Misfits Bible, Number 91 Saturday, July 15th 1995 Hello fiends, this is an emergency broadcast to announce the upcoming Undead shows. The rest of the posts to the bible will go out on Tuesday as always. Read away: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:52:51 -0400 From: sistinas@prime.planetcom.com (EVB) Subject: UNDEAD!!! Just got off the phone with Bobby - he finally surfaced after all this time!! He was supposed to get married Sunday, but the chick bailed & moved to Florida with some guy & left him with a ton of bills.... so for the last months he's been trying to get his life back together & start things up again, SO - The Undead are playing!!!! First show this Sunday (16th) night in Baltimore at Club Midnight (2549 N. Howard, between 25th & 26th), doors open at 6 PM. After that they'll be playing in Lancaster PA on July 19th (he didn't know what club it would be yet), also New York City on the 29th at Brownies. -EVB ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, or for back issues, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu The Misfits World Wide Web page is located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: The Misfits | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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Hello! sunday Forced Exposure 7/8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Beaulac, Jody (Temp)" Subject: Record Stores Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 09:24:00 PDT Question for all of you: I'm from Boston and have been going to the same record stores for years now. They get new stuff in a lot, but I'm wondering...does anyone know of any other real cool ones in the area? Or in the New England/New York area? The best one that I've come across so far was Taang! Records...though their prices were too high. They moved it to San Diego though (check it out if you live there). Now I seem to keep ending up at Second Coming Records on Mass. Ave in Harvard Square. Please help me out here...I'm running out of Misfits stuff to buy! ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 09:28:09 -0400 Subject: good question first heard mother in "88 or "89 loved it. then a couple years later, i picked up how the gods kill after seeing some live danzig stuff, yeah, on mtv. then i remembered that there was this killer song by danzig that i heard several years prior but didn't know what it was called so i eventually bought all the albums looking for it. several months after that i decided to check out the misfits. the only album i could find was walk among us so i picked it up and liked it alot. then a couple months later, a friend of a friend let me borrow initium. i was blown away. so from then to now i've grabbed just about all i can relating to the three bands my pals and i refer to as the "unholy trinity". the only time i've ever seen the misfits live is on video and i saw danzig in nofolk a couple months ago. never seen samhain live. anybody got any good samhain live videos? good idea warren! hope everybody is still awake! evb, how'd you get into all this stuff? later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ From: MisfiFiend@aol.com Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 16:52:38 -0400 Subject: a few things Did Bobby Steele really die of AIDS? I was talking to a kid whom I just met, and we got to talking about the Misfits, and about the aspects of the musicians, and when i mentioned Bobby Steele, he said that he saw in a magazine (Rip, or one like it) that Bobby Steele was dead. Also, He said that when he met Chuck Biscuits a few years back, and asked him about DOA, Circle Jerks, etc., Chuck also said that he was also in the Misfits very temporarily. Also, a comic book dealer said that at a convention, Glenn was looking for an exorcist because he had made a deal with a demon for success for danzig. BODY FARM- a great hardcore band. for an 11 song demo, send 5 bux to Shawn Doran 1011 2nd ave. Altoona, PA 16602 ps. he also will give you some cool stickers. pps if you send him a stamp, he'll send you his Riot City Fanzine go ahead, write to him, they're really good ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:25:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Lord Valgamon Subject: Devil on the left, An angel on the right... Hohoho... pick up the July '95 issue of Details magazine (Which incidentally is their fifth annual music issue) and turn to page 60 for "Rock Solid - Glenn Danzig pumps up his volume," a fitness article in which Glenn explains his ENTIRE weekly workout schedule in over-excessive detail. (Gee... maybe that's why they call the magazine DETAILS?) :) Ha ha, I know, bad joke. Along with some really kooky pictures of our main man, I was most amused by the caption at the bottom of the page: "Glenn Danzig doesn't mind the pain." You should check it out... the rest of the magazine is really good too. -- Lord Valgamon 1-800-241-7337 ext 1673# Keyprint = 89 66 DE 00 B5 20 49 0F 24 59 76 05 BA FC 45 70 - ID 8D542C89 "From a Profane Existence ... To a Unified Resistance." Representin' the New Haven/Waterbury, Connecticut [203] punk and h/p scenes! ------------------------------ From: NIKOLOPOULOS@tne01.tele.nokia.fi Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:12:42 +0400 (EET-DST) Subject: comments on #89 > From: Drslfin@aol.com > Sad thing though since the Ramones have always been cool and solid. Not exactly...The Ramones have put out some pretty shitty albums during the 80's. (and I'm a Ramones fan) > From: EevilDon@aol.com > > sorry but i don't believe jerry wrote any of the misfits music other wise he > would've writen some over the past 13 years. Excuse me, but my understanding is that Jerry (& Doyle) wrote most of the music ... EVB, I was reading through my original post and it still seems to me that your reply is very loosely connected to it...and by the way, wait until I ask you about your credentials :) and then give them to me (I don't think you *had* to tell us... ). Still, I read your reply (all of it). You have some good points and I agree partly. Judgement *can* be related to taste! --------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/------ ### ### ### ### ### ### Yannis Nikolopoulos Ioannis.Nikolopoulos@ntc.nokia.com ### ### ### ### -- Make a difference -- ### ### ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 22:30:25 -0400 Subject: First experience Let's see..... The first time I ever heard Danzig was on an old radio station called WVVX around here. I forgot what they called them, but they'd go for hours playing 3 songs in a row by bands (blocks?). Danzig was one of them....Lucifuge era....and I loved the band since. First concert was July 3, 1994. The last time they were in Chicago was the same day I had to go to a wedding (I was NOT pleased at all). I didn't care for the set, and since I owned no bootlegs at the time, I just assumed Danzig was a poor live band. Boy was I wrong! The set wasn't too bad, except during "Mother" a mosh pit/brawl started right behind me, and the incline of the lawn was so steep that if you were bumped you flew and hit concrete. I stayed safe, the girl I was with nearly got killed. This was also my first Misfits experience, Glenn came out and jammed on 3 songs with Metallica. A few jock assholes were actually booing during "London Dungeon", so for a bit of the song I couldn't hear too well, he did eventually shut up after the majority of the people were staring at him giving him the evil eye and such. Any of you Prodigy people remember the good old BB days when we'd post our guesses on the lyrics? I still laugh at "Green Hell" . Chris The Idiot Police!!!! ------------------------------ From: Ralph Herbert Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:57:29 +0200 Subject: Earth AD question Hi. Can anybody tell me what the Earth AD/Wolfsblood/Evilive cd (official German release by Agressive Rockproduktionen, came out in '91) sells for in the US????? CTernes: A song title which is shared by Suicidal and Danzig? Well, the only ST title that comes close is Possessed from the first album, but that's not quite the same as Possession, right? Anybody seen Glen E. Friedman's "Fuck You Heroes" photobook? It contains lots of cool skate, hardcore and rap pictures. There's Black Flag, Suicidal, Jello Biafra, Ice-T, Public Enemy etc. etc. Unfortunately no Misfits pictures, but you can't have it all. "I'm not anti-society, society's anti-me I'm not anti-religion, religion is anti-me I'm not anti-tradition, tradition is anti-me I'm not anti-anything, I just wanna be free" (ST) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:57:19 EDT From: RDYR69C@prodigy.com (GLENN H DANZIG) Subject: Cartoon Misfits!!!! Just the other day I remembered something curious from my childhood days... Does anyone remember and old cartoon called Jem and the Holograms? It was a cartoon that was pretty much designed for girls about these two all female bands, Jem and the Holograms(good girls) and the other was the Misfits (bad girls). Since this was an 80's 'toon, all the music was pretty much sucky glam rock music, but nonetheless, the Misfits were always the band I rooted for sonce I liked the bad girl bit. All the girls had these wild purple and green hairspray cuts along with net stockings and little metal spikes and studs. Anyone think it's possible that maybe some wiseass purposely made a connection with our Misfits? -Psycho 78 ------------------------------ From: "Robinson, James Che" Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 22:03:16 GMT-5 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #91 ok the undead played in indpls on the 8th and well they need to rethink the tour. why you may ask. well the sounded like shit. i hate to say it but it is true.. and please take me off this mailing list ------------------------------ From: Burkhard Jaerisch Subject: BIBLE #100!! Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 18:00:16 MESZ hey, did anyone else note that we're approaching bible #100 at light speed? will there be a special "best of" bible? any proposals? cheers flex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 15:51:38 -0400 From: EVB Subject: RE:Misfits Bibles #89/90 & how it all started for me.... First off, a bit of news on Glenn's publishing company Verotik for those who are interested - managing editor Hart Fisher has been sacked, don't know why yet (maybe all the printing errors in Satanika #2) so hopefully this won't screw up their publishing schedule again when they were just beginning to get things out steadily! Steve Wardlaw (formerly of Tundra) is now in charge long distance from Massachusetts. At least we'll be spared Hart's pompous, self-inflated editorials from now on! I'd also advise against trying to order anything directly until they get things straightened out (I'm still waiting on the T-shirts I ordered a few months back...) I also hear that Death Dealer #1 should finally be shipped to the stores from the printer July 15th... Comments on Bible #89: Overall, I REALLY enjoyed everybody's responses to the whole "left hand" question - it was very informative! Warren A. Propst - other Satanic bands besides Deicide? How about Marilyn Manson (Reverend Manson was ordained in the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey) and the Electric Hellfire Club? Scott Cummings - agree on your recommendation on the Rollins book! I enjoyed that as well as all his other books (I actually like his writing a lot better than his music). For anybody with web access, Rollin's publishing Company 2.13.61 has a web site at: http://www.earthlink.net/~two1361/ HororHotel - thanks VERY much for posting the Danzig interview - I think that's the first time he's actually ever mentioned his first band Talus in print! CTernes - likewise thanks VERY much for the Misfits interview - one I didn't have!!!! RE: Bible #90: Cternes - definitely agree with ya on Lollapalooza. I went to the first one to see NIN & Janes Addiction (unfortunately missed Rollins due to the traffic jam ) & I had a miserable time between the heat, the sun & having to stand in line for 2 hours to buy tickets to exchange for overpriced bottles of water after I stood in another line for another hour and a half. It was really badly run & I swore up and down I'd never go again. (and of course I'm generally allergic to things like "sunlight", "sweltering summer heat" and "outside") Thanks for info on Samhain CD bootleg - 'tis news to me! Will have to keep an eye out for it. Goatboy - The Necronomicon was a fictional book frequently mentioned in the short stories of H.P. Lovecraft (early 20th century horror writer), said to be penned by "the mad Arab" Abdul Alhazared, which was full of spells to conjure up hideous ancient creatures referred to as "the great old ones". Many other writers latched on to Lovecraft's invention & referenced it in their own works (and added along similar invented tomes), especially those writers adding more stories to Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos" tales as well as more gods to his hideous ancient pantheon. Today there are several versions claiming to be the "real" Necronomicon, one of which can even be found in chain bookstores like B.Dalton's! Nick Wojciechowski - "Last Caress" originally appeared on the British 12" "Beware" which came out in 1979 and also contains most of the songs that had been released on the "Bullet" and "Horror Business" singles in the USA in 78/79. Unfortunately this 12" is VERY rare and sought after, and when the original can be found it generally sells for at least $200. There are also several bootlegged vinyl versions of it on 7" & 12" format; one of the 12" boots is almost identical to the original (so I always strongly caution anybody looking to buy one of the originals to watch out for it!) . So unless you get extremely lucky or are prepared to shell out some serious bucks, you might want to consider looking for a boot of it instead. It's included on the CD "Beware and the Rest" which IMHO is the most useful Misfits CD bootleg collecting all the rare & pricey singles. CTernes - Hmm, I'm not real familiar with Suicidal but I like your contest idea. How's about a similar contest? I'll do up a cool tape (winners choice) OR a promo Satanika poster autographed by Glenn to the first person who can give me BOTH song titles shared by Danzig and the Sisters of Mercy! HororHotel - I'd always wondered about that, hmm, guess that explains the pix of gals wearing saddles and bridles in one of my Helmut Newton photography books (it was either "Sleepless Nights" or "White Women" - he's a fantastic photographer but kinda weird) Tony1013 - Glad ya enjoy the posts! As for tons of Grateful Dead fans adopting Misfits shirts - there's a possibility that maybe some of them they just like the imagery with all the skulls