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Years active
  
1994–present

Movies
  
Bad News Bears

Role
  
Musician


Name
  
Sam Farrar

Parents
  
John Farrar, Pat Carroll

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Born
  
June 29, 1978 (age 45) (
1978-06-29
)

Origin
  
Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, producer, bassist

Instruments
  
Bass, vocals, piano, guitar, percussion

Albums
  
Profiles

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Sam Farrar (born June 29, 1978) is American musician and producer. He is known as the bass guitar player for the American rock band Phantom Planet, as well as a long-time collaborator and touring member of the American pop rock band Maroon 5.

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Musical career

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Farrar is the bass guitar player for the American rock band Phantom Planet. He also joined a band called Operation Aloha with members of Gomez and Maroon 5. He and his wife, Stephanie, have started their own music project, called Bubble and Strife.

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Since 2012, Farrar is touring with Maroon 5 - as an additional, touring band member - on guitars, occasionally on the bass guitar, percussion, additional keyboards, backing vocals, turntables and providing samples and other special effects (using the MPC). He co-wrote and co-produced a few of the band's songs on almost all of their studio albums and also remixed one of their songs, which is called "Woman", on Call and Response: The Remix Album, released in 2008. On August 31, 2012 - during a show in Argentina on the Overexposed World Tour - Farrar filled-in for Mickey Madden on the bass guitar for the very first time. He subsequently filled-in for Madden on the next few shows of the tour.

Personal life

His father, John Farrar, was a member of The Shadows and also carved a successful songwriting career, penning many of Olivia Newton-John's big hits as well as producing nearly every one of her albums during her most successful years. His mother, Pat Carroll, was a successful Australian pop singer in the 1960s. He attended The Buckley School.

Sam is married to Stephanie Eitel, formerly a member of the band Agent Sparks. Their daughter Vesper Pearl Farrar was born on August 6, 2009 and their son Flynn Roscoe Farrar was born on January 14, 2014.

He graduated Pitzer College.

Discography

With Phantom Planet
  • Phantom Planet Is Missing (1998)
  • The Guest (2002)
  • Phantom Planet (2004)
  • Raise the Dead (2008)
  • With Operation Aloha
  • Operation Aloha (2009)
  • With Maroon 5 (Now a touring member)
  • It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007) – production
  • Call and Response: The Remix Album (2008) – remix of a song ("Woman")
  • Hands All Over (2010) – songwriting ("Misery", "Stutter", "Don't Know Nothing", "Hands All Over" and "How")
  • Overexposed (2012) – production and songwriting ("Ladykiller", "Fortune Teller" and "Tickets"), backing vocals, programming
  • Songs About Jane – 10th Anniversary Edition (2012)
  • V (2014) – backing vocals ("Unkiss Me" and "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" - the latter song is from the 2015 re-release of V), programming
  • References

    Sam Farrar Wikipedia