Steinar Schanke Eikum was the original bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 in the Norwegian hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band TNT

TNT (band)

TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...

. He joined the band after doing an audition in the Easter of 1982, and played on their self-titled debut album

TNT (TNT album)

-Band:*Dag Ingebrigtsen – lead vocals and rhythm guitars*Ronni Le Tekrø – lead guitars*Steinar Eikum – bass guitar*Morten "Diesel" Dahl – drums, percussion-Sources:*...

 the same year. He was replaced by Morty Black in 1983.

Before Eikum joined TNT, he played in the Oslo-based band Red. In 1987 he joined the Trondheim-based band Blonde on Blonde and recorded a self-titled album with them the following year. He quit the band in 1991, and joined the Ketil Stokkan Band

Ketil Stokkan

Ketil Stokkan is a Norwegian pop artist who has performed as solo artist as well as the singer in the Norwegian band Zoo. 1983 saw him participate in the Norwegian qualifying heat for Eurovision with the song "Samme charmeur" which was placed second...

in 1994.

Sources

• http://www.helvetes.net/tnt/eikum.html