Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu (born November 2, 1969 in Bakersfield, California) is the bass player for the band Korn.
Prior to this, he also started the band L.A.P.D with Munky and David Silveria, who are also founding members of Korn, and Richard Morrel (another Bakersfield native unrelated to Korn). L.A.P.D stood for "Laughing at People Dying".
The name "Fieldy" is said to have come about as an abbreviation for "Garfield", based on the comic strip character of the same name. Originally, his band mates called him "Gopher", due to his large cheeks. Gopher became "Garf", Garf became Garfield, which became Fieldy. His full moniker is "Fieldy Snuts", which when spoken aloud sounds like "Feel these nuts", or "Fieldy's nuts". This is also the name of his record label.
He plays a 5-string Ibanez model SDGR SR5005, named the K-5, which is his signature bass.
His playing style consists of slapping, double slapping, double-popping, standard finger-style plucking, and palm muting; his standard tuning is: A, D, G, C, F.
Fieldy is the only left handed member of Korn, yet he plays the bass right handed. The majority of Fieldy's bass riffs are hip-hop inspired. He says he gets inspiration from anything hip-hop. On the business side of Korn, Fieldy is responsible for all Korn merchandise, its buying and selling. He will come up with a number of designs, shows them to the band and they either approve or disapprove. It is said he titled every Korn album. Fieldy's first job was selling plants door to door, and after that he cleaned carpets.
When Korn was playing a show in Jacksonville, Florida, William Frederick "Fred" Durst, who happened to be a tattoo artist at the time, made friends with Fieldy and guitarist Head while fixing them up. The new friends promised to hang out again the next time Korn passed through town. By the next time the Korn Krew came to Jacksonville, Durst had a Limp Bizkit demo to play for them. The suitably impressed Fieldy and Head passed the tape on to their producer at that time, Ross Robinson, who in turn was impressed by the band's sound and produced Limp Bizkit's first album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall$.
In addition to Korn, he has a rap side project called Fieldy's Dreams. He has released one album, Rock'n Roll Gangster. He currently has a second album in the works.
Fieldy married his girlfriend Deena Beber on Tuesday, 16th of May 2006. KoRn's guitarist, Munky played nylon guitar at the wedding. It is her first marriage and his second. Fieldy has two daughters, Serena and Olivia Arvizu, from his first marriage from Sheela Arvizu, and him and his current wife Deena had a son earlier this year and named him Israel.
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