12 Facts About Nate Mendel

Nate Mendel has worked with musical acts The Jealous Sound and The Fire Theft.

Nate Mendel has released one solo album, If I Kill This Thing We're All Going to Eat for a Week, under the name Lieutenant.

Nate Mendel was born in Richland, a mid-sized city in southeast Washington.

At the age of 13, Nate Mendel started to get interested in rock music and joined a band, a friend who played guitar suggesting he play the bass.

Nate Mendel stated that "as I picked up that bass I went on a 20-year detour into punk", helped by his town usually having concerts of DIY punk bands such as Scream.

Nate Mendel added that SDRE was an attempt to "play more intricate, interesting music".

Nate Mendel has remained a bandmember ever since, being one of the only original members in the Foo Fighters' current lineup along with Grohl and former Nirvana live guitarist Pat Smear.

Nate Mendel scored a role in the indie movie Our Burden Is Light, in which he played a minor role as the main female character's best friend's boyfriend and bassist.

Nate Mendel described the Precision as "iconic" in both its looks and its sound.

The bassist's preferred P-Bass is his first, a 1971 model sold to him by the lead singer of Christ on a Crutch which Nate Mendel adapted to be easier to play.

Nate Mendel plays Lakland basses, particularly the Bob Glaub Signature, one of which was employed on the Foo Fighters' seventh album, Wasting Light.

Nate Mendel met Kate Jackson, co-founder of independent public relations firm Grandstand Media, in 2009 while she was director of marketing and publicity at Sub Pop Records and Nate Mendel was touring as part of a reunion of the original lineup of Sub Pop recording artists Sunny Day Real Estate.