RIP Frankie Venom 1957-2008
Frankie Venom, the classic frontman/vocalist for Canadian punk progenitors Teenage Head, died Wendesday, October 15, following a battle with throat cancer, at age 51.
Teenage Head was one of my favorite bands of the that time, with their "Frantic City" album, released in 1980, featuring such great rockablly-flavored songs such as "Let's Shake," "Infected" and my all-time Teenage Head favorite, "Disgusteen." The band was very popular around Buffalo as well as in Canada; I got to meet Venom once, and he was much more quiet and less, er, reckless than his preceeding legend, which was for hard living, to say the least.
Here are links to stories in the Toronto Sun, The Eye, Punk News and TheSpec.com.
Teenage Head was one of my favorite bands of the that time, with their "Frantic City" album, released in 1980, featuring such great rockablly-flavored songs such as "Let's Shake," "Infected" and my all-time Teenage Head favorite, "Disgusteen." The band was very popular around Buffalo as well as in Canada; I got to meet Venom once, and he was much more quiet and less, er, reckless than his preceeding legend, which was for hard living, to say the least.
Here are links to stories in the Toronto Sun, The Eye, Punk News and TheSpec.com.
posted by Kevin J. Hosey at 6:53 AM
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