Doby Daenger

Doby Daenger is an American musician, writer, TV personality and performance artist based in Hollywood, California. She was born on Sunset Boulevard and grew up on Santa Catalina Island in Southern California. Her first performance was playing an acoustic guitar she got for her birthday with Benny Goodman and his wife on piano at the age of eight on their boat there. As a youth she fronted the punk rock group Strait Jacket in the early '80s, performing at many local clubs, including a regular spot on Sunday nights at Doug Weston's Troubadour. Mr. Weston would often join her onstage in a drunken stupor with his dogs and without his pants. This lineup produced a 45, "Get Out" on Bat Cat Records. Graduating to the harder stuff, she joined the staff of the notorious Cathay De Grande dubbed, "The most dangerous club in America," as DJ/waitress serving up tunes and liquor and befriending the likes of Texacala Jones of Tex & the Horseheads, who got her the job, joined her in a short lived