Misfits Bible, Number 141 Thursday, February 8th 1996 Today's Topics: Misfits Coney Island High show available on video misfit's necronomicon Misfits Bible, #140 last time New Misfits songs whatever... hollywood babolon Guess Who's Back? Glenn on tv (Fwd) ALFREDO CAPPELLO damn phone company RATFINK Misfits mini-update Administrative Stuff Help Jaime Re: Misfits Bible, #140 The Misfits are for our own good Fiend-A-Thon (was: Jaime Fund) Misfits situation. IRC and Misfits' Quiz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: evan obrien Subject: Misfits Coney Island High show available on video Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 00:50:47 -0500 (EST) hello everyone, i am just writing to let you know (this is not a joke) that i have the misfits show from coney island high on video and am interested in trading stuff for it. i am not interested in bootlegs, just other music related stuff of similar rarity. perhaps you have an old misfits release, or other old punk vinyl, etc you feel would be worth trading for it. it is a half hour long, very good quality and i will dub it on high grade tape. yes, this is the show from halloween 1995 at coney island high. if you are interested in a copy, please email me at: obrien81@matrix.newpaltz.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 04:04:33 -0500 (EST) From: WickedKingWicker Subject: misfit's necronomicon i saw a bootleg called necronomicon in NYC a while ago it was all black with green ink, but i can't remember what was on the cover or what tracks were on it. it was at second coming records, i have their card if anyone is interested, they do mail order and usually have a large number of misfits and danzig boots & imports. what is the deal with the gold earth a.d., i have one and have seen dozens of them for sale, i never really thought they were that rare because i usually see more of them then any other disk in the misfits section, well until collection II came out... also... i don't suppose that there is anyone in the s. florida, miami ft lauderdale area that is planning on going to the signing... if there is i'd love to go with you and share expenses for the drive up... if not i guess i'll have to wait till the end of school to get back into the ny, nj, pa area again... :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: Jess Cyphers cyphersj@polaris.ncs.nova.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i will live forever, for i am truly blessed; my name will live in infamy, synonymous with death. -the electric hellfire club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ------------------------------ From: go@ns.oon.or.jp Date: 6 Feb 1996 22:51:54 UT Subject: Misfits Bible, #140 i want to buy misfits 7" bootlegs anything exspecialy the halloween 7" 3 hits from hell 7" horror bussiness 7" please email me immediately if you want to see them i also want the teenagers from mars 7" later ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:11:32 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: last time First, I'd just like to say that I enjoyed the posts by Splitter and Julian Baldry. Smart words... > From: "Collin M. McCormick" > I was looking at the homepage the other day at the section that shows what > misfits songs other bands have covered and it said Adam West tvs Batman > covers CoughCool?!!!? > Is this true? If so where can a copy of this be found? I didn't even know > Adam West sang. I mean it has got to be hilarious. Yes, but this is a band called Adam West, not the man himself. > From: Maureen Harrington > A friend of mine got a fits album a few years ago called "Necronomicon". > I have not been able to find this in any of the discographies in fits > centeral. Maybe I've got the name wrong or haven't looked hard enough > but anyone with any info could you please e-mail me or something. Of course you haven't looked hard enough. It's on the page and has been there for a LONG time. It's right in the bootleg section, where it should be: _____________________________________________________________________________ NECRONOMICON ------------ Brand New Beat: BNB-911004 199_ 1 Halloween | 20 Eyes | I Turned Into A Martian | Horror Business Vampira | Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight? | London Dungeon Attitude | Teenagers From Mars | Night Of The Living Dead All Hell Breaks Loose | Hate Breeders | Bullet | Halloween | Vampira I Turned Into A Martian | Skulls | London Dungeon Night Of The Living Dead | Horror Hotel | Ghouls Night Out Astro Zombies | Where Eagles Dare | Violent World | Halloween II Format: CD Info: Tracks 1-13: Live 12/25/81 at Hittsville; Passaic, NJ Tracks 14-25: Demos 9/80 at MSP Studio; New York, NY Lineup: [5] (Track 15, 17, 22) [6] (Tracks 1-14, 16, 19-21, 23-25) [6] + Bobby Steele: Extra guitar (Track 18) _____________________________________________________________________________ > From: Andrew Share > While I was poking around my school's radio station I found an 7" of a band > called Brain Eaters. On the cover they are dressed up in black and one > person even sports a devilock. I would have to say though that they are a > cheese band. (sorry if anyone likes them) Their song sounded like 80's > metal, palin and simple. Apparently Damien (from Samhain) played with the Brain Eaters for a while. What songs are on the 7"? > From: ChristoTer@aol.com > You know I've always wondered this, but does anyone know what Glenn is > talking about when he states "We'll do that one later when the bass is on" > after 'Halloween' and after the whole show he says something along the lines > of "no bass player, but we still came through." I mean, the first one kind > of explains itself, but what exactly was the problem with Jerry at the show? As you can tell from the boot of the show, they had problems with the guitar too. There are some parts where Doyle's guitar doesn't come through, and then apparenlty they didn't use bass on the encore tunes (everything after Bullet). However, Jerry was definitely there and you can hear the bass come through fine in most places. I'll ask him sometime. > Subject: misfits newsgroup > From: SK8ER > Why didn't anybody reply to my message? I'll ask again...If anybody knows > of any misfits newsgroups please email me and tell me the name. My address No. There is no Misfits newsgroup. There is an IRC channel, a home page, and a mailing list, but no newsgroup. And I'm glad... If you've ever seen the Danzig newsgroup, you'd know why. > From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> > There is a piece on the Misfits in a U.K. magazine called Terroriser. > It's in the Feb. '96 issue (no.27) and is a 2 page article with 2 > large colour pictures of the new line-up with Mike and Dr. CHUD. If > anyone can't find a copy of this but would like it then let me know > and I'll buy you a copy of the mag and send it to you if you can send > me the cash for the cost of the mag plus postage. If enough people > want to read this article but aren't that keen on actually buying a > copy let me know and I'll type it up- the article really isn't that > long as the pictures are quite big. Well Stewart, I'd love to have it on the home page if you don't mind taking the time to type it up. > I was wondering if anyone knows what the legal position is in regard > to Walk Among Us? As the Misfits best album (in my opinion) I'm sure > Caroline would like to have it as part of their catalogue. They can > obviously release the songs (as different versions of these tracks > appear on both of the compilation albums) so I'd have thought it > would have been a good idea on their part to release a complete album > of perhaps alternate takes of the songs that made up WAU- although > since that album is contracted to Ruby they'd probably have to give > it a different name. I would rather like to have seen something like > this in the boxset. Jerry thought the band could legally claim it back from Warner Brothers and release it on their own, or with Caroline. But somehow I doubt it. It would be nice if the box set really was completely complete. > From: "S.M. Gibbons" > > I read an interview with Jerry Only on the web page, and he mentioned in > a coupleof different places that there are 52 Misfits songs...I thought > there weren't nearly that many, so I went to my collection and listed all > the different tunes....I was surprised to find so many, but I double > counted and I can only find 51....I can only assume that "Ratt Fink", > "Spook City USA", or "Mephisto Waltz" was counted as #52, but as we all > know, none of these are really "Misfits" songs....is there some long, > lost song I've never heard of?...I checked my list against the webpage > and can't see any that I've missed....any help is appreciated Jerry is talking about songs the band recorded. The band recorded "Rat Fink" although it was not theirs. The band also recorded "Spook City USA" and we will finally get a chance to hear it (as opposed to Glenn's solo version) when the box comes out. The band did NOT record "Mephisto Waltz" so that doesn't count. Jerry's count also includes "Feline Nursery/Spinal Remains" as one song. Count them again. You should get 52. mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 01:20:38 +0100 From: Anders =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8lvberg?= Subject: New Misfits songs NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!! LAST CARESS I GOT something to say I'm on the X-files today It doesn't matter to me As long as it's success Well I got something to say 'Ripped off my old band today And it doesn't matter much to me As long as it's dead Sweet lovely Def I am waiting for my next Come sweet band, my next success ATTITUDE Attitude I got some fucking attitude I can't believe what I said to the press I got some attitude Inside my feeble brain there's probably a nerd If I don't stop selling out I'll end up like a turd Attitude, the one I got, oh baby Attitude, Attitude Inside my feeble brain there's probably a nerd If I don't stop selling out I'll end up like a turd Attitude I got some fucking attitude I can't believe what I said to the press I got some attitude Attitude I got some fucking attitude I can't believe what I said to the press I got some attitude NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!! Flames will be taken as a compliment titude I got some fucking attitude I can't believe what I said to the press I got some attitude NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!! Flames will be taken as a compliment ------------------------------ From: "Dorin M. Petre" Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:00:55 +0000 Subject: whatever... Anyone from the midwest area hear of a band called Whatever... ? they're from cleveland OH. email me ols@interaccess.com ------------------------------ Subject: hollywood babolon Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:52:47 -0500 (EST) From: Eric J Peterson hey, everyone Does anyome know where i can get a copy of hollywood babolyn(i know i spelled it wrong)? looking forward to the box set later E.P. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 21:02:42 -0500 From: Zodiac Fiends: I would like to take a couple minutes to further explain myself on the Bobby Steele/Smoking debate. Yes, I smoke on occasion, like when I drink (which is not an everyday thing) and on rare occasions when I desire a good Cuban cigar (which, unfotunately, are not available in your country. Another example of the U.S. dictatorship). I suppose you could call me a "smoker" as long as I could call you a "drinker", even if you only drank a couple beers a month. I smoke not because I am a chronic, addicted, or brainwashed, but because I enjoy it. Maybe you have never touched a tobacco product in your life. Fine. However, some of us have and found we enjoy it. I am a firm believer that the decision to smoke or not to smoke, much like any other important decision, should be MINE, not someone else's to make for me. Now before you start jumping on the "but it's killing you and other innocent people" bandwagon, let's look at alcohol. Alcohol is responsible for more death, misery, and despair than any other drug known to mankind (or womenkind, for the politically correct). Take a look at statistics for drunk driving, spousal and child abuse, heart disease, liver damege, kidney failure, and the chronic alcoholics who have lost everything in the quest for another empty bottle. The streets of every major city in both the U.S and Canada are full of them. The North American Indians, long before the Europeans ever came here, used tobacco. It was never responsible for any social ill. However once they were introduced to alcohol, it caused a downward spiral from which they, as a race, have never recovered. Take a look at any northern Canadian city for a good example of what I'm talking about. However, I have never heard of any of you advocating the ban of alcoholic products. Why? It is a far worse evil than tobacco. Could it be because you enjoy drinking? Think about it. Zodiac =============================== "To Serve Man"...IT'S A COOKBOOK! =============================== This message brought to you by Zodiac. E-Mail: abbadon@idirect.com =============================== "Success is the only earthly judge concerning right or wrong." -Adolf Hitler =============================== ------------------------------ From: WL260263@wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 13:57:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Guess Who's Back? I guess evil really never dies. Sean M. ------------------------------ From: MisfitNo9@aol.com Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:41:33 -0500 Subject: Glenn on tv Fiends, Anybody see Glenn on "The Anti-Gravity Room" last weekend? It's a show on the Sci-Fi channel, hosted by kids, about comics, video games, and the like. They asked him a few stupid questions about his new comic book company, and how it was goin'. Simon Bisley was also interviewed w/ him (if you can really call it an interview). I think it was from the San Diego comicon last year. It just surprised me cuz' Glenn's comics aren't really for kids, and there was this 14 year old or so interviewing him...pretty strange. Now don't get me wrong, I don't believe in any kind of censorship, but Glenn's stuff is a little off the beaten track. That's all folks....Later on MisfitNo9(from outer space) ------------------------------ From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 11:25:59 BST Subject: (Fwd) ALFREDO CAPPELLO Alfreddo Cappello- please get in touch with me again!! If you've lost my e-mail address here it is :- STEWART GALLACHER 9243471g@student.gla.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: Paul Hahn Subject: damn phone company Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:10:12 -0500 (EST) ok so if you don't pay the bill they cut your phone off, my bad. well i missed #'s 138-140. i had been planing to write about how i got into the 'fits. but first, to whoever said that punk is about an attitude, i agree %100. also to whoever was making talking about the corportate selling out of bobby steele? well gee what kind of computer are you using, isn't that name brand. more importantly, why would bobby care? he's doing what he wants, which is what matters. also i saw that the concert tics in england were 10.50, was that pounds? if it is isn't that sorta expensive, roughly $20 american, on a good day. well i got into the misfits around 9 or 10. i was the little skate punk, listening to stuff like MDC, Fearless Iranian, etc. then in moved some girls, who were older. they were into the same stuff as me, and older shit, like the 'fits. they let me borrow a tape of what i believe turned into the beware cd, the singles stuff. i was hooked. i lost intrest at 13 cause i started dating a goth girl, but my senior year my band's guitar player wanted to play 'fits covers, and i went and got out all the old tapes and vinyl, and we went to work. i know a little late, but yell at the phone company. -- Paul Hahn Michigan: 1 hahnpaul@acm.msu.edu Oklahoma: 0 Check out the speedball page @ http://www.acm.cps.msu.edu/~hahnpaul/speedball ------------------------------ From: cbmed@cdx.net Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:36:06 -0500 Subject: RATFINK F! I said F, I... I need some help. Does anyone know the solo to Ratfink? If you do please send it to me. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 16:12:07 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: Misfits mini-update I talked to Jerry again Wednesday for a short while. I now have the final updated Europe tour list: TOUR 1996 (Sardonica opening) ~~~~~~~~~ 03/12/96 Music Box Edinburgh, Scotland 03/13/96 Foundry Birmingham, England 03/14/96 Leicester University Leicester, England 03/15/96 Bradford Rio Bradford, England 03/17/96 Astoria London, England 03/19/96 Melkweg Amsterdam, Holland 03/20/96 Kicks Herford, Germany 03/21/96 Rohre Stuttgart, Germany 03/22/96 Charterhalle Munich, Germany 03/23/96 The Capitol Berlin, Germany 03/24/96 Fabrik Hamburg, Germany 03/26/96 Club Du Nois Paris, France 03/27/96 Bikini Club Toulouse, France 03/28/96 Revolver Madrid, Spain 03/29/96 Arzobispo Barcelona, Spain 03/30/96 Fundamental Gares Panplona, Spain The tour is being handled by Hidden Talent Booking. For those of you in Europe, Hidden Talnet is run by Ian Armstrong and can be reached at the following address: Hidden Talent Booking 11 Salutation Road Darlington Col Durham DL3 8JN UK fax: (01325) 282942 THE FIEND CLUB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Fiend Club mailing will be going out at the end of February to keep the fiends busy while the band is in Europe. Anyone who got their permanent mailing address in to me (or the PO Box) before Monday of last week will be included on this list. Anyone who joins or joined the Fiend Club after this date will receive a smaller package consisting of leftover bits and pieces. Jerry will also be taking a lot of these "leftovers" to Europe to give out at their shows. The band is very excited about touring and Jerry also said he's looking forward to the Misfits Bible dinner on the 26th. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 16:22:07 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: Administrative Stuff Fiends, I've been getting a lot of message recently about Misfits bible attachments. Apparently some of you (specifically America Online and military subscribers) are receiving the bible in 2 parts. One part seems to be a smaller header message and the other is a downloadable attachment file. Please understand that I send the bible out as one message. There are no file attachments involved. The problem has to do with your particular server, or your mail editor. Some servers do not allow messages to exceed a certain limit - therefore they break the message up. I can't do anything about this except suggest that you find a new server. Issue sizes have increased greatly in the last 6 months or so and they will probably continue to increase. I've also been having a lot of problems lately with disappearing subscribers. I get about 20-30 bounced messages with every issue, just because people don't take the time to: 1) Let me know they're changing or losing their email address 2) Check their email frequently - many systems have a quota on the size of the user's mailbox, especially at small colleges. I've said it already, but I'll say it again: Misfits Bible issues are BIG. Please deal with it. mark ------------------------------ From: Osito666@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:49:08 -0500 Subject: Help Jaime Everyone, Don't forget to write to Crimson Ghost and pledge money to help Jaime get to the Misfits dinner. Two dollars isn't much. Andrew ------------------------------ From: Adam Christensen Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #140 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 20:28:45 -0500 (EST) To whom it may concern ( you know who you are ), It seems to be pretty much agreed upon by mosts of the fiends here that the trend of posting letters that have to do with glenn vs. jerry, danzig vs. the misfits, ect. are getting old and annoying. But now I find that a new trend is picking up on the bible, the bashing of smokers. I agree thatbobby is a cool guy and that he has the right to be againt cigarettes. But T on the other hand, people also have the right to smoke if they so choose. Yes, I am a smoker, but I am not the kind of guy that blows smoke in your face just to spite you. I am considerate of those who are bothered by cigarette smoke and I respect their rights. Do the same for me, saying that anyone that smokes is a complete idiot is a very arrogant thing to say all it makes me want to do is blow smoke in your face and make you eat the ashes. What is so ironic is that these type of tend to be the ones that claim to be against smoking but will still go and smoke pot or drop some acid, but of course they are always able to justify their reckless actions. Last of all, what the hell does the issue of smoking have to do with the misfits? I am sure that alot of the other people here smoke also so remember who your audience is before you post such ridiculus letters and make "idiots" like me waste more valuable bible space having to speak our minds. Sincerely, Adam "Got a light?" Seven ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 20:58:35 -0500 (EST) From: drodrigu@acme.highpoint.edu (Daniel Rodrigues) Subject: The Misfits are for our own good Fiends, As the release for the box set nears, more and more people are commenting on Jerry and Doyle's raesons for the reforming. Well guy it's what we want and while some of you may not like the idea of the misfits without Glenn, most of us do. Jerry and the guys are only doing us a favor they already have $$$ and are doing this for the love and for their fans. That is alot more then I can say for some bands. In a perfect world Glenn would do the nisfits while doing Danzig(kinda kinda like Infectious Groves ), but that aint gonna happen. With the new surge in so-called punk music, guys like jerry have to get out their and show these cheap imitations how it's done. In my opinion the new Misfits will be great, the love it , and it will show in the music. I can't wait till they tour the states. Jerry and the guys have done so much for us, atleaste we can do is support them with all our might. How many bands give you an opportunity to have them stay the night? ---Only in American, supply and demand. ---jerry and the guys are true patriots D-Rod ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 21:27:09 -0500 From: Crimson Ghost Subject: Fiend-A-Thon (was: Jaime Fund) Well there's still 18 picks up for grabs - come on fiends show some sympathy! So far we've gotten pledges totalling $70 we're almost halfway there. I was very supprised at the people that are pledging money - some of them are people that argue with me about everything I say. It's good to see that we can all get together for something worthwhile.. My Original post follows - for those of you not following the thread.. * * * * * FIEND-A-THON * * * * * HELP JAIME GET TO NYC We need your help to get Jaime to NY for the Box set Signing!!!!! Background: Jaime is the guy that arranged the Bible Dinner with Jerry!! Jaime is supposed to pick up K-DOGG (Special-k/Earth-AD) at temple in Philadelphia on his way. He was then to meet up with 20eyes & myself at 20's Hotel room for the duration. Situation: Well Jaime's bitch boss cut back his hours and he's gonna be about $150 short for the trip. I'm trying to coordinate a fund to get him up here from Alabama. HE did alot setting up that dinner and really deserves to be there!!! So if you'd like to help and can afford to send a buck or two for this noble cause please do so. WHAT TO DO: e-mail me and make your pledge. just send me an email with the subject line: Jaime Fund. and state in the body of the message your pledge amount. If I think we will pull off enough money in time I'll reply to the email and give mailing instructions for your pledge money. INCENTIVE: The first 30 pledges I get for $2.00 or more will receive a free misfits pick from me. I got a stash of these I've kept for awhile and this is a good cause. These will be mailed at my expense. Regardless of whether or not we hit the $150 mark!!!! winner's of the picks will be posted on the list to keep everything on the up & up. I know alot of you are thinking gee I could go to the signing if somebody sent me $150... This is true and Jaime knows that, but he also put alot of work into arranging the dinner - so come on fiends let's see what yer made of Thanks--------CG ------------------------------ From: sickboy@mail.cyconx.com Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:08:53 -0500 Subject: Misfits situation. This is my first posting in the "Bible" and hopefully not my last.First off let me start out by saying how cool this Misfits Bible is, and the Misfits "home page" is,great job guys!keep it up! Anyhow on to the pernt of this post. > J.wrote: >I will start off with my opinion of the situation. Like it or not Glenn >Danzig was a key aspect of the Misfits. He was the singer, and was the >front man of the band. Whether or not he wrote everything isn't really >relevant, the rest of the band is important as well. Without Glenn Danzig, >there can really be no Misfits. Remember the Misfits were Glenn and Jerry, >along with others and you can't have a peanut butter and jam sandwhich >without peanut butter, being Glenn. They, meaning Jerry and Doyle, have >every right to call themselves the Misfits, but in reality they are not. I >think it would be cooler to just move on. Sure play the old tunes, but use >a different name. > Yes I can see where your coming from there J.I understand thats your opinion and (this is not a flame by the way) i just happen to disagree thats all. its true people will compare old 'fits to the new 'fits that bound happen in any band thats been around for a while gets a "new" singer.And yes glenn was a key aspect of the misfits but it wasnt just about him.(as opposed to DANZIG)It was the whole aspect of the misfits that people enjoy/enjoyed.Like the looks and the music /lyrics and the whole evil horror theme the misfits had.Its not as if its like a whole bunch of nobodys that were not even in the band and just decided to start the misfits back up again just for the sake of doing it.Besides quite a few "big"bands have scrappred their singer/frontman and still call themselves what they did before.In most cases the bands have done better ie; VanHalen,Anthrax, AC/DC.(thats all i can think of for the moment)Then there are those who dumped their singer and went "tits up"(motley crue).And in one case(s) dumped/left their singer(and other band members) and still carry the name but sound nothing like they use to and are just milking it for all its worth and care about nothing except$$$$.Dont wanna mention any tony-iommie-black sabbath i mean names.Then after a while once the misfits been around for a doin well(more than likley)people will forget the comparisons and just except the "new guy"and say yeah he's pretty cool.Like people say about Vanhalen and AC/DC.How hard can it be to fill glenn's place I've met the guy and he is what 3-4ft tall?Seriously though if Jerry and Doyle got back together as a "new" band and not the Misfits but still sang the old tunes and had the same image people would be sarcastically(sp?)saying "oh how original,this and that. why not just call themselves the Misfits".Then they proably be accused of selling out!.Anyway, my point being is the Misfits are not just about Glenn.Danzig(the group) is about glenn.The Misfits are about the band, the music, the image, and their fans.Just my opinion. Nuff said, Brad *********************************** "To imatate is to create." Kirk Hammet(Metallica). ********************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:21:44 -0600 From: Jaime Obergfell THANKS TO ALL I want to say thank you to everyone who is responding to my problem. this just shows how good us misfit fans really are. I will remember this always and again I thank EVERYONE from the bottom of my heart. anyone who still wants to pledge still can and remember i'll have fun for all. i plan on taping the dinner and the signing so if anyone wants a copy let me know i won't make the tape too personal. ill make it so all can enjoy it........thanks a millon going out to all fiends who have helped out in this delima..........jaime ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 20:50:46 -0800 From: anthony daniel Subject: IRC and Misfits' Quiz For those of you who have not been to the Misfits IRC channel yet you need to get there. I cannot say enough good things about it. In fact, for those of you out there who have not been to it, or those of you that have, this Saturday at midnight would be a good time to check it out. Beginning last Saturday, I presented the first of what I hope to be an ongoing series of Misfits' quizzes. The majority of the information can be found in either old Bibles, or on the page itself. Everyone seemed to enjoy the quiz, and said they would like to have another. Needless to say, I was more than happy to oblige. There will be a new Misfits' quiz Saturday at Midnight, containing 15-20 questions full of Misfits trivia. For those of you who may not know much about the Misfits, come along anyway, the IRC needs all the support it can get. I would suggest going to the IRC page first (there is a link at Misfits Central)to read who else goes there and learn some info. For those of you who missed last week's quiz, which was QUITE a few, here is a sample: Q: According to Jerry Only, what was the worst city the Misfits ever played? Q: Prior to the Misfits, Glenn and Mr. Jim were in what band together? Q: Michael Graves' new song Black Light, is about what? Q: Who originally wrote Rattfink? Anyhow, there it is and I hope all of you will stop by. Tad Bullet on IRC Sat. at Midnight ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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Hymns From Hell Music Database samhain i turned into a misfits cover Friday Nights Fiend Club March issue of Alternative Press Jerry Update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: xylophobia Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #141 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:17:47 -0500 (EST) > From: WickedKingWicker > what is the deal with the gold earth a.d., i have one and have > seen dozens of them for sale, i never really thought they were that rare > because i usually see more of them then any other disk in the misfits > section, well until collection II came out... They're pretty rare - about 25000 copies. > From: WL260263@wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu > I guess evil really never dies. > Welcome back, Sean. mark ------------------------------ From: cbmed@cdx.net Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:41:49 -0500 Hope this gets in this Thursdays bible. Anyways for you horror freaks, I suggest getting the movie Dead Alive. It's the goriest movie I have ever seen. Make sure you get the unrated version or else it will really suck. If you can't get a copy of it, it's expensive to buy, e-mail me and I can make a copy. Well see ya later fiends, and make sure you watch it. It is really gory, so those who don't like blood, this is DEFINATELY not the movie for you! J. ------------------------------ From: J.Baldry@mail.nerc-swindon.ac.uk Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:24:09 GMT Subject: To smoke or not to smoke OK, first things first... while I agree that a smoking Vs non smoking debate on the Bible is both pointless and a waste of space, people like Adam Seven ought to remember that the point is not about smoking as such, it is about the fact that Bobby Steele was slated here by somebody who considered his opinions about smoking to make him a 'hypocritical fascist' or somesuch. I just figured that an ex-Misfit was being attacked and I wanted to stand up for him... now is that kind of post REALLY out of place on the Bible? After all, if someone slated Jerry I'd expect people to stand up for him also (as people quite frequently do). Second, while I'm a non smoker I totally agree that it is the individual's choice to start smoking INITIALLY. I would however be dubious as to whether once a person has started smoking they actually have much choice at all... after all, nicotine is addictive. Third, I agree with you Zodiac, drinking is equally as bad as cigarette smoking. The reason no one mentioned it (apart form you in your second post on the subject) was that it had/has nothing to do with your original attack on Bobby. Nothing like shifting the focus of attention when things get a little hot huh? One point I would make however is that one alcoholic drink per day is medically proven to increase your life expectancy, whilst even one drag of one cigarette per day will decrease your life expectancy :) Therefore, while I agree that it is completely everybody's right to smoke if they so wish, it is a f**king disgrace that a smoker will name call somebody that exercises THEIR right not to smoke and dislikes people smoking around them. More power to Bobby Steele... Julian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 20:50:42 -0800 (PST) From: "hollister's hair" Subject: Save Ferris! okay fiends....CG is really trying to get the guy from 'Bama up to NYC for the Misfits Box set signing. there are a billion of you or so who have a few dollars lying around (for beer, toys, whatever) that could be put to some good use to help a fellow feind out. CG is not asking for much, and you even get a nifty Misfits pick if you donate $2 or more. That's ONLY TWO DOLLARS!!!!! Write CG with your pledge or if you need more info: crmsngst@planet.net IT'S ONLY TWO DOLLARS!!! so it means you buy the cheap beer this weekend, but you'll be able to drink it knowing that you helped a fellow fiend out! thanks, Mike mtw4@axe.humboldt.edu ------------------------------ From: "a.proctor" Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:48:03 GMT0BST Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #141 A couple questions: How do I use the IRC and what exactly is it? What is likely to be in the Fiend Club package? Aaron ------------------------------ From: ewebb@ycp.edu Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 12:14:09 EST Subject: RE: Misfits Bible, #141 Fiends, Im glad the angry "Jerry is the king of North America" and "Glenn is really a women", and "Doyle is a leach" shit is finally coming to a rest. It seems like it's been a kinder, gentler bible since #138. In the immortal words of Rodney, "K,C,...C'ant we all just get along?" Eric P.S. I got into the misfits about the same time I started listening to them. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 12:54:45 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: range of box set release Hello fellow fiends! Just wondering, is everyone else as spanky as I am about the box set coming out? Anyway, just wanted to know, how widespread will the release of the box set be? I went to my local record store and they haven't heard anything about it! Please tell me that it will be released everywhere. Also, I was wondering if it's gonna have stuff on it such as she and cough/cool with the keyboards. I want these tracks and I'm not big on spending $25 on a bootleg. Anyway, I'm sure it will be awesome. My friend, who I just recently started to get into the Misfits,asked me if he should buy it. He has no other Misfits albums and was afraid that he would be ridiculed by die hard Misfits fans such as myself. I told him to snap the fuck out of it and buy it! What better way for novice fans to get into the band than to have a compilation with every fucking song! Maybe the Misfits will gain a larger audience this way without going to the same level as bands like Offspring. Just a thought. --Ken ------------------------------ From: AngelfucK Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:20:05 GMT-4 Subject: Canadian Dates I was just wondering if anyone out there knows if the band plans on doing any Canadian dates? I haven't heard anything, but Im hoping this will change once they get back from Europe. Tks Roger Holmes ------------------------------ From: bbaldy@sunbelt.net Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:30:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: smoke I going to comment on Zodiac's Note from the last bible. Smoking kills more people than alcohol(even if you count the people killed by drunk drivers). Plus alcohol has medical uses. If someone beats their kids or does other illegal activity while there drunk then it is their fault not alcohol. You say that you smoke only once in a while and you only do it because you in enjoy it. Tobacco will only make you fell good if your addicted to it (unlike alcohol). Normally I would not say anything but what you said was not true. I would rather my kids drink or do pot than to smoke. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:41:33 EST From: G Subject: Bible:Selling my copies of boots Hey fiends, I'm running short of cash, and have decided to sell my taped copies of Demonomania Club, Beyond Evil, Beware and the Rest, WCBN radio broadcast, various 7"s, and Punx #4. I'm not trying to make money or anything, just trying to cover what I spent. The cost of postage and the tapes is about it really. I'm also selling an old Metallica boot (9/15/89), and a couple of old Megadeth boots (VHS and cassettes). Thanks much for the intrusion G (Galen Myers)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hey, thanks for nothing!Morals in the dust. Two-faced bastards and syncophants, no trust-Ministry "I'd question things because I am human, and call no man father who is no call no one my father who's no closer than a stranger"-Phil "I don't believe in pinochle, and I don't believe I'll try. I do believe in Captain Crunch, for I am the Frizzle Fry."-Les ~~~All traders welcome, I get new ones everyday!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 08:47:08 -0500 From: Maureen Harrington Subject: no credit hey guys Im not asking for a fund or anything but i didn't do any organizing but I came up with the idea of inviting Jerry to jaimies dinner anyway there is probably a 50/50 chance i will go to the signing. ya see im canadan eh! and i have no income and a shitty van that probably wont make it, if it does ill have to spend about $300 in gas money. So is there any way i can buy one of the first 5000 or 50000 box sets(signed if posible). I'd order one but the canadian $ isnt worth shit and 1 of the first 5000 probably wont make it to my town(peterborough ont.) I'd love to meet you guys but if i can get a box set and get the Fits to come to punkfest(hope some of you guys come) I most likely wont go. Oh yeh i would be glad to donate to the fund CG. JODA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:19:30 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dempz Subject: str8 Well Zodiac, I despise innapropriate drinking as well as smoking. No, I don't support a ban of it, I simply believe in good old fashioned straight edge revenge, given a reason ("this time you've pushed me too far!"). I got a real kick when some kid critiqued my paper in persuausive writing on vegetarianism by saying "you think eating meat is unhealthy? well so's drinking! Do you do that?" No, I don't. Ha! Bobby hit the nail on the fucking head about the smoking reblellion issue. I have never met anyone who thought they were being a rebel by buying a stereo. You want to rebel against the mainstream? Don't accept the mediocrity they shove down your throat! "Wake up and fucking live!" (sorry, I can never avoid using YOT quotes when talking about this topic, their lyrics were just so damn good...) H Andy Dempz E A +/- Records D T 912 Brown #102 G E Ann Arbor, MI 48104 E e m c ------------------------------ From: wallace836@vegas.email.net Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:15:27 PST Subject: Punk is Dead Death is a certainty for anything, be it animal, religion, or music. Sadly punk is dead: I say this becasue the "reformations" of the Misfits and the Sex Pistols. While the new wave of imitators (Green Day, Rancid, etc) are so repellent because they are all such obvious posers. Punk was all about attitude, and none of these people have that certain attitude. Punk is dead, just as psychedlia died, just as country died (don't be fooled by modern country music; its just the same pop-crap that's played on every other radio station, just with a country twang), just as 80's techno-pop died. Nothing lasts forever. Rock has been steadily rotting for more than a decade now because every lead guitarist wants to be either Jimmy Page of Eddie Van Halen. Punk died when the bands learned they cou financially profit from their music. Any band with any sense of ethics disbanded themselves rather than prostitute their music. Dead Kennedy's did it. Misfits/Samhain did it (atleast Danzig never tried to insult out intelligences by having us think his new music was a part of those older movements). Punk reformations are all financially motivated. i will get flamed for saying this, despite the fact that I think Jerry and Doyle deserve some sort of recognition from their old band. But Graves/Doyle/Jerry/Chud are the Misfits? Give me a break. I'd rather hear this line-up concentrate on NEW material (but live they would have to do some old songs) with a NEW name. Punk is dead, but don't cry. it happens to us all. Acknowledge and move on. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 22:39:00 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: Hello Apathetic Fiends Okay fiends, we have a definite problem. First, the Crimson Ghost had a contest for the Kryst The Conqueror album. He received 2 entries. Then I had 2 contests for Static Age posters, one of which didn't even receive enough entries to match the amount of posters I had to give out. THEN, when I announced that I would be taking addresses for the Fiend Club, it was revealed to me that extremely few of you had gotten off your asses and written to the band. NOW, Caroline is reaching out to you and offering a chance at autographed shirts, and other free stuff. And how many of you have actually entered Caroline's contest? What's wrong with you? Do you not care enough? Just by entering the contest you'll be put on Caroline's Misfits mailing list and receive promo stuff like postcards and things when the Misfits put stuff out. Is this not enough to hold your interest? Hello? Are any of you reading, or are the 634 subscribers all imaginary? mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:40:43 -0800 From: devilman138 Subject: Taking Orders Now! I'm currently taking pre-orders now for the Dalkiel large scale model kit. I've seen it and it looks great! You can get an idea of what the model looks like in Satanika #0. I believe it's the second or third page, there is a drawing by Simon Biz where Dalkiel has his knees bent and has his arms at the edge of a building. The model is taken from this drawing. These are gonna be limited to 500 kits so order yours now. They cost $95 plus shipping. I don't know the shipping costs yet, but I'll let you know. devilman138 ------------------------------ Subject: Stuff From: Brian Trainor Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 00:23:29 EST Does anyone in the Lancaster/York type area have the housing to put the Misfits up for the night during the American tour? there are enough fans around here that it would be a killer show, but we need someone to give them a place to sleep for the "Mommy, can the Misfits spend the night" tour. also, in a not related to anything note, has anyone ever seen Al Jourgensen and Rob Zombie together? has it occured to anyone that they look EXTREMELY similar? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:13:32 -0500 (EST) From: WickedKingWicker Subject: second coming records since a lot of people have asked i'll post the address for this store on the list... second coming records 235 sullivan st ny ny 10012 phone # 212 228 1313 they have a lot of misfits & danzig bootlegs & "imports" plus a lot of other cool music & bootleg videos... i never ordered from them by mail so i don't know how the run things... their prices are relatively expensive though... $20-30, but i guess thats just ny for you. if any of you are going to the signing this store isn't too far away, about 2 blocks from washington sq park. not to mention there are dozens of record stores in that area... also.. mark, do you know if i'm on the fiend club list? i wrote to j&d a while ago, but i just want to make sure. :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: Jess Cyphers cyphersj@polaris.ncs.nova.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i will live forever, for i am truly blessed; my name will live in infamy, synonymous with death. -the electric hellfire club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ------------------------------ From: GreyGhoul@aol.com Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 03:15:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #141 hey, before i forget, id like to post this in this misfits bible........i just read 138. some of the people in there are hilarious! anyway, the misfits arent the only horror punk (also called deathrock(not metal!!!))band in the world. let me start my shit with how i got into music in general. Picture the one weird kid in christian school. Never liked or knew music. But then bad religion came along and at the time they were mopping the floor with belief in god. so i was down with that, cause thats where i was comin from. then the next band that i really got into was thge misfits. i was sleeping while listening to a tape with some punk stuff on it. suddenly i woke up in a cold sweat to "bullet". that was it. from then on i got into more music. and the creepier the better. at the moment i like lots of weird music. mostly obscure punk and gothic music. i was always a really fucked up but creative kid, all my stories were perverted with a horror/gore/eerie twist. i grow up and i was pleased to find music that fit the same mold. its not heavy metal. the misfits have nothing to do with metal. other than those cockrocers metalicca biting off their music. So here are other bands that i like that play music more aliking to the misfits. *****TSOL early 80s material (before "Hit and Run") *****Christian Death ("Only Theater of Pain", "Iron Mask", "Sticks a Finger Up Its Ass " bootleg, & "Deathwish") *****Superheroins (with Eva 0 of Christian Death. she has a album with other stuff of hers on it too) *****Speed Queens (also with Eva 0, on the above mentioned album...other recordings unknown but sought after by me) *****45 Grave (dont buy anything live like the stuff under the Cleopatra label or the "Only the Good Die Young" on Restless. don bolles of the germs on drums! cool!) *****Undead (no shit sherlock.....they are the more poppy of these bands) *****Kommunity FK (a little slower and gothed up) *****Cramps (not hard to find........) *****Samhain (duh, of course!) *****Fields of the Nephilim (more about demons and hell than horror movies. they are definately goth) *****Fiendz (also from new jersey, previously mentioned in issue 138 as the record "Havin' Fun" with the guys with blacked out eyes. the early stuff is poppy melodic horror punk. later stuff is just poppy punk.) *****Joneses (they have one song called "Graveyard Rock" on a BYO records compilation. its really cool 60s-like rock, and also the only song ive ever heard by them) *****the Ghouls (ive never heard them but they were an OC California band who played with bands like black flag and the like. iD like to hear some of their stuff. if anyone knows who im talkin about, lemme know) Also some up and comming horror punk bands from NJ are: *****the Brickbats (bassy, halloween oriented and catchy) *****the Murdered (cramps like surf gothabilly) id like to hear other bands of the horror punk deathrock influence. I am putting out compilations of such bands. currently i am working on a NJ goth-punk compilation featuring the two previously mentioned bands and others. Id like to do a comp of deathrock and horror punk across the country. e-mail Greyghoul@aol.com for info, or mail MISFIT SOCIETY MAGAZINE PO Box 8532 Haledon, NJ 07508-8532 ------------------------------ From: DIEDARLING@aol.com Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 11:08:27 -0500 Subject: Un-real~!!!! Ok, before I start this rant two quick things: 1. PDH GREAT post! It could not have been out better, nice poem. 2. Chrimson Ghost, Begging for money for someone's plight? Maybe you should consider running for President under the Democratic ticket. Alrighty then~ I don't want to speak for Zodiac but I think some of you took him completely wrong. First off, the tobacco industry is only providing a service, it is still basically, a free country and if people CHOOSE to smoke, then that is their choice. ( Sort of like people can CHOOSE to be responsible and get a job or CHOOSE to be a bum and pull off of welfare~ and yes, it is a CHOICE.) The industry is not pointing a gun at their heads. If these people seriously wanted to quit, then they would. Maybe they enjoy it, who knows. I am a recreational smoker, I only smoke when and if I have a drink, which is rare. And, I agree with him again, alcohol does alot more damage. Think about it. Somehow though, I don't think that the whole smoking thing was really the issue here. Our government is so fucked up, along with most of the population of the country, that if you try to better yourself, try to get ahead (geez and I mean legally, not like all these two-bit drug selling shits) then you're deemed a "sellout". What a bunch of bullshit! So Glenn is making himself some money, big deal, so what. Don't you think that #1his business costs MONEY to run?? (God forbid eh?)