Andy Shernoff

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Andy Shernoff
Background information
Also known as	Adny Shernoff The Christopher Columbus of Punk The Punk Sommelier
Born	(1952-04-19) April 19, 1952 (age 72) Queens, New York, U.S.
Genres	Rock and roll, garage rock, punk rock, protopunk, hard rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments	Bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
Years active	1973–present
Member of	The Dictators
Website	andyshernoff.com

Andy Shernoff (born April 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads. He has been involved with a variety of other musical projects, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's first studio album, Don't Worry About Me. He additionally co-wrote four Ramones songs with Joey.^[1][2]

Shernoff's current projects include garage rock band The Masterplan, featuring members of The Fleshtones and the Waxing Poetics. In the fall of 2009, he embarked upon a series of solo shows playing songs he wrote or co-wrote and telling the stories behind them. In the spring of 2010, those shows would become "When Giants Walked the Earth – A Musical Memoir" with 50 tour dates in the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Shernoff sang "California Sun" in the official Major League Baseball promotional video for the 2010 All-Star Game. On March 24, 2012, Andy played the Reason Rally, the largest secular gathering in American history, on the National Mall in Washington DC. He released his first solo EP Don't Fade Away in October 2012. A follow-up EP, On The First Day Man Created God, was released in February 2013.^[3]