question: What nationality is the person who is known for playing bass for the lead singer of the Smiths?
answer: British
context: Title: Brian Helicopter
  Passage: Brian Helicopter is the stage name of Gareth Holder (born 27 June 1958, Leamington Spa), an English musician, based in the United States.  He is best known for playing bass guitar for the UK punk rock band The Shapes.  He also played for many other bands, the most notable being the NWOBHM bands Rogue Male and HellsBelles.  For a short time in the early 1980s, he was also a member of British R&B band The Mosquitos, with guitarist Steve Walwyn of Dr. Feelgood and Eddie and the Hot Rods, and can be seen on the cover of The Mosquitos only single "Somethin' Outta Nothin'".  A prolific session player, he appears both credited and uncreditied on many releases throughout the 1980s and early 1990s under both his real and stage name.  He was one of the first bassists in the nascent UK punk scene to adopt the Rickenbacker bass guitar which he still uses to this day.  He was also one of the first bass guitarists in the world to use Trace Elliot amplification.  His bass playing style is characterized by a very fast precise pick attack, and fast runs.  Unusually for a bass guitarist, he sometimes utilizes an overhand tapping technique more common to six string players.  He continues to play professionally, reverting between his real name and his stage name as the fancy takes him.  He is also a professional skydiving coach and instructor, currently holding seven world records in the sport.  He can be seen in an episode of MythBusters aired on the Discovery Channel taking presenter Kari Byron skydiving whilst testing the falling airplane blue ice myth.  He is also a vegetarian.  He can be seen in the independent film Six Sex Scenes and a Murder, in the role of the bounty hunter.  He currently resides in California, where he plays bass for the San Francisco Bay Area band Ghosthookers.  Ghosthookers released a record in 2008 which features Brian Helicopter on bass under his real name.
  Title: Sean Kelly (Canadian musician)
  Passage: Sean Kelly is a Canadian musician, currently playing guitar in the band with Nelly Furtado.  He founded the Toronto-based glam rock band Crash Kelly, and is the band's lead singer and guitarist.  Kelly was a member of Canadian rock band Helix, playing bass guitar.  He stayed with them for most of 2009 at which time joined Furtado's band on guitar.  He is also guitarist for the Toronto rock group 69 Duster, which he co-founded with the ex-singer for Images in Vogue, Dale Martindale.  He has done session guitar work for other bands as well, including Neil Leyton's 2003 album, Midnight Sun, and was a member of Jeff Pearce's band Rye.  Kelly has also collaborated with Gilby Clarke, Rough Trade, Rudy Sarzo, Coney Hatch, and The Canadian Brass.
  Title: Gary Day (musician)
  Passage: Gary Day (born 27 June 1965) is a British musician.  known for playing bass for Morrissey.
  Title: Brian Roy Goble
  Passage: Brian Roy Goble, (January 4, 1957 – December 7, 2014), also known as Wimpy Roy or Brian "Sunny Boy Roy" Goble, was a Canadian singer and musician.  He played bass for many Vancouver punk bands.  First with Stone Crazy, Brian then went to punk rock, playing bass with The Skulls before becoming lead singer for The Subhumans when The Skulls split.  After the demise of Subhumans, Brian joined D.O.A. in the middle of the '80's as bass player and second singer and quit in the end of the 90's after the Black Spot tour.  He reunited with The Subhumans in 2006.
  Title: Gene (band)
  Passage: Gene were an English alternative rock quartet that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s.  Formed in 1993, they were popularly labelled as a Britpop band and often drew comparisons to The Smiths because of their Morrissey-esque lead singer, Martin Rossiter.  Gene's music was influenced by The Jam, The Smiths, The Style Council and The Clash.
  Title: Chad Alan
  Passage: Chad Alan (also known as Chad Monticue) is a musician, known for providing lead vocals for the band Pensive, and also for playing bass guitar and providing backing vocals for the bands The Juliana Theory Derek White and the Monophobics.  Currently he is a singer/songwriter for the group Vesta Chad plays bass/back up vocals for the band 1,2,3.
  Title: Los Dregtones
  Passage: Los Dregtones was a band from El Paso, Texas, led by Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals/drums), Ralph Jasso (guitar) and Jimmy Hernandez (bass).  The line-up changed multiple times with Julio Venegas playing bass for a long duration while Hernandez was off at music school at the Atlanta Institute of Music in Atlanta, GA.  Other members included Luis Prieto (Percussion), Brooks Miller (trumpet), Adam Young (drums), and Andrew McCoi (drums).  In 1994, they released a demo recorded at Rosewood Studios by Mike Majors (produced by Sparta), titled "Five Song Alibi".  The style of the album was not unlike what lead singer Cedric Bixler would later perform with The Mars Volta; psychedelic rock, with hints of salsa, reggae, and occasional Led Zeppelin-esque guitar riffs, with punk rock.  The cover and insert art was drawn by Julio Venegas, which features a six armed serpent women with a third eye and long ugly hair, and a symbol on the end of its tail that would later be used by Cedric and Omar Rodríguez-López on The Mars Volta's stickers, shirts, and other merchandise.  Guitarist Ralph Jasso would later play bass briefly for The Mars Volta.
  Title: Louiche Mayorga
  Passage: Louiche Mayorga (born June 21, 1963) is best known for his bass playing in the Venice Beach punk band Suicidal Tendencies.  He co-wrote many of their earlier songs including the punk classic "Institutionalized" from their 1983 debut album on Frontier, as well as" "War Inside My Head," "Possessed to Skate."  and the title track "Join the Army" from their second release on Caroline.  He has also played for Venice bands; Los Cycos, Uncle Slam, Horny Toad, AgainST and most recently joined forces with his long-time friends Beowülf playing bass on their new album, entitled "Jesus Freak".  Mayorga is currently playing bass in Luicidal, who plays songs from Suicidal Tendencies' first three albums.
  Title: Morrissey
  Passage: Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), professionally known as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.  He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the indie rock band the Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987.  Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions.
  Title: Corrupted Ideals
  Passage: Corrupted Ideals is a punk rock band from Long Beach, California formed in 1988.  The band's early line-up, which appeared on their first full-length LP, Join the Resistance, included Paul Kelly and Mike Nigro, on vocals and guitar, respectively.  They wrote most of the material together, with Mike writing most of the music, and Paul contributing most of the lyrics.  The band's second release, Anti-Generation, came with a lineup change, including Pete "Action Man" Archer on bass, and Anthony Guarino on drums.  Nicky Garratt also played guitar on portions of Anti-Generation, including the CI cover of the UK Subs, "Telephone Numbers."  Pete and Anthony played in another band together in the mid-1980s, called Violent Outrage (a band that played with Corrupted Ideals regularly in the mid-late 1980s.  This line up changed slightly a week before touring the Western US, with Pete moving to bass in the Stitches (who were opening for Corrupted Ideals on tour), and Anthony moving to bass, as the band was able to recruit celebrated punk rock drummer Sean Antillon to play drums.  Sean is known best for playing drums for the Weirdos, but also has (or is currently) played for the Gears, the Stains, the Skulls, and many other early LA bands who reformed.  Currently, Corrupted Ideals lineup includes Steve Swailes of the Hitchhikers playing guitar, Paul Kelly on vocals, Anthony Guarino playing bass, and Sean Antillon on drums.
citations: Morrissey Gary Day (musician)