# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-meros
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:26.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-meros"
name: "Dave Meros"
slug: "dave-meros"
description: "Dave Meros, is an American bass guitar player, best known as the bass player for progressive rock band Spock's Beard. Meros has also played or recorded with such artists as Gary Myrick, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Simon Phillips, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Big Big Train, Martin Orford and played for Eric Burdon and The Animals from 1990 through the end of 2005, and was the bass player for Iron Butterfly from 2015 through 2023. He was also tour manager for Eric Burdon and has worked as a tour manager for further artists as well. As a bassist, Meros' musical influences are varied, including Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, Chris Squire, James Jamerson, Marcus Miller, Francis \"Rocco\" Prestia of Tower of Power, Chuck Rainey and David Hungate."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DMeros-07.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.46
  momentum:             15.06596020761246
  historical:           6.411448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/dave.meros"
    handle:    "dave.meros"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.spocksbeard.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/369513"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "داڤى ميروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Meros"
    title: "Dave Meros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Meros"
    title: "Dave Meros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Meros"
    title: "Dave Meros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Meros"
    title: "Dave Meros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Meros"
    title: "Dave Meros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/14fc1310-4fc2-4fa9-bad7-fa276283ef39"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5229380"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump