Douglas Killmer
Douglas Doug Killmer was an American blues and rock bass guitarist active from the 1960s to the late 1990s. He is sometimes credited as Douglas Kilmer or Doug Kilmer. He is best remembered for playing the bass line on Norman Greenbaums 1970 hit Spirit in the Sky . In addition to this, he played on the Otis Rush Grammy Awardnominated 1976 song Right Place, Wrong Time, and Rita Abrams Grammy Award winning song Mill Valley. He was active in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for over three decades.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands where his father was stationed as part of the American occupation force. After his father left the military the family moved to India and Turkey as part of his fathers job in the United States Foreign Service. During his early travels he learned to speak Japanese, Hindustani, and German.
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