Coady Willis

American drummer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican drummer
PlacesUnited States of America
isMusician
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Instruments:Drum kit
Birth1 November 1974
Age50 years
Star signScorpio
The details

Biography

Coady Willis is a drummer and a member of Big Business, White Shit, and the Melvins.

Willis previously played in the bands Dead Low Tide, Broadcast Oblivion and The Murder City Devils before Big Business.

Willis and Big Business bandmate Jared Warren both appear on the Melvins' albums (A) Senile Animal, Nude with Boots and The Bride Screamed Murder and have officially been members of the band since moving to Los Angeles in January 2006.

He also sometimes plays drums in the live incarnation of Dale Crover's side project Altamont (also his bandmate and fellow drummer in The Melvins).

Select discography

The Murder City Devils

  • 1997 – The Murder City Devils
  • 1998 – Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts
  • 2000 – In Name and Blood
  • 2001 – Thelema (EP)
  • 2014 – The White Ghost Has Blood on Its Hands Again

Big Business

  • 2005 – Head for the Shallow
  • 2007 – Here Come the Waterworks
  • 2009 – Mind the Drift
  • 2011 – Quadruple Single (EP)
  • 2013 – Battlefields Forever
  • 2016 – Command Your Weather
  • 2019 – The Beast You Are

Melvins

  • 2006 – (A) Senile Animal
  • 2008 – Nude with Boots
  • 2010 – The Bride Screamed Murder
  • 2011 – Sugar Daddy Live (live album)
  • 2012 – The Bulls & the Bees (EP)
  • 2013 – Everybody Loves Sausages (select songs)
  • 2016 – Basses Loaded (on the song "Choco Plumbing")
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