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Marcus Blake

- Bass and co-wrote songs for music renaissance man, Henry Rollins' band, Rollins Band – Recorded and toured all over the world for many years. Works include the albums, Get Some Go Again; Nice; the live album: The Only Way To Know For Sure; the internet releases: Yellow Blues; A Nicer Shade Of Red and the live album: A Clockwork Orange Stage.

- Bass and background vocals for Grammy winning producer/performer, Daniel Lanois (Bob Dylan, U2, Peter Gabriel, Neil Young) – Has done numerous tours and recordings with Lanois. Also appears in Lanois’ film, Here is What Is and on it’s soundtrack. In addition, played bass on Lanois’ score for the Pixies’ documentary film, loudQUIETloud: A Film About The Pixies. Marcus has also done live shows with musical legend, Emmylou Harris, performing with her and Lanois at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Montreal Jazz Festival and in Nashville! - Bass, rhythm guitar and background vocals for legendary Los Angeles band, Sparks -Records, tours, and does numerous concerts, TV and radio performances with Ron and Russell Mael & company. Marcus participated in Sparks’ fantastic 21 albums in 21 nights concert series in London, where the band performed all 21 albums live to enthusiastic crowds! Marcus plays on Sparks’ latest album, The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, which won extreme praise from the Swedish and English Press. Mojo magazine gave the album a four star review! Marcus (with Sparks) can be heard weekly on KCRW’s Bookworm show. Sparks (with Marcus) does the theme song of the program. Recently did a live performance of Seduction as part of the L.A. Film Fest.

- Writes songs, plays bass and does background vocals for music icon, Meat Loaf's daughter, Pearl. Co-wrote and played on Pearl’s album, Little Immaculate White Fox, produced by Joe Barresi (Kyuss, The Melvins, Tool, etc.). Pearl just did tours this past year across the U.S. along with metal icon, Scott Ian from Anthrax on their own and opened up for Meat Loaf for legs of his current tour in the U.S. and the U.K. Pearl also opened up for the legendary band, Heart in Los Angeles to a sold out show at the Gibson Amphitheatre recently! www.cheersloverock.com

- Supplied background vocals on Meat Loaf's new album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear, which went top ten in England and Europe!

- Founder of his own band, Los Angeles trio, Mother Superior. Mother Superior has done tours all over the world, establishing a big following in the States, Europe, the U.K. and Japan, where the band did a week long residency in the Shinjuku district. Of all the places in the world, Mother Superior is most popular in Spain, where the band has a huge following and is often featured in Popular 1 magazine! Mother Superior has released nine albums of their own, with Rollins, Lanois and The MC5’s Wayne Kramer handling production duties along the way! Mother Superior’s music has also been heard in numerous films and television shows including, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, National Lampoon’s Dad’s Week Off, Supernatural, True Hollywood Story and many more! www.mother-superior.com

-Other sessions Marcus Blake has contributed include:

- Wrote songs with rock god, Alice Cooper for his Brutal Planet album. Their song, “Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me” appears on foreign editions of the album and the U.S. deluxe edition of Dragontown!

-Played bass and sang on the Rise Above album, spearheaded by Henry Rollins. The album and following tour benefited the West Memphis Three case. Marcus’s band, Mother Superior was the house band on the album in which different singers covered Black Flag songs. Among the singers were: Josh Homme & Nick Oliveri of Queens Of The Stone Age, Iggy Pop, Motorhead’s Lemmy, Tom Araya of Slayer, Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Black Flag’s own Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski and more!

-Plays bass on European chanteuse, Katie Melua’s song, “A Happy Place” along with Sparks.

-Played bass on a memorable session with funk pioneer, George Clinton and his P-Funk crew.

-Plays bass, sings and helped arrange Canadian singer, Matt Blais’ album, Go Let It Out, which was produced and engineered by Grammy Award winner, Mark Howard.

-Did background vocals for Spanish band, Maggot Brain for their release, Land.

-Co-wrote, sang and played bass on Bennet’s album, So You’re Not Coming Over?, produced by Tom Grimley (Beck, that dog, Petra Haden).

In addition to Marcus’ musical endeavours, Marcus is also a music journalist. His series of interviews with the world’s top record producers is currently running in the hugely popular music magazine, Popular 1, in Spain.

Marcus resides in Los Angeles and is currently working on a solo album.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Superior_%28band%29