! Dont' you think that he'd like to enjoy some of the finer things in life? (would'nt you if you had the chance?)! I'm sorry but I dont beleive this "Starving artist" mentality for a second! Bottom line is: If the so called "starving artist" was GOOD ENOUGH then he would'nt be starving. DIEDARLING ------------------------------ From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 13:09:41 BST Subject: TERRORIZER ARTICLE Here's the short piece on the new Misfits which appeared in the Feb. '96 issue of Terrorizer magazine. The article contains several errors but I've typed it up as it was printed- O.K.? _______________________________________________________ THE MISFITS LOOK BACK IN ANGER? The Misfits, that classic American band, are back with a brand new compilation album and plenty of plans for the future. An awe-struck Ian Galsper seizes this rare opportunity to get in touch with the outfit and talks here to guitarist Jerry Only. Well, if you've not heard of these guys by now, what the f**k are you doing reading this magazine?! (To paraphrase the title of one of their live albums!) What with Caroline having released a new compilation chocka with such classics as 'Attitude' and 'We Are 138', and a coffin shaped 4CD box set due soon, and virtually everyone citing 'em as a major influence, I thought an appearance in these hallowed pages was long overdue! I linked up with chatty guitarist Jerry Only to find out what was happening... "We were in litigation for many years, and we weren't able to use our name, but now we have our name back, and we've come up with a new lineup. It's me and Doyle (bass) as always, and we have a new drummer, name of Dr. Chud, and a new singer, Michael Graves. He's a young guy, only 20 years old, but we really think he'll grow into the job. He's got the tools, and he works hard, so we're excited about it!!" What were the legal problems you were having? "The situation was that things were being used that shouldn't have, and we had to come in and put a stop to it. We wanted to continue the band, and it wasn't something that should just be left undone. We really missed playing and we're happy to be back!" Why is the time right now for a MISFITS comeback? "Well, the thing is," reckons the enthusiastic guitarist. "We're not looking to hop on this 'second wave', or whateveer you want to call it, that's coming into shore...the whole reason we weren't able to play was because we were being kept from it and we're happy we've been able to come back and do it. It's just taken a real long time, a lot of red tape, but we overcame it, and we're back. We're gonna use the same energy levels we had before, and hopefully write a liitle more technical stuff besides the simplistic '50's type material. We're gonna grow with the band. We're really not looking to jump into the punk revival...it's just a twist of fate that the market is right for punk again...we'd actually prefer to avoid being tagged with that, if you know what I mean? We've waited too long to play again to be swept out when punk goes back out of fashion, y'know?" So, what've you been doing in the meantime? "Well, we've developed some resin model kits that we're selling, and a new T-shirt line that we've developed. And we shot a couple of movie pilots...we're trying to bring back 'Chiller Theatre', which was a Saturday night horror show that was aired here once a week. It's more or less a midnight witching hour on TV, where we'd show old horror films, and we just got done shooting the first of the pilots of it this last weekend. So, we're working on out own TV show, which we're trying to sell to one of the networks." Bassist Doyle takes the phone when I ask, have they had any contact with Glenn Danzig recently? "He won't get on the phone with us, he won't let us in his hotel rooms! We asked him to sing, y'know...But getting in touch with him is like pulling teeth from a Rhinocerus!! He's too big to talk to us, or something! I dunno...we've got no beef with him, but he seems to have a problem with us...But we like him, y'know?" Did he ever want to hold the reins on everything in the MISFITS like he does in DANZIG? "Well, when he got like that, that was when we broke up. He was never like that to start with but he got a little crazy and it wasn't fun anymore!" Jerry take over again when I ask them are they ever uncomfortable with how collectable their material is? "Nah, I just feel sorry for our loyal fans, because there have been a lot of people who've pumped out a lot of garbage just to make money off the loyalty of our people. One of the good things about our band is how collectable we are, which is why all those different versions of our stuff winds up being so appealling to people, but at the same time, I try to tell them not to spend more money than they think is fair for a particular bootleg...I don't like bootlegging, 'cos it's pirating, and you have no artistic control, and a lot of these pirates are just taking advantage of our fans, and I find that very sad!!" I bought the 'Beware' 12" over ten years ago for 50p, and I've since been offered =A3100 for it! "I've heard of them going for one thousand dollars in mint condition," replies Jerry incredulously. "And that's definitely going overboard!! The best way to beat the bootleggers is to put out the same product, only better quality, for less money, and that's we're doing with this boxed set, and these releases by Caroline." Why do you think the MISFITS music is so timeless? "Because it was honest," he says, without hesitation. "And that honesty shows through in the music! I think the music is memorable because it's simplistic, with good melodies and hooks, and the band puts out a lot of energy. We're not trying to be trendy...we don't cater to anyone's whims. We're just gonna do what comes natural, and hopefully that'll work for us. Our loyalty is to our people and to our music!!" ____________________________________________________________ The pictures that went with the article were probably the best thing about it- 2 nice big colour pictures of the new lineup beside an electric chair and a table with a pile of bones on it- I must say they look great, and I can't wait to see them live! ------------------------------ From: :! ------------------------------ From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 13:38:03 BST Subject: The Stone, SF 1989 Here's a review of the gig Danzig played at the Stone in San Francisco back in 1989. _______________________________________________________ The iron guts of rock 'n' roll spew out in a viriolic mess. Heaven really is red and black and Danzig are tearing away the fleshy, flaccid walls of club rock to leave a stark, shiny and cliniaclly brilliant new model in it's place. Beneath the fingernails of Danzig lie the putrid remains of stale and bored old rock whores, too cliched to know, too stupid to care, too plagiaristic to understand how beautiful an element can be glorified to create something so big, so large and so disgustingly mighty that people throw themselves off walls like lemmings savagely looking for their death. I was part of a sold-out pack of wild happy dogs (believe me, we were all dogs), baying and snarling, frothing like the rabid, sinking teeth into every juicy morsel of sound that was flung our way. Grade A, USDA-approved real red meat. They don't make incisors sharp enough to tear at that stuff. You have to file your own. In the way that only a great rock 'n' roll show can, Danzig make you feel nihilistic, masochistic even. And the sound was so fucking great I didn't miss a thing. Christ's guitar stood toe to toe with every fucker in the building; nose to nose, spitting into the face, whacking you around the head with savage rhythm and picking your brain with clean splintered lead breaks. Von psychoed his way through the show, a human tapped into the power outlet, a charge sending him into convulsive fits of action and electric four-string chewing. Biscuits is a remarkable drummer, not only in style, but in the way he loses himself inside his single-mounted tom and various floor drums. And Danzig? If God gave anyone a voice since Presley and Orbison, it was Glenn Danzig. It is a voice of melting qualities, its pure and unashamed soulfulness enough to break you down into pieces. The man himself is a stomach knot of muscles, all twisting and writhing against each other to propel Danzig into the ugly face of his followers. He jumps like strewn up tension and anger, he screams with pure chilling killer, he flexes with the type of aggression that only the finest rock 'n' roll can give you. 'Possession', 'Not of this World', 'Twist of Cain', 'Mother'- all propellers into the land of immortality, all maggots into the brain, all defiant of everything and anything. If Alex of 'A Clockwork Orange' had been into Danzig instead of Beethoven, those bastards wouldn't have got within miles of him. Because however hard you try to escape him (sadly some do) you can't once you've heard it. Danzig jammed with Hetfield and Hammett, but as great as that was it didn't add to the show any, merely another part of it. Indeed, it served to illustrate that both are as magnetised by him as we are (and if you're not, catch the drift). Yes, Danzig played Misfits tunes, and yes, they were good. But I wouldn't have cared if they didn't, because Danzig now is Danzig strong. Stronger than most you can throw at me. In my heart I bled for this show, I bled with pure and utter pleasure. It felt religeous in its own way, because Danzig stirred a feeling inside that I haven't felt at a club for years. Definitely one of the gigs of the years...already. Review by STEFFAN CHIRAZI ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 11:53:14 EST From: Special-K Subject: Thank You Fellow Fiends!!! Hey Fiends, I'd just like to take some time to thank all of the fiends who supported the Fiend-a-thon (Jaime fund). It is great to know that even thru all the bickering and disagreements we may have, that we all can pull together and help out a great Fiend like Jaime!! He really deserves to go and because of you he will. Thanks again everyone!!! Earth-AD On Earth As It Is In Hell!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 13:39:03 -0500 From: Brent Christopher Eyestone Subject: Hymns From Hell Okay, since the box set will be out soon, I don't really have to worry about bootleggers making any money off of the "Hymns From Hell" tapes myself and EVB put together. SO - I am now opening the floodgates. ANYONE who wishes to receive a copy of this cassette should send four dollars to: Brent Eyestone 478 East Beaver Ave. Apt. 211 State College, PA 16801 The tape contains all of the Misfits ORIGINAL 7"s as well as a few live recordings and some never released/rare material straight from the source. All songs on this cassette are straight from vinyl, nothing is digital. Thanks Fiends - Brent P.S. - For the scathing lowlife who thought he was so slick by running an ad for the "Evil Is..." video in MRR last month for $20.00 (!!!) : Well, you were very foolish in this choice and to print your address was also a mistake. You have been caught and will be dealt with accordingly. You've been warned... ------------------------------ From: wallace836@vegas.email.net Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 11:28:47 PST Subject: Music Database I've added Walk Among Us and Earth AD to the World Wide Web of Musc database, but it is still far from complete! Everyone needs to decend upon it like a plague of locusts a finish this sucker! It's located at: http://www.cs.uit.no/Music/ Finish this and add Samhain as well, people. There's room for url's of album covers, lyrics, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 18:37:22 -0400 (AST) From: KEITH Subject: samhain listen to samhain, then smoke crack, then listen to more samhain, after that smoke more crack, then a little later go into the next room and fuck off. sincerely keith fucken H. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 13:09:16 -0800 From: Lab User Subject: i turned into a misfits cover 'ello, there is a new Misfits cover out there by Boris the Sprinkler. you guessed it: a cover of "i turned into a martian." it's $3 on red vinyl. split 7" w/ the Droids. cute cover art. love- jolanta c. biniek jbiniek@shrike.depaul.edu rabid poison elves fan Power Ground Records 1309 S 21st Manitowoc WI 54220 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:54:36 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: Friday Nights Well fiends, I spent my Friday night talking to various Misfits on the phone. First I talked to Franche' Coma who informed me, among other things, that Robo will not be attending the signing in New York City. Franche' and Mr. Jim are looking forward to finally meeting some of the fans on 2/26/96. Neither will be attending the dinner. I later spoke with Bobby who told me about two more upcoming Times Square shows: 3/10/96 Kenny's Castaways New York, New York 3/16/96 The Spiral New York, New York Bobby confirmed that he will be at the signing. mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:10:40 -0500 (EST) From: mephisto this is my first transmission to the misfits bible. let me just start by saying Glenn is the man, he is the shit!!! he's the coolest thing since pizza delivery. I loved the part in the Lucifuge video when he said he wanted to weld a pipe onto the front of his glove and if some kid jumps up on stage "THWACK!!!!" I also immensely enjoy the between song chatter on the live recordings. Glenn is one funny bastard. my all time favorites are: I turned into a martian horror business 20 eyes attitude hatebreeders oh yeah and that song that goes "I aint no goddamn son of a bitch you better think about it baby" my friends brother has one of glenns skeleton gloves he got at a misfits show in new york 1981 he might sell it for a couple hundred bucks. Knife right in you--Chris ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:10:34 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: Fiend Club I received a Fiend Club membership package this weekend. Jerry sent one down to me for a sort of preliminary viewing. I have reproduced the 3 page letter for those of you who can't wait until next month. It is available on the page as well as below. The mailing will go out in 2 batches. Those of you who sent your name and address to the Crimson Ghost last year will receive it after those of you who sent your name and address directly to the PO Box. Those who sent their address to me will also receive the first mass mailing. ______________________________________________________________________________ THE OFFICIAL MISFITS FIEND CLUB Thirteen years ago The Misfits disappeared from the face of the earth. Now it's 13 years later and it's as if time has frozen since then. This was the band you wanted to see, the music you wanted to hear, and the "Fiend Club," which you thought would always endure. WELCOME TO THE RETURN OF THE OFFICIAL MISFITS FIEND CLUB The Fiend Club is officially back as of January 1, 1996. It is free to all those who are proud to put their name next to mine and stand behind the band that gives all they have, all of the time. I've been saving these stickers, cyclopian membership and all of these thoughts just for you - The Loyal. I personally ran the Doyle Fan Club. I read all of your letters. I've saved them all. These letters helped me when I was down, they kept me strong, they helped me fight, and they made me win. I'm proud to bring The Misfits back for you. I will endure, or die trying! I do however want to pay homage to all the "Fiends" who died before they could see the devestation that I have planned. These "Fiends" were good friends who helped the band all they could, without pay, in the early days. Jimi Coleman #28, Hoople, Tony Marano #24, David Cono, Joe D., Joe Coppolla and just as of November, Patti Giordano. I will carry their honor into battle...and I pray they can somehow see us come again in glory. The package I've sent you has many things about it which must be explained. They are as follows: 11 - T-shirt Flyers 2 - Misfits Fiend Club Stickers 2 - Cyclopian Logo Cards (Circle) 2 - Cyclopian Membership Cards 1 - Find-A-Fiend (Postcard) I've sent a double set of membership cards and stickers for you to sign up a fiend. Please choose someone who will support the band, as you have - "Eternally" To sign up a fiend, please bring at least two T-shirt flyers to at least 3 local stores that carry "Misfit" gear. Get all the information from these stores, and fill it in on the postcard (phone #, fax #, buyers name, zip code). After you have all of the info from three (3) stores on your "Find-A-Fiend" card, put your new fiend's address, zip and phone number in the return address spot. Then mail it back to us to our database. Don't put a fiend who's already in because the computer will erase any duplicates. We are trying to double our "fiends" everytime you see these postcards. Please - let's grow! T-shirts are our only resource for funding the "Fiend Club" and will supply the free goods and postage for all "Fiend Club" mailings. Checks must be made out to Cyclopian Music Inc. I will later offer package deals on both posters and T-shirts. So be patient. Allow me to organize this "Fiend Club" so I can keep up with it without taking away from new music. Please use the "MF" numbers when ordering shirts. An order form is provided. My fax number is 201-764-6718. Any stores that want to order can fax me info and a phone #. Please always send your phone number. I don't have the time to write back but if I can, I'll call. I'm announcing a good fiend of mine, Mark Kennedy (AKA Misfits Bible) will be the President of The Misfits Fiend Club and answer any E-mail and Internet stuff. I will update him on a constant basis since the The Misfits Fiend Club mailings take a long time to organize and are not quick enough for some fiends. Mark will be the well and will always have fresh water. During Halloween we attended the "Chiller Theatre" convention at the Meadowlands Hilton and interviewed Bela Lugosi Jr., Sara Karloff, Ron Chaney Jr., and the "Creature from the Black Lagoon", Ben Chapman. I offered the assistance of the "Fiend Club" to help gather petitions to get "Monster Stamps" through Congress. The stamps will be Karloff - Frankenstein, Lugosi - Dracula, Chaney - Wolfman or The Phantom of the Opera, and hopefully Chapman as the Creature. I saw Elvis stamps, Marilyn stamps, bird stamps, flower stamps, etc. Why not monsters? They need our help. I've enclosed a petition to be filled out and faxed to Bela Lugosi Jr. (213-623-3379) and also faxed to me (Jerry Only 201-764-6718) or mailed back to the "Fiend Club". I don't usually offer your service but since these people are the essence of "The Misfits" it's only right to give back to those who've given us so much! I would be thankful for any help you might be able to give. I'm proud to lead you into a new millenium. Forever, Jerry Only ______________________________________________________________________________ Misfits T-Shirt Order Form Qty Item Description Logo Color Price Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MF 2001 Glow Skull Yellow $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MF 2002 Jerry Only Blueow $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MF 2003 Doyle Purple $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MF 2004 New Skull 95 Red $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MF 2005 Santa Gogos Green $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MF 2006 Ghost Rider White $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub Total: Postage & Handling: $5.00 Total: ________ Misfits Posters Order Form - Rare & Collectable Qty Item Description Price Extension ------------------------------------------------------- 1 MF001 Jerry Only $5.00 1 ------------------------------------------------------- 1 MF002 Cyclops $5.00 1 ------------------------------------------------------- 1 MF003 !Special! $5.00 1 ------------------------------------------------------- 1 MF004 !Special! $5.00 1 ------------------------------------------------------- Sub Total: NOT SOLD SEPARATELY! Postage & Handling: $5.00 Limited Supply Total: ________ $25 takes them all! the extra $5 is for the tube & postage Jerry Autographs the first 500 Make checks payable to Cyclopian Music Inc. Name: ------------------------------------------------ Address ------------------------------------------------ State ------------------------------------------------ Zip ------------------------------------------------ Phone# ------------------------------------------------ Please mail or Fax this paper to: The Misfits Fiend Club P.O. Box 310 Vernon, New Jersey 07462 or Fax to The Misfits Fiend Club at (201) 764-6718 ______________________________________________________________________________ CLassic MonSter Stamp Set PetItion This letter is to lend my support to a United States Stamp Petition honoring Ron Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in recognition of their major achievements in the film industry. These actors have contributed immeasurably to the entertainment field. They hold a unique place in the history of American cinema. It would be an appropriate tribute to have their likeness affixed to a Postage Stamp. Please consider this my endorsement of this petition! Make a copy for your fiend! Name: ------------------------------------------------ Address ------------------------------------------------ State ------------------------------------------------ Zip ------------------------------------------------ Phone# ------------------------------------------------ Please mail this paper to: The Misfits Fiend Club P.O. Box 310 Vernon, New Jersey 07462 or Fax Bela Lugosi Jr. at (213) 623-3379 or The Misfits Fiend Club at (201) 764-6718 _____________________________________________________________________________ I hope you all enjoyed this little preview. The package is full of interesting stuff, some of which has been around for years. The envelope itself is from '87, the membership cards are from '92 or so... Remember to order your posters as soon as possible. Only 15000 of the Jerry posters and 10000 of the cyclops posters were made. mark ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 21:25:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steev L." Subject: March issue of Alternative Press Did anyone out there pick up the March issue of Alternative Press with Ministry on the cover? It has a small article about the Misfits, with numerous errors. I'll type it up since it's relatively small: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alternative Press, March '96, page 13(interesting choice of page) (There's an old Misfits band shot at the top with a caption that reads "Every Day Is Halloween") Caroline Records is giving the world some real punk rock with its schedule of re-releases from the highly influential New Jersey punk band the Misfits. In November, Collection II was released, featuring tracks from their incredibly sought-after 7-inch singles. On February 27, the label will issue Box Set, a limited edition of five compact disks in an elaborate coffin-shaped plastic box with faux velour lining. The disks will contain every track officially commited to tape(104 songs completely remastered) in various demo and alternate versions(35 in total including a band version of leader Glenn Danzig's solo single "Spook City, USA") as well as Static Age, the group's original late-1978 debut album that was shelved in favor of the live Walk Among Us, and the oft-bootlegged Master Sound Productions studio sessions. The coffin set will also have a 28-page booklet with never-before-printed lyrics, a complete discography, liner notes by former 'Fits/Samhain/Danzig bassist Eerie Von, and an enamel Misfits Fiend Club badge. Truly an artifact for underground braineaters of all ages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not going to even bother pointing out the errors because you all probably noticed them. Interestingly enough, on the same page there is a picture of some band called Soul Coughing and on top of the picture is typed "Cough Cool". And on the previous page there is an article titled "Check Into Horror Hotel" which is about some club. And yes, on that same page, right underneath that article is another one titled "Children in Heat" which is about the soundtrack to a movie called Screwed. Later ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:42:51 -0500 From: xylophobia Subject: Jerry Update Kenny's Castaways will be having their first "PUNK NIGHT" on February 26th to correspond with the Misfits Bible dinner party of the same night. It will be taking place from 9pm until midnight on the 26th. The band may hang out and watch the show after the dinner party. Bands that will be playing include Brown Tongue and Sardonica. For more information, Kenny's Castaways can be reached at (212) 473-9870. Jerry seems very excited about meeting the Internet fans... and... and... and... there are rumors that if the band is up to it they'll head back over to Kenny's Castaways after the box set signing and jam for a while. This is NOT definite, NOT probable - just possible. In other news, the Fiend Club mailing has now gone out to 2 Fiends - myself and a fiend in Indiana. It looks great and I'm sure everyone will be pleased with it. It has a lot of leftovers from the Doyle Fan Club era. After the tour of Europe, Jerry hopes to have another mailing - this one consisting of a simple postcard with US tour date announcements and a summary of the Europe tour. mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:06:37 -0500 From: Crimson Ghost As promised here are the list of people that supported our effort to get Jaime up here from Alabama. These people are some of the coolest fiends out there and we should all give them a round of applause. Pledges ranged from as little as $2 to as much as $15. There were a total of 37 people who pledged money I believe 3 of them requested that I not send a pick to them so that leaves 34, I will send all 34 of them picks! We totalled out at $187 which gives Jaime a decent buffer and maybe he can afford to buy me a slice of pizza & a beer for doing this for him :) jschulz@inwave.com <----he's got 20eye's in his head!!!!!! "hollister's hair" "Joe J McGoldrick II" <9220@ef.gc.maricopa.edu> LeSTaT J.Baldry@mail.nerc-swindon.ac.uk knoss@iwaynet.net (KEITH "GWAR" NOSS) JP Pudas13@aol.com Osito666@aol.com Ronald Barned "ROUSH_AB" ChristoTer@aol.com Adam Christensen Lisa Tyler mf252888@oak.cats.ohiou.edu drodrigu@acme.highpoint.edu (Daniel Rodrigues) "JeanC,SrA,49CS/SCONO" EvilDieff@aol.com Special-K Chris Hatcher Jake Starr "JOHN MATTHEWS" <022588m@axe.acadiau.ca> Jolanta C Biniek peter nicholas wolak 02tjthompson@bsuvc.bsu.edu GreenHell Fiend6666@aol.com ADD1@ix.netcom.com (anthony daniel) Drslfin@aol.com brian23@connect.lod.com (Brian Trainor) Matthew Noel Becker sulev@passport.ca jwwatson@haven.ios.com (James W. Watson) LERRET@VAXL1.DANAVICTOR.COM (PLAYERS PLAY...TEAMS WIN) Quintaal MisfitNo9@aol.com Ryan Herbst The Crimson Ghost - crmsngst@planet.net http://www.planet.net/CrimsonGhost/ find me on Undernet every night around 9:30 or so Nick = CrmsnGhst I'll be in #misfits (of course) ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | 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 143 Thursday, February 15th 1996 Today's Topics: Re: Misfits Bible, #141 Re: Misfits Bible, #142 RE: Misfits Bible, #142 Re: Misfits Bible, #142 Misfits Signing Re: punk is dead peter jackson Punk's Not Dead...It's just not at the Mall Smoke Fiend Club update! tribute and stuff Re: Misfits Bible, #142 quick note Blah, Blah, Blah ! attitude.... Apathetic Fiends smoke on this Valentines Spare Me The Eulogy Re: Misfits Bible, #142 Box Set Night: 2/26/96 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 0:07:56 EST From: "\\A corpse" Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #141 Okay I was just in new york city tonight and I stopped by Generation Records And Ken's castaways (more to find out where Ken's is.) Anyway I saw the design that the Misfits are using for the flat for the boxed set. It was realy the best design I've ever seen for their work. If you've ever read Arkahm Asylum (A batman graphic novel) then you'll appreciate the design, It was a swirl of deeper reds and a somewhat Surreal Crimson Ghost skull on in the center right of the flat. Underneath the Skull was the old Spraypaint Misfits logo. Question, Does Danzig have control of the Famous Monsters Logo or do Jerry and Doyle have control of both logos and are choosing to use the older logo. Also there were a few flyers around the store about the signing. Not only will it be jerry and doyle, but also France Coma, Mr. Jim, and Bobby Steel will also be there to sign the boxed sets. Finally, Generation said the boxed set will be at a special price of $49.99 for the two hour signing. This I doubt to be a special price but who knows maybe it is. Anyway I will definatly be at the dinner and I hope to see you all -Ryan Static,Static,Static, We on a video raid.... ------------------------------ From: She Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #142 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:17:20 -0500 (EST) > From: Ken Graf > > the box set coming out? Anyway, just wanted to know, how widespread will the > release of the box set be? I went to my local record store and they haven't > heard anything about it! Please tell me that it will be released everywhere. Like any other album - all over the world. > Also, I was wondering if it's gonna have stuff on it such as she & cough/cool > with the keyboards. yes. > From: AngelfucK > I was just wondering if anyone out there knows if the band plans > on doing any Canadian dates? I haven't heard anything, but Im hoping > this will change once they get back from Europe. Keep your eyes on this issue... mark ------------------------------ From: ewebb@ycp.edu Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:28:31 EST Subject: RE: Misfits Bible, #142 Hey Lancaster York Fiends, I plan to offer Jerry a place to stay over the summer. I am a Director at York College (off of I-83) in South Central York County. Problem is, I can't think of any good venues for them in the area. email me any suggestions. I'm going to give Jerry my offer at the box set signing. eric (ewebb@ycp.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:28:50 -0500 (EST) From: 01wethomas@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #142 Dear Misfits "Fans", I just joined the Bible and I am so disapointed that I feel that I could break something. I don't feel like you guy's get the whole Misfits deal. It's not how many T-shirts you own or who has the most bootlegs. It's a way of thinking. An outlook that comes from seeing the world through Misfit glasses. It's not about debating wether or not to smoke or drink or some f*cking sh*t like that!!! Get with it! It's about not being afraid of smackin' some guy that said somethin' you didn't like. It's realizing that the world is NOT cool and if sh*t can happen then it will happen. Wesley "I'M NOT DRUNK YET!!!!" Thomas ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:35:07 -0500 Subject: Misfits Signing Here are some more detailed directions to the signing at Generation Records down in the Village. Anyone who's planning on going and isn't familiar with NYC, please save these directions. But, if you use them, if you get lost, don't blame me. They're the directions I'm using myself and they're from a local road map so they might have to be adjusted on the spot. But you'll get very close to the place. So here goes ... I'm going by the Lincoln Tunnel but if you take the Holland Tunnel, it'll let you off closer to the Village than the Lincoln will. There'll be less city driving. But I don't know how to get there exactly from the Holland. These directions are for the Lincoln Tunnel. Anyway, once you get out of the tunnel, go all the way down till you can't go anymore. I don't remember off hand what the street is. There should be a big parking garage infront of you. Turn left. Keep going up and keep to the right because you'll have to turn right eventually. I'm going down Seventh Ave. It's more direct. Keep going down for a ways. Some of the streets divide so just try to stay on Seventh but if you take the wrong divide and end up on another street, just double back. When you get to Houston, turn left (I'm pretty sure Houston is a two-way street but if you can't turn up Houston, just try another street and everything should work out fine). Once on Houston, turn left down Thompson St. and just keep driving. Generation Records is between W. 3rd and Bleeker. That's about it. Like I said, if you get lost with these directions, I probably will too so ... Anyway, I hope they help all who are planning on going ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ From: KENNEY@salem.wvnet.edu Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:56:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: punk is dead This subject is such a bore cause it is so poorly grounded. Answer this question: what is punk? Answer: pissed off guys and girls with loud guitars and a pounding rhythm section (of course there are other forms of punk, but most of us get this mental picture when we hear the word, don't we?). All these fucking people who keep saying punk died because bands today are only in it for the money need to loosen up a bit. Punk isn't dead, it's just pretty much mainstream (like it has been for the past fucking 20 years) just so happens now more than any time recently. Yeah, Green Day is music. I'm not taking that fucking ATTITUDE lane, either. I buy the fucking album for the MUSIC not for the bass guitarist's attitude about life. If I was around just to listen to DIY musically-challenged assholes complain about their problems, I'd go to the campus cafeteria and listen to my friends bitch. The best punk band ever (in my book) was Big Black (yes even ALBINI considered the band punk.) They were DIY to the extreme, and didn't even sound like anyone else, and, most importantly of all, they flat out fucking rocked. But their policy of diy harmed them, they could have influenced so many bands of today but it seems they are still unkown. Read anything about Albini and it mentions only that he's a producer, nothing about his 3 groups. So if you people are looking for a band that you can say is cool and hope no one else has heard of them so you can seem "special", hey, Big Black is right there for you. If you want even more "alternative", go with Rapeman. Hell, even the name is "alternative." The fact is, punk is usually pissed off young kids? How in the hell can that "die out?" Punk is timeless. Punk was around before the fucking Sex Pistols or the late 70's. Half the shit we call 50's r&b was just an early form of what we call punk. It grows, adapts. I think of Filter (even though some of their shit is dumb) as a modern punk band. But wait, they're industrial! you're saying. Who needs a label?? You same people who complain that labels are useless are also the ones that bitch that punk and other forms of music are dead. If I had a good band and devoted my time to it you damn betcha I'd want a little cash for it. You think all punk bands should be penniless and only play to crowds say of 5, maybe only to (very) close family members? Wow, that would be really punkish of them! Read Rollins' "Get in the Van." NO band should have had to live like that. If you believe that is what makes a band punk, to live like a dog and be treated like shit by your "fans" then maybe you should start your own group, show the rest of us how it's done. But be sure to send us a letter to know when you'll be performing. Cause I'm sure you wouldn't want us to see you on MTV (GASP!) Joe Kenney PS: if there are any typos in here it's cause some dumbass behind me is being real loud with his friends. He's mushing (?) or somethin. I'm about to go fucking "mush" my fists all over his pimply face. You all take care, now. ------------------------------ Subject: peter jackson Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:01:04 -0500 (EST) From: Eric J Peterson I first want to appoligise for my last message which was moronic. WHat i ment to ask is can any one help me find a copy of the BOOK hollywood Babylon by k. Anger? also in teh last issu some one posted about the movie dead alive, which is a really great movie. It eas directed by peter jackson who recived a oscar monination last year for the movie heavenly creatures. he has done two other movies the first is called bad taste, if you liked dead alive you'll love bad taste, and the other is called meet the febbles. Meet the febbles is what the mumppets would have been if jim henson was on crack. you have muppet like creatures doing drugs, making prono films and killing each other, it highly entertaining. Later E.P. ------------------------------ Date: 13 Feb 96 18:23:02 EST From: James Sanchez Subject: Punk's Not Dead...It's just not at the Mall >From: wallace836@vegas.email.net >Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:15:27 PST >Subject: Punk is Dead >Death is a certainty for anything, be it >animal, religion, or music. Sadly >punk is dead: I say this becasue the >"reformations" of the Misfits and the >Sex Pistols. While the new wave of >imitators (Green Day, Rancid, etc) are so >repellent because they are all such obvious >posers. Punk was all about >attitude, and none of these people have that >certain attitude. Punk is dead, >just as psychedlia died, just as country >died (don't be fooled by modern >country music; its just the same pop-crap >that's played on every other radio >station, just with a country twang), just >as 80's techno-pop died. Nothing >lasts forever. Rock has been steadily >rotting for more than a decade now >because every lead guitarist wants to be >either Jimmy Page of Eddie Van >Halen. Punk died when the bands learned >they cou financially profit from >their music. Any band with any sense of >ethics disbanded themselves rather >than prostitute their music. Dead >Kennedy's did it. Misfits/Samhain did it it's funny how some of these "fiends" think they know so much about punk. it seems to be a popular notion that the only real punk bands are from the old days. but i guess if people are always watching MTV and shopping at the mall for their music, they really can't help it if their clueless. these guys seem to think because they're familiar with the big bands of the 70s like the ramones, sex pistols, damned and the clash, or the ones from the early 80s like black flag, DKs (fucking sorry bastards - after their 1st LP, they sucked), and the circle jerks, they know what real punk is. a lot of this stuff is good, but there was so much more out there that is just as good, if not better (for instance, i wonder just how many of those on this list listen to the Saints, Pagans, Crime, Weirdos, Real Kids, Stooges, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Zeros, Dead Boys, and DMZ - all of these are pretty damn well known) As for the state of today's punk, go listen to the Dwarves (go out and buy their 1st lp "Blood, Guts, & Pussy), New Bomb Turks, Gaunt, Rip Offs, Teengenerate, Devil Dogs, and the Humpers. these bands would blow away most of the early 80s california groups with ease. >While the new wave of imitators (Green >Day, Rancid, etc) are so >repellent because they are all such obvious >posers. Punk was all about >attitude, and none of these people have that >certain attitude. i don't see how these guys are posers. Rancid may not have good fashion sense, but i wouldn't say they were posers. they just play the kind of punk they like - the same way that the sex pistols played music that was incredibly "influenced" by the Ramones, New York Dolls, and the Stooges. it just happens that melodic punk is now accepted and all the little kids think rancid are cool cause they look 'punk.' they have some okay songs. as for green day, since when has melodic punk that has nothing to do with snottiness not been punk? think of the buzzcocks, the jam, undertones, descendents, lurkers, zeros and X. in fact, "Kerplunk" is probably the best pop/melodic punk album since "Milo Goes to College" - on some nights, it might even be better than that one. >Rock has been steadily rotting for more than a decade now >because every lead guitarist wants to be >either Jimmy Page of Eddie Van >Halen. well, mainstream rock has been shit since that shitty Sgt. Pepper album. since then, you had to look underground for good rocknroll - probably starting with the Velvet Underground and the huge assortment of Stones influenced snotty Garage Punk bands (punk was actually used during the 60s - Standells, Shadows of Knight, Keggs for instance). then you had the MC5, the Stooges, New York Dolls, and maybe a few others. then you had the ramones; the rest is history. for the past two decades, i would say that Rock has been pretty damn good. just get a hold of a Crypt Records or Get Hip catalog and find out. >Punk died when the bands learned they could financially profit from >their music. Any band with any sense of >ethics disbanded themselves rather >than prostitute their music. Dead Kennedy's did it. Misfits/Samhain did it um, i really doubt that the initial punk bands from the 70s were indifferent to money. i mean, that's about the only reason the Sex Pistols were together. the idea of selling out as a negative thing didn't start until indie scenes and labels began getting bigger in the 80s. and the DKs ended (three LPs too late) because jello was caught up with legal troubles. and i doubt any sense of ethics had to do with the misfits and samhain breaking up. if any of you out there are like me and like the Misfits mainly because they are a good, melodic punk band (instead of those who dig them cause their horror angle is so cool. and i wouldn't say they are goth related. samhain is. there's a difference between psychotronic imagery and goth.), and you want to get into punk rock, i could give you some advice on where to look for good curent punk stuff. later, james ps- i noticed someone mentioned the Quincy Punx. well, at least someone pays attention to the punk underground. ------------------------------ From: dominc@interserv.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:28:05 -0800 Subject: Smoke I think all this e-mail about smoking is the biggest waste of space I have ever seen. Do I have to remind you that this bible was designed for the discussion of the mistfits. I think quite a few a you have to grow-up!! Now, are there any fiends in Michigan that can have the Misfits over when the come to town? If we can't find anyone that has the room I purpose the we start a collection for a hotel. I think 10 to 20 dollars per fiend well be more than enough. If you think this would be a good idea e-mail me at dominic@interserv.com. Maybe we could mail the money to Mark or directly to the band. Remember that the Misfits are what have brought us together so lets help the band anyway we can. Thanks, Dominic ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 20:35:10 -0500 From: She Subject: Fiend Club update! 2/13/96 Canadian Fiends - We need names/phone#/addresses of clubs in lower Canada that can hold from 700-1500 fiends. We are trying to organize a tour as soon as possible, and we are especially interested in getting a show in Toronto. Please send this sort of information to the Misfits Fiend Club (PO Box 310; Vernon NJ 07462) so the Misfits can play in your town. The first set of Fiend Club membership packages went out Saturday and another set will be going out this Saturday. Packages were sent to overseas Fiends in Europe. US membership packages will go out later this month in 2-3 batches, as mentioned before. This mailing will be followed up by a smaller postcard mailing in June. I can no longer except Fiend Club memberships over email. We will have an online membership service available some time in the next few months that will serve this purpose, so for now please use the postal address. We will also be accepting memberships in New York City at the signing at Generation Records and membership packages will be given out there ONLY to those who are not already on the list. A lot of you have written 2-5 times for whatever reason, but you're only allowed one package. One more thing about the mailing - the envelopes are being sealed with special Misfits stickers. There are 10000 in all (2000 each of 5 different colors). Your sticker color is determined by which mailing you receive. The first batch is yellow and the second will be orange. That's all for now. mark ------------------------------ From: EvilDieff@aol.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:12:18 -0500 Subject: tribute and stuff okay, about the tribute. the idea was to get a bunch of bands on here. out of all the people who told me they wanted to contribute none replied. i have some material from a few bands that sent me stuff previous to asking for it. that will get on. anyone else interested will have to e-mail me. so far it looks like: bane/ adam west/ solefish/ devilock/ leach will be on. now onto other stuff... mark: i see what you mean about the poor "moral" of the bible members, but, the only reason i haven't sent my caroline contest answers is because i'm trying to find the answers. i need one more and two others i'm not 100% sure of. but, i for one, plan on entering. also, i think it was great of everyone to help out our fiend in need. i guess we all participated when it really counted. later. Don "Evil" Dieffenbach henry rollins birthday is today (02/13) i believe. happy birthday hank!!! "...herny from black flag...we- are- 138..." ------------------------------ From: "AngelfucK" Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:10:10 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #142 I noticed in issue 142 a post about how punk rock is dead ect ect and how the Misfits have nothing to do with heavy metal blah blah ect ect. The way I see there are two types of music, stuff that is shit, and stuff that is not shit. That's it. Anyone out there agree with me? I think the only reason music is categorized today is so that MTV can label it and sell it to brainwashed idiots. My friend (who is here as I write) says music is labeled by individuals who feel the need to associate themselves with a certain group of people. The punks want to be punks and the metal heads all want to be metal heads. They won't listen to other types of music because they are afraid they will lose their identities or something stupid like that. I agree with him, but personaly I think people that think like that are just narrow minded idiots. