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With special thanks to John McBain
for taking the time to clear things up about "the rather
confusing early years" through e-mail.
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Somewhere
in the late 70’s early 80’s a couple of fine young men
based in Red Bank NJ decided to start a punkrock band called
“Shrapnel”. Amongst them
were guitarist Daniël Rey, who
later on played with Handsome Nick Manitoba from The
Dictators and Masters Of Reality for a while and
produced for The Ramones,
Hellacopters , Nomads and other various noise making
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Another member was guitarist Dave Vogt
who later became soundman at the legendary Brighton Bar in
Long Branch NJ and sadly past away just before Christmas
2000 at age 40. Shrapnel also featured Dan
Clayton on drums, Phil Caivano
on bass guitar, who later on fronted Blitzspeer and
resurfaced as a guitarist in Monster Magnet in 1998 and a
certain Dave Wyndorf on vocals,
an individual who just before the demise of Shrapnel got
abducted by aliens and never came back. Sure, some folks are
trying to convince the world it’s the same Wyndorf who
later on shocked the universe with albums like Spine Of God
and Dopes To Infinity but there’s absolutely no proof for
that. Let’s stick to the facts and assume that a modified
Dave Wyndorf was dropped back on earth existing out of only
his physical outside and a totally re-programmed inside. For
a short while Shrapnel fucked things up at legendary New
York clubs such as CBGB’s , recorded a few indie singles
and released a self titled EP on Elektra Records in 1984,
which later on became a collectors item amongst fanatic
Monster Magnet believers all over the world.
Apparently Shrapnel demised somewhere around 1985 but up
until today no one’s sure if the alien abduction of their
lead singer was the main reason. So far … so good. |
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