Zachary Baird (born February 16, 1971) is an American keyboardist known for collaborating with the

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band

Korn Korn (stylized as KoЯn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, originally formed in 1993 by James Shaffer, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald Arvizu, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and David Silveria, who were members of the band ...

. He is also noted for using the

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, as well as the

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Early life

Zach Baird graduated from the Arts Magnet, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in

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Career

Baird's first project was a 15-piece

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band called Whitey, but he then joined the band

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in 1990 and was a member for six years. Over the years he either founded or was involved in numerous other projects and bands, including: *Cottonmouth Texas *Decadent Dub Team * HairyApesBMX *Maimou Baird has collaborated with artists from various music genres, including

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(provided programming for their debut album " Fallen"),

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, Mike Dillon, and

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. He auditioned for

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: Baird was also auditioned for alternative artist

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; he describes it as great experience: Baird toured with pop singer and pianist

through Europe in 2005. In late 2009 and early 2010, Baird was part of

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's band, providing programming, working as his music director, and playing keyboards. Baird toured as a keyboard tech for Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour, which started in Europe on May 10th 2023 and ended in America on October 1st 2023.

Work with Korn

Baird has worked with

band

, touring with them worldwide as a masked horse (which in turn, Baird got his nickname "Horse") in the '' See You on the Other Side'' tour, as well as in their 2006 edition of the ''

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''. He has temporarily joined the band for their eighth studio album. Collaboration with Korn and his previous projects was quite a difference for him: On December 9, 2006, Baird performed with Korn on '' MTV Unplugged: Korn'', playing piano. After the '' Bitch We Got a Problem Tour'', Baird continued to work with Korn frontman

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on his ''

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'' tour, as a part of his backing band ''SFA''. In 2011, Baird played the keyboard on Korn guitarist Munky's solo project, ''

Fear and the Nervous System Fear and the Nervous System was an alternative metal/industrial rock band formed by Korn guitarist James Shaffer, James "Munky" Shaffer. The band released Fear and the Nervous System (album), one self-titled album in 2012 and disbanded in 2014. ...

''. He also toured with Korn during 2013's '' The Paradigm Shift'' tour, and the ''20th Anniversary Tour'' from 2014 through 2015. As of early 2017, Baird is no longer collaborating with the band.

Discography

*1992 – "Bush Roaming Mammals" –

*1994 – "Live at the Swingers Ball" – Billy Goat *1995 – "Black & White" – Billy Goat *1997 – "Anti-Social Butterfly" – Cottonmouth, Texas *1999 – "The Right to Remain Silent" – Cottonmouth, Texas *2000 – "Expatriape" – HairyApesBMX *2001 – "Out Demons" – HairyApesBMX *2001 – "Bayleaf" –

*2002 – "Ultimate Collection" – Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians *2002 – "Slow Drip Torture" – Maimou *2003 – " Fallen" –

*2004 – "Persephonics" – Maimou *2005 – "Just Like Heaven" – Soundtrack *2006 – " Chopped, Screwed, Live and Unglued" –

*2007 – " MTV Unplugged: Korn" – Korn *2007 – "

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" – Korn *2007 – "

" –

Jonathan Davis and the SFA Jonathan Davis and the SFA (Simply Fucking Amazings) was an American alternative rock band, formed as a side project for Korn frontman Jonathan Davis. The band functioned as a musical collective, with a rotating cast of musicians involved with ...

*2009 – "Digital EP #1" – Korn *2008 – " Nightmare Revisited" – various artists *2010 – "Digital EP #2" – Korn *2010 – "Digital EP #3" – Korn *2011 – "Alone I Play / Live at the Union Chapel" – Jonathan Davis and the SFA *2011 – "

" –

*2012 – "The Path of Totality Tour – Live at the Hollywood Palladium" – Korn *2012 – " The Truth About Love" –

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*2012 – "Urn" – Mike Dillon *2013 – " Afraid of Heights" –

Wavves Wavves is an American rock band based in San Diego, California. Formed in 2008 by singer-songwriter Nathan Williams (born June 12, 1986), the band also features Alex Gates (guitar, backing vocals), Stephen Pope (bass guitar, backing vocals) an ...

TV appearances

* ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''VH1's "Unplugged"'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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Keyboard instruments

* Moog Synthesizers *

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* Analogue Systems * Critter & Guitari * Roland JX-305 *

Roland JX-3P The Roland JX-3P is a synthesizer produced by Roland Corporation of Japan from 1983–1985. The "3P" in its name refers to "Programmable Preset Polyphonic". It is notable as one of the company's first synthesizers (along with the Jupiter-6) to ...

Roland JX-8P Roland JX-8P is a 61-key, velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive, six-note polyphony (instrument), polyphonic, almost entirely analog synthesizer released by Roland Corporation, Roland in 1985. In a time of rising popularity of digital frequency modu ...

Roland JV-1080 The Roland JV-1080 ( Super JV, Super JV-1080, or simply 1080) is a Sample-based synthesis, sample-based synthesizer/sound module in the form of a 2U rack. The JV-1080's synthesizer engine was also used in Roland's Roland XP-50, XP-50 Music wo ...

Roland TR-606 The Roland TR-606 Drumatix is a drum machine built by Roland Corporation from 1981 to 1984. Sounds It uses analog synthesis rather than samples to produce sound. It imitates acoustic percussion: the bass drum, snare, toms, cymbal and hi-hat ...

Roland TR-707 The Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer is a drum machine released by Roland Corporation in 1985. Features The TR-707 has 15 digitally sampled sound and 10-voice polyphony. The alternate bass drum, snare, and hi-hat sounds cannot be triggered simult ...

Roland TR-909 The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 909, is a drum machine introduced by Roland Corporation in 1983, succeeding the TR-808. It was the first Roland drum machine to use samples for some sounds, and the first with MIDI funct ...

* Roland XP-80 *

Clavia Nord Lead The Nord Lead is a series of Analog modeling synthesizer, virtual analog Subtractive synthesis, subtractive synthesizers, manufactured by Clavia. Released in 1995, the original Nord Lead popularized the term "virtual analog synthesis". The phras ...

* Clavia Nord Electro 2 * Clavia Nord Modular *

Korg M1 The Korg M1 is a synthesizer and music workstation manufactured by Korg from 1988 to 1995. It is one of the bestselling synthesizers in history, selling an estimated 250,000 units. The M1 was widely used in popular music and stock music in the ...

* Korg MS2000 *

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Analog synthesizers An analog synthesizer () is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s, such as the Trautonium, were built with a variety of vacuum-tub ...

* Yamaha Piano *

Hammond Organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

References

External links

Zac Baird MySpaceOfficial site: Maimou
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baird, Zac 1971 births Living people Musicians from Orange County, California Korn members American rock keyboardists Jonathan Davis and the SFA members 21st-century American keyboardists Fear and the Nervous System members 20th-century American keyboardists

Early life

Career

Work with Korn

Discography

TV appearances

Keyboard instruments

See also

References

External links