David Kendrick was born on March 23,1955 and is an American musician who is currently a member of the experimental pop band Xiu Xiu.
17 Facts About David Kendrick
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David Kendrick played in several bands in the 1970s and relocated to Los Angeles in 1977 to play with Venus and the Razorblades, a punk band put together by Kim Fowley.
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David Kendrick played with Sparks until they temporarily stopped touring in the late 1980's and mostly worked as a duo with an engineer in the studio thereafter.
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In 1987, David Kendrick joined Devo, replacing their previous drummer Alan Myers, who had left the band in 1986 due to discontent with the increasing use of drum machines.
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In 1992, along with Mothersbaugh and others, David Kendrick was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Music Direction and Composition" for the musical television series Adventures in Wonderland.
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When Devo re-formed in 1996, David Kendrick chose not to resume working with Devo, and was replaced by The Vandals drummer Josh Freese, although he played with the band again briefly in the mid-2000s, serving as backup drummer for shows when Freese was unavailable.
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In 2018, David Kendrick began working with experimental rock band Xiu Xiu.
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David Kendrick played drums on the band's cover of The Chameleons' song "Less Than Human".
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In 2022, David Kendrick became a full member of Xiu Xiu for their thirteenth studio album Ignore Grief.
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Since the mid-1980s, David Kendrick was involved in the Devo-related project Visiting Kids, featuring Mark Mothersbaugh's then-wife Nancye Ferguson, Devo guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh, and Bob's daughter Alex Mothersbaugh, among others.
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In 2003, David Kendrick recorded the album Soundtrack for a Mars Movie with the Extremophiles, a short-lived band consisting of engineers and scientists from the Mars Desert Research Station, including architect, builder and musician Frank Schubert, who guested on guitar on Devo's Smooth Noodle Maps album.
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David Kendrick founded the long running musical collective the Empire of Fun, a studio project which records self-described "concept projects".
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David Kendrick appeared on Prieboy's 2008 single "Shine ".
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Since the 2010s, under the name DeKay, David Kendrick has been the drummer and lyricist for psychedelic rock band Revolushn, who released their first album Dark Matter in 2014.
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David Kendrick is married and has a child who is a guitar player.
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Outside of music, David Kendrick's interests include film noir, psychedelia, hauntology, libraries, trickster mythology, and crime fiction.
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David Kendrick collects odd art and some of his acquisitions have appeared in Diane Keaton's 2002 book Clown Paintings.