Chris Chaney

This article is about Chris Chaney, ex-bass player of Jane's Addiction. For the lead singer/guitarist of the Australian band The Living End see Chris Cheney.

Chris Chaney (born 1970) was the bass player in the last incarnation of Jane's Addiction, after Flea and Eric Avery, as well as a member of Alanis Morissette's touring and recording band from 1995 to 2002. He was formerly in The Panic Channel, formed with Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, also formerly of Jane's Addiction and Steve Isaacs on vocals; and is currently in Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, formed by Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters, who he played with while touring with Alanis Morissette, both of their first major "pop" gigs.

Chris was raised in a self-proclaimed "musically rich neighbourhood" where members of The Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana lived in close proximity. The Mill Valley native (or "stoner-ville" as Chaney calls it) also lived just blocks away from pop-culture mecca, where some of the "Ewok Village" scenes were filmed for various Star Wars production such as Return of the Jedi and several made-for-TV movies. He attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, the same high school that the late rapper Tupac Shakur attended briefly the year after Chaney graduated.

"I grew up in a dream place compared to L.A. where I live now," says Chaney. "It doesn’t have the natural beauty you know it’s got the smog and the big dry desert valley. I mean I still love it but sometimes you grow up and you don’t realize how lucky you are. I was spoiled rotten in a natural kind of way."

In late 2007, Chaney played bass on the studio version of Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki's song Together When....