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:37:09 -0800 (PST) From: "hollister's hair" Subject: quick note Hey Mark! I noticed your post in the Bible regarding subscriber "participation." A tad bitter to say the least, though I guess I have to admit that I can see your point. Even I haven't taken advantage of all the contests and what not, but a lot of it is that I have to spend a lot of time going back and looking up this stuff (I spent about six hours, if not more, on the Static Age Poster Contest). Everyone wants something for free, I suppose. A lot of the ill response may be because people don't realize just how simple these things are in terms of what you need to do to get involved and what not. Tonight I booted up the Caroline Contest just to see if was still possible to enter (call your post motivation if you want), but in honesty I didn't know that you still could enter it. I certainly can't speak for the other six hundred and whatever subscribers, but sometimes we just overlook these things and don't take the time to go back and review. I know when I flip through the Bible I mainly look at the address of the person who posted something. So many of them just bitch about Glenn and Jerry and whoever, so I usually skip those and look for you and CG and EVB and Brent and some others. when you fly through it so fast you tend to overlook things. I'm sure not all of the six hundred and whatever actually make it through the Bibles. They do get a tad long at times, you must admit. I forgot where i was going with this. anyway, don't feel too discouraged about the numbers. just because we don't enter doesn't mean we don't have the interest. How many Publisher's Clearing House things have you sent back? Sure it's simple, but most of us dont' take the time to do it. besides, the fewer of them that enter the better my chances are! :) take care Mike Westlake mtw4@axe.humboldt.edu ------------------------------ From: Adam Christensen Subject: Blah, Blah, Blah ! Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 06:01:21 -0500 (EST) until recently I have been annoyed at the misfits related sightings that are frequently posted. But last night I had two sightings and I nearly shat my pants over it. I was watching a show on the discovery channel that is called MOVIE MAGIC. It shows how they do all the special effects and stunts in movies. This episode was mainly about horror films. They had the makeup guys that made pinhead from hellraiser ( killer movie ) and he was saying how it took a long time to set up pinheads mask because it has exactly one-hundred and thirty-eight nails in it! Then I flipped channels and leverne and shirly were on, I fucking hate that show. I was about to flip again when I noticed that Squiggi is the missing fifth misfit! Look at that devilock, puny and pathetic as it is it is still definitly a devilock, and I wouldn't be suprised if he wore spikes on that leather jacket when he goes out on the town. On a more serious note I would like to respond to wallace's comment that punk is dead: Cancel your subscribtion to the bible and join the fanclub for live or boyz to fags. And lastly, Eat my shit. If there is anyone who would like to experiance the pleasures of being controlled by the government and be a sellout loser then buy some cigarettes and smoke your brains out. I smoked yesterday and I intend to smoke today, maybe even 2 packs. Ain't life grand?\ Adam "Smoke If Ya got 'em" Seven ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:10:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Nathan D. Lequieu" Subject: attitude.... Jello once said, "Punk's not dead it just deserves to die, when it becomes another stale cartoon". He may be right, and the cool thing is that it never truly dies, (just like evil) it always continues to live in the souls and minds of people who have identified with it. We have our tapes, CD's vinyls, etc. of all these great bands for a reason, we love it!! I agree that there is no real "new" punk out there it's all crap... It is for this reason that we choose to listen to bands like the Misfits. It's all about attitude and intensity---nothing else--just listen to Rollins on 'We are 138'. It's pure energy. The Misfits are coming to our towns to play because the like it and we like it. They are simply the best. I cannot wait because no matter how different they might sound, it will be better than everything else out there. I may live in the past, but punk will never be dead in my soul. Fiendishly, Nate Skate and Rotate "..Death comes Ripping.." ------------------------------ From: Osito666@aol.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:56:28 -0500 Subject: Apathetic Fiends Dear Mark, Just because I never submitted my name to the Fiend Club List doesn't mean I never wrote to the band. Three years ago, I wrote to the Doyle Fan Club, with nothing else in mind except to see how the guys were doing. Later, when I found out that Jerry read the mail, I didn't feel right writing just to ask for free stuff. In particular, I didn't like the idea that Jerry had to take time out of his day to read a letter from me and add my name a list. Maybe, I thought, he'd rather be playing the bass or making rubber dolls of himself. Then, when you said that we could write to you and you'd compile the list for Jerry, I did. I don't mind taking time out of your day, nearly as much. Thanks for helping me join the club. I would have felt terrible missing out on the mailings. I don't think it's fair though to assume that, just because someone doesn't write to the band or belong to a fan club or mailing list, they're not involving themselves. Long before there was a Misfits Bible or a reformation of the band, my friends and I were out buying the Kryst The Conqueror CD as soon as we heard about it. If I could only be involved with the band one way, it would be like that. Through the music. Thanks for not making me have to choose. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:57:49 -0500 (EST) From: mephisto i have loved the misfits ever since their first appearance on jem and the holograms (just kidding,you asses) anyways that always did piss me off. not that i watched that show or anything. i got eyes i see things i got ears i hear things, you know? does anybody know what glenn has tatooed on his arm ? it looks like a bat and it says something but i can never make it out all the pictures i've seen are too small or blurry. i wish i had something cool to contribute to this edition of "the bible" when i was in ninth grade english and the teacher would ask a question i would reply the misfits to just about anything she said that and hemmoroid for example "does anyone know what what a haiku is?" i would shout out "misfits"!!! and after class some jock would come up to me and call me a skatefag, at which point i'd stick my board in his face and say i turned into a martian man!!! i don't even know my name!!! and the jocks would go whatever dude lay off the herb. and i'd say fuck you!!!possesion of a mind is a terrible thing!!!then i'd smoke a couple cigs and get over it. i went to see sick of it all in philly and i saw this dude that had the crimson ghost skull tatooed on his forehead that was one of the coolest moments of my life. ------------------------------ Date: Wed Feb 14 16:13:53 1996 From: Haskin Douglas CDT Subject: smoke on this Well, only a couple weeks until the box set comes out. Let's all hope that it's as good as it supposed to be. Anyway, I wanted to make a couple comments on something that was written in the last bible. First of all, someone said that zodiac's argument was wrong because he used false information. This person then proceeded to back up his own argument with false 'facts' as well. How can someone be such an expert on smoking when it is obvious that he himself has never smoked? He said that the only people who get anything from smoking are people who are addicted to it. I smoke maybe once or twice a month (hardly addicted I would say) and I get a good buzz each time. People who smoke a pack a day don't get a buzz, they get the nicotine that they are addicted to. You can still smoke a little and not be addicted. Also, this same guy said something to the effect that "I would rather have my kids smoke pot or drink before instead of smoke." Tell me, were you high when you wrote this? First of all, pot smoke is so much worse for you than tabacco smoke. Ignoring the psychological effects (which are still highly debated), just the smoke has a far greater concentration of carcinogens than regular cigarette smoke. People who smoke pot 5 times a week ingest more harmful chemicals into their bodies than people who smoke a pack per day (I did not make this up; it is from a research article). Well, I ought to get going now. I don't hate pot smokers (some of my best friends smoke it), but I was just trying to get a point across. Most of the people I know that smoke pot also smoke cigarettes when they can't smoke pot. Sorry for taking up so much space; flames welcome and encouraged. Later Doug ------------------------------ From: ChristoTer@aol.com Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:58:42 -0500 Subject: Valentines Am I the only damn person that didn't get a SINGLE ONE? Chris ------------------------------ From: Osito666@aol.com Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:59:54 -0500 Subject: Spare Me The Eulogy Wallace836, Don't worry. I'm not crying over punk. Punk rock is alive and well. There's nothing wrong with the Misfits reforming. They're doing exactly what they want. Would you have them do otherwise? Rock isn't rotting either. You just have to know where to look. You're being nostalgic. It's always been like this. For every great band, there are a thousand mediocre ones. In hindsight, only good music is remembered. If punk seems dead to you, it's because of having a defeatist attitude. If you don't like the music today, then you should make your own. That's the heart of punk rock. Andrew ------------------------------ From: BloodCum@aol.com Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:04:34 -0500 there? I have all of the albums except Static Age from 1978. But I'll get that soon. I also have the Misfits Psychomania cd. Are there vids? I saw one once at Ace's Records in FL, but it was thirty bucks, and I opted for a live slayer vid instead, which may have been stupid now that Slayer has released a live vid. So Glenn's 40, huh? Looks pretty good for being over the hill. ------------------------------ From: bengl@interserv.com Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:43:15 -0800 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #142 O.K., As to the smoking vs. drinking argument I have a few thing to say abuout all of this 1.Smoking will kill more efficiently than alchihol, this does not make alchihol good. 2.Alchihol will change you're personality for the worse with addiction, cigerettes will no, this does not make cigerettes good. 3.The reports that alchihol in small amounts were based on tests funded by guess who... the alchihol industry, and failed to mention while it was good for you're heart is was bad for you're liver. 4 Both industries (this here is bobby's only point acording to the interview kids) are evil and know how many people they kill and hurt but love the money anyway. 5. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MISFIT (OR RELATED BANDS N'STUFF) ok, I've said what needed to be said also I was glad to see that there was another str8 edge on the page it makes me feel like less of a minority (not that all you guys aren't great and incredably accepting people) As to the punk is dead comment well you'll probably get gobs of long winded flames about that so I need not go into anymore than to say that even right after the sex pistols broke Sid tried to cash in on the new punk wave, this exploitation is not new so quit whining and revive punk if you think it's dead, me I'll listen to my punk and I'll listen to my jazz and I'll figure as long as new stuff being put out the music is as alive as I need to be . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:51:01 -0500 From: She Subject: Box Set Night: 2/26/96 Hello Fiends. Some of you have asked for a complete reiteration of the box set signing and Misfits Bible dinner. Here's the schedule: Monday 2/26/96 Misfits Bible Dinner Party with The Misfits, 7-9pm -------------------------------------------------- The dinner will take place in a backroom of Kenny's Castaways on Thompson Street in New York City. This is a few doors down from the record store where the signing will take place. Kenny's Castaways Punk Night, 9pm-12Midnight -------------------------------------------- If you're bored, Kenny's will be featuring a couple punkish bands including Sardonica (one of Dr. Chud's old bands). Some of The Misfits may hang around for this. Generation Records Misfits Box Set Signing, 12Midnight-2am ---------------------------------------------------------- The most important event - this is the earliest you can get the box set, AND the only place that Jerry, Doyle, Franche' Coma, Mr. Jim, and Bobby Steele will be available for autographs - all at the same time. There will also be a Fiend Club table for those of you who still haven't joined the club. Kenny's Castaways, 2am-? ------------------------ If they (Jerry, Doyle, Dr. Chud, Michale) aren't too tired, the band might, just might, walk over to Kenny's and jam for a little while. No promises, no guarantee, no nothing. There's a possibility that this will happen. Directions: ----------- Leon Marcelo has kindly typed up directions for us. I personally used his directions back in October to get to the Horror Convention and found them to be 100% correct. Kenny's Castaways and Generation Records are located on the same block, so if you find one, you'll find the other. Leon's directions: These directions are for the Lincoln Tunnel. Anyway, once you get out of the tunnel, go all the way down till you can't go anymore. I don't remember off hand what the street is. There should be a big parking garage infront of you. Turn left. Keep going up and keep to the right because you'll have to turn right eventually. I'm going down Seventh Ave. It's more direct. Keep going down for a ways. Some of the streets divide so just try to stay on Seventh but if you take the wrong divide and end up on another street, just double back. When you get to Houston, turn left (I'm pretty sure Houston is a two-way street but if you can't turn up Houston, just try another street and everything should work out fine). Once on Houston, turn left down Thompson St. and just keep driving. Generation Records is between W. 3rd and Bleeker. That's about it. Like I said, if you get lost with these directions, I probably will too so ... Anyway, I hope they help all who are planning on going ... ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | 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 144 Tuesday, February 20th 1996 Today's Topics: Re: Misfits Bible, #143 Jerry Cantrell on the New Danzig Album Re: Glenn's tattoos Misfits on Radio punk and other stupid stuff you missed the point... mark of the devil if you don't like the bible, then.... punk's death, and band's selling out. Generation Records PARKING!!!!! smoking Why I didn't enter Caroline's Contest/Bizarre Misfits Sighting alchihol Re: Misfits Bible, #143 Franche Misfits at the Ritz, NYC (1/29/83)..CRETIN BULL misfits sighting (kind of) is, was, and always shall be post Misfits Bible, #143 hey Bible Bashing Traders list MIsfits Posters Box Set Sampler effects?!?!?!? Danzig max's xmas shmoky doke! Halloween 7" Re: Misfits Bible, #143 The Misfits Quiz and an Apology that last post and some ramblings IRC Types of Goths ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: She Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #143 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:18:19 -0500 (EST) >From mozzer > Misfits logo. Question, Does Danzig have control of the Famous Monsters Logo > or do Jerry and Doyle have control of both logos and are choosing to use the This question seems to come up too often. Glenn controls nothing. The older logo was just chosen on the Static Age poste (for obvious reasons) and the box set probably because of the amount of old material on it. The monster letter logo was used on the Collection II poster as well as the sticker on the Collection II albums. Anyway Fiends, I hope nobody took my rambling about the 'apathetic fiends' too personally... mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:56:59 -0500 (EST) From: KEITH "GWAR" NOSS Subject: Jerry Cantrell on the New Danzig Album Hey Fiends, Just thought I'd let you all in on some info I read in a small paper out of Cleveland called "Scene." The following snipet was in the Feb 8th-14th issue: "With Alice and Chains on hiatus and Danzig sans a guitarist, AIC six-stringer JERRY CANTRELL has ageed to lay down guitar tracks for Danzig's latest album project. Singer Glenn Danzig is playing bass on the record, though the group is expected to replace departed bassist Eerie Von and guitarist John Christ in time to tour." Oh, and by the way, just thought I'd comment on the fact that no one is entering the contests. As was someone else, I am still looking for one answer to the Caroline contest, so it will be in the mail eventually. (Where the fuck are we supposed to find that hotel question anyway?) And, to the other contests, I tried the last one and won a poster, but I have to say that if the questions come out of the back issues of the Bible it can be pretty tough to find some of them. But before that I never really knew how easy it was to participate in the contests. It really is easy to sit down and look some of the stuff up, and the people who write them don't really have to waste their time doing it, so the next time, give it a try! What have you got to lose? Later, The Noss Devilock ------------------------------ From: sickboy@mail.cyconx.com Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 04:21:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Glenn's tattoos > does anybody know what glenn has tatooed >on his arm ? it looks like a bat and it says something but i can never >make it out all the pictures i've seen are too small or blurry. It is a bat,but with a crimson ghost head and just below it is the Samhain /Danzig skull with vines or somethin around the horns.Above the bat it says blood witch is part of his Wolfs Blood tattoo.All that is is just a wolfs head with the words Wolfs Blood around it.Also around the bat tattoo are some skulls ,skeletons and a naked creature that sortta looks like a woman with wings and a skull face.I got this info from a tattoo magazine it has a close up of Glenn's arm.It also has Chuck's and John Christ's tattoos.BTW can someone tell me how to install or whatever that Misfits theme.I just got Windows 95 and don't really know what the fuck I'm doing. 14 words, Jason Carter ------------------------------ From: jschulz@inwave.com Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 04:06:29 -0600 Subject: Misfits on Radio AHHHH!! Last night I was going through a bunch of old tapes from 5+years ago, when I used to record WORT, a Madison public sponsored radio station. They played alot of cool stuff, but Friday and Saturday nights they had "Open Mind Surgery" which was all really good punk and alot of requests. I have like 20 of these tapes, and the FIRST one I started listening to had some pertty cool stuff. After a bit I hear the DJ start talkin and I kinda haze out (which I sometimes do), when all of a sudden I hear a familiar sound, and my ears perk up... I hear the DJ say this one goes out to Jamie... Misfits..... and Death Comes Ripping starts playing!! Awesome... I remember someone asking if anyone has heard Misfits on the radio. hehe now I have some history on tape. Just thought I would share... -- 20Eyes #Misfits Undernet channel OP us.undernet.org All Fiends WELCOME! 20 Eyes in my head...... ------------------------------ Subject: punk and other stupid stuff Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 11:55:23 EST From: Blood Feast I would like to recommend a very evil very punk very diy band to all those that are saying punk is dead and all that stuff. They are called Man is the Bastard. They are as diy as you get. they build all their own instruments, build their own amps, book their own tours, put out their own records, they even master and press their own records and just did their own cd, too. their music is sometimes slow and dirgy a la melvins, and sometimes faster than septic death. the only thing you misfits fans might not agree with is that most of their lyrics are very political. but anyway if you're interested, they have a ton of seven inches out, a five inch record, a couple twelve inches, probably a ten inch or two, they're on a lot of compilations, and now they have a cd. you can order their stuff through vermiform records, whose address I have convienently misplaced, but if you really wanna find out email me and I'll find it for you. And MITB is just the tiniest tip of the hugest iceberg of super evil, diy punk bands that are around today keeping punk very very much alive. Speaking of septic death, I was hoping that maybe they newly reformed misfits would play some shows with the newly reformed septic death, but After reading about pushead not being down with the misfits anymore, I guess it will never happen, which is too bad, since septic death picked up where the misfits left off (in my opinion, of course.) any other septic death fans on the bible? ------------------------------ From: wallace836@vegas.email.net Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:18:20 PST Subject: you missed the point... Some of you might have missed the point to my eulogy of punk rock a few issues back. As for those of you who flamed be becasue I'm some kid who buys all hi smusic at the mall...well, I was into punk back when most of you still thought "He-Man and the masters of the Universe" was you afterschool activity. My point? Punk is a fashion that went out a long time ago... most of these modern posers do NOTHING to progress the music and only thrive off the sounds of others. I might get flamed for calling punk a fashion, but what else is it? Rancid is about as legitimate as punk-rock as the Black Crows are as classic rock. No Lenny Kravitz, despite his forced associations with people like Yoko Ono and John Paul Jones, is not a 70's rock star. And no, UB40 is not fucking reggae! If you appreciate Green Day, that's fine. I'm getting kinda tired of them getting ragged on myself and I don't even like them! BUT: if they were uniform they better be prepared to duck a few bullets. Punk didn't die becasue it was inherently flawed. It died becasue that is the nature of life. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 12:49:49 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: mark of the devil Anyone who lives in the Rhode Island area may be able to relate to this. Since I was about three, I've been going fishing. Well, there was this one particular bait store in the area that we would always go to to buy night crawlers, a favorite for trout. Anyway, whenever we bought worms, the guys there would always give them to us in a movie vommit bag. The movie that was advertised on the vommit bag was called "Mark of the Devil". It said that you needed this vommit bag that they provided to see the movie because it was so disgusting and gory. "The first movie rated V for violence" Well, I went fishing again just a couple years ago and they were still giving out the worms in the damn vommit bags! How many of these fucking things were printed? Has anyone actually seen this movie? PLEASE let me know. It must have come out sometime in the 70's. Maybe Jerry has seen it. Gotta admit, great new song idea! Later. --Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 13:00:42 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: if you don't like the bible, then.... If you don't like the bible, then what the fuck are you doing here!? This question goes out to the likes of Wesley Thomas. If this is an early post, read it quick Wes because I'm sure plenty of other disgruntled fiends have something to say to you. Okay, you subscribed, if you don't like it, then unsubscribe. Mark would be happy to do this for you, I'm sure. Don't stick around long enough just to tell us how you don't like what we say and what we discuss. We like the Bible round these parts. This reminds me of something else that happened. I was on the Rancid mailing list for a VERY short time. I unsubscribed quickly because all it was doing was clogging up my mailbox with unimportant shit that had nothing to do with the band (like them or not). I then joined the Bible and was completely satsfied. However, I noticed a few stragglers had followed me from the Rancid list. I won't mention any names, but you know who you are. Some of the guys are okay, but others are complte idiots that should be shot. Example: One name I recognized from the Rancid list asked a question in one issue. He wasn't answered by the next one and made a real fucking snide comment about it. Mark finally answered him, purely out of of disgust, I imagine. All I'm saying is that you should argue and bitch if you want to, but don't be a dick like the above mentioned. One more thing, to our dyslxeik (that's a joke) fiends out there. No problem being on the bible, but if you are going to post, learn to spell or use a dictionary. Type-o's and occasional mispellings are one thing, but when the whole post is full of them, itma kse it vry diffacalt to reed. Sorry if this is kind of long, but it's my first real flame.(Hooray!) I think some of you guys are starting to rub off on me! P.S. What's up Jimmy-Roll! Later. --Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:51:46 -0800 (PST) From: David Graedon Subject: punk's death, and band's selling out. Man so many people are writing about this I feel I have to add my 2 cents. First let me say that this is my first posting, and Iwant to thank Mark for the service that is providing to the fiends who are true. Thanks Mark. My personal experience with punk is a little different from usual. In my home scene of Chapel Hill, NC. when me and the boys got into punk it wasn't by hanging out with punks. One person got an albulm or two, and we were hooked. It spread from there. We had to find punk for ourselves. I have been listening to punk now since I was 13. Now I am 19. So sometimes we'll have been listening to the standard stuff, (Black Flag, DK, Misfits, ect.) and the lesser known stuff (cringer, Antiseen [back when they were smaller], The Fuckers, some Lookout stuff, ect.) But we won't necessarily have heard the same bands as everyone else. I hadn't heard the Subhumans till this year. So that is how I got into it. ***Now comes my interpretation of the punk is dead deal. I am going to mainly deal with punk in the last few years, although crass said that punk was dead back in the 70's. Firstly the power to name a movement is the power to put forth your presentation of it. I came across this idea in my studies as it related to African American culture, and it is marginalized. Any way, right now MTV is putting forth what they call punk. Punk is such a broad an undefined category that they cannot possibly be relating to their viewers what punk music has meant to me. But because they have the power to name, they have to power to co-opt. People are believing that what MTV presents as punk is in fact punk. Once a name loses power and definition, then the movement no longer fits the name. Another example of the power to name being the power to co-opt was the 1960's counterculture. The hippies made a big deal about the "death of the hippy march" in 69 or 68 in Berkley. I believe this was before woodstock. The point that they were trying to make was that because the media had seized the symbology of the hippy, the movement was weakened by their representation. (Posers joining the scene, loss of shock value, etc.) That is the same thing that is happening today. (By the way, don't get me wrond, hippies do suck). *** So now "punk" is dead. Fine. Keep on going to shows, it doesn't make a difference. When someone asks you if you are a punk (as they define it through MTV) either say, no I'm not a punk, I am an evil motherfucker. I like to drink to much, hurt people and listen to loud music, or I like to squat and be dirty and spare change, or I don't drink, fuck, smoke, because I am straight edge, whatever. Tell them what punk means to you. Or tell them, yes I am a punk, but punk is not what you read about in the paper or see on MTV. It is an attitude, a style, a rebellion, a movement, a family, etc. Basically allowing yourself to be called a punk and just a punk is allowing yourself to be co-opted. Maybe real punks need a new name. We can be spikyheads or something. You get the Idea. Also on the issue of bands selling out. Yes they can sell out. I tend to agree with Tim from MRR when he says that punk bands should not be in it for $. I've heard the stupid argument that they need to make money too, and that they are tired of living hand to mouth, and wouldn't it be great if they could do music all the time. No it wouldn't. Get a real job, even if it sucks. When bands rely on record companies for $, they lose artistic freedom. Not only that, but any punk band that makes oodles of cash like Rancid and Green Day can't write real punk songs anymore. You can't write about being hungry after eating steak-tar tar. Or about the "man" if you are the man, or he is your boss. Punk is not a job. Its a way of life. Sorry for being so long winded. Dave Graedon. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:36:51 -0500 (EST) From: Phil Rupp Subject: Generation Records PARKING!!!!! I just read about the signing and saw directions for people driving--gotta warn you, parking in this area of NYC is IMPOSSIBLE--even at 12 midnight. This is the heart of Greenwich Village, parking is IMPOSSIBLE. I can't stress enough how difficult it is to park in this area of manhatten--IMPOSSIBLE. Really I Subject: smoking Oh yeah, and if you really want to experience an incredible high, free, quit smoking. I swear to god the first three weeks of cigs is like one long mushroom trip. Then you start going crazy. I was pulling plumbing fixtures out of the bathroom wall by mistake. yow. ------------------------------ Subject: Why I didn't enter Caroline's Contest/Bizarre Misfits Sighting Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:03:11 -0700 (MST) From: Richard Duran re: contest ----------- mark, with list members like yerself, eerie-bat, archfiend, and evil-don (not to mention countless others) what are the odds of me getting all the answers in time to win anything. less than zero. aside from the mindless fun of a scavenger hunt, there seems to be little point in taking the time to unearth the relevant information. i must've skipped the part mentioning the mailing list tho' have to look for that text. re: sightings ------------- anyway, on a lighter note (not that the above was meant, in any way, to be heavy): you guys will not believe this. the other day, i was looking through my cd's to record something for a fiend of mine, when i came across...you won't believe this, a cd w/ a picture of the crimson ghost! i couldn't believe it...i nearly shit! a week later, i was doing my laundry, and when i opened up the hamper...lo and behold, crimson clause! my roommates had to revive me w/ smelling salts....man did i freak. when i explained to them what happened, they just didn't get it. but i know i can confide in you all, knowing that you all can understand what i must've felt like at that time. you all are soooo cool. re: smoking vs. drinking ------------------------ don't you all have a clue?!? why, don't you realize that in bickering like this, you are playing into the hands of those who are trying to manupulate us into believing the exaggerated "badness" from alcohol/ tobacco? we are all losers in this war if we can't join forces in the fight against that most heinous of bodily contaminants: microwavable fast food! this evil, if allowed to maintain and increase it's stranglehold on our lives and the lives of our loved ones, will surely be lead to the unraveling of the very fabric of our beings. we can't allow this to happen. but by allowing ourselves to be distracted by more petty vices, we are practically inviting disaster. stop the madness! {-=+ gut-ripper +=-} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 20:27:50 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dempz Subject: alchihol yep, that alchihol's a killer... C Andy Dempz M R +/- Records A O 912 Brown #102 G - Ann Arbor, MI 48104 S e m c ------------------------------ From: bengl@interserv.com Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 20:40:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #143 I don't remember who it was that but I'd like this point made very clear, MILO GOES TO COLLEGE IS STILL THE BEST ALBUM EVER TO GRACE OUR PLANET -Thank you, Ben ------------------------------ From: kriney@uhavax.hartford.edu Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 09:28:45 EDT Subject: Franche A question- I am planning on attending the Misfits signing, and I would like to have Franche Coma sign something, preferably vinyl, and I can't find out what legitimate (non-bootleg that is) releases, he has played on, I mean I don't want to give him a copy of "Walk among us" and ask him to sign it, if he didn't even play on it...also what can I give Mr. Jim to sign as well, that he has played on? Don't drink Don't smoke Don't do drugs these things are very very bad for you guys.. STRAIGHT EDGE MUTHAFUCKAS in the house A funny lyric manipulation for you all- in Mommy, can i go out.... in stead of the line, "....Get straight 'a' s..." put in the line "....I'm straight edge, but they still make fun..." that's actually what I thought he was saying..... later love goat- p.t.y.c. much respect out ta EMC ------------------------------ From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:24:59 BST Subject: Misfits at the Ritz, NYC (1/29/83)..CRETIN BULL MISFITS AT THE RITZ! Like a tidal wave of white noise, the Misfits overwhelmed the throngs of anti-punk humanity Saturday night (January 29th) at the Ritz. The evening started out with the Droogs doing an unusually hot set. They left the stage, however, on a seemingly angry note. The Offenders took over next with JJ in prime form. His uncontrollable animalism and maniacal mongoose energy reminded me of Henry Rollins. Les Big Boys did their Big Boy stuff next. By this time the hall was packed literally to the rafters, so the crowd got really jumpy when the brass section made their first appearance in months. And then, after all that, the aforementioned Misfits came on and took over. Robo, ex-Black Flagger, pounded away with Roman Centurion peacock pride. The Only brothers (Doyle and Jerry) thundered away at their guitars, churning out the horror rock stuff that they're so proud of. At first, the terrible rhythms and anti-melodies were totally indiscernable from one perpetual blast of droning thunder. But later, as the ear became used to the onslaught of musical TNT, everything fell into place, making for an excellent show. The Misfits performed an extra long set with enough energy for seven bands. It was the first time we've seen the Ritz in operation for a while; I hope we get to see more of it soon. I hope we again see the Misfits soon too. Talked to the bassist Doyle Only after the show. Check it out: Bull: How do you like playing in places like Texas? Doyle: Tonight was great. Bull: I heard that ya'll met in a gymnasium: is that true? Doyle: Well, uh... Bull: We want to know how much you can bench press. Do you bench? Doyle: No. Bull: I thought for sure... Doyle: No. The last time we went on tour, the police down in New Orleans stole all our weights. We had weights in our truck. They stole that and our cameras. Bull: Tell us what happened in the cemetary in New Orleans. Are you planning to go to the graveyard here? Doyle: No, we're not doing that anymore. (general laughter) It cost us 300 bucks. We made 300 bucks playing in New Orleans and we had to give it to the cops. We got good publicity out of it, but fuck that, you know... Bull: How did ya'll run in with Robo? Doyle: Well, we were just in the market for a drummer. We were on tour two years ago and our other drummer, Googy, he said that we was going to split the band. He didn't get along with Glenn so well. They didn't hit it off, so he said that after this tour he was gonna leave. We just put out an APB for somebody and Robo called and said "hey, it's Robo..." Bull: When did ya'll meet the Big Boys? Doyle: The first time I met them was when we played the Island last time in Houston... Bull: Ya'll seem to hit it off pretty well... Doyle: Oh yeah, they're all great. Pretty much everybody that, you know, is in the scene...uh, Black Flag, everybody...we're friends with everybody. Except the Dead Kennedys; we hate them. Bull: Why? Doyle: They're a bunch of assholes; Jello's a jerk. Bull: What do you say to people who say you're imitating Kiss and stuff like that? Doyle: Well, that just show the state of their knowledge of music. Bull: How do you find Slash? Doyle: Slash does nothing; they're a useless record company. Anybody who deals with Slash is out of their fucking mind. We came to them with a tape, the album cover; we gave them the whole thing in a package deal. We just brought it right down, put it on their desk; and all they had to do was have it made. They didn't kave to do fucking nothing. And, you know, how they come up and tell us "hey, you guys owe us money..." We owe you money? What the fuck are you talking about? We almost tore up their office on them and stuff... Bull: I noticed you got some bad press in California for a little mishap or something; care to comment? (Notice the skillfull manner in which Jake 2000 avoided actually naming any of the unpleasant details...) Doyle: Well, we don;t take shit like a lot of people take shit... Bull: What happened? Doyle: We were up there, busting our butts for the crowd, you know; and then they start target practice with beer cans...People throwing full cans of beer at you; eventually it came to the point where we said "yeah, fuck you..." And...we handled it. (Bull note: The tape ran out strategicall, but Doyle apologised for what happened.) by Jake 2000. ______________________________________________________ The Misfits have managed to assemble almost everything I dislike or avoid -- their shells are huge and muscular, the result of much he-man efforts, their rude leather and spikes lavishly expensive, their live shows deafen the ears for about 30 hours, their daddy flies them home after every weekend, they even beat up a kid in his feable attempt to empathize with the band. However, despite all these bad points against bad eggs, the Misfits are still fun to watch; they transmit so much energy that you can't help but enjoy their shows, (assuming you weren't part of the mass exodus who fled with pained ear drums). This is no horror rock as everyone claims it to be. This is just loud, fast metal played with subtle danceable rhythms. Their music is barely even disguised to conceal it's true nature -- heavy metal in used leather drag. But it's good metal nonetheless. But what they do conceal beneath their devilish appearance is the fact that they're really nice guys with regular jobs during the week who probably wouldn't ghoulishly rape you on the first date, (assuming you would ever date a Misfit). This image I am extrapolating from Doyle, the bass player, who was eager to talk, friendly, articulate, a good egg. We bombarded him after the show with questions, all asked at random, hardly allowing him to answer. So it's a little jumnled and not much is elaborated upon. Cretin Bull again exceeds the limits of journalism. by the Sister. __________________________________________________________ >From : STEWART GALLACHER E-MAIL : 9243471g@student.gla.ac.uk By the way, does anyone have a decent quality audio recording of Samhain from 1986 which includes material from the "November..." album? If someone could tape this for me I've got plenty good Misfits/Samhain/Danzig stuff I could offer for trade...THANKS!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:55:02 -0500 (EST) From: "S.M. Gibbons" Subject: misfits sighting (kind of) Hello Fellow Fiends In Anthropology class yesterday, we watched a film about the Masai tribes in Kenya...The tribes warriors, called Moran, had to ritually shave the sides of their heads, leaving a kind of long, dreadlocked mohawk...anyway, the hair at the back was just worn down, but all the hair from the top and front of their head was pulled down into a single thick braid worn down the center of their face....it looks just like a devilock!....And when they perform some cermeony, they paint their faces white with clay, so it looked like a whole gang of Crimson Ghosts with Devilocks....pretty intimidating sight... Oh yeah, there was another misfits sighting, too...did anyone ever see that episode of Saved by the Bell?....:-) Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:43:51 -0500 From: Brent Christopher Eyestone Subject: is, was, and always shall be I just wanted to address the individual(s) who say stupid things like, "punk is dead." First off, this is highly indicative of the kind of person you are. That would be the apathetic, sitting around mom and dad's house, watching MTV and buying all your CDs from the mall WASTE of youth type person. What are your qualifications for making such an assessment of a genre that's been alive and kicking (in some form or another) since its inception? Obviously you feel that a genre has to be visible in the media or else it's "dead." Then you say other things like, "The 'punk' bands of today don't have the image of the ones of old." Well, excuse us, you pigeonholing analyst. You're saying that punk is limited to appearance, and that's such a load of crap. It's about the scene, it's about the intention, it's about the energy, it's about the beliefs, it's about the love for youth and the love for music. It's not about "kicking ass in the pit - DUDE!!" If that's your attitude, then you're just a closet frat boy whose intersts are served better at Lollapalooza or something. Punk has been and will always be around. It's in YOUR neighborhood. I don't care how small your town is, you can have a scene. If you'd open your eyes, you may see one right in front of you. It could be in someone's basement, it could be just a bunch of kids renting out a firehall or community center for a show where the bands get the door money and the kids get a good show. You don't have to be some blue-haired alcoholic on MTV or be the first in line at Ticketmaster to see these morons to be part of the punk scene. All you need is energy and determination. If "punk" is dead, then why are the Misfits launching a world tour? And why are Lookout!, Fat Wreck, Mint, and every other "punk" label still in business? If "punk" is dead, then how is my band able to tour every summer without major label support? How do bands like Blank, Anti-Flag, Lifetime, J-Church, Squirtgun, etc. manage to tour year-round without Ticketmaster or major labels??? It's because the scene will never die. New blood is always pouring in to replace the jaded. And from your comments, you obviously haven't done shit for the scene. But don't worry, I don't despise you or anything for that...I just feel sorry for you because you've fallen prey to the mass media, fashion, and trends. The "punk" scene only gives to those who put effort into it. And that's all I have to say. Thank you for your time. - Brent Eyestone. ------------------------------ From: Demock@aol.com Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:23:36 -0500 Subject: post Mark, Congratulations on being named Head of the Fiend Club! Everyone else, I agree with the guy who said he only reads Mark's, EVB's, CG's, and some others' posts. I find myself doing the same thing. I think 80% of the bible is either unrelated to the Misfits, or just plain stupid anymore. If I have missed something in the bibles, it must have been in a post I ignored because it whined about smoking, Glenn being an asshole, What the new Misfits should playing, or whether punk is dead or not. I listen to what I like whether anyone else likes it or not, I don't know Glenn so I can't judge him other than excellent as a musician, I could care less about smoking, and the Misfits should be able to play any damn thing they fucking want to play. The next time one of you people join the band, you can put in your two cents on what you should play. You're not alone Chris, I didn't get a damn thing either. Sin For Sure Shaun ------------------------------ Date: 17 Feb 96 09:10:45 EST From: Paul Holstein <102165.134@compuserve.com> Subject: Misfits Bible, #143 Bible Post: I live in Michigan, but I don't have room to have the band over. My wife would kill me. I may be able to help a little though. I have been into punk here for over ten years (since the Misfits, Negative Approach, Meatmen and Necros were on the scene). If the Misfits come to town, there are a few places they should consider playing. First of all, St. Andrew's Hall is the best place. It has room for 2000, is all ages, and has a special balcony for the over 21 crowd. It is also downtown in a great loaction. Some recent shows included NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, SNFU, Undead, etc. There are other places too. Harpo's plays the Metal shows. It also seats alot, but the bouncers are dicks. It is also in a very bad neighborhood. Recent shows included Slayer, Danzig and the Meatmen. If a smaller show is O.K. I have been to pretty good shows at the Shelter (beneath St. Andrew's Hall), The Majestic Theatre, The Falcon Club, and the Blind Pig (Ann Arbor). Let me know if the band needs phone numbers and addresses. As for advertising, definitely the free newspaper called the Metro Times. Usually the bar they are playing at will advertise for them. Also, flyers should be passed out to the punk record stores in Royal Oak (Off the Record, Play it again Sam's, Noir Leather, etc.). I could certainly pass these out, and also put some at other cool spots around Detroit. Off the record also sells tickets to punk shows, if they are independently distributed or through Ticket Master. On another note, here is what punk is to me. Music. I don't get my political views from Jello Biafra, or believe that killing animals is wrong because Conflict told me so. I just like the music. I can relate to it. A lot of bands have similar views as me, and when I listen to them I feel their anger. If our views are different, that's great too - It sparks a debate in my mind. Or with the Misfits, it's just great music. GREAT! Punk can never die. NEVER! Here's why. I bought the Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters" LP and the Misfits "Walk Among Us" LP over ten years ago. I have played them every several days since then and never got tired of them. My 11 year old son is now starting to like the same records. I also own over 1000 other records of similar punk quality (and 10000 more I don't have exist). If no one ever put out another punk record again, just the music that exists would be timeless. Of course this is not the case. Early nineties bands were as good as the early eighties stuff (try the Dwarves, Fuckers, Sloppy Seconds, Screeching Weasel, ...) and the stuff coming out EVERY SINGLE MONTH kicks ass! (try Quincy Punx, AFI, Blanks 77, Casualties, Wretched Ones, ...). If anyone needs connections read MaximumRocknRoll for places to buy punk records. New stuff. Great music. Bands you can see live today. Here are some places I buy from all the time. All have current sale lists. If you saw the pile of lists I get every day you would know punk isn't dead. Headache Records Vinyl Ink Records Bill Ryan (ex- Pier Platters) Bedruck Records Noiseville Records Skeeter Rider (all GG) Westworld Records Punk Core Mike Basterache (Killed by Death stuff) Sound Idea Shoehorn Labyrinth Media (stocks Quincy Punx) Battery Mailorder ANTI- Disc Urge Ransom Note Brilliancy Prize CI Records Sound Pollution Crypt Records North Records (great UK selection, in England) Skull Duggery Vulture Rock (Oi!) Round Flat Records (cheap) Wingnut (sticks AFI) Alternative Action Ax/Ction Rotz Taang Underground Medicine Profane Existence Bacteria Sour Fringe Records (stocks Dayglo Abortions) I could list 100 more if I had the time. There are stores in every major city too. Punk Lives. Paul Holstein E-mail 102165,134@compuserve.com Snail Mail (for free huge list of punk records and CDs for sale) 6759 Transparent Drive Clarkston, MI 48346 ------------------------------ Subject: hey From: Brian Trainor Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 15:10:38 EST ok, i've TRIED to stay out of this, but i can't. it's the whole "Punks Dead/Punks Not Dead" issue. ok, i'm in a band. i listen to a lot of things. Misfits have been one of my favs for a while. as well as The Beatles and even Pink Floyd. and as well as Crass and Black Flag. the fact of the matter is, I LOVE MUSIC. i live, eat, breath, and SHIT music which is what a MUSICIAN wether they play punk, pop, rap, country, or what-fuckin-ever should do. that's why we do it. all this shit is just labels. needless media words thougth up so the flunkies at Chamelot and Sam Goody know where to put the cd's. i play in a band that no one in their right minds would call punk, but we'll prolly be called Alternative(the thought of being labeled makes my skin crawl.) Punk Rock was a media term invented by whoever so they could scandalize it further. so big gobs of snot to anyone who wants to go on a "Punks Dead" or a "Punks Not Dead" rampage because PUNK NEVER EXISTED. it's music. that's been around forever. music never dies. and, by the way, i mentioned the Quincy Punx BECAUSE I LOVE THEM DEARLY. THhhhhpt! B.J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:34:11 -0600 (CST) From: Mr Fiend Subject: Bible Bashing I just finished reading issue 143...Well,let me correct that statement... I just finished glancing over issue 143. There were exactly 5 things in the issue that pertained to The Misfits. FIVE THINGS! Lets just write about smoking, and whether or not your "punk" is better than my "punk". Jerry is not better than Glenn. Glenn,in turn is no better than Jerry. Same with Doyle. Same with Franche Coma,ect,ect..blah,blah,blah... Not one of the old or new Misfits is any better than anyone else...The important thing is that they ACTUALLY WERE Misfits...Leave Goth out of it. Leave Punk out of it....Hell, Call them a Glam Band if you want...But the fact of it is...We all listen to them for a reason. Whatever that reason is, I don't know...Ask yourself that...But your reason is no better than mine... Nor is mine better than yours. But we all have one thing in common. We're all fans...And when I read the Bible...I sometimes wonder if some of you are fans at all...I just read 3 posts in 143 that mentioned most every punk band of the decade,but not one refrence to what this page is really about. No one is asking to be turned on to other music, or hear what you think about Dead Kennedys...Start your very own Web Page, call it "Submit to MY punk",and be extraordinarily happy. I listen to what I listen to...The Misfits have been a part of my life for a long time...And will continue to be...No one is gonna change that. You can tell me punk is dead...Glenn is better than Jerry,or Jerry than Glenn...You can say any thing you want...But guess what? If it's as pointless as some of this shit going into the bible lately...No one's gonna listen...So why speak at all?!? DAMN! Glenn overdubbed this message!...Call Jerry....QUICK!!! - Mr.Fiend Mr Fiend Nevereven Productions, LTD. rstewart@midwest.