Jimmy Pop

Jimmy Pop (sometimes Jimmy Pop Ali) (born James Moyer Franks, August 27, 1972 in Trappe, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main-songwriter and one of the main founding members of the Bloodhound Gang. After graduating from Perkiomen Valley High School in 1990, he studied mass communications and history at Temple University, where he met The Bloodhound Gang bassist Jared "Evil Jared Hasselhoff... more

Jimmy Pop (sometimes Jimmy Pop Ali) (born James Moyer Franks, August 27, 1972 in Trappe, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main-songwriter and one of the main founding members of the Bloodhound Gang. After graduating from Perkiomen Valley High School in 1990, he studied mass communications and history at Temple University, where he met The Bloodhound Gang bassist Jared "Evil Jared Hasselhoff" Hennegan. He also founded the Jimmy Franks Recording Company, a label on which The Bloodhound Gang releases albums, as well as other bands such as Helltrain, Isabelle's Gift, and, more famously, HIM. He was also a contributing writer to American pop-culture satire publication POPsmear throughout the 1990s. He was offered a position as an intern on the Howard Stern Show, but had to turn it down after getting signed to his first record contract (with the Bloodhound Gang). Jimmy Pop is the only original founding member of the Bloodhound Gang... less