Rich Priske

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Name = Rich "Rock" Priske

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Origin = Vancouver, Canada
Instrument = Bass guitar, keyboards
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Occupation = Musician, blogger
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Associated_acts = Matthew Good, DSK, Bif Naked, Real McKenzies
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Rich "Rock" Priske (born August 29, 1967) is a Canadian musician born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has long been active in the Vancouver music scene, and has played bass and/or written songs for DSK, ShoCore, Bif Naked and Real McKenzies. But Priske is most widely known for playing bass guitar and keyboards in the Canadian band Matthew Good Band after Geoff Lloyd's departure in 1998. After the band's dissolution in 2002, he kept playing with Matthew Good until the end of the In a Coma tour in the Fall of 2005.

Writing

Rich is also an avid writer, contributing to weblogs as a "citizen journalist" for [http://www.kitsilano.ca kitsilano.ca] , and others. He has also contributed many technical and instructional articles to magazines such as CM (Canadian musician). Currently, Rich is working on an autobiography about his years with the Matthew Good Band, tentatively titled "The Revisionist History Teacher". Rich has a long history with the web, he was an early adopter of what is now known as "web logging" or "blogging", beginning with his popular "Notes From The Road" feature on the now defunct Matthew Good Band website, circa 2001.

Film Work

Rich has also been involved in BC's thriving film and theatre industry, on stage and both in front of and behind the camera. As well as appearing in many music videos, Rich has had bit parts in films like "Red Scorpion II", and "Hard Core Logo", and has appeared on stage in productions of "Cabaret" and "You Can't Take It With You". Behind the scenes, Rich is active in the Art Department.

Discography

with Matthew Good Band:

*"Beautiful Midnight"
*"Loser Anthems"
*"The Audio of Being

with Matthew Good:

*"Avalanche"
*"White Light Rock & Roll Review"
*"In a Coma"

with DSK:

*"Exploder"
*"Imploder"

with Bif Naked:

*"Bif Naked"
*"I Bificus"
*"Essentially Naked" (greatest hits compilation)

with Real McKenzies:

*"Real McKenzies"
*"Clash of the Tartans"'

with ShoCore:

*upcoming untitled release (2007)

with Brooke Nolan:

*self-titled EP

with The Town Pants:

*"Weight of Words"

External links

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* [http://www.brookenolan.com/ Brooke Nolan]
* [http://www.herroyalmajestysrecords.com/bif/ Bif Naked]
* [http://www.canoe.ca/IndieBands/band1268.html/ DSK]