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:26:42 -0600 From: Gala Subject: Traders list Hey, everyone who emailed me about the list, either you didnt email me some ref's or the ref's didnt respond, so I am starting this ONE more time, and if it doesnt go right, I will probably just have it open to everyone... so email Gala@cris.com with 2 emailable ref's , and you will be on once I confirm that people trust you. ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:47:51 -0500 Subject: MIsfits Posters I ordered the posters from the order form Mark took from the Fiend Club package. The Cylopian Music poster is a pretty big horizontal version but done by a much better artist than the one who did the cyclops for the "Kryst The Conqueror" EP. For five bucks a piece, I think they're worth it. I also got an illustrated ad that reads "The shocking return of the Misfits" with an illustration of the new line up contained in open, upright coffins and the Crimson Ghost confronting a horrified damsel. It's pretty cool. They should make it into a t-shirt. Anyway, I ordered them this Tuesday and got them today (Friday)! Vernon isn't too far from me, maybe an hour and a half, but that's still a pretty quick turn over time. If you want cool Misfits posters, you should order one or all of these ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 23:03:16 -0500 From: She Subject: Box Set Sampler Hello fiends. I received the box set sampler in the mail this weekend and must say that I'm looking forward to the box even more. The sampler has 16 tracks on it, 13 of which we've heard before. The other 3 tracks are outtakes of songs - Vampira done by the '79 lineup (worth the whole $70 for the box alone... very cool) - Horror Business outtake (weird slightly different version) - I Turned Into A Martian (MSP version with Bobby). And yes, even the sampler has the NOTLD 7" version of Night Of the Living Dead. The sampler is what Collection II should have been. Anyway, keep your eyes open for it. There are only 4300 of them. Mark ------------------------------ From: cbmed@cdx.net Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 00:37:05 -0500 Subject: effects?!?!?!? Does anyone know the kinds of pedals/distortion/fuzz that the Misfits use? I really like the fuzz in Children in Heat, We are 138, ratfink, and Braineaters. If anyone knows the types, or even better how/where I can get them please e-mail me. I hope that if any of the 'fits read this, they will either e-mail me or call me, (905)-336-3376. Thanx. J. Brains for dinner Brains for lunch Brains for breakfast Brains for brunch Brains at every single meal Why can't we have some guts? OI OI OI!!!!!!! P.S.--get ready for the Kilter(my band) page to be coming up in the middle of march! Influenced by the likes of Misfits, Black Flag, Fugazi, Dead Kennedy's, Samhain, Danzig, Rollins Band, Helmet, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Presley, Rancid, White Zombie, Nailbomb, I Mother Earth, Our Lady Peace, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Alice In Chains, The Hip, 54-40, and Type O Negative, among others. Not influenced by; Iron Maiden, Pearl Jam, Def Leppard, Queensryche, Alanis Morisette, any Brit Sh*t (blur, Oasis, etc.) As you can see we are quite diverse, it shows in our ORIGINAL MUSIC! I will have the release date on the bible. P.S.S.--I know I'm going to get yelled at by some people, but there is a lot of really poor grammar and spelling. If you are intelligent enough to use e-mail you should certainly be smart enough to spell. No one in particular, and if you don't want to change your style, go right ahead. Just an observation. ------------------------------ From: ngan_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:49:13 +1200 Subject: Danzig Well, this might be my first and only post to the misfit's bible, as my account shuts down at the end of Feburary. (thanks Mark!!!) I'll still be able to get the bible till then thou. I have only been getting the misfits bible since #129 and I have learnded alot of cool stuff from reading it. I listen to Danzig and Samhain as well as the Misfits and wish I had seen Samhain or the Misfits live but being in New Zealand I'm luckly that I saw Danzig. (with Chuck too, bonus!!) This was the one band I wish I could see live, but thought I never would. And when they did come here, I couldn't believe it. What made it even better was, when I was in Auckland (8 hour car trip from where I live, Wellington) I went to a misfits tribute band the night before and my friend's girlfriend, said that Danzig were going to show up and watch the band, something we thought was bullshit, until they did show up. We also got some photos with them; thanks Glenn, John, Chuck and a special thanks to Eerie for being in that last photo with Glenn I'm glad you offered. I also got a couple of photo's of them playing too, it sure was funny to see them play on such a small stage with no barrier and only one person for security. This was one of the best times I've had when I've been to Auckland to see a band. (the only city most bands seem to go to in New Zealand) I was reading some back issues and came across this: from: msk4m on Tue, 10 May 1994 14:16:01 -0400 > Jerry and Doyle are still out there and maybe one day the Misfits will live > again, but it won't be with Glenn, that's for sure... that's all from me. Jason. ------------------------------ From: "JeanC,SrA,49CS/SCONO" Subject: max's xmas Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 23:10:00 PST Is Max's X-mas going to be released, or is it just dead in the water? And fiends, the smoking/drinking debate is getting old - to each his own. Later - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:41:05 -0500 (EST) From: mephisto Subject: shmoky doke! hey what is wrong with all of you whining about people smoking. first of all its a proven fact that smoking is good for you not only does it work out your facial muscles but it also builds character and self esteem who the hell is glenn trying to kid? if he were a real man he would smoke at least3-4 packs a day.there is nothing nicer than waking up on christmas morning to discover santa has left you a carton of marb reds ah or how about that cig after nailing your girlfreind. but this is about the misfits not a smoking debate so let's stop shall we. oh and also I think glenn and co. must have been smoking somthing other than cigarettes to come up with some of those lyrics. smoke up johnny!!! ------------------------------ From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:30:46 BST Subject: Halloween 7" Who is the girl who's name is on back of the Halloween 7". It says: "this record dedicated to Susan Hannaford Rice" or something like that- I was just wondering... -stewart ------------------------------ From: "138" Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:25:51 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #143 Ive got a question for you fiends out there. I scrolled through some back issues but couldn't find any answers. On "Evilive" who says "One more fuckin time you asshole and you die" durring "Horror Business". My friend thinks it's Glenn but he was a lot smaller back then and I don't think he would have scared anyone. Just curious. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:07:03 -0800 From: bullet Subject: The Misfits Quiz and an Apology Two weeks ago I posted concerning the Misfits' quizzes that will be taking place every Saturday at midnight on the IRC. Unfortunately I totally forgot about the varying time zones. While in my time zone I was only five minutes late, to others I was over an hour late. For this I owe my deepest apologies to all those that showed up and waited. Anyhow, with that out of the way I would like to remind everyone that the IRC still needs your support, and that quizzes will be taking place at the regular time from now on. Below is a breakdown of the times for the varying time zones. Eastern: 1:00 A.M Central Standard: 12:00 Midnight Rocky Mountain: 11:00 P.M. Pacific: 10:00 P.M. In the near future I hope to give away prizes for the winners. Anyhow please stop by and support the IRC. Tad Bullet on IRC ------------------------------ From: Paul Hahn Subject: that last post and some ramblings Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 03:05:47 -0500 (EST) well i know the type of goths thing is off-topic but i used it to prove a point. if in such a relatively small "subculture" there can be so many variations, what about a larger one as punk. what is punk to one person may be different to another. the kid who like greenday/rancid/offsping is content w/ that deffinition of punk. someone who listens to teengenerate/new bomb turks/etc, isn't. they need something more for "punk" both think they are right and think the other a moron. knowing more bands and smaller bands doesn't make you more punk, unless you share them with others, if you try and keep the all to yourself it makes you a prick. what makes you so "special" to know of only certain bands. if you truely like a band then you want as many people to know of them as possible, so they make some money. i do think that one form of punk is dead, the old kind, as most bands are defunt, but i also believe a new kind has emerged, as someone mentioned, check out crypt, get hip!, and estrus records. these bands are just as punk, but i another way. its a different sound, but sitll cool. about the identity thing, well at least in my case it gave me a snese of worth, that i wasn't the only "freak, loser," and many other offering that i was labeled. it made me realize that it was ok to be do what i wanted, as others did too. this can either hurt of help someone, i can see how many don't want mass popularity of their little bands, as it might take their identity away. i agree w/ the guy who said the 'fits should have reformed under another name. i doubt this will happen, but what if they plain suck? this would hurt the reputation of one of the best punk bands every, shouldn't they let that rest. but if they are better, which i hope, then they may make new fans, etc. no matter what i will still think of the misfits w/ danzig. about this smoking thing, who cares. if someone wants to let them. if you can't respect that then though. if you ask nicely they probably will put it out. if you get in their face, they'll do theuir best to hospitalize you. i've got nothing against sXe, its great if you can do it, i stray only for the occasional clove, but i respect the right of others to do as they please. if you don't repsect me then i won't respect you. also i feel that punk can start at home, w/ your local scene, get out see the bands, support, them, who knows they may make it and nothing is better then to see your friends making lots of people happy, please back me up on this assumption CG, EVB. i know my local scene is really great, so probably is yours, get involved, thats what its all about, imho. i sure hope this gets in the bible, and not in two parts. later -- Paul Hahn Michigan: 1 hahnpaul@acm.msu.edu Oklahoma: 0 Check out the speedball page @ http://www.acm.cps.msu.edu/~hahnpaul/speedball ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:48:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steev L." Subject: IRC Well, for some reason, tonight I cannot get into the undernet. Everytime I tried getting there, it said "You are not welcome in this server". I found it somewhat bizarre. Later, Steev ------------------------------ From: Paul Hahn Subject: Types of Goths Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:54:20 -0500 (EST) TYPES OF GOTHS Okay, this damn list is the death of me! I refuse to html-ize it. For those who keep requesting it, here ya go! If you have another addition or definition clarification let me know. I take no responsibility for the information or definitions provided below. If you've a problem with any of them, seek therapy NOW! 1) Punkgoth--the original flava! 2) Mopeygoth--fuck off and die (reading Baudelaire in a coffehaus) 3) Perkygoth--would rather live with flopsy and bouncy than mopey 4) Poseygoth--the offshoot of the partime punk 5) Bittergoth--one level below mopeygoth 6) Crankygoth--primarily focused in female goths once per month 7) Perkygoth Supreme--Edvamp _used_ to be one 8) Poseurgoth/Visigoth/Miligoth--...if you have to ask... 9) Vampygoth--subscribes to alt.gothic and alt.vampyres 10) Crustygoth--those over 40, if they still have hippy tendencies 11) Mustygoth--those who have been dead for a short while 12) Dustygoth--those who have been dead for a very long time 13) Industragoth--likes goth and industrial music 14) Perkydomgoth--a happy dominatrix :} 15) Perkysubgoth--happy that _they're_ not in control 16) Perkyswitchgoth--just happy, no matter who is in control 17) Mommygoth/Daddygoth--reserved for those with offspring 18) Polygoth--those with polygamous preferences/desires 19) Bubblegoth--those who chew gum and blow bubbles at clubs 20) Kittygoth--those who own HelloKitty! _everything_ 20A Keropigoth--those who own Keropi _everything_ , (sold near Kitty) 21) Burritogoth--those who have experienced Burrito.Love 22) Androgagoth--those who have perfected that androgynous look 23) Crowgoth/Vidigoth--those who think they're Brandon Lee, 24) Monogoth--monogamous relationships only! 25) Fuzzygoth--those with facial hair or _very_ hairy backs 26) Arachnogoth--those that have a spider fetish and/or own tarantulas 27) Necrogoth--those obsessed with the dead, or sex with the dead 28) Ultragoth--they know who they are, we could care less 29) Lumigoth--if it glows in the dark, they own it 30) Manlygoth--reserved especially for Al Golagnia and other "men" 31) Geekygoth--those that achieve the delicate balance of geekdom & gothdom 32) Oi!goth--often combined with punkgoths (don't fight with these ones) 33) UltraMegagoth--those born on Halloween or Friday the 13th 34) Austragoth--our friends from down under 35) Manicgoth--manic depressives 36) Nerdigoth--those that try to be geekygoths, but don't quite pull it off 37) Fingoth--reserved exclusively for Desmodus 38) Fossilgoth--those born 100+ years too late 39) Neurogoth--cyber freak 40) Newrogoth--new romantic 41) Sistergoth--devout followers of SOM 42) Studygoth--those enrolled in some form of higher/continued education 43) Taxigoth--those who possess full-time jobs and help feed Uncle Sam 44) Spraygoth--one who feels the need to spray alt.gothic periodically 45) Flamegoth--one who enjoys the art of flaming 46) Inkygoth--those who have 2+ tattoos 47) Blinkygoth--own those blinking red eyed bat keychains that make noise 48) Pezgoth--those who own _both_ the skeleton and witch head Pez (tm) 49) Purrygoth--those who like cats better than people 50) Newbiegoth--those who've gathered their courage to begin posting 51) Anarchigoths--anarchists ask Ron Carrier for more info. 52) Milgoth--military goth 53) Belagoth--those who aspire to Lugosi's attributes 54) Panicgoth--regular consumers of Manic Panic products 55) Fangygoth--those who've had professional fangs made 56) Bondagoth--enjoys bondage (giving or receiving) 57) Bigoth--bi-sexual goth 58) Lesbigoth--those who prefer the company of females 59) Homogoth--those who prefer the company of males, or who are homoginized 60) Boxgoth--owns several different lunchboxes to carry things (non-food) 61) Petalgoth--obsessed with drying roses, black roses, or eating roses 62) Babygoth--offsprings of goths 63) Fairygoth--those that are godmother/father to #63 64) Gangstagoth--boyz/grlz chillin in the hood 65) Noodlegoth--those who are on a ramen/maccaroni/spaghetti/pasta budget 66) Fishygoth--those who wear fishnet on any part of their body 67) Aquagoth--their only nourishment is in liquid form 68) Vegigoth--vegetarians, non-human meat doesn't touch their lips 69) Orthogoth--those who still have their braces, retainers, etc... 70) Greeboboth--*ahem*, Barbarella--care to give a definition? 71) Littleminigoth/Stumpygoth--those under 5'1"(it _is_ possible) 72) Shygoth--prone to staring and hiding behind/under things at clubs 73) Murkeygoth--goes mopey/perky/mopey/perky (repeat) similar to manicgoth 74) Spineygoth--has hedgehogs in their sig. or a porcupine/hedgehog fetish 75) Quantumgoth--ask Sexbat ^..^, he knows...and maybe he'll tell you! 76) Semigoth--hasn't committed 100% to "gothdom" (part-time goth) 77) Redgoths--community over egoism in gothdom (ask Marc Sane about this) 78) Stonergoth--ingests/grows/produces illegal substances for the mind/body 79) Litigoth--nightmare lawyers (again, ask Marc Sane) 80) Gungoth--watch out for them and their alt.gothic.guns.guns.guns!!! 81) Crimpygoth--crimped hair nightmare 82) Spikeygoth--spiked hair or spiked jacket 83) Chiroptogoth--bat lovers or anything relating to bats 84) Netgoth--isn't everyone who reads this? 85) Jellogoth--serves oh-so-difficult custom creations to honored guests 86) Metagoth--sorry, I lost the definition... (help) 87) Betagoth--still trying to get out of test mode to final release 88) Wankergoth--thinks they are the 1st person to denounce goth this/that 89) Barbigoth--Barbie buying/dressing up fetish (Ken & Skipper too) 90) Miscgoth/Calicogoth/Muttgoth--a miscellaneous smattering of all types 91) Duckigoth--brings a rubber duckie to clubs and gigs, or dances with one 92) Comigoth--reads/collects comic books (or a communist) 93) Sandygoth--obsessed with Sandman or loves the beach 94) Winniegoth--Winnie-the-Pooh/A.A. Milne fans. Say "Oh Bother!" a lot 95) Swampgoth--Goths into swamp subgenres (Nick Cave, Cramps, etc.) 96) Behemothgoth--600 pound plus goths 97) Oldschoolgoth--those who don't like anything after Bauhaus broke up 98) Newschoolgoth--those who don't like anything before... 99) Amerigoth--those into USA goth bands only, or from the States 100) Britgoth--those into UK goth only, or those from the UK 101) Slothgoth--verrry slllooowww goths 102) Brothgoth--goths who like soup, or who can only afford a soup diet 103) Moshgoth--those into pits (willingly, that is) 104) Pogogoth--jump up and down, don't mosh (usually also a perkygoth) 105) Robogoth/Bionicgoth--goths who are part android or have false limbs 106) Dixiegoth--goths from the south...heee-haw!!! 107) Yankeegoth--goths from the north 108) Weekendgoth--goth on weekends only 109) Coughgoth--goffs wif colds *sniff* 110) Dizzygoth--dumb goths (very very rare) 111) Htoggoth--dyslexic goths (also palindromic goths) 112) Mothgoth--goths after the larval stage 113) Archigoth--one who archives alt.gothic articles, etc. MarkX is one 114) Billygoth--one who likes rockabilly, or one who dates a hick 115) Ambigoth--thinks Eno's _Discreet_Music_ is too noisy and agitated 116) Canagoth--comes from the big Maple leaf place, or from a can 117) Cyclogoth--lover of motorbikes or must transport themselves by bicycle 118) Whitbygoth--just ask Jane Shaw, she'll tell you! 119) Topgoth--Whitby Gothic Festival badge wearer & damn proud! 120) Holygoth--follows/recognizes a certain religion 121) Pagangoth--follows their own religion, or lack thereof 122) Grumpygoth--is related to Sneezy, Happy, Sleepy, etc.... 123) Docgoth--devout wearer of Doc Martens (any kind) 124) Armagoth--has purchased records at Armagedon, or loves armadillos 125) Texgoth--duh! they're from Texas! 126) Notagoth--one who insists on claiming that they're "not a goth!" 127) Negativegoth--wearer of white garb 128) Modgoth--goths with scooters (old European ones, not Hondas) 129) Converjagoth--has/will attend/ed Convergence 1.0, or 1.5 and/or 2.0 130) Frothgoth--Infuriated flamer who falls for every troll on alt.gothic 131) Crunchygoth--Maintains a bat house, grows own wormood, brings spiders INTO house 132) Juvigoth--those who are under the tender age of 18, but over 12 years old -- Paul Hahn Michigan: 1 hahnpaul@acm.msu.edu Oklahoma: 0 Check out the speedball page @ http://www.acm.cps.msu.edu/~hahnpaul/speedball ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | P.O. 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Microvable food While in NYC ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lee Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:09:33 -5 Subject: Blurry Misfits... Hey, my copy of "Misfits" (cassette) just started doing something funny, the first two songs (She and Hollywood Babylon... duh.) do a weird blurry, "Bloodfeast" on Collection II effect... they didn't used to, and the tape is good again after those two songs... has this happened to anyone else and what can I do about it... should I just go to Blockbuster and snag another copy? Mark... not the cool one, just Mark Nance ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:13:11 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dempz Subject: Detroit area clubs This is not a flame, just setting the record straight... > should consider playing. First of all, St. Andrew's Hall is the best > place. It has room for 2000, is all ages, and has a special balcony for > the over 21 crowd. It is also downtown in a great loaction. Some recent > shows included NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, SNFU, Undead, etc. uhh... maybe like two years ago. Rancid played the State Theater the last two times they were here and Bad Religion played the State last time too. I can't remember the last time the Undead were here, but I think it was at the Ice Pick. However, St. andrew's would probably be a good choice. It has that crappy barrier, though. i'd definitely rather see them in the Shelter (downstairs from st. Andrew's). Recent shows there (like the past four months) include Shelter and 7 Seconds. > There are other places too. Harpo'splays the Metal shows. It also seats > alot, but the bouncers are dicks. It isalso in a very bad neighborhood. there' the understatement of the year, seeing as how Steve Krass (Feisty Cadavers, RIP) got shot in the head in their parking lot a few weeks ago (and ended up dying from it, but he hung in there for a few days). Plus all the fucking metal nazis go there. Fuck em. > Recent shows included Slayer, Danzig and theMeatmen. uhhh... the last Detroit area places Slayer plaed were Pine Knob and the State Theater, Dnazig played Harpo's like three or four years a goa, since then they've played the State Theater, and the last couple time the Meatmen were here they played the Falcon. Recent and upcoming Harpo's shows include Sacred Reich, Morbid Abgel, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, and Napalm Death. > If a smaller show is O.K. I have been to pretty good shows at the > Shelter (beneath St. Andrew's Hall), The Majestic Theatre, The Falcon > Club, andthe Blind Pig (Ann Arbor). Let me know if the band needs phone > numbers and addresses. The Shelter would be prime. So would the Majestic, although the last time I was there there were stupid mtal nazis starting shit (and getting beat down for it), but that was more because of the lame nameless metal band that wa splaying than the venue. The Falcon closed almost a year ago and is a rave club now, but back in the day it would have been great. The Blind Pig is an awful rock bar, neon lights, checkerboard floor, asshole bouncers and all. This was not a personal attack, just a comment on the venues... Andy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:44:04 -0500 (EST) From: Teevie Subject: hehehehehe I was taping a misfits boot for some guy the other day and ran across probably the funniest fuckin' thing I've heard on a Misfits boot... I think it was at the Ritz... Glenn is singing Martian and instead of the "whooa-oh-oh" part he gets pissed at someone and sings "You-fuckin-suck" in tune to the music. I dunno, it made me laugh my ass off. It sounded like something dorky one might do while listening to music in a car. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:20:32 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Asselin Subject: this endless death of punk thread... Jesus Christ...won't you people let this thread die? The simple fact is anyone talking about whether punk is dead or alive is more concerned with the label than the music. Grow up, kiddies. There's more to life than MaximumRock&Roll. - Dave P.S. Can anyone explain to me why rabid punker-than-thou types always seem to have .edu accounts? (Mr. Eyestone, you have a call on the white courtesy phone...) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:33:33 -0800 (PST) From: Demonomaniac Greets Fiends, Somebody tell me the story behind the collection two photo. Whose suit is that, who's wearing it, is it still around? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:09:46 -0800 From: Neil McAllister Subject: Misfits posters Bile666 mentioned in the last Bible that he received an ad in the mail with a picture of "The Shocking Return of the Misfits" that he thought was pretty cool. Well, I was the guy who drew that, so thanks for the compliment! I wouldn't mind having a T-Shirt of it myself! :-) I have also talked to Ken, the Misfits' manager, about doing a poster for them... this one would be for their new song "Black Light", and though I don't know if I should say any more about their idea for what they want to do with it just now, it'll be pretty cool if it gets made. Last I heard Ken left a message on my machine saying they were going to send me the song lyrics and so forth, but that was a week or two ago and I haven't heard anything else. -- Neil McAllister (pcm2@sentient.com) San Francisco, California, USA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:48:44 GMT Subject: SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From: Brian Green any fiends out there willing to tape off any bootleg videos for me? i have the creepy compilation, but that asshole,peter cole, couldnt tape it off right. i , also, have a samhain bootleg video that i purchased just last week so i can tape it off for you fiends if you send me your name and postal address!it is samhain's los angeles cable access performance.decent quality.there are also interviews with damien,eerie and glenn at the end. i dont know what this misfits sighting thing you guys are talking about is but i remember watching "saved by the bell" and i remember seeing a poster of evilive in one of the actor's bedrooms.that was like 2 years ago though. i also had a friend tell me that he saw another episode(saved by the bell) and he said there was a scene at the school and in one of the guys lockers , there was a misfits poster. hmmm...... all fiends must check out the band "balzac"!! they are the epitome of all misfits sounding bands there is.they do the horror image and also have choruses that would make any fiend proud!i would be glad to tape off their 7" for anyone or you can order it thru m.c.r. and sound pollution records which are located almost always in a maximum rock and roll. thanks, here's hoping your swell! ghoulie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:54:49 -0500 From: She Subject: last time > From: kriney@uhavax.hartford.edu > A question- I am planning on attending the Misfits signing, and > I would like to have Franche Coma sign something, preferably vinyl, > and I can't find out what legitimate (non-bootleg that is) releases, > he has played on, I mean I don't want to give him a copy of "Walk among us" > and ask him to sign it, if he didn't even play on it...also what can > I give Mr. Jim to sign as well, that he has played on? If you don't have the Bullet 7",just bring your copy of the first Collection or even Legacy. > A funny lyric manipulation for you all- > in Mommy, can i go out.... in stead of the line, "....Get straight 'a' s..." > put in the line "....I'm straight edge, but they still make fun..." > that's actually what I thought he was saying..... Actually Glenn stated in at least one or two articles from the Misfits days that he was straightedge. AND, it has even been said that he wouldn't let anyone smoke near him because he was afraid the smoke would ruin his voice. (Just to re-fuel the smoking argument, hahaha) > from: msk4m on Tue, 10 May 1994 14:16:01 -0400 > > Jerry and Doyle are still out there and maybe one day the Misfits will live > > again, but it won't be with Glenn, that's for sure... The Crimson Ghost and I (as well as others I'm sure) have known The Misfits would be back together for several years now... Even then we were hinting about it. > From: "JeanC,SrA,49CS/SCONO" > Is Max's X-mas going to be released, or is it just dead in the water? Nope. It's dead. > From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> > Subject: Halloween 7" > Who is the girl who's name is on back of the Halloween 7". It says: > "this record dedicated to Susan Hannaford Rice" or something like > that- I was just wondering... I called up Jerry after seeing this and I talked to Kenny, the brother/manager/roadie of the band. He had no idea who she is and said it was probably someone Glenn knew. Hopefully Jerry will know, although Kenny said he wouldn't. I'll talk to him soon and ask. > From: "138" > Ive got a question for you fiends out there. I > scrolled through some back issues but couldn't find any answers. On > "Evilive" who says "One more fuckin time you asshole and you die" > durring "Horror Business". My friend thinks it's Glenn but he was a > lot smaller back then and I don't think he would have scared anyone. > Just curious. Scroll again. We just talked about this maybe 10 issues ago. That was Glenn yelling to Bobby, who was in the audience throwing things. The Undead opened for the Misfits that night, and Glenn and The Misfits had been throwing things at Bobby while he was onstage. When The Misfits took the stage, Bobby threw things at them, thinking it was all a joke. That's not the way Glenn took it. And Glenn wasn't afraid of anyone, even then. Surely everyone's heard the story of how he took on four skinhead's in London... mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 13:20:14 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: braineaters video Has anyone else seen the video for Braineaters? It's not a real video, it's kind of just a goof. It's at the beginning of a bootleg that my friend had. I can't remember whwere and when it was from for the life of me. Anyway, it was pretty funny. It involved the misfits sitting at a table with a bunch of other people, eating stew that's supposed to resemble brains i guess. Robo is the chef who is serving it to everyone and at the end of the video, everyone goes up to Robo and dumps the brains on him. During the concert, Glenn says"thanks to everyone who came down and helped out yesterday." I imagine that he's referring to the people who helped make the video. It looks completely homespun, but it's still cool. --Ken "Lord Kenatos" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:46:12 -0500 From: She Subject: this If you have sent me e-mail to offer your help at an upcoming Misfits show in Europe, please read this!!! I talked to the band's manager (their brother) today (February 20, 1996) and finally got some news on the plan for the tour. They will be chosing 2-3 peple per show, but they need the following information to help them: 1) your age 2) any roadie/stage experience 3) if you will be interviewing for a zine, they need your zine name, and its approximate circulation. They will need copies of your zine before they can do interviews, but that won't be important until the master list is announced. Please email me this information as soon as possible. We are hoping to announce the official list by March 1st. Thanks Mark ------------------------------ From: Geoffrey King Subject: milo... Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:02:41 -0500 (EST) well in repsonse to one of someone's post on the last bible, i said milo goes to college was the best album ever made. and i stick by that. anyways, does anyone listen to AFI? they have a misfits reference here and there, and the lead singer even sports a semi-devilock. good music ala the dickies and ramones. good shit. i'm in fourth grade, but i still know what's up, i listen to the misfits every single day. --afi -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geoff King gk001e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu University of Crotchfester allroy@cif.rochester.edu irony is for suckers -- lifetime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: "AngelfucK" Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:31:37 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #144 I dont know if anyone has posted this one before, so Ill post it anyways. It is just another sighting. I was doing my radio show yesterday here at the University of New Brunswick when I came across the Sloppy Seconds album "Destroyed". The guy on the cover is wearing a Crimson Ghost shirt. I ended up playing the song "I dont want to be a homosexual" just in case anyone was wondering. ------------------------------ From: Adam Christensen Subject: GIVE IT UP Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:36:33 -0500 (EST) Hello my fellow fiends, I am writing in this week because I am very emotionally distraught atr some things that were said last issue. First of all I would like to commend wallace for admitting for he was wrong, the only problem was that he went on to say that he was better than most of us because he was into punk way before we were. Look wallace, I can't see how it is some of our faults that we weren't " cool " enogh to be born earlier. Did you really expect that we should have been 3 or 4 year olds with mohawks and listening to punk? I think not. Then you said that " Punk was a fashion that went out of style a long time ago..." If you really belive this then why the hell are you still listening to it and why the hell are you on this list? Next I would like to tell a Mr. Ken Graf soomething. You are totally wrong for bashing on wes thomas for saying how he feels. I can tell right away that he means what he says and that he likes the misfits. Instead of being so closed minded why don't you just listen to what he has to say. We all have a right to speak our minds. I agree with wes that the misfits is a state of mind more than a competion of who has the most "12 inches. If someone goes out and buys their first misfits album today then they are still a misfits fan, and that's what it is all about---sharing something that you enjoy. That is what brings us all together here. I have been enjoying the funny lyrics to old misfits songs lately and I hope that there are more to come. In the meantime i HAVE written my own spoof. It is called JERRY and it is sung to the tune of MOTHER, I hope you like it: JERRY Jerry, tell your lawyers not to walk my way Tell your lawyers not to steal my rights To all the songs I took away Jerry Misfits Can't you just let it die tonight Can't you see that you will never win Oh Misfits Doyle Gonna screw you out of the royalties On all those cd's and t-shirts OH Doyle Not about to join again You're still nothing without me so quit your bitching Not about to join again In fact I can't even remember when I associated with your type John I can't believe you took my shit so long I never let you write a single thing Oh John Eerie You never once even questioned me You always were such a good slave But now I no longer need you Not about to share the light And if you want to start shit with me I'll just find a new band Leave you crying Never will share the limelight And if you won't follow my orders Then go follow jerry Not about to start a fight You know I've never been the violent type I'll always have my bodyguards Leave you bleeding I no longer have a dong No more sex, just singing songs But I still love those steroids I know that the parts about glenn fighting over the rights is now not relevant but it just fit in good with the song. Later, Adam "The Tobacco King " Seven ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:53:13 -0500 (EST) From: 01wethomas@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Watch what you say, Ken Graf is out there to censor you. I think that it makes a lot of sense not to rip on the bible. That might cause some sort of fucking change and Ken Graf knows that we can't have that. Nothing good ever really comes out of change, now does it? Ken is the only one that has been blessed with the knowledge of what can and can't be said. Thank you for showing us all what a complete fucking asshole you are Ken. Now we all know not to listen to your patheticly anal ideas. Maybe your the one that should leave if you're going to insist on being such a narrow minded shitfaced cum conisuer. All in all, Ken Graf can suck my dead Granpa Thomas's cock. Wes "I have pictures of Ken giving Danzig head!" Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:59:23 -0500 From: Brent Christopher Eyestone Subject: GRRRRRRR... (sigh) - Okay, once again ANYONE on this list can pick up their own copy of the MIsfits' "Hymns from Hell" compilation that EVB and I put together by merely sending $4.00 ppd to my address. The video "Evil Is..." is NOT available to just anyone because of problems we've had with bootleggers getting their hands on it and selling it for huge profits. As many of you already know, I run quizzes every now and then where the people who demonstrate to me that they're just die-hard fiends and not out for $$ are eligible to receive copies of the video. Look fo the next one to hit the Bible right before summer. Also, I still have copies of Smackerals of Hunny's "Neckbone Sammich" EP available on cassette for $4.00 ppd as well. Sorry, all other formats have sold out. We might re-press the vinyl, but it's looking more like a new 7" will be out before that happens. Finally, I just wanted to point out that opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one...I just encourage a lot of people to think it over before they stick their's out for all to see. Add me to list of all the Bible old-schoolers who have lost all of the initial energy of bibles past due to reasons we all know so well by now. Anyway... To get a copy of the Misfits' "Hymns from Hell" and/or the Smackerals of Hunny EP (both are cassette format), just send $4.00 each to: Brent Eyestone 478 East Beaver Ave. Apt. 211 State College, PA 16801 USA - *All prices ppd in the USA. Foreign orders should add a couple bucks for additional postage. Thanks. ------------------------------ From: SETH STOKES Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:31:54 -5 Subject: Punk Dead? Who ever said punk is dead? Punk can never die like humans. As long as there is someone listening to it, it will never die. If there is just one fiend left on the face of the planet, the Misfits will always live. The same with all other bands and groups. Punk does not thrive on someone calling it dead or alive, if someone believes in it and appreciates it, it will always be there to enjoy and entertain. This is coming from a true fiend and I for one will never feel that punk is dead. For most all who like it, it has played a big part of their lives and has helped shape what we think and feel. Without music the world would surely crumble. Without punk the world would be incomplete and a boring place. Unless you enjoy Mel Tormay and Sunny Bono. PUNK LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ From: bengl@interserv.com Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:26:50 -0800 Subject: Microvable food Microwavable food, Ha! You too have fallen for it, not to say microvable food isn't part of Big Brothers scheme. In fact microwaves support the great evil because what do you need to make you're microwave effective? Water. And what is in the water? What evil does it posses? That's right, FLORIDE(if I misspelled floride it was on purpose, It makes harder for "the man" to detect). Now then let me explain, Floride sounds a lott like Florida (coinsidence? I think not...) And where do the cuban facists live? Florida. And what is Cuba famouse for?PINKO'S,COMMMIE'S,SCATHED FOLKS. So when you suddenly find you're self attracted to the color red don't say I didn't warn you. (Now then for all you cuban's, communists, politacaly correct and paranoid schitifraniacks I'd like to make this clear from the start, this is a joke) ------------------------------ From: ZOMBIE65SH@aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:02:13 -0500 know that the Box set is suppose to be on sale at the signing for a lower price. Will it be on sale everywhere for a lesser price or just at the signing? Also what is the set basic price for the box set? Thanx, Zombie65sh@aol.com ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:12:43 -0500 Subject: While in NYC ... I forgot if I posted this or not last issue or the one before (I think too much chemlab has done things to my brain) but I made a mistake with the directions I posted last week. When you get out of the Lincoln Tunnel and go all the way down, turn RIGHT, not left. I'm sorry if I confused anyone. Again, once out of the tunnel turn RIGHT and stay to your RIGHT and look for SEVENTH AVE., which heads towards the Village and Generation Records. Also, parking is bad but is not impossible. If you can find a spot on the street, that's good, just be careful of regulations because cops in NYC love to give tickets, tow, or put those huge "boots" on your car's wheels. I suggest a garage. If you're coming from a distance, you'll probably be spending a bit on gas and tolls and such, so spring for parking. It probably won't cost more than $20, and that beats the possiblity of having to pay for a stolen radio, broken windows, tickets, fines, etc. This is a very special event. There have never been this many Misfits "alumni" in one place at one time, I think, out of all of us, Mark is the only one to have met Franche or Mr. Jim. If you're intending on spending the day in NYC and you've never been there before, here are some spots to check out ... "Village Comics" is on Bleeker St. It's a very cool comic shop and carries all sorts of rare titles as well as all Verotik titles. "Skin Crawl" sells all sorts of gothic jewelry and attire. It's on 9th St. off Ave. A. "Danse Macabre" is a similar place but sells statuary, candle holders and the like. It's on Lafayette St. between Prince and Spring. "Bleeker Bob's" is on Bleeker St. It's a pretty cool record/t-shirt store. The last time I went they didn't have any Misfits vinyl so ... There's a place down in Soho (right next to the Village) called "Evolution" which sells all kinds of animal skulls, bones, stuffed carcasses, etc. It's a pretty creepy place. Anyway, that's all I can think of right now. The weather man said it's supposed to be between 40 and 20 degrees of Monday w/ no rain expected. I hope to see alot of you there ... - BILE666. ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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Box Set Time Special ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:55:13 -0500 From: She Subject: Ink Nineteen INK NINETEEN, 12/95 ------------------- Misfits Minding Their Own Damn Horror Business! by David Lee Beowulf Oh, yeah, that band Glenn Danzig used to sing in... On Thursday, April 20, 1995, I got home from work and turned on the radio, WFMU's Pat Duncan had Misfit's Jerry Only (bass) and his brother Doyle (guitars) and a cast of thousands (including new drummer, CHUD) talking up a storm about being at the Chiller Theatre Convention that weekend. Then they were playing their old tunes, with live introductions, yet! Awesome, totally awesome!r This was, naturally, more than cool and I made a point of it to get to that convention, by hook or by crook! I got there (by hook) and had my original pressing of the Misfits' Walk Among Us and my "Yellow Skull" CD sleeve autographed by Jerry and Doyle; I got a Misfits guitar pick and saw some panels from the upcoming Misfits Comic book, and I got a photo of me holding that great "skull" bass with the guys! The convention? Oh, well, Elvira and lots of other horror movie babes were there, etc. loads o' fun. Two weeks later, the Misfits' manager, Rocky, gave me a call (I'd given him my card...); an interview was arranged at Chateau Misfits in the back country of way-the-hell-upstate New Jersey. They're headquartered in their hobby knife factory, near their horse farm... Their powerlifting gym is in the practice room and, let me tell you, they are re-tooling and will take the world by storm come this Halloween! *** [Introductions] These guys are BIG. Like full-on, 20-inch arms competitive bodybuilders. Although, Rocky mentions to me that pro-wrestler Jim "The Anvil" Neidhardt, whom they all met, was three times everyone's size and would kill us all, quickly "...like he'd squeeze us all in his arms and our body parts would be popping out all over the place..." Jerry Only: So tell us about Ink Nineteen Magazine. Well, it's a new music magazine distributed from Orlando, Tampa and Melbourne, Florida up on through Atlanta, Georgia,with a circulation of nearly 40,000... Doyle: Orlando? Is Shaquille O'Neal into it? [Noting that Jerry Only's son is wearing an Orlando Magic shirt] Um, yeah, he writes a rap music column for us, every, um. [I'm being stared at, they're not amused...] *** First of all, was the interview with Mike Stax's magazine Ugly Things the first time since, whenever, you guys "came back on the scene?" Jerry Only: It was the first in-depth interview. The Ugly Things interview was actually done over a thirteen to fourteen-month period. Mike would call us up on a weekend, and we'd spend a little time talking. Then he'd do some research and come back with more questions. All I've been able to read about the Misfits was either a little fanzine mention or Glenn Danzig, in some metal magazine, telling the world that he didn't want to talk about the "old days." J.O.: Right, right [laughs]. Uncle Glenn is not our biggest publicity agent if you know what I'm saying... When I heard you on the radio, you had mentioned "finally being able to release a new record." What's that about? J.O.: Originally, the Legacy of Brutality album was supposed to come out in 1978 as an album called Static Age. None of the record companies at that time really wanted to put out that kind of music. It was, like, a little bit beyond them. So, by the time we finally got to put out an album, we were already into the Walk Among Us music. The original Static Age album had "Last Caress," "Return of the Fly" and "Static Age/ T.V. Casualty" on it; pretty much all the classic Misfits tunes. Now we're finally going to releaseStatic Age as it should have been years ago. You didn't have any legal hassles or anything? J.O.: Oh, yeah, we had a huge problem! I mean we were tied up in court for years! Because we had no input on our catalog, we weren't being acknowledged as being in the band! We've worked all that out now... About a year ago we quit the knife factory and went full-time with the band when it seemed like the lawsuit would end. What about this lawsuit? J.O.: We had a problem because we never had signed any contracts. So all this Misfits stuff that's been out there was done without our consent, up until this January, other than what you see, without us making anything off of it. We were ripped off! But now it's kind of like everything froze and waited for us to come back. Who made all the money off of the Misfits merchandise, then? D.: Glenn Danzig. Do you ever get the urge to just tear Glenn Danzig limb from limb or are you guys pals? J.O.: Ahhh... we like Glenn, he likes us, too, but he won't admit it! We ran into him in our lawyers office in New York during the suit and we actually laughed about these things, we shook hands, hugged each other... When we started out doing the Misfits, there was no money, we had to pay to play. We did it because we loved it and thought it should be done, and Glenn did too, but once the money came along... Money changes people. Like I say, Glenn will never say anything nice publicly about us...we miss him and he probably misses us too, and we wish him well. But we got what we want, we got our name. We got our freedom to create new stuff and really that's all we need. When did you decide to make a new album? J.O.: Caroline Records came along and bought up our old stuff. We went to Caroline with a whole presentation of how we thought the Misfits should be. Now, if you look at the Misfits collection CD, you know, the one with the yellow skull on it, it's from all the different Misfits eras; there's no continuity and no packaging to it. And they're selling despite the fact that no one's been promoting them for years! What we did was go in and say "look, the first band was this... these were the singles, we should do a box set [due out this Halloween] redoing all the original Plan 9 singles..." and the Static Age CD should be out then too. We're talking the era from 1977 to 1982 up to theWalk Among Us stuff, we're documenting our life, we're trying to give you guys as much of the old stuff; stories, photos, whatever we got. How long have you been touring the Chiller Theater circuit; showing up at horror conventions? J.O.: About a year, year and a half. We'll show up with a table, this huge cemetery set that we drag around with us, and sign posters, give away guitar picks and stickers. Were there a lot of old farts (like me) or were there a lot of kids who are just getting into your sound showing up at your Chiller show table? J.O: There are kids who were born after we broke up who are into our band now! It's scary in that we've been out of the picture for so long, but I think our concept is good: we have a very accessible image and our music is timeless... How long have you had the Jerry Only model kits available? D: Aurora Model company was our inspiration. J.O.: We manufacture hobby knives [the "day job"] and we do model trade shows in Chicago. We saw some of the resin kits Horizon, Geometric and Screaming Models were coming up with, and they're really beautiful. So we were looking at them and me and Rocky were talking and said "hey, we can do this too. This is something that our people would be into." So we hired a sculptor, Bill Paquet, to do it for us. He did Ash from The Evil Dead... [Rocky brings out the Jerry Only model, fully painted by The Grink, says Doyle] Here it is. We gave Grink another for painting this one, but he was so fatigued after painting the first one that he just left the new one his closet! As you can see the bass guitar has real guitar strings and a real leather strap, the spikes are chrome. The body is one piece, the head glues on, the hair [you guessed it, a little plastic Devilock] glues on, the arms glue on; we used glue-on chrome spikes. We got an Honorable Mention at the Chiller Show for this model! How did you secure Famous Monsters of Filmland's cover artist Basil Gogos for the new album's cover art ? J.O.: We met him at the Chiller show last year. We had approached another artist, earlier, and showed him all our Famous Monsters books and told him we wanted an album cover. What happened was that he copied Basil's style and two weeks later I run into Basil! I said "I feel like a jerk because I hired someone to copy your style!" So Basil came up with this...[pretty awesome Famous Misfits of Musicland cover!] and as you can see Basil is Basil. I don't know if he's into the music, but he's into us. We go and have lunch and share our ideas and laugh. He's like our uncle! Who approached you about doing a comic book? J.O.: The artist, Doug Evil, approached us through Mike Staxx, actually. He's from Pittsburgh and has been working ogore in it, but the artwork is like something out of Disney. The scene here [the panel is on display] is in a graveyard where a guy and a girl are about to make out and we come up behind them and we end up eating the guy... What do you do to the girl? J.O: (Laughs) I don't want to let that out... At first, I said, I don't want people to think that we're trying to be on ABC Saturday morning, [no mention of Jem , the cartoon series, co-starring the, all-bad-girl nemesis band, the Misfits...] but after I saw the plot and the real intensity of the art, I wanted to be a part of it. Glenn needs to come out of the comic book, though, because he's doing his Verotik comic books right now and he said that it just wasn't in his best interest since he's trying to be on the real heavy adult side. [Doyle passes me an issue of Rip magazine with Glenn Danzig hawking his new books at a comic show; Doyle has drawn a Hitler moustache on Danzig...] Rocky: [Verotik ] is loaded with monsters raping women... Pornography is what it is. Glenn's looking for the hard impact. OK, THE BURNING QUESTION: Since you're "getting back together," who's going to sing? Obviously not Glenn Danzig. D: Here's our new singer. [Doyle passes me the issue of Rip again: it's Rob Halford of Judas Priest, drawn with a Devilock] He looks like he needs a job. R: We put a listing for singers in the Village Voice [June 27, 1995 issue] and we got millions of responses! Did you audition any female singers? I've always had this fantasy about Joan Jett putting out an album of Misfits' covers... R: Yeah, we did and some were excellent, but that's not what the Misfits should sound like. We need someone with a real manly voice, a real Misfits voice! We've been talking to Dave Vanian from The Damned and it's looking hopeful. Dave Vanian has that real manly sound. J.O.: I want someone teaming up with us who really wants to jam and be our singer; we're not trying to clone Glenn. The Misfits is a whole package and that's why I think Glenn moved away from us: he was trying to lock it into something where everything was focused on him and we didn't feel that was the best thing for us. We're not a supporting act for a vocalist, we are a machine, we're a death metal machine! Right now, are you planning any big tours? J.O.: Not right now, what I think we need to do now is get out some records. We're looking at doing a show at Action Park, New Jersey sometime in the Spring of 1996. How about in New York City? J.O.: We've always had a problem with New York. We've always had to go argue with people and prove our point. So we go to the Irving Plaza, which was like our home turf from way back, and they were really rude to us! After all this time you would have thought that a place like the Irving Plaza would love to have the Misfits come back and do a show! They were like: "well you don't know if you guys are going to fill this place." I said "fill this place?! What are you, fucking insane?" Later, we visited the Limelight [it's a very big old church at 6th and 20th] and thought, if you were to give the Misfits a 20 million dollar budget to build a studio for videos I'd build the Limelight. And it's kind of ironic: we need a screen, they've got a screen, we have a 15-foot long cemetery, right behind the drum platform is a 15-by-5 foot thing to put our cemetery on! They have lights, they have sound and we got a buddy, Drew Stone, to do our video work. So we have a gig anytime at the Limelight if we want it. D.: All I said to the guy at Irving Plaza was "that stage is too small for us," and he goes nuts! "It's big enough for Eric Clapton, it's big enough for Joe Cocker, we have Tom Jones here, you're insulting me!" Yeah, what's Joe Cocker do? He just stands there! And what's Eric Clapton do? He sits on a fuckin' stool! R. and J.O., in unison: And you can print that! J.O.: I mean, we move around, we interact with the crowd and we entertain. We might not play as good as those guys [laughs] Are you writing new songs? Will they be ghoulish power pop/punk songs like "Vampira" and "Teenagers From Mars" or more metal like "Green Hell" and "Wolf's Blood"? D.: I would say more metal. That's the way the shit comes out when I write it. J.O.: There are some songs that we don't like, like Spook City, Demonomania, Rat Fink (which isn't our song anyway). D.: Demonomania, is a real drag to play. Do you mind being covered by other bands? D.: No. It's a compliment. And they aren't going to do a song that sucks. The last thing I heard was Sloppy Seconds do "Where Eagles Dare" R.: I hope they didn't do it too sloppy. They did it sloppy. The b-side was a cover of Cheap Trick's "Surrender". D.: It fits. Are you raking in the bucks on Metallica royalties? D.: Zero. Talk to Uncle Glenn about that. How's the Doyle Fan Club going? Lots of Fans? J.O.: We've got about 3000 members. It's going to end up being the Misfits Fiend Club. [P.O. Box 310, Vernon, NY 07462] Have you been offered any movies or television? Either starring in or providing music for? D.: No, but I'd like to be on Star Trek, playing either a Klingon or a monster. I'd love to do that. R.: We're shooting three TV pilots, sort of like Chiller Theater, in September, and we'll host it like Zacherle did. We'll have guests and we're going to show old movies... We'll have it on a network ABC, CBS, Warner Brothers, Fox, maybe TBS or MTV or the Science Fiction Channel or wherever. J.O.: Our thing will be to build a huge TV set and actually be serious about educating the people on the movies: who's in it what they did. I think we should do alright. We might do a live TV show this Halloween! What do you guys do to trick-or-treaters on Halloween? J.O.: We give them candy... We set up a cemetery...I used to throw a square dance for my daughter's and our friends which I try to do annually, but we're going to be busy from now on. I consider myself lucky, I got to play in the Misfits for seven years and then for the next ten I got to be there for my family. My daughter is 13 and my son is 10 and as they get older I'm getting back into my music, in a way it's been a blessing. And, in closing... J.O.: The closing statement should be: We hope to be the Kings of Horror Rock at the end of all of this. We're the Elvis After Death type of thing!We live this! *** Afterwards, I got treated to a tour of the factory, a preview showing of the new line of graphite fiber guitars the boys will be manufacturing in the near future, a look at the new T-shirts they might be selling on QVC... AND, the address for all this great stuff: SaberInc, P.O. Box 281, Glennwood NJ, 07418. Happy Halloween! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 10:45:39 -0500 (EST) From: Teevie Subject: Max's Xmas... bootlegs (SSHH! The FBI is watching) I think while the Misfits are out touring in Europe Jerry should take the Max's Xmas recording to some bootlegger in Germany and commission an underhanded pressing of it for some fat upfront $$$. And personally I'd like to see both the overdubbed and original versions available. What the hell. There's a buttload of Misfits boots already. Why shouldn't the Misfits themselves get in on the action? Although maybe they already have... who knows? Has anyone ever heard of a Misfits/Sam/Zig bootlegger ever getting prosecuted by the boys? I know Glenn goes around to record stores and threating to kick people's asses, yadda yadda, but has anyone done anything for REAL?? Some of those bootlegs really suck. I heard a rumor that one guy made a bootleg by just putting some audience noise over the Walk Among Us tracks. Sheez, I hope nobody got taken in by THAT one. It'd be hilarious to see though, I guess, if you didn't blow thirty bucks on it. Well, I hope everyone who goes to the signing has a blast!! I'm sure I'll hear all about it next week. Ahh, you'd be jealous of me, though. I had SCHOOL. Teevie >;0) experience the hatred... http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~ssisson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 03:00:03 -0400 (AST) From: KEITH Subject: misfits did the misfits(jem and the holograms) ever play any of the misfits(glen danzig, etc) tunes. uh or something. KEITH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 12:08:17 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: sorry okay, judging from a few of the responses in the last bible, I guess I pissed a couple people off. And, as I should have, got my balls busted quite sufficiently. I just want to apologize for what I said to Wes. I read into your point wrong and flamed you unjustly. As many of the subscribers know, most of my posts are usually humorous and I just try to get a chuckle out of everyone whenever I can (BTW the Jerry song was fucking hilarious. a man after my own heart) Anyway, I was in a pissy mood that day and jumped to a conclusion as I have a habit of doing. So, anyway, sorry Wes and anyone else I may have pissed off. However, the thing about the spelling I stand firm on. And Wes, you did over-react a little, but it's cool, I would've done the same damn thing if someone flamed me. So let's drop this here and let everyone have their own opinion. I'm usually much more open-minded than I was that day. See ya. --Ken"trying to avoid a battle that takes up too much bible space" Graf ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:01:42 -0500 (EST) From: jon mellen Subject: Punk Rock Music! For all lovers of Punk Rock Music- Stokes has got it! Punk Isn't, Won't and hasn't ever died! The "Punks Dead" movement was thought up by a bunch of dead beat no-brainers trying to get a rise out of Punks......seems to me it's working, even to this day some ten years later. The fact that we listen to it, read about it, write about it and just basically live it day to day is all that is need to keep Punk alive. The work our man Mark puts into this page is enough adrenalin laced blood to keep punk alive and rippin' it up. I don't ever think I'll believe Punks dead, even if I'm the only person listenin' to Old FEAR and Misfits Albums!! And to the ultimate punker, Wallace836, get off the PUNKER-THAN-THOU! kick man, who cares how long whos been listening, just as long as their listening! Not trying to beat a bloody subject just want to get my nickel and dime in. ------------------------------ Subject: umm.. Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 13:00:18 EST From: Blood Feast hey teevie, I think on the botleg you're talking about, glenn sings "you fucked up" in reference to whoever the drummer was at the time, as you can hear him continue to play the verse one measure into the chorus. Not that it really matters though, it's just funny. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:53:56 EST From: MR PATRICK R WHITTLE Subject: MISFITS SIGHTING I have a Misfits sighting to report..... In an old issue of I think Hit Parader magazine there is a pic of Rage Against the Machine, in which lead singer Zack DeLaRocha is sporting the fiend club white t-shirt. Just thought you'd be interested. Any news on Glen's new band? PATRICK ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:53:04 -0500 From: Brent Christopher Eyestone Subject: Mr. Eyestone is not a punk... ...nor have I ever claimed to be one!! I've always maintained that I'm just a kid from the suburbs and don't pretend to be anything else. If you've ever stumbled across me in person or my band's web page, you know this man!! So please don't ever assume me to be "Punker-than-thou" because the last thing I am is a punk (in that generic, fashionable sense). BUT as many of you know, I'm very active in the "punk" community and have been since the age of nine! This involves everything from putting on shows, hooking up bands with places to stay, doing fliers, writing articles, making tapes for Misfits Bible members, and blah blah fucking blah. That's where the confusion enters. I don't really like the fact that people link the p-word to me, but hey, if I'm going to do the things that I do, I have to deal with it. I've accepted it and moved on. Read the things I've written for this list and for various zines, etc. Never once have I ever claimed to be punk or punker-than-thou. Ask anyone on this list who's seen me in person or on video/pictures and they'll tell you that I look more like a fucking tall/dark/handsome movie star than your generic punk. I'd also like to add that never before have I used the p-word when describing my band - it's the people who need labels to grasp the music who do this. And while the .edu thread has been tossed around here before, I still can't believe someone with a computer has the nerve to slag another person on a computer because of their address!?!? We're all in the same boat, my friend - cyber dorks falling prey to virtual bullshit. I'm a nineteen year old kid going to college, so excuse me! Would you rather I sit around my parent's house and collect your hard earned tax money? Or would you rather I sell drugs and steal cars, etc? I've got it - how about I give in and sign to a major label and quit school just so you can call me a sellout!!! In my opinion I'm doing the best for me, my parents, and the rest of the world through educating myself - so lay that .edu rhetoric to rest please. Thanks. Just for the people who skimmed the above paragraphs, this was not a continuation of the "punk is dead" debate, but rather a defense in my name. That's all. - Brent Eyestone, college boy from the burbs. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:09:34 -0500 From: Zodiac Subject: Box Set This is mostly directed toward Canadian Fiends. I have been enquiring at various record shops around here (Oshawa, Ontario) and have discovered that NOONE has heard of the Box Set. After e-mailing Vinyl Ink records, I was informed that the availability outside the U.S. is somewhat limited and they could not be sure that I would be able to obtain one. The good news, however is that you can order one directly from Vinyl Ink for a cost of $75 U.S. dollars, which would include insurance and postage. To be sure you will obtain one, I urge you to order directly from Vinyl Ink instead of gambling on local record shops. If you need Vinyl Ink's address, e-mail me and I will send it to you. Zodiac =============================== "To Serve Man"...IT'S A COOKBOOK! =============================== This message brought to you by Zodiac. E-Mail: abbadon@idirect.com =============================== "Demons to some, angels to others." -Clive Barker "Hellraiser" =============================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:22:50 -0500 From: Mark Kennedy Subject: Bobby I talked to Bobby for about 2 hours Thursday night and he told me a lot of interesting things - mostly corrections for those of you who follow the Misfits Book closely. The Uncle Floyd show performance was actually recorded on 10/31/80. Later that night, The Misfits played at Irving Plaza in New York with Screaming Jay Hawkins opening. Frank Zappa, who had been invited by Bobby to the show (before Bobby was kicked out) showed up. As for Stewart's question a few issues ago, Susan Hannaford Rose ran the Monster Movie Club. The band used to hang out in her basement and watch horror movies. Bobby's really impressed with the box set, as is Jerry. Everything sounds great. We can all sell our records and CDs now. This box set has it all. mark ------------------------------ From: evan obrien Subject: halloween show Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:59:53 -0500 (EST) hi everyone, evan here once again just letting those of u know who missed it last time that i still have the video of the coney island high show from halloween 95 available if u wanna trade or something for a copy. and on another topic (i do not post often to the bible) i am very much looking forward to meeting many of u at the signing, and plan on attending the dinner prior to it. as for all this punk talk, jeez, u guys need to get a grip! man if u have this much to say, write it down and start a band - seriously! i really don't give a shit how punk u are, if u are real, u don't have to announce it, it will show naturally. if someone says something ignorant, write them personally, who needs to see all this mudslinging bullshit from you dumbfucks who are out to be superpunx or something. u aren't proving anything. how about productive talk? anyone out there got a copy of the life's blood 7" ? i like them a lot and would like to get it... hi evb, mark (need yer street address again), jake starr and stew! :) cheers, evan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:27:06 -0800 (PST) From: Vertigo Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #145 > From: Geoffrey King > Subject: milo... > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:02:41 -0500 (EST) > > well in repsonse to one of someone's post on the last bible, i said milo > goes to college was the best album ever made. and i stick by that. > > anyways, does anyone listen to AFI? they have a misfits reference here and > there, and the lead singer even sports a semi-devilock. good music ala the > dickies and ramones. good shit. > > i'm in fourth grade, but i still know what's up, i listen to the misfits > every single day. > --afi AFI play around here pretty often (Bay Area), and I've seen em several times. They are a great band, and THEY EVEN PLAYED A MISFITS COVER LIVE! They played "Astrozombies" and did a pretty good job, although it sounded much fatser then the original. They even let the audience sing along! If anyone has a tape of this show (It was at Gilman Street sometime around Sept/October/November '95) lemme know. vertigo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:09:32 -0500 (EST) From: mephisto Subject: who cares? that song about glenn was pretty funny I was just wondering, is glenn an asshole. I hear people say he's a stuckup dick and won't sign autographs. but ive seen interviews where he seems like a pesonable guy. not that I really care. I'll still worship him anyway. thanks for the info about the tatoos. I went and got a tatoo in nyc and i saw a picture of this dude with a tatoo down his dick i'll bet that stung a bit. this is to kriney: what is with you bro ? nobody cares if your straightedge! you don't hear all the people who smoke dope write DO BONGS FOR LIFE, or EAT ACID. what is with the jive talk are you from da hood? this aint the wu-tang bible. your the kind of person i'd stomp skull at a show, i hate you. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 17:05:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Joel T. Day" Subject: Abuncha Fucking Idiots In response to Geoffrey King's post- AFI is one of the best up and coming bands out there. Anyone who hasn't heard them should definitely get their disc and go see them soon because the consensus is that they are about to explode in a big way. They are just plain great, that's all I can say. As far as Misfits connections, Dave and Geoff are hard-core fiends- Geoff's interview with Bobby Steele is on the home page, Dave's place is dominated by a HUGE Samhain poster, they often give away stuff at shows for correct answers to Misfits trivia, Geoff has the "bone" skull&crossbones on his forearm,etc,etc. That reminds me, he claims that Danzig had a NOSE JOB immediately after breaking up the Misfits. Apparently that is why his voice is not the same as back in the day. Anyone have any info on the subject ?- I don't remember seeing it on the page. Anyway, they are recording right now and their new CD will be out June 18 on Nitro Records, so beware. Late, Joel ------------------------------ From: JPJ5165@uncwil.edu Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 18:42:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Walk Among Us Don't know if anyone's interested, but I have an original press release that was sent to radio stations and the media with the pre-release of Walk Among Us. It contains the band's bio, has the Ruby logo on it, and is printed on reddish paper (Dated March 1982). E-mail me for a copy or if you want to purchase. Jeff Jobes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:30:05 -0500 From: Mark Kennedy Subject: Bad News For Fiend Club Hello fiends. I have some bad news. As of Thursday all of the membership packages to the Fiend Club (except for 600 that are awaiting flyers) were sent out. The last 600 will be sent out next week when the new flyers arrive. However, the list of about 300 people that I gave them will NOT be included in the membership package mailing. This is bad news and contradicts what I originally told everyone. Basically, they just ran out of stuff. So that's the bad news. If you only sent ME your address and never wrote to the PO Box, you probably will not be receiving a membership package. However, you will receive the postcard mailing in May. So at least there's that to look forward to. The T-shirt flyers are available on the web page, as is the cover letter. I realize that's not enough, but it's all we can do. Sorry everyone. I was surprised too. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:32:57 -0500 From: Mark Kennedy Subject: Good News For Undead Fans As we all know, Bobby Steele will be attending the signing at Generation Records. He will have Undead merchandise with him, so if you've never picked any up, now is the time. The first 25 people to show up to the signing WEARING AN UNDEAD shirt will receive a demo tape of 3 unreleased Undead tunes - "I'm So Happy" and "I Don't Want To Feel The Pain Anymore" both of which were played at shows in the last few months, will be included on this tape. Mark ------------------------------ From: bengl@interserv.com Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:14:59 -0800 Subject: It's getting scary OK kids guess the exact number of columns in tge Julian forum that burnt down soon after being erected? yep 138 columns, I am not making this up my brother had to do and report on it for a school project. Be afraid be very afraid. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 12:46:39 -0500 From: She Subject: So... Box Set Time Okay fiends, here's the early story on the box set - The CD's have the following songs on them: 1) The 14 songs from Static Age 2) 14 songs from Collection, 12 songs from Collection II 3) all 13 songs from Legacy, all 12 songs from Evilive EP, all 9 songs from original Earth AD album 4) Cough/Cool * She Marilyn * Eagles * Horror Business * Children (all from 2/28/79) NOTLD * Eagles * Vampira * Violent World * WKM * Spook City * HBiz (all from the Summer '79 NOTLD single session) Martian * Skulls * NOTLD * Zombies * Eagles * Violent World * Halloween II (just scattered bits and pieces from the MSP session, unfortunately not the entire 17 songs) 20 Eyes * Martian * Zombies * Vampira * Devils Whorehouse * Nike (this is an incomplete chunk of the Fair Lawn studio demos, but at least it has the keyboard version of Nike) Hate Breeders * 20 Eyes * Violent World ( MixOLydian demos) So there you have it - 104 tracks. The only things that aren't available on bootleg demo tapes are the versions of Violent World, Spook City Vampira and Horror Business recorded in the Summer '79 session. It's a great box set, but still incomplete in my opinion. Oh well, maybe next time right? mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 12:37:28 -0500 From: She Subject: Special Hello fiends. I thought I'd send out this issue early to get everyone prepared for the box set. As far as contests are concerned, I was NOT allowed to enter the Caroline Box Set contest. I guess I should have warned everyone ahead of time. It would have been too easy for me to win (if I wanted I could just call up the guys and ask them, right?). I don't enter contests most of the time because I already get or have the stuff.... mark ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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Re: Misfits Bible, #145 Box Set new Danzig song, Misfits box set Signing off ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wallace836@vegas.email.net Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:19:55 PST Subject: What the hell? I send in one or two letters about the state of punk, look away for a little while, and you guys are still talking about it! I looked through a few of the back issues to see what had been going on....sorry if I gave everyone the wrong impression. I'm not any better or worse than anyone else here. The "punker than thou" attitude attributed to me was misleading. I had only added that comment in the first place because someone sent me personal mail in response to some other letter I wrote (I forget which) to the Bible: it said that I probably "got into" the Misfits after listening to Metallica's versions blah blah blah, and I should just go back to listening to Green Day and Offspring. I only said that I had been into The Misfits for a while to let my critics know who they were dealing with. If anyon ehere just started listening to them yesterday, thay have just as much right to their opinions as I do. Punk is Dead: Lighten Up. Just becasue a style of music no longer exists today doesn't mean that it has any less value. On the other hand, certain modern groups that rip off the styles of others without bringing anything new to the genre only cheapen it. Punk is a novelty today becasue of Green Day and their dumbass antics. Punk is a novelty becasue of bands like Offspring wearing "old punk" tee-shirts; a move contrived to make us think they too belong in that genre. (Anyone actually listen to that last Offspring album? The songs were actually pretty good, but it was a metal album from start to finish. I object to their marketing, not their musical ability.) Just because punk has had no real growth for 10 odd years DOES NOT mean it has nothing to offer us. If more bands mimicked the ATTITUDE of punk as opposed to the SIMPLICITY of punk, we wouldn't have to listen to so much of this dreck on the TV/radio everyday. Peace. We're all friends here after all. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:28:09 -0600 (CST) From: slaytanic Subject: misfit cover band Just in case any of you are interested... Last Halloween I saw a Misfits cover band called Gomez that blew me away. All of the had devilocks and had their mannerisms down pretty good, even Glenn's little comments between songs. Anyway, rumor has it that they will be appearing this year at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, Tx. If any of you are in the neighborhood, I recommend checking them out. slaytanic ------------------------------ From: EvilDieff@aol.com Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:31:13 -0500 Subject: punk rock and the rest first off all i really have to say about the punk thread is, i totaly agree with whoever said something about not being "...cool enough to have been born earlier..." that was great! who cares how old you are, or when you got into the music considered punk? as long as you get a rise out of it somehow, whether it makes you pissed, happy, or whatever that's all that matters. that is what defies age, classification, and the death of the music refered to as "punk". but, whatever. all you punker than thou people will always think the same narrow minded way. so, that's all i really had to say on that matter. now, the box set: i thought it was supposed to have "in the doorways" on it. butm then again i may have over looked that in mark's last post which told us what was going to be included in the box. and i agree with mark. i think it's incomplete, but it'll do. as long as it's not tainted by the hands of anyone and their overdubs, i'm happy. max's x-mas: although it would be cool to hear blue christmas, it wouldn't be cool to hear the misfits with metallica's guitars. (anyone who's heard the overdubs knows this is what they sound like.) especialy on a live album. "Evil" "...exit light..." (ha,ha,ha!!!) :) ------------------------------ From: Ronald Barned Subject: Old Songs Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:17:18 -0600 Hi, what's the story about the songs "West End Avenue", "In The Doorways", and "Harpies In The Night"? They were played at the first Misfits show. Were any of them recorded, and are they actually Misfits songs? Just wondering. Later, Kyle ...not Ronald ------------------------------ From: ChristoTer@aol.com Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:34:44 -0500 Subject: Incomplete tape of MAX'S! All right, I know I shouldn't be doing this....but I know there are people out there that are planning on doing this (or already doing this) for a LOT more $$$. >From several radio interviews with Jerry and Doyle, I have collected 7 cuts from Max's Xmas Static Age TV Casualty Teenagers From Mars Children In Heat Horror Business Hollywood Babylon Where Eagles Dare I will be willing to tape these 7 songs for a blank tape and a buck, or for 3 bucks and I'll supply the tape. This is NOT NOT NOT the complete show, nor am I even slightly insinutating that it is. I make NO money off of this, and the reason why I'm doing this is so other people don't get ripped off. Since it's never coming out, this is probably the closest we'll ever get to hearing it. Also, on 'Children', 'Static' and 'TV' the quality isn't perfect (radio transmission probs). It's not horrible, but it's not perfect. To avoid the questions......"Blue Christmas" is NOT on this. And all of this was taken off of the radio shows. And, let's see to make it a bit fair (and so that some damn schmos who aren't into the Misfits and want to turn around and make money don't easily get this), I've got a little quiz. That's not at all difficult. And it will also force some of you to look in a certain book that a lot of people have obviously never looked at. 1. Name all 7 songs the Misfits covered live or in the studio. 2. Where did Bobby Steele get his nickname (last name) from? 3. Which 4 people/places got a copy of the Teenagers From Mars 7" Acetate E-mail me if you want a copy ChristoTer@aol.com Chris ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 22:08:09 -0500 From: rellim@maple.net Subject: Sex Pistols Reunion Saturday, January 13, 1996 issue of Regina's The Leader Post: NON-VICIOUS SEX PISTOLS COULD REUNITE LONDON (AP-CP) -- No future? Hardly. The Sex Pistols' sworn mission to destroy music in 1976 has evidently failed -- 20 years later, they're getting together for a reunion tour, their record company said Thursday. Lead singer Johnny Lydon -- known as Johnny Rotten in his Sex Pistols days -- told The Independent newspaper the original punksters would take a "disturbing, shocking and disrupting" tour to Europe, the United States, the Far East, Australia, and Canada this year. Bookings are already confirmed, and the tour will start in the U.S. in the spring, said Robert Sandol, a spokesman for Virgin Records, which owns the Sex Pistols back catalogue. "We've been contacted about holding a date in Toronto and we're awaiting further news," Elliot Lefko, of MCA Concerts, said Thursday. But Lydon's agent said Thursday that nothing was certain just yet. Eric Gardner said a tour was just one idea about how to commemorate the group's 20th anniversary. He and Anita Camarata, who represents Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, and the estate of Sid Vicious, have been knocking about other ideas as well. "Here's the real story," said Gardner. "We are exploring all options open to us... and will probably decide on a path of action some time in the next four to six weeks." Sandol was unavailable for comment after business hours in London late Thursday. The line-up, all of them pushing 40, will include Jones on guitar and Cook on drums. Bass player Matlock, who left the group just before it shot to fame in 1976, will also be back. Matlock was replaced by Vicious, who died of a drug overdose in New York in 1979 while awaiting trial on charges he murdered his girlfriend. With songs like Anarchy in the U.K. and Pretty Vacant, the Sex Pistols outraged Britain with a nihilism that targeted then-revered institutions such as the monarchy and beach holidays. Their most notorious single, God Save the Queen, included the line "They've made you a moron" and ended with the screeching chorus "There's no future for you" repeated ad nauseum. The song was banned by the BBC and by leading chain stores. Jones prided himself on his inability to play more than three chords and Vicious could hardly handle the bass. ------------------------------ From: WDuncan999@aol.com Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 17:01:09 -0500 Subject: Some Misfits Related Stuff Well hello fiends, First off I just want to say that the bible and the homepages are the best things I've seen on the net. Fiends who know anything are far and few here in zion, and most of the ones I used to hang with I haven't even seen for probably 5 or 6 years. So as you can Imagine, when I found the Samhain homepage I was intrigued. Then when that led me to the 'Fits page and bible, I shit. I didn't even know stuff like that was on the web. In fact they were the only reasons (at the time) that I kept my online account. Blah, blah, blah... Anyways, I had an intersesting sighting. I hope noone has mentioned it already. On some Jean Claude Van Damme movie (Hard Target?) there are these two guys beating the shit out of him and one of them's wearing that pusshead shirt with the fiend holding his eyeball. Kinda cool. Something I thought would be interesting (or at least help us get back to the topic of the misfits and such rather than "punk" and smoking and drinking and takin' a fuckin' dump and what I had for breakfast etc.., ect.., ect..), maybe, is for people who have or used to have devilocks to write in how long they are (or were). They used to be kind of a contest with my crowd when we were kids. It didn't mean you were any more of a fiend or anything, it was just for the fuck of it since there was nothing else to do. Mine was 22 inches grown out from a mohawk that was about 3 or 4. By the way, something I didn't see in the Misfits Book was the date of the first first time I saw a Danzig gig. It was friday the 13th January 1989 at the Speedway Cafe (no longer in bussiness as far as I know) at 505 west 500 south in Salt Lake City, UT and it was $6.66 to get in the door. A local band called The Bad Yodellers (the lead singer of which apologized after there set for sucking so bad!) opened, and somebody played inbetween (I can't remember who just now). There were only about 600-700 people there (and that was a capacity crowd). There set (as I remember it) was just Danzig 1 played straight through with London Dungeon, Horror Bussiness, and All Hell played at the end as encores. Some friends of mine (I didn't know them at the time) were allowed on the tour bus to talk to the band and had there fliers signed by the whole band. The only thing I can remember them saying that Danzig said was a referance to him wanting to squeeze the life out of King Diamond's throat. Anyway, that's the info if you want to add any of it to the book. Oh yeah, by the way, a couple of weeks ago I e-mailed Eerie Von about that Rosemaries Babies 7 inch and he e-mailed me back like in 10 minutes! I thought it was kind of cool he was so easy to contact. I wonder if he reads the bible at all. Anyways, thanks for putting up with my blabbin'. Later. ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:26:42 -0500 Subject: "Balzak" If any of you have any Balzak recordings, please let me know because what with all this talk about them, I've gotten interested but haven't been able to find anything anywhere near me. So if any of you have any of their stuff, please e-mail me and let me know and maybe we can work out some kind of trade ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:26:18 +0000 From: "Jake Starr/ADAM WEST" Subject: glenn's nose! Joel T. Day wrote: > That reminds me, he claims that Danzig had a NOSE JOB immediately > after breaking up the Misfits. Apparently that is why his voice is not > the same as back in the day i think the nose job came after they filmed the "mother" video in '88. a friend of mine dated danzig's guitar roadie in the early days and said he got the nose job after he got the advance $$$ from rick rubin. if you look at his nose in the "mother" vid, it looks the same as the misfits/samhain days. then, check out the other parts of the first home video and you can see the difference. fiends, am i right or am i wrong? ******************************************************** * Jake Starr/ADAM WEST * * c/o Fandango Records * * 1805 T Street, NW #A * * Washington, DC 20009-7128 * * (202) 483-0065 * * eMAIL: jyas@loc.gov * * http://www.exclamation.com/webtrax/punk/misc/aw.html * ******************************************************** --part_AD572D3A0003C94100000004-- ------------------------------ From: Stewart Muir Gallacher <9243471G@student.gla.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:58:09 BST Subject: fiend club mailing I got the mailing from the fiend club on Saturday morning, and I must say that all the stuff they put into it is great..I also loved the big orange Misfits logo sticker on the envelope- the postman must have wondered what the hell was inside! The Misfits are obviously putting a lot of effort into getting things going again so I think we should all try our best to support them through their new shirts and stuff... Mark- thanks for answering my question about the girl on the back of Halloween, and for the info. on the Uncle Floyd show- it's too bad that nobody has a video of this... I'm really looking forward to the box-set- hopefully I won't have to wait too long for one of the shops to get them in. -stewart gallacher ------------------------------ From: Bruce Lee Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:05:32 -5 Subject: Bobby Steele... Wow, I wrote in to Post Mortem Records a couple of weeks ago to get a catalog, and I got a letter from Bobby Steele... he sent me the catalog I requested with out-of-date items crossed out by hand, and a letter explaining what I should get to hear as much Undead shit as possible without spending too much dough... he also said something about Times Square (his new band for which he plays bass, for those not keeping up on him), and his current situation with the Undead. The bottom of the letter is signed personally by him, too... you can see where the ink bleeds through to the other side... I was REAL surprised to get this in the mail, and just thought I'd let you all know that Jerry and Doyle aren't the ONLY (get it... Only?!?! Ahhh, forget it... ) nice Misfits out there. Mark, They still call me Bruce. ------------------------------ From: "AngelfucK" Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:25:47 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #146 (special issue) This is mainly directed at the Canadian fiends and is a response to the posting in the last bible. I too have talked to the local record stores and they have not heard of it either. However, I checked with CDnow on Misfits central and the guy from cusomer relations told me that they would have no problem shipping it to Canada. It costs 56 bucks american plus 5 or 6 bucks for shipping and handling. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:23:35 -0500 (EST) From: "julio c najara jr." Subject: Box set This is my first contribution to the bible even though I've been a subscriber for a couple of months now. I been wanting to contribute for awhile now but have hesitated because I didn't really think I was as big of a misfits fan s most of the people who subscribe. But this past Saturday something happened that made me view things differently, I walked into Yesterday and Today ( the coolest record store in MiamI) and I asked if they would have a copy of the box set on Tuesday. The guy who works there told me probably not on Tuesday but definitely by Thursday. Then all of a sudden he goes, "Oh, we have a promotional copy for $49.99, Do you want one? Of course I didn't hesitate so I forked over the fifty bucks and went straight home and started listening (I even called in sick to work). I couldn't believe I was able to get a copy four days before the release date. The thing that I really wanted to address is that right after I bought the box set I ran into this girl who was standing outside and was quite upset at the fact that I was able to pick up the box set before she did. She proceeded to insult me and even tried to knock the box set out of my hand. She told me that I'm a fake misfits fan. This really pissed me off because a great deal because in a very short amount of time I've learned alot about the greatest band in history. I'd also like to add that most , if not all, of the information I've gotten regarding the misfits has come from being a subscriber. Despite the fact that I don't own any rare Misfits recordings on vinyl does not give anyone the right to say I'm not a fan. I would just like to say I love the misfits as much as anyone on bible and I plan on trying to obtain any misfits collectables but in my opinion and I'm sure everyone will agree that the most important aspect of being a misfits fan is the love for and understanding of how important the music is. Julio Najara ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 14:59:08 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: had it in my hands Well, by the time everyone is reading this, you and I both most likely have the box set and it kicks ass. But right now, it is 2:56 on Monday, Feb. 26 and I just came from the record store. It's a small record store, but they have some cool shit. The lady in there said that it would be on sale tomorrow and when I asked her if it was for sure she said yes. She told me that they already had it, but couldn't sell it til tomorrow. She did let me take a look at it though, and now I'm even more exited about getting it. Anyway, nothing really to comment on as far as smoking and ifpunk is dead or not. I just wanted to reitarate something someone said in the last bible. A few bibles back, someone said that he thought it was funny that many of the so called punks on this list had edu. addresses. Then, last bible, Eyestone I think it was,stated that more or less, this was a stupid comment. I agree with Eyestone on this. Was the person that wrote that not a computer of his own? Maybe he's so much of a punk that he stole a computer just to post that message before smashing it with a baseball bat. Getting an education makes you un-punk, but having a computer doesn't? To the guy who wrote the original "edu.