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Bootleg
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Misfits Bullet 7.10,000 pres-
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Misfits Teenagers From Mars
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Misfits
Horror Business
75,000 pressed on yellow vinyl.
25 on black
Misfits-Night Of The Living Dead
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Misfits Beware 12"... 15,000
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Misfits Three Hits From Hell
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Misfits Halloween 7...5,000-
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Glenn Danzig-Who Killed Marilyn
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Misfits Walk Among Us
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How did the crowd respond to that?
You know, one thing that's funny is
that Maximum Rock n Rol and Rip-
per, or whoever was doing it at that
time, also failed to state that one of
the reasons there was such a riot
was that half the people there
wanted to see our band play and
didn't want this bullshit to go on.
They wanted everybody to just calm
down and let us finish our set. They
paid to see us. They wanted to see
the fuckin Mistits And that was
never publicized. I don't think that
was fair at a but then again, I don't
think that a lot of what was going on
then was fair.
The argument from the other side
would be that it's not necessary to
hit what they call young kids. In their
words he was under eighteen
Well, why was that kid throwing full
beer cans at Doyle? Hey, people.
under 18 in New York slash people's
throats everyday for a dime. That
'doesn't cut it with us. I don't want to
hear that. Basically, I can't condone
what Doyle did, okay, and I can't say
he was wrong in doing it either. Be-
cause also, don't forget Doyle was
16 at that time, So. you have an
under-age kid throwing something at
Doyle and you have another under
age kid hitting another in the head
So it equals out
So when you came back to San Fran
cisco again was the animosity still
there?
We never played Frisco again. But
most of the people I knew from Frisco
and most of the people who wrote to
me, and that's quite a few had stated
that they wished we would come
back because they thought what we
did was fantastic that no one had
ever stood up to these totally Manist
nazi punks, and we were the only
band to ever do that and put our foot
down. They'd go to shows and they
hated it because they couldn't get
up frant since these people always
bullied everyone anyway. Also, I'd
ake to state that our t-shirt and record
sales in San Francisco picked up
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Misfits Evilive 7Ep... 1,000
signed and numbered, 4,000 pres-
sed. Two covers, 6 special editions
Misfits Earth AD. Lp... 11,000
pressed, 700 colored (100 green,
200 yellow, 200 purple, 200 clear).
Misfits Wolfsblood/Earth A.D.
Lp... 15,000+ pressed. German
pressing-two extra tracks.
Misfits - Evilive 12" Ep... 12,000
pressed. German pressing.
Misfits Die. Die My Darling
12...5,000 pressed, 500 purple
Samhain Initium Lp... Still in
press. 150 marbled vinyl
Samhain Unholy Passion 12"
...Still in press.
Samhain - November Coming Fire
Lp... Still in press.
Misfits Legacy Of Brutality
Lp... Still in press. 500 red vinyl, 500
white vinyl. 16 pink vinyl.
Flipside Vinyl Fanzine
Misfits track, Lp compilation.
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SAMHAIN
dramatically after that incident.
I was told, that if you wore a Misfits
t-shirt that certain people would beat
you up.
Certain people that's a group of like
ten people that would do that. Don't
you think that's kind of fascist?
That is. When you get into this kind
of political realm, where you're preach-
ing one thing or the other you forget
that other people do exist in the
world
And have rights them-
selves well thore you go. We
thats one of the arguments Ive al-
ways had with Maximum Rock 'n
Roll. I would never tell them what to
do and I dont think they should tell
other people what to do.
Is it true that you were charged off
the stage and that a big fight started
afterwards?
A big fight started. The whole audi-
ence was fighting each other over
what was going to happen. The
Misfits were going to play or they
weren't going to play it was total
chaos, there was no security, but we
got Doyle off stage. Me and Googy
were still playing, and we just said
this is bullshit. People in the audi-
ence were killing each other. I mean
like violently fighting each other. We
said, 'we have to get your guys out
of here. It was just too crazy. And
so, we just walked off stage.
Did you got paid that night?
No we didn't get paid Nobody got
paid that night, though, it was just a
total fiasco all the way around.
So you went back out to New York.
There was a long period where no-
thing happened after Walk Among
Us came out
You mean record-wise? Well, we
were playing a lot We'd done