Joshua "Josh" Winstead is an American songwriter and musician. He is the bassist and synth player of the Canadian

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band

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. On June 3, 2016, he released his debut solo album ''MMXX'' on his own label Royal Cut Records.

Life and career

Winstead was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in

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, where he first began playing guitar. Winstead and Joules Scott-Key (drummer for Metric and Bang Lime) both went to the University of North Texas, where they played in a number of bands together starting in 1991. One of these bands was 53 Large Men, who released an album titled ''Period of Senselessness''. The two moved to

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together, where they played in another band called The Death of Death. Scott-Key was soon invited to join Metric, and Winstead subsequently joined. This was Winstead's first bass playing experience, but since he had been playing with Scott-Key for so many years they quickly became a very tight rhythm section. Having written a lot of 1960s-driven music, Winstead teamed up with Scott-Key to form the

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-based band Bang Lime. Bang Lime's debut album, released in 2007, is titled ''Best Friends in Love'', and is said to possess elements of indie rock,

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, and "dirty"

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. The first single/video of the album is titled "The Death Of Death," an homage to their short-lived former band."Bang Lime Biography"
Retrieved Feb 3, 2014. On June 3, 2016, he released his debut solo album ''MMXX'' on his own label Royal Cut Records.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winstead, Joshua Living people Musicians from El Paso, Texas Songwriters from Texas Metric (band) members Year of birth missing (living people)