Artist description 4 piece rock band with strong punk and rockabilly roots playing pop songs.

Music Style Roarin Rock and Roll

Musical Influences Noises from a busy street..

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Artist History Danny Frye and The D-Dolls are coming along at a time in music when the failing heartbeat of rock and roll could use some leather clad Defribulators. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, the band play a unique brand of straight up rock and roll that incorporates a blend of punk, 50’s rock, and 70’s sleaze, generating a musical déjà vu that’ll leave you pumping your fists in the air! The bands influences range from Social Distortion to T. Rex, and everything in between. Front man, Danny Frye, is the ex-lead guitarist for Sylvain Sylvain (New York Dolls), one of the great punk rock pioneers and his credentials read like a who’s who of punk rock history. He’s shared the stage with everyone from The Ramones, Joan Jett, members of the Stooges and the Gang of Four. Now fronting the D-Dolls, Danny and his wild band of hellbent suicide rockers include friends of many years, guitarist David Lee Carpenter, bassist Keith Ignition, and drummer Joey Cypher are on a mission to ignite a music industry that has been overrun by manufactured pop acts and nu metal bands. The D-Dolls have two releases under their belt in two years time that include their Lucky 13 Records full length debut, Hellbent, which has been described as a 48 minute roller coaster ride of pop ridden rock and roll and a split E.P. with the Swiss band, The Gutter Queens, released on the U.K. label, Changes One in the summer of 2002. The band pulled off a highly successful tour of the U.K. in the winter of 2001 and is presently touring the U.S. throughout the summer and fall before returning to Europe in March of 2003 and touring China on the China Hope Tour 2003 from Late March to Early may.

Group Members Danny Frye - lead vox/guitar David Lee Carpenter - guitar/vox Keith Ignition - bass/vox Joey Cypher - drums/vox

Instruments gretsch guitars, bass, drums, fender amps, and eyeliner.

Albums Hellbent (Lucky 13 Records), Raised On Pin-Ups (Changes One Records), If They Come For Us - Compilation (Changes One Records)

Press Reviews Scene Magazine - 9/27/01 Danny Frye & the Devildolls Hellbent (Lucky 13) By Brian Baker Don't get used to seeing singer-guitarist Danny Frye around Cleveland much longer. With Hellbent, his world-class full-length debut, Frye and the Devildolls are on a full-bore punkabilly pace to bring their new, millennial greaser rock to the world at large. Frye learned his lean and muscular guitar skills, and sharpened his sense of rock's visceral power, at the feet of a master, as the lead guitarist for ex-New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain. Frye has taken those lessons and applied them liberally to his own multigenerational ideas, winding up with a high-octane soundtrack that's equal parts Reverend Horton Heat, Santo & Johnny, and Social Distortion. Hellbent's also got dashes of the Ramones and Gene Vincent thrown in for spot color. Frye's vocals can slide from doo-wop silk to punk-rock gravel in the space of a chord change, and the Devildolls have no trouble keeping pace with his genre shapeshifts, as they match his ability to blend '50s flash and '90s fury in a cross-pollinated rock-and-roll hybrid that shreds and seduces without a hint of retro evangelism. Veering madly from the blistering punk intensity of "Blue Eyed Angel" and "Pill Poppin' Super Villain" to the gentle, Elvis-like beauty of "Heartless" and a thrashing cover of the Jags' new-wave pop hit "Back of My Hand," Frye and the Devildolls cover the musical waterfront with tattooed authority. Since the recording of Hellbent, Frye has augmented the Devildolls with the addition of ex-Yo-Yo's guitarists Neil Phillips and Tom Spencer, making the band even more potent as a triple-guitar assault vehicle. Also see reviews and Interviews in Black Velver, Kerrang, Rockpile, Alternative Press, and online magazines, Buzz Magazine, Five Miles High..

Location Cleveland, Ohio - USA

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