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Count Dante's ceaseless quest for interpersonal, financial, and grappling excellence has garnered The Count and the BDFS an incredible array of press coverage. Reporters and commentators from print, radio, television, and the internet stand in awe of the man, the band and the rock and roll bloodsport hurricane that they unleash. See the stories that the media was compelled to run:
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The cover art alone will put you into a state of defense. A rockin' CD throughout, 'The Deadliest Man Alive!' by Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society deals with deep issues in such tracks as 'Cookie Cutter Man,' 'Speed Queen,' and 'Beware the Wonder Bra.' And entertaining CD to say the least but I do think that Dante has issues.
WILLAMETTE WEEK (PORTLAND, OR) April 5, 2000; p. 55 THE AUTOMATICS, COUNT DANTE AND THE BLACK DRAGON FIGHTING SOCIETY, BURNS LIKE HELLFIRE, S.K. AND THE PUNKASS BITCHES at EJ's Here's the mental picture for you: take Chris Farley's "motivational speaker" character from SNL, crossbreed him with Farley's Beverley Hills Ninja kung-fu cretin, then train him at the Deadbolt College for Greaser Comedians. You also have to make him 6-feet-4-inches tall and nearly 300 pounds and imagine he fronts a trash-rock band that plays songs about Wonderbras and speedqueens betwixt mini success seminars for aspiring rock 'n' rollers. Yes: while it may seem like too much for one man, Count Dante is indeed all that. Assisted by the Black Dragon Fighting Society, this announcer and grappler for Incredibly Strange Wrestling will teach you his own unique methods of self-empowerment. Let your ass be kicked. And, oh yeah, the Automatics album, Murder/Suicide, is an absolute knockout, too. (JG)
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Weekly (Eugene, OR) April 6, 2000; p. 6 Greetings everyone! As I write this, we've been enjoying beautiful weather. Of course, there's no guarantee that it will last for very long, but it sure has been nice. I feel the cold earth warming under my feet as we speak. Although I don't know of any outdoor shows happening right now, a little live music always makes a sunny (or cloudy day) a little brighter. On Friday, head down to John Henry's to witness the spectacle that is Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society. Count Dante's heft and his deadly speed-bomb brand of rock and roll consistently has his audience falling to their knees begging for mercy. At 6'4" and 300 (or so) pounds, Count Dante is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area as an announcer and sometime contestant for the subcultural phenomenon known as Incredibly Strange Wrestling, which had the crowd at John Henry's absolutely manic the last time they came through. Now, he's fronting the Black Dragon Fighting Society on bass and vocals on their debut CD, The Deadliest Man Alive! The Kimono-clad rocker's straight up punk 'n' roll blow-by-blow delivery guarantees fist pumping action. Think of it as Deadbolt substituting the surf and voodoo for asskicking and motivational speaking.
San Francisco-based bellower Count Dante, a 6-foot-4, 300-pound blob of sweaty sequined fury, is a force to be reckoned with. Dante’s carrying on the great rock/wrestling tradition of The Crusher with his "Kung Fu Rock & Roll Success Seminar" presentation, which features the corpulent grappler roaring out a blend of twisted motivational palaver and thrash-and-trash hard-rock originals that feature such engaging titles as "Beware the Wonder Bra" and "Deadliest Man Alive." With the equally beefy Black Dragon Fighting Society band wreaking musical havoc, it's a recipe for sublime disaster, and while it is rather traitorous to ballyhoo a performer involved with the Frisco troupe of turkey necks who flat-out hijacked beloved local madman Johnny Legends’ "Incredibly Strange Wrestling" concept and format, the degree of bizarro behavior Dante deals in justifies the lapse. (Jonny Whiteside)
San Francisco's Counte Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society have been kickin' ass --literally. Anyone that has seen Incredibly Strange Wrestling has seen this man's wrestling tactics or you've seen him announcing the shots, blow by blow from ringside. You don't hear much heckling in the crowd when Count Dante appears standing at 6'4" and weighing in at nearly 3 bills.The new album called The Deadliest Man Alive is a blistering attack of force that can't be overlooked. Their sound is straight up, no nonsense rock and roll but yet it has the cutting edge punk attitude. Count Dante fronts the band but is also known to step in the ring and put his opponents into submission while they beg for mercy. One thing about this band is that they know how to put on one hell of a show. You are guaranteed to see action and not another shoe gazing band. Counte Dante is the vocalist-bassist of the group and is backed up by Andy "The Beast" Davis on guitar and Ed "Zen Machine" Faine on drums. Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society has conquered the San Francisco club circuit and now they're ready to move on to the rest of the world.
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