Mike Mills

Michael Edward Mills ( born December 17, 1958 at the Orange County, California, USA) is a founding member and bassist of the former American alternative rock group REM, in addition, he also plays guitar, piano and organ as well as numerous other instruments that he introduced repeatedly in songs. He also sang at R.E.M. Backing vocals.

Mike Mills also played along with his bandmates Peter Buck and Bill Berry and Warren Zevon 1984-1987 in the Hindu Love Gods supergroup project.

Biography

Mike Mills grew up in a musical family. His mother was a pianist and his father tenor in the church choir. Mike received a classical training on the piano, the tuba and the sousaphone.

He attended the same school in Macon (Georgia ) as the later drummer of REM, Bill Berry. The two first met at the audition for the band Shadowfax know.

After Bill Berry and Mike Mills High School had been completed successfully, both enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens and moved there. In 1980 she met Michael Stipe and Peter Buck know and broke off her studies to work with them together, the band REM to start.

Mike Mills plays in his spare time, golf, tennis and baseball and lives even today in Athens. He is not married and has a son who was born in 1989.

Music

Mills makes the bass with relatively simple lines to a melody formative instrument. In many REM songs the bass is in the foreground - in front of the guitar. An example of this is the song The One I Love.

As lead singer Mills occurs rather rarely in evidence. Recently this was the case, to which he contributed the title Near Wild Heaven and Texarkana on the album Out of Time.