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| Born = 1969 (age {{Age|1969|1|1}})<br>Buffalo, New York, U.S.

'''Darrin Pfeiffer''' (born 1969) is an American musician, record producer, band manager and radio personality. He was a friend of [[Pat Finn]] in Buffalo, NY, having met via shared (but not contemporaneous) membership in the straightedge hardcore band New Balance/Zero Tolerance, and later moved to Los Angeles where he became a part of the early Weezer scene. He has continued to be connected to the band over the course of their career.

 

==Connection to Weezer==

Pfeiffer was living in Buffalo New York where he met [[Pat Finn]]. in 1987, Pat was a member of a straightedge hardcore band called New Balance. While Pat moved back and forth from California to Buffalo several times over the ensuing years, New Balance morphed into Zero Tolerance, and Darrin was recruited on drums, playing with the band into the early 1990s when they stopped. Pat Finn was well aware of Darrin's prowess on drums, and when 60 Wrong Sausages dissolved, Pat eventually realized "his" drummer ([[Patrick Wilson]], who, like Darrin, Pat also 'discovered' in Buffalo) was now entrenched in weezer, so he recruited Darrin to move out and join him in a heavy band called Winkler (later re-named Weet Wesheen). Darrin moved to Los Angeles in fall 1992, where he lived amongst [[Karl Koch]], [[Takashi Hasegawa]] and Pat Finn at an apartment in the Fuller-Martel Plaza, on Fuller Avenue in Hollywood, just off the "Guitar Center" section of the Sunset Strip. This apartment became known as "The Blue Diamond Terrace", keeping up a tradition started years earlier by their Fuller-Martel Plaza neighbors [[Wax]], of naming their apartments to sound like hip hangouts of a long gone era of Hollywood.  

Winkler/Weet Wesheen did not end up getting farther than some demos recorded at the garage at The Amherst House. In addition, they also recorded a song for the soundtrack of a very early [[Spike Jonze]] production, some sort of jewelry promotional video (done by all for the $, not the artistic reward). Spike at the time was still working as a photographer, and Pat's day job was at A&I photography in Hollywood, where the two would meet and hang out. (Spike would soon direct the first music video for Pats' neighbors Wax, who had also befriended him).

Pfeiffer has released two solo albums under his alias "Dangerous Darrin". One is ''The Revenge...of Chicken McNuggets'' and the other, ''The Artist...Currently Known as Dangerous Darrin''. They are no longer sold and very hard to come by.

Pfieffer was an on air personality at 102.1 CFNY The Edge in Toronto Ontario Canada for several years, and during this time he interviewed members of weezer on at least one occasion live on the air. He also interviewed [[Patrick Wilson]] and [[Mikey Welsh]] in 1999 when [[The Special Goodness]] came through town.  

Currently Pfeiffer is the host of a podcast called "The Dangerous Darrin Show" with his friend from Buffalo New York, T.S. Together they have interviewed multiple guests such as Patrick Wilson on the show. Pfeiffer is also working as a producer for small artists in the Los Angeles area. Most notably, he has recently produced the upcoming album by [[Jason Cropper]].