Kevin Rutmanis (born October 17, 1958) is an American bass guitarist. He is of Latvian descent. Before getting into music, he was a student teacher. In late 1985, along with his younger brother Sandris Rutmanis, Thor Eisentrager, and then Jayhawks drummer Norm Rogers, he started the band The Cows. After the dissolution of The Cows, Rutmanis was the bass guitar player for The Melvins from 1998 to 2005. He was also the bass guitarist in the supergroup Tomahawk featuring Mike Patton. Kevin played bass on Tomahawk's first two long play releases, titled Tomahawk and Mit Gas, and played for two world tours supporting those albums. He has since recorded with Hepa-Titus. Discography Cows 1987 – Taint Pluribus Taint Unum 1989 – Daddy Has a Tail 1990 – Effete and Impudent Snobs 1991 – Peacetika 1992 – Cunning Stunts 1993 – Sexy Pee Story 1994 – Orphan's Tragedy 1996 – Whorn 1998 – Sorry in Pig Minor Melvins 1999 – The Maggot 1999 – The Bootlicker 2000 – The Crybaby 2001 – Electroretard 2001 – Colossus of Destiny 2002 – Hostile Ambient Takeover 2004 – Pigs of the Roman Empire (with Lustmord) 2004 – Never Breathe What You Can't See (with Jello Biafra) 2005 – Sieg Howdy! (with Jello Biafra) 2013 – Everybody Loves Sausages (guest appearance) 2015 – "Dumb Numbers" Split Series 2016 – Three Men and a Baby (with Mike Kunka) Tomahawk 2001 – Tomahawk 2003 – Mit Gas Hepa/Titus 2011 - The Giving Brain 2012 - Follow Me 2014 - Gettin' It On 2016 - FM Warm Weather 2017 - Omega Pig 2018 - Champagne of Incest 2019 - Blue Fat Pussy Teenage Larvae 1993 - Songs For Pigs 2017 - Omega Pig References American heavy metal musicians American people of Latvian descent American punk rock musicians Post-hardcore musicians Noise rock musicians 1958 births Living people Cows (band) members Alternative metal bass guitarists Tomahawk (band) members Melvins members 20th-century American bass guitarists