etc as the Dead have always used lots of skeletal designs. (In fact as I personally can't stand the Dead many is the time I've rued the fact that they had such great imagery) RE: Bible convention, well, there was never an actual con planned. I'd offered to host a smallish get-together (i.e. however many folks can cram in Liz's apartment for a few hours) but when I asked what would be good dates I got no response. Right now I'd suggest that maybe all interested folks start planning for a get together to coincide with the eventual new Misfits show (Halloween in NYC or thereabouts?) Warren A. Propst - good idea for a thread! Hmm, my first Misfits listening experience.... Probably around 1986 when I walked into Vinyl Ink Records & George was playing an early 7" (I'm sure it was "Three Hits from Hell") - I liked it & left because I knew their stuff was rare & pricey & I didn't want to get addicted (heheheheehee sez Liz however many thousands of bucks later) - I was already a HUGE Sisters of Mercy collector and spending all my $ on their stuff (some of those are as scarce as Misfits records!). Time passed, then when "Walk Among Us" was reissued I bought it right away, having heard it was a "classic". For whatever reason I played it once, it didn't grab me (too fast & didn't sound like what I'd heard before & I was probably in a mood) and I shelved it. Then came the life-changing experience. My friend Greg called me up after the first Danzig album came out and said "I know you hate metal but there's this album you have to hear. I'll send you a copy if you promise me you'll listen to it." I said OK & he sent me a tape of the 1st LP, cued up so that the first thing I heard was "Soul on Fire". And I was INSTANTLY hooked by that gorgeous deep dark voice that sucked me in like a moth drawn to the flame and left me hungry for more. (Funny aside on the tape he sent me - it was an extra from his friend Chris who kept buying more. After however many plays he claimed that "the evil wore off" so he'd buy a new copy!) Couldn't stop there; did some research & found out about Glenn's earlier bands and immediately scoured the stores for everything I could get by The Misfits and Samhain and pulled "Walk Among Us" back out & enjoyed it a lot more after a few spins. Back down at Vinyl Ink I realized the frightening truth - that many of the best Misfits 'tunes were only on their old 7"s, so I started buying 'em up as I could find them, and before ya knew it I'd mutated into one of those crazed collector fiends whose life wouldn't be complete until I had EVERYTHING! (I'm still a few items shy of completion but I'm working on it!). Looking back I'm glad II had something I could throw myself into so deeply at that point of my life as it was around then that my father committed suicide & my whole world turned upside down. At that lowest point it was my black sense of humor fueled by the 'Fits tunes that kept me sane and pulled me thru (and annoyed my remaining family to no end) Anyway, I missed seeing Danzig on their first tour because of the family bit. So I swore up and down I'd make up for lost time, and by the time they announced the Lucifuge tour I was determined to drive to "as many shows as I could possibly go to". So along with ultra-fiend Johnny Favorite a/k/a Jonathan Grimm we made it to 11 shows that summer & I made it to another 7 that fall. My first Danzig show was in July of 1990 at Bogart's in Cincinnati and completely blew me away.....and there have been 71 more since! Sorry if it's turned into the personal confessions of "Misfits Anonymous" but I figured some of ya might wanna hear it. Hope to hear how the rest of you first got into 'em!. Several more VERY long posts to follow as soon as I get a chance to type them up, my phone has been rining off the hook this week & I have a lot of new news direct from Bobby & Jerry! -EVB ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 21:24:28 -0700 From: Gala Subject: sound file on Misfits Central 10.WAV : Has anybody figured out what this is? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:08:21 -0100 From: "Jake Starr/ADAM WEST" Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #91 --part_AC2FE7150001527F00000003 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline SO - The Undead are playing!!!! > > First show this Sunday (16th) night in Baltimore at Club Midnight (2549 > N. > Howard, between 25th & 26th), doors open at 6 PM i know! i saw the flyer for this show saturday when i was record shopping in Baltimore. unfortunately, i had a another engagement last nite so i missed the show. i'm surprised they're not playing dc, like the black cat. anyway, thanks for the tip! jake *************************** Jake Starr/ADAM WEST c/o Fandango Records 1805 T Street, NW #A Washington, DC 20009-7128 (202) 483-0065 eMAIL: jyas@loc.gov *************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 19:56:28 -0400 From: EVB Subject: News on the Misfits!! More news to report for y'all (every relasted group checked in this week....); had a long talk with Jerry last Thursday so I've got a lot of exciting news on the Misfits to report: 1) They do have Dave Vanian coming in to see them & are really hoping this will work out (I am REALLY hoping it will - I think Vanian is a a great singer and has a GREAT stage presence - I've loved the Damned since the day their 1st import single of "New Rose" arrived in the record store I worked in back in high school, and plus he is FANTASTIC in concert!!!!) 2) A gig at the Limelight on Halloween is out tho as Type O Negative have it booked already - apparently the Misfits were offered a slot opening for Type O but naturally they'd rather headline, especially for their comeback! 3) First release will be the "Static Age" album on Halloween from Caroline. Basil Gogos has just finished the cover painting which is of Jerry getting struck by lightening, sounds cool. I'm so excited that they've gotten him to work for them -it's just so very appropriate to the whole "horror" feel that they've been able to get the very same artist that did so many of the fantastic "Famous monsters of Filmland" covers. (Anybody else here grow up on those? when I was a kid I used to eagerily scarf that up every month, along with "Eerie", "Creepy" and "Vampirella"!) Jerry was able to sit in & help out on the mastering so he was able to get exactly the sound he wanted on it. Hopefully I 'll be getting a tape of it from him very soon and I can give you guys a sneak peak review - I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to this! 4) Also they will be doing a 45 of "Teenagers" (Static Age version); on the B side instead of another track will be an etched skull in the vinyl. 5) They are working on a series of movie pilots, taking old B films & hosting them in the tradition of Zacherly; it would be a tongue in cheek kinda thing poking fun at them like Mystery Science Theater but instead will give lots of information on the films & cast, like what the folks involved did afterwards. They've got 3 films so far - The Crawling Eye, Horror Hotel and the Hideous Sun Demon (all good choices!!).. They will have guests on there including Basil Gogos & the director of Hideous Sun Demon who they are flying in from California. For a studio they have renovated a barn & turned it into a huge dungeon set, so they'll be filming in there. They are hoping to either get a network interested or syndicate on TV, if not they will release as a series of videotapes. 6) He's anxious to get on line - said Doyle's wife had just gotten a computer so could I tell him how to get on the net. I wrote him up some suggestions of various options & gave him instructions on how to join the Bible & find the web site and I stressed how many fans are involved, especially with the Bible & how eager they are for news so it would be FANTASTIC if he could actually join us & give info first hand. Wowza.... my head is spinning from all this..... Now my roomies are teasing me & when the phone rings they say "who is it, another Misfit"? -EVB I also have a MAJOR announcement to make next week, so please sit tight until the next bible. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 19:40:58 -0400 From: EVB Subject: UNDEAD NEWS!!! Got a call out of the blue last Wednesday from Bobby Steele & was really happy to finally hear from him as it had been about a year and a half since I had. Heard what he'd been up to - he'd put the band on hold and had been engaged to a girl but unfortunately she left him so the wedding was off and he got the band back together (which is good for us fans at least who have been missing him and wondering what happened!) and he wanted to let me know that he'd be playing a few shows! So, as you might have guessed from the "special emergency broadcast" bible I asked Mark to send out in case anybody in the area was interested in going, they played on Saturday at Club Midnite in Baltimore. Met up there with a bunch of fiends including Mark Kenndy, Mike Priddy, James Lair & Jonathan Grim and a great time was had by all! Those of us that got there early got to sit in on the soundcheck as well which included "Where Eagles Dare" which sent goosebumps up my spine as I could feel that old Misfits magic working.... (And the set they played last night also included RATTFINK, Horror Business, I Turned Into a Martian and Last Caress! My one regret is that they didn't do "Slave to Fashion" which is my fav Undead tune.) Damn he is one helluva guitarist! They'll also b playing Wednesday the 19th in Lanaster PA - I'm not sure where yet but Bobby said he'd call me and give me directions so if anybody is interested in that e-mail me and I'll try to help! They will also be playing in New York City on the 29th at Brownies. (I've also got a friend of mine in Charlotte, NC trying to sent up a date or two down there - Bobby said he'd be interested if we could get a club down there interested! If that happens it will mean ROADTRIP!) He's got another side project he's working on as well called "Times Square" with a guy named Dave from a band called the Devil Dogs, and an ex-girlfriend named Jill who is apparently a pretty famous female boxer (?) who recently became the first woman to win the "Golden Gloves". He says it sounds like a cross between the Undead and the first Blondie album; 60's girl group sound wth hard edged guitar. He's interested in getting on-line as well; he's got a computer and a modem but not hooked to the 'net YET but hopefully soon! I brought him a print out of Mark Kennedy's Misfts book so he was able to go over that with Mark & add in some info and make some corrections; also gave him print outs of the last half dozen or so Bibles for some reading material! I encouraged him to join us; also hopefully very soon we'll be able to get his merchandise list up in the Bible and on Mark's web page since I know a lot of you have been having trouble finding Undead records. And yes, major bargain on the shirts there - only $10 (VERY pleasant surprize for me!!! OK OK I relent, there are some major indie bargains out there, plus I do feel better giving the $ directly to the artist so they get all the profits directly). - EVB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 11:00:06 From: Andreas Viehoff Subject: Hello! Hi, this is my first contribution to the Bible: Ill start with a big "HELLO" from Duesseldorf in Germany. Who was it that asked for my first experience with Danzig/Misfits/Samhain?? Well, I guess it was around the time that Lucifuge was introduced and I saw that video for "Her black wings" on Headbangers Ball (or whatever it was called by then): It blew me away. From then on it was a question of 2 or 3 months to get a grip on whatever I could get on Glenn Danzig and what he had done before. The different Bands appeal to my different moods: Danzig gives me the power, Misfits is the kind of music I listen to when having a party with my friends, fast driving in my car, having fun. Samhain appeals to my darker sides.... What about the Home-Video for Lucifuge?? This may sound funny, strange or even impossible to you, but Ive never seen that one in a shop. First time I found out that such a thing exists was when entering the Danzig Homepage. was this Video released in Europe/Germany?? Am I blind, dumb, def or customer in the wrong shops?? Another topic: How do you like the comics?? Ive only read three issues (Jaguar God, Verotika, Satanika). No offend, but I only liked Jaguar God. The story of Satanika was a bit "simple", though I kinda liked the artwork. The stories in Verotika were great, but the artwork....sucked. How are the others, are they worth subscribing at my local comic dealer? Genitorturers: Ive seen their show twice here in Germany, but I cant get any info on them. Anybody who knows where to look?? Your god bless you, mine bless me. Andreas ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:25:43 -0400 From: She Subject: sunday well, evb took a lot of words out of my mouth, and i'm glad because i didn't want to type forever tonight. but, let me just say a few things about sunday. first, bobby steele has got to be one of the nicest guys i ever met. he was so friendly and knowledgeable, and no matter what some unsubscriber said in a previous message, he put on a great show. and i waited 6 hours at that club to see it, so i know what i'm talking about. so bobby really helped me out on the old misfits discog and i spent most of today updating it. it won't be on the page for a while, but it'll get there. so anyone curious? here's what they played: I'm So Happy In Eighty Four I Don't Wanna Do It Anymore (new song, i probably have the title wrong) Verbal Abuse Shadows Invisible Man The Way We Behave I Turned Into A Martian Put YOur Clothes Back On When The Evening Comes Never Say Die My kinda Town There's A Riot In Tompkins Square Horror Business Eve Of Destruction No Vices Rat Fink (or as the undead call it R.A.T.T. F.I.N.k.) I WAnt YOu Dead (requested by my pal mike and me) so it was a great show. the audience for the most part was dead. in fact, if it weren't for evb's quick action, 11 of us wouldn't have been there. unfortunately 11 was a third of the audience. yes it's true, just 33 people there, most of the kids seemed more interested in hearing misfits covers even though this band was called "THE UNDEAD". it was funny to see the flyer listing them as "THE UNDEAD, formerly the misfits". i got a lot of new undead stuff that i hadn't been able to find and evb is definitely correct about slave to fashion. it's been in my head all day. killer song. for the most part, the audience seemed to be the same as the horror convention opening night in nj from april. johnathon grimm, evb and her crew, chris lair, mike p, and ... me. also a bonus at the undead show was Billy Whitfield, who some of you have traded with. i had