= un-punk" statement, I suggest you to take a look at Misfits Central. I believe that you'll find an edu. scattered somewhere in there. Hope you bastards had fun at the signing while I was here in thinking about it. Eat, drink, and be merry. Fellow fiends, the time has come. See ya! --Lord Kenatos ------------------------------ From: Adam Christensen Subject: Take it back again Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:11:03 -0500 (EST) Ken Graf, I sincerely apologize to you for flaming you because you didn't like what wes thomas had to say. He proved himself to be a complete imbecile by saying some of the most immature and uncalled for things that I have heard in a while. You did not in any way owe that asshole an apology, in fact he owes you the apology. I implore you to take back your apology to him and to renounce him. He is the wprst kind of scum that their is. He is the kind of scumball that has to hide behind his computer moniter and cuss everybody else out. I'll bet that when he is not trying to piss us off at the bible he is on the internet jacking off to pictures of little kids. Once again, I apologize, Adam " Wes Thomas is a hemaphrodite " Seven ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:55:06 GMT Subject: what about the former misfits? From: woodstea@usa.pipeline.com (Brian Green) to all fiends, does anyone have a bootleg video of shows that had the former misfits(bobby,franche,joey,googy)?i have only seen shows that had glenn,jerry,doyle, and robo. it seems like i have loved the misfits forever now but it has only been 5 years.i remember the very first time that i heard the misfits.my friend gave me the collection 1 tape and i was a little reluctant to listen to it. i was listening to alot of the stuff on mtv and the such and i had never really heard of the misfits . so after my day at school(a junior in high school that is) , i popped in the tape in my car stereo,"she" began playing.i thought it wasnt too bad but not really holding my attention.not until "horror business" did i hear the "whoas" and then i knew i liked something about this band.on thru "where eagles dare", "skulls", and "astrozombies" , i was already singing the "whoas" even though i didnt know the lyrics.i returned the tape a couple of days later and i told my friend that i was hooked.i dont know why i rambled on about this but i thought it would be cool to remember the first time i heard the misfits! any fiends from the state of tennessee write me! later, ghoulie ------------------------------ From: Mzd111@aol.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:25:51 -0500 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #145 hi kids, ya know i really like the misfits but you boys have killed something cool! leave it alone! ------------------------------ From: ZOMBIE65SH@aol.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:16:28 -0500 Subject: Box Set From: Zombie65sh@aol.com Date: 2-27-96 Sub: Box Set Hey Fiends, I just wanted to say I thought the Box Set kicked ultimate ASS! It rocked. Only one record store got it in where I live, with only five copies. I ended up getting the first copy here. There wasn't near enough for everyone who wanted one. It cost $72.96, but was worth every penny. I wanna hear about the signing from someone who went. So if someone would email with a review it would be appreciated. Thanks, Smitty Hines ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:15:56 -0500 (EST) From: "B.M. Fama" Subject: new Danzig song, Misfits box set fiends: call up the Danzig hotline (201-939-12167) Eerie talks about the new Danzig song that was on X-Files last month; it's called "Deep" and wil be on the soundtrack "Songs in the Key of X" out soon on Warner. also, Eerie mentions that Chuck Biscuits wil be working with (I think) Blind Melon members (I may have remembered incorrectly), and that his own album "Uneasy Listening" will **hopefully* be out May 5th. Lastly, if you skipped over this post because you don't like Danzig... Eerie talks about the Misfits box set signing (that was last night) and plays part of his advance copy of the box set. You hear (I think) TFM, then "Eagles", then maybe some other stuff, but the last two excerpts are from an alternate "Vampira" and the Misfits' "Spook City, USA." So if you haven't got the box set yet, call the Danzig hotline and you'll hear a little preview... -Brett ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:06:30 -0500 From: She Subject: Signing off Well fiends, here's my version of the Box Set Signing story. I'm sure we'll be seeing others... I rode up to NY from Richmond with several fiends from the mailing list. We arrived at Kenny's Castaways around 10pm, and obviously missed the dinner entirely. When we arrived, Sardonica was onstage and Michale was watching them. Jerry, Chud, and Johnathan Grimm were hanging around in the back of the club, and Bobby Steele had just come in. As I entered the place, Peter Steele (brothers? yeah right...) of Type O Negative was leaving. Lately the Type O Negative guys and The Misfits have become buddies. Hmmm.... So, we all hung out upstairs in Kenny's and I was informed that Arthur Googy had briefly stopped by before we arrived. Steve Zing was also there and I talked to him and some of his band members (Chyna) for a while. Eventually Franche' Coma and Mr. Jim showed up and we all went over to Kenny's for the signing. The signing was total chaos. A huge line had formed outside and the band was set up down in the basement of the record store. Basically, a few people were let into Kenny's at a time where they could purchase one box set ($54.13), go downstairs and have the box as well as anything else they brought, signed by the band. Your item would be put down at the right side of the table and slowly crawl across to the other end, being signed first by Doyle, then Jerry, then Michale, Franche', Mr. Jim, Chud, and Bobby. Bobby and Jerry, as the expert autographers seemed to be having the best time. I don't think Mr. Jim was used to the crowds, but Franche' seemed to be enjoying himself just fine. This went on for about 2 hours and I'm quite sure that the store managed to sell all of its 200 copies as well as the 50 or so backup copies. I had a really great time during the signing. I got to talk with a lot of interesting people including Tom Bejgrowicz, who produced the album. I also got to meet/see Bible subscribers bile666, mozzer (sorry I didn't get another chance to talk with you), misfit95, Adam C (Teevie's old pal), two of the guys from Solefish, David Beowulf from Ink Ninteen (by the way David, I used to live in Melbourne FL), and IRC demons |20Eyes| and Plan9. Evan O - I looked for you, but you must have been invisible. I left at 1:30am because I was told they wouldn't be playing afterwards. I imagine their hands were pretty tired.... So what about the box set? As previously stated, the box set consists of 4 CDs in black slimline cases: CD 1 - 14 tracks from Collectoin I, 12 tracks from Collection II CD 2 - Legacy/Evilive/Earth AD CD 3 - Sessions disc CD 4 - Static Age Obviously, Static Age is the main feature of the box set. As I promised many months ago, it's the best album ever. This cannot be denied. The booklet is filled with lyrics to every MISFITS song (funny that no lyrics to Mephisto Waltz are in the booklet - what does that tell you?) and lots of color pictures. Many of these pictures were already available in some of the issues of Ugly Things as well as Chiller Theatre, although not in color. For the most part, the pictures seemed to concentrate on the Jerry/Glenn/Franche/Jim lineup (my favorite) and the Jerry/Glenn/Doyle/Googy lineup (the most well known lineup perhaps). As stated before, there are NO pictures of Bobby. That means 0. Not one. No pictures of Robo, no pictures of Manny. One photo includes Joey. The discography cleverly leaves out pictures of all releases that weren't on Caroline or Plan 9. That means many people still have no way of ever seeing the pink/pink or pink/purple variations of the Walk Among Us LP, as well as the German pressings of Evilive and Wolfsblood, and the Flipside Vinyl Fanzine LP. Some tips: 1: be prepared to smudge the hell out of your box. The material that the box is made out of seems to absorb fingerprints like a monster. My box set is already covered with them and I haven't had it more than a few hours. This material also doesn't hold autographs too well (funny that it holds fingerprints, but not autographs - how inconvenient). Already several of my autographs from last night seem to be fading or just disappearing. 2: be careful of the slimline cases. I don't know what the story is, but they scratch very easily. 3: open your box when you get it! Already I have received reports of a box set that didn't include a booklet, along with 2 box sets that had two copies of CD#2 and no CD#1. Make sure you're getting what you pay for. These sort of erros are not uncommon with large projects such as box sets, but they're no fun to deal with. I suggest contacting Caroline Records - caroline@interramp.com with any problems such as these. They'll know what to do. 4: wear the Fiend Club badge. This is one of the highlights of the box set. 5: don't be disappointed if some of the lyrics seem wrong. some are wrong. Jerry did his best to correct the lyrics and he didn't receive a whole lot of help from the man who wrote the songs. 6: don't be too hard on the box set. A lot of people put a lot of work into it - many, many hours. Jerry went into the Caroline office once a week to make sure the mixes sounded okay and I know for a fact that Tom B put a LOT of work into it. Remember that both Bobby and Jerry gave the box an A+ rating. 7: compare the songs. listen to the INFINITE superiority of the original versions of the Static Age sessions and the original Cough/Cool over the overdubbed and altered versions from Legacy Of Brutality, etc. The box set signing was just another chance for Jerry and Bobby to show that they're 2 of the nicest guys on the planet. Jerry repeatedly gave out autographed shirts and Bobby handed out promo Undead and Times Square tapes. I don't think I ever saw these 2 guys stop smiling. _____ In other news, Frank has promised to finally send me a copy of his Active Ingredients 7". Some of you bible old-timers may remember that he first told me he'd send me one back in October of '94. And, next week I should be receiving some copies of new Misfits songs - Black Light included - for distribution to Bible subscribers. I'll also hopefully get to announce the European fiends who will be receiving backstage passes and flyers. adios mark ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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RE: Misfits Bible, #147 |Box Set Re: Misfits Bible, #147 NYC Fiend trip from hell Bobby Steele Price of Boxed Set Re: Misfits Bible, #147 boxed set question Glenn's Nose Glenn's nose job Re: Misfits Bible, #147 Earth A.D. gold disc for sale mass-debate me box set Misfits with out Danzig Samples of 'DEEP' by Danzig Re: Misfits Bible, #147 Box-Set Misfits Box Set Review (WEE!) Box questions recent issues - irc - box set "Black Aria" Earth-Ad gold cd !!!CHILLER!!! The Black Box Re: More on my meeting Unsubscribe Re: box box set stuff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ChristoTer@aol.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:27:02 -0500 Subject: Box and stuff First, I realized that as soon as I sent out that there last piece of mail concerning Max's that I do NOT have a copy of Attitude. If anyone has a copy of Attitude, I would be interesting in trading tapes. 7 songs for 1....I think that's a good deal. As for THE Box! Oh man, this thing is beautiful!!!! Okay, the book is great, the CDs are great, the badge is great, everything is great! The only thing I don't like (well, actually I didn't like it at first) is the Static Age CD box, because (stupid me) couldn't figure out how the hell to open it! Then I figured it out, and it is great. Okay, Cough/Cool is incredible! I mean, no cracks, no pops, nothing! Just a great clean recording. Incredible! As far as the Sessions disc, the only thing that I can really comment on is Spook City USA. Um, I like the solo version better. And I'll leave it at that. I just ripped it open, so I haven't listened to discs 1 and 2, but it seems that they cover all the bases just fine. I'll quit my rambling, but something that I just love is the lettering on the CD boxes. That is so damn cool! I'll go now. Chris ------------------------------ From: She Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #147 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:53:16 -0500 (EST) > From: Ronald Barned > Subject: Old Songs > > what's the story about the songs "West End Avenue", "In The > Doorways", and "Harpies In The Night"? They were played at the first Misfits > show. Were any of them recorded, and are they actually Misfits songs? These were early Misfits songs that weren't good enough to be recorded. We will probably never hear them. > Subject: what about the former misfits? > From: woodstea@usa.pipeline.com (Brian Green) > > does anyone have a bootleg video of shows that had the former > misfits(bobby,franche,joey,googy)?i have only seen shows that had > glenn,jerry,doyle, and robo. Some videos of stuff with Joey and Bobby exists, but nobody seems to have it. The Halloween '79 show was filmed, as was the 12/22/78 show at Studio Zero. m ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Microvable food Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:56:58 -0700 (MST) From: Richard Duran > Microwavable food, Ha! You too have fallen for it, not to say microvable > food isn't part of Big Brothers scheme. In fact microwaves support the great > evil because what do you need to make you're microwave effective? Water. And > what is in the water? What evil does it posses? That's right, FLORIDE(if I > misspelled floride it was on purpose, It makes harder for "the man" to > detect). Nooooooooo! Not floorid! It can't possibly be true! Fluride is my friend! Fleuride makes me so happy! WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! MOMMY, CAN I GO OUT AND DRINK FLORIDE? stay away from drinks that are bad for me i have bad teeth and my gums do bleed i don't give a, i'll brush fast after every meal floss 'em good, then i brush girls all say i'm a little fucked mommy i've got bad teeth mommy i've got swollen red gums mommy i'm in pain mommy, can I go out and drink floride scrape my teeth of yellow plaque until there wet with life toothpaste over sandpaper my orintology i'll bring back a good check-up for it's my mommy's dream can I go out and drink floride, drink floride listerine for gum disease i even eat the glass keeps my mouth so fucking clean my dentist is insane i'll bring back a good check-up for it's my mommy's dream can I go out and drink floride, drink floride listerine for gum disease i even eat the glass keeps my mouth so fucking clean my dentist is insane i'll bring back a good check-up for it's my mommy's dream can I go out and drink floride, drink floride drink floride, drink floride, drink floride, drink floride drink floride, drink floride can I go out and drink floride, drink floride drink floride, drink floride, drink floride, drink floride drink floride, drink floride mommy +-{ gum-ripper }-+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:19:35 -0700 From: Opus Subject: One hell of a Box Set I have to say that the box set is incredible. My brother and I were lucky enough to get the last two in Denver. The whole thing is beyond words! Do not pass up the chance if you can buy it! michael ------------http://holly.colostate.edu/~misfit/----------------------------- --------- "One sword keeps another in its sheath" - Matt Hargis (My psycho roomate) ------------------------------ Subject: well frankly... Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 19:44:31 EST From: Blood Feast Okay, So I drove twelve hours for this box set, and I'm pretty dissapointed. Well, not really. The content on the cds, the music itself, absolutely rocks. I have not stopped listening to it for the past ten hours. All the outtakes and different versions completely rock, but the packaging really sucks. I don't like the fact that the famous monsters logo doesn't appear anywhere. It's supposed to be a complete collection, and when I think of the misfits, I don't think of that stupid spraypaint logo. I also don't like the printed woodgrain. the box itself would've been far more tasteful if it were just plain black with a crimson ghost skull on it, nothing else. the booklet really sucks. Eerie Von couldn't write his way out of a paper bag. And I really hate the grunge font. the misfits were not about broken typewriters, they were about broken bones. Oh well, I guess it's senseless to complain, I just wish that all the effort they put into this thing would have shone through. Instead, It looks like something they threw together in an hour. I guess thge really important thing is the music, and I couldn't be more pleased with that, I just wish the whole package were cooler. that's my two cents ------------------------------ From: "Cheryl M. Walley" Subject: the lack of Misfits Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:05:04 -0600 (CST) I was just checking out the webcrawler, and I noticed a page called "Artists in the database". This web page has like 1500 bands on it, of all types of music. They even had Black Flag and Circle Jerks. But they didn't have the Misfits. I was pissed off. Here's an idea. Everyone go to "http://www.webcrawler.com" and type "Artists in the database" and go to the web page of that same name and bitch out the guy that runs it. You can send him mail telling him he NEEDS to get the Misfits on his page. That's all for now. -lostcauz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 18:16:38 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: box set of course simply put, the box set kicks ass. I also noticed what Mark had said about the fingerprints. Also, and please note that I was very tired and I am by no means a stupid person, I had a bitch of a time figuring out how to open the damn static age CD. I'm sure others did too, you just won't admit it. I was like, "What the fuck, this is like the Cenobite puzzle box in Hellraiser." Then I figuered out that all you had to do was slide it out. I smacked myself.Duuuhhh. Anyway, in response to Adam Christensen (hope I spelled it right), apology accepted, and thanks for the advice. But I'm not gonna start any big arguments with anyone here. All that does is take up bible space that no one else feels like reading except for the people having the argument. As far as I'm concerned, it's over and done with. Fiends gotta stick together. --Lord Kenatos ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 21:15:01 -0500 Subject: The Misfits Invade NYC!!! If you weren't able to get to the signing, you really missed a great time. I've never seen so many fiends in one place before. It was a sight. Jerry seemed to be having the time of his life. He deserves it after all these years of standing in the shadows. Besides the guys in the band, both new and ex-, in attendance was Peter Steele (who has to have the most fucked up car I've EVER seen ... it looks like he drove it off of the "Road Warrior" set) and Steve Zing. I also heard that Robo and Googy were there but I didn't see them. It was also great seeing some of the people from the list. A guy was behind us in line to pick up box sets for his sons while he was in town on business. That's some dad! Anyway, it was a great time to be had. And the box set is killer. I don't know if you'd call the interior material velour but it's still a great set of songs. Anyway ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:37:08 -0600 From: Jaime Obergfell hello fiends!!!!!! WELL WE MADE IT BACK FROM THE SIGNING!it fucking rocked!!!for anyone who cares here is what we did. C.G.picked me up from the airport and we met up with jaid(who hangs out in irc)the next evening on sunday we picked up Jerry schulz and his woman and met up with queenwasp.from there we went to the generation.the first thing that happened was i raN INTO bobby steele. i dont give a shit about who smokes what when and where but when i saw him i had just finished stepping out the rest of my Marlboro. and he was real cool to me. After talking to bobby it was only four in the afternoon on mon so we went into Kenny's and got tanked before the fits showed up. once they showed up i went NUTS. I finally got to come face to face with Jerry,Mike,CHUD,and at the time Doyle was "picking dog shit from the back yard" so he was late!!! Anyway the signing rocked. i got everything signed and sat with Jerry while we watched Sardonia. They kick ass too. Well Doyle finally made it and the signing went Great.i ran into Mark and his pals and they were going just as crazy as we were.I also got to meet Peter Steele of Type O, also for anyone who was in line when he drove by.....Remember what he did??? Well for those who dont know, Peter drove by in this fuckin jacked up car with flood lights looking for jerry. I told him he wasn't here yet and peter got on an intercom in his car and started saying "JErry where are you you dick..hehehe" it was a blast I want to thaNK EVERYONE WHO HELPED GET ME THERE!!!OH AND BY THE WAY EARTH-AD THERE WAS NOTHING I COULD DO I HAD TO FLY..I THINK YOU SUCK FOR TELLING PEOPLE IN IRC THAT THE SET WAS NOT GOING TO BE WORTH IT. WHY ?....JUST CUZ YOU WEREN'T GOING TO GET TO GO? HOW CHILDISH.....WELL I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY IF THAT IS TRUE......FUCK YOU!!!...IF THAT IS NOTR THE CASE I AM SORRY AND APPOLIGISE FOR BEING RUDE! A last thanks to the ever Crimson one for picking me up from the airport!!i liked my breakfast.. oh by the way when you stop by irc ask us about te TROUT!!! ..............later all......keep dying!!1.......PLAN-9 ------------------------------ From: bengl@interserv.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:46:26 -0800 Subject: Box Set !!!!!!! I got the box set. I was ready with my money as it was being priced. It kicks more ass than a Los Angeles cop. Eerie Von Does a great intro and it has pretty pictures of variouse visions of darkness. Oh yea, Who ever said no one careed if someone is straight edge is wrong I think it's fucking (I am also sXe) and it bothers me that while if he said he was a nazi people would have talked about and flamed for weeks but since he said something that is (in most peoples minds) positive he's just another idiot, that's fucked, do we all really thrive on hate? ------------------------------ From: ewebb@ycp.edu Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:18:43 EST Subject: RE: Misfits Bible, #147 Here's another story: -Hit NYC and the get in line at about 10pm. already half way down the block. -see Bobby Steele walking aroun. Sadly, he gets harrassed by the people in front of us. -Peete Steele walks by and shakes my hand. He asks"What are you guys here for?" Like an ass, I begin answering, but stop myslef and we baoth laugh. -Pete Steele drives by in his MAD MAX style warrior car calling for Jerry. -Get in (finally), get to by only one box (sorry jen) and run downstairs. -I was in the first 1/4 of fiends so the band was in a fucking hurry to get us through: got 4 lp's and my set signed. (WAU and LEgacy were signed TWICE. AS soon as i sat my albums down, the misfits started signing and passing them down to the end. Unfortunatly, Doyle grabbed the two aforementioned lp's before i took them out of their plastic carrier. -Misfits are kindly enough to resign my albums instead of the plastic bags. -Jerry refers me to his brother and manager re: summer touring in the South Central Pa. area. They say they'll call me and work it out. ****** I've got some 35mm pictures. They didn't turn out that well, but you can see what the signing was all about. there is a good one of Doyle passing me outside and 2 decent ones i took as Jerry signed. You can see what Graves looks like in 1 of these. If interested, email me and we can work out something. I got negatives and am willing to run off the better photos.*********** ewebb@ycp.edu MARK: Dammit! I was hoping to run into you. I was listening into other conversations hoping to here Bible talk (where i would then jump in), but A lot of the crap I heard was"Did you know Danzig was in the Misfits?" SO, i assumed that wasn;t any of the bible members (sarcasm implied). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:38:39 -0800 From: devilman138 Subject: |Box Set I couldn't have asked for anything more. It ripps! devilman138 ------------------------------ From: "AngelfucK" Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:12:58 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #147 Regarding Julio Najara's post in the last bible. I hear ya. Fuck those assholes that think they are better than everyone else because they wasted all their cash on shitty bootlegs. Where I live, there is NO WAY IN HELL I would ever see any original pressings anyways. Just because I don't have the cash (Im a student and I have a shit job) or the access to the old stuff, does not make me any less of a fan. You should have dropped that bitch where she stood. Later ------------------------------ From: jschulz@inwave.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 04:07:44 -0600 Subject: NYC Fiend trip from hell Hey Fiends!! THE SIGNING/DINNER WAS THE BEST!!! CG, Plan-9 (Jaime), myself, my girlfriend and 3 other Fiends from the #Misfits IRC channel met up and got the same hotel. It was the best time of our lives. We tore the hell out of NYC! We waited in Kenny's for 2 hours before the guys came in, and when they did, we had the coolest time. The Misfits are simply the MOST friendly, cool, dedicated guys ever to grace the music scene. They did more for us in a few short hours, than any band I have ever seen/heard about. They are #1 in my book. Michael is a great guy! Doyle diddnt show up for the dinner, I remember something that was said about him cleaning up dog shit in his yard, hehe I hope someone can elaborate on it, as things were really flyin. We met Peter Steele from Type-O who was also very cool (even though he hovered over that pizza like it was gold hehe) and we just had a killer time. We then went and waited in line for another 2 1/2 hours at Generations, and the our IRC clan was like within the forst 20 people in line. I wont go into details about the signing, cause Mark already explained it in the last post, but I assure you, it was a SPEEDY deal. hehe Reminded me of the assembly line at the factory I work at. Before this gets too long (which it already has) I just want to give a few personal msgs to all my friends I saw there.. CrimsonGhost: Dude.. it was a blast!! We HAVE to do it again soon!!!!! Oh and sorry again for lacerating your face with my jacket spikes! heheh and GET THOSE PICTURES DEVELOPED FOR OUR PAGE! Jaime: Well dude, we pulled it off... I hope you had as much fun as I did... Sorry about your ruler. ;) Jaid: You're the best babe. Thanks for helping make it the best Fiend trip ever!! Gotta love ya! Spydee: Thanks for the laughs, and hope we can get together again.. Oh By the way.. QUIT POKING MY FUCKING EYES OUT! heheh QueenWasp: I hope you had fun, and I hope we diddnt scare the hell out of you! hehehe I warned you about us before you came! hehe Loveya.. And finally Mark: Awesome to meet you dude. Hope we can do it again.. But I'm still pissed that they let your ass in to the signing first after we waited 2 hours! heheheh :) To all who couldnt make it: Bummer.. You missed the most awesome experience ever... Thats all.. Hope I diddnt put you all to sleep, but if I did.... Fuck it.. I had fun... Later.. 20 -- 20Eyes #Misfits Undernet channel OP us.undernet.org All Fiends WELCOME! See ya there! ------------------------------ From: jschulz@inwave.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 04:16:53 -0600 Subject: Bobby Steele Hey again Just one more thing that needs to be said.. At about 2pm on Monday, we all walked to Gen. records to do some shopping (hehehe) and we ran into Bobby Steele. I dont care what the hell Glenn says about Bobby, or anyone else for that matter... Bobby Steele is one of the coolest guys ever. We talked to him for quite awhile and he was just so friendly and willing to talk to us. He's quite a guy... I got some great Undead vinyl at the store (which Bobby happily signed) and also picked up all the vinyl 12"s that I never found before in my lame as state. I just cant say enough about this trip. It was definately the high point in my life so far. Everything that happened just kicked ass. We had good friends, good music, and good partying.. It was the best. Sitting around a hotel room at 4am with a bunch of Fiends comparing the 2 tracks of Braineaters and critiquing (fuck it.. dont have the dictionary handy) them. It was the #Misfits IRC channel without IRC.. hope more can hook up with us this next tiem.. I think Jaime will have a post about our plan soon, so watch for it, and READ carefully. if we start early enough, we might have it all worked out before it happens.. Thats enough ranting for now. If my posts bore you, skip them when you see my E-mail address. hehe I am just still too stoked from the show.. Oh I pity the people I work with for the next few weeks. I am gonna be a freak. My Misfits leather jacket is signed by the great Jerry O, and life is good. Later -- 20Eyes #Misfits Undernet channel OP us.undernet.org All Fiends WELCOME! See ya there! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:17:04 GMT From: "One more night spent On your mirror......" Subject: Price of Boxed Set Someone mentioned way back when that the box set was gonna be about 40-60 dollars to buy, the latest reports say its gonna be about 75 dollars which means by the time it gets over here (to england) it will cost 77 pounds which is about 100/90 dollars hmmm seems a little extortionate to me but there you go .k. ------------------------------ From: "AngelfucK" Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:30:56 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #147 I think the guys should produce crimson ghost armbands like they used to wear in the old days. I know I would pay good money to own one, and I would wear it with pride. What do you guys (and girls?) think? Later ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:43:07 -0500 (EST) From: "misfits inc..." Subject: boxed set question hey mark. I got a question and I don't know if this makes any sense or not. I ordered the boxed set early. thru a mail order company over the internet. think it was about a week or a week and a half before the boxed set was to come out. now.. my question is, that on my reciept and on a sticker on the package, there was a #27 on it. does this mean that I have boxed set #27?? I'm confused. any further info on this would be greatly appreciated. thanx!!! the boxed set is totally awesome! I think it's great! well fiends. till next time. Breck ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 11:47:50 EST From: Special-K Subject: Glenn's Nose Hey Fiends, Just a little thread about Glenn's nose job. I have a picture of the band (Danzig) taken right after the release of the first LP. It's from an old magazine called Metallix. Anyway it's definitely post surgery Glenn in the photo. Anyone who has seen what he looked like in the Misifits can tell the difference between the two noses. Also I was in a boot store yesterday and they had a vid of Samhain from 1985. I can't remember where it was taped from but the guy wanted $20 for it. I would have bought it had I not spent all my $$ on the box set. Does any one out there think they have a copy of what might be this vid? If anyone does do you think it's worth the $? Just wondering. Later, Earth-AD "On Earth As It Is In Hell" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:27:12 -0500 (EST) From: Teevie Subject: Glenn's nose job Wow, and I thought Glenn always put his hair over his face in the Misfits and Samhain just 'cuz it made him look more enigmatic... guess he didn't care for his roots...? Quite a pity. I think Italian noses are sexy. Damn, I'd figured the signing would be crowded, but it sounds like I missed a really insane bit of fun! I regret not being able to tear myself away from school for it. Well I would've given everyone a cold anyway. I hope I can still get a chance to meet Bible members, over the summer, perhaps......? we'll see. still waiting for UPS to bring me my box set, Teevie >;0) experience the hatred... http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~ssisson ------------------------------ From: "AngelfucK" Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:09:36 GMT-4 Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #147 Well, somebody else posted their first recolection of the misfits, so I figure I mights as well post mine. It was probably around grade nine, so that would be around seven years ago or so, maybe earlier Im not sure. I had just moved out to BC the year before and and had made the trip back to Alberta to visit my friends. Anyways, they had this tape. It was just refered to as "the tape". Nobody knew who it was. As it turned out, it was a dub of the first collection. That is all we listened to all summer. Then I went home and when I visited the next year nobody gave a shit about the tape anymore. I just had my dubbed copy, but by this time I knew what it was. So I went to the record store (In West Edmonton Mall) and bought a real copy of it and a tape of Earth A.D. By this time my friends had moved on to different music (I think it M.C Hammer or something shitty like that, maybe it was Young M.C, I dont remember but Im pretty sure it had M.C in the title). They ridiculed me for still listening to the misfits. Before I went back home I got in a fight with one of them about it. I never saw them again. It's been 6 years or so scence Ive seen them, but I say if they aren't a fiend the aren't a friend. Later ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:32:59 -0500 From: Jason Appleby Subject: Earth A.D. gold disc for sale I guess I can sell my gold disc now, if there are any collectors looking for it, make an offer. -- Jason Appleby Toronto, Canada jay@interlog.com check out my tape trading list on the web at http://www.interlog.com/~jay/tradel~1.html ------------------------------ From: UJCCURRY@msuvx1.memphis.edu Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:49:01 -0600 (CST) Subject: mass-debate me Bullet's "masturbate me"part, i wonder if it could be a play on mass debate...you know, as a Kennedy reference(yeah, i know that was really dumb) I'm awaiting my box set in the mail, but i have to tell you i am a little dissapointed that there are not any pics of Manny,Robo,or Bobby(and an "accidental?"Joey) each one of these guys should have a few pics in the box. I hope the absence of pics will not dimminish the important contrabutions each made. Ill try to hold off judgement till i get my box(Where is that damn postman!) I think i'm a misfits junkie, i need my fix. Cant wait to hear more signing stories. jamil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:48:02 +0000 From: "Jake Starr/ADAM WEST" Subject: box set i'm happy with the box set. i would have liked to have heard "in the doorways" and other assorted unreleased early stuff, but the sessions disk is pretty cool. it's amazing that some of the same versions appear more than once throughout the set, i.e. "she" (with guitar). it's kind of a shame that all of "legacy of brutality" appeared juxtaposed with the REAL static age. i think it's a waste of valuable space. overall, i think it's awesome. ******************************************************** * Jake Starr/ADAM WEST * * c/o Fandango Records * * 1805 T Street, NW #A * * Washington, DC 20009-7128 * * (202) 483-0065 * * eMAIL: jyas@loc.gov * * http://www.exclamation.com/webtrax/punk/misc/aw.html * ******************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:23:23 -0500 (EST) From: 01wethomas@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Misfits with out Danzig Do any of you guys out there believe as I do about the Misfits being a great band except for Danzig. I find Danzig to be a terrible singer with no sign of talent what so ever. To futher that thought of Danzig being a worthless sack of carbon, I heard from my cousin that works on the cheif advertising staff at Pepsi that he has just cut a deal to sponser the drink for the next three years. The first commercial is supposed to start in April. Also, not many people know that he is really a born again Christian and if one goes to the trouble of playing "Mother" backwards they will hear the words "Jesus is my savior" in one of the refrains(I couldn't tell which because it was backwards). Finally, to dear Adam Seven, I would like to tell you that I can see from your address that you go to Purdue University in Indiana. I live in Indiana and I am going to find you and skull fuck your face. WES "THIS WORLD WILL ONE DAY BOW TO ME" THOMAS ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:45:21 -0500 From: Vince Nestico Subject: Samples of 'DEEP' by Danzig I hate to make this look like an advertisement, but this is a must see for Danzig fans: at http://www.wbr.com/x-files you can download samples of the songs on the 'Songs in the key of X' including the song by Glenn ' DEEP ' also there's one by Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper. _____________________________________________________________________________ T H E ,.__ XXXXXxX xxxXXXXXX ((-\)), xXX xXX | . . { ___. 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It is a really nice collection of stuff. I think the sessions disc and Static Age were worth the whole price. Now, the down side. First of all, even though the packaging looks GREAT, there is still problem with fingerprints. Maybe they shouldn't have used such a glossy material. I had a few problems with some of the songs on there. In particular "Mephisto Waltz" and the C2 remixes. Did we really need all this? I mean, C2 just came out and in my opinion these mixes are inferiour to the others. The other thing was the lack of non-Caroline stuff. Do you realize that there is not a studio version of "All Hell Breaks Loose" on there at all. This really disappointed me. Thats one of my favorite songs. Of course there is also the lack of the unreleased song (In the Walls ?). I was looking forward to this. Oh well, I bitched enough. Like I said at the beginning of this post OVERALL I LOVE THE BOX-SET! These are just a few particulars that bothered me. Other things, now that Static Age is officially released, will it be available on vinyl anytime soon? And secondly, Mark, how do we get a copy of the new Misfits stuff you mentioned last time? (I'm sure there have been 100s of posts about this, but why not one more). Chris aka. LordB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:49:42 -0500 (EST) From: Gabriel Palczewski Subject: Misfits Box Set Review (WEE!) The Misfits Box Set is out by now and I'm sure many many Bible Fiends have their copies. Here is my little ditty of it... CD #1: Collection I/II This is the only cd I least enjoyed probably for the sole reason I've heard it all before, but still for hte people who don't own the collections, it has all the songs that don't fit under the other 3 cd's. I would have thought it to be cooler if they called a cd SINGLES and had the various singles all on it but the 2 collections will do since its the same stuff anyway. CD #2: Legacy/Evilive/Earth A.D. This one suprised me for the sole fact LEGACY OF BRUTALITY songs are even on the box set, but as Mark said last issue it gives you a chance to compare the dubbed versions with the real kickass STATIC AGE stuff. Having EVILIVE on cd rules and not having to switch around collections to hear all of EARTH A.D. on cd is real cool. CD #3: Sessions Now this disc I like. The alternate versions of "Horror Business" and "Children In Heat" are cool plus all the various WALK AMONG US stuff and of course "Cough/Cool". The only bug about this disc is the fact I know they forget when they did the songs, but don't they at least recall the year and month? Other then that, its cool. CD #4: Static Age First real lineup kicking ass, ned I say more? Small beefs/questions 1) Why does the guitar version of "She" appear on hte box set twice (or are they different?) same with "Hollywood Babylon" 2) Eerie Von said the Misfits came at the end of punk's popularity. Tis statement is false for the fact the Misfits formed in 1977, only around a year after the Sex Pistols if my memory recalls correctly, and bands like Sex Pistols and The Clash were on the starting paths to becoming big. I hardly call this the end of punk's first hay-day. 3) In both mine and my friends box set we had 2 pins. I am guessing this an error? Not that I mind I just wondered. ------------------------------ From: ChristoTer@aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:44:13 -0500 Subject: Box questions Three of them. All of them are "what the hell happened to"s. 1. What happened to the Static Age "Children In Heat"? 2. What happened to the Static Age "Feline Nursery"? 3. What happened to "In The Doorways"? Vocals or no vocals, I would've like to have heard "Feline". Just my 2 cents. By the way, I hope I didn't piss anyone off by those 3 questions for getting Max's. I, by no means meant that I thought anyone would turn around and sell the stuff. You never know. That, and it was a good reason for everyone to READ THE BOOK! Hasta, Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 18:26:06 -0500 From: Crimson Ghost Subject: recent issues - irc - box set I really think all of you should just shut the Fuck up! We beat this new punk/old punk thread to a pulp 6 months ago I don't see any reason to do again. If this is all you can fucking post put it on alt.music.punk or whatever 'cause it don't belong here. we don't need any rebuttals either the fucking thread is dead drop it. Wallace836 ( I hate to single you out, but the thread was dying and you just added more fuel - I you got something to say to me about it - or want to know why you are so wrong email me) I'm sorry Mark but this list is turning into a big piece of shit. I hate it I don't even read it anymore unless someone that's got half a brain posts something. I'm not into censorship in any form, so you all have to think twice before you press send. Say to yourself, "Is this post really relevant to this list?" if it's not go beat up a Greenday fan or something, if that's what turns you on. Just don't tell the story of it here. on to better things: Saturday I met Jaime (PLAN-9) at Laguardia Airport I drove him into NYC and met up with Jaid & Spydee. (if more people would check out the misfits irc channel you would know these people) We hung out and talked alot and of course partied ALOT. Sunday Jaid & I picked up Jerry (|20eye's|) and his G/F Mindy Blue Hair. we all had a great time a group shot should be posted to the irc page shortly. http://www.localnet.com/~angstboy/misfit.html within 2 weeks, if your interested. I couldn't make it to the signing because of work obligations but it was more fun for me to get to meet and party with people that I talk to everynight on irc. Sorry we couldn't hook up Mark, one of these days. I had a major hassle trying to find the box set in NJ. As it turned out I couldn't find it. I called Caroline and the guy there, Lou, gave me the number of a store in Linden, NJ that bought a shitload. Well I called and the owner of the place was totally cool and told me that they got shitloads of rare misfits shit and lot's of other punk hardcore stuff too. And most importantly they do Mailorder. I have the info written down but it's at work. I'll post the name, address and phone number for tues. Can't wait to hear all the gripes about the box set on thursday, oh boy another bible to ignore and grow dust. before anybody starts to complain about remember that they didn't have to put out anything. The CD of Static age alone makes the set worth buying. Look at it like this: you just paid $70 for disc 3 & 4 because 1 & 2 you've had in other forms already. narrow it down $35 a disc !! that's a pretty good price considering the fact that one, just one fucking 7" will set you back $250!! you better think about it baby!!!!! The Crimson Ghost - crmsngst@planet.net http://www.planet.net/CrimsonGhost/ find me on Undernet every night around 9:30 or so Nick = CrmsnGhst I'll be in #misfits (of course) anyone who can't figure out irc email me I'll help ------------------------------ From: Sleepycore@aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 19:54:41 -0500 Subject: "Black Aria" I was worshipping the devil the other day when suddenly I realized what an amazing album "Black Aria" is by Glenn Danzig. This album puts the Misfits to shame...it makes the Misfits seem boring. Why spend 70$ on the box set when you could use the money for 5 copies of "Black Aria?" -Bobby Lust ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:08:18 -0600 From: Jaime Obergfell Subject: Earth-Ad gold cd IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE I CAN GET THE EAD GOLD CD EMAIL ME PLEASE.I HAVE BEEN HUNTING IT FOREVER..........PLAN-9 ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:51:33 -0500 Subject: !!!CHILLER!!! The Spring Chiller Theatre Toy, Model, and Film Expo is a little over a month away so I thought I'd post up some info for all those who are thinking of coming in from out of town or have never heard of it before. It's a really great convention. The best of its kind on the East Coast. If you're a fan of horror movies, toys from the 60's and 70's, sci-fi, exploitation films, japanimation, or scream queens wearing next to nothing, this is the place for you. The show is from Friday April 12th to Sunday the 14th at the Meadowlands Hilton in Seacaucus, NJ (home of the Richard Bey show for all of you who don't know where this is). Tickets are: $10 in advance per day & $20 in advance for the special 3-day VIP pass or $13 a day at the door and $25 for the VIP pass at the door. Checks or money orders can be sent to: Chiller Theatre, Inc. /P.O. Box 23/Rutherford, NJ 07070. If you want to stay over night at the hotel, you can call (201) 348-6900 but reservations must be made by April 1st. As of now, the guest list includes ("schedules permitting") ... Carel Struycken ("Lurch" from the Adams Family films), Tura Satana (star of "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" who I HOPE isn't wearing a tight low cut top like she did almost 30 years ago), David Naughton (David from "An American Werewolf in London"), Vernon Wells (Wes the mohawk guy from "THe Road Warrior"), scream queen Brinke Stevens, Zacherle the "Cool Ghoul", and others (a big thrill at the last show was George the Animal Steele who was sitting very quietly at a table signing autographs without a single torn up turnbuckle in sight!). The ad I have said nothing about the Misfits being there but from what Mark heard, they will be. They're sort of Chiller Theatre staples. I think Jerry and Doyle should be made hosts of the show instead of Zacherle but I'm not running the show so ... It's a really amazing show if you're into the whole scene. Tons of dealers with items you'd never find in Blockbuster, Suncoast Video, etc. Even if the Misfits end up not being there, it's still worth your time and money. Anyway, I'll post up directions when April rolls around. Until then ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ From: PDH1021@aol.com Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:14:44 -0500 Subject: The Black Box I like it! Nice job w/the notes Eerie. ("Ich Bin Ein Auslander"...R.W.: thanks for the suggestion) PDH ------------------------------ From: DougKaoz@aol.