David Schulthise (September 16, 1956 – March 10, 2004), also known as Dave Blood, was the

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ist for the

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band

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. Schulthise was born in

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. He helped form the band in 1983 along with fellow pseudonymous musicians Joe Jack Talcum, Dean Clean, and

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. Prior to this he was a

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candidate in

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. He stopped playing music in 1995 after the band broke up as the result of developing

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in both hands. Schulthise visited Yugoslavia while on tour with the Milkmen and became fascinated with Serbia, its culture and people. After the band disbanded, he enrolled at

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to study Serbo-Croatian language, literature, and history. He moved to

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for work and study in 1998, but in the wake of the

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bombing campaign there he was forced to return to the US. In late 2003, he told an interviewer that his favorite bassists were

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(

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), Johnny Gayden (

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Band) and Charles Mingus. Schulthise died by suicide from a drug overdose on March 10, 2004, at age 47.

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