“You Will Feel My Pain” Kira Roessler

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Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1961) is an American musician who was the bass guitarist for the influential hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1983 to 1985. Since the mid-1980s, she has been a member of the rock duo Dos with her now ex-husband Mike Watt.

Roessler also works as a dialogue editor. She was on the sound editing team for Mad Max: Fury Road, which won a 2015 Oscar. She was also on the teams that won Emmy Awards for the John Adams episode "Don't Tread on Me" and on the series Game of Thrones.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut Roessler lived there until age eight when her family moved to the Caribbean until she was eleven and thereafter in California, mostly in Los Angeles. Her brother is Paul Roessler, a keyboardist known for involvement in several Los Angeles–area bands including the Screamers.

 

Roessler began studying piano when she was 6 but quit at 11. At 14, she picked up the bass guitar and committed to learning the instrument. Her first band was called Waxx and she played her first gig at 16 at Whisky a Go Go.Other early bands were Sexsick, the Visitors, and the Monsters. She then joined with a post-Germs Pat Smear to form Twisted Roots.

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