1. William Frederick Rieflin was an American musician.
17 Facts About Bill Rieflin
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Bill Rieflin came to prominence in the 1990s mainly for his work as a drummer with groups such as Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, and Nine Inch Nails.
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Bill Rieflin was a member of King Crimson from 2013 until his death in 2020.
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Bill Rieflin was born on September 30,1960, and began his professional career in his hometown of Seattle.
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Bill Rieflin played drums for The Blackouts starting in 1979.
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Bill Rieflin's bandmates included Mike Davidson, Paul Barker, Roland Barker and Erich Werner.
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Bill Rieflin helped Atkins kick off Pigface, the industrial collective that would grow to incorporate hundreds of artists, formed a friendship with labelmate Chris Connelly and founded First World Music.
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Bill Rieflin appeared on all KMFDM records released from 1995 to 2003 as a drummer, programmer, vocalist and keyboardist.
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Bill Rieflin, along with Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck, was a member of Robyn Hitchcock's backing band "The Venus 3", and appeared on three Hitchcock albums, from 2006 to 2010.
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Bill Rieflin was involved in a music collaboration project entitled The Humans, which consisted of him, Chris Wong, Fripp and Toyah Willcox.
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Bill Rieflin was a regular contributor to Swans, playing an array of instruments from the 1995 album The Great Annihilator through 2016's The Glowing Man.
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In 2012, Bill Rieflin performed on drums for Robbie Williams's album Take the Crown.
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Bill Rieflin thus became the band's first ever full-time dedicated keyboardist.
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Bill Rieflin rejoined the band in 2018 before taking another indefinite sabbatical in 2019.
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Bill Rieflin was tentatively and temporarily replaced on keyboards by Soft Machine's sax player Theo Travis for initial rehearsals before Fripp and the band made the decision to not replace Rieflin, thus reverting King Crimson to a seven-member band.
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Bill Rieflin was married to painter Francesca Sundsten until her death in 2019.
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Bill Rieflin died on March 24,2020, from colon cancer, at the age of 59.