Melissa Reese

Melissa Reese
Melissa Reese in 2012.
Background information
Born	Seattle, Washington
Genres	Hard rock, Heavy metal, Hair metal, Alternative rock, Alternative metal, Electronica, Experimental rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician, audio programmer
Instruments	synthesizers, keyboards, sampler, piano, vocals, sequencer
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Geffen
Associated acts	Guns N' Roses, Brain, Buckethead, Bootsy Collins

Melissa Reese is an American musician and model best known for her collaborations with Bryan "Brain" Mantia and her current position in hard rock band, Guns N' Roses.^[1]

Career

Reese performing with Guns N' Roses in 2016.

Reese began singing and playing piano at age 4. When she was 17, she learned Pro Tools, Reason, and Logic Pro and began performing and producing her own music.

Her first EP, "LISSA", was released in 2007, and featured collaboration with Bryan Mantia and Pete Scaturro. Three of the songs of the EP were featured in various TV shows, including Gossip Girl and Keeping up with the Kardashians.

Reese has worked with funk artist Bootsy Collins, rapper Chuck D, singer Vanessa Carlton, soul artist Goapele and singer Taylor Swift. In addition to composing, Reese has produced work for artists such as Drumma Boy.

In October 2016, Reese sang the "Star Spangled Banner" before a Seattle Seahawks game.^[2]

Brain and Melissa

Reese has worked on several projects with Mantia, a composing team dubbed "Brain and Melissa".^[3] In 2010, along with Buckethead, they released the multi-CD sets Kind Regards and Best Regards. Brain and Melissa composed part of the soundtrack to the video game Infamous 2, for which they were nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Original Composition" by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards.^[4] Other video games the duo worked on include, PlayStation Home, ModNation Racers, Twisted Metal, Fantasia: Music Evolved and Infamous: Second Son. They also scored the films Detention and Power/Rangers. They have worked with music video director Joseph Kahn on several television commercials, including NASCAR, SEAT, and Qoros. In addition, they scored a commercial for Johnnie Walker Blue which featured a computer-generated Bruce Lee.^[5] They also worked on several remixes of songs from Chinese Democracy for a planned remix album.^[1]

Guns N' Roses

Reese joined Guns N' Roses in 2016 as the band's second keyboardist, replacing Chris Pitman, while also playing synthesizer, sub-bass, background vocals, and programming for all electronic sounds during live performances. She first performed with the band on the Not in This Lifetime... Tour.^[6]

References

1 2 "Meet Melissa Reese, Guns N' Roses' New Keyboard Player". Ultimate Classic Rock. April 2, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
↑ GNR keyboardist sings national anthem
↑ "About – Brain and Melissa". Retrieved April 3, 2016.
↑ "Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition". Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
↑ "BBH China brings Legend Bruce Lee back to life in gamechanging campaign for Johnnie Walker". Campaign Brief. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
↑ Brett Buchanan (April 2, 2016). "Guns N' Roses Adds First Female Member". AlternativeNation.net. Retrieved April 3, 2016.

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Compilation albums

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Tours

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Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two Down in the Bayou Part One Chamber of Drawers Embroidery Digging Under the Basement Haunted Roller Coaster Chair Firebolt Hideous Phantasm Giant Claw Observation Hats and Glasses Last Call for the E.P. Ripley Nautical Nightmares Blank Bot Scream Sundae Kareem's Footprint Carrotcature Popcorn Shells Invisable Forest Chickencoopscope Heaven is your Home (For my Father, Thomas Manley Carroll) Fog Gardens Carnival Cutouts Whisper Track The Cellar Yawns Ancient Lens Herbie Climbs a Tree Upside Down Skyway Twisted Branches Half Circle Bridge Land of Miniatures Bats in the Lite Brite Four Forms Blue Tide Ghoul Orange Tree Region Shapeless Ognarader The Windowsill Washed Away A Ghost Took My Homework Crest of the Hill The Blob Last House on Slunk Street Quilted 31 Days Til Halloween: Visitor From The Mirror 30 Days Til Halloween: Swollen Glasses 29 Days Til Halloween: Blurmwood 28 Days Til Halloween: The Insides of the Outsides 27 Days Til Halloween: Cavern Guide 26 Days Til Halloween: Bogwitch 25 Days Til Halloween: Window Fragment 24 Days Til Halloween: Screaming Scalp 23 Days Til Halloween: Wax 22 Days Til Halloween: I Got This Costume From The Sears Catalog 21 Days Til Halloween: Cement Decay 20 Days Til Halloween: Forgotten Experiment 19 Days Til Halloween: Light in Window 18 Days Til Halloween: Blue Squared 17 Days Til Halloween: 1079 16 Days Til Halloween: Cellar 15 Days Til Halloween: Grotesques 14 Days Til Halloween: Voice From The Dead Forest 13 Days Til Halloween: Maple Syrup 12 Days Til Halloween: Face Sling Shot 11 Days Til Halloween: Reflection 10 Days Til Halloween: Residue 9 Days Til Halloween: Eye on Spiral 8 Days Til Halloween: Flare Up 7 Days Til Halloween: Cavernous 6 Days Til Halloween: Underlair 5 Days Til Halloween: Scrapbook Front 4 Days Til Halloween: Silent Photo 3 Days Til Halloween: Crow Hedge 2 Days Til Halloween: Cold Frost Happy Halloween: Silver Shamrock 365 Days Til Halloween: Smash The Wishing Brook Rooms of Illusions Sunken Parlor Screen Door Hornet Crumple Trace Candle Teflecter Wheels of Ferris Pike Doors Old Toys Rain Drops on Christmas

2016	Mirror Realms Cove Cloud Out of the Attic Dragging the Fence Buildor Flormat Happy Birthday MJ 23 Arcade of the Deserted The Creaking Stairs Cabs Rooftop Drift Lightboard 22222222 Coupon

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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