Artist description 3-piece from Chicago area, big guitar alternative pop, with a penchant for melodic hooks and creative lyric.

Music Style modern rock / power pop / quasi-punk

Musical Influences Beatles, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Foo Fighters, Earth Wind & Fire, Jill Sobule, Goldfinger, Bosstones, Jimi Hendrix, Bowie, 311, The Living End, XTC, and too many others to list.

Similar Artists Foo Fighters, Weezer, OkGo, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Supergrass

Artist History Released our first full-length CD, Verbose, in 1998. Second album - Unglued, released in 2000. Third CD is out October 2003 - Mazel-Tov RockTales. Frankenpony also plays live dates in Chicago and the vicinity.

Group Members Rick Bennett - vocals, bass; John Griffin - guitar, vocals; John Flamini - drums

Instruments guitar, bass, drums

Albums Verbose (1998), Unglued (2000), Mazel-Tov RockTales (2003)

Press Reviews "...Frankenpony spin memorable hooks within their web of sophisticated delivery and present them to the listener in an easy-to-love format..." Backstage Pass - Chicago, March 1999"...(Frankenpony's) lyrics are usually imaginative and literate..." Illinois Entertainer, September 1999

Location Grayslake, IL - USA

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