Long Bio

At South Side High School on Long Island, seniors renamed their friends’ freshman doppelgangers by taking the senior’s name and prefixing it with “fake”.  For example, Dan Masotti (vocals/rhythm guitar) had a similar face to varsity wrestler Frank, so Dan's name became “Fake Frank”.  Anytime Real Frank's friends caught Dan in the halls between classes, they’d yell out, “Fake Frank!”.  But he took it in stride and owned it.  In fact, Dan used Fake Frank as a placeholder band name when starting a musical project with the demos he accumulated from middle school. 

That year, Dan recruited long-time jamming buddy Harrison Kravis (drums), who was previously in his jazz fusion garage band.  The two played with several lineups during the Fake Frank’s early years.  In August 2016, Dan and Harrison spent savings from their summer jobs as cabana boys on studio time before heading to different colleges in the Fall.  By Spring 2017, Fake Frank released three singles.  The songs were well-received by the small following of family and friends that heard them.  The songs also caught some online attention from Twitch streamers who wanted to include them on their gaming playlists, a few college radios, and most notably The Deli Magazine, which named Fake Frank "New England's Emerging Artist of the Month".  The duo excitedly returned to the studio and recorded the rest of their debut album the following summer.   

Fake Frank played out in Manhattan and on the Island as much as they could during school breaks.  In 2018, the band released their debut, self-titled album which was met by some positive press coverage.  That Summer, they set up a DIY tour in the Northeast to support it.  However, Fake Frank couldn’t sustain much of the momentum because of the physical distance between its members and their academic commitments.  They would go on hiatus after releasing their cover of David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes”.