This is a photo of me at age 19. My very first band. We were a hardcore punk band, influenced by Minor Threat, The FUs, T.S.O.L. and of course Samhain & the Miisfits. In the back is drummer Frank Nasta, who (if Im correct), plays drums for or played drums for my first Empire Hideous guitarist Don Faratu, aka Don TombsTone of the TombsTones. Then again Frank may have left and I think my old Hideous drummer from 1993, Ed Minus, (whos real name escapes me presently) may be playing for The TombsTones. Either way, This photo was taken around 1985, by photographer Michael Vayenas, who I met about a year earlier through a base player named Bruce Benjamin, who played for a short time in a band called Rosemarys Babies (Errie Von Stelmans 1st hardcore band before he joined with Glenn Danzig in Samhain & eventually Danzig. To the right in the photo is the guitarist Kenny Balone
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:55:59 +0000