Guy Bernard Maddison (born 31 March 1965) is an Australian

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and

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musician. From 1986 to 1989 he worked as a member of

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group

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and appeared on their album ''

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''. He was a member of Bloodloss (1993–97), a blues-punk band, alongside

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on vocals. From 2001 Maddison is the bass guitarist of the United States-based grunge band,

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(which includes Arm), and has worked on their studio albums, ''

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'' (2002), '' Under a Billion Suns'' (2006), '' The Lucky Ones'' (2008), ''

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'' (2013), and ''

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'' (2018).

Early years

Guy Bernard Maddison was born on 31 March 1965 and grew up in Perth, Western Australia.

1980s

Guy Maddison played in mid-1980s Perth-based punk group, Greenhouse Effect, with Paul Gill on guitar. By 1986 he moved to

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, he played bass guitar for

band

, sometimes under the pseudonym Buster Smallgoods, recording one album, ''

'' (July 1988). In 2003 Maddison recalled meeting

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(aka Stuart Grey) by chance, "I was crossing the road one day on Cleveland Street ... and Stuart yelled out to me ... he asked me if I was doing anything and if I’d like to play the bass in Lubricated Goat" – they had previously met when Spasm was recording tracks in Perth with an earlier version of Lubricated Goat. The line-up of Lubricated Goat for ''Paddock of Love'', alongside Maddison on bass guitar, and Spasm on vocals, guitar, synthesiser and bass guitar; were Pete Hartley on bass guitar and guitar; and

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on drums. In November 1988 the band lip-synched a nude performance of their track, "In the Raw", on the

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TV program ''

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'', an event which created national media outrage. In 2009

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, an alternative music journalist, directed a documentary film, '' In the Raw'', about the event. In May 1989 Lubricated Goat followed with an extended play, '' Schadenfreude'' with Maddison and Spasm joined by Gene Ravet on drums (ex-Ragadoll, Space Juniors) and Charlie Tolnay on guitar (Grong Grong,

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). Front man Spasm and Maddison were the only band members to tour the United States, they enlisted tour musicians, Renestair EJ on guitar and Martin Bland on drums. Maddison was an occasional member of the improvised group, The Unconscious Collective, and the mixed media experiment, Merge. In late 1989, after the US tour, Maddison left Lubricated Goat and formed a side project with former bandmate, Hartley. The new group was Monroe's Fur. At this time, Maddison relocated to

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1990s

In 1990 Guy Maddison was briefly a member of a studio group, Bushpig, on bass guitar and keyboards, with Tolnay (ex- Bloodloss) and Peter Hill (King Snake Roost) on vocals and harmonica. That year they issued a self-titled album on Hill's label, Practical Goat Keeping Records. In 1993, Maddison played bass guitar in the third incarnation of Bloodloss, a blues-punk band which had started in Adelaide, Australia in 1982. This version had formed in Seattle with

(

) on vocals, and Maddison's former bandmates Renestair and Bland. In November 1995 the group issued ''Live My Way'' on Warner / Reprise Records. Australian rock music historian,

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, felt they "played delta blues by way of Captain Beefheart and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion". On 1 January 1996, Bloodloss issued their next album, ''Misty''. McFarlane found it showed "echoes of Pere Ubu, Thug and all manner of jazz and blues".

2000s

In 2001, after the departure of founding bass guitarist

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, Maddison joined the band Mudhoney, reuniting with former Bloodloss bandmate Mark Arm. He has appeared on their studio albums, ''

'' (2002), '' Under a Billion Suns'' (2006), '' The Lucky Ones'' (2008), '' ''Vanishing'' Point'' (2013), and ''

'' (2018). In November 2011, Arm credited Maddison with reinvigorating his interest in the group after Lukin had left.

Personal life

In addition to his work as a musician, Maddison also works as a nurse at

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Discography

;With Lubricated Goat * ''

'', July 1988, Black Eye Records * '' Schadenfreude'', May 1989, EP Black Eye Records ;With Bushpig * ''Bushpig'' 1990, Practical Goat Keeping Records, PGK 001 ;With Monroe's Fur * "New World Order Catalogue", 1991, Vinal Pollution Records *''Fire/Green Horn'', 1994, Carving Knife Records, CKR-011 ;With Bloodloss *''Live My Way'', November 1995 *''Misty'', January 1996 *"In a Gadda-da-Change",1994 ;With Mudhoney *''

'', 2002 *'' Under a Billion Suns'', 2006 *" Live in Mexico City", 2007 *'' The Lucky Ones'', 2008 * ''Vanishing Point'', 2013 *''

'', 2018

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