By the end of the summer 1995, Franklin and Fracture had completed our second US tour. However, the tour of 1995 included destinations north in the great white hope that is, CANADA! We snuck across the border using forged documents that claimed our bands were visiting the country to record music (a very common practice […]
Last night Ralph was in town. What I thought was going to be a casual dinner turned into this odd reunion of sorts. While the reunion aspect of the get together was only in hindsight, its significance wasn’t lost on me nor the others involved. Starting in the left hand corner of the photo we’ve […]
I accidentally stumbled across this article on AltPress.com yesterday, while looking for an image to use on the AM/FM post. This article was posted on August 28th, 2010 and frankly, it’s probably one of the nicest things ever written about Franklin. I’ve reprinted the article here, but you can check out the original at AltPress.com. […]
I guess looking back on it, once Franklin got up and running, we were moving pretty quickly. We had recorded our first demo in May of 1992, just as we were graduating High School and just as quickly we started playing shows in and around the area. Sadly, by the end of the summer, Stavroula […]
Thank god for saving random VHS tapes. I’ve had this one sitting around for years that had a short recording of Franklin playing on Rodman Street in Philadelphia and fortunately, I stumbled across it. This video must have been shot in 1995 and features Roy “the Binnion” on bass guitar which is pretty awesome. This […]
