Alan Bishop is an American musician best known for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls.Sun City Girls Discography

Discogs Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the ...

. Retrieved 11 January 2010 He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. In the early 1980s Bishop played in the short-lived band Paris 1942 with

Maureen Tucker Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who was the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. After they disbanded in the early 1970s, she left the music industry ...

of the

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, and was briefly a member of

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group JFA. Bishop is now a member of the Cairo-based band The Invisible Hands. He is the co-founder, along with Hisham Mayet, of Sublime Frequencies, a

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-based record label focused on collating esoteric music and imagery from all over the world, most notably Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.

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Sublime Frequencies homepage
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Guitarists from Arizona Sun City Girls members American male guitarists {{US-guitarist-stub