“I’m pretty much a ghoul. It works for me most of the time,” says guitarist Paul Caiafa, better known as Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, the super-buff, bare chest-bearing, monster makeup-wearing, extreme pompadour fusion enthusiast who first made his name as the riff-tossing axeman for New Jersey horror punk legends the Misfits before forming his own freaky-deaky outfit, Doyle.
Caiafa has always had a grip on the show biz aspect of music, but he’s also got the uber-aggressive chops and licks to get any respectable mosh pit going. It’s been that way since 1980, when he replaced Misfits guitarist Bobby Steele (who replaced original member Franché Coma) and joined his brother, bassist Gerald Caiafa Jr. (better known as Jerry Only), and fellow Lodi native Glenn Danzig in the pioneering punk outfit.
