Ben Weinman

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Ben Weinman is a guitarist who plays for Dillinger Escape Plan. He, along with Chris Pennie, is the founding member of the band.

Ben attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey where he received a degree in psychology. He then went on to study corporate communications at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Weinman, Chris Pennie, Dimitri Minakakis and Adam Doll began Dillinger Escape Plan in 1997.

Weinman has been involved in production all of the band's releases since their self-titled debut EP, as well as various other musical works. The band's second full-length album, Miss Machine, was the first album released by Relapse Records to make the Billboard charts.

Weinman's first studio full length with the Dillinger Escape Plan, entitled "Calculating Infinity" was listed in the book "The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time" by Martin Popoff. Calculating Infinity was also recently named one of "100 best rock albums of all time" by Kerrang (the biggest weekly music magazine in the UK).

Ben Weinman has also self-managed or has been involved with the management of Dillinger Escape Plan since the band’s inception. He currently also manages the artist Jeffree Star who's self released Itunes EP went number one on the dance charts before it was even officialy released.

A fond player of ESP LTD guitars, Ben frequently uses guitars from the MH Deluxe and the M series of guitars, easily recognizable because of their angled headstocks.

Benjamin Weinman has also been listed on About.com as an example of today's important guitarists under their definition of "guitarist."

[edit] Discography

[edit] With Dillinger Escape Plan

1997 The Dillinger Escape Plan
1998 Under The Running Board
1998 Split with Nora
1999 Split with Drowningman
1999 Calculating Infinity
2000 The Dillinger Escape Plan (Reissue)
2002 Irony Is A Dead Scene
2002 Black On Black: A Tribute To Black Flag (cover of "Damaged, Pt.s I & II")
2003 Live Infinity
2004 Bring You To Your Knees: A Tribute To Guns 'N Roses (cover of "My Michelle")
2004 Miss Machine
2006 Plagiarism (Digital EP, 4 covers, Released on iTunes)