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Chris Freeman (musician)
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Name
Chris Freeman
Role
Musician
Music group
Pansy Division
Movies
Pansy Division: Life In A Gay Rock Band, Luster, Remembering the Greats
Albums
The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show, Deflowered
Similar People
Jon Ginoli, Everett Lewis, Chris Xefos
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Chris Freeman (born Christopher Mark Freeman, August 8, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is an American bassist, best known as a member of the band Pansy Division.
Freeman was born in Seattle and attended Weatherwax High School in Aberdeen, Washington. At school he got beat up routinely and tried to hide his homosexuality. At age 19 he was going to marry a girl that he played in a band with, before breaking it off and admitting he was gay.
Pansy Division
Freeman eventually left Washington and moved to San Francisco. In 1991 he met Jon Ginoli through an ad Ginoli placed in the San Francisco Weekly looking for “gay musicians into the Ramones, Buzzcocks and early Beatles”. With Freeman playing bass, and Ginoli guitar, Pansy Division went through a series of drummers before settling on Luis Illades, who has been in the band since 1996.
They became known as one of the founders of the queercore genre of punk rock, and received mainstream recognition by being Green Day's opening act for their first arena tour in 1994.
Albums
Undressed on Lookout! Records (1993)
Deflowered on Lookout! Records (1994)
Wish I'd Taken Pictures on Mint Records (1996)
Absurd Pop Song Romance on Lookout! Records (1998)
Total Entertainment! on Alternative Tentacles (2003)
That's So Gay on Alternative Tentacles (2009)
Compilation albums
Pile Up on Lookout! Records (1995)
More Lovin' From Our Oven on Lookout! Records (1997)
The Essential Pansy Division on Alternative Tentacles (2006)
Lost Gems & Rare Tracks exclusively on iTunes (2010)
7" singles
"Meer"
"Fem In A Black Leather Jacket" b/w "Homo Christmas" & "Smells Like Queer Spirit" (Lookout! Records, 1992)
"Touch My Joe Camel" b/w "Homosapien" & "Trash" (Lookout! Records, 1993) (cover art by Anonymous Boy)
"Nine Inch Males" EP: "Fuck Buddy", "Cry for a Shadow" & "The Biggest Lie" (Lookout! Records, 1994)
"Jack U Off" b/w "Strip You Down" (Empty Records, 1994)
"Jackson" b/w "I Really Wanted You" (K Records, 1994) (Collaboration with Calvin Johnson)
"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond Of Each Other", on 'Stop Homophobia' compilation with Fagbash, Happy Flowers and Black Angel's Death Song (Turkey Baster Records, 1994)
"I Can Make You A Man" on The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show (Springman Records, 2004)
"Musclehead" on Plea for Peace, Vol. 2' (Asian Man Records, 2007)
"You'll See Them Again" on Kat Vox:A CD To Celebrate 20 Years of timmi-kat ReCoRDS (timmi-kat ReCoRDS, 2011)
Soundtrack appearances
"Deep Water" in Angus, directed by Patrick Read Johnson (1995)
Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary, directed by Scott Treleaven (1996)
Skin & Bone, directed by Everett Lewis (1996)
"Sweet Insecurity" and "Luv Luv Luv", Luster, directed by Everett Lewis (2002)
"First Betrayal" in Hellbent, directed by Paul Etheredge-Ouzts (2005)
Pansy Division: Life In A Gay Rock Band (2008)
Other work
In 2000 Freeman moved to Los Angeles to attend film school. One of his classmates was Michael Carmona, who would go on to direct the 2008 documentary film Pansy Division: Life In a Gay Rock Band, which Freeman edited and co-produced. He was also in the 1997 documentary Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary and appeared as an actor in the 2002 film Luster.
Freeman has also a written for various magazines and publications including Frontiers.