1. Roswell Christopher Bottum was born on July 1,1963 and is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist for the San Francisco alternative metal band Faith No More.
20 Facts About Roddy Bottum
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Roddy Bottum is guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the pop group Imperial Teen, best known for their 1999 single "Yoo Hoo" used in the movie Jawbreaker.
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Roddy Bottum was born July 1,1963, in Los Angeles, California, to Roswell Roddy Bottum II and Mary, nee Hustead, both natives of South Dakota.
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Roddy Bottum's father was a federal prosecutor for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, who later went on to found the law firm Bottum and Feliton in 1981.
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Roddy Bottum attended Loyola High School, a Jesuit Catholic school in Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 1981.
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Roddy Bottum moved to San Francisco shortly after graduating to attend San Francisco State University in 1981 as a film major.
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In 1985, Roddy Bottum wrote the words to Faith No More's first internationally-recognized song, "We Care a Lot".
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In 1994 and 1995, Roddy Bottum formed Imperial Teen with Lynn Perko, another Bay Area music veteran.
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In 2009, Roddy Bottum returned to Faith No More for a reunion tour, and in 2015, the band released their seventh studio album, Sol Invictus.
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In 2013, Roddy Bottum moved to New York City and produced an opera, Sasquatch: The Opera.
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Roddy Bottum wrote the music and libretto for the piece about the elusive beast of the forest, describing it as a dark and gothic fairy tale about a backwoods family and the relationship between a caged woman and Sasquatch.
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Roddy Bottum wrote a short-form opera called The Ride about the AIDS LifeCycle Ride, a charity bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, a ride Roddy Bottum participated in twice.
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In 2016, Roddy Bottum joined the art music collective Nastie Band.
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In 2018, Roddy Bottum made his acting debut in Sebastian Silva's feature film Tyrel, about racial tension in America.
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Also in 2019, Roddy Bottum formed the band Crickets, a Brooklyn-based band, with JD Samson and Michael O'Neill.
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In 2020, Roddy Bottum released the song "Daddy" under the name Man on Man, with partner Joey Holman.
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Roddy Bottum composed the music for the 2007 film Kabluey, starring Lisa Kudrow and Scott Prendergrast.
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Roddy Bottum scored Gigantic, a film by Matt Aselton, starring Zooey Deschanel and Paul Dano.
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Roddy Bottum has gone on to score the sequel to that film and Fred: The Show for the same network.
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Roddy Bottum revealed his homosexuality in a 1993 interview with Lance Loud for The Advocate.