Todd "Dammit" Kerns is a Canadian musician who has worked with several Canadian bands, most notably The Age of Electric. Kerns is currently the bass guitarist and back up vocalist for Slash in the band Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators. Career 1989–2000 The Age of Electric etc. Kerns fronted and played guitar in the hard rock band The Age of Electric, with his brother John Kerns on bass, Ryan Dahle on guitar, backing vocals, and Kurt Dahle on drums and backing vocals. The band's most successful release was 1997's Make a Pest a Pet. The album produced the radio rock hit "Remote Control", which peaked at No. 9 on the singles chart in Canada and resulted in the album being certified gold in Canada in 1998. The song "Remote Control" was later put on MuchMusic's diamond certified compilation album, Big Shiny Tunes 2. In 1997 Kerns provided background vocals for Matthew Good Band's album Underdogs on the songs "Rico" and "Everything Is Automatic" In 1999 he again provided background vocals for the Matthew Good Band on their album Beautiful Midnight, on the songs "Hello Time Bomb", and "Born to Kill". For 99.3 CFOX’s Year of the Fox compilation at Bryan Adams' Warehouse Studio in 1999, Kerns, along with Bif Naked, Trevor Hurst, Matthew Good, Craig Northey, Neil Osborne, Ashwin Sood, Brain Minato, recorded a cover of Prince's "1999". 2000–2009 Static in Stereo, Go Time, Faster Pussycat, Sin City Sinners Kerns formed the group Static in Stereo with his brothers John and Ryan, and drummer Scott McCargar. The group performed at the Snow Jam festival in Halifax in 2001. They released a self-titled album in 2002. The band was nominated for a Canadian Radio Music Award for "Best New Group" in 2002. In 2004, Kerns released his first rock solo record Go Time, recorded with members of Zuckerbaby, Static in Stereo and Bif Naked. The next year Kerns produced Britt Black's solo album Blackout. In 2007 Kerns joined Brent Muscat and Faster Pussycat for their European tour. The same year he formed Sin City Sinners with Brent Muscat. Kerns recorded four studio albums with The Sin City Sinners. The band is known for performing sets of hard rock covers and new originals. 2010–2013 Slash, Apocalyptic Love, etc. In 2010 Kerns, along with Brent Fitz, Myles Kennedy, and Bobby Schneck, joined Slash on the tour supporting his self titled record.