Eva Gardner

Eva Gardner
Eva Gardner with her signature Fender Precision bass
Background information
Birth name	Eva Catherine Gardner
Born	(1979-02-17) February 17, 1979
Origin	United States
Genres	Progressive rock, experimental rock
Occupations	Bassist
Instruments	Bass guitar
Associated acts	The Mars Volta, Lyra, Veruca Salt, Pink

Eva Catherine Gardner (born February 17, 1979) is an electric bassist from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she studied under trumpet player Bobby Rodriguez. She holds a degree in ethnomusicology from UCLA (Cum Laude). Eva Gardner is the daughter of The Creation bassist Kim Gardner, and cites her father as her primary influence.

Career

Eva was the original bassist for The Mars Volta (2001). Her work appears on their first EP Tremulant and although she did not perform on the recording of Deloused in the Comatorium, she did write some of the basslines ^{[citation needed]}. She left due to complications of her father dying while The Mars Volta was on tour.^[1]

In 2003 she toured the UK with Tim Burgess (singer for The Charlatans) and also toured the US with El Vez.

During January 2005 Eva was touring bassist for Veruca Salt during a tour of Australia. She is also the bassist for Los Angeles-based band Lyra, which is currently on hiatus.

Eva Gardner joined Pink’s band in 2007.^[2] She completed touring Europe and South Africa in September 2007 and did promotion for the release of Funhouse in 2008. In 2009 Eva was touring bassist for Pink’s record-breaking Funhouse Tour (Europe, Australia, UK, USA). She continued touring with Pink in 2010 for the Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour in Europe, the final tour of the Funhouse album era.

In 2011 Gardner formed Telstar with Chris Unck of Butch Walker and the Black Widows, recorded Hot Knives EP and the 2 singles "Getting Around Town” and “Lightning's Girl", plus released music videos for "Are You Hungry" and "everysinglebodyelse".

As a returning member of Pink's band, Eva began promotional appearances in support of The Truth About Love, with a September 2012 album release date.

Eva appeared in an episode of My Ghost Story (Season 6, Episode14), talking about her fathers restaurant being haunted.

While on a break in the middle of Pink's The Truth About Love, Eva joined Moby's band for performances on Conan O'Brien plus three live shows at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on October 3-5, 2013.

In January 2014, the Eva Garder's signature Precision Bass was released for public purchase via Squier by Fender. The bass features a graphic of a ship that is a replica image of a tattoo on her arm. ^[3]

On January 26, 2014, Eva played bass at 56th Grammy Awards during Pink's live performance.

TV show appearances

With Pink: Oprah, MTV Video Music Award’s, American Music Awards, Ellen, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The View, The Today Show, The Grammys

With Butch Walker and the Black Widows: Late Show with David Letterman

With Moby: Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Endorsements

Eva endorses Fender Guitars,^[4] Ampeg Amps^[5] and Rotosound^[6] strings.

Discography

With The Mars Volta

• Tremulant - EP (2002)

With Lyra

• Protocol - EP (2006)
• Move - EP (2007)

With Telstar

• Hot Knives - EP (2011)
• Lightnings Girl - single (2011)
• Getting Around Town - single (2011)

References

External links

• Eva Gardner's Portfolio
• Eva Gardner on Twitter
• Telstar on Bandcamp
• Lyra on Myspace
• Eva Gardner Fanclub