# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:10.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-preston"
name: "Joe Preston"
slug: "joe-preston"
description: "Joe Preston is an American bass guitarist and a former band member of the rock bands Earth, Melvins, Men's Recovery Project, The Need and High on Fire. Preston has also played with Sunn O))), and has his long-running solo project called Thrones. In 2007, he joined Harvey Milk in the studio for the recording of Life... The Best Game in Town and toured with them during their 2008 US and European tours. He is currently serving as a touring member of Sumac. He is the uncle of actor Dominic Janes."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thrones_Joe_Preston_IMG_9594_(20338875668).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: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.62
  momentum:             6.352941176470587
  historical:           7.492586666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/234856"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "جو برستون (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "جو برستون (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "جو برستون (شارکی یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Preston_(musician)"
    title: "Joe Preston (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Preston"
    title: "Joe Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Preston"
    title: "Joe Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Preston"
    title: "Joe Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c0d6e5e6-4919-47c8-a966-b9bbfbaaec72"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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