never seen him before and i guess i should have expected to see him there. on a side note, a friend of mine has some stuff for sale. she needs some money, so some of the prices might seem high to people who aren't used to dealing in Misfits material: Initium (first press, red vinyl) $80 Samhain - Live '85 CD bootleg (only Samhain CD boot) $25 Die Die 12" - best offer Legacy Of Brutality LP 1st print - best offer Earth A.D. reissue LP - best offer November Coming Fire reissue LP (but she'll throw in the original lyric sheet) - best offer I believe that's all. Email me if you're interested and I"ll relay it to her. About the condition, I havent' seen those records in years (i found them all for her) but they're in very good condition. so that's all, right? wrong, i typed up the very best Samhain article I've ever read. I think it's necessary reading for anyone who likes Samhain and anyone who is curious about the end of the Misfits... so I'll send that momentarily. mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:28:14 -0400 From: She Subject: Forced Exposure 7/8 FORCED EXPOSURE #7/8 SAMHAIN INTERVIEW, By Byron Coley and Jimmy Johnson AT GLENN'S HOUSE, LODI, N.J. 10/27/84 GLENN DANZIG EERIE VON STELLMAN STEVE ZING BYRON JIMMY Glenn: Yeah, we're recording a new 12". It's called Unholy Passion. It will be different than Initium... I know there will be at least two songs that are kinda weird. We do a remake of "All Hell Breaks Loose" -- the way we do it live. Byron: How do you mean, weird? Glenn: Just different than what we normally do. We're experimenting more. It will still sound like Samhain and it will still have a lot of power, and loud and everything... but it's just moving into different areas. Jimmy: More rhythmic sutff? Glenn: There's one song that is...it's really hard for me to explain the stuff the band is doing now because it doesn't fit into any of the categories that everybody is working in right now... it's a definitive sound... Byron: You think it's better than the last one (Initium)? Glenn: I liked the last one but this stuff is kinda different so that's why I would say I like it more. Jimmy: How about this "uneven production" stuff that some guy in D.C. mentioned... Glenn: Oh, you mean Tesco... well, we don't want every song to sound the same. That kinda defeats the purpose of having ten different songs. It's that old punk rock attitude -- every song should sound the same. I don't really think that way -- we're trying to get away from that. Byron: Is it your tendency to lay down all the basic tracks in one session and handle them all real differently? Glenn: I think about production way before I even record a song... about how each one will be... Byron: On Initium it almost sounded like some of the stuff was done in different studios... each song almost had a different ambience. Glenn: It's just the way the song is done... not all the songs were done at the same time. The whole thing is -- when you're producing a song you want to do something different with each one. And that means something has to take a back seat when another thing is pushed up in volume. You can't have everything blasting. When you want certain things to be heard, something else has to come down. "Archangel" has two bass tracks. When we do it live, our guitar player straps on another bass and I put on a guitar. Some people are like, "What are you doing?! Blah blah blah..." Well, those people can go see Johnny and the Hardcores -- don't come see us. If they want the Johnny and the Hardcores' album where everything sounds the same, they they can go buy it... JImmy: Have you ever played guitar on stage before? Previous to Samhain? Glenn: Well, in other bands before the Misfits... I've played guitar for a long time. Jimmy: How about time-wise? Did you spend a lot more hours recording than with the Misfits? Glenn: Yeah, but in some aspects not really because Walk Among Us took a real long time. When you hear that record -- that was the third time that thing was recorded. The only Misfits thing that was done under budget... I don't know what came in under budget with Misfits's stuff. (laughs) Eerie: Nothing. Byron: Over how long was Initium done? Glenn: Well the studio we used (Reel Platinum in Lodi) is alwasy backed up two months in advance. So we'd go in thinking we could finish it up and then we'd run out of time, so we'd have to wait another two months to get more time in the studio. Byron: I was real happy that the speed was back down... Jimmy: Yeah, a lot of that stuff on Earth A.D. was just too much... Glenn: It was just too fast. That's whay I was really depressed after that album. I just didn't want anything to do with that band. Some of the stuff on Initium is even too fast for us, so we might re-record some of it and slow it down. Jimmy: How about the musicianship of the band live, is it a lot better than the Misfits? Glenn: Oh yeah, most of the people who come up to me after a show will say, "You're in a real band now", things like that... because he (Eerie) actually plays bass. And he's only been playing since last January ('84). Jerry (Only/Misfits) was playing for how long? And he didn't care about doing fifths or octave notes or runs or anything. He couldn't be bothered doing any of that. Live, sometimes, he didn't really care if he was playing or not. If he forgot where he was he would just let everyone bang on the bass. That was his way of saying "Ill get out of this." Jimmy: Did you start out with the ideaof Samain or was it going to the Glenn Danzig solo project? Glenn: It started out as Samhain. That was the one of the main names that I really wanted... Jimmy: How long did you have that name in the back of your head? Glenn: For a while. I've been studying Samhain for the last two years -- it's something I've always wanted to do, and information on it is real hard to come by and it's expensive when you do come across it -- and I had the song "Samhain" so it felt right. Me and Eerie would always talk about how we weren't really happy with the bands we were in... Eerie: I'd call up and we'd talk for three hours about how things sucked in the band and how they should be better. Glenn: So originally, Eerie played drums and we were going through guitarists and bass players. Eventually though, I got Steve (Zing) from Mourning Noise on drums, and I taught Eerie bass 'cause he had a real good image on stage and stuff. I knew I could teach him bass in a month, it's so easy. Byron: Originally we had heard rumors that you would be moving a couple hours closer to D.C. and be playing with Brian and Lyle. Glenn: That was a long time ago when I was thinking of doing a band with Brian and Lyle and that didn't work out. I only went down to two rehearsals in D.C. and the reherasals I went to really sucked. Jimmy: Were you working with a drummer? Glenn: When I went down there, they didn't have a drummer. They brought Jeff (Nelson/Minor Threat) in for a while. Jimmy: So they already had the idea for a band and they wanted you instead of the other way around? Glenn: They told me, "We want a real singer." Byron: But it was gonna be mostly their material? Glenn: Originally, they said, "The whole thing you're doing with your lyrics" -- and everything I write about -- "is great." And they came up here and played me some of their songs. And the stuff sounded pretty good. When I got down to D.C. they still hadn't gotten a drummer. As far as a bass player goes we were supposed to get someone like Tim Kerr from the Big Boys. Someone who was really good. And what they did was get Graham from Negative Appraoch, who's a really great guy, bat as far as being a great bass player... I mean Eerie's better than him right now. So that kinda bummed me out. The original idea was to create this supergroup, basically, and it wasn't. And the songs had changed when I got down there, they were kinda wimpy. Byron: So it was sorta like The 400 (Brian and Lyle's current project) stuff? Glenn: Yeah. And the thing was, there wasn't room in any of their songs for me to lay any phrasing or singing. It was very guitar oriented -- they carried all the melodies... it just wasn't working. I didn't really feel anything with the music. It wasn't doing anything for me. It wasn't making me want to go crazy. Jimmy: Did you plan to go fifty/fifty with their songs and yours? Glenn: I just said, this stuff is not giong to fit in with what I've been writing. Thwy were actually writing songs that were starting to sound like Rush... and I hate Rush. Then they got this drummer who is the guy they're using now and who is also in the Meatmen, and I just did not get along with him at all. I don't know... he jwas just real snooty about music, "I can't do that - it's too simple." Jimmy: That's the guy with the huge set, double bass etc? Glenn: Yeah. He was doing these rolls on the drums like Duran Duran. Going from the little tin thing... Byron: Like Mike Oldfied. Fuckin' cool. Tubular Bells. Glenn: If I wanted to be in a band like that I could form my own and make a million dollars, but I don't wanna do that. I just said, "look, you guys would be better off without me." Jimmy: What's the difference between that and Lyle being in Samhain? Glenn: After those rehearsals, Lyle said he still really wanted to work with me, so I told him I'd fly him up here. The first rehearsal went really great and we already had a show booked. Byron: When was this? Glenn: We started rehearsing about late January '84 and that show was booked for late March at the Rock Hotel. Jimmy: When was the last Misfits show? Glenn: That was Halloween. Me and Eerie already had Samhain going by then... Eerie: When he came back from that show he was so disgusted. He called up the next day and said, "This sucks, let's do it." Jimmy: So you had Samhain and the D.C. thing both at the same time and were indecisive as to which one to pursue. Glenn: I was waiting to see what would happen... as far as a bass player goes we could've gotten almost anyone. Graham wasn't really that important... and Jeff is way better than the guy they've got now as far as a drummwer with energy and consistency. The guy they've got now is like a showoff. He's a typical Top 100 drummer, which is what they band sounded like they were gonna end up as. This really unoriginal Top 100 band writing originals... I just said, "That's me ten years ago." Jimmy: So you were never seriously gonna make the move down? Glenn: Oh I was thinking about it -- if things worked out. But I guess they started telling everybody... JImmy: ... and you wanted to get Todd (Swalla/Necros) to drum right? Glenn: The whole idea behind that band was to have people who were really good at what they did -- a kick-ass guitarist, a kick-ass dcrummer, all the way down the line. And it never worked out that way. Everntually they started settling for this one or that one, and I didn't want to settle. Even if it meant hanging around for a while waiting for someone to finish up their commitments. Jimmy: Did Tim from the Big Boys ever agree to come out? Glenn: No, he listened to the tape that Lyle sent him and just said, "Naw". Which is basically what happened to me. I went dow there for two times and said, "This isn't it." That all happened inside a month, because at the time I was still running Plan 9. I had Earth A.D. to move and I was getting ready to put out Die Die My Darling 12", and we were also starting to record the Samhain LP. We were working on "Archangel". Byron: When did you start on that? Glenn: I started "Archangel" August '83. Jimmy: So, before the last Misfits show. Glenn: Yeah. Remember the Santa Monica Civic show? I quit that night. That was June 1983. I told those guys, "That's it." As a matter of fact, I told Henry Rollins that night too. He said, "Wow, I've seen it coming though." Byron: But you had just recorded Earth A.D. the night before, right? Genn: Yeah, but it wasn't finished because the monitor fell onto the sound board. We didn't really even get started. We recorded the rest of it out here with Spot. Byron: So "Archangel" was you and Eerie recording alone? Glenn: No I did the drums for it and Al Pike (Reagan Youth and Straight Edge magazine) played bass. Al Pike was originally supposed to be in the band, but he wouldn't leave his job and I didn't want to have to go through that again. Jimmy: Was that the first off the Initium LP that you wrote? Glenn: "Archangel" I wrote for Dave Vanian a long time ago and he was supposed to sing it with us playing it and backing him up on the record. That was in 1981. He came over and did a few rehearsals with us in Jerry's garage but it never happened. Then me and Steve did four or five more songs where I played guitar direct with Steve's drums. I then went back and added some bass tracks. Then Eerie went back and overdubbed some additional bass tracks because he had just started playing and we worked from there. And when Lyle said he wanted to do it, he laid some additional guitar overlay stuff. On a lot of songs he refused to play down-stroking. He wanted to play up and down which makes a difference, because when it comes back up you're hitting the end strings first, which is not what I wanted -- it sounded like Atkins or something. (laughs). We've got live reviews of our first show that actually said the band was great, but you could tell that Lyle wasn't really part of the band. Jimmy: How many times did he rehearse with Samhain? Glenn: Three or four times... I would fly him here on weekends and he'd just stay for that night and say, "I gotta go home". And then he started saying that he was getting a lot of shit in D.C. about the spooky image... and he had already applied for college in the fall. So we did the Rock Hotel show and never called him back. And we got Damien from Mourning Noise. Byron: Were you writing all new material for Samhain or were you using old stuff that hadn't been used previously? Glenn: I had stuff that the Misfits could never do and I had stuff I was writing as Samahin was progressing. It was a combination but now it's all new material. Jinny: How prolific are you now writing-wise? Glenn: Not prolific. I won't even write a song now unless I think it's gonna be pretty good. I'll think about it for quite a while before I even put it on paper. Byhron: Do you write on guitar? Glenn: Well, lately, I've been writing a lot of stuff on keyboard. I wrote this song called, "The Hungry End" on piano, which will freak a lot of people out. I've been listening to the "Cough/Cool" record (the Misfits' first, guitarless 45) a lot lately, and it's been really inspiring me. The whole thing is, I want to get the feeling back in this band that I was getting in '77/'78 from being in a punk band. For us it's there, and it seems like for the audience it's there as well, because we have tons of people going crazy for our stuff and we're not a