Douglas "Doug" Killmer was an American blues and rock bass guitarist active from the 1960s to the late 1990s. He is sometimes credited as Douglas Kilmer or Doug Kilmer. He is best remembered for playing the bass line on Norman Greenbaums 1970 hit Spirit in the Sky (number 333 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest songs of all time).

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  • Douglas "Doug" Killmer was an American blues and rock bass guitarist active from the 1960s to the late 1990s. He is sometimes credited as Douglas Kilmer or Doug Kilmer. He is best remembered for playing the bass line on Norman Greenbaums 1970 hit Spirit in the Sky (number 333 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest songs of all time). In addition to this, he played on the Otis Rush Grammy-nominated song from 1976 "Right Place, Wrong Time," and Rita Abrams' Grammy-Award-winning song "Mill Valley. " He was active in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for over 3 decades.
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  • Douglas "Doug" Killmer was an American blues and rock bass guitarist active from the 1960s to the late 1990s. He is sometimes credited as Douglas Kilmer or Doug Kilmer. He is best remembered for playing the bass line on Norman Greenbaums 1970 hit Spirit in the Sky (number 333 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest songs of all time).
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