John Langley

Jonathan Allen Langley (born June 27, 1969 in Chicago) is a American bassist, songwriter, director and producer. He was one of the founding members of hard rock band Bulla, along with vocalist Stanley Miller and guitarist Doug Lawrence, acting as a bassist, backing vocalist and primary lyricist of the band. His lyrics dealt with various themes such as: melancholy, loneliness, depression, failed relationships, drug addiction and sexual innuendo (which was the subject matter of many songs on Animal Kingdom and Desintegration Network).

He acted as a executive producer and co-showrunner on 2017 The Duck Bros. reboot until leaving the show during the season 2.

Discography

 * With Bulla
 * 1995 - Swimming with the Sharks
 * 1996 - A Shoal of Dead Fish
 * 1998 - Animal Kingdom
 * 2001 - Desintegration Network
 * 2004 - Hold Your Country
 * 2005 - Resilience is Futile
 * 2006 - Decerebration Channel
 * 2008 - Close Enough
 * 2011 - See You on the Other Side
 * 2017 - Sweat and Sacrifice


 * 2002 - A Little South of Insanity
 * 2002 - Desintegration Network Bootlegs
 * 2004 - Hold Your Country Bootlegs
 * 2005 - Era Vulgaris Bootlegs
 * 2005 - MTV Hard Rock Live
 * 2006 - Dracula Revival Bootlegs
 * 2006 - Dracula Revival Live
 * 2006 - Projekt Skhool Bootlegs
 * 2011 - Live on the Other Side


 * Outside Bulla
 * 1993 - Songs of Anger and Frustration (Cypress Creek): "A Question of Faith", "Drug Hotel"
 * 1996 - King For a Day... Fool For a Lifetime (Cypress Creek): "No Strings Attached" and "I Can't Explain" and "Secret World"
 * 1998 - The Unauthorized Memories of the Gravity (Cypress Creek): "Recovery"

Filmography

 * As a music video director
 * 1995 - "Let It Die" (Self-titled album from 1995
 * 1996 - "Suit" (Self-titled album from 1995)
 * 1998 - "Sweat" (Animal Kingdom, 1998)
 * 2001 - "Big Time" (Desintegration Network, 2001)
 * 2004 - "Gun" (Hold Your Country, 2004)
 * 2005 - "Daylight" (Era Vulgaris, 2005)


 * Film credits
 * 2015 - Mist (director and writer)
 * 2021 - Misery, Inc. (co-director with Brad Bird; co-writer with J. J. Abrams, Bird, Damon Lindelof, Jeff Nathanson, Michael Rowe and Josh Weinstein; producer and voice actor)


 * Television credits
 * 2000-01 - Dangerous House (developer and executive producer)
 * 2017-20 - ''The Duck Bros. (developer, executive producer and occasional writer)

Equipment

 * Basses


 * Fender Precision
 * Epiphone Goth Thunderbird
 * ESP LTD TL-4
 * Furch Bc 61-CM 4
 * Gibson Les Paul
 * Gibson Thunderbird IV
 * Music Man Stingray
 * Rickenbacker 4003 Ruby Red


 * Pedals


 * BOSS TR-2 Tremolo
 * BOSS ME-50 multi-effect
 * BOSS DD-3 Digital Delay
 * BOSS RV-5 Digital Reverb
 * BOSS FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz
 * Danelectro Fab Tone
 * Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
 * Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler


 * Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro controller
 * Electro-Harmonix Russian Big Muff
 * MXR M-133 Micro Amp
 * Moog Little Phatty synthesizer
 * microKORG
 * Novation Bass Station 2


 * Amplification
 * Avalon U5 DI preamp
 * Ampeg SVT Classic heads
 * Audio Kitchen Base Chopper heads (since Resilience is Futile)
 * Ampeg SVT 8x10" cabinets
 * Fender amplifier