hardcore band. Byron: How many shows have done so far? Glenn: We did a mini-tour for aobut two weeks all over the midwest. Most of the people said it was great to be able to hear my vocals. And a lot of girls are into Samhain. I think it's a little more sexual and a lot less menaacing physically. In Kansas City, there were a whole bunch of thirteen to fouteen year old girls hanging out by Steve's drum set, looking at him going, "I'm in love"... Jimmy: Well how many girls would look at Robo and say, "I'm in love"? Glenn: None. They'd go, "Daddy take me home now." The other night we did the NYU radio interview and I got a call and it was this girl who wanted a date. But I can't go on blind dates, because you might end up with Gorilla Monsoon... Byron: Yeah, that's true, but than at least you could find out some good wrestling anecdotes... so are you going to re-record any of these older things? Glenn: Well, I'm gonna do a special 10" because I've always wanted to do one. It's gonna be Samhain, but it's gonna have "Halloween II" live on the b-side and that's the only way you'll be able to get us doing that. I wanted to do a couple of the Misfits' songs in our set because they fit. We never did "Halloween II" live with the Misfits. We travel with a harmonizer now too se we can get all the background vocals... and "Bloodfeast" and "Death Comes Ripping" were originally Samhain songs and I gave them to the Misfits to make Earth A.D. a full album. "Bloodfeast" is supposed to be a lot slower than it is on that album. Byron: When you were writing stuff for Earth A.D., around that period, was it real specific -- this song is for Eath A.D. and one is for this unnamed project which was to become Samhain? Glenn: No, because most of the Earth A.D. stuff goes back to 1981. We were doing all that stuff back then. We were doing "Queen Wasp". I had "Earth A.D." written, but Googgy couldn't play it. We were doing "Demonomania" -- all that stuff was '81/early '82, with the exception of "Bloodfeast" and "Death Comes Ripping" and "Green Hell" -- which was written for the Misfits. "We Bite" is real old, "Die Die My Darling" we recorded at the Walk Among Us sessions. It always took the Misfits a real long time to get records out because Jerry and Doyle were working and they weren't really committed to the band as much as they should have been and things like that. Jimmy: Were those songs written at that speed? Glenn: No, they had this idea that they wanted to play live in the stuido, and that's why they wanted Spot to produce, and the songs came out way too fast. I was just not too thrilled with it. It's my least favorite Misfits record. It's alright. I still think it blows away a lot of the other stuff on the market, but for me personally... Byron: For a whil weren't ou gonna cut it back from an LP to an EP? Glenn: Yeah, right after the Civic thing we were gonna release it as a five song 12", but then we decided to add the four others. Byron: So when's the new 12" gonna be out? Glenn: It was gonna be mid-December, but as we're recording it now, I see that I wanna add more stuff, more overdubs. We're going twenty four track and I really wanna use them up. It will be five songs... Byron: Have you done any foreign licensing on Samhain stuff? Glenn: No, because I still haven't gotten paid from the German guy (Aggressive Rock) for Evilive and Wolfsblood. Byron: The only other foreign thing you have is the Itlaian Walk Among Us... Glenn: Yeah, Slash did that when it came out. It's on Slash instead of Ruby and it says "The Misfit" on the spine, but otherwise it's the same. Jimmy: Did you always want to do all the colors? Glenn: Yeah, I like colored vinyl. I don't care if anyone else complains. Don't buy it then, no one is forcing anyone to buy it. Byron: And on Initium you did... Glenn: About a hundred on white vinyl and about fifty five on marble, and maybe about 5000 altogether on black so far. Jimmy: How heavy of a touring band do you wanna be? Glenn: Pretty heavy... about tow, maybe three times a year. Every four or five months. Byron: So after the 12" you wanna do 10"? Glenn: Yeah, it'll probably be something off the 12" plus a non-LP b-side... just because I wanna doa 10" -- only about a thousand of them. Byron: Are you through with 7" records for a while? Glenn: Yeah, no more 7" records. I have to cut out and glue the sleeves myself and I can't do that for a couple of thousand. Besides, there's no money in them -- I lose money on 7"'s. It's just not the gluing aspect. Byron: What about limited stuff? Glenn: It's not worth it... just the money I would have to spend... and the distributors will take so many more 12"'s than 7"'s. Byron: The world won't have any Samhain singles to file... it's kinda sad... Glenn: The singles market is dead. The pressing plants want a real lot for 7" and it costs a lot for cardstock sleeves instead of shitty paper ones, and if I can't do it right then I don't want to do it. Byron: Do you have any other material besides what's on the LP and 12"? Glenn: I've got a couple of new ones which we're learning now and will probably play on this tour... Byron: Is the Fiend Club still in operation? Glenn: Basically, Plan 9 has a mail order opernation, that is what it is... for t-shirts and posters and for Samhain/Misfits LP's. There's no 45's available as of now... I wanna do a box set, limited to a thousand, of the Misfits 45's. Byron: There was talk for a whil that you were gonna be doing a magazine... Glenn: I wanted to do a magazine, but I just got bogged down with this band and the label. Bascailly, with Samhain we wanna get a definitive sound and always keep that power and intensity, and just experiment with all kinds of stuff. Do things that nobody else is doing. Everybody is just doing mediocre bullshit, like all these thrash bands. They're not as good as the bands they're just trying to rip off. All the good thrash bands are gone. All these other bands are stupid. Their lyrics are real dumb. I like real good lyrics, and there's nothing there for me... all these kids just had this thing handed to them. They didn't have to work for it or anything. They think the bands owe them something, just because they bought their record. I don't owe anybody jackshit. I owe you a good show if you come to see us and that's about it. Byron: It's true... it's real weird as to thes tuff that's happened with all that... Glenn: It's just these little spoiled kids. They don't have to fight a scene, they didn't have to fight for shows and stuff... Jimmy: It's just become so easy to put out a record and have an immediate following... Glenn: The bad part is that so many reviewers will say anything is good. Like this fanzine, Malice, from Memphis which I've got -- "Everything's great! Everything's great!" And I've heard some of those records and they suck shit. They're real bad. But just because someone sends them a free record it's great. Jimmy: It's always gone on to a certain extent, but it's really proliferating now. Like, if you look at the Flipside fanzine list now, there's about 250 'zines listed, whereas a few years ago there were only about fifteen or so. Glenn: And they're not really fanzines -- they're just one or two pages. Pieces of shit. Byron: ... Just P.O. boxes to get some free records. Glenn: That's what I like about Hard Times. He said that they're not gonna do one paragraph reviews of records, because that's a little bit misleading, and you can't really let someon know what a record's about in one paragraph... I hate those one paragraph reviews like in Maximum Rock & Roll. Jimmy: Well... there're various forms of the one paragraph review. (in defense of F.E.'s unquestioned excellence as regards the form) Glenn: I like the MRR reviews, "This isn't political". What's that got to do with music? Is it a good record? Is the music good? Did it do something for you? They're not the only magazine that's guilty of that. Byron: No, but they've become the standard from for all these other little fuckin' fanzines that are trying to do the same thing... there was this review in MRR that said, "I looked at this and thought it was gonna be a wild record, but it's not, it sounds like The Birthday Party." (laughter) * * = The actual review was from MRR #18 and ran as follows: "The Legend 'The Legend Destroys the Blues' 7". Don't be fooled by the cartoon of the guy in a Ramones t-shirt on the back cover or the frantic maniac on the front cover: This is not wild shit. It's more of a Birthday Party-type minimalist Rock. Well done but not crazed." Glenn: How much wilder can you get? Byron: It's so fuckin' weird... Glenn: Well, people are like that... in the band I'm in now, and even with the Misfits, we always tried to be a couple of steps ahead of what was going on. As far as Earth A.D. goes, I don't know about that. If I had produced ti the way I wanted to, it would have been. This band, I think is a few steps ahead of what's going on. Byron: Right, but I think the obvious connection for a lot of people is still gonna be the Misfits. There isn't a big image change between the two. Glenn: Well, live there is... the blood there (pointing to the cover of Initium) ties into the whole Samhain thing, letting the blood run. Samhain is the pagan Halloween, and is based a lot on the death of the earth -- and everything dies at the end of fall. Byron: So it's an annual thing? Glenn: It's what Halloween is. Christians didn't want the pagans believing in any of the old pagan things, so what they did is they changed the name from Samhain to Halloween, and they changed the name of Christmas and all the holidays. Anyone who didn't listen got killed. Basically, the whole Samhain thing is -- the pagans celebrated the death of earth, and any animal that couldn't survive through the winter, that they didn't have enough food to feed, because winters were tough back then, they had to kill. With Samhain, some sects in Europe would actually kill a king every year and sacrifice him -- the blood would replenish the earth so that in spring they would have great crops again and things like that... the "Halloween" trilogy is based on Samhain. Also, on Samhain, supposedly the dimensions open up because of the shift from the summer and fall into winter and the dead can come back. They used to set places for the dead at the tables. Byron: Yeah, I was wonderin'. 'Cause when I first saw it, it was written out like it was just the name of a guy. Glenn: It's really pronounced "Sow-win". It's Gaelic. You really see the difference between Samhain and the Misfits when you see the lyrics. Also, with the next record -- a lot of it is against organized religion. Religion is good, but not what they've done with it now. If I say I hate Catholics, or I hate Jews, or Protestants, etc., it's not the individual that I hate -- the people who are of that faith -- but it's the people who practice that as a way of life. I don't like those people. Like the Right-to-Lifer's and the people who want to mingle church and state. I really hate that. Byron: Would you say that you're religious though? Glenn: I'm a very religous person, but I wouldn't pray to a saint or a pope. Basically, whether you believe in god or not, there's probably just one supreme power -- that's what I believe, anyway -- and that's who you pray to. There are religious atrocities, like the Catholics just eradicating races of people -- more people than Hitler did -- just because these people's sole purpose was to be one with god and to the Catholics that was heresy. It's annoying that people always single out Nazis, or this and that, and never mention any of the religous movements in this country. Do you know how many people would be killed if the church was mingled with the state? Anybody who didn't believe in "their god", their form of religion, would be forced over. It's happened before and it can happen again. This band, lyrically, is more heavy duty. Byron: There always seemed to be a comic book element to a lot of the earlier stuff. Glenn: Yeah, that's gone. Eerie: This is more real life stuff. Glenn: If someone sat down and really looked at the lyrics to the Misfits' stuff they could see what's going on and could tie the connections. This is just a more real band. Byron: Are you thinking of doing any video stuff? Eerie: Yeah, but not any performance stuff. It will be all storyline to a song. Glenn: We're gonna do "Samhain". I might do one for "Initium". "Unholy Passion" will probably be real sick if we do it, but that's further down the road. Byron: How soon will that be? Glenn: Well, we'll be back from the tour in December and we're not going to tour during the winter because of the bad weather. So we'll have until April or May as a layoff period. We're gonna record and release a second LP then, so we'll have plenty of time to do stuff. Byron: Is there more material you recorded for Initium that hasn't come out yet? Glenn: No, that's all there is. That narrative beginning thing, "Initium", me and Eerie did that in his room on a four track cassette recorded, which is pretty wild. Byron: So are you gonna be playing any keyboards, Glenn? Glenn: Yeah, there're some keyboards on the new 12". We added a lot of stuff to this record -- it's gonna be really full. We're into the idea that a studio album should be different than live. The power should still be there in the studio, but you've got more tracks to play with, so do it. Make it an interesting record -- layers and layers of stuff. Byron: So you wouldn't take the keyboards with you live? Glenn: We might eventually. Not right now, but maybe for the spring tour, in about May. Not a real keyboard, like an organ, it would be a DX7, which patches in sounds like a cello or bells or whatever. And it would only be for stuff from the album, whihc means a little overlay here or there. It's nothing major in any song. Any of this is just something we're adding to a killer song. It's not that this whole song is a keyboard thing with us going, "La La La". Byron: Now wait a second. You just told me you were listening to "Cough/Cool" a lot. That's a keyboard record. Glenn: Yeah, but that's not a "La La La" song. It's a keyboard song with fuzz. That's because we didn't have a guitar player in the band. Everybody was into Yes, Led Zep, and Queen... Byron: You played guitar though. Why not on it? Glenn: I don't know. I didn't have a guitar. I only had this thing. (picks up an old semi-hollow Danelectro) Eerie: Oh, you got a bottom string now. Byron: The truth is out. That's why you didn't play guitar... Glenn: I normally write on four strings -- the top four -- then I added a fifth one, now I finally added the last E string. Byron: I thnk you could take that guitar out with you. You could do a little sensitive acoustic number. (laughter) Glenn: No... one of the things I don't like is that a lot of people, in their strive to be different, are just reverting to the past. Like the Husker's Zen Arcade LP and a lot of other people always talking about the Velvet Underground and poetry... yeah, when I was in high school I was listening to the VU and getting shit for it. I was reading all the poetry back then. Where were you eight to ten years ago? It's just so stupid. I don't like reversion. Things go forward -- don't go back. You acn look at your roots or your past and say what it would be like now, but not this regression. Music should be expanding, going further. Byron: But it's like you said, history repeats itself. It's fuckin' true. Musical history is the same thing. Glenn: Yeah, but it should have a quality that relates to now. You shouldn't listen to a record and say, "Is this Crosby, Stills, and Nash?" Byron: Or is it Memorex? Glenn: No. It's Husker Du... it should have something about now and maybe modern technology as far as recording goes. Byron: With the band live, have you run into a lot of people yelling for Misfits' stuff? Eerie: Yeah, but it started to taper off real quick. Glenn: Think of some good questions. Something weird... Byron: Um, what's Tesco's sperm taste like? Glenn: I don't know... he doesn't have any. ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, or for back issues, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu The Misfits World Wide Web page is located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: The Misfits | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. MMMM MMMM MMMMM MMMMM FFFFFFFFFFFFF TTTTTTTTTTTTT MMMMM MMMMM III SSSS FFFFF III TTTTTT SSSSS MMMMMM MMMMMM IIII SSSSSSS FFF IIII TTTT SSS SS MMMMMMMMMMMMMM IIII SSSS SS FFFFFFF III TTT SSSS MMM MMMMMM MMM III SSSSS FFFFFF III TTT SSSSSS MMM MMMM MMM III SSSS FFF IIII TTT S SSS MMM MMMM MMM III SSS SSS FFF IIII TTT SSS SSSS M M MM MM II SSSSSS FFF III TT SSSSSSS M F II top Misfits Bible, Number 93 Tuesday, July 25th 1995 Today's Topics: etc... Name the Danzig/Sisters songs contest Nike re:misfits info RE: Bible 92 Major Announcement time.... Ternes's Perspective WWW on AOL Sale First Experience /w the Misfits re: danzig news! bye! Best of...and my founding of-- In requiem?...I think not! Misfits 1st Re: Misfits Bible, #92 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 07:09:28 -0400 Subject: etc... nikolopoulos: have you ever seen a misfits album? everything is credited to glenn! since it doesn't seem like you've ever seen one i thought i'd share that with you! sorry , but i don't think jerry and or doyle wrote music just so glenn could have the credit! especially if they wrote most or all of it! mark: great interview! thanks! glad jerry and bobby might join in. i know i've been harsh on bobby but tonight reading some of those alegations about him being dead and nik who said he understood jerry wrote the music etc...maybe it's just dumbasses who misinform people who start this shit?! (no i'm not calling you a dumb ass nik, maybe just whoever told you that.) maybe bobby does lie about shit? maybe he doesn't? maybe he's just fucking with people?! but i still think jerry should not re-record the guitars on the old misfits stuff, especially the live stuff! maybe they can shed some light on some rumors and what-not. and i still don't think the misfits should re-form! look at the undead, great band! (thanks mark!) and they play misfits stuff, but also kick ass original stuff! come on jerry let go and let the misfits rest in peace with respect! (but, release some of those rare vinyls in their ORIGINAL form! ie the teenagers from mars "7 from 1978, just five made!) that's just my 2 cents worth. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:13:08 -0400 From: EVB Subject: Name the Danzig/Sisters songs contest Quick response from that lil' contest (checking to see who reads those posts ya know!) And the winner is: >From: "Jake Starr/ADAM WEST" >To: sistinas@prime.planetcom.com >Subject: Danzig/Sisters songs > anyway, the two song titles they share are >"Possession" and "Dominion." I think that's it. Sure is! Songs called "Possession" are on the first Danzig LP & the first Sisters LP ("First and Last and Always) and "Dominion" appears on the 2nd sisters album ("Floodland") and the last Danzig album. Actualy I've always thought Glenn & Andrew Eldritch have quite a lot in common besides those song titles.... Anyway, Jake wins his choise of a dubbed tape or a signed Satanika poster! -EVB (know I should think up some more....) ------------------------------ From: cep@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:21:41 -0700 (MST) Subject: Nike To whoever asked about the meaning of "Nike" a few bibles back, we have an answer of sorts. This may not be the meaning of the song, but Mario and I discovered an interesting connection several months back. We were flipping through the pages of our friend Andy's art history textbook when Andy pointed out a photo of a statue of Nike, the Roman (?) goddess of victory. The headless statue looked really familiar to Mario. We took out his Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood record and sure enough, there was Nike, right on the cover (she is the statue on the right side of the album cover). Just thought that was sort of interesting, and hopefully informative to some of you out there. That's all for now, -Mario and Ellie Ellie and Mario ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 19:54:41 -0400 From: warren@fred.net Subject: re:misfits info Fiends--Thanks for telling all about your first Misfits experience. It's great to hear how everyone got hooked in all their different ways, even if it sounds like an AA meeting. NIKOLOPOULOUS: I still think Don's right about Glenn writing the music. Ryq Hinojos even credits him for it on the tab section of the home page. And check out the inside of Walk Among Us, I believe that does too (left it at someone's house or I'd check right now). Anyway, that's all I ever heard. EVB: Thanks for the inside stuff on the Misfits! It's great to hear that Jerry and Bobby want to get on the net. (It's also great to have someone on the Bible who gets phone calls "out of the blue" from Bobby Steele) I'm sure everyone is eagerly waiting to hear the big announcement next week. I stand corrected about the Satanic bands, and I also heard about a Satanic *rap* act, Flatlinaz. Have we now seen it all? Not until Satanic country I suppose. Vlad Tempes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- warren@bigdog.fred.net | Save the capybara... bk902@frenet.buffalo.edu | for a better tomorrow _ _ ._ _ \ | / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:51:34 -0400 From: EVB Subject: RE: Bible 92 Few comments on last one ( I can tell, I'm having a bad week & I'm trying to distract myself by writing more stuff) Jody Beaulac - when in New York check out Venus records on St. Mark's Place - they often have rare Misfits records at better prices than other collector shops. My friend Niels even got a copy of the original "Cough/Cool" there when he was visiting from Germany! MisfiFiend - boy is your source a creative storyteller! Bobby thought the AIDs story was really funny when I read it to him - needless to say he's very much alive! Bet Glenn would find the exorcism bit just as funny. Chris Terns - oh you lucky dog to get to see Glenn with Metallica... had only I known they'd do that!!!! Ralph Herbert - the Earth AD/Evilive CD I bought last year from an ad in Goldmine mag was $40 ; if you were trying to sell it you should be able to get at least that (I know a lot of folks on the Bible are searching for it) Andreas Viehoff - I have no idea if the Lucifuge video ever was released overseas - you could always get a US copy & have it transferred to PAL. (I've had to do the reverse on British tapes... thank ghod Japan is on NTSC or I'd be in BIG trouble!) Funny, but I liked the art in Verotika more than in Jaguar God, especially the Bisley story in #1 and the work by Esteban Moroto in #3. The computer coloring realy gets on my nerves tho, reminds me too much in look of the Image books which I'm not big on. As for Genitorturers - if ya want I have a bunch of interviews & clippings on them I can copy, also have some GREAT pix I took when they played the 9:30 club. They don't get much press in the US either - most of the articles I have I got from a long time fan in Tampa, Florida near where they are from (Orlando a/k/a Disney World! That'll warp ya fer sure!). They have only put out two releases I know of - the "120 Days of Genitorture" album on CD (IRS, 1993) and an earlier 7" on purple vinyl (House of Shame/Jackin' Man/Rivers Edge/Strip the Flesh) that came out a few years ago and is now very scarce. (I also have an early demo tape of theirs) More to follow.... only wish it were better news.... -EVB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 06:08:53 -0400 From: EVB Subject: Major Announcement time.... Well, like I hinted last issue I've got some important news. I was asked to sit for a week before I posted it since the folks in question were in the process of still trying to come up with an official statement to make. Unfortunately, it's not good news. Far from it. Boy do I hate to say this. I got a call from Eerie Von on July 15th to tell me that he and John Christ have both quit Danzig. We had a long talk and I'm grateful to hear it straight from him since it would have REALLY hurt even more to hear months of rumors & then maybe see a little note somewhere. I don't want to go into details, but I think I can best sum up the reasons in exactly the words Eerie used: "the reasons that I joined the band in the first place aren't there anymore". Eerie is going to work on his own music - a blues band with some country influences. I asked him if he'd be working with John but he said he wouldn't since their musical taste is so different from his. He wanted me to pass on that anybody who wants to write him or John can send it to his PO Box ( He'll forward letters to John) Eerie Von PO Box 9215 Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 Eerie said that Glenn had mentioned maybe taking a few years off from music, also he said that Glenn was thinking of doing music that was (to quote Eerie) more of a "punk/industrial/tribal kinda thing". It would be trite to state the usual "musical differences" but it was a contributing factor to the tension. They will still be issuing the Samhain box set though; Eerie has been in the darkroom printing up photos for the set. Eerie also mentioned that Checuk Biscuits will be playing on the next Four Horseman album and that Joey Castillo will be on the next Sugartooth album. I can't say I didn't see it coming but I'm still crushed. This band has meant so much to me all this years; they've become like my family. And I've met so many of my closest friends traveling to their shows & even more over the net all because of them - what can I say except they fucking changed my life in a very major way. It's gonna leave a big gaping hole in my life and in my heart. Needless to say I've been crying for days. Anyway, I'm flying out to California in a few days to see Glenn - I doubt he'll feel like talking about this but if he has anything to pass on I'll let you know. If anybody is going to the San Diego Comic Con I'll prolly be working at Verotik's booth so look for me there. -EVB ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 17:17:45 -0400 Subject: Ternes's Perspective Hello! As all of you know by now, the mighty Danzig has broken up. Many people are upset about this. I signed on this afternoon and my mailbox was filled just about to capacity. Am I the only one who does not feel like this is the worst news in the world? Honestly, I love Danzig. And I've loved them for a long time. People around here know me as "Danzig man". People don't say, "Do you know Chris Ternes?" They say "Do you know the guy who wears all Danzig shit all the time?" The rock band Danzig has put out about 50 great tunes....and the rumors and possibility of a break up have been floating around for a long time now. HOWEVER, I am not an uncaring bastard, and I too am VERY upset about the whole break up thing. But there's something that pisses me off even more. What I will bitch about is what Glenn said he may do. Punk/industrial/tribal? Hmmmm, I get it. So the new Glenn Danzig shit is going to be another fuckin "Sadistikal" another "Invocation" and perhaps another Misfits type tune. That does not please me, unfortunately. I will be optimistic, and say that maybe the new shit will be good....and you know that comic book thing is still around (saw Verotika #1 today---$45). And we have another "Black Aria" type thing coming out....geez think about it. It's not that bad! Chris ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 22:37:28 -0400 Subject: WWW on AOL All right, Version 2.5 is available bugfree. Which means: WWW access to ALL AOL people.....NO EXCUSES! General directions: 1. Ctrl + K. Type in "WWW" 2. From that screen, you will 4 options of places to go. Click on the second one from the left. Basically get to the place to download the software.....you can't miss it. 3. Download the software (IT'S FREE!!!) 4. Run the program "Install.exe" 5. A new icon will be in the AOL window....double click and sign on 6. When online Ctrl + K and type in WWW 7. Download artwork (9 minutes at 9600) 8. ENJOY!!!! I would also recommend typing in the Misfits homepage in your "favorite places" space. I know it's number one on mine. I think it's about time I compliment Mark on this place of beauty. Links to the American site, lyrics, discographies, back issues of the bible, bios, news, soundbytes, pictures. It's all there!!! Chris ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 23:11:35 -0400 Subject: Sale Well, it ain't Misfits, but I'm dying to get rid of this NIN CD I have called "Solid Gold Hell" it's old live shit. E-mail me if you want to buy it. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 22:31:15 -0700 From: Gala Subject: First Experience /w the Misfits Since everyone was telling how they first heard the Misfits and Danzig, I thought I would too.... the first time I had heard the Misfits was at a friends house listening to Walk Among us while watching my friend make out with my ex girlfriend... really weird. The first time I heard Danzig was before my sister turned into a hippie, she bought Danzig I and she listened to Mother constantly, I have since stolen the cd from her. the first time I heard Samhain was last year, I was really into the Misfits, and my friend let me borrow Final Descent and I listened to "I am Misery" over and over and over. