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The Orphan Punks
12+ albums
Bubbleglampunkglam punkglampure glam
about
The Orphan Punks began initially in the winter of 1992. Brothers Darrell (Bass) and Brian (Drums) Masterson (honestly that's their middle names) had just split from their band Bangkok Shock and were looking to do something different. Having already been in several Chicago bands they didn't feel that the Chicago scene had the musicians they needed so they began a nationwide search for a guitarist and vocalist. They put out the word to anyone that would listen and eventually got hooked up with guitarist Stacie Cannon (former EZ to Pleaz) from Nashville Tennessee, and the three of them began talking about the possibilities of starting a band. As pure happenstance would have it, I had recently found a phone number for Stacie, a guitarist whom my previous band Harlequin Shayme had played shows with several years earlier. I called Stacie to see what he was up to and he told me that his band had just broken up. I hadn't talked to the guy in years but I knew he was great on stage and had more hair than Dee Snider so I asked if he wanted to try to start a band. I was living in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the time and Nashville was about 5 or 6 hours away. I guess I decided I would move to Nashville if he wanted to start a band but before I could wrap my head around what I had just committed to. He asked if I would consider moving to Chicago for the right band. Hell I was already a Chicago Cub fan, so I figured worst-case scenario is I get to see Wrigley Field, maybe lose my southern a
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