Dave Schulthise

David Schulthise (September 16, 1956 – March 10, 2004), also known as Dave Blood, was an American musician best known as the original bass guitarist for the punk band The Dead Milkmen. Schulthise was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. He helped form the band in 1983 along with fellow pseudonymous musicians Joe Jack Talcum, Dean Clean, and Rodney Anonymous. Prior to this he was a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Purdue University.^[1]

Dave Schulthise
Schulthise on stage
Background information
Also known as	Dave Blood
Born	(1956-09-16)September 16, 1956
Died	March 10, 2004(2004-03-10) (aged 47)
Instrument	Bass guitar
Years active	1983–1995

He stopped playing music in 1995 after the band broke up as the result of developing tendinitis in both hands.^[2]

Schulthise visited Yugoslavia while on tour with the Milkmen and became fascinated with Serbia, its culture and people. After the band disbanded, he enrolled at Indiana University to study Serbo-Croatian language, literature, and history. He moved to Serbia for work and study in 1998, but in the wake of the NATO bombing campaign there he was forced to return to the US.^[3]

In late 2003, he told an interviewer that his favorite bassists were Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Johnny Gayden (Albert Collins Band) and Charles Mingus.^[4]

Schulthise died by suicide from a drug overdose^[5] on March 10, 2004, at age 47.^[1]