Sid Ringsby

Øystein "Sid" Ringsby (born 16 February 1961) is a Norwegian bassist[1] best known for playing with TinDrum, The Snakes, TNT, Wild Willy's Gang and Jørn Lande's solo band. His recording rock career started 1983 as he became a member of the band Road, and since then he has been in bands such as Tindrum, The Snakes, Diezel, Jorn, Vestlandsfanden, Ken Hensley & Live Fire and TNT. He is recognized as one of the most versatile bassplayers in the Norwegian Rock scene, with a lot of other recording artists to his credit

Sid Ringsby
Ringsby performing with JORN at Metalmania 2007 in Katowice, Poland
Background information
Birth nameØystein Ringsby
Born (1961-02-16) 16 February 1961
GenresHard rock, glam metal
InstrumentsBass guitar
Associated actsTNT, TinDrum, Jørn Lande

Equipment

Sid mostly uses Stuart Spector basses, both NS-2 basses made in the US and NS-4 and Euro 4LX models made in the Czech Republic. He uses Ampeg SVT-CL heads and Ampeg Enclosures.

Selected Discography

TinDrum
  • Drums of War (1988)
  • How About This?! (1989)
  • Cool, Calm & Collected (1991)

Diezel
  • Willpower (1995)

Diesel Dahl & Friends
  • reCYCLEd (1997)

The Snakes

Jørn Lande

TNT

References
  1. Vestby, Ole-Morten (5 August 2007). "Gressvik Rock City". Fredriksstad Blad (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 May 2011.


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