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:30:00 -0500 Subject: Re: More on my meeting Funny Danzig story. Between Samhain and Danzig, Danzig wasn't too well known. He was in town, Stroudsburg (I imagine he was going to meet with Frazetta), and he went to the local Burger King. The workers there were making fun of him, calling him Elvis, and the like. I wasn't there, but I heard about it later on. -Doug ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:10:36 -0800 From: "Christie M. West" Subject: Unsubscribe New home page under construction at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3007 ------------------------------ From: Caroline Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:47:54 -0500 Subject: Re: box Anyone who has a problem with their box, can send the defective disc (not the case or box or anything else, just the actual CD) along with their address to: Caroline Records 114 West 26th Street 11th Floor New York, NY, 10001 c/o Misfits Box Set - we will supply them with a "good" version of the aforementioned disc as soon as we receive their copy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 23:15:59 -0800 From: Scott Onuczko Subject: box set hey fiends I just spent the last hour talking about the box set and how awesome it was, then I lost is somehow and now you get to read this instead because I don't have time to do it all over again. SOrry (but it wasn't much of a review anyways) I'll just go over some key highlights. I got it in Canada! From Vinyl Ink thru a record store, they special ordered it for me. Anyways I got home and was worried that I would have to write to the bible to find out how to open that damn static age C.D!!! It took me 5 minute to figure out that the lid slid open instead of falling off like the coffin lid or opening like the other 3 disks. Anyways the whole packageing is really neat. I liked the book alot because the only real pictures I've seen of the Misfits have been ones off the homepage and it was really neat to see some in a book that I had in my hands. I also really enjoyed the biography that Eerie Von did. It is very similar to what Mark has about the Misfits in his Misfits Book except that it stops when the misfits broke up in '83. The lyrics are very accurate as far as I can tell. I haven't checked out the homepage's lyrics recently but if wolfsblood's lyrics are still incorrect they sound really good to me in the book. They also have different Spinal Remains lyrics and AMerican Nightmare. Does anybody know who wrote the lyrics in the book that comes with the box set? The whole thing was definately worth my $90 (canadian) and should be sought by all. the tracks that stood out the most during my first listen to the C.D's was Disc 3 9-12 (vampira sounds awesome) and disc 4 9-14 (theme for a jackal was always one of my favorite songs though). HOwever I must be going. Scott Onuczko ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:26:02 -0500 From: She Subject: stuff Hey fiends - just some odds and ends. Steve Zing's Chyna page is now up - www.eclipse.net/~vulcan/chyna . The Caroline contest got 60-70 entries - I guess everyone really did wait until the last minute. Sorry for yelling about it earlier. I wish I could have met some of you at the box signing. I was down in the basement with the band the whole time, sometimes behind the table and sometimes hanging out in the record section. Someone recently mentioned something about a Damned song about Plan 9. Bobby says he's almost positive that the song was based on The Misfits since it was written soon after they played together for the first time. As for Bobby, a LOT, and I mean a TON of information that I have on the page is from him. He remembers everything and he calls me whenever he finds another fact for me... He's a nice guy and he cares a lot about the fans... By the way, he corrected me on my story about the 12/17/81 show. It wasn't even him that Glenn was yelling at during Evilive. The whole audience was throwing things at the Misfits, and Bobby was just watching them from up in the balcony, not throwing anything. As for the box set, I discovered one picture with Robo in it, down at the bottom of 2 different pages. The photo is repeated in mirror image fashion. Also, there is a picture with Bobby's arm in it. In the first photo of Glenn when you open the book, on the left page, you can see Bobby's arm playing his guitar behind Glenn. That's all. But it's definitely him. That picture was taken at the 10/31/79 show, for which a video exists SOMEWHERE. See you later. Mark ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | P.O. Box 310 | Vernon, NJ 07462 The views expressed here are those of the individual authors only. 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Danzig III help Re: Misfits Bible, #148 complaints / Rare Vinyl Jerry Update 3/2/96 Three points from hell T-Shirts For Sale New Songs New song lyrics stuff Misfits Box Box set kicks ass Metallica for Misfits BILE666: Songwriter A great week! Europe Tour Announcement man your spacebars... vampira More Box Set - remarks Static Age question "Subscribe" Attack of Bobby Steele ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Box Set From: Chris Myers Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 21:51:25 AST Hey, cant wait for the box set. All your reports are getting me fired up for it. I'm in Alaska so I ususally have to wait 1or2 (sometimes alot more) days, I sure hope it's here soon. I am looking for ANY 7". I dont have a vinyl of ANY band, in fact, if you knew my age, you'd probably hate me, but hey, I dont care. Anyways, and 7" (especially Halloween, and 3 Hits From Hell), it dont matter to me what print. I also want the Creepy Compilation video, I have never seen a Misfits video of any kind. thanks chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:41:22 -0600 (CST) From: "J. Jorden" Subject: The Box o' course... Ok, it's GREAT! But here's a few little bitches: Disc One- Not necissary. Well, maybe a "singles" disc, but not in that form. Disc Two- Legacy not really needed, though the stuff that Glenn didn't overdub isn't too bad. Evillive has some really bad noise in it (that i don't remember from the vinyl) and I never liked that performance much anyway, so fuck it... Earth AD sounds good, and should be in there. Disc Three- Needed to be two discs. Everything! Shoot, I'd have paid $15 extra if it had more "new" stuff and less reissue of stuff already on CD. Cough/Cool and She sound like they went through a meatgrinder though (the tape itself) I SWEAR my boot copy sounds better. Ahh whatcha gonna do. Disc Four- Great. NOW PUT IT OUT ON VINYL!! Disc Four was the real jewel. I like this very very much. And Three to a lesser degree. As for the packaging, my gripes: The cover with fake woodgrain is ok (i was hoping for real wood which would be rad!) outside the rest is fine. Inside, the felt was shedding on the Disc Four when i pulled it out. I think that felt stuff will fall apart real quick. The jewel boxes are kinda shatty. I mean, they're designed nice but the plasic is glossy and it is... plastic. If they were some kind of metal that would be interesting. The pin is really nice though! And the book is cool though a bit too much like Raygun, etc. I love it. And it took me 10 minutes to figure out Static Age too! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 04:53:34 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Weddle Subject: Box Set track listing please! could someone please either post a complete track listing to the bible or e-mail me the list? thanks, markw@southwind.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:22:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Nathan D. Lequieu" Subject: box set rules!!!!! fiends, just closed the coffee shop i happen to work at and am now blasting disk #3 of the Box Set. Yes, I think that it definitly kicks ass...it's about time!!!! I paid $62.00 for mine--all the way out here in Oregon. Static Age is the best !!!! That's all for now, I must go listen more!! ..gotta have you on my wall... Nate ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:37:20 -0500 (EST) From: WickedKingWicker Subject: WTF! Danzig in stroudsburg! damn i miss everything cause i go to school in fl... first the box set signing, now this... and i'll miss the chiller show too... i may have even gotten to meet danzig, cause my mom is friends w/ FF's son... oh well... :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: Jess Cyphers cyphersj@polaris.ncs.nova.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i will live forever, for i am truly blessed; my name will live in infamy, synonymous with death. -the electric hellfire club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ------------------------------ From: She Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #148 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:42:44 -0500 (EST) > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:17:04 GMT > From: "One more night spent On your mirror......" > Subject: Price of Boxed Set > > Someone mentioned way back when that the box set was gonna be about 40-60 > dollars to buy, the latest reports say its gonna be about 75 dollars which > means by the time it gets over here (to england) it will cost 77 pounds which > is about 100/90 dollars hmmm seems a little extortionate to me but there you The list price for the box is something like 69.98 and at the signing, it was selling for $49.99 plus tax. It just depends where you find it. Good luck everyone. > From: "misfits inc..." > Subject: boxed set question > hey mark. I got a question and I don't know if this makes any sense or not. > I ordered the boxed set early. thru a mail order company over the internet. > think it was about a week or a week and a half before the boxed set was to > come out. now.. my question is, that on my reciept and on a sticker on the > package, there was a #27 on it. does this mean that I have boxed set #27?? The boxes weren't numbered. You were probably the 27th person to order the box from that mail order company. > From Lordb: > available on vinyl anytime soon? And secondly, Mark, how do we get a > copy of the new Misfits stuff you mentioned last time? (I'm sure there > have been 100s of posts about this, but why not one more). I'll have more info on the 5 new Misfits tracks in the next few days. I should have them by Saturday. > From Azrael: > 3) In both mine and my friends box set we had 2 pins. I am guessing this > an error? Not that I mind I just wondered. Yep, a nice error for you. Two is better than one. > From: ChristoTer@aol.com > > Three of them. All of them are "what the hell happened to"s. > 1. What happened to the Static Age "Children In Heat"? Well, this is sort of my fault for listening to rumors. It was NEVER recorded. There is no version of Children In Heat with Franche' on guitar. He did it live, but never in the studio. > 2. What happened to the Static Age "Feline Nursery"? Another error. Jerry and Franche' were wrong on this one. They didn't remember that right before doing the Static Age session, Glenn changed the lyrics to "Feline Nursery". When LEGACY came out in '85, the just assumed the vocal track had been knocked out and that Glenn had gone ahead and replaced it. They were wrong. The master tape has Spinal Remains and NO Feline Nursery. We will never hear what it originally sounded like. > 3. What happened to "In The Doorways"? Another rumor, spread from someone to Mike Stax to me to you all. Sorry fiends. mark ------------------------------ From: UJCCURRY@msuvx1.memphis.edu Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:03:00 -0600 (CST) Subject: box Got back from post office took my Woody guthrie disc that i checked out of the library out of my player and proceeded to enjoy the box set. Speaking of the library, should i donate my now obsolete CDs to them so that other fiends and potential fiends could check em out or do i sell em for 5$? i dont know. Something i have gotten from my library is 3 collected volumes of the Sandman by DC comics. I mention this because the artist who does covers for the sandman is the same guy who did the cover for the box set booklet. The Sandman isnt your typicall funny book, good writting and enough reffrences to old DC horror comics to keep any Fiend happy. I highly rcomend it. While i am recomending stuff...What do you get when you cross the picture of Glenn all decked out w/ skeleton suit and make up on with the satic from the static age group shot? The band photo from the inside of Rocket from the Crypt's Scream dracula scream. Box set stuff, OVer all pretty good but... My Static age Cd wont stay in it's case, falls right out. One of my cases had a big scratch on it 2 of the same pics of doyle? one of those could have been Bobby. Would have liked to have had more music, Attitude live, inst.versions, more studio stuff, and even Glenn's solo stuff. There is a lot ofunused space on each disc. And now some dumb questions that no one will answer: What does Jerry's bass sound like nowadays? more,less,or same distortion? What is in the body of Doyle's les paul?(Paul's paul?) and why did he ditch the les for an Iceman? I believe i heard a NIke w/ a more pronounced keyboard part years ago. Is there more than one nike w/ key boards out there? Saw a Sicko video about a year and a half ago they did an up-tempo astro zombies , anybody Know the date of this concert? Could Glenn have re recorded Brain eaters with the fore thought of "Hey, if i dont record another version of this song it wont be on the box set" ................ just a thought jamil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:10:31 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: what did he say? Hey fiends, Just another one of my stupid little observations. Listen to "Return of the Fly". Now, I know the lyrics are "Helen Delambre, Helen Delambre...." But listen to the song and tell me that that part doesn't sound like Glenn is saying "Little Anzalone, Little Anzalone". Oh well, just thought it was funny. --Lord Kenatos ------------------------------ From: ZOMBIE65SH@aol.com Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:09:48 -0500 I have to agree with "AngelFuck" I think that the crimson ghost armbands should made available for fiends to buy. I would definately want one to wear. Smitty Hines ------------------------------ From: kriney@uhavax.hartford.edu Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 15:10:01 EDT Subject: RE: Misfits Bible, #148 Mark-In bible 147, you mentioned that Bible members would get the first shot at ordering the new Misfits song, "Black Light", can you please go into more detail about this.... also if the Misfits (of old) were girls, I think that their names should have been Gwen Danzig -volcals Sherry Only -bass Doylie -guitars Martha(r) Googy-drums Also about Bobby Steele sending mail, I wrote him a few months ago, and sent a tape insert for him to sign, and he sent me back a signed personal letter, an Undead catalog, and the autographed tape insert...what a guy About Eerie Von, I e-mailed him re:Rosemaries Babies 7", thinking that he had tons of them lying around and he was selling them for like 10-15 bucks, but he wanted $50 for it..now this was rediculous to me...the only reason that any of us would even want that 7", is because he played on it, not because they were some well known band, or anything, maybe he's desperate for money or something....he also said that the "Uneasy listening" soundtrack would be out soon....and that he aslo plays in a blues band..... Straight edge, Vegetarian, Fiend, and Punk as fuckin hell!!!!!! later love goat- ptyc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 21:17:03 GMT Subject: box set!! From: Brian Green i just finished reading everyone else's review of the box set so i thought i would put my two cents in. the box set (of course) kicks ass!!the packaging was really good but there were some things that i thought could have used some help.there should have been pics from each of the lineups that have been cause i have not seen all that many pics of any of the earlier era.the photos of glenn with the skull paint on his face were great.very fiendish! the one thing that i absolutely love about the box set is the "sessions" disc!i really enjoyed the version of "night of the living dead" with just glenn doing the "whoas".i have to say that my favorite songs though are the very first ones ever recorded, "cough/cool" and "she". i think "she" should have never had a guitar line put on it. it sounds so ominous and brooding with a keyboard. funny tidbit: i, too, had trouble getting the "static age" cd out. i tried for like 5 minutes (all the while studying and looking at it very close) to open it and finally i slid it out.doh! final remarks: i have the balzac "atom age vampire in 308" 45 if someone wants a dubbed version.email me. later ghoulie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 18:43:43 -0500 From: She Subject: Corrections Eerie emailed me recently and informed me that the mirror image photo of the band does NOT include Robo. The person in that picture is just a friend of Arthur's. As for nose jobs, he informed me that Glenn had 2. One sometime before the first Samhain show, and another around '85. Apparently Jerry had broken Glenn's nose from time to time swinging his bass around. Thanks Eerie mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:25:06 -0800 (PST) From: "hollister's hair" Subject: note: >Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:23:23 -0500 (EST) >From: 01wethomas@bsuvc.bsu.edu >Subject: Misfits with out Danzig > > Do any of you guys out there believe as I do about >the Misfits being a great band except for Danzig. I find Danzig to >be a terrible singer with no sign of talent what so ever. etc., etc... quick note: fuck you. Mike mtw4@axe.humboldt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 17:26:28 EST From: Special-K Subject: Box Set by E-AD Hey Fiends, Well here's my take on the box. At first I was skeptical before its release but now I must recant my previous statements. It truly is an excellent collection. The pictures themselves are worth the $$. It is a shame that they didn't include at least one picture of all the members but I'll definitely settle for the ones they did include. I too had problems opening up that damn Static Age. I actually took it too my friends room and he's the one who figured it out. I like the way they packaged the other CD's. The cases look FUCKIN AWESOME with the gold lettering and the CG on the top. I do wish they would have put Feline Nursery on but oh well. That's all for now hope everyone enjoys their Box Set. Later, Earth-AD "On Earth As It Is In Hell" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 17:32:49 EST From: Special-K Subject: Glenn no talent?!?! Give me a break Hey Fiends, Ok last Bible somebody wrote that Glenn Danzig had no talent. Gee that's news to me. I don't understand how you can like a band and call the person who wrote the majority of the songs "not talented". Even the ppl who don't like his current music agree that he has talent. I mean come on! Later, Earth-AD "On Earth As It Is In Hell" ------------------------------ From: ewebb@ycp.edu Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 21:29:15 EST Subject: RE: Misfits Bible, #148 What in the hell was the guy thinking that said Glenn was worthless carbon and that he was a shitty singer. Ofcourse we all agree with you dumbass, he sucked sooooooo bad that we all love the misfits despite his putrid lyrical contribution. how great they could have been. too bad Rod Stewart was busy. webbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ------------------------------ From: Krusty704@aol.com Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:57:52 -0500 Subject: a whole bunch of stuff I've been getting the misfits bible for a wgile and I just felt like writing in. Anyway, I have some questions and comments. about what happened to julio najara i agree with what angel and he said. That girl is just a trendy arrogant schmoe who thinks she's better than everyone. At least I think she probably is. I ordered the misfits box set ($69.99) and should be coming in a couple of weeks. I hope its everything I've heard it is & more. this is a question for mark or whoever else could answer it, what is glenn danzig and rest of the misfits singing at the end of the braineaters version on collection II ? Or are they just mumbling "why can't we have some guts" underneath their breath. ANd in closing, does anybody know when the misfits are going to tour the U.S.?(if they do i hope they come to Illinois,it would be a dream come true if i could see them play live) LATER KRUSTY704 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 00:00:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert G. McFeaters" Subject: That coffin thing I got the box on Thursday. Things that I liked: 1. Eerie Von's notes. What a great guy. A true fan. 2. CD #3. Slower versions and a few different lyrics. 3. Evilive. finally on CD!! 4. The Static Age Case. Tough to open! Hold it up to a light--Bloody! 5. Teenagers From Mars and Children In Heat--together like they should be. 6. Original Cough/Cool and She. 7. That great shot of Glenn's original beak. (Right by Theme for a Jackal lyrics) Things that sucked: 1. The cases for CD #1-3. 2. CD #1 -- what is the point? 3. Static Age--the album --What is the point here? Why even call this another album? Same shit different place. 4. THE complete LYRICS. It is a shame that Glenn and Jerry couldn't have collaborated on this Box Set. They will both make money from the sales of this thing -- Why not an accurate representation of their shared past? 5. The Price $60.00 -- bullshit! Yeah Jerry, you don't want to be corporate. Anyone ever heard of the Swindle? Jerry: Hey guys, check this out. The old vinyl fetches high prices (proof of demand), "punk" is back in, Glenn is on MTV now. Whattya say? Corporate Dicks: Yeah, great idea, let's reissue, repackage, add some tracks, make the packaging cheap as shit, throw in a shitty "special enamel" badge (made from space-age polymers) and charge these brat kids 60 bucks. Oh yeah, we'll say that it is collectable and limited. Those words always seem to help sales. I think Jerry took some marketing classes after the Misfits broke up. I guess he learned something from Glenn afterall. 6. No "new" old songs. It is obvious to me that more effort was put into making this box set profitable than into making it a great Misfits piece. Cynical.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 12:45:36 -0500 (EST) From: "julio c najara jr." Subject: Repressings (Jerry Only MRR Interview) Hey Fiends I'm sure all of you read the Jerry Only Interview in Maximum Rock N'Roll a few months ago (issue #151 to be exact). In this interview Jerry mentioned how he was planning to begin selling all the bootlegs through the mail for about four bucks a piece. Is this still in the works or is it no longer going to happen. Also he said all the stuff is going to be repressed ( well almost everything). I know Static Age will be rereleased on its own later on this year on vinyl and cd but what about the other releases? If anyone's interested in some live 7" recordings or cd's (I'm Anti-bootleg by the way) There's this store In Tampa called Sound Idea. I don't have the address on me at the moment I'll post it next issue or you could pick up any issue of MRR and there are plenty of ads for the store. Julio Najara P.S. Bobby Lust Do me a favor and go fuck yourself! Black Aria is a piece of shit that's not even worth a quarter. You must have plenty of free time on your hands to come on this page and fucking put down In my opinion the most important band in the history of underground music. So fuck fuck fuck and fuck you again because you shouldn't even have the right to have access to the bible if all you're gonna do is post something to piss people off. Don't get me wrong everyone's entitled to their opinion but who in their right mind would compare a crappy 28 minute album to a box set of the greatest songs ever written by the greatest band of all time. ------------------------------ From: The Mocellas Subject: braineaters video Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 15:37:31 -0500 hey, this is my fist time writing, and I'm just looking for some info on the infamous "brain eaters video". Does this exist? I have on old interview with Jerry talking about it, but I can't seem to locate one.....any info would be appreciate it, just e-mail my above adress.....Ratboy ------------------------------ From: Keith138@aol.com Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 16:15:03 -0500 Subject: ANGRY RED Fanzine Hell-o,Fiends!If anyone is iterested, I've got a 'zine out called ANGRY RED, it is solely dedicated to Misfits,Samhain,Danzig and related bands. Subs are $13 for seven issues.The first issue is still available at a discounted price of $1. It contains some cool fiend art , forum , opinion poll , and other stuff including an interview I did with Bobby Steele back around '90 that's never seen print until now. Issue #2 will have a Jerry Only interview, and I'm trying to work something out w/Eerie for issue #3. Send check or money order to Keith Huening , 5883 Kyles Station , Hamilton,Ohio 45011 or if ya want more info e-mail to keith138@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 16:59:01 -0500 (EST) From: Teevie Subject: Yeah, yeah, me too I finally got my BOX SET today. A tremendous production, even if it is missing some odds and ends for the completist. I'm glad to hear these demos at the correct speed... most of my bootlegged demos are so many generations old that Glenn sounds like Alvin the Chipmunk. So is that Bobby, not Franche, on both Children in Heats on the Sessions disc? I was surprised so much of the info on that disc is listed as "unknown"... I wonder if anybody asked Bobby for help listing it? Probably not. Umm, some rapscallian last Bible made disparaging comments about EV's liner notes, and I would like to remind the lad that Eerie is indeed online and can see the Misfits Bible. Also of course that Eerie is a first-generation Misfits fan and provides a unique perspective on the 'Fits experience. Beats the hell out of most of us here, that's for sure. Take it easy, freaks... Teevie >;0) experience the hatred...http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~ssisson ------------------------------ From: satan@relex.com Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:41:30 -0500 Subject: BOX SET! Well, I finally got the Box Set Thursday night cause no one had the damn thing in! I finally got it though. I saw it there and I was like "yes"!!!! The saleslady asked me what I was looking for as I picked it up, and she said "Oh that ragedy old thing!" I shouldve punched her in her mouth!!! But I just stared at her and went and bought it. She had a lot of nerve because I was wearing all Misfits stuff too! Anyway, about the set. I like the packaging, especially the red on the inside. The Static Age case was cool though it opened weird. I though it was cool. The set was nice. I was glad to see Spook City and Evilive is great as usual. I thought the Versions of "She" and Cough/Cool" on sessions were cool. All in all, the whole thing ruled. The artwork on the booklet was very cool. The picture of Glenn on Marilyn Monroes sidewalk thing was fucking great! Eerie's little story was Ok I guess, but the best part is definetelyt he sessions CD. The pin was cool too. I know there will be a lot of stupid criticism about as usual on here, but I think it was a great set. The only thing is the finger prints suck, but I can deal with it. Does anyone know anything about DANZIG V? I can't seem to get any info on it. Also, does anyone know anything about tour plans for Danzig. I heard he was going ont he biggest tour ever. Whatever you know will be cool.. SaTaN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SaTaN...Ruler of the Underworld ----------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail : satan@ns1.relex.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- SaTaN's band REALM can be found at... http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/artists/r/realm or ftp.uwp.edu /pub/music/artists/r/realm ----------------------------------------------------------------- I Don't Have Enough Middle Fingers!!!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 18:45:14 -0500 From: Crimson Ghost Subject: BOX SET !!!! I GOT SOMETHING TO SAY I GOT MY BOX SET TODAY AND IT DOESN'T MATTER MUCH TO ME.... FUCK THAT YES IT DOES!!!!!! When I got home on Thursday there it sat on the sofa waiting for me. I stared at the beautiful red, white & blue, US MAIL 2 day priority box, which happened to arrive to me in just 24 hours, I stared at the box for a little bit. When I decided that I teased myself enough, I ripped the fucker open like a man possessed. It took me ten minutes to open the Satic Age case. I was ready to just bust the fucker open, but I remained calm. I finally got it open. I carried it, like the holy grail to my computer and popped it in, my computer audio runs through my keyboard rig (250w). As soon as I heard STATIC STATIC STATIC, I almost came in my pants. It was awesome! The quality of everything was top-notch. Well actually, I thought Last Caress didn't quite have the frequency response as the rest, but I'm not complaining. For the last three years I've been one of the band's biggest supporters. Problem is I always thought I was being hypocritical because I was never happy with the quality of anything. I liked the stuff and listened to it, but never considered myself a REAL fan. Boy was I suprised. Static Age is the quintessential Misfits collection, a must have for anyone who considers themselves a fiend. I believe now what Jerry told me a long time ago, had Static Age come out when it was supposed to, and got even the slightest record company support, it would have reshaped the NY punk scene. Up to now when asked what my favorite Misfits tunes were, I replied Hollywood Babylon, Last Caress & Hatebreeders. Now when asked I'd have to say ANYTHING on Static Age, putting Static Age, TV Casualty & Some Kinda Hate at the top of the list! Don't get me wrong, I always liked these tunes it's just that something was wrong with them and the master sounded like a horse took a massive shit on it. In short Static Age starts with Static Age and builds to a climax with Bullet. It would be a great album to have sex to! after bullet cums, Theme for a Jackal is the proverbial cigarette after the orgasm! The whole box set renews my love for the band. After listening to Static Age and the sessions disc I called Mark and talked to him for about an hour, he basically had to sit there and listen to me gush and carry on about how great the box set is. It's funny that Mark & I have never met, it seems that I've known him forever, and I consider him a good friend. Incidentally, I will be going to UVA in the near future to spend a weekend with him, its about time! To: Jerry, Glenn, Doyle, Frank, Caroline Records & Others, I think I speak for everyone on this list (and there's over 650 of us) when I say: Thank you for everything! Especially the fact that you were all able to put your diferences aside and work together on this. You've put out an amazing collection. I never believed that this set would come to fruition, I figured it would end in a pissing match like other projects. boy was I ever wrong. We thank you for everything, but most of all we thank you for the music!! HOW TO OPEN STATIC AGE (for those of you that are really stupid or those that haven't bought it yet) Hold the case in two hands with the back towards you, so that you have the songlist facing up (you can read it) using your thumbs, just slide the back cover away from you. that's all there is to it. Some people seem to be complaining that the set is easily scratched and fingerprinted. They are absolutely right! If you want to preserve the set here's what you gotta do. DO NOT open the set until you get it home. First buy yourself 4 plastic jewel cases (replacement cd cases) Wash your hands them rinse them with rubbing alcohol let them air dry. Carefully remove the shrink wrap apen up the box, open all the CD cases and put the discs in the new cases, remove the booklet, put the original cases back into the box separating each of them with a small peice of paper. Close the box back up, wrap it in saran wrap and put the fucker away. You can do like I did and just write on the new cases with magic marker or you can get creative and make your own sleeves for the CD's, Static Age comes with a nice sleeve that photocopies well. I'm not kidding scratches appear on the original cases like magic, you either have to use new cases or be prepared to destroy the originals. The packaging is cool as shit, but not very practical. After my wife went to work that day, my daughter and I had a great time listening to Static Age. For those of you that don't know, Sara is 2 1/2 and into Barney, The Lion King, Violent Femmes, anything techno and the Misfits. She was quite taken by TV Casualty, we had a ggod timem jumping around the living room, it was a blast teaching her how to mosh! Anybody ever mosh on their knees before?? The Crimson Ghost - crmsngst@planet.net http://www.planet.net/CrimsonGhost/ find me on Undernet every night around 9:30 or so Nick = CrmsnGhst I'll be in #misfits (of course) anyone who can't figure out irc email me I'll help ------------------------------ From: "SEAFARER!Andrew McLaughlin"@uunet.uu.net Date: Fri, 01 Mar 96 14:58:00 EST Subject: Box Set ....and the CD cases I have to agree with all of the great comments so far on the box set. It's great to finally have Evilive on CD and the sessions disc incredible as is the static age disc. Disc 1, I think is on there to complete the set of the fiend that doesn't have the first two collections. I probably wont listen to it too often, however, it sounds like the traks are slightly re-mixed- Anyone know if this is true? It took be a solid minute to figure out the static age cd and its workings. I like the booklet as well, although incomplete. I don't remember who it was that said they didn't like the writing and the font, but I think it is great and the writing is similar to that on the WAU record insert. The set is a definite must purchase to complete anyone Misfits collection! The time at Generation was great and everyone that was there was pretty cool. I got there around 1:00 and the line was pretty long but it went fast, maybe 45 min. It was great to have the set autographed by everyone. Does anyone have any predictions on wether Glenn would autograph the set? I certainly hope so, however, I think he might be offended by some of the autographs. Thanks to the guy that posted that X-files link with the Danzig song DEEP, I actually spent an hour and a half trying to find it after I originally head about it. Good luck trying to decipher through all the x-files pages and lingo. I thought we were phanatics- these people are something eles.............. I was wondering if anyone could scan in the covers of the four CD cases. The ones that Caroline gave us are kind of flimsy and I would like to have a decent scan of the covers to print out and make my own dummy cases that look somewhat similar to what I purchased. This way I can preserve the quality of the box set and still enjoy my CD's. I did this with 4P so I wouldn't wear down the seam in the digipak. It worked great. Plus, I think the scans would complete the graphical discography as well. Also, to the guy who had the conflict with the girl over the Misfits box set-FFFForget about that girl- If she was a bigger Misfits fan than you than she would have beaten you to the copy, but she didn't-good for you! see ya, Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 01:11:00 -0500 From: Nick Veauthier Subject: Please put include in the bible. To any and all fiends, Just like the rest of you, I collect Misfit's "stuff," but I'm a fan and love the music first. I've spent my time on Mark's page and know the rules, but there seems to be no other option. I've sent several E-Mail messages to subscribers and collectors (including many rare video and music sites), but I can't find the Creepy Compilation. If you have it PLEASE E-Mail me so we can maybe work out how I can maybe get a dubbed or original copy. I'd appreciate any help. Thanx, and hope to hear from some of you. Nick Veauthier--E-Mail--misfit@imperium.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 02:36:35 -0500 From: She Subject: Danzig III help Hi Fiends, do any of you out there have a copy of Danzig III on CD that isn't a picture CD? These were rumored to exist, and I figured that if one exists, one of the 671 of us will have one. mark ------------------------------ From: gingoblin@easynet.co.uk Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:45:04 GMT Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #148 >Someone recently mentioned something about a Damned song about Plan 9. >Bobby says he's almost positive that the song was based on The Misfits since >it was written soon after they played together for the first time. > No chance! The Damned song is actually about the alleged affair between James Dean and and Vampira (Maila Nurmi in real life!). "She lays a wreath of lillies on his grave, he played God along with the love he never gave". Why would the Damned do a song about the Misfits record label?!! On another Damned point, I talked to Dave Vanian about the Misfits a few years ago, and he told me he had tapes of him singing with them. I think he meant Samhain as I'm sure he mentioned that Archangel was one of the ones he did. He promised me the tapes, but this was about 6-7 years ago, and every time I've seen him since he'd forgotten. Last time I mentioned them he said they'd been lost when he moved flat. He must have them somewhere, or else he wouldn't have mentioned them to me in the first place. Maybe one day... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 12:27:56 -0500 From: Crimson Ghost Subject: complaints / Rare Vinyl --->Blood Feast said: >booklet really sucks. Eerie Von couldn't write his way out of a >paper bag. And I really hate the grunge font. the misfits were >not about broken typewriters, they were about broken bones. Oh >well, I guess it's senseless to complain, I just wish that all >the effort they put into this thing would have shone through. >Instead, It looks like something they threw together in an hour. Eerie Von can't write? Thrown together in an hour? that's fuct! If you think I'm gonna ignore this post because I talk to you on irc all the time, you are dead wrong!@! Eerie's liner notes are some of the best I've ever read. The set is one of the nicest I've ever seen. No, it was not made to be durable, It was made to be special. And that it is. Thrown together in an hour, shit bldfeast you obviously know absolutely nothing about packaging. If you knew the cost involved just for the engineer & machinist to design & make the mold for the Static Age cover you'd shit your pants. The materials used are all top notch and expensive glossy coated stocks double the price on stuff like this! Most box sets are simply that, a box wrapped in cheap stock with 3 or 4 discs in it. Our boys went out of they're way to put together something that really is special. Yes it's glossy & it fingerprints easy but who gives a fuck it looks cool as shit. Oh well I guess some people have to complain about everything. The record store I was talking about last week is: Izzy's 904 West St. Georges Ave. Linden, NJ 07036-5652 (908) 486-3303 (ask for Izzy - use my Name Crimson Ghost) it's an experiment to see if internet advertising would work. With the release of the box set the majority of Misfits stuff he had is gone :( But he does stock other punk/hardcore bands. he has in stock: Samhain unholy passion - tan Beware - green (boot?) Evilive - green vinyl Samhain - Initium mint (signed in pen by Glenn) I think this one is Red?? he wants $200 for the initium but it is signed I think it's about $125 or so mint in the first place. I talked to Izzy for about a half hour, he is really cool. He will maintain a want list for you and when something on your list comes in you will get first right of refusal on it. He also does mail order, mastercard/visa If you call talk to Izzy and most importantly tell him Crimson Ghost sent you. The Crimson Ghost - crmsngst@planet.net http://www.planet.net/CrimsonGhost/ find me on Undernet every night around 9:30 or so Nick = CrmsnGhst I'll be in #misfits (of course) anyone who can't figure out irc email me I'll help ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 12:45:41 -0500 From: She Subject: Jerry Update 3/2/96 THE SHOCKING RETURN OF THE MISFITS (East Coast Mini-Tour) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 04/29/96 TBA Raleigh, NC 04/30/96 TBA Charlotte, NC 05/01/96 9:30 Club Washington, DC 05/02/96 Trocadero Philadelphia, PA 05/03/96 Middle East Club Boston, MA 05/04/96 Club Babyhead Providence, RI 05/05/96 Subzero Club Danbury, CT 05/10/96 Opera House Toronto, Canada 05/11/96 Showplace Theater Buffalo, NY 05/12/96 Saratoga Winters Albany, NY 05/13/96 TBA Cleveland The April shows may not actually occur, but the other shows are pretty definite. The band will probably be attending the NAMTA Convention in Canada between the Danbury and Toronto shows. They originally had planned to do a show at The Spectrum on 05/06/96 in Montreal, but due to the previous poor sales at Samhain and Danzig shows, The Spectrum cancelled on them. At this point, the band is looking for shows to play between the 5th and 10th of May. Ideally they'd be able to reschedule the Buffalo and Albany shoes, but if not, Jerry wants all fiends to keep an eye open for somewhere for them to play between those dates. Anywhere within 50 to 60 miles of Scranton, PA and Cleveland, OH that holds 600-1000 people is okay. Remember, all these dates are subject to change! The band may be doing an autograph signing at the NAMTA convention if any fiends are interested in looking into that. Basically, the NAMTA convention is some sort of art get-together where The Misfits have met most of their airbrushers and artist friends. They'll be at the convention to support their friends. The tour is being organized by Ken Kriete (Type O Negative's manager). Anyone with a good idea about where to play can fax Ken at (718) 259-0634. After doing the tour of the east coast, the band will eventually do the west, the south, and later the northwest sections of the US. The plan is based on the weather. They want to hit the hot places while it's still cool, and the northern places when it's warmest. BLACK LIGHT 7" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pushead will probably be doing the artwork for this single. It will hopefully be recorded and pressed up after the East Coast Tour. Jerry plans to press up 10,000 copies of this single on glow-in-the-dark vinyl and sell them at the shows for $10 along with a poster of the cover art. After the tour is over, the leftover copies will be available from the Fiend Club, IF there are any left. The money earned from this single will go towards recording the next Misfits album. The plan is to keep the band independent. Jerry wants the only people involved with this band to be The Misfits and the fans. That's it. The band has spent a lot of money and time on the shirts, the equipment, and the tour of Europe, and they're hoping that everyone comes out to support the band on this tour. CHILLER THEATRE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Misfits will no longer be doing Chiller Theatre, so don't expect to see them at the convention this year. The Chiller Theatre Presents series that they filmed at the last Horror Convention will be renamed The Misfits Fiend Club movies series, and all the interviews they filmed at the convention in October will have to be redone. The band apologizes to Bela Lugosi, Ron Chaney, Basil Gogos, Roger Corman and the others who spent time doing interviews with the band. Jerry also apologizes to the fiends who came up to the convention and missed the band because of the interviews. If he had known how things were going to turn out, he would have spent time with the fiends, instead of doing the interviews. The movie series will come out eventually, after they redo the interview segments. The series features a black and white opening scene of the band walking through a moonlit graveyard with torches and entering Dracula's Castle. FIEND CLUB ~~~~~~~~~~ The final 500-600 fiends who joined the Fiend Club by Halloween will be getting their membership packages some time in April. I talked to Jerry about the Fiend Club stickers (since some of you have asked) and he does not know if they're waterproof or not. He suspects they might be because they're at least partially vinyl. Jerry hopes to have Fiend Club badges (identical to those in the box set) available for Fiend Club members by December. Doyle is also working on a new project - Misfits Armbands. That's about all that's happening in Misfits land... Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 18:32:44 -0500 From: "Horror Businessman." Subject: Three points from hell Point 1. I finally got THE box on Friday. I ordered it from Vinyl Ink...better late than never. Anyways, I will give my 3 cents. 1) Spook City U.S.Nay. Single version rocks out. 2) What happened to Horror Hotel & All Hell? Only live versions? Those are my only real complaints. Great book and wonderful layout. Those alternate versions make the set...Vampira, Horror Biz, Where Eagles Dare, Martian. Static Age rocks...Hybrid, Teenagers, etc. Point 2. I am all for the "reissue" of the armbands. I'd wear mine everyfuckinwhere. If anyone important is listening... Maybe sell em thru the Fiend Club? Point 3. Who is the guy holding the Mickey Mouse doll, wearing the mask in the book (It is a double page pic)? Keepin the Bible about the fits, HorrorBiz ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 21:03:12 -0600 (CST) From: RaTTFiNK Subject: T-Shirts For Sale I am selling T-Shirts. i have aquired 72 of them, so this offer won't last for long. These Lovely shirts are black, the front has a somewhat Vampiric skull with a hole bashed in it's head, emerging from a water/ice-like substance. the back has two arms clawing bloody trails down the back.... i have info and pictures on my homepage: http://netnet.net/~lestat/tshirt.html Please donate to a worthy cause, these shirts rock, and you will rest assured that the money is going to a worthy cause! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I got something to say, i killed your baby today, And it doesn't matter much to me, as long as it's Dead. Sweet Lovly Death, I am Waiting for you Breath Come Sweet Death, One Last Caress. THe MiSFiTS '`'`'`'`'`' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- lestat@netnet.net Visit My homepage at: http://netnet.net/~lestat/index.