Just a guy in a perpetual cycle of creating music. This page highlights some of my bands and music projects.

Danny Mangold, while a member of the Metros in Mpls, Mn. helped secure the band a recording contract with Capitol Records/MTM in 1985.  After the band broke up in 1987, he moved to Seattle, Washington, and was introduced to Charles Neville ( Neville Bros.) by Mark Cardenas (The Time) to help form The Songcatchers (A&M Records) until opening a vintage guitar store in Seattle in the early 90’s. At that time, the store had many celebrity clients including..
Green Day, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Robben Ford and many other well-known musicians.
Returning to first love of music, Mangold formed a band featuring Grammy nominee Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors.. proceeds going to the Everett Women's Shelter in 1997. Drummer on the project, Ben Smith, introduced Mangold to Ann Wilson from Heart/Lovemongers. Over 2000-2001, Mangold filled in for Nancy Wilson on various live dates, and was hired as the lead guitar player for Heart's then-upcoming tour when his accident occurred in 2001. Today, fully recovered from his injuries, Mangold continues to produce music in Seattle for Music Supervisors, Los Angeles. He continues to produce music and has 3 solo CD’s..” Hey Rainmaker”, “Lucky Me” and “ Here Comes Tomorrow” as well as two Beauty and the Bastards CD’s and “ Bottles in Trees” with Metros singer, Jody Hanks in 2020.
He continues to live in Seattle, 15 minutes from Jimi Hendrix’s memorial cemetery and visits Jimi every so often.

"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way — an honorable way — in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory." 
~ Viktor Frankl




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