DANTE NOMINATED FOR BEST BASSIST BAMMIE!

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Dante with Metal Bass God Steve Harris of Iron Maiden. Will The Count snag the BAMMIE and join the pantheon of Bass Guitar Heroes? You can be the judge.
1:52 AM ET February 19, 2001 SAN FRANCISCO (DP)
I am not quite sure how it has happened, but it has. I, COUNT DANTE, have been nominated for the 2001 CALIFORNIA MUSIC AWARD for OUTSTANDING BASSIST! I have done this as a completely independent artist without major label backing or any record label at all. My debut CD "The Deadliest Man Alive!" was released by Ed "Zen Machine" Faine and I with money out of our own pockets and the help of many, many friends who believed in the KUNG-FU ROCK AND ROLL SUCCESS SEMINAR. I see this nod as not only a victory for myself, but for every band out there that has packed up a worn-out van and driven hundreds of miles just to rock some punk rock dive for thirty bucks and a couple of pints of stale PBR. This is for all of you who have had the guts to finance their own CD or 7", only to have boxes of them cluttering your apartments.

The voting for the California Music Awards is online and open to the public! You can vote for me by going to www.insidebayarea.com/cama, filling out the ballot and submitting it. My nomination is not sequestered in some ghetto of local or unsigned acts, but I am actually up against Jason Newsted (formerly of Metallica), Mike Dirnt (Green Day), Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age), Brad Davis (Fu Manchu), and Mona (Sammy Hagar). My nomination becomes even more amazing when you consider that the bass players of gold and platinum bands such as Papa Roach, No Doubt, and Blink 182 didn't make it this year. For this, I would like to thank everyone who nominated me.

Although being nominated is victory enough, you will not catch THE COUNT resting on his laurels! We can throw a wrench in the works of the corporate music machine and have droves of Hollywood publicists yanking out their hair wondering how an Incredibly Strange Wrestler named Count Dante could have captured the same award that Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers won the year before. VOTE FOR COUNT DANTE FOR OUTSTANDING BASSIST AND HELP ME GAIN THE MOUNT ON THE BAMMIES! By doing this, we can return to the days of the BAY AREA MUSIC AWARDS when members of Journey and Huey Lewis and the News seemed to walk away with BAMMIES well into the 1990s! We can win!!!

I would also like to thank everyone who has voted for me, the wonderful staff of the California Music Awards, and everyone in the worlds of rock and wrestling that has helped Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society make it this far. The special thanks list on the next record is going to be a long one. I would also like to wish good luck to my esteemed competition and may the most outstanding bassist win.

Success, Profit and Fighting Skill,

Count Dante