Warren Fitzgerald


Warren Fitzgerald is an American punk rock musician, guitarist, songwriter, and record label owner.

Overview

Warren Fitzgerald is best known for being the guitarist of The Vandals. He is also co-founder of Kung Fu Records, along with his Vandals band-mate Joe Escalante.

Career

Warren Fitzgerald is the guitarist for The Vandals. He has also played with Tenacious D and was a member of Oingo Boingo, performing on their final studio album and live album. He also played guitar with The Offspring on their 2008 tour.
Apart from performing as a live instrumentalist, Fitzgerald has worked as a producer, composer and songwriter, having worked with a wide range of musicians including Dweezil Zappa and Danny Elfman. Fitzgerald produced Jughead's Revenge's 1996 album Image Is Everything. He is credited as a songwriter on the School of Rock soundtrack. He also provided string arrangements for the Alkaline Trio album Crimson and contributed guitar work to the soundtrack. As of 2012, Fitzgerald is credited as a writer and composer on The Hub cable series The Aquabats! Super Show!, including a co-composing credit for the series' theme song and several onscreen appearances playing a hobo. In August 2017, Fitzgerald played guitar for Avenged Sevenfold's latest song, Runaway.
Outside of his music, Fitzgerald finds work as both an artist and a writer.

Early career

One of Warren's first bands was Dies Irae where he played bass with guitarist Jack Lee Galbraith and drummer Robert "Yoda" Hill. Later he formed the band Totally Uncalled Four and was in a hardcore punk outfit called Don't No. He was also the guitarist and songwriter for Gherkin Raucus and Xtra Large.

Personal life

He attended Edison High School from 1982–1986, with Scott Weiland, Gabriel Ortiz, and Amy Von Freymann.