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:25:05 -0100 From: Jake Starr/ADAM WEST Subject: re: danzig news! everybody, i ran into brian baker (late of minor threat, dag nasty, early samhain, now of bad religion) yesterday and told him about the interview with glenn from the early samhain days that mark posted in the last bible. he said that the "supergroup" was calling themselves samhain, and he only survived three rehearsals. he said his hair was black when they first got together, but he dyed it blonde after a bit, then glenn didn't like him anymore. But what's more important is that he told me that danzig and bad religion just played a july 4th show at the artic circle or something, and john christ and eerie quit the band after the show. he said that they said that they've been in the band for 8 years (eerie even more!) and they've been on salary the whole time with no financial support when they're not recording or touring. he said that john was sick of glenn the most. anyway, according to him, there is no more danzig! what's up, people? jake *************************** Jake Starr/ADAM WEST c/o Fandango Records 1805 T Street, NW #A Washington, DC 20009-7128 (202) 483-0065 eMAIL: jyas@loc.gov *************************** --part_AC3917700000D65B00000001-- ------------------------------ From: NIKOLOPOULOS@tne01.tele.nokia.fi Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:42:58 +0400 (EET-DST) Subject: bye! See ya all in October! Yannis ________/________/________/________/________/________/________/________/______ --------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/------ ### ### ### ### ### ### Yannis Nikolopoulos Ioannis.Nikolopoulos@ntc.nokia.com ### ### ### ### -- Make a difference -- ### ### ------------------------------ From: ols@home.interaccess.com Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:56:18 -0600 Subject: Best of...and my founding of-- If there IS a best of the Bible issue- We oughta wait fer issue #138... Anyways. My founding of the Misfits: I think I first saw the video fer How the Gods Kill on Beavis and Butthead (you heard me)...I soon bought the CD and yes, I loved it. at a later date, while at Tower records, I looked up "Danzig" on the computer.. It said "see also Samhain, Misfits, and the Undead." I had remember seeing a Samhain sticker at the alley and I said "cool! the Danzig skull!" -- That's how I recognized Samhain at Tower. They had no Samhain CDs, so I checked Misfits and got Legacy of Brutality. I hated it. But what did I know? I usually listened to Megadeth or Metallica. ( I was lost in eighth grade) Later still, I got Initium, which I liked. Misfits eventually grew on me, cause I actually payed attention to it. And what more is to say...? First Danzig concert: Live with Metallica and ST. I nearly keeled over when I heard them play Misfits! -greg BTW- if you haven't seen my artwork on the web, please do, you might enjoy it. And please respond. http://www.interaccess.com/users/ols ------------------------------ From: PDH1021@aol.com Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 23:15:52 -0400 Subject: In requiem?...I think not! What can I say? I was truly saddened (a complete understatement, I assure you) to hear that Eerie & John have decided to leave Danzig. Whatever the real reasons, I wish all of the folks involved much sucess in the future and would like to voice my appreciation for all of the great recordings and live shows over the years. I've no doubt that there will be loads of speculation in the coming weeks with regard to this turn of events, and I'm equally certain that some of it will give me pause for thought and that most of it will anger me. Regardless, I have to say--a little preemptive strike here--that if it wasn't for Glenn's talent, we wouldn't have three great bands to discuss and we wouldn't have all of those truly amazing songs which continue to entertain us years after the fact. The legacy will endure. I'm hopeful that my all-time favorite singer-songwriter won't keep me--and the rest of us who appreciate him--waiting too long for the next chapter in his life's story to unfold. Many thanks to HororHotel, CTernes & Mark Kennedy for posting all of the old interviews--they were truly interesting. Please keep them coming. I do have one question though, Who is Tesco? :) To EVB--Enjoy your trip to So. Cal.--please give our best regards to Glenn. PDH ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 21:21 PDT From: Trevor Tilbury Subject: Misfits 1st Well, this is my first time writing to something like this. But, since others were writing 'bout there first Misfits experience, what the heck. It was about '86 when Master of Puppets (Metallica :>) came out. One of the pictures in the album had all of them sitting in what looked like a living room with thiese records around there. One of them was a Misfits album. I was, actually still am a big Cliff Burton fan, and this gut worshipped the Misfits. I thought I'd see what the heck they are about. A few of my friends listend to them, so I borrowed some tapes. Man, it was so raw, so cool, you couldn't hear a world the dude said. As I started getting into it, I found out about Samhain. There was like a 5 year period where I basically dropped out of the music scene, But have managed to find the 4 Misfits CD's I could find and the three Samhain. It was actually hearing Lucifuge that sparked my interest in Danzig etc. again. Another little bit of trivia: it was Cliff Burton that introduced Rick Rubin to Danzig by bringing him to a Samhain Concert. Rubin wanted to sign him immediately on his label, Def American. Later.. Trev.. ------------------------------ From: She Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #92 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 95 0:41:38 EDT > Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:57:19 EDT > From: RDYR69C@prodigy.com (GLENN H DANZIG) > Subject: Cartoon Misfits!!!! > > Just the other day I remembered something curious from my childhood > days... > > Does anyone remember and old cartoon called Jem and the Holograms? It > was a cartoon that was pretty much designed for girls about these two > all female bands, Jem and the Holograms(good girls) and the other was Yep, this has been discussed a couple of times before. Basically at some point Jerry talked to the company that put out that stuff and somehow it was decided that legally it was okay for there to be a cartoon misfits and a real one. evb knows the story better than i do. About Chuck being in the Misfits - I don't know about this one. there are so many silly stories; whenever someone practiced or hung out with the misfits, they seem to claim that they were a member or a great buddy or something like that. eerie says in an interview that he even played with the misfits. well, he tried out, but according to jerry that's it. anyway, my first experience with the misfits? end of 1988 when walk among us was reissued and the Misfits compilation LP came out, I started getting to know them. i only knew hollywood babylon and hate breeders, basically because my friends were getting into them. then i heard their version of green hell and was pretty amazed at the power and speed. when the twist of cain single came out, i was hooked on glenn's voice and somehow i determined that the voice of the misfits and the voice of twist of cain were the same. so, having accumulated a good starting base of knowledge (my friends were collectors who knew about all the 7"'s and ep's) i started going after anything with glenn's voice. i started with die die and then legacy of brutality and then walk among us and then i accidentally discovered the Less Than Zero soundtrack and got it too, before I ever bought any Danzig. and here i am. mark ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, or for back issues, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu The Misfits World Wide Web page is located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: The Misfits | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. MMMM MMMM MMMMM MMMMM FFFFFFFFFFFFF TTTTTTTTTTTTT MMMMM MMMMM III SSSS FFFFF III TTTTTT SSSSS MMMMMM MMMMMM IIII SSSSSSS FFF IIII TTTT SSS SS MMMMMMMMMMMMMM IIII SSSS SS FFFFFFF III TTT SSSS MMM MMMMMM MMM III SSSSS FFFFFF III TTT SSSSSS MMM MMMM MMM III SSSS FFF IIII TTT S SSS MMM MMMM MMM III SSS SSS FFF IIII TTT SSS SSSS M M MM MM II SSSSSS FFF III TT SSSSSSS M F II top Misfits Bible, Number 94 Tuesday, August 1st 1995 Today's Topics: They cannot end this mourning of my life... last one... Da Split! End of Danzig Misfits/Samhain for sale wow... danzig break up Bobby Steele Franche AOL 2.5 for you guys Sob story skulls 7" Danzig live with White Zombie AOL NEWS danzig dominion Re: #3(3) Misfits Bible, #92 Stuff danzig we bite News from San Diego...... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 01:47:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Lord Valgamon Subject: They cannot end this mourning of my life... I saw the _Die Die..._ 12" at Trash American Style in Danbury, CT and I nearly bought it... it was only $8 but it looked rather used (the sleeve was worn around the corner edges and even the sides, and the inside packaging was merely a wrinkly plastic bag). The record itself looked to be in decent shape, but I held off primarily because I was damn near broke at the time, and also because I wanted to ask all of you about its value first. They also had an original Undead 7" - damn I forgot the title, "verbal abuse" maybe? They wanted something like $16.50 for it. Just thought I'd let y'all know. oh by the way: "punk/tribal/industrial?" PUH-LEEZ! Is our man jumping on the Trent Reznor/Al Jourgensen trend-wagon? Give me a break, Glenn. Get real. -- Lord Valgamon 1-800-241-7337 ext 1673# Keyprint = 89 66 DE 00 B5 20 49 0F 24 59 76 05 BA FC 45 70 - ID 8D542C89 "From a Profane Existence ... To a Unified Resistance." Representin' the New Haven/Waterbury, Connecticut [203] punk and h/p scenes! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 02:39:32 -0500 From: LeSTaT Ok, Thought i would jump on the bandwagon and let all you fiends out there know when i got sucked in... Basically i was considered a loser and a freak(the name i liked the most) because of my listening to the Holy three. i think it started around the time of Lucifuge. A friend ripped off a tape, and i listened to it. He thought it sucked. (i heard the Misfits before, but never made a connection, `till i heard Glenn's voice) i was enthralled. period. i instantly spent a great deal of cash to get ANYTHING related to Danzig/Samhain/Misfits. I have been a freak ever since!.... I got an internet account about a month ago, and i have never been happier. Where i went after i got it, well, i instantly searched for the Misfits. I tell ya, i was an extremely happy boy! Closing, a couple questions: 1. Where can i find "Last Caress" have been looking for it for the longest time.. Considering where i live, i can't be to upset. 2. Are the "New" Misfits gonna just be playing around the coast? or are they doing a US thing? I heard Type O Negative offered them a spot, but naturally they declined. 3. When is the Album coming out!? ( i wanna freak the shit outta everyone here in GB Wisconsin.) Thanks for any replies, and it's been a pleasure writing to all my fellow freaks!.... Darin lestat@online.dct.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:24:20 +0400 (EET-DST) From: NIKOLOPOULOS@tne01.tele.nokia.fi Subject: last one... >From: EevilDon@aol.com > nikolopoulos: > have you ever seen a misfits album? everything is credited to glenn! since it > doesn't seem like you've ever seen one i thought i'd share that with you! And I was trying to leave in peace ... ;) Well, my friend EevilDon... I can assure you that I've seen Misfits albums a *long* time before you could even spell the word MISFITS ;).... so don't get obnoxious with me, ok? > sorry , but i don't think jerry and or doyle wrote music just so glenn could > have the credit! especially if they wrote most or all of it! Look, my personal knowledge was that Glenn wrote all the lyrics and music BUT I was sure that I heard somewhere that the rest of the band had a lot to do with the music composition... Luckily, I remembered where I heard that... It was this very same bible, just several issues back! I'm sure that *some* of you still remember the Crimson Ghost.... I quote him : >>Misfits Bible #30 >>From: CrmsnGhost@aol.com >>Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 18:00:13 -0500 >>Yes the misfits can actually play their instruments. And yes, the >>other members did have alot to do with composition on the whole. --CG So, there you have it.... Where is CG anyway???? > glad jerry and bobby might join in. i know i've been harsh on bobby but > tonight reading some of those alegations about him being dead and nik who > said he understood jerry wrote the music etc...maybe it's just dumbasses who > misinform people who start this shit?! (no i'm not calling you a dumb ass > nik, maybe just whoever told you that.) maybe bobby does lie about shit? Uhhh, I guess you're calling CG a dumbass....;) Yannis ________/________/________/________/________/________/________/________/______ --------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/--------/------ ### ### ### ### ### ### Yannis Nikolopoulos Ioannis.Nikolopoulos@ntc.nokia.com ### ### ### ### -- Make a difference -- ### ### ------------------------------ From: J.Baldry@mail.nerc-swindon.ac.uk Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 12:41:52 GMT Subject: Da Split! I'd just like to throw in a few (hopefully upbeat) view and comments on the Danzig break up. Obviously, it's a terrible shame (waste even?) when such a talented and for the most part, unusual band splits up but then I guess most people said that right after the Misfits and subsequently Samhain split. I think the fact that Glenn's whole life has been spent writing, recording and playing music hints that we have plenty more things to hear from him yet... in whatever form. Talking to others (hi Trish!) I think it would be great if Glenn to time out to do stuff that maybe Danzig (the band) would not allow, such as an album full of stuff like 'You And Me' or covers from his favorite artists (now that would be diverse!). I hope all the ex- Danzig guys do well with their respective projects and await Eerie's stuff with great interest... I just hope that they and Glenn don't indulge in the traditional 'ex-member' slaggings that so many bands seem to. I guess the _really_ depressing thing about the split is that the reasons for it do tend to fall heavily on the side of the 'Danzig's a dictator' faction. Whatever, they were an almighty band and it's sad it's all over. BTW, for those of you who may be worried about what 'Industrial/Tribal/Punk' might entail, check out 'I Don't Mind The Pain' for a BIG tribal influence, 'Sadistikal' for the industrial side and the whole Misfits back catologue for the punk stuff.... we needn't worry, Glenn's been into and doing this stuff all his career :) Julian ------------------------------ From: ols@home.interaccess.