Dean Pleasants

Biography

Dean Pleasants (born May 18, 1965) is an American guitarist. He has been the lead guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies since 1996, and is their longest-standing lead guitarist, surpassing Rocky George, who had been in the band for 11 years. He is also a member of the Suicidal Tendencies funk metal side project Infectious Grooves. He also played with Ugly Kid Joe on their America's Least Wanted album. He also played with George Clinton, Tone Loc, Coke advertisements, Jessica Simpson, Poe, Jody Watley and Atlantic Starr. Dean currently endorses Schecter guitars, having also used Fernandes and ESP guitars in the past. For amplification he has used VHT, Fender and Marshall amps.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  America's Least Wanted

  1992

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  Hello

  1995

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  Encino Man (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

  1992

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  The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's The Infectious Grooves

  1991

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  Miki Howard

  1989

Credited work

340 releases · 34 albums · active 1989–2024

• Performance · 630
• Other credits · 29
• Production · 18

Studios: Devonshire Studios · Titan Studios · Skip Saylor Recording · Studio Masters

Frequent collaborators

• Suicidal Tendencies
• Infectious Grooves
• Cyco Miko
• 3T
• Jody Watley
• Juliet Roberts
• Ugly Kid Joe
• Poe

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