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Count Dante

Kung Fu Rock and Roll Success Seminar!

About Me

Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society show you how to punch, kick and grapple your way to ultimate success and stardom!!!! For his ground breaking 2000 release "The Deadliest Man Alive," Count Dante was nominated for the 2001 California Music Award for Outstanding Bassist! Count Dante has traveled the world with Incredibly Strange Wrestling and has lent his awesome oratory skills to hosting peep shows and boxing cards. Joined by Jim "Ch'I Power" Henderson and The General Tom Lesondak, these fighting men form an unconquerable triad of rock that will show you how to gain the mount on success with their FM radio ready rock anthems!

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Member Since: 8/1/2004
Band Website: count-dante.com
Band Members: Count Dante, lead vocals, bass, grappling, success
General Tom Lesondak, tactical guitar soloing solutions
Jim "Ch'I Power" Henderson, drums, vocals, fiscal responsibility
Influences: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, KISS, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Arthur Brown, Scremin' Jay Hawkins, Jack Kirby, Tom Jones, 1970s Micronauts comics, Thin Lizzy, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Telly Savalas, Tom Vu, Elvis Presley, Iron Maiden, Queen, Steve Leialoha, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bad Sci-Fi Kirby Cap, Rush, Willie Dixon, that Junior Welles record with Buddy Guy playing guitar on it, Cactus, Electric Mud, Benjamin Grimm, Motorhead, Styx, Hendrix, Sabbath, Boston, The Upper Crust, Arnocorps, Wild Turkey, Gene LeBell, Royce Gracie, The Glamour Pussies and most importantly... You!
Sounds Like: Kiss meets Elvis sound played at a Ramones tempo with Dead Kennedys thrash
Record Label: Hofbrau Dojo Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

He Was the Man

It was a long walk to the back room at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando for Ric Flair last night. Yes, his loss to "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels was not only a forgone conclusion but pre-determined by...
Posted by Count Dante on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:18:00 PST

Video from the THOR show!

A video highlight reel of Thor’s epic team-up with Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society is now on Youtube! This video (excellently edited by a man known only as Mister Wa) was shot ...
Posted by Count Dante on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:11:00 PST

Count Dante’s ISW Memoirs!

Count Dante retired from the brutal arena of Incredibly Strange Wrestling to pen his memoirs and those memoirs are coming out this April from ECW Press! Here's some more info...BEER, BL...
Posted by Count Dante on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:07:00 PST

Dante Endorses Dodd for President.

After such heavyweights as Chuck Norris and Ric Flair put their muscle behind Mike Huckabee for President, Dante decided it was high time to weigh in on the 2008 Presidential race. After careful consi...
Posted by Count Dante on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

I just realized that I was seeing The Mentors on the same night as my 20-year HS reunion!

The Mentors show was at Annie's Social Club in San Francisco. The all-girl Mentors tribute band The Womentors opened. The Womentors were so sloppy that they made the El Duce-less Mentors look like 197...
Posted by Count Dante on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:37:00 PST

New Count Dante Song on Myspace

Yes, the Count, Ch'i Power and the General went into the World Chi Recording Studio (425 2nd St., Ste. 101, SF, CA) and recorded a couple of new songs. For a limited time only, the Mythical epic "Heph...
Posted by Count Dante on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:34:00 PST

Dennis Erectus Benefit Rundown with Video!

Here's the official rundown of the Dennis Erectus Benefit, complete with video of Stone Vengeance tearing it up and the Count playing it with gravy on "Hofbrau Lady." (Thanks to Bret of Tiger Shark Vi...
Posted by Count Dante on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:45:00 PST

Dennis Erectus Benefit Thursday Mar. 15th.

THURSDAY MARCH 15, 2007, 9:00pmA BENEFIT FOR BAY AREA ROCK RADIO LEGEND DENNIS ERECTUSAt the BOTTOM OF THE HILL1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri) San Francisco, CA 94107 with COUNT DANTE AND TH...
Posted by Count Dante on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:39:00 PST

taking pictures of the lower half of the mayor's body

Luckily no strippers were injured in the landslide that attacked North Beach the other night, but the Gavin Newsom Stalker story is somehow overshadowed by said North Beach Landslide. This is esp...
Posted by Count Dante on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:01:00 PST

James Brown at SuperBrawl

I always meant to see James Brown live in concert. I remember the time he played the Keystone in Palo Alto during his down and out days in the early 80s when he could only scrape together small club b...
Posted by Count Dante on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:30:00 PST