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:18:39 -0500 From: She Subject: New Songs Hey fiends, here are some lyrics to new Misfits songs: BLACK LIGHT (M. Graves, Jerry Only) ----------- [VERSE 1] A pounding pulse stirs anxious feelings inside Sick breaths of Undead life [CHORUS] Help me Angel Evil Cry the children of the night Take this wasted mortal life Melt me into Blacklight [VERSE 2] Lie on the floor and let the body die Become the beasts in which you fear [CHORUS] Help me Angel Evil Cry the children of the night Take this wasted mortal life Melt me into Blacklight On! THE HAUNTING (M. Graves, Jerry Only) ------------ [VERSE 1] The darkness bleeds violent sights It purges from within Death, it holds you in its arms And kisses you goodnight [BRIDGE] Oh, oh, oh, the darkness comes Oh, oh, oh, I feel its bite Oh, it tears me from within [CHORUS] It's over - It's over This Haunting - It's over Take me life - Just cleanse my sins They're all I see It's over - It's over This Haunting - It's over Oh! Dear God - Set me free Stop haunting me DEAD KINGS RISE (Jerry Only) --------------- Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! [VERSE] Bound... by... battle scars When... the savage reigned The lord of war... >From his right hand man betrayed... Beneath the battle field... His murdered corpse they hide Oh! Curse from Hell Avenge my death Avenge the lies [CHORUS] Oh! Flesh they stole But the soul is not begotten Through the gates of Hell I'll seize my throne Feel my sword Though the flesh be dead and rotten! Dead Kings Rise... for... Vengeance owed... Owed! Owed! Owed! Owed! MARS ATTACKS (Jerry Only) ------------ [VERSE 1] Their eyes for many centuries Peered in from space Sincere the hope, their wise believed They could teach our race But yet on Mars, a darker side Like all things that God made Their tribe of war, would heed them not Earth they must invade! [CHORUS 1] See: the fire in the skies See: them devestate the land "Mars Attacks," the warlord chief commands See: the humans fight and die See: our planet laid to waste Mars Attacks, monsters invade the earth from space [VERSE 2] It was then, in our darkest hour When everything seemed lost The hearts of men would not conceed No matter what the cost They forged a sword of sound and steel Upon the Martian doors The voice of God would thunder there And "Mars would be no more" [CHORUS 2] See: the Martian cities fall See: the death of the warrior tribe Mars Attacks, and now their planet won't survive See: their world turn into ash See: the terror on their face Mars Explodes, cast out as rubble into space Yeah! THE HUNGER (Dr. Chud, Jerry Only, M. Graves) ---------- [INTRO] We become... Erupt in violence Destroy the silence Our time has come... Go! [VERSE 1] We are the outcasted, ancient descendents The ones who've been calling and Would you still die for the dead, yet still living Starved of a time that's now come [CHORUS] We are the children The hungry children We become... Erupt in violence Seduce the silence Our time has come... Go! [VERSE 2] We are a breed of Hell's ancient descendent slaves Begging the night not to go... Would you still die for the dead, yet still living Starved of a life that's now gone -----All songs by The Misfits -----Copyright 1996 Cyclopian Music Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 00:06:16 -0700 From: Opus Subject: New song lyrics I like the lyrics to the new songs. I am looking forward to hearing them put to music. I know that it seems the Misfits are much more popular on the east coast, and it my be true. But if the Misfits are only releasing their new material through the concerts and if they have leftovers through the fiend club, that makes it all too difficult for those of us who do not live near a tour sight to obtain these. I go to college in Colorado and it is almost impossible to make a show from out here. Unless the Misfits come out here or near here, I wont be able to hear these new songs for a very long time. A possible solution may be to be able to order them through Mark. Limit it to one or two a person, and it may be possible for those of us who will not be lucky enough to see them. Mark... you may want to think about this... michael ------------http://holly.colostate.edu/~misfit/-------------------------- "One sword keeps another in its sheath" - Matt Hargis (My psycho roomate) XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXX SSS XXX EEEEE S S XX XX E S XX XX E SSS XX XX EEE S XX XX E S S XX XX E SSS XX XX EEEEE ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:44:04 -0500 From: She Subject: stuff My good f(r)iend Ben White (AKA BloodFeast) recently made a comment that Eerie Von couldn't write himself out of a paper bag. I just want to know what the hell Eerie, or anyone else for that matter, would be doing in a paper bag. Just what did you mean Ben-o? I just put up 2 new pictures on the pictures page - a photo of the band from the signing (including Bobby, Franche', Mr. Jim), and a promo shot of the band from earlier this year. Also, on the news page I have added flyers for the European fiends to put up. These are the now famous "Shocking Return Of The Misfits" flyers done by Neil McAllister of this very mailing list. Good job Neil. European fiends, please print these flyers up and distribute them. They can be accessed from the News page. http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/news.html In other news, now that the box set is out, I am willing to part with the following Misfits CDs. All are autographed by Jerry - Collection II Legacy Of Brutality anyone interested in this stuff should let me know. mark ------------------------------ From: "Jason Pavento" Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:57:19 +0000 Subject: Misfits Box Received my Misfits box on friday from Vinyl Ink. The service I got from them was very impressive. The box set rules!! I love the keyboard version of she and the evilive album (Henry singing backup on 138!!). I have some questions and comments. First, they included Collections 1 and 2. I read in MRR that Jerry refers to collection 1 as "an abortion", didn't he have a hand in putting this box together? Also Collection 2 is in here, you know yourself what he thinks of that. Mephisto Waltz is in here, I thought he questions wether that is even a Misfits song. Also, both collections are in here but they are out of order and missing songs. Is this their way of "fixing them"? Overall I think this box set rules and is very complete. Is it better than binge and purge? probably not. Jason Pavento e-mail: gpavento@dataplex.iii.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:20:35 -0800 From: adam bodnar Subject: Box set kicks ass Metallica for Misfits I just received the box set on Friday, I haven't stopped listening to it since. This is my first time on the Misfits Bible and I now have something I can finally contribute to the bible- The Box Set! The music in this package rocks. I especially enjoyed the session version of SHE - the keyboard riff is a lot better than the guitar version. Did the Misfits ever record a proper studio version of She with the keyboard riff? This box set was worth the $56.00 I paid for it (it was on sale). I finally have Evilive and Earth AD on CD format, and the STATIC AGE album is the main highlight. The recording is so clear and sharp, you'd think that it was just recorded yesterday. I love the bass that is predominant in all the songs on Static Age, Glenn's overdubbing on Legacy of Brutality really sucks compared to the Static Age album. I must say that Jerry's talent on bass is far unappreciated when fiends talk about misfit songs. True, (Glenn's) lyrics are important, but it's only half of the final product. The melody is a major portion of the song too, and Jerry's bass riffs kick ass! In closing about the box set, I must say that evrything was what I expected it to be. The coffin shaped box was neat, the old spray-paint logo emphasized (I think) the era in which most of the music was conceived, the button is cool, and the CD packaging was quite different (Black is best). Last, but not least, the alternate versions of the misfits songs are great listening pleasure - especially the heavier versions from the Walk Among Us album like Vampira, Astro Zombies, and 20 Eyes. I finally got to hear one of the versions of Spook City USA, catchy song, reminicent of Rattkink. By the way, are there any Misfit fans who are into Metallica as well? I have been looking for the gold Earth AD album on compact disc for ages and my search is somewhat exhausted at this point. British Columbia, Canada is not the place to shop for rare music items. If anyone is interested in selling their gold Earth AD compact disc, I am willing to spend $$$, or I would be willing to trade in exchange for Earth AD, Metallica's Creeping Death/Jump in the Fire EP on compact disc as well as Metallica's Tested and Covered (an excellent bootleg with demo versions and live shit, plus several cover tunes). Both are in mint condiction and have excellent sound. If interested, email me at Adam Bodnar ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 19:46:03 -0500 Subject: BILE666: Songwriter A few weeks ago, instead of doing my Chem. homework, I sat in the student center and wrote a song. It was called "Black Devil Doll from Hell!!!" and was for the Misfits. It was just lyrics. I don't know how to write music or play an instrument (and now I'm regretting I never joined the band in high school). After "Devil Doll" came "Keep My Grave Open!", "Death Warmed Up" and "The Gore-Gore Girl". Last Monady, at the signing, I gave them to Mark who in turn gave them to Kenny who then gave them to Jerry. Well, tonight Jerry called me to thank me for the lyrics. He told me he liked them but didn't quite know what I was going for; tune, melody, etc. He said that if they can ever do anything with any of them, he'll let me know. He did say that they might use a line or two for a "slogan" and credit me for it. So that's cool even if they never do use the songs. It was just my way of giving something back. Anyway, he told me that they'll be playing the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ sometime in early May so Garden State and area fiends, keep your eyes open! Anyway, I just thought I'd tell you all my little story ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:45:21 +0100 (MET) From: Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fonz=E9us?= Subject: A great week! Hi! My name is Sebastian, I live in Sweden and I have been a subscriber for a couple of months now but this is my first post. Well, week 9 was the best for me in a wery long time. here's why: Monday: I recieved my FIEND CLUB package!!! I took a look in my mailbox and there it was - a big envelope with a real BIG orange Misfits sticker on it. It's just so great! I wonder what the mailman thought??? Tuesday: I knew that the box-set was going to be released this day, I had pre-ordered it from a swedish mailorder-company but they didn't knew when they could send it out to their customers. Weel "I just have to wait" i= thought! Wednesday: I got it!!! Yes, my box-set was here! The first thing I saw was the Coffin-shaped box (duh!) - cool! The next thing was this little booklet - real cool to. I searched for the Static Age album and I found it (It took me about 2 minutes until I figured out how to open it, I thought "what have they done - do I really have to break it up??") - I put it in my CD-player and it's just so great!!! I totally agree with Mark , "Static Age" is the best album ever! The session disc was real awesome to, The LOB/Evilive/Earth AD - It's great to hear ALL the "Evilive" and "Earth AD" tracks, the Collection 1 & 2 disc was not necessary I think, but what the hell, that one is great to. The badge - do I need to say anything??? Everything in the box is great i think! The Misfits is going on a European tour soon but why aren't they coming to Sweden??? I know that here is enough of Fiends that it could have been a great concert! Well, maybe next time.=20 A question for you Mark (or anybody else who knows): A while ago I mailed an interview to the "PO Box" address (you see I'm working on a fanzine here in Sweden called "Digital Rundg=E5ng" and I would like to have an interview= with anybody in the band). But I haven't got any answers! I don't know if they are too busy or anything, in that case - what can I do? But does Jerry or anybody else in the band usually answer interviews per mail??? Another question: A friend of mine has this video with the Misfits called "Flipside Cable Show" or something like that and it's about an hour long. It's a live concert but where and when was it filmed??? =20 Enough of that - I'm sorry if i bored you! Greetings Sebastian PS. I hope you all can understand my English. Ya' know - I'm from Sweden...= DS. **************************************************************** ** ** *** "Living Hell Is Not So Bad" *** **** ****=20 ***** E-Mail me at: ronny.fonzeus@mailbox.swipnet.se ***** ****** ****** **************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:06:28 -0500 From: She Subject: Europe Tour Announcement I finally received the list of people who will be receiving free passes for the Europe shows from Rocky (Misfits manager and Jerry & Doyle's brother). Originally, it seemed like everybody would be receiving a pass. Eventually too many people signed on and Rocky was forced to narrow down the list to an extremely small number. A lot of you will be disappointed. For the most part, one person per show was selected. You must understand that the Misfits will have about 10 guys already (their band, the guys in Sardonica, and a few employees at each club) to help them set up. The idea was to have a few fans have the chance to come and meet the band. The following people will be receiving ONE pass for free access to the Misfits show in the following location. If the passes are not sent out in time, you will be added to the guest list for that show in which case you must give your name when you arrive at the club. The Misfits really won't be needing any stage help, so they suggest just showing up a little while before the show, so you can meet the band and have things autographed. March 12 Music Box . Edinburgh, Scotland - Stewart Gallacher, Scott Bissett March 13 Foundry . Birmingham, England - Mike Faram March 15 Rio . Bradford, England - Jack Simms March 17 Astoria . London, England - Julian Baldry March 19 Melkweg . Amsterdam, Holland - Jeroen Pietersma March 20 Kicks . Herford, Germany - Peter Moeller March 21 Rohre . Stuttgart, Germany - Ralph Herbert March 22 SO 36 . Munich, Germany - Volker Sas They may also be sending you flyers to distribute and put up. mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:30:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jaid Subject: man your spacebars... In the last bible Mr. Bloodfeast said something like... >... I just wish that all >the effort they put into this thing would have shone through. >Instead, It looks like something they threw together in an hour. Hhmmm...Sorry you feel that way,buddy.i dont share your opinion on this one. I have 3 other box sets from other bands that dont show half the effort this one does. >From: ewebb@ycp.edu >Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:18:43 EST >Subject: RE: Misfits Bible, #147 > >Here's another story: >-Hit NYC and the get in line at about 10pm. already half way down the block. >-see Bobby Steele walking aroun. Sadly, he gets harrassed by the people in >front of us. Too bad those knuckle-draggin' morons in front of you didnt get a chance to meet Mr. Steele. I ran into him before and after the signing and found him to be just as nice as Jerry and company. I'm sorry to here that some fiends are so idiotic. Then again there are always a few assholes scattered about... >Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:23:23 -0500 (EST) >From: 01wethomas@bsuvc.bsu.edu >Subject: Misfits with out Danzig > > Do any of you guys out there believe as I do about >the Misfits being a great band except for Danzig. I find Danzig to >be a terrible singer with no sign of talent what so ever. You are entitled to your own opinion, of course, but no talent what so ever??? Is it just me, or were we all not sick of that thread months ago?? >I heard from my cousin that works on the cheif advertising staff at Pepsi >that he has just cut a deal to sponser the drink for the next three >years. Did you hear wheaties is sponsoring the Misfits summer tour???? Doyle will be the first to grace the front of the box!!!! ALL HAIL WHEATIES !!!!!! love and 20 lashes Jaid ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 11:25:05 -0600 (CST) From: gerry blaylock Subject: vampira hey, anybody catch dracula on sci-fi channel's big scary movie show sunday night? dana gould was the host and he interveiwed vampira! gerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 15:43:06 -0500 From: Crimson Ghost Subject: More Box Set - remarks Well - the last stuff I posted was last thursday - so Here's an update!! I've officially decided that the best stuff to listen to on the boxset IMHO (besides Static Age) has got to be the Reel Platinum Sessions from '81 - that would be disc 3 tracks 22-26 20 eyes I turned into a martian Astro zombies Vampira Devils Whorehouse These tracks are great quality and real interesting alternate takes 20 Eyes & Astro Zombies have to be my favorite versions to listen to! Take a close listen Let's get a decent thread going for a change CG ------------------------------ Date: Mon Mar 4 19:14:46 1996 From: Haskin Douglas CDT Subject: Static Age question Anybody know if the Static Age album is still going to be released separately from the box set? Doug ------------------------------ From: Pee3@aol.com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:57:40 -0500 Subject: "Subscribe" I got the box set a week ago but I still have not figured out how to open "Static Age". ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:15:38 -0500 From: She Subject: Attack of Bobby Steele Hey fiends - Bobby just set up an email account and will be online for a few weeks. He wants me to collect a bunch of questions from the fiends that he can answer and post to the Misfits Bible. He has been reading some of the back issues and seems very interested. He's also eager to check out the IRC #Misfits channel and hopes to be getting together with the fiends online near the end of the month. So if you've ever had ANYTHING you've ever wanted to ask or say to Bobby, now is the time. Just email it to me, and I'll forward it all to him in chunks. He'll take anything - compliments, questions, suggestions, arguments. Mark ------------------------------------- To contribute to the next issue, please send email to: misfits@virginia.edu For more information, contact Mark Kennedy at: msk4m@watt.seas.virginia.edu For answers to almost all questions, please check The Misfits World Wide Web page before posting, located at: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/ The Misfits mailing address is: Misfits Fiend Club | 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 150 Thursday, March 7th 1996 Today's Topics: quit being so dumb # 149 another box set post violent world box set ?'s wow... Another contest praise, exitement, slashing... box set review Flipside Box Disco vs. Bible... danzing III non-pic disc Last Issue Bob(by) Steele Re: Misfits Bible, #149 Post Mortem Catalog blah,blah Re: Misfits Bible, #149 BOBBY STEELE PHOTO IN BOX SET! fiend club stuff rules! Tshirts: Pick one up! Fiends New Misfits Nike A Go Go Something I really want subscribe and more stuff for sale Give a hand To Bobby Mark, A few issues back in the misfits bible My band, wav. files, and the misfits RE: Misfits Bible, #149 Stopped by to say Hi! Im back I thought i gave it to you... Re: Misfits Bible, #149 addendum East Coast Tour!!!!!!!!! Lots o' shit INTRODUCTION Official dates first questions FIEND CLUB PACKAGE CRIMSON GHOST SPEAKS Comments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: quit being so dumb Date: Tue, 5 Mar 96 2:20:08 EST From: Blood Feast check it out everybody, I said it before and I'll say it again. Eerie Von's liner notes suck. Yeah okay, he was their roadie, yeah okay he was in Samhain and Danzig, but does that mean he can write good liner notes? No. You guys have all got to stop and realize that not EVERYTHING the misfits do is awesome. I'm a big misfits fan, hell I'm one of the biggest, which is why I hate to see their box set be so shitty. Look at the font (typeface) that the whole booklet was done in. You'll see the exact sme font on the cover of the alanis morrisette album. There are some cooler fonts available, you know. I would think that at least ONE appearance of the famous monsters logo would have been in order, don't you. Crimson Ghost, you need to lighten up a little. just because I don't completely agree with absolutely everything you say doesn't mean my opinion is any less valid, and as for Eerie Von, I'm sure he's a great guy, and played lots of good music, but you don't spell "cool" with a "k", unless you're sonic youth or something. The liner notes were not the least bit informative. I mean come on... "fangs for the memories"? I could have written better liner notes, and I don't know nealy as much about the misfits as eerie does. Alright so that's all I have to say. If you don't like it you should email me about it because the bible is already big enough without bein filled up by a bunch of dumb kids quarreling over irrelevant stuff, okay? Oh, and mark, I don't really know how a person could write their way out of a paper bag either, I just thought it was funny. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 03:59:07 -0500 From: Zodiac Subject: # 149 Fiends, Just wanted to say it was refreshing to read a Bible where most of the subject matter delt with the Misfits, rather than inter-subscriber arguements (yes, I know I am guilty of it too). Perhaps we can all take CG's suggestion and get some decent threads going. I can't wait to get my Box Set! Also: For any of you that play Vampire: The Maquerade, Black Aria is awesome mood music. Later, Zodiac ------------------------------ From: Ronald Barned Subject: another box set post Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:17:54 -0600 Hi, got my box set from Vinyl Ink on thursday (2 days quicker than they originally said!) and I'm speechless, it's great, although it could have been a little better, but it sure beats the living crap out of other sets! Comments: 1) boy, that Static Age case really is complicated! 2) disk one should be a singles disk, instead of Cough/cool on the sessions cd it should have been on here along with the other singles in correct order without Glenn's versions of Walk Among Us tunes 3) Legacy of Brutality was pointless, they should have just taken "American Nightmare" and added it to the sessions disk 4) I would have liked to have heard "Die, Die My Darling" from the Walk Among Us sessions, along with more stuff from the Glenn/Jerry/Manny days 5) needed pictures of Bobby, Joey, Manny, and Robo But then again I can't complain at all, the music is what matters and it's all on here whether it's in exact order or not! That's about it. exiting, Kyle ------------------------------ Date: 05 Mar 96 05:30:23 EST From: James Sanchez Subject: violent world i don't know if this has been discussed before, but i can't understand the last refrain to violent world. it doesn't sound like any of the words to the previous verses. and i don't think it's included on the lyric sheet. and the sessions version of teenagers from mars and children in heat do not sound like the version from the horror business single. too bad the collection disc didn't put the two songs the way they appeared on the single. this one's for Mark: do you think it would be a good idea for the misfits or maybe eerie von to release some kind of book with a shitload of photos. i mean, to me, and i think to a lot of misfits fans, seeing pictures of the band (especially the earlier ones) is almost as cool as hearing the songs. maybe you could talk to jerry or eerie and make them think about it. at least they could make some posters with some old photographs instead of the usual type of posters we see of them (although i do have that one poster that uses the same photo from the back of the Creepy comp video with them looking all mean). this may be a bit anal to think about, but do you think the unreleased alternate takes (like from the MSP and Fairlawn sessions) will ever be released? one little cd would be enough to contain all of those songs. maybe even a disc of some of the good live recordings like the entire Ritz show and the Passaic show. maybe all of us should start bugging the shit out of Caroline for this stuff. does anyone know their email address? take care, james ------------------------------ From: lin01862@acad.suffolk.edu Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:37:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: box set ?'s hey guys, i haven't bought the box set yet but i've been reading what you have all said about it. the reason that i haven't got it yet is simple: i feel like if i send over 70- bucks...i'll be getting robbed! i've spent four years collecting misfits c.d.'s and here they all are in one box. the problem is that the box suits a new fan fine but i already have vol. 1&2, legacy of brutality and many studio cut outs. what i want is earth a.d., static age and evilive! are any of these gonna be released or rereleased on theur own? or would you suggest i save up my pesos and get it? -----boston mark ------------------------------ Subject: wow... Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:21:22 -0500 From: LEITMAN matthew I've been reading the Bible for about a year, and believe it or not, this is my first post. What would bring about rise from seclusion ? The Box set of course. I live in Montreal, and all Misfits has to be ordered through cargo records and unfortunetely they have this nasty habit of receiving new Misfits stuff months late. (I only found Collection II a month ago). There was no way I was going to wait for the box set, so I ordered it through CDnow. 3 days after it was released, there it was waiting for me on my desk. Paid no duty. No hassle. I had some reservations about ordering through the interet, but I have to admit, CDnow came through with flying colors. As for the box set itself: cd #1 is useless. cd #2 is cool because it has EVIL LIVE but the quality of the recording sounded better on the tape version. cd # 3 is absolutely the best thing about the box set. What impresses me the most is the Platinum Reel session. That has to be the absolutely best version of 20 EYES I have ever heard. It's shocking that they never released it. Halloween II flowing into Halloweed I is cool (heard it before on Necronomicom). Cough/cool and She (original versions) surprisingly don't sound as good as the bootleg version (complete singles). As for Static Age... NO SHITTY OVERDUBS (need I say more) I had a nice heaty laugh reading Eerie's liner notes. Misfits and Henry Rollins chasing Motley Crue in LA... is this actually true ? If it is.. it's fucking hilarious. Anyway, enough babbling. later. Matt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:08:23 +0000 From: "Jake Starr/ADAM WEST" Subject: Another contest hey fiends! i won one of the second prize t-shirts in the caroline box set contest and i wanna give it away! it's one of the new designs with the "ghostriders" on it; basically, a skeleton rider on a horse-drawn carriage with skeleton horses. all you have to do is answer the following three questions. first fiend to get the correct answers eMAILed to me wins. i'll even pay the postage, assuming you live in the USA. you've gotta check the misfits book for these, so get cracking! good luck! 1) Name three songs the misfits played at their first gig at cbgb's in 1977? 2) What songs did lyle preslar play guitar on samhain "intium"? 3) What band has covered "cough/cool" according to the misfits book? by the way, i agree with "seafarer" from #149 in making dummy CD cases for the box set CD's to preserve them. that's the first thing i did. i printed out the track listings from my computer and got four blank cases. now my box set stays pristine. dig it! ******************************************************** * Jake Starr/ADAM WEST * * c/o Fandango Records * * 1805 T Street, NW #A * * Washington, DC 20009-7128 * * (202) 483-0065 * * eMAIL: jyas@loc.gov * * http://www.exclamation.com/webtrax/punk/misc/aw.html * ******************************************************** --part_AD61DF370006A7E800000003-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 96 13:02:56 EST From: Ken Graf Subject: praise, exitement, slashing... YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! The Misfits are coming to Providence, RI! I can't fucking wait for that! Anyway, hello fiends! Just a few comments for today about the box and other things. First off, I agree that the two collections should not have been put on in that format. Also, I understand that WAU was not put out on Caroline, but shit, I love some of those versions, and there is no fucking way that the Collection II Braineaters can take the place of the one on WAU! Just one more thing, in defense of Bobby Lust. Hey, Julio, I'm not trying to put you down or anything, but I think you need to learn when someone is being sincere and when someone is being fascicious. Didn't you detect a liiiiitle bit of sarchasim when Bobby said "Why would anyone buy a box set like that, when they could go out and buy 5 copies of Black Aria!" I know it's hard to tell tone of voice over a computer, but I think you should have been able to realize that Bobby was ball-busting and seems to share a hatred similar to yours towards Black Aria. Oh, and by the way, I don't see why Rollins and the Misfits chased Motley Crue down the street. Everything Motley Crue did was way better than the fucking garbage that the crap fucking shitbag band The Misfits ever put out! See Julio, I was joking there. The Misfits fucking rule!!!! THAT was sincere. OK, sorry for being a fucking bitch, later. --Lord Kenatos ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:51:33 -0500 (EST) From: "B.M. Fama" Subject: box set review Okay fiends, if you don't care what I (or anyone) thinks about the box set, scroll... First let me just say that there WILL be some complaints in the following lines. Overall I'd give the set about 85-90%. That's an A or even an A+. Packaging: very nice, very sleek...a little too sleek. The red and black work better for Danzig than for the Misfits. A little more colour would have been cool. The Misfits are *supposed* to have schlock. The *worst* thing about the box is the old Misfits logo. PLEASE Caroline, if/when you make future Misfits releases, us the Monster logo. But anyway, the box is pretty nice. BTW...I've handled mine a bit and so far not a single fingerprint...maybe you guys just gotta wash your hands more (a small joke). Picture cds like the one for C2 would also have been cool. The SA case was hard to open, but worth the effort. now enough nitpicking and onto the real stuff... -Disc One-: at first I wasn't too thrilled about re-releases of "Misfits" and C2, until I compared the sound quality of the original '86 cd to the remastered box version. I used to think the "Misfits" cd sounded awesome, but now I doubt I'll ever use it again. The remasters on the box are ****FAR**** superior. Thank you Tom. My biggest complaint about this cd is that the songs were arranged in the order they appeared on the compilations, as opposed to the original singles from which they came. It's very annoying to have TFM on the same cd as CIH, but separated by about 10 tracks. Oh well... -Disc Two-: same comments as above; the remastering is perfect. I'm risking flames here, but I still like the LOB Glenn-dubs. In most cases, I don't particularly prefer either these or the SA versionsover one another, but (Mark don't kill me...) I like "Glenn's" "Hybrid Moments" better. The drums and guitar seem to dominate the mix more, and I don't like the bass in the SA version (too monotonous...not Jerry's playing, just the way the bas music is written). -Disc 3-: track 8. .wicked. -Disc 4-: the first Misfits album ever...sort of... Excellent job Caroline. I wish you hadn't skipped some of the album covers in the dsicography, I wish you hadn't left off some remaining versions, and I wish you could have included WAU. But I also realize most of this wasn't in your control, so I won't dwell on these issues. Disc 3 is great, and almost any single song on it was worth the price of the box alone (for me anyway). But please DON'T let this be your last "old" Misfits release. Although all the original 7"s and 12"s have been released on cd, there's no need to stop there. I (and probably everyone on the Bible) would buy any future cd that contains Cough/Cool, Bullet, TFM, Horror Business, NOTLD, etc, all in the order originally released/recorded. Many feel these are the best Misfits songs, and they deserve to be collected together. And if you have any other songs or sessions tapes as yet unreleased... P.S. for those of you who are interested, there is another new Danzig song being played on the Danzig hotline (201)-939-1267. -Brett ------------------------------ From: WWWhatsup Subject: Flipside Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:19:20 -0500 >Another question: A friend of mine has this video with the Misfits called >"Flipside Cable Show" or something like that and it's about an hour long. >It's a live concert but where and when was it filmed??? My guess it's the Santa Monica Civic in I think 1983. Flipside have a www page http://www.indieweb.com/flipside/index.html but it hasn't changed in a year. Jettisoundz UK licensed some of the flipside stuff for PAL, now called Visionary they're at http://www.state51.co.uk/state51/visionary/index.html e-mail king@visicom.demon.co.uk for a free catalogue--------------------- joly http://www.computel.com/~whatsup ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 14:04:38 CST From: JP I'm sure everyone is sick of the box set comments by now, but I figured I'll throw in my commments--Is there anyone that didn't have a problem opening Static Age? I got the clue last thursday by the person who said that it slid open, so I managed after a minute of struggle. Personally, I could have done without Legacy, in lieu of something else, say the unreleased songs, and the other version of Spook City. The other version I heard I assume is the Danzigized version, which I must admit sounds cooler. Same with "She", I don't really like keyboards, so the original just doesn't strike me like the altered version. Anyhow, I think the Fiend Club members should have the first shot at the records rather than the people at the shows. YOU know there won't be any left over, especially if you live at the end of the tour and are lucky enough to have them visit your city. From the tentative dates, it seems that they may hit the south last. Which will, of course, suck. I've asked this before, but I'm still wondering how metal they are. Like do they make Earth AD sound accoustic? Is there a band one can hear that could have a comparison, at least as far as how metallic they are? Personally, I'm more into hardcore and I really don't like metal, but the Misfits are the Misfits, and that's that. Also, what's Samhain's Unholy Passion sound like? It was made in between Initium and November, so which one is it more like? I think Initium is cool, but the other one, well to say the least, blows save one song. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 04:17:28 -0600 (CST) From: "J. Jorden" Subject: Box Disco vs. Bible... Couple o' things: There are a number of discrepencies between the Bible discography and the one in the Box. Any ideas on this? Though the non-plan 9 stuff is pretty glossed over in the Box. Another is, I found a clear copy of collection two (wee!) and noticed some white vinyl in the disc. Anyone else notice this? I know that this happens when you change colors until the old color works its way out of the press. A friend of mine has a copy of Legacy, Die Die or Earth AD like this (cant remember which) but instead it's black with purple parts to it. Neat neat. Finally, I too noticed that some of the keyboards were turned down between the rough mix of Nike and the final mix. Bummer. I love the keyboard. Anyway, have a wonderful day and stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:52:27 -0500 From: michael mccusty Subject: danzing III non-pic disc my friend bought danzing III in germany as that was where he was when it came out. it is a plain silver disc with black writing. love, luck, and lollipops, michael allroy ************************************************************************** "god has no place in school.... just like facts have no place in organized religion." -superintendent chomers ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: Bile666@aol.com Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:35:11 -0500 Subject: Last Issue I was a little bummed to hear that Jerry and the rest won't be doing the Chiller conventions anymore. They were great at those shows. I think they were some of their best live appearances. More personal and relaxed. Not rushed like at the signing last week. You could actually hang around a bit and ask questions. But from what Mark said about them first having to rename their movie series and second have to redo the interviews, I suspect that whoever runs the conventions saw that The Misfits were getting out there again and wanted a cut of the money, what with Jerry using the "Chiller Theatre" name. That's the only reason I can see to it all. And if that's the case, the guy in charge is an idiot. The Misfits brought in a lot of fans to the convention and were great at the show. They would've made better hosts than that old mummy Zacherle. If you've ever been to the Chiller store in Bonton, you've seen that these guys aren't exactly rolling in the dough even if they run the conventions and probably saw the Misfits as a way to make a buck and tried to latch on to them. Although I'll miss seeing Jerry and the rest at the Chiller shows, I think he made the right decision if someone was out to squeeze money out of him. Even though they won't be there and the people in charge are looking a little bit like leeches, they're still great conventions if you're into the horror thing. On to another topic, I can't wait until the new songs come out. Especially "Mars Attacks!" since I love that card series. I like the lines that begin with "See: ..." It sounds so much like the catch lines to B-horror films. You can see the difference between these new lyrics and the ones of old. If you compare the two, you can definitely see Glenn had a BIG part in writing the old songs. The songs also tend to tell a story. They have a beginning and an end. The old songs didn't really follow any type of plot line, so to speak. And in the new songs, just as in those of Kryst the Conqueror, there's the presence of "God" in a lot of the lyrics. For example "The Haunting" and "Mars Attacks". I can understand it in "The Haunting" but not in "Mars Attacks". I mean, the songs about marauding Martians out to destroy the world. Why does God even have to come into the picture? Anyway, it doesn't really matter. I'm sure the songs will be great. Personally, I can't wait to hear them. Anyway, that's just me and that's about it ... - BILE666. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:02:32 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hatcher Subject: Bob(by) Steele I saw something amusing on my way back to Athens this weekend. In Atlanta there is a huge billboard of Bob Steele Salons. I'm going to assume that Bobby has nothing to do with this, but I thought it was hilarious. See ya, LordB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:05:50 GMT From: "One more night spent On your mirror......" Well I found that a little pokey record shop just over the road from my college has the box set for 60 pounds. Now can I justiufy spending all that money? Fuck yeah I'm gettin it tomorrow!! I got mysterios 7" the other day with versions of cough/cool and she by glenn and friends and it was supposedly done in '88??? A friend of mine has a bootleg 10" with Return of the fly, Horror Hotel, Who Killed Marylin, Spook City , and Last Caress on it Anyone know anything about this? BTW the quality is very poor .k. ------------------------------ From: cbmed@cdx.net Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 16:19:22 -0500 Well I must say it didn't take me long to open Static age. HMMMM. Doesn't open normal way, try another way. Oh well guess some of you were really excited. I was going to refuel the grammar, spelling fight but there are enough in here already. It makes it entertaining. I want to know if these 'I was a punk before....' and the 'punker than thou' people dress like punks? If you do, you have become corporate. I am GQ and like to look good, but I still think punk is the best music. I still listen to other stuff though. Also, for those of you who think the SYSTEM is out to get you. Nobody crams cigarettes down your throat. You aren't Alex, with things holding your eyes open to watch t.v. Turn it off. The system has always been there. Louis the XIV (fourteen for the ignorant, or non-thinking) had secret police. Also for those oppressed people. How do you have a fucking computer if you are so oppressed. Most of you probably have a better computer than me. The system sucks, but it always has, always will, because it is a system. I don't hate cops. (sorry guess I'm NOT PUNK ENOUGH) They are just doing their job. If there weren't any cops we might all, especially the gun-toting Americans, be dead. So thank the gods above for law. The system lets you eat, drink, be merry. If you get pissed off at some pig for busting you for having dope think; well it's illegal, and they are only doing there job. If you want weed to be legal, legalize it. Don't complain about it being illegal, when you get busted. To finish, what kind of fucking world would it be if Jello Biafra was leader? J. P.S. Can anyone suggest any fuzz/distortion pedals to me. Anything to get some of the Misfits sounds. ------------------------------ From: She Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #149 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 16:40:34 -0500 (EST) > From: Mark Weddle > > could someone please either post a complete > track listing to the bible or e-mail me the > list? They're on the page, but here's a quick rundown CD 1 - all songs from the first Collection except for Bullet and the Earth AD stuff. All songs from Collection II except for the Static Age stuff and the Earth AD stuff CD 2- all of Legacy, all of Evilive LP, all 9 songs from Earth AD LP CD 3 - lots of stuff CD 4 - all 14 songs from the Static Age albumi > From: kriney@uhavax.hartford.edu > > Mark-In bible 147, you mentioned that Bible members would get the > first shot at ordering the new Misfits song, "Black Light", can > you please go into more detail about this.... I don't know if this is still the case. Originally I was under the impression that Jerry would be giving me a tape of the new songs, but I was wrong - it was just the lyrics. > From: "Robert G. McFeaters" > > 3. Static Age--the album --What is the point here? Why even call this > another album? Same shit different place. I guess it depends on what you like. Bullshit overdubbed versions from 1985, or the original kickass versions with the best album ever. > Jerry: Hey guys, check this out. The old vinyl fetches high prices > (proof of demand), "punk" is back in, Glenn is on MTV now. > Whattya say? > Corporate Dicks: Yeah, great idea, let's reissue, repackage, add some > tracks, make the packaging cheap as shit, throw in a shitty "special > enamel" badge (made from space-age polymers) and charge these brat kids 60 > bucks. Oh yeah, we'll say that it is collectable and limited. Those > words always seem to help sales. Hey calm down fiend. Let me tell you, you're very bad at mind-reading. > From: The Mocellas > hey, this is my fist time writing, and I'm just looking for some info on the > infamous "brain eaters video". Does this exist? I have on old interview > with Jerry talking about it, but I can't seem to locate one.....any info > would be appreciate it, just e-mail my above adress.....Ratboy It's out there on many bootleg videos. Somebody help Ratboy out! > From: Keith138@aol.com > Hell-o,Fiends!If anyone is iterested, I've got a 'zine out called ANGRY RED, > it is solely dedicated to Misfits,Samhain,Danzig and related bands. Subs are By the way fiends, if any of you have the Goldmine article from 4/92, you should recognize this guy's name. > From: "Jason Pavento" > Also Collection 2 is in here, you know yourself what he thinks of > that. Mephisto Waltz is in here, I thought he questions wether that > is even a Misfits song. Also, both collections are in here but they > are out of order and missing songs. Is this their way of "fixing > them"? The missing tracks can be found on the other CD's. > Overall I think this box set rules and is very complete. Is it better > than binge and purge? probably not. Metallica's Binge And Purge has one Misfits song. This box set has 104. I think our box set is at least 104 times better (no offense to you Metallifiends). > From Sebastian > A question for you Mark (or anybody else who knows): A while ago I mailed an > interview to the "PO Box" address (you see I'm working on a fanzine here in > Sweden called "Digital Rundg=E5ng" and I would like to have an interview= > with > anybody in the band). But I haven't got any answers! I don't know if they > are too busy or anything, in that case - what can I do? But does Jerry or > anybody else in the band usually answer interviews per mail??? Yes they do. They get a ton of mail nowadays, but occassionally they'll take the time to answer intereview questions. Just be patient. They'll be touring for a long time, so it's doubtful they'll be answering mail any time soon. They're leaving for Europe in less than a week. > From: Haskin Douglas CDT > Anybody know if the Static Age album is still going to be released separately > from the box set? Supposedly, yes. no mas mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 16:59:19 -0500 From: Bobby Steele Subject: Post Mortem Catalog POST MORTEM RECORDS ***********PRICES ON THIS CATALOG ARE GOOD UNTIL JUNE 30, 1996********** NOTE: orders cannot be sent to P.O. Boxes. Be sure to provide a STREET ADDRESS. SHIPPING RATES: $3.00 for the first two items. $.50 each additional item Two 7" 45's = 1 item Up to 25 pieces of any combination of stickers, badges, or embroidered patches =3D 1 item Canadian orders add an additional $2.00 per order All other countries: add $10.00 surface (up to two-months delivery) per order or add $18.00 for AIR MAIL (2 - 3 weeks delivery) ACT YOUR RAGE! 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Box 358, New Milford, NJ 07646 _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: UJCCURRY@msuvx1.memphis.edu Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 16:55:33 -0600 (CST) Subject: blah,blah 10 bucks for a single&poster that sound just a bit high. I missed Dana Gould interviewing Vampira, darn. This relates to the Misfits in 2 ways, Vampira of course, but also the fact that he does a hell of an imitation of a Ray Harryhousen cyclops(im not kiddin). Someone talked to dave from the damned and he had tapes at one time of himself & 'fits. That would be cool if it is true, but im not holding my breath. You know the 'fits are ina really weird position as far as song writting goes. They have to stay true to what made them great while not totally apeing Glenn. I would not like to have that task. It is kind of unfair to judge the new songs w/ out the music, but the new songs have good and bad parts. To me the best misfits songs are equall parts fun and fiendishness(like a 50's horror flick). It's a hard line to walk. I think the new stuff is an o.k. start. The things i would be wary of would be Jerry's heavy metal sword and sorcery leanings and maybe that god stuff too. I know J&D caught a lot of shit for some of the darker things Glenn did after the Misfits, but i just dont think that is something they should worry about in the context of a 'fits song. Be evil/have fun a credo I think the Misfits should live by when writting a song(just my worthless 2 cents) And if anyone cares, MARS ATTACKS were some trading cards put out in the 1960's. Aliens w/ big bubble helmets and exposed brains blasting away at helpless humans, blowing up the white house, blood and guts flying from ray gun blasts, that kind of stuff. I think that they were recalled after they came out because they were to violent for kids. I think you might be able to find some newer(last few years?) re-issue cards or a comic book if you check out your local comic shop. good stuff! jamil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 18:05:58 -0400 (EDT) From: RYAN_JAS@bentley.edu Subject: Re: Misfits Bible, #149 Someone a couple of issues back said Glenn has no talent. No, forget it. I would not even know where to begin. Maybe he should look at the new Misfits lyrics, and see if they conjure up anything close to the old "real" songs, to which Danzig was the brainchild. Aside from that, Glenns voice is totally unbeleivable. If Glenns voice an the overall feel of the music is not what made the Misfits legendary, than may heaven accept me with open arms. Fuck You pud!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 18:07:03 -0500 From: ackxhpaez Subject: BOBBY STEELE PHOTO IN BOX SET! that's right! Bobby Steele was not left out of the box set! there is a photo that features him on page 2 of he booklet where glenn is in the foreground in horror-garb --- and there, in the background, right behind him is..... BOBBY STEELE'S HAND!!!! yes! he was not left out like some people thought. also... the person who is in the mirror-imaged photo that some thought to be robo is really rocky, jerry and doyle's brother. he told me so himself at the release party. also... i agree with ben; eerie von is a terrible writer and offers very little insight to genuine misfits fans. that is all, mw ------------------------------ From: The Mocellas