Erin Tate

Biography

Erin Tate is the former drummer of Seattle-based indie rock band Minus the Bear and Hand of the Hills, a side project started with David Totten (The Quiet Ones, Scriptures) and Matt Benham (Black Swedes). Before starting Minus the Bear in 2001, he was a member of Kill Sadie. He has also played drums for Askeleton, Amy Blaschke, Heather Duby, Onalaska, These Arms Are Snakes, and Shampoop.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Menos El Oso

  2005

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  Highly Refined Pirates

  2002

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  Planet Of Ice

  2007

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  They Make Beer Commercials Like This

  2004

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  Acoustics II

  2013

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  Omni

  2010

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  Acoustics

  2008

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  Infinity Overhead

  2012

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  Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

  2004

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  This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic

  2001

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  Lost Loves

  2014

Credited work

144 releases · 22 albums · active 1998–2025

• Performance · 171
• Other credits · 71

Studios: Studio Litho · Robert Lang Studios · The Bat Cave · Aquahaus

Frequent collaborators

• Minus The Bear
• Killsadie
• Tim Kasher
• These Arms Are Snakes
• Heather Duby
• Ghost Work
• Time Pieces
• Various

Around the web

• Wikipedia