Rachel Haden
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| Rachel Haden | |
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 Rachel Haden playing with Jimmy Eat World in 2001
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| Born | October 11, 1971 (New York City, New York) |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, bass guitar, drums, keyboards |
| Associated acts | Beck, Dntel, Fightstar, The Haden Triplets, Jimmy Eat World, Lucky Pierre, The Martinis, Ozma, The Rentals, The Sell Outs, that dog., Weezer |
Rachel Haden (born New York City, October 11, 1971) is the current bass guitarist for The Rentals and one of the triplet daughters of free jazz bassist Charlie Haden, famous for his jazz career with Ornette Coleman.
In the early 1990s, Rachel played bass guitar for that dog, a band that also included her sister Petra. Her sister Tanya also contributed cello on several that dog. recordings but did not tour as an official member of the band. Around this time Rachel also played drums and performed backup vocals for Beck on the songs "Totally Confused" and "Steve Threw Up”. She also played drums for Beck’s “Pink Noise (Rock Me Amadeus)".
Later, Rachel became one of the four founding members of the band The Rentals, along with Rod Cervera, Weezer’s Patrick Wilson and Matt Sharp. In 1996, she performed lead vocals on Weezer’s song “I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams”, the only released Weezer song to featured female lead vocals. This song was originally written for the abandoned Songs from the Black Hole album. Rachel was Rivers Cuomo's choice to play the "good girl" character.
In 1999 Rachel contributed a cover of the song “Poems, Prayers, and Promises” for the album A Tribute to John Denver. Around this same time she played bass and performed vocals as a member of The Martinis along with Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and his wife Linda Mallari.
More recently, in 2001, Rachel toured as a backup singer and keyboardist for Jimmy Eat World. She contributed vocals to the Dntel album Life Is Full of Possibilities. In 2004 Rachel, along with her sisters Petra and Tanya recorded a set of traditional country songs as The Haden Triplets with their longtime friend and former Dieselhed member Zac Holtzman, currently of the band Dengue Fever.
In 2004 she contributed backing vocals for four songs on Lucky Pierre's ThinKing album.
Rachel continues to make music in the Los Angeles area, most recently with Petra Haden's acappella choir The Sell Outs and as a member of the most recent lineup of The Rentals.
Rachel performs the female vocals for the duet "Heartache Vs Heartbreak" from Ozma's 2007 album Pasadena.
Rachel performs the female vocals on the Fightstar album One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours. She sings backing vocals on the tracks "Unfamiliar Ceilings", "You & I", and the new B-Side "Gracious".
An announcement was made by Todd Rundgren on May 6th that Rachel will be playing bass in his touring group in support of his latest release, "Arena Rock". The release date will be close to June 22, his 60th birthday, and the tour will begin around June 25th.
