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When I Was Dead

Super Atomic Punk Rock n' Roll!

About Me

Tony Reflex - Leader singer of the Adolescents and ADZ. Tony is the lead screamer on the song you are listening to, Annihilaton Street. He is the first of many special guests that will be featured on our upcoming album.
Danny Frankenstein - Former member of legendary punk rock n' roll band Electric Frankenstien and at one time or another played in these other bands... Shadow Project (w/Rozz Williams of Christian Death fame on vocals and Eva O. of Super Heroines on guitar), Kathedral, Empire Hideous, Maggott SS, Melvis Kepper, and The Kung Fu Killers.
C.A. Richie - Played guitar for NJ hardcore punk legends Rosemary's Babies (w/Eerie Von on drums!) and in a very early incarnation of Samhain (w/Glenn Danzig & Eerie Von).
Lenny Love - Former guitar player of The Mopes (w/ ex-Misfit Michael Graves), Kathedral, Melvis Kepper and was lead singer of the notorious Vicious Vibes (aka The Vicious Vibrators). One Time (literally) bodyguard/roadie for no wave legend from the future VON LMO.
Crazy Joe Martin - Former drummer for Kill Your Idols, current skin basher for punk rock n' roll legends Electric Frankenstein
**Recent Guests**
Rikk Agnew (Adolescents, Christian Death)
Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks)
Tina Winter (Voodoo Church)
Gabby (Manic Hispanic, Cadillac Tramps)
George Paras (ADZ, Bonecrusher)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/11/2005
Band Website: wheniwasdead.com
Band Members: Danny Frankenstein - Bass
Lenny Love - Guitar
C.A. Richie - Guitar
Crazy Joe Martin- Drums
Influences: The Damned, Misfits, Samhain, Rosemary's Babies, Electric Frankenstein, Black Flag, The Adolescents, Social Distortion, TSOL, D.I., The Ramones, The Germs, 45 Grave, AFI, Motorhead, The Cult, The Dickies, Agent Orange, The Avengers, ADZ, Gary Numan, Sex Gang Children, X, 7 Seconds, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Naked Raygun, Johnny Cash, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Bad Brains, etc...
Sounds Like: The Damned, Adolescents, Misfits, Social Distortion, D.I., TSOL, Black Flag
Record Label: WWFD
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

R.I.P. Kristee aka Gidget

Our friend Kristee or as we called her, Gidget passed away in her sleep on Sunday. She had a larger than life personality and was a very good person. We had known her mainly from the Ad...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:05:00 PST

Finally back to recording

Well after taking pretty much the entire summer off we are back in the studio. Finished up 2 songs completely and hopefully we'll get going on 2 more this week at some point. There isn't much music le...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:30:00 PST

CD is coming along...

The CD is coming along nicely. I'll be back in the studio tonight to listen back to all the tracks and decide what else is needed. Almost all the music is done but there are a shitload of vocals that ...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:23:00 PST

Artist needed...

We're looking for someone to do some artwork for us. Since everything we are doing right now is DIY, we can't afford to pay too much right now. Take a look at the pictures below for inspiration. We do...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:48:00 PST

guitars, guitars, guitars....

Spent the weekend in the studio finishing up the guitar tracks for the album. Songs are sounding very full and loud. We're very happy with what we've got so far. There are just a few tracks left that ...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:17:00 PST

Back from the west coast...

Hello boys and girls! It's good to be back. We had a blast traveling around Southern California. Did anyone happen to catch us on Jimmy Kimmel Live? Sorry we couldn't tell anybody in advance but we li...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:27:00 PST

We're too loud!!

So we were rehearsing last night and it was pretty loud so after a couple of songs we decided maybe we should turn the volume down a bit. So then we're like, OK we can hear the drums and the PA now th...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:07:00 PST

Recording going great & Joe Martin kicks ass!!

OK, we've been in the studio recording some basic tracks to bring out to LA with us. Everything is coming along very, very well, and I must say most of the credit this time has to go to our drummer "C...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:24:00 PST

Moving at the speed of light...

Well, we're back in the studio tomorrow to record some more basic tracks then we're off to California again. We'll be in LA from Feb.3rd to the 12th working on a ton of guest spots for the album. Not ...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:08:00 PST

Back to the west coast....

Howdy folks! Just wanted to give you all a quick update of what's going on with When I Was Dead. First off it's back to the recording studio in NJ for some more basic tracks in January then it's off t...
Posted by When I Was Dead on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:31:00 PST