Fred Weaver

Fred Weaver (born July 1, 1973 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American musician and record producer.

Political career

In November of 1992, just 4 months after his 18th birthday, Weaver was elected to the position of Pennsylvania State Constable, representing Clearfield, Pennsylvania's First Ward. At the time he was one of Pennsylvania's youngest elected officials.

Musical career

Weaver started playing guitar in bands in Pennsylvania, then moved to New York in 1994 to join guitarist Jon Fine in his post-Bitch Magnet band, Vineland. (This band was apparently named after the Thomas Pynchon novel.) Vineland existed on the periphery of the math rock and slowcore movements of early-1990s indie rock. Douglas Scharin, final drummer of Codeine and later member of June of 44, was Vineland's drummer for a while, later replaced by Jerry Fuchs.

In the late '90s, Weaver returned to Louisiana and started a solo acoustic career, releasing albums on his own Apocalypse The Apocalypse record label. In the fall of 2000, he toured opening for Don Caballero. It was a tour plagued by the breakup of Don Cab, and a tour-ending van accident, later detailed by Weaver in a Chunklet article titled "The Dark Final Days Of Don Caballero." He also toured the East Coast in 2002 with Dallas, Texas's The Paper Chase.

More recently, Weaver has performed with a band, but still under the name Fred Weaver. They released the album Five Digit Land in mid-2006. As a recording engineer, Weaver has produced hundreds of recordings by the bands and artists in his Apocalypse the Apocalypse studio.

Bands Recorded

Bands and musicians recorded by the Apocalypse the Apocalypse studio include Otasco, Terror Of The Sea, Slobot, Reception Is Suspected, Wilderness Pangs, Fred Weaver, Justinbailey, 2CV, 12 Gauge Valentine, 6 Pack Deep, Always The Runner, Ross Beach, Becoming Orange, Beer Pressure, Bite The Curb, The Biped Dilemma, John Blake, Todd Bourque, Bones, Brass Bed, The Capos, Clint Coker, Matt Connell, Cortez Del Mar, Girl Scout Heroin, The Gold Standard, His Nerdy Clothes, Etc., Hollowgirl, The Human Record, In Every Nightmare, Jenaset, Jodi Hates The World, Justinbailey, Knever, Landmines, Baby!, Level, Lil DVS, Memory As Perfection, Mrs. Dorothy + The Shaky Egg Band, The Myrtles, Nick Papale, Plans That Fail, Primal Theory, Recovery Period, Secret Annexe, Shark Attack!, Stars Grow Dark, Static Prevails, Thou, Torn Apart By Horses, Turnstile, We Landed On The Moon, Buttercup, Caddies, Cole, Cotillion, Dooplo, Dynamoz, Ethel Meserve, Fields Lie Fallow, Fire In The Kitchen, Francis A. Superstar, Sgt. Six Assault, Spirit Assembly, Stella, Storm and Stress, Tono Bungay, Vineland, Blowout Kit, Ceramic Torment, Dairy Pigs, Ding, Donora, Five Knuckle Shuffle, Housewrecker, Klines Island, Not Your Friends, Pagans, Ordination Of Aaron, OX, Pseudo Heroes, Samuel, Vic 44 + The Act Outs, WORF

Trivia
Weaver is a direct descendant of 1850s Pennsylvania Governor William Bigler.

Weaver appears in several Otasco videos made their frontman Dag Luther Gooch. In one he is a serial killer
killer, in another he plays the same character cleaning up dead bodies and yet another repeatedly slaps Gooch in the face alongside 20 other people a goofy homage to Elvis Costello's I Just Want To Be Loved video and U2's Numb

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