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David J. Carpenter
David John Carpenter (born November 15, 1967 in Anaheim, California) is an American rock and jazz bassist, vocalist, songwriter and producer who plays both electric bass guitar and acoustic bass. He is best known for playing bass and performing backing vocals since 2012 for Roger Hodgson, one of the founding vocalists and songwriters for the rock group Supertramp, and with artists such as John Doe from Los Angeles punk band X in the John Doe Folk Trio. He has also played with and produced records for Dead Rock West.

Carpenter has also toured extensively with other artists, such as Grant Lee Phillips (appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno ) and with Gregory Page. He is also an accomplished studio musician. In 2020, he released an album of his solo song called "Be As It May."

He is not to be confused with Dave Carpenter, a Los Angeles jazz bassist who also played acoustic and jazz bass.

Carpenter, who attended Anaheim High School, is also notable for being the first bass teacher of No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal.

Biography
Carpenter began his musical journey at the age of 11, playing trumpet in elementary school. By the time he reached junior high school, he was determined to try another instrument and signed up to play the sousaphone, not knowing what it was but knowing it wasn't the trumpet. It turned out to be a fateful decision because it taught him to read music in bass clef and by the time of his freshman year at Anaheim High School, he volunteered to play the bass in the school's jazz band.

After graduating high school in !985, he attended Fullerton College in the mid 1980s, where he met and recorded with Bryan Head on the Fullerton College jazz band album "Soundtrack." Head and Carpenter continue to play together in several musical projects, including with Hodgson.