David Scott Stone (sometimes referred to as Sir DSS and Mr. David Ascott Stone) is an American musician who has recorded and toured with artists like The Melvins, Unwound, Fantômas, The Locust, Jello Biafra, Keiji Haino, Mike Patton, Adam Jones (Tool), Merzbow, Masonna, Big Business, No Age, Joe Lally and others.
He has been a regular performer at The Smell, a DIY music venue in Los Angeles since its opening.
He builds his own instruments and modifies commercially available ones, which he then uses to record and perform his music.
With The Melvins he has recorded on the albums Honky, Hostile Ambient Takeover, and Pigs of the Roman Empire using guitars, bowed cymbals, oscillators, analog synths, and instruments that he has built such as the "Electric Thundersheet", and the "Electric Long Thin Wire" that "use piezo elements in a regeneration circuit".
Melvins drummer Dale Crover has gone on to say about Stone "He's the Eno of our band".