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Chris Pitman
Chris Pitman performing in 2015
Background information
Birth name	Chris Pitman
Genres	Hard rock, alternative rock, alternative metal, EDM
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, audio programmer
Instrument(s)	vocals, synthesizers, keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, programming
Years active	1979–present
Labels	ToneRiot, Geffen-->

Chris Pitman is an American musician, best known as a member of Guns N' Roses since 1998. He is also a visual artist represented by The Metara Gallery in Rio de Janeiro.

Pitman studied at the Art Institute of Kansas City and the University of Missouri. In 1993, Pitman worked with Les Levine. The following year, Pitman worked with Dr. Dre in Dre's home studio. He also joined Tool on tour and played synth on Tool's album Ænima. In 1995, he appeared on the album Bourgeois Kitten by Blinker the Star. Pitman received a Grammy Award nomination for his work with supergroup Lusk.

Pitman was co-founder of Los Angeles-based art coalition 'Priory of the North,' which focuses on conceptual/public art and works primarily with oil painting, lithography, oils, and metal. His Land/Environment projects have been onsite in various Midwest regional farmland sites in Lafayette County and Johnson County, Missouri. His Rio de Janeiro site-specific work titled "Mind/Land" has been delayed until permits and visas for such materials can be imported.

He was nominated in 2012 by the Brazilian Film Academy for Best Film Soundtrack, and . In the past several years, he has worked with Electronic Dance Music as a performer and DJ, and has done shows under several monikers/personas, including BLOWOUT, BEATRAZR, and I/HATE STRUCTURE.

Guns N' Roses

In early 1998, Pitman joined Guns N' Roses as co-producer and the band's synthesist and second bass player as well as performing backing vocals; he helped the band make a complete finalized new lineup. He has been a member of Guns N' Roses ever since and was featured on keyboards on the non-album single "Oh My God" in 1999 and on every song on the long-delayed sixth studio album Chinese Democracy. On the record Pitman plays mostly keyboards and sub-bass as well as programming and background vocals, he plays a 12-string guitar on "If The World" and a Mellotron on "There Was A Time". He also co-wrote the songs "If The World" and "Madagascar" alongside frontman Axl Rose. Pitman has performed live with Guns N' Roses since their comeback concert in January 2001 and he has been one of the longest members to remain. Pitman filled in for Stinson on bass in a 2007 show that Stinson was unable to attend.

Workshop projects

Pitman has also done sound design and electronic work for Arturia software synthesizers, A Designs Audio (Peter Montessi), Waves Plugins, Waldorf Synthesizers, Apple's Logic Audio, Digidesign Plugins, Moog Synthesizers, Celemony's Melodyne, Ableton Live, Roland USA, Korg Music, Serge Synthesis(SMS) PlanB Synthesis (Peter Grenader), (Axel Hartmann) Neuron Synthesis, and Symbolic Sounds Kyma, Mandala Drums

References

1. GNR on Tour 07

External links

• Official website
• Official SexTapes website

• American electronic musicians
• American rock keyboardists
• Guns N' Roses members
• Living people
• Musicians from Missouri
• Replicants (band) members