34 Facts About Dwayne Goettel

Dwayne Rudolph Goettel was a Canadian electronic musician, best known for his work in the industrial music group Skinny Puppy.

Dwayne Goettel assisted bandmate cEvin Key on a number of side projects such as The Tear Garden and Doubting Thomas, and helped form the experimental electronic group Download.

Dwayne Goettel created the independent record label Subconscious Communications with friend and colleague Phil Western as a means to release his solo work.

Dwayne Goettel went into rehab for his drug addictions and returned to live with his parents in Edmonton.

Dwayne Goettel met Darrin and Stephen Huss in 1982 and formed the band Psyche, one of only a handful of electronic acts in Edmonton at the time.

Dwayne Goettel was involved with the band Voice, helping them record their debut EP, Anno di Voce, before they changed their name to Office.

Dwayne Goettel formed the band Water with longtime acquaintance Mandy Cousins in 1985.

Dwayne Goettel met Skinny Puppy in 1985 when Water opened for the band as part of their Bites tour.

Dwayne Goettel had impressed founder and keyboardist cEvin Key with his performance and the two befriended each other.

Dwayne Goettel joined in 1986 during the recording of their second album, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, on which he made his first contributions.

Dwayne Goettel quickly immersed himself into the group and its musical approach, and began applying new techniques in the band's implementation of noise.

On stage, Dwayne Goettel assisted Key as both a keyboardist and percussionist while singer Nivek Ogre acted out his elaborate theatrics.

Dwayne Goettel, who mistook the officers for fans and had been rolling a joint in the corner of the room, was able to leave before the arrests were made.

Dwayne Goettel initially been happy with the album, saying that he enjoyed working with Jourgensen and that it was his favorite Puppy album to date.

Dwayne Goettel later changed his position, telling Alternative Press in 1991 that while some of the material on Rabies was good, the completed product was "less within the Skinny Puppy vision", a sentiment his bandmates agreed with.

Dwayne Goettel told Peter Day of WMXM 88.9 that Rabies was simply the result of a crossroads of ideas:.

Dwayne Goettel said he preferred the atmosphere when recording with Hilt to that of Skinny Puppy, believing it to be more enjoyable experience.

Dwayne Goettel helped with Key and Bill Leeb's project called Cyberaktif, which he said was his least favorite of the side projects.

Pleased with the work he was doing, Dwayne Goettel was unsure if Skinny Puppy would ever return from the fallout of Rabies.

That same year, Dwayne Goettel returned with Key and Legendary Pink Dots singer Edward Ka-Spel for the release of The Tear Garden's The Last Man to Fly, having joined them previously for 1987's Tired Eyes Slowly Burning.

Band infighting arose once more and was exacerbated by drug problems, including Dwayne Goettel's increasing reliance on heroin, a drug he once swore to never use.

Concerned with the ineffectiveness of American's producers in getting Ogre to write and sing, Dwayne Goettel joined Key during band meetings to demand that Rave be brought in to assist.

Amid the chaos, Dwayne Goettel found time to work on his more techno driven solo work, which he made under the pseudonym aDuck.

That same year, Dwayne Goettel was credited as a keyboardist on Sister Machine Gun's debut Sins of the Flesh.

Dwayne Goettel spoke to Alternative Press on how being in Skinny Puppy helped him jump outside the musical boundaries he had felt confined to in the past, saying "[Key] showed me that when you start on a C, you can play more than just these certain notes, that you can do whatever the moment demands of you, instead of looking blindly backwards".

Dwayne Goettel told the Chicago Tribune in 1992 that he felt joining Skinny Puppy helped to liberate him from the normal conventions of music making:.

Dwayne Goettel discovered an interest in synthesizers early in his life and began listening to electronic acts such as Kraftwerk, Devo, Soft Cell, and Yello while in high school.

Dwayne Goettel told The Tampa Tribune that Skinny Puppy was attempting to "provide something that makes you question the things you sense", and was uninterested in pushing the band's music towards something more trendy.

Dwayne Goettel was later readmitted to rehab where he was placed on suicide watch after slashing his arms.

Dwayne Goettel's father, Rudy, said his son was a well liked person and had always avoided confrontation with others.

Dwayne Goettel said that the family had received hundreds of phone calls from fans around the world who wished to express their sympathies.

Key told Chart magazine in 1998 that Dwayne Goettel was "a ranger and rover" who was thoroughly familiar with psychedelic experiences:.

Dwayne Goettel was endorsing acid all the time and everyone felt he was in control and didn't consider him a risk to hurt himself.

In 2010, the band Psyche released the album Re-membering Dwayne, which featured music the group had made while Goettel was a member.