David Ouimet Musical artist

David Ouimet is an American musician and artist. He was a band member of Cop Shoot Cop, Motherhead Bug, Firewater and Sulfur but has since moved on to interests other than music.He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in a music oriented household. Having been introduced to synthesizers in his teenage years, he developed an interest in editing. He moved to Rhode Island where he developed a friendship with his future band mate Tod Ashley and Jon Spencer.In the early 1990s, Ouimet co-founded the noise rock group Cop Shoot Cop, playing sampler and keyboards. He left after their first album to form Motherhead Bug, with whom he sang and played trombone. He has also recorded and toured with Foetus and Swans.Ouimet's illustrations of creepy, bipedal, fez-capped insect creatures (usually wielding scimitars or smoking hookahs) appeared on Motherhead Bug's singles and album, and he has continued his career as an illustrator with Robert D. San Souci's Dare to be Scared series and Nancy Etchmendy's Cat in Glass and other Tales of the Unnatural.

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Birth dateJanuary 01, 1965

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Musical artist

Career started1987
Career ended1998
associated musical artist
Cop Shoot Cop
Firewater (band)
Motherhead Bug
Sulfur (band)
BackgroundSolo singer
genre
Experimental music
instrument
Trombone
Sampler (musical instrument)
Singing

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