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Danny Frankenstein

Better Living Through Frankenstein.

About Me

The year was 1972 when I had first risen from the swamps of what we like to call... NEW JERSEY!! Thanks to such things as older brothers and television, I soon became addicted to punk rock and many pop culture icons like... Ultraman, Gigantor, Battle of the Planets (G-Force), Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Rat Fink, Alice Cooper, Marine Boy, The Misfits, Bannana Splits Show, Land of the Lost, the list goes on and on. Eventually, through a toxic mixture of Elvis, the Misfits, and Christian Death, I started playing the bass guitar.
I play Bass from time to time in a band called Electric Frankenstein and I'm also playing in a new band called When I Was Dead.
I've also at one time or another played bass for the following bands...
Empire Hideous, Kathedral, Shadow Project (featuring members of Christian Death and Super Heroines), The Fiendz, Voodoo Church.
I've played guitar for...
Maggot SS, Kung Fu Killers, Melvis Kepper, Rozz Williams
Designed album covers for...
Electric Frankenstein, Christian Death, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Kathedral
One more interesting tid bit... I taught Jerry Only & Doyle how to play all the old Misfits songs when they decided to get back together. They didn't own a single Misfits record between the 2 of them! Had to give them all the lyrics too!!

My Interests

My family, music, drawing, playing guitar and bass, video and film production, fishing, soccer, japanese superhero toys, anime, monsters, comic books, tattoos, motorcycles and hot rods.

I'd like to meet:

Evel Knievel, George Barris, Stan Lee, Frankenstein, Ultraman, Jezebelle Bond and Mysterio!

Music:

Electric Frankenstein, The Damned, Sex Pistols, Misfits, Samhain, Christian Death, AFI, Black Flag, Social Distortion, The Adolescents, The Germs, CH3, ADZ, Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, TSOL, Stiff Little Fingers, Type-O Negative, Celtic Frost, Voivod, Gary Numan, Bauhaus, Joy Division, When I Was Dead, The Faint, Motorhead, theSTART, Murphy's Law, old Motley Crue, Slayer, Danzig, Kathedral, Sex Gang Children, The Cult, Cure, Black Sabbath, New York Dolls, 45 Grave, Shadow Project, Voodoo Church, The Nerve Agents, D*Generation, The Stooges, MC5, Candy Snatchers, Dwarves, Naked Raygun, Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, ...

Movies:

Hellboy, Spider-Man, DellaMorte DellaAmore, Lord of the Rings, Shaft, Alien, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Taxi Driver, Evil Dead, The Empire Strikes Back, anything by John Waters!

Television:

CSI, House, Heroes, Teen Titans, Battle of the Planets, Astro Boy, Spider-Man, Gigantor, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Devilman...

Books:

Death's Acre, Touching From A Distance, Get In The Van, The Spirit, Lexicon Devil, Prisoner of X

Heroes:

Tony Reflex, Steve Soto, Rikk Agnew, Frank Agnew, Algy Ward, Lemmy, Glenn Danzig, George Barris, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Stan Lee, John Romita, Jack Kirby, Frankenstein and my girls...

My Blog

John Phillip Law | 1937-2008

John Phillip Law, a tall, blond actor who cut a striking figure as the blind angel opposite Jane Fonda in 1968's "Barbarella" and in other film roles, has died. He was 70.Law died Tuesday at his Los A...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:12:00 PST

KUNG FU KILLERS! 1st Live Show Ever!!!!


Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:38:00 PST

Remembering Ed "Big Daddy" Roth today...

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth  March 4, 1932 - April 4, 2001 Photo © Moldy Marvin Automated Entertainment 12/2000...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:50:00 PST

In case you were wondering...

In case you were wondering and I’m sure that you were... I still love the rare and illusive Zagnut Bar. I found one the other day in a vending machine at a client’s office that I was ...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:52:00 PST

Funniest Ultraman video I’ve ever seen!!

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Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:11:00 PST

Comic artist Dave Stevens dies

Dave was a super nice guy. I’d met him several times over the years. He gave Kim and I a beautiful signed Rocketeer print one day at Chiller just because we liked it so much. He refused to take ...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:43:00 PST

Mike Conley of Mia found murdered in Chicago...

Update: UPDATE: On February 28, 2008, former M.I.A. singer Mike Conley died in Chicago. Police have ruled out murder as the cause of his death, stating he had injuries consistent with a fall. There is...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:03:00 PST

Car-Building Legend Boyd Coddington Dies

Car-Building Legend Boyd Coddington DiesBy JEFF WILSON LOS ANGELES (AP)  Car-building legend Boyd Coddington, whose testosterone-injected cable TV reality show "American Hot Rod" introduced the natio...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:40:00 PST

R.I.P. Vampira

RIP VAMPIRABorn Maila Syrjäniemi, she moved to the United States with her family when she was two years old and grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio, home to the largest Finnish-American community in Ohio. Arri...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:08:00 PST

Rock Band

OK, so I got Rock Band for X-Mas and it totally kicks Guitar Heroes ass! First of all the drum kit totally rules. It is so much fun to play. The guitar felt a little flimsy to me at first but once I g...
Posted by Danny Frankenstein on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:07:00 PST