# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-penrod
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:57.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-penrod"
name: "Jerry Penrod"
slug: "jerry-penrod"
description: "Jerry \"The Bear\" Penrod is an American bass player. He was a member of Iron Butterfly and Rhinoceros. He was nicknamed \"The Bear\" due to long hair and beard. He played on Iron Butterfly's first album, Heavy, which released after he left the band to form Rhinoceros, who he played on two albums with before leaving the band in 1969. After battling drug addiction he quit music and worked as a bus driver in San Diego."
tagline: "American bassist"
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: "1946-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.34
  momentum:             4.95212215320911
  historical:           6.612564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/572779"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Penrod"
    title: "Jerry Penrod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Penrod"
    title: "Jerry Penrod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Penrod"
    title: "Jerry Penrod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Penrod"
    title: "Jerry Penrod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Пенрод, Джерри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Penrod"
    title: "Jerry Penrod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3ecfe3a6-35af-4084-ae84-3c3d9ea549fe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177496"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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