James LoMenzo

James LoMenzo is one of those quietly elite bassists who keeps showing up in legitimately great bands, and I think that says everything about his reputation. A Brooklyn kid born in 1959, he cut his teeth in the glam-metal world with White Lion, then bounced through an impressive roster — Slash's Snakepit, David Lee Roth's band, John Fogerty, even Ace Frehley — before landing in Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society. But his most surprising chapter has to be joining Megadeth, a thrash institution that demands serious technical chops. He's not a flashy "look at me" bassist; he's the guy that makes the whole machine lock in tight. Career journeymen like him are the backbone of hard rock history, and LoMenzo deserves way more name recognition than he typically gets.

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Name (English)

James LoMenzo

Name (Japanese)

ジェイムズ・ロメンゾ

Reading

じぇいむず・ろめんぞ

Born

January 13, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

bassist / musician

• Official sitehttps://www.jameslomenzo.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20LoMenzo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1139388

Tags

• New York
• bassist
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-02

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