Guitarist & Bassist for the Heathen Apostles, The Cramps, Nick Curran & the Lowlifes

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Chopper Franklin Bio

One of the last men standing from the notorious Los Angeles punk rock scene of the late 1970’s, Chopper Franklin plays guitar and mandolin for the Gothic Americana band Heathen Apostles and has played guitar and bass for The Cramps, the Mau Maus, Charley Horse, Nick Curran & the Lowlifes among others. He has produced […]

CHOPPER FRANKLIN VIDEOS

CHOPPER FRANKLIN VIDEOS   Coffin For The Nail – Heathen Apostles “Coffin For The Nail” is from the Heathen Apostles’ seventh album “The In Between” (Ratchet Blade Records). It features co-lead vocals from lead singer Mather Louth and guitarist/mandolinist Chopper Franklin, as well as clips from “The Wolf of Wall Street” (1929), “A Corner in […]

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Chopper Franklin’s “Spaghetti Western Dub No. 1” Reviewed

Chopper Franklin’s “Spaghetti Western Dub No. 1” Was The Album I’d Waited Over 40 Years To Hear – by postpunkmonk.com Mather Louth + Chopper Franklin © Justin Rosenberg Let me begin the tale in the following way. It was 1981 when listening to WPRK-FM the college radio station that I kept my ear glued to in […]

Chopper’s New Spaghetti Western Dub Single

The Blood, Tears and Thunder DUB single is the second from Chopper Franklin’s “Spaghetti Western Dub No.1”, the upcoming album out 1/26/24 on Ratchet Blade Records. The lyric video uses clips from the spaghetti westerns “If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death” (1968) and “Death Rides a Horse” (1967, both in the public domain.) […]