Darrin Michael Pfeiffer (born June 7, 1969) is an American musician, record producer, band manager and radio personality. He has played drums in the

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bands Goldfinger,

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, and The Salads.

Biography

Pfeiffer was born in

Akron, New York Akron is a village in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 2,868 at the 2010 census. The name derives from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metrop ...

. He began his music career in the mid 1980s, when, as a teen, he was a part of a

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band called ''Beyond Death''. The band's two other members went on to found the

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band

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in 1988. In 1994, Pfeiffer became a founding member and drummer of Goldfinger. He married Vicky Anderson, the band's Canadian publicist, in 1998. (Anderson left

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in 1998. The couple divorced in 2011). In 2002, Pfeiffer moved from

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to his wife's hometown of

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where he eventually became a Canadian citizen. There, he started managing and producing

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bands. In 2005, Pfeiffer became an on-air host for 102.1 The Edge. Late in 2005, the Pfeiffers started their own record label, High 4 Records. Their first signing was Crush Luther whose self-titled CD was released on 13 February 2007. The next band to sign, Cauterize released the CD, ''Disguises'', on 12 June 2007. He has also played with the Canadian

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, "The Salads". Pfeiffer is a huge fan of

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and

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, mainly the NHL teams

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and the Los Angeles Kings. Darrin was lucky to have witnessed the Kings win the 2014

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on home ice and states

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would be the only man he would ever sleep with. Pfeiffer has performed an acoustic love song/tribute to a life-sized cardboard cut out of Wayne Gretzky midway through a Goldfinger set. Pfeiffer has released two solo albums under his alias "Dangerous Darrin". One is ''The Revenge...of Chicken McNuggets'' and the other, ''The Artist...Currently Known as Dangerous Darrin''. They are no longer sold and very hard to come by these days. In 2013 Pfeiffer moved back to Los Angeles where he works for the LA offices of Kill The 8 Merch Co and is also starting a record label there called Chart Attack Records launching in early 2016. Darrin also has a new radio show on the Idobi Radio Network called The Dangerous Darrin Show with his Buffalo NY friend TS. They feature guests from the world of sports, music, pop culture and politics. TS left the show in July 2021 due to creative differences.The Cool Nerd Weed Show
/ref> In May 2016, it was announced Goldfinger and Pfeiffer had parted ways due to interpersonal conflicts between lead singer

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and Pfeiffer, leaving Feldmann and Paulson as the only two original members of the group.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pfeiffer, Darrin 1969 births Living people American punk rock drummers Goldfinger (band) members Sum 41 members Punk Rock Karaoke members People from Akron, New York