Keith Mitchell

Keith Mitchell plays drums in Mazzy Star. He was born and raised in Long Beach, California, USA June 16. Keith has played in many different bands in the last 20 years. He played with Monitor in 1981 and with The Romans for some years in the mid 80's. Between 1983-86 The Romans released three albums. Keith also played drums on some tracks on Johanna Went's album Posh Boy in 1982. Other bands he's been playing with before Mazzy Star are Green On Red, Clay Allison, Opal and in 1989 with Chris Cacavas And Junkyard Love.

Keith Mitchell knew Kendra Smith when he was in Monitor, she and David were fans and in early 1984, when the drummer of Clay Allison, Terry Graham, left the band they asked him to join Clay Allison to fill his place. It seemed like he was the perfect drummer for Clay Allison. David Roback was delighted when Keith first played with the band. His great ambient and rhythmic droning drums matched perfectly with the sound of the band.
Keith followed David into Opal and later on into Mazzy Star so he has been playing with David Roback for a long time and he has played drums on all three Mazzy Star albums with exception for some songs.

For a while he worked on his own material and formed a group called Euphora together with singer Mary Mullen. Unfortunately they ended their collaboration after some time.

Keith were the only original Mazzy Star member (besides Hope and David) that played on the short european tour in 2000.

In 2004 Keith worked together with the band Sugarplum Fairies and played drums on their album "Introspective Raincoat Student Music" (Starfish 2004).