Between touring with Eddie Vedder, playing in supergroups, and launching his own band with NHC, Chris Chaney answered our 10 Questions
Chaney with legendary guitarist Pat Smear
You’d be hard pressed to find a bass player busier or more in demand than Chris Chaney. The A-list studio player and Jane’s Addiction bassist always has his hands full with some of the most coveted gigs in the world. Just recently, he launched his band NHC alongside guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Taylor Hawkins; he performed on SNL and various televised appearances with Miley Cyrus; he provided the low end for new music from Elton John, Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Satriani, and many others; and now he’s off to join Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder’s new supergroup for a U.S. tour. And that’s just his past 12 months. We don’t even have the space here to get into the movie and television scoring gigs he holds down on a weekly basis.
But this is nothing new to Chaney. His career started when he was recruited by a then-unknown artist named Alanis Morissette as she released he