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Jesse Tobias
Tobias withMorrissey in 2011
Background information
Born	(1972-04-01)April 1, 1972 (age 53) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, record producer, arranger
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1990–present

Jesse Tobias (born April 1, 1972) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and co-writer forMorrissey since 2004. Tobias first gained fame during a brief tenure with theRed Hot Chili Peppers in 1993, although he was replaced byDave Navarro within a month after joining the band. Before he joined the Chili Peppers, he briefly played with the band Mother Tongue. In 1995, Tobias joined the touring band forAlanis Morissette, and from 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the musical duoSplendid alongside his then-wifeAngie Hart.

In 1990, Tobias formed the band Mother Tongue inAustin, Texas.^[1] They were signed to a record label in 1992.Anthony Kiedis of theRed Hot Chili Peppers spotted Tobias and Mother Tongue in a local nightclub, while they were looking for guitar player to replaceJohn Frusciante.Dave Navarro had recently turned them down.^{[citation needed]}

Kiedis felt that Tobias had what the band was looking for and after months of long auditions (in which the band took out an ad in the newspaper), Tobias was on board as the new guitarist for theChili Peppers. Tobias and the Peppers began writing for the next record; however, while the band felt Tobias was a great guitarist, the connection just wasn't there between Jesse and the other three, especially bassistFlea. At this time, Dave Navarro suddenly made himself available and the band fired Tobias, Kiedis saying that it would have happened regardless of Navarro becoming available. The band felt bad that they pulled Tobias away from a band he just joined only to fire him a month later.^[2]

Tobias would resurface two years later withAlanis Morissette and would be her guitarist on herJagged Little Pill world tour. While he was on tour with Morissette in 1996, he metAngie Hart, whose bandFrente! was Morissette's opening act. The two were married in 1997 and moved toLos Angeles. Tobias continued to work as asession player, touring guitarist and in other non-performing roles in the music industry. The pair formed their own band,Splendid, which released an album in 1999. The album's release was largely received only inAustralia; and the band's American exposure was mostly due only to their association withJoss Whedon, creator ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer, including on-camera appearances when Splendid performed at The Bronze, the fictional nightclub featured in the series. Tobias was credited as aproducer (withChristophe Beck and Whedon) and with arranging the music (with Beck) for "Once More, with Feeling", the musical episode from Whedon's show's sixth season.^[3] Hart and Tobias ended their marriage in divorce in early 2005.^[4]

Tobias joined Morrissey's touring band in 2004 after the illness ofAlain Whyte and eventually became a permanent member of the group, having appeared on all studio recordings and live gigs since. He has also co-written several top-charting singles for Morrissey which includes "You Have Killed Me", "In The Future When All's Well", and "All You Need Is Me".

In 2020, Tobias worked withMorrissey on his upcoming albumBonfire of Teenagers, which was due to be released in February 2023, but in December 2022, it was announced thatCapitol Records had backed out of the deal.^[5][6] The fate of the album is unknown.

withAlanis Morissette

• Jagged Little Pill, Live (1997)

withSplendid

• "Less Than Zero" (1999)
• Have You Got A Name For It (1999)
• "Come Clean" (1999)
• States of Awake EP (2004)

withMorrissey

• Live at Earls Court (2005)
• Ringleader of the Tormentors (2006)
• Years of Refusal (2009)
• Greatest Hits (2008)
• Swords (2009)
• 25Live (2013)
• World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014)
• Low in High School (2017)
• California Son (2019)
• I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020)
• Without Music the World Dies (scrapped)
• Bonfire of Teenagers (unreleased)

other appearances

• "Once More, with Feeling" by Jesse Tobias withChristophe Beck

• "You Have Killed Me", "The Youngest Was the Most Loved", "In The Future When All's Well", "On the Streets I Ran" and "I Just Want to See the Boy Happy" fromRingleader of the Tormentors
• "All You Need Is Me", "Sorry Doesn't Help" and "I'm OK by Myself" fromYears of Refusal
• "I'm Not a Man", "The Bullfighter Dies", "Kiss Me a Lot", "Smiler with Knife" and "Kick the Bride Down the Aisle" fromWorld Peace Is None of Your Business – "Forgive Someone" (only on deluxe version)
• "I Bury The Living" and "When You Open Your Legs" fromLow in High School
• "Jim Jim Falls", "I Am Not a Dog On a Chain", "What Kind of People Live in These Houses?", "Knockabout World", "Once I Saw the River Clean" and "My Hurling Days Are Done" fromI Am Not a Dog on a Chain
• "Kerouac's Crack", "I Live in Oblivion" and "I Ex-Love You" fromBonfire of Teenagers
• "The Night Pop Dropped" and "Zoom Zoom The Little Boy" fromWithout Music the World Dies (scrapped)
• "I Knew I Was Next", "If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look at Me", Children in Pieces", "People Are the Same Everywhere" and "I Thought You Were Dead" are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.
• "By The Time I Get To Wherever I'm Going", "Once Upon a Woman's Body" and "You Don't Need Their Approval" are unreleased tracks.

• 1972 births
• Living people
• Musicians from Austin, Texas
• American rock guitarists
• American male guitarists
• Red Hot Chili Peppers members
• American session musicians
• American musicians of Mexican descent
• Frente! members
• Morrissey band members

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