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Frank the Baptist is an American alternative rock band founded in San Diego, California by frontman Frank Vollmann.

This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (July 2008)

Frank the Baptist
Frank the Baptist performing in 2020
Background information
Origin	San Diego, California, U.S.
Labels	Dark Dimensions
Members	Frank Vollmann Gerrit Hassler Emilio Corder Checa Salomon Bosse
Website	frankthebaptist.com

History

Strobelight Records was founded to release their first album, Different Degrees of Empty, in 2003, and all of the band's following albums have been released by the record label. In 2004, the band toured Europe for the first time to support their second album, Beggars Would Ride. The band played at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival in May 2005.

Frank Vollmann relocated to Berlin in 2006, joining long-time comrades Fez Wrecker (Bonniwell Music Machine, The Fuzztones) and Benn Ra (Hatesex, ex-Diva Destruction), both of whom had coincidentally played in early incarnations of Frank the Baptist in San Diego in 1997–1998. East Berliner Phantomas joined on drums, and the new line-up debuted at The Villa in Leipzig on Friday 13, 2006.

In November 2006, the band went into Studio Wong in Berlin-Kreuzberg and recorded the band's latest album, The New Colossus.

The band maintains a headquarters of sorts at a bar run by Frank and Fez, called "The Speakeasy Berlin".

Current members

• Frank Vollmann – vocals and guitars
• Emilio Cordero Checa – bass
• Gerrit Hassler – guitars
• Salo Bosse – drums

Past members

• Julio Cardador - bass
• Fez Wrecker – guitar
• Ben Bowen – bass
• Thomas Fietz – drums
• Ralf Huenefeld – guitar
• Justin Stephens – bass
• Mario Usai (Clan of Xymox) – bass
• Carsten Klatte (Project Pitchfork, Peter Hepner)
• Ilija Gavrilenko – bass
• Scot "The Hoople" Evans – guitar
• Barry "The Dead" Perzan – bass
• Eric "E-train" Schlosser – bass
• "Camp" Dave Hamersma – drums
• Thomas Fuhr – guitar
• Rob Podzunas – bass
• Wood – bass
• Anthony De La Cruz – keyboards

Discography

• Different Degrees of Empty (2003)
• Beggars Would Ride (2004)
• The New Colossus (2007)
• As the Camp Burns (2015)
• Road Omen (2019)

External links

• Official website

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Frank the Baptist ist eine US-amerikanische Rockband aus dem kalifornischen San Diego, die in den späten 1990er-Jahren[1] von Frontmann Frank Vollmann gegründet wurde.

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