David Schulthise (September 16, 1956 – March 10, 2004), also known as Dave Blood, was an American musician best known as the original bass guitarist for the punk band The Dead Milkmen.

He helped form the band in 1983 along with fellow pseudonymous musicians Joe Jack Talcum, Dean Clean, and Rodney Anonymous.

[1] He stopped playing music in 1995 after the band broke up as the result of developing tendinitis in both hands.

After the band disbanded, he enrolled at Indiana University to study Serbo-Croatian language, literature, and history.

He moved to Serbia for work and study in 1998, but in the wake of the NATO bombing campaign there he was forced to return to the US.