Mike Dupke

Mike Dupke (2022 – Present)

On July 13th 2022 Mike Dupke announced that he will be joining the band Wednesday 13 for their fall leg of the 20 years of Fears tour replacing Daniel Fox.

Personally reached out to W13 via Twitter and he loved the post to confirm Mike new involvement in the band.

Mike Dupke was best known for being the drummer for W. A.S.P on such tours and records for Dominator, Babylon and Golgotha.

In 2022 Wednesday 13 releases a new record called Horrifier, with singles and videos for You’re So Hideous, Inside Out and Good Day to Be a Bad Guy. Tour did continue to support the record.

In 2023 Wednesday 13 toured a little but towards the end of the year announced a Murderdolls catalogue tour with his current band.

Daniel Fox

Daniel Fox (2021 – 2022)

Wednesday 13 announces that he will be touring finally in 2022 in the US on a 20 years of Fear tour. During this announcement he lists Daniel Fox as a Wednesday 13 drummer.

Daniel Fox was the drummer in the past with such bands as Dope and Marilyn Manson.

July 13th 2022 Ex W.A.S.P. drummer Mike Dupke announced that he has joined Wednesday 13 for the fall leg of 20 years of Fear tour meaning Daniel Fox exited the group.

Daniel Fox during the 2022 20 Years of Fears Tour with Wednesday 13.

Daniel Fox with the band in 2022

Lee Downer

Lee Downer (2020)

Lee Downer helped the band out for the 2020 Wednesday 13 Halloween special. Kyle left the band during the COVID 19 pandemic. Even though the tracks during the special were pre recorded audio he did sit behind the drum kit during the show and was part of the QA.

Rat Bastard

Rat Bastard (1994 /1996)

Found on some earlier demos of Maniac Spider Trash is that Eddie Ford played drums for the band before Sicko Zero.

Rat Bastard (aka Crazy Eddie Ford) replaced Seaweed on bass for the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 late 1996.  Eddie and Wednesday 13 went to high school together and were good friends. Not much more is known of Rat Bastard except that he jumped on bass and did a number of live shows before himself and Sicko Zero called it quits and it ended the band for that time.

(Rat Bastard and Sicko Zero in late 1996)

(Sicko Zero, Rat Bastard and Wednesday 13 late 1996)

Jason “Shakes” West

Jason “Shakes” West (2011 –  2014/ 2019)

Jason “Shakes” West came from a support drummer for Sebastian Bach,  he joined as a drummer for Wednesday 13 during the end of the Murderdolls tour for Women and Children Last, after that  they regrouped to record Calling All Corpses in 2011 . He did the record and finished the tour.

(Jason Shakes West during Calling all Corpses era)

He was also part of the band during the recording of the EP Spook and Destroy in 2012. He continued in the band in 2013 for The Dixie Dead and also continued that tour to the end .

In 2015 Jason did the recording of the drums for Wednesday 13 for Monsters of the Universe. He did the first part of the tour but was replaced by the keyboardist Kyle Castronovo, who took over the drum role and went on with Evil United.

 

 

Jason “Shakes” West

Jason got asked to fill in behind the drum kit in early 2019 on the Cradle of Filth support tour as Kyle had to leave for a few weeks for a family matter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johnny Chops

Johnny Chops (2008 – 2010)

Johnny Chops , real name Jonathan Henrich  joined as drummer for Wednesday 13 during the  Skeletons  tour. Johnny Chops replaced Racci Shay on drums for the tour and appeared on the live CD/DVD Fuck It, We’ll Do It Live.

Johnny Chops

Johnny Chops was replaced by Jason “Shakes” West in 2011 and went on to join AntiProduct.

(Johnny Chops second from the left in band shot)

 

 

 

R.S. Saidso

R.S. Saidso (1997)

R.S. Saidso joined the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 in 1997 from the band Silly Scream replacing Scabs after the band just reunited the first time (Scabs lasted 2 weeks). He recorded with the band an EP in which they use to sell during their shows (the one with the sticker).

R.S. Saidso

R.S. Saidso announced during the reunion tour for that he would be leaving the band to join a group with Abby Normal called Dragster 66 at the end of the tour. lots of rumors built around Wednesday 13 , Seaweed and their relationship with R.S. Saidso. It did not end well.

R.S. Saidso was replaced with the original drummer Sicko Zero in 1998. He went on to create his own band.

Weird fact is R.S. Saidso was close to Seaweed and they were in a band together called Electra – Kill and R.S. Saidso was the vocalist.

(Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 concert poster from 97)

 

 

 

Kyle Castronovo

 Kyle Castronovo (2015 – 2020)

Son of the drummer from Journey Deen Castronovo, Kyle Castronovo joined Wednesday 13 as a keyboardist originally for the tour of  Monsters of the Universe: Come on Out and Plague in 2015.

(Kyle playing keyboards during first leg of Monsters of the Universe tour)

 He later became the drummer replacing Jason “Skakes” West.  Kyle Castronovo did the most of the tour for Monsters of the Universe.

(Kyle during the Monsters Tour era)

Kyle was the recording drummer for Condolences and did the tour to support that record.

(Kyle started to play with make up more during Condolences )

October 2018 Wednesday 13 did his Halloween again in the UK but this time he split it up over the weekend. The Friday night they did Skeletons from beginning to end to celebrate the 10th anniversary. (also Roman proposed to his girlfriend Shelly D’ Inferno on stage)The Saturday night Wednesday 13 did a special Frankenstein Drag Queens Set.

Beginning of 2019 they started to tour again with the band but this time joined as a opener with Cradle of Filth. (with side opener Raven Black). His set list was dropped to  a smaller one as they toured North America again as a opening band.

During early 2019 during the support of the Cradle of Filth tour Kyle had to take a few shows off for personal reasons and was replaced by Jason “Shakes” West during that very brief period.

In 2019 Wednesday 13 released a few singles off the new record Necrophaze. The first being Zodiac which they played live a few times before, Decompose, Bring Your Own Blood and the title track Necrophaze.

In September the record Necrophaze was released with the same members as before in the band W13, Roman, Troy, Jack and Kyle. Even this time on the record it has guest singers and the other members had more of a role in the writing.

In October 2020 Wednesday 13 announced that Kyle was no longer part of the band during a live stream. During COVID the band planned to stream a Halloween show on Halloween and Wednesday explained even further that Kyle is no longer a member and to play drums on that show was Lee Downer.

Ghastly

Ghastly (2005 – 2007)

Ghastly was the first drummer for Wednesday 13’s solo band.  He was involved in the recording and tour for the first record called Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead .

Ghastly was still part of the band in 2006 when Wednesday 13 released his second record called Fang Bang and continued as drummer for that beginning of the tour but was replaced by Racci Shay. By 2007 he was no longer part of the band.

 

(Wednesday 13 band in 2005 , Ghastly on far right.)

 

 

 

Scabs

Scabs (1997  / 2001-2002)

Scabs real name is David Hughes, he joined the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 after the band reformed the first time in 1997. At this time he did not stay long in the band about 2 weeks along with guitarist Creepy.

Scabs returned in the band in 2001 and was part of the recording of Viva Las Violence as he replaced Sicko Zero. This was around the time  the band still wore make-up during this period, they removed their wigs. He finished the tour with the band but was no longer part the band after disbanded in 2002.

Scabs on the far right

Scabs on the far right

(Wednesday 13 and Scabs on drums)

In the spring of 2016 Scabs passed away from complications of high blood pressure.