Chris Hatfield (2)

Multi-instrumentalist & producer originally from Michigan Multi-instrumentalist and composer Chris Hatfield escaped the Michigan peninsula after getting his master’s in music and hauled cross-country to Oakland, California, where he lived on an old commune site, complete with an abandoned bomb shelter. He’d left his former band (Mt. Pleasant’s Those Transatlantics) to focus on Love Axe in earnest. At first obsessively writing and recording thirty-some songs amid the Redwoods by himself, he soon grouped up with guitarist Erik Cline, bassist Joelle Barrios (Pagan Saints), and drummer Mike Ambs (Burning Brides, Marah), which is the current and permanent lineup for Love Axe, now based in Los Angeles.