Chris Romanelli was the bassist of the punk rock band Plasmatics

Plasmatics

The Plasmatics were an American heavy metal and punk band formed by Yale University art school graduate Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos...

 from 1981 until 1983 and again in 1986 to 1987. He played on the Metal Priestess

Metal Priestess

Metal Priestess is the 1981 EP by punk-metal band The Plasmatics, fronted by Wendy O. Williams.Dan Hartman, who produced acts such as .38 Special and James Brown, among others, had been working on a session in LA when he picked up a copy of Beyond the Valley of 1984 and couldn't stop playing it. It...

, Coup d'Etat

Coup d'Etat (album)

Coup d'Etat is the third studio album released by punk/metal band The Plasmatics in 1982.In 1982, a deal was inked with Capitol Records and Dan Hartman offered to produce a demo of the album for Capitol with Rod at Electric Lady Studios, Jimi Hendrix's old studio, in NY...

and Maggots: The Record

Maggots: The Record

Maggots: The Record is the fourth and final studio album released by punk / metal band The Plasmatics in 1987. The album was released as a special "9th Anniversary Album". Despite being called a "Plasmatics" album, it is often regarded as another Wendy O...

albums. After that, he had some brief stints with several other bands but largely faded from the music industry in the mid-1990s. He is currently a practicing attorney in New York.
Chris wrote the music to "The Damned", the only Plasmatics song to be featured in heavy rotation on MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

. "The Damned" still occasionally appears on MTV, on Beavis and Butthead and other shows.