Dan Schmid

Daniel Joseph Schmid (born November 22, 1962) is an American musician, known for his work as the bassist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he is a co-founder, and the piano rock trio The Visible Men. Schmid was majoring in architecture at the University of Oregon in the early 1980s when he befriended fellow student Steve Perry. Bonding over a shared enthusiasm for punk rock, the pair eventually decided to drop out of college together to pursue their musical ambitions, playing together in the punk trio The Jazz Greats and the garage rock group Saint Huck before forming what would eventually become the Cherry Poppin' Daddies in late 1988. Schmid toured and recorded with the Daddies for nearly a decade before...