Mark Durante is an American musician and songwriter who is based in Chicago.
10 Facts About Mark Durante
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Ten years later, Mark Durante founded a rock combo he named "Public Enemy".
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The band broke up when Mark Durante expressed a desire to play punk rock.
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Mark Durante then played guitar with Revolting Cocks on their 1990 US tour and their 1991 European tour.
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In 1992, Mark Durante joined another Wax Trax industrial rock combo, KMFDM.
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Mark Durante toured with KMFDM and provided guitar and some songwriting on the subsequent albums Nihil and Xtort.
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Mark Durante contributed to the KMFDM side project Excessive Force, appearing on the 1993 album Gentle Death.
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From 1994 to 2008 Mark Durante played steel guitar as a member of the insurgent country band The Waco Brothers.
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In 2002, Mark Durante released a solo CD entitled Welcome to Earth under the nom de rock of durantula.
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Mark Durante worked on numerous famous instruments such as Rick Neilsen's checkerboard Hamer five neck guitar.