Dave Krusen

David "Dave" Krusen ( born March 10, 1966 in Tacoma ) is an American rock musician.

Krusen is best known as a founding member of Pearl Jam, who worked on his debut album Ten the drummer. After his departure for alcohol problems, he was shortly afterwards replaced by Matt Chamberlain.

The mid-1990s he joined under the pseudonym Karl 3-30 Hovercraft, an experimental rock band from Seattle, at. In 1997 he was at Candlebox successor of Scott Mercado. In 1998 he founded with Brad Smith and Christopher Thorn of Blind Melon, the band Unified Theory. When the band broke up a year later, he founded his own band with Novatone.

On the debut album by Cheyenne Kimball he sat with several pieces on drums.