> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:58:25 -0700
> From: Michael Coxe <audities@gmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Jesus Rock!
> Message-ID: <2228a40d050727225853acdbf3@mail.gmail.com>
> 
> What, no mention of PFR or King's X? :)
> 
> A band that falls pleasantly between the 2 above units is The 
> Mustard Seeds. 
> Led by Matt Bissonette (touring basist for Rick Springfield, 
> Joe Satriani 
> collaborator & power drummer Greg's brother) & guitarist 
> George Bernhardt
> (also tours with Springfield), they could also be compared to 
> the Foo Fighters. 
> The Christian word craft is subtle & burried, mostly. 


Stylistically speaking, Matt Bissonette's curriculum vitae is a particularly piquant gamut of session work. In addition to Rick Springfield and Joe Satriani, he's also worked with Maynard Ferguson, Julian Lennon, Bette Midler, Boz Scaggs, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Lita Ford. 

More interesting is the fact that Matt joined his brother Greg as a member of the David Lee Roth Band for one album, *A Little Ain't Enough*, and the subsequent tour.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that Matt Bissonette is the only current or former DLR collaborator who has also been a member of a Christian rock band.


Gregory Sager