Deathwish first got together in late 1983 and lineup was:

The band recorded a demo [about 7 or 8 tracks] at Radiobeat in December of 1983 with this lineup. Just after these recording sessions, future Slapshot member Jordan Wood [ex STP] joined the band.

The tracks recorded at the Radiobeat where never released. However, in 1989 the Armory Arms label release three of the tracks ["Tailgate", "Condemned" and "Break The Chains"] on a bootleg 7" single [which was limited to 300 copies and is therefore a collector's item].

Lost & Found Records also "reissued" the 7" single no less than three times. First in 1992 [with a different cover and limited to 500] and a second time as a coda on The Abused's "Loud & Clear" CD.

Finally, the 7" single featured on the backside of a bootleg with another Boston band, called Siege [we don't know what year though but we think it was on Lost & Found Records].

Amazingly, on all these releases, the personnel information remained intact [although all releases include Jordan Wood as being part of the recording].

Anyway, back to the band...

Shortly after the band finished the first recording, they got into some different sounds. The first stuff was straight-up Hardcore, as inspired by the "This Is Boston, Not LA" record that was all the rage at the time [sounded similar to early DYS, Negative FX, Gang Green, etc.]. However, once they discovered Descendents and Dag Nasty, they wanted to explore the power pop sound and they wrote new tunes and went back into the studio [approximately 1984/1985]. Chris was replaced by Dan Estebrook, Jordan Wood took over the bass [his first instrument] and Bobby went to guitar [using the Gibson SG and Marshall stack previously owned by Hal from SS Decontrol].

This new stuff was still pretty heavy, but it had more of a melodic component and the song structures expended, as did their lengths. Dan Estebrook was also a very clever guy, and his lyrics added a nice layer of sophistication. This recording was never released and unfortunately suffered from the bad ears of an inexperienced recording engineer at a place called Euphoria Sound.

The band just did a couple of local gigs with this lineup and then Dan Estebrook was replaced by Davey Rogers on vocals.

That lasted for about one show. Then Davey Rogers was replaced by Dimitri Demos.

At this point, Deathwish became The Loved Ones.

Bobby Frankenheim and Richard Dellveccio still live in Boston and still play music together.

Dimitri Demos probably still lives in Boston, but nobody speaks to him. There was some kind of falling out. He was a brilliant person in many ways, but never a very happy one.

Jordan Wood joined Slapshot in 1986/1987 but left in early 1991. His life tragically ended in 1994 when he committed suicide.

Jono Kornfeld lives in San Francisco where he is finishing a masters degree in music composition. He also play jazz piano and teach music theory at his university and at another school. He also wrote a basic textbook about beginning music theory.

We have no idea what the others are up to.