Jared Warren
{{short description|American musician}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2010}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Jared Warren
| occupation = Musician, songwriter
| instrument = Bass
| years_active = 1990–present
| current_member_of = Unwound, Big Business
| past_member_of = Melvins, Karp, Tight Bros from Way Back When, The Whip, White Shit
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| image = Melvins @ The Garage (4302584266).jpg
| caption = Warren in 2009
| birth_name = Jared Michael Warren
}}
Jared Michael Warren{{cite web|url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/895182199 |title=BLACKER HOLES |website=ASCAP |publisher=American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers |access-date=November 14, 2023}} is an American musician who is the bassist of Big Business{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p664026|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Big Business|last=Mason|first=Stewart|publisher=AMG|access-date=May 17, 2010}} (alongside drummer Coady Willis) and formerly the Melvins. He is also currently the bassist for Unwound.
Career
Warren was the founding bassist of the Tumwater, Washington band Karp, which formed in 1990 and was active until 1998.{{Cite web |title=Karp Lives! - Karp documentary on screening tour, screens tomorrow at Spectacle Theater (part of ROCKUARY) |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/karp-lives-a-do/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}
Both Warren and Willis joined the Melvins in January 2006 and appear on (A) Senile Animal as well as 2008's Nude with Boots and 2010's album The Bride Screamed Murder. Warren was previously a member of bands Karp, Tight Bros from Way Back When,{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tight-bros-from-way-back-when-mn0000478480/biography|title=Tight Bros From Way Back When on All Music|website=AllMusic }} White Shit, and The Whip.{{cite web|url=https://thewhip.bandcamp.com/|title=The Whip on bandcamp}} He also contributed vocals to the song "Breaking Rocks" on the album Forging Steel and Laying Stone by Akimbo.
In September 2022, Sara Lund from Unwound revealed in an interview with Pitchfork that Warren was recruited to play bass on the band's reunion tour, replacing late bassist Vern Rumsey.{{cite web |title=Pitchfork: The Unwound Reunion Still Feels Like a Dream|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/unwound-reunion-tour-interview/ |website=pitchfork.com |date=September 12, 2022 |access-date=September 12, 2022}}
Select discography
=Karp=
- 1994: Mustaches Wild
- 1995: Suplex
- 1997: Self Titled LP
=Tight Bros from Way Back When=
- 1999: Running Thru My Bones
- 2001: Lend You a Hand
=Big Business=
- 2005: Head for the Shallow
- 2007: Here Come the Waterworks
- 2009: Mind the Drift
- 2011: Quadruple Single (EP)
- 2013: Battlefields Forever
- 2016: Command Your Weather
- 2019: The Beast You Are
=Melvins=
- 2006: (A) Senile Animal
- 2008: Nude with Boots
- 2010: The Bride Screamed Murder
- 2011: Sugar Daddy Live (live album)
- 2012: The Bulls & the Bees (EP)
- 2013: Everybody Loves Sausages (select songs)
- 2016: Basses Loaded (on the song "Choco Plumbing")
References
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Category:Musicians from Olympia, Washington
Category:Alternative metal bass guitarists
Category:Guitarists from Washington (state)
Category:American male bass guitarists
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