Rachel Haden

Rachel Haden
Haden playing with Jimmy Eat World, 2001
Background information
Born	(1971-10-11) October 11, 1971 (age 45) New York City, New York
Instruments	Vocals, bass guitar, drums, keyboards
Associated acts	Beck, Dntel, Fightstar, The Haden Triplets, Jimmy Eat World, Lucky Pierre, Ozma, The Rentals, The Sell Outs, That Dog, Weezer

Rachel Haden (born October 11, 1971 in New York City) is an American musician and one of the triplet daughters of jazz bassist Charlie Haden.

In the early 1990s, Rachel played bass guitar for That Dog, a band that also included her sister Petra. Her sister Tanya also contributed cello on several That Dog recordings, but did not tour as an official member of the band. Around this time Rachel also played drums and performed backup vocals for Beck on the songs "Totally Confused" and "Steve Threw Up”. She also played drums for Beck’s “Pink Noise (Rock Me Amadeus)".

Later, Rachel became one of the four early members of the band the Rentals, along with Rod Cervera and Weezer’s Patrick Wilson and Matt Sharp. In 1996, she performed lead vocals on the Weezer song “I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams”, originally written for the abandoned Songs from the Black Hole album. Rachel was Rivers Cuomo's choice to play the "good girl" character, Laurel. As a special encore surprise for the audience, Rachel performed “I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams” with Weezer in the Hard Rock's "The Joint" in Las Vegas, NV, on Friday January 21, 2011.

In 1999, Rachel contributed a cover of the song “Poems, Prayers, and Promises” for the album A Tribute to John Denver. Around this same time, she played bass and performed vocals as a member of The Martinis along with Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and his wife Linda Mallari. In 1999 Rachel also contributed backing vocals on "Snoother" by The For Carnation on their eponymous album.