Chris Chaney

Chaney has previously been a member of Alanis Morissette's touring and recording band for six years as well as Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders and Camp Freddy. Chaney has played with a variety of recording artists, ranging from Joe Satriani, Joe Cocker, Shakira, Slash, Beth Hart, Adam Lambert, Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, Sara Bareilles, Gavin DeGraw, Cher, John Fogerty, Lisa Marie Presley, Meat Loaf, Rob Zombie, Romeo Santos, James Blunt, Shinedown, Robben Ford, and Celine Dion.

• Name — Chris Chaney • Born — 14 June 1970 • Occupation — Bassist • Genre — * Alternative rock • hard rock • funk rock • pop rock • post-grunge • heavy metal • alternative metal • nu metal • rap metal • Years Active — 1990s–present • Spouse — Tifanie Christun • Current Member Of — AC/DC • Past Member Of — * Jane's Addiction • Camp Freddy • The Panic Channel • Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders • Alanis Morissette • Methods of Mayhem • Slash • Shinedown • Eddie Vedder and the Earthlings

• Illustration — Chaney performing with Jane's Addiction at E3 2011 • Illustration — Chaney performing with Jane's Addiction in 2013 Chaney was raised in Mill Valley, California. He attended Berklee College of Music, and then moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to pursue music and played at the L.A. jazz club The Baked Potato and the Dragonfly in Hollywood. Chaney was first invited to tour with Alanis Morissette in 1995 on the Jagged Little Pill Tour and continued to work with Morissette until 2001, appearing on three studio albums and two live albums. While working with Morissette, Chaney developed a reputation as a versatile professional bassist. He has since recorded and/or toured with a wide variety of artists. His next high-profile job was as the full-time replacement for Eric Avery in the 2002 reunion of Jane's Addiction, contributing to the album Strays. He then formed the band The Panic Channel with Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction; the group released the album (ONe) in 2006. In 2006, he joined the band Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, formed by Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters. Chaney and Hawkins had previously worked together in Morissette's band. The group released the albums Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders in 2006 and Red Light Fever in 2010. Chaney is also bassist for all-star cover band Camp Freddy. Chaney has played with several recording artists and over 25 film scores and soundtracks. Artists include: Celine Dion, Eddie Vedder, Ozzy Osbourne, Michelle Branch, Ben Taylor, Eric Hutchinson, Carly Simon, Rob Zombie, Joe Satriani, Andrew W.K., Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem, and Will Hoge. He joined Johnny Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls for the song "I'm Still Here" from soundtrack to the animated movie Treasure Planet. He is also featured on the 2007 album Little Voice by Sara Bareilles, and the 2008 album The Sound of Madness by Shinedown (replacing departed bassist Brad Stewart). Chaney has worked with James Stephen Hart on his project Burn Halo. Chaney is featured as the primary bassist on guitarist Slash's 2010 solo album, Slash. In March 2010, Slash described Chaney as a "godsend", stating: "Chris is just the best session player that I know so I called him up. I didn’t want to use Duff McKagan so I was tryin’ to think of bass players and Chris I’ve worked with so many times and he's easy going, and he learns quickly." In 2022, Chaney played bass on Beth Hart’s “A Tribute to Led Zeppelin” album and will join Eddie Vedder's band in the Earthlings tour. • Illustration — Chaney and Angus Young (right) performing with AC/DC in 2024 On February 12, 2024, AC/DC announced that Chaney would support them on their upcoming European Tour as a replacement for Cliff Williams. He is married to voice actress Tifanie Christun, daughter of Cheryl Saban and the stepdaughter of Haim Saban.

Chaney has endorsements with Aguilar Amps, Dunlop, and Audimute. In June 2025 Dusenberg released a signature bass for Chaney, based on a Fender P As of the June 2003 issue of Bass Player magazine, Chaney's gear listing for recording and touring was as follows:

• ’62 and ’66 Fender Jazz Basses • ’58, ’59, and ’60 Fender Precision Basses • Fender Custom Shop Jazz Bass with pearl-inlays and Basslines pickups • Two Lakland Bob Glaub models • Lakland hollowbody four-string • Lakland Joe Osborn five-string • Four Sadowsky Jazz Basses (two four-string and two five-string models) • Guild M85 • Guild Starfire • Höfner hollowbody (strung with flatwound strings) • Gibson EB-2 • Gibson Ripper • Epiphone Jack Casady model and El Capitan acoustic bass guitars • Rob Allen fretless four-string semi-acoustic bass with Basslines pickups and La Bella tapewound strings • Meisel plywood upright with Helicore strings. • D'Addario strings

• Aguilar DB 900 DI • Aguilar DB 680 preamp • Avalon U5 DI/preamp • Ashdown ABM500 2x10" combo amplifier • Two Aguilar DB 750 heads (large venues) • Two Aguilar GS 412 4x12" speaker cabinets (large venues)

• Furman Power Conditioner • Korg DTR-1 tuner • Line 6 Echo Pro • Line 6 Mod Pro • Empirical Labs Distressor compressor • Line 6 Bass Pod Pro • Digital Music Corp. GCX switcher • Digital Music Corp. Ground Control Pro • Big Briar Moogerfooger • Roland Jet Phaser • Musictronics Mu-tron III envelope filter • Prescription Electronic Depth Charge overdrive • Z. Vex Wooly Mammoth overdrive • DigiTech Synth Wah • Budda Phatbass tube overdrive • MXR M-80 DI Overdrive • Big Muff • EBS OctaBass • Boss OC-2 Octave • MXR M-88 octaver • Pefftronics Rand-O-Matic • Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron • DigiTech Bass Whammy • Carl Martin compressor • Carl Martin stereo chorus