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Abby Travis (born November 10, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician, songwriter, and performer. She is the daughter of Alice Travis Germond, the current Secretary of the Democratic National Committee and Emmy Award-winning cameraman Larry Travis. Abby Travis began her performance career in 1986 as the bassist in Los Angeles band The Lovedolls, who were spawned from the cult films ''Desperate Teenage Lovedolls'' and "Lovedolls Superstar" directed by Dave Markey. In 1989 Travis joined power pop trio The Rails. In 1993 Travis began working as a bass player for hire. She has toured, recorded, or both with The Go Go's, The Eagles of Death Metal, Masters of Reality, The Bangles, KMFDM, Beck, and Elastica among others. She is currently playing bass for The Go-Gos. Abby's first solo record was released under the moniker ''The Abby Travis Foundation''; the rest have been under her own. To date she has released at total of 4 solo albums: ''The Abby Travis Foundation'' (1998), ''Cutthroat Standards & Black Pop'' (2000), ''GlitterMouth'' (2006), and ''IV'' (2012). ==Bass Player== Abby has been a touring and studio bass player since the early 1990s, often providing backup vocals as well. One of her first gigs was appearing with Spinal Tap on the Break Like the Wind Tour in 1992, as Promethia Pendragon dancing with elves during ''Stonehenge'' at the Universal Amphitheater and playing lead bass on ''Big Bottom'' in Phoenix, AZ.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Abby Travis )〕 In 1993, she toured France with Vanesa Paradis on her Natural High tour. The year 1995 was particularly noteworthy as she performed with both Beck〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beck )〕 and Elastica playing back-to-back sets on the Lollapalooza tour both acts were on.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Music Preview: L.A. punk rocker finds her inspiration in old torch songs )〕 She continued playing with Elastica through 1996. In 1997, Abby played and sang on Industrial group KMFDM's album ''Symbols''. She is listed as backup singer on "Megalomaniac", "Stray Bullet", "Mercy", and "Anarchy". She played bass on "Spit Sperm" and "Unfit", and is co-credited with lyrics and co-lead vocals on "Waste" and "Down and Out".〔http://www.discogs.com/KMFDM-Symbols/release/73612〕 The album peaked at #189 on the Billboard 200.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KMFDM )〕 Her next major tours as a bass player were with Butthole Surfers singer's band Gibby Haynes and His Problem and Exene Cervenka (X) project Original Sinners in 2004. During this time she released albums in her Solo Career, as well as working in the studio, playing bass on Go-Gos bassist Kathy Valentine's solo album, ''Light Years''. (Also see Career Highlights.) She toured as bass player for Tito & Tarantula in 2005 and Eagles of Death Metal in 2010. She toured with Masters of Reality in both 2010 and 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Masters Of Reality » News Archive Masters of Reality Announce Band Members )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abby Travis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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