| Darrin Pfeiffer | |
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| Also known as | Dangerous Darrin |
| Born | 1969 |
| Genres | Pop punk, ska punk |
| Occupations | Songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Drums, vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Mojo, Jive, Warner Bros., Maverick, SideOneDummy |
| Associated acts | Goldfinger, The Salads, Beyond Death |
| Notable instruments | |
| Pearl Drums Zildjian cymbals |
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Darrin Pfeiffer (born 1969 in Akron, New York) is an American musician, record producer, band manager and radio personality. Born and raised in Akron, New York, he plays drums for the ska punk band Goldfinger.
In the mid 1980s, Darrin was a part of a thrash metal band called Beyond Death, whose two other members were co-founders of death metal band Cannibal Corpse in 1988.
He married Vicky Anderson, the band's Canadian publicist, in 1998. (Vicky left Universal Music in 1998 and is no longer the band's publicist.) In 2002, the couple moved from Los Angeles to Vicky's hometown of Toronto, where Darrin manages and produces several punk bands and began working as an on-air host for 102.1 The Edge in 2005. They filed for divorced in 2009.
He released two albums under the name "Dangerous Darrin", only available at Goldfinger shows and on his website: The Revenge.............of Chicken McNuggets and The Artist................Currently Known as Dangerous Darrin
In late 2005, the Pfeiffers started their own record label, High 4 Records. Their first 2 signings are Crush Luther and Cauterize. Darrin is also managing a girl by the name of Diana Salvatore and has said on air numerous times that he will be releasing her album in the spring of 2012.
Crush Luther's self-titled CD came out February 13, 2007 and is the first release for High 4 Records. The label's second release was from Cauterize, called "Disguises", which came out June 12, 2007. Cauterize has since broken up.
Darrin is a fan of ice hockey and claims that Wayne Gretzky would be the only guy he would ever sleep with. In the past, Pfeiffer has been known to perform an acoustic love song/tribute to a life sized cardboard cut out of Wayne Gretzky mid way through a Goldfinger set. The song Includes lines such as "Wayne Gretzky. I think he's kinda sexy, and maybe he'd be attracted to me; Darrin Pfeiffer, a stupid American boy. Wayne Gretzky; a handsome Canadian man."
Darrin has recently been drumming for Canadian rock band the Salads.
Darrin also is known to play several sets in a thong and shows the crowd when Goldfinger covers Sisqo's Thong Song. At some shows it is a band ritual that Goldfinger picks out a "lucky" audience member from the crowd to come up on stage. Once of stage, the audience member will willingly bite off a piece of a Twinkie that is placed between Darrin's butt cheeks.
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