Evan Shanks (born October 10, 1964) is an American rock bassist for

Symbol Six Symbol Six is an American rock and roll band formed in Santa Monica, California, United States, in 1980 by Eric Leach, Phil George, Mark Conway, Donny Brook (original bass player for Necros), Taz Rudd, and Steve Cooper. Originating in Los Angeles ...

and Entropy.

Career

In the early 1980s, Entropy played such venues as Grand Olympic Auditorium and

Cathay de Grande The Cathay de Grande was a Chinese restaurant and later a Hollywood nightclub of the same name that featured mostly punk rock bands but also other styles of underground/alternative rock in the 1980s. History Under the ownership of Jack Chen, ...

right in the heart of Los Angeles / Orange County Punk rock. They went on to play a steady stream of shows for Goldenvoice:

45 Grave 45 Grave is an American rock band from Los Angeles formed in 1979. The original group broke up in 1985, but vocalist Dinah Cancer subsequently revived the band. History The band was founded during the punk rock movement by Paul B. Cutler in ...

, The Circle Jerks,

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, The Melvins, The Minutemen,

The Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed in San Antonio, Texas, by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has bee ...

, 7 Seconds, DI, The Toy Dolls,

The Effigies The Effigies were an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois, United States. The band played its first show in 1980 and was active initially for approximately a decade, undergoing multiple personnel changes with frontman John Kezdy the only cons ...

, Wasted Youth, English Dogs,

D.R.I. (band) Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (often abbreviated and referred to as D.R.I.) is an American crossover thrash band that formed in Houston, Texas in 1982. The band is currently composed of two of its founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Sp ...

, Detox, The Dickies,

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, and The Dead Kennedys. In 2009, Ace & Eights performed with

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and

Steven Adler Steven Adler (born Michael Coletti; January 22, 1965) is an American musician. He was the drummer and co-songwriter of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s. Adler was fired from Guns N' Roses ...

Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKa ...

. Shanks is currently the bassist for the Los Angeles rock band

Musicians collaborated with

* Eric Leach, Tony Fate, Phil George, Taz Rudd:

* Phil George, Patrick Stone, Taz Rudd: Aces N' Eights * Entropy

Discography

* 1985 Gross National Product EP - ENTROPY Catalog #BI-001 (Bad Idea Music ) * 1986 Kaaos Zine Presents - ENTROPY Catalog #BCT 21 ( Bad Compilation Tapes ) * 2005 Farewell To Venice - ENTROPY (BDF Records ) * 2006 Post-Industrial Hardcore - ENTROPY * 2010 Monsters 11 - SYMBOL SIX (Symbol Six Music) * 2014 Dirtyland - SYMBOL SIX Catalog #JHR 049 (Jailhouse Records) * 2014 SYMBOL SIX/

Fang (band) Fang is an American hardcore punk band from the early East Bay punk rock scene, established in Berkeley, California, in 1980. History The band's first record under the name Fang was an "experimental record", according to the band; this was th ...

Split Catalog #JHR 047 (Jailhouse Records) * 2015 SYMBOL SIX/

Rikk Agnew Richard Francis "Rikk" Agnew Jr. (born December 9, 1958) is an American musician with a career spanning more than 40 years. He has previously been a member of some of the most influential bands of the Orange County hardcore punk genre, as we ...

Split Catalog #JHR 055 (Jailhouse Records)

Gallery

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shanks, Evan 1964 births Living people