Skeeter Thompson is best known for being the bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 of the DC hardcore

Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 band Scream

Scream (band)

Scream is a hardcore punk band from Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia active from 1981 to 1990. As of 2009, the band has reunited to play several shows.-Biography:...

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After their break up, Thompson ended up in Little Rock, Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

 and played in several of the local bands there including local old school punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Springgun

Springgun

Springgun was an old school punk rock band from central Arkansas. Through the band's five year run, they went through many line up changes until nearly everyone in the central Arkansas scene had played with them incluiding Skeeter Thompson, former bassist for the DC band Scream. They managed to...

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Thompson is the main subject of the song "Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson" on the album Pocketwatch

Pocketwatch (album)

Pocketwatch is a cassette album by Dave Grohl, under the pseudonym Late!, released in 1992 on the now defunct indie label, Simple Machines, as part of their Tool Cassette Series.-Background:...

by Late! (Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

 and Barrett Jones). The recording also appears - remixed and titled "Skeeter" - on the King Buzzo

King Buzzo (album)

-Personnel:*King Buzzo - lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, producer*Dave Grohl - lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, producer*Barrett Jones - producer, engineer*Harvey Bennett Stafford - cover and insert painting...

EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

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External links

• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Skeeter+Thompson
• http://www.roctober.com/roctober/blackpunk3.html