's dissolution in 2000, Spruance has focused more on his Secret Chiefs 3 projects, expanding the group into seven sub-groups and releasing Book of Horizons, the first album of a planned trilogy, in 2004.

[edit] He is (or has been) a member of:

Secret Chiefs 3
ASVA
Faith No More
Faxed Head (as Neck Head)
Mr. Bungle
Noddingturd Fan (also NT Fan)
Plainfield
The Bon Larvis Band
The Three Doctors Band
Weird Little Boy (Not a band, a one off studio project)
Zip Code Rapists

[edit] External links

The Trey Spruance Gallery - a comprehensive list of Trey's live and recorded projects
Web of Mimicry - the public gathering site run by Trey
Mimicry Records - Trey's record label
Secret Chiefs 3 - website with news, tour dates, photos and more on the Secret Chiefs 3
Official Site of Secret Chiefs 3 - official website containing member line-up and photos.

Discography
Faith No More
Roddy Bottum \| Billy Gould \| Mike Bordin \| Mike Patton \| Jon Hudson
Chuck Mosely \| "Big" Jim Martin \| Dean Menta \| Trey Spruance \| Mark Bowen \| Courtney Love \| Wade Worthington
Studio albums: We Care a Lot \| Introduce Yourself \| The Real Thing \| Angel Dust \| King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime \| Album of the Year
Lives and compilations: Live at the Brixton Academy \| Who Cares a Lot? \| This Is It: The Best of Faith No More \| Epic And Other Hits \| The Platinum Collection
Singles: We Care a Lot \| Anne's Song \| From Out Of Nowhere \| Epic \| Falling to Pieces \| Midlife Crisis \| A Small Victory \| Everything's Ruined \| Easy (Songs to Make Love To) \| Another Body Murdered \| Digging the Grave \| Ricochet \| Evidence \| Ashes To Ashes \| Last Cup Of Sorrow \| Stripsearch \| I Started a Joke
Related articles
Imperial Teen \| Mr. Bungle \| Faith No Man \| Brujeria (band) \| Peeping Tom \| Coma \| Tomahawk \| Fantômas
Categories: Faith No More albums \| Faith No More songs
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