Dave Riley

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Dave Riley is an American musician.

Born in Detroit, Riley subsequently worked as an assistant audio engineer for George Clinton's stable of Parliament-Funkadelic bands. He's credited on albums Trombipulation and The Electric Spanking of War Babies.

He relocated to Chicago in the early eighties where he played in several bands including Savage Beliefs, and joined Big Black playing bass guitar in 1984.

A stroke—from which he has largely recovered—befell Riley in 1993. Reports of a failed suicide attempt or a drug overdose were patently untrue; there is a history of early stroke on his mother's side of his family.

In 2003, Riley moved to Warsaw, Illinois. The next year he released the CD Groove On the Mania! under the guise of Miasma of Funk. 2004 also saw the publication of Riley's book Blurry and Disconnected: Tales of Sink-Or-Swim Nihilism. Contortmedia published an updated edition of Blurry and Disconnected in early 2006.

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