Timothy B. Schmit

Born:: October 30, 1947, he's 64 and American.
Names:: Birthname: Timothy Bruce Schmit. Alternative names: Tim Schmit.
Snapshot:: An Artist with 6 releases, a member of 2 groups, and credited 24 times on others' music. 15 collaborations and 3 musical relatives.

Timothy B. Schmit is a current member of the legendary Eagles. Schmit came to the Eagles in 1977 from one of the earliest and most influential country-rock bands, Poco, replacing original bassist Randy Meisner, who he had previously replaced in Poco shortly after their first album. Schmit is the co-writer and lead singer of one of the Eagles’ best-loved hit songs “I Can’t Tell You Why”. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Eagles in 1998.

Schmit was born October 30, 1947 in Oakland, California and was raised in Sacramento, California. It is ironic, considering the Eagles’ long association California, that Schmit is the only native Californian to ever be a member of the band. He counts among his strongest early musical influences, the Kingston Trio and the Beach Boys. Schmit was honored to sing with the Beach Boys on their 1996 album “Stars and Stripes Vol. 1” where he covered “Caroline No” and sang the background vocals with Beach Boys Brian and Carl Wilson, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston. Schmit also performed at the memorial service for the Kingston Trio’s John Stewart and there met and befriended the Trio’s Nick Reynolds in the last months of his life. He is now the proud guardian of Reynolds’ acoustic tenor guitar which was used to record many of the Trio’s hits.

Schmit is known for his beautiful high tenor voice, and has sung harmony vocals on a huge number of albums, including: Steely Dan’s “The Royal Scam”, “Aja” and “Pretzel Logic”; Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind” and “Like a Rock”, Toto’s “Toto IV” (where his voice was highlighted on the chorus of the hit single “I Won’t Hold You Back”), Randy Newman’s “Little Criminals”, and countless other albums for the likes of Elton John, Jimmy Buffett, Dan Fogelberg, Brian Wilson, John Fogerty, Warren Zevon, Tim McGraw, Vince Gill, Pam Tillis and Dwight Yoakam. Schmit is also an accomplished instrumentalist who is known as a bass player, but also plays acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, keyboards and drums.