# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-dillard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:15.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-dillard"
name: "Mike Dillard"
slug: "mike-dillard"
description: "Mike Dillard is an American drummer and one of the founding members of rock band Melvins. His only known recordings with the original lineup eventually saw release in 2005 as Mangled Demos from 1983. He left the band in 1984 and was replaced by Dale Crover. In 1986 he briefly played in Kurt Cobain's first band, Fecal Matter, before they disbanded."
tagline: "American drummer"
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: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.23
  momentum:             5.113636363636362
  historical:           6.373437333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a3750a7b-cf02-4e48-b16c-0b61ca820bfa"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "مايك ديلارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Dillard"
    title: "Mike Dillard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Dillard"
    title: "Mike Dillard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Dillard"
    title: "Mike Dillard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Dillard"
    title: "Mike Dillard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Dillard"
    title: "Mike Dillard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1086704"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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