Diane DiPiazza
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Jerry Only
Jerry Only is an American bassist. He is the current bassist and vocalist for the Misfits. He is credited with creating the infamous hair style known as the devilock.-Life and career:...
. Her name is often incorrectly spelled Diane DiPiaza. Growing up in Lodi, New Jersey
Lodi, New Jersey
Lodi is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 24,136. The borough of Lodi is governed under the 1923 Municipal Manager Law.Lodi owes its name to the Italian city of Lodi...
, she was a friend of Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig Glenn Danzig Glenn Danzig (born Glenn Allen Anzalone; June 23, 1955 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, entrepreneur, and a progenitor of the horror punk subgenre of music. He is a founder of bands the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig...
, the founder of the Misfits.
The first lineup consisted of Danzig on vocals and electric piano, Diane on bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Jimmy Battle on guitar and Manny Martínez on drums. On the Cough/Cool
Cough/Cool
"Cough/Cool" is the first single released by the horror punk band the Misfits. It was released in August 1977 on singer Glenn Danzig's label Blank Records. 500 copies were produced on black 7" vinyl...
single, The Misfits' first release, she is the Diane thanked on the sleeve.
Diane DiPiazza is an artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. She is a type designer who designs and distributes free fonts and vintage black and white line art at dinc! She is art director
Art director
The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
at mystifyinglyGLADdesign, who designs for print, internet, clothing, and packaging. She designs hand screened gig posters and many other forms of pop culture design, new media, retro art, modern art. A collector of vintage design elements, her style has been called retro/modern. Diane also creates one-off pieces of "vintage" jewelry using precious metals.
She is in the process of recording a demo LP
LP album
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with the working title Last Year's Fab Rave, on which she plays all the instruments, including bass.
Diane is working on her first novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
entitled Hello, Hey Joe.