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Instruments
  
Drums

Name
  
Joey Franco


Albums
  
Blood and Bullets

Music group
  
Widowmaker

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Associated acts
  
The Good Rats, Twisted Sister, Widowmaker, Leslie West

Education
  
Brooklyn Technical High School

Nominations
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Live Action and Animation

Similar People
  
Al Pitrelli, Dee Snider, Norman Stiles, Lou Berger, Michael K Frith

Joe "Seven" Franco (born 1951) is an American drummer best known for his work with the band The Good Rats in the late 1970s and later as a replacement member of Twisted Sister.

Biography

Joe Franco, a 1969 graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, became a member of the band The Good Rats in 1972. He also produced and played in the horror rock band Van Helsing's Curse, which also featured Twisted Sister lead vocalist Dee Snider, and on the Magellan album Hundred Year Flood. Franco replaced A. J. Pero in Twisted Sister in 1986, and stayed in the band for about a year until its break-up in 1987. He also played in Snider's group Widowmaker; and with guitarists Vinnie Moore and Blues Saraceno. and also former Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh on his solo album Shadowman.

Franco is the author of the book Double Bass Drumming (1984; Alfred, 1993) and is featured in the accompanying video (1988; Warner Bros., 2005). He is also has lectured and written articles about drumming and is a music producer involved in recording and post-production work as owner of Beatstreet Productions in the Flatiron District of New York City, New York.

References

Joey Franco Wikipedia