Muzz Skillings

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Muzz Skillings (Queens, New York) was the original bass player with Living Colour. He played bass, sang backing vocals, and co-wrote songs on the Grammy award-winning 1988 debut album Vivid, the Grammy award-winning 1990 follow up Time's Up, and the 1991 EP Biscuits. His use of melodic, complex and moving bass lines during his time with Living Colour left him with high acclaim from musicians worldwide. Largely considered a lynchpin in the bands success, his departure in 1992 forever altered the chemistry of the band. Skillings's departure from the band was due to musical differences, and a desire to branch off and evolve musically outside of Living Colour. He left under good terms, as indicated in his liner notes printed in the album sleeve of Living Colour's 1995 best-of compilation, Pride. He has since led a band called Medicine Stick, in which he plays electric guitar and sings lead vocals, as well as writing the songs.