Dave Klein is an American producer, composer and musician with over 25 years' experience as professional drummer, bassist and keyboardist. Recorded and toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America with Agent Orange, Sky Saxon and The Seeds, The Ghastly Ones, Woolly Bandits and The Bomboras and has worked with Rob Zombie and producers Scott Humphrey, Barry Adamson and Christopher Wade Damerst. Owner and operator of Dave Klein Recording, his private studio located in the hills of Highland Park, California.
Production, recording, and mixed projects
Artists Dave Klein has worked with:
The Faction
Decry
The Bomboras
Agent Orange
45 Grave
Mac Sabbath
Guttermouth
Radioactive Chicken Heads
Headnoise
Messer Chups
Tony Valentino of The Standells
Sky Saxon
Powerflex 5
Didi Wray
False Confession
The Clap
PRV13
Destruction Made Simple
Bitch Boys
Enemy Proof
Micheal Fordays
Hear Say
No Refunds
Brook Hoover
Candy Smokes
Sky Lee Vague
Baptized In Sin
Los Mercs
Cleary Country
Lewis Bailey
Charlie Overbey
Kapali Long
Devin Barryhill
Parallel 2 Hell
Par Avion
Mortalis
Creature Preachers
King Archie
Cashew & Cleary
Pandemic Unleashed
Throw The Goat
Gamblers Mark
Soraia
The Love Me Nots
The Ghastly Ones
The Droogs
In The Whale
Chuck Treece
Chris Strompolos
Ami Canaan Mann
Daaman Krall
Rikk Agnew
Kim Shattuck
Casey Royer
Tony Reflux
The Step Daughters
Lonely Stars
Stay Out
Koi Division
Celebrity Stalker
Frozen Charlottes
Southpaw
LA's Forgotten
Spice Pistols
Justin Paul Sanders
Vince Conrad (Smart Pills, The Aliens) John Rosewall (The Last, Trotsky Icepick) Los Grainders (Mexico) Blaklist SWINE The Intros Sewerside Bombers Johnny Two Chords Haze Empty Tactics Jabbermouth The Tiki Creeps The Ruffolos The LessOffs Skarletto and the Apocalypse The Tankerays The Slithers Haymaker (Prague CZ) Vegas Death Ray The Blanks Wick Shawn Preston The Whining Pussys Unpresidented John Ciulik The Curse C:28 45 Spider The Ultra 4 Shubees Haiz Off The Wall Scurvy Kids The Hellflowers The Bots The Sound Reasons Good Whales The Green Machines The Nathaniel Johnstone Band The Green Ghosts The Cherry Drops The Aquaholics The Atom Age The Sirens The Unclaimed Palmyra Delran and Bubble Gun Moonchasers The Sloths The Vooduo The Thingz Prost! Sepo The Seriouslys Feral Kizzy The Tammy Olea Band Unextraordinary Gentlemen Galactic Romance The Last Wolves BloodPenny FroBro and Friends Insect Surfers Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The Darklings The Odd Squad The 20 Grand Club The Ghosts of Searchlight The Beat Killers Ding Dong Devils The Rough Boys The Returners The Spanks The Hitz Thee Spectors The Headless Hearsemen. Frozen Charlottes The Me Gustas
Dave has also recorded with Rob Zombie and Producers Scott Humphrey, Barry Adamson and Christopher Wade Damerst.
Touring
Dave has variously recorded and toured throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia with: Agent Orange Sky Saxon The Seeds Ghastly Ones The Bomboras The Witchdoctors The Finks The Legendary Invisible Men
Film and game credits
Dave's television, film and game credits include:
Thrasher Magazine King of the Road series (intro theme) Speed Traveler (intro theme) The Adventures of Crash Tucker (theme) Music featured in The Vampire Diaries (DVD) FOX Television's "Raising Hope" 2009 release of Night of the Demons Los Campeones De La Lucha Starship Troopers SpongeBob SquarePants Board Heads Music featured in Tony Hawk 2 for iPhone I Was A Teenage Monster Shirt Painter Additional sound for Bryan Birge's Urban Nomads.
Current projects
He was composing, recording and drumming for OC surf/punk legends Agent Orange, and producing bands in his private studio in Los Angeles.