Øystein "Sid" Ringsby (born 16 February 1961) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

bassist A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboar ...

best known for playing with Road, TinDrum,

The Snakes The Snakes were a British-Norwegian hard rock band, formed by former Whitesnake members Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody in 1997. The line-up consisted of guitarists Marsden and Moody with Norwegian musicians, vocalist Jørn Lande, bassist Sid Rin ...

TNT Trinitrotoluene (), more commonly known as TNT, more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. TNT is occasionally used as a reagen ...

, Ken Hensley, Wild Willy's Gang and JORN, Jørn Lande's solo band. His recording rock career started 1984 as he became a member of the band Road, and since then he has been in bands such as Tindrum, The Snakes, Diezel, Jorn, Vestlandsfanden,

Ken Hensley Kenneth William David Hensley (24 August 1945 – 4 November 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s. He wrote or co-wrote the majority of Uriah ...

& Live Fire and TNT. He is recognized as one of the most versatile bassplayers in the Norwegian Rock scene, with a lot of other recording artists to his credit

Equipment

Sid mostly uses Stuart Spector basses, both NS-2 basses made in the US and NS-4 and Euro 4LX models made in the Czech Republic. He uses Ampeg SVT-CL heads and Ampeg Enclosures.

Selected discography

TinDrum

* ''Drums of War'' (1988) * ''How About This?!'' (1989) * ''Cool, Calm & Collected'' (1991)

Diezel

* ''Willpower'' (1995)

Diesel Dahl & Friends

* ''reCYCLEd'' (1997)

The Snakes

*'' Once Bitten'' (1998) *'' Live in Europe (1999)

Jørn Lande

*'' Starfire (2000) *''

Worldchanger ''Worldchanger'' is the second album by Jørn Lande's solo project Jorn, released in 2001. It features a mix of tracks that represent different genres including hard rock, progressive rock, doom metal and power metal. Track listing All songs wri ...

'' (2001) *''

Lonely Are the Brave ''Lonely Are the Brave'' is a 1962 American black and white Western film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel ''The Brave Cowboy'' directed by David Miller from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter ...

'' (2008) *'' Spirit Black'' (2009) *''Live on Death Road'' (2019) * Heavy Rock Radio 2 (2019)

TNT

* ''

All the Way to the Sun ''All the Way to the Sun'' is the ninth studio album by the Norwegian hard rock band TNT. The album was first rumoured to be on the heavy side of TNT, but came out in the end as a more straight forward pop rock album. It did not get as many p ...

'' (2005) * Hidden Treasure(Single)(2013)

References

1961 births Living people Norwegian male bass guitarists TNT (Norwegian band) members The Snakes (band) members The Company of Snakes members {{bass-guitarist-stub