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:19:33 -0600 Subject: End of Danzig Well, just as Danzig's light is burning out, The Misfits' is rekindling. I loved Danzig... but I love the Misfits more, so if they're coming back, nothing can get me down! It just pisses me that the first show is so far from Chicago... Anyways- I meant to say this last time: EVB! You have to be the coolest person I have (not) met! You talk to Jerry and Doyle and get surprise calls from Bobby Steele. You even learn first hand from Eerie himself that him and John Christ left Danzig. Not to mention that you've been to a bazillion Danzig concerts and are friends with Glenn. sheeesh. --Greg Petre ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 12:24:11 EDT From: LNMN05A@prodigy.com (MR MAURICIO NUNEZ) Subject: Misfits/Samhain for sale Hey guys I have some records for sale. Here they are: Misfits Legacy of Brutality - white vinyl and Red Samhian III - orange vinyl Evilive reissue - green vinyl Initium - red vinyl If anyone is interested, e-mail me and I'll give you the prices ------------------------------ From: Hunnysmack@aol.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:31:13 -0400 Subject: wow... Thanks to EVB for the big announcement. No, it's not a surprise, but it is pretty shocking. I expected John to leave, but not Eerie! I'll be interested in hearing what Glenn says about the break up. Will we get a mature response, or will he badmouth them or act like they don't exist? I sincerely hope he handles this professionally. Well, the Smackerals of Hunny summer tour is now over - just a few local dates left, so I've been catching up on the bibles. I'm just wondering now what the hell happened while I was gone?!? A few issues looked like newsgroup postings! What's with all the Bobby Steele/AIDS/dead B.S.?? If you would READ the Misfits Bible, you'd KNOW that the Undead have been playing shows recently and are doing just fine. And the whole Danzig-selling-his-soul-to-the-devil crap...man, just wait until you sprout some pubes before you start posting to this list! We are a collection of knowledgable fans working to DISPELL all of the rumors and B.S. stories floating around the internet - we are not here to create new ones!! Danzig was a BAND of four HUMAN BEINGS just like you and me...The songs and albums are all results of creativity, hard work and rehearsal, not selling one's soul away. Try it sometime, instead of believeing everything you're told. Finally, I'm glad that I had the chance to meet a few of you on the road this summer! I look forward to meeting even more next summer. Hey Chad B. - sorry I didn't contact you when we were in Chicago...lost your phone # and it wasn't in the phone book! And to the six or seven still awaiting their "Evil is as evil does" vids...wait no more! They'll be done on Saturday and shipped Monday. One more thing...are we still doing the compilation? Mike and Don - please re-post all the vital info! Thanks - Brent ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:23:15 -0400 Subject: danzig break up i think the worst part about the danzig break up is the fact that eerie and glenn have parted. if the band had broken up and they did another project together i think that would be great, but since samhain, glenn without eerie, how wierd. but since it doesn't look like they will be working together any longer that is what gets to me. i'm sure glenn's next project will be interesting though, but the presence of eerie will be missed. good luck to eeie and and john both in their post-danzig endevors. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ From: DarkLo730@aol.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:05:43 -0400 Subject: Bobby Steele There will be an interview in an upcoming issue of my zine w/ Bobby Steele. If you are interested in getting a current issue of my zine email me. I'll keep you posted as to when it comes out. There also may be an interview with the new Misfits as well. The current issue of my zine is #3 and is $1 PPD. It s available from PUNCROCK ZINE, 16 Hemlock Rd, Hartsdale, NY 10530. mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:20:23 -0400 From: She Subject: Franche I talked to Franche yesterday on the phone and he told me some news about Static Age. It will be out Halloween as we all know. It has 14 songs: Static Age | TV Casualty | Some Kinda Hate | Last Caress | Return Of The Fly Hybrid Moments | We Are 138 | Teenagers From Mars | Angelfuck | Come Back Hollywood Babylon | Attitude | Bullet | Theme For A Jacal the other 3 songs recorded at the static age session were not intended to be released on the album and may or may not come out in the future. the songs have been remastered but NOT overdubbed. so it should sound great. it will come out as CD/Cassette with a limited vinyl pressing. First single TFM followed by ROTF (maybe) So, I'm really looking forward to this.... mark ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 20:21:45 -0400 Subject: AOL 2.5 Even better news with the new version of AOL!! The 14,400 numbers actually work!!! It's about time. ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 01:13:09 -0400 Subject: for you guys at my band's (bane) gig tonight i dedicated skulls to "mark, chris, maria, trish and all the other fiends at the misfits bible". i know, "who cares!" but i figured some of you might appreciate it. anyway, the gig was great. of course we did london, and halloween 2 with a chorus of crazy fiends behind us, as well as most of our originals an abridged version of electric funeral, and minor threat's version of stepping stone. anyway, don't bother flaming me because i don't care! i already know, you don't want to hear about my band...blah, blah. but one or two of you may so, oh, well. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:52:44 -0400 Subject: Sob story Hey all, A number of weeks ago I had the "Practicing Musicians Volume 3" thing in my hand with the John Christ song, I was broke. So, I hid it, and came back to find it gone!!!! Therefore I am asking any and all of you that if you have a copy of it, perhaps we can trade tapes? Or if you can find a copy, I will compensate you for the cost of the CD. Chris ------------------------------ From: Burkhard Jaerisch Subject: skulls 7" Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 1:06:00 MESZ hi, this is basically meant for mark but i lost your e-mail address, so everyone else will have to listen. i have the skulls 7" in fron of me, it's from '88 or'89, it's called "misfits we dare you", 500 made (i think). it has a nice sleeve with cutouts from all sorts of horror movie posters etc. the tracks are: -hollywood babylon -where eagles dare -some kinda hate -children in heat -hybrid moments -angelfuck -ghouls night out catalog # is sc-01, no label. they actually do a pretty good job, the sound is trashy as it's supposed to be but not weak, even the singer is cool although he's not comparable to glenn of course. i saw these guys live around 88 and it was a great experience to finally hear these tracks live (although not played by the original band...) they opened for white zombie then, by the way (pretty obscure band back then). cheers flex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:01:27 BST From: Steve Roots Subject: Danzig live with White Zombie I just read in a British magazine (Metal Hammer) that Glenn got on stage with White Zombie during a concert in California (poss. Irving Meadows) and did a bunch of Misfits songs with them. Does anyone know anymore about this? I won't comment on Danzig breaking up, but it does show (to me at least) how cheap Danzig is. Having the other band members on a fixed salary while Glenn gets all the royalties seems like a real asshole thing to do. Eerie Von was there from the beginning and it seems like Glenn really screwed him in the end run. Also does this seem like a pattern with Glenn? ie Breaking up successful bands? Finally, a couple of bibles back it mentioned that the reformed Misfits were given the option to play under Type O Negative, and refused it. To me it seems like a missed opportunity. To see The Misfits and TON play together would be great. The two bands have alot in common. LD ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 16:37:57 -0400 Subject: AOL NEWS Well, here's a bit of AOL news for all of us on AOL: >From The Wall Street Journal SAN FRANCISCO -- A California lawyer has sued America Online Inc., alleging that the on-line service overcharges its customers. According to the suit, which seeks class-action status and was filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco, America Online bills parts of minutes as whole minutes, and in some cases as two minutes, and charges for time that customers spend accessing "free" service areas. (This overcharging may easily be overlooked for people who spend a lot of time chatting online but becomes very obvious for people who economize by using the "flash mail" feature.) AOL, Vienna, Va., charges customers $9.95 a month, which includes five hours of on-line time, plus an additional $2.95 an hour. The company declined to comment on the suit and declined to answer questions about how it bills for parts of a single minute. If AOL charged each of its 3.2 million customers for an extra one minute a month, it would have received over a year's time $1.9 million, equivalent to nearly a third of AOL's fiscal 1994 net income. The lawsuit, filed by Palo, Alto, Calif., attorney Stephen Hagen, alleges that if an AOL user is on-line for one minute and one second, AOL informs him at the end of his session that he has used one minute and one second of on-line time, but charges him for two minutes. AOL doesn't disclose its practice of billing increments of one minute as a full minute, the suit alleges. (END) DOW JONES NEWS 07-21-95 6 00 AM ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:34:46 -0400 Subject: danzig dominion got a full refund from danzig dominion, until "tour is over". kinda funny. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ From: GoatboyAK@aol.com Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 13:47:49 -0400 Subject: Re: #3(3) Misfits Bible, #92 for bible Went to lollapalooza in NYC yesterday, and in an art exhibit i found and purchased a RATFINK comic book, they also had RATFINK pins, but they were more expensive than the comic book. In the comic book, it mentions the RATFINK fan club, (but the book is from 87',) is this still around, does anyone know? is there a misfits "halloween" 7" bootleg out there? thanxxx for your answers to all of my questions and hooking me up guys!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 23:33:03 -0400 From: She Subject: Stuff Okay, I finally uploaded 3 disks worth of pictures onto the internet, so check out the World Wide Web page for the new pictures. Unfortunately, I lost the name and address of the person who sent them to me, so if you're out there, let me know (christian hunter was the name maybe?) Also, I am running low on $$ and must sell one or two of my bootleg records: Beware 12" $15 green cover from '85 (bk502, if you still want this please let me know, i can't remember your current address and i need $$ soon) Live Night Of The Living Dead 12" - $12 - comic cover, 2/28/82 show, 1000 made and that's all. mark ------------------------------ From: warren@bigdog.fred.net Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 16:50:58 -0400 Subject: danzig I was somewhat reluctant to write this, as this issue will no doubt be innundated with responses by al of us who hadn't yet heard to the bad news Chris Ternes, EVB and others brought us. I just thought to say, look on the better side of things. It's only another chapter ending; in no way does it have to mean the story is over. Twice before the same has happened-- the Misfits chapter ended (at least for Glenn) and so did the Samhain chapter. It's a new beginning. Vlad Tempes warren@bigdog.fred.net | Save the Capybara... bk902@freenet.buffalo.edu | for a better tomorrow | _____ . _____ \ | / Zandar? ------------------------------ From: GoatboyAK@aol.com Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 18:32:09 -0400 Subject: we bite has anyone evr realized the odd excited and somewhat cheery tone in the chorus of the song "WE BITE", even though the lyrics are completely morbid.. i mean obviously this is the misfits, (cheery music, and evil lyrics), but its just this one song and this one chorus that especially stands out and which always gives me the biggest goosebumps.. to also keep this bible alive, it would be interesting to know which song from misfits/danzig/samhain gives each person the biggest goosebumps!!! just an idea! well my first expeiance with the misfits had to arise from METALLICA. i always saw them wearing misfit/danzig/samhain shirts, especially in those METALLICA comic books (does anyone else have these, i have two different pressings and am interested in trading or selling them to someone if interested), also through seeing the misfits tatoo on cliff burton's arm, and them covering last cvaress & green hell on GARAGE DAYS, funny story about when i got my first misfits tape!!! i was in 7th grade, (5 years ago) and i went to the mall w/ my mom, i knew i wanted one of there tapes, but i knew that my mom would always screen and check out any thing that i bought (she was afraid that i was worshiping the devil and shit cause i listened to metal) so i tried to buy a tape who's song titles were the least explicit and/or satanic, so i figured i would go with EARTH A.D., and i would try to hide it from my mom, so as soon as i bought it, i hid it in my sock so she wouldn't know that i bought it, and i took it home and listened to it on my walkman, so she wouldn't hear the evil lyrics, and see the song titles!!! but I got away with it!!!!! its funny even though this was 5 yeras ago i can remember it perfectly clear!!! goatboy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 00:21:36 -0400 From: EVB Subject: News from San Diego...... Just got off the plane from San Diego & am VERY tired but wanted to post this so y'all wouldn't have to wait a week for news.... Saw Glenn when I was out there & unfortunately didn't get to hang with him much (he was REALLY busy with a ton of meetings with distributors, agents etc) and, sniff, we didn't make it to lunch as originally planned but I got to talk to him a bit & he says he's going into the studio in two weeks to work on a new album with Joey and that he'll be playing guitar on it. So long as he's around the band will be "Danzig". He says it WON'T be industrial but it will be a lot faster and that "White Devil Rise" will definitely be on it. And the hot line should continue. On the comic