Eddie Breckenridge is the bass guitar

Bass guitar

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ist of the post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band, Thrice

Thrice

Thrice is an American rock band from Irvine, California, formed in 1998. The group was founded by guitarist/vocalist Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi while they were in high school....

. Breckenridge joined the band having virtually no experience playing the bass (he was a skating buddy of soon to be singer/guitarist Dustin

Dustin Kensrue

Dustin Michael Kensrue is a vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist in the Orange County, California post-hardcore/experimental rock quartet Thrice, as well as a solo artist....

 and lead guitarist Teppei

Teppei Teranishi

Teppei Teranishi is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the post-hardcore band Thrice from Orange County, California. In addition to guitar and keyboard duties, he also provides backing vocals for Thrice's live performances. He favors Gibson Les Paul guitars and Fender Telecasters among others...

). He soon convinced his brother Riley

Riley Breckenridge

James Riley Breckenridge is the drummer for Post-hardcore band Thrice. He plays C & C Custom Drums, and uses Vic Firth drumsticks, Zildjian cymbals, Remo drumheads, with Drum Workshop hardware and pedals.-Biography:...

 to join as the band's drummer. Breckenridge has an elbow problem that prevents him from turning over his left hand fully (making fingering the fret board more difficult than usual).

He also enjoys World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

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, crochet

Crochet

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ing, and biking. Breckenridge has also contributed ambient noise to an experimental track on Frantic Mantis

Frantic Mantis

Frantic Mantis originally began in 2003 as a Swedish/US collaboration of Håkan Johansson and Per Stålberg of Division Of Laura Lee and Shelby Cinca from Frodus...

's debut album via internet

Internet

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 collaboration.

Equipment

• 1976 Gibson Grabber
  Gibson Grabber
  The Gibson Grabber was a bass guitar introduced in 1973 along with the Gibson Ripper. The Grabber featured a bolt-on 34½" neck like the Fender basses and shared a similar body with the Ripper. The Grabber also had a V-shaped headstock like the Gibson Flying V guitar. What made the Grabber truly...
  
  Bass
• Black home-made Grabber Bass
• Wine Red Gibson Grabber Bass
• Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass 5-String
• Fender American Precision Bass
• G&L L-2000 Bass
• Fender Bass VI
• Line 6 M13
• Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler (with Line 6 Expression Pedal)
• Boss RV Digital Reverb
• Line 6 DM4 Distortion Modeler
• Line 6 M13
• ZVEX Fuzz Factory
• Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
• Ampeg SVT Classic Anniversary amplifier head
• Ampeg SVT-8x10 cabinet
• Ampeg B-15n
• Nord Lead 2X 49-Key Synth

External links

• Official Thrice website