Kevin Rutmanis

Kevin Rutmanis (born October 17, 1958) is an American bass guitarist. He is of Latvian descent. Before getting into music, he was a student teacher.^[1] In late 1985, along with his younger brother Sandris Rutmanis, Thor Eisentrager, and then Jayhawks drummer Norm Rogers, he started the band The Cows.^[2] After the dissolution of The Cows, Rutmanis was the bass guitar player for The Melvins from 1998 to 2005.^[3][4] He was also the bass guitarist in the supergroup Tomahawk featuring Mike Patton.^[5] Kevin played bass on Tomahawk's first two long play releases, titled Tomahawk^[6] and Mit Gas,^[7] and played for two world tours supporting those albums. He has since recorded with Hepa-Titus.

Discography

Cows

• 1987 – Taint Pluribus Taint Unum
• 1989 – Daddy Has a Tail
• 1990 – Effete and Impudent Snobs
• 1991 – Peacetika
• 1992 – Cunning Stunts
• 1993 – Sexy Pee Story
• 1994 – Orphan's Tragedy
• 1996 – Whorn
• 1998 – Sorry in Pig Minor

Melvins

• 1999 – The Maggot
• 1999 – The Bootlicker
• 2000 – The Crybaby
• 2001 – Electroretard
• 2001 – Colossus of Destiny
• 2002 – Hostile Ambient Takeover
• 2004 – Pigs of the Roman Empire (with Lustmord)
• 2004 – Never Breathe What You Can't See (with Jello Biafra)
• 2005 – Sieg Howdy! (with Jello Biafra)
• 2013 – Everybody Loves Sausages (guest appearance)
• 2015 – "Dumb Numbers" Split Series
• 2016 – Three Men and a Baby (with Mike Kunka)

Tomahawk

• 2001 – Tomahawk
• 2003 – Mit Gas

Hepa/Titus

• 2011 - The Giving Brain
• 2012 - Follow Me
• 2014 - Gettin' It On
• 2016 - FM Warm Weather
• 2017 - Omega Pig
• 2018 - Champagne of Incest
• 2019 - Blue Fat Pussy

Teenage Larvae

• 1993 - Songs For Pigs
• 2017 - Omega Pig

References

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