front now out from Verotik that debuted at the con: Death Dealer #1 - FINALLY!!! Verotika # 4 Satanika # 3 Sunglasses After Dark -special San Diego con ONLY ashcan edition (preview of upcoming book) Devilman # 1 - San Diego con special edition (regular edition should ship soon to stores) They also had a VERY cool poster of all the Verotik characters painted by Bisley with the saying "Heroes Come, Heroes Go, but Demons are forever". And my fav bit o' merchandizing was the little "super deformed" cute Satanika & Dalkiel figurines sculpted by Norman Cabrera. Also on display were the prototypes of two amzing resin sculptures that should go on sale in a few months - one piece is of Satanika & Dalkiel sculpted after the cover of Satanika #1 and the other is of Dalkiel done from the first splash page in Verotika #1 - both pieces are incredible & done in a perfect representation of Simon Bisley's style. (An Igrat sculpture will be in the works & also Japanese artist Nirasawa, best known for the "Creature Core" stuff in Hobby Japan, is at work on his own rendition of Satanika) Signing at the Verotik booth over the 4 days of the con were: Glenn, Devilman creator Go Nagai (all the way from Japan!), Simon Bisley, Nancy Collins and Martin Emund (FANTASTIC artist from New Zealand who will be doing a lot of their covers - the painting of Igrat from an upcoming Satanika really took my breath away!) I asked what was up with the mail order end of Verotik as I know a lot of folks never got stuff they ordered and Steven Wardlaw (new editor) told me that the "old administration" (i.e. Hart Fisher) never mailed out people's orders so he inherited several sacks worth of unfilled mail orders. They are going through and processing them now so everybody should be recieving their stuff in the next few weeks. So hang tight and hopefully you'll be getting your stuff soon. One of the highlights of the con for me was getting to meet Michael Wm. Kaluta who sold me the original design sketches for the yin/yang design on the last Danzig album. Anybody who knows me knows how much I love this design as I had it permanently marked into my skin last year and Kaluta told me he thought the tattoo was "perfect" which of course flattered me to no end. I who usually keeps her cool in front of nearly anybody came damn near close to doing a "I'm not worthy" ala "Wayne's World" in front of him as he is one of my personal gods. Also got to meet some other bible folks - Rob Flemming & Ricky Hinojos and Kristina & Elizabeth Nelly - I'm only sorry that I didn't have more time to hang with everybody!!! (Sorry if I seemesd really spacey - I was REALLY trying to focus on far too many things at once and going on next to no sleep for too many days!) Uh, that's all for now folks.... time for the Liz-Zombie to crash..... -EVB ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, or for back issues, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu The Misfits World Wide Web page is located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: The Misfits | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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I walked into my comic store today, and EVERYWHERE you looked there was Death Dealer! I've never seen so many copies of one comic in my life! Chris ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 12:38:11 -0400 Subject: #94 lestat: last carress is on beware, very rare and expesive so i suggest the beware and the rest boot. inexpesive and very handy. nik: well it doesn't seem like it pal! what goes around comes around. maybe you haven't seen one since i learned to spell misfits, better? maybe then jerry is the dumbass, then maybe glenn is, who cares? but, cg is comming from the jerry/doyle point of view so that's half the story. and i never said they couldn't play, just said they didn't write, didn't say they can't write either, but i suppose we shall see. i'm tired of this pissing contest. the albums speak for themselves, (c) glenn danzig, that's it. all you need to know. but, don't get obnoxious with me when i state what is in print on every misfits album. now it's over. shake hands and go into our respective corners, with our dignity, and our shared love for the misfits with us. \}-| this drink's on me nik! we'll never know the truth, we weren't there! fiends? good show! mark: thanks for the great news about static age! evb: interesting news. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ From: CTernes@aol.com Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 00:28:12 -0400 Subject: Static Age About the album......didn't Glenn "Evil Elf" Danzig have a problem with it being released? And wasn't he going to make sure it didn't get released? Chris Thank you Steve! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 11:13:38 -0400 From: She Subject: erased messages I had a problem with my mail editor the other day and about 32 messages were deleted. So if I don't respond to something or a message meant for the bible is not here, that's why. Among those 32 messages were some from highly annoying people who don't tell me they've unsubscribed - leaving me to deal with all the error bounced messages.... if you're the one who sent me the 3 disks, please email me... also i put the Static Age stuff up on the page. and i recently received email from an old crimson friend of ours... mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:38:52 -0400 From: "Tempes, Vladimir A." Subject: Let's end it now! For the past few issues, the topic of who wrote Misfits songs has been beaten and beaten to death. Let's let it die in peace. The thread probably should have ended in issue #30, with that post by the CG. Or maybe in #90, when I said: >Most likely, a great deal of influence was put in by Jerry, as well as >Doyle and the band's other various members, but Danzig is credited with >writing them. In a related issue, NIKOLOPOULOS said: >...I can assure you I've seen Misfits >albums a *long* time before you could even spell the word MISFITS ;).... >so don't get obnoxious with me, ok? Come on, people. Let's not worry about how long we've been Misfits or Danzig fans. The point of the Bible is to be provide a place on the net where people can get together and discuss the Misfits, what they all have in common--not what separates them, like age. I'm no veteran to the Bible, but from reading back issues I think lately this little publication has gotten a bit...rude compared to the past. Think about this thread, and the one about Glenn and Evil. I'm not knocking anybody here, but please...let's play nice, kids. Vlad Tempes warren@bigdog.fred.net | Save the Capybara... bk902@freenet.buffalo.edu | for a better tomorrow | _____ . _____ \ | / Zandar? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 22:40:42 -0400 From: "Tempes, Vladimir A." Subject: lots o' titles from Europe Here's some CDs available from CD Europe. All the CDs are Eurpoean imports (ie Bootlegs, prob). I got this through a mailing list for another band. They take Visa and MasterCard. All these titles are $29.95 except for the 2 CD one, which is $45.95. Shipping is $3.50, UPS $5.50, Canada $5.50. The numbers are (305) 481-8984 and (305) 481-8817. Their address is PO Box 8561 Deerfield Beach, FL 33443 Danzig CHCD690 Back in Black (tilburg, Netherlands 9/82) CHCD691 Demon Danz (europe '90) CHCD692 Godless (tilburg 9/14/92) CHCD689 Dirty Black Night (9/92) CHCD693 Lucifer Live (US '93) CHCD687 The Power of the Dark Side (ucla '93 LA '89) CHCD4019 Skulls and Bones (NY '91) Misfits CHCD1842 Misfits at the Ritz (NYC 12/81) CHCD1843 Beyond Evil (Demos and Outtakes '77-80) CHCD1840 Demonomania Club (Detroit 10/29/83) 2 CDs CHCD1841 Complete Singles '77-82 (+Bonus Tracks) CHCD4117 Vampira (NJ '81, NY '79, Michigan '83) Thar you go, Vlad Tempes ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Aug 95 10:22:08 From: Andreas Viehoff Subject: why does this boy write so much... Hi all, I still dont get it, I guess. They split up. Its been a long time comin, so Im not too surprised. We all knew that man was never easy to work with. Besides the sorrow there is that feeling of excitement: whats he gonna come up with? He didnt disappoint ME by now. (In some way I liked Sadistikal, Cantspeak....). There are still a lot of talented musicians out there, people with a vision who are ready to kick some ass. By the way: What would your DREAM TEAM look like?? The ultimate band, so to speak....and no holding on to The Misfits, Samhain or Danzig. We know m, we liked m, theyre gone (it seems). Dont get me wrong, I was at the shows here in Germany, not a day without listening to some of their stuff.....but it was always the main man I wanted to see and hear. (That voice gives me the chills). I hope Im not raising too much of a controversy, just wanted to get some thoughts out..... EVB:>... thank ghod Japan is on NTSC.< Why that? Just asking as I`m into all sorts of videos from Asia, uncut versions, alternate versions.....etc. I like Image....no more comments. Okay I admit it, I like Batman too. You ever read Lone Wolf & Cub, check it out. Great, old black & white manga stuff on a Ronin and his son. (But this is no discussion forum for comics) >As for Genitorturers - if ya want I have a bunch of interviews & clippings on them I can copy, also have some GREAT pix I took when they played the 9:30 club.> I would definetely love to have some of that stuff. On a festival I went some three months ago, the Genis had their own "shop", where one had a chance to get a piercing by Gen herself. Wish I had the money... I also had a chance to talk to Gen. She told me, that they are working on a new album. Although its quite "fannish", I had her sign my ticket....Shes a really impressive person. She was running around the festival site the whole day, checking the stage, announcing bands, talking to people, doing photo shots and all. Wouldnt that be a Duo Infernal? Her and Mr. Glenn. Danzig was also announced for that festival too. To make a long story short: Three day festival. First day sunny, second day o.k., rumors of the promoter getting away with the money, some bands refusing to play, no pay no play. Third day, Danzig day, rumored to be cancelled. Morning of third day, heavy rain, the festival site is a mess. My "friends" decide to leave, I have to come with them. By then I didnt know if Danzig was going to appear. Later I heard the sad end of that story. Late at night Danzig appeared on stage, saw the audience of about 50 people, played two songs, said "fuck you", disappeared and wasnt seen again on stage. nuff said, cheers, A. ------------------------------ From: MisfiFiend@aol.com Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 16:53:40 -0400 Subject: oops boy didn't I feel like an ass when I read the Undead tour dates right after I posted that message asking if Bobby Steele was really dead. Hunnysmack dude. No need to get yer panties up in a bundle over the exorsist thing! I just thought that it sounded really funny. Perhaps i was wrong, and you guys (well hopefully Hunnysmack is the only one since he is the only one who flipped) are a bunch of tightass dickheads who take everything too seriously. And, Mr Smack- didn't you contradict yourself when you said that this bible is a source that is trying to disprove any Internet rumors, and I asked if the rumors about Bobby steele were true or not, and you flipped about it? And, When we were doing that thread about our playlists, and som epeople had Propagandhi's "How To Clean Everything". Whatsit like? And, did you order it directly from Fat Wreck Chords? "So go ahead and label me an asshole 'cause I can accept responsibility for what I've done, but not for who I am. Don't call me white." NOFX ------------------------------ From: Demock@aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 00:29:07 -0400 Subject: Misfits Records (Bible Post) I am looking for about any Misfits records that any of you would have for sale. E-mail me on the name and the price if you would wish to part with them. Sin for Sure, Demock@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 02:52:55 -0400 From: "Tepes, Vladimir A." Subject: Other Jerry project? I heard on alt.music.danzig (from a very reliable source who was also talking about a band featuring ex-Misfit "Caesar" :))that Jerry has a band called Evil God Revival, and will soon release an album entitled From the Heart of Darkness. Any truth to this? Vlad PS: That same person also wrote that the Misfits were of "minute musical value!" ------------------------------ From: MisfiFiend@aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 11:30:28 -0400 Subject: Why I got into the Misfits The reason I got into the Misfits is really close to the same reason that the guy who posted his reasons last bible- Metallica. I have worshipped Cliff Burton's music ever since I was in seventh grade (about 3 years ago), and I was always reading about how his fav bands were "Anything by Glenn Danzig". And, about a year ago when I finally got to hear Garage Days Re-Revisited, I loved the Last Caress/Green Hell covers, and then borrowed some of my friends Misfits tapes (He lent me the Legacy , Earth AD, and the Misfits tapes, cause another kid had "borrowed" Walk Among Us and Evilive, and had failed to return them before moving out of teh school district, but he got 'em back later). I loved Earth AD. So, I went out and got Walk Among Us and Evilive, conning my mom into lending me the money (She actually liked Walk Among Us. She is very liberal, even though she looks very conservative. She listens to Hendrix, Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Clapton, and other "classic' rock. Actually, she even liked Danzig II and III, but I don't theink she likes Samhain.) Ok, thanx for listening, but I'm gettin tired and gotta go. Ryan ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 21:53:12 -0400 Subject: place your bets! final tally for favorite songs. so now you must choose from: misfits: we are 138/ night of the living dead/ horror hotel samhain: arcangel/ let the day begin/ halloween 2/ all murder, all guts, all fun/ the howl danzig: 777/ possession/ devil's plaything/ brand new god it's very close. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach ------------------------------ From: EevilDon@aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 15:34:14 -0400 Subject: misfits tribute okay, the misfits tribute is back on. let's get some more submissions . remember to e-mail ME, AND INCLUDE YOUR BAND'S NAME AND THE SONGS YOU ARE PLANNING ON PLAYING. I WILL NOT PUT YOU ON THE LIST IF YOU "MAY BE" PLAYING... thanks alot this will make my life alot easier. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach "...gonna bite the hand that feeds me, i'm gonna turn the tides..." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995