Jerry Scheff

Personal context

Summary

Jerry Scheff is a bassist best known for playing with Elvis Presley’s TCB Band and on The Doors’ L.A. Woman, with a long career as a session and touring musician for artists including Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, and Elvis Costello. His public accounts focus on music and life on the road. He said he opposed the Vietnam War and attended three demonstrations against it. No public statements on DEI, identity politics, or other activist causes are on record.