Mike Rieman

 Bassist Mike Rieman is a native Austinite and grew up on the banks of Shoal
Creek. At age 12, he bought a World War Two vintage drumset with paper
route money and quickly mastered a few beats to those messy psychedelic
bands topping the charts back then. What really turned young Mike's head
was witnessing his first rock concert at Palmer Auditorium during the
turbulent summer of '68. On the bill was Buffalo Springfield, The Beach
Boys, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and Austin's buzz band of that year: Lavender
Hill Express, featuring future icon Rusty Wier on drums, and on
guitar....Layton Depenning! Some thirty years and a hundred bands later,
Rieman and Depenning would play together in Denim.

A quarter century ago, Rieman shelved the Ludwigs and settled into the
Fender bass. Since then he's been layin' down his "Big Tasty Bottom" across
the Lower 48 in countless bands, performing for royalty and riffraff alike
- presidential inaugural balls AND rough-and-tumble road houses. He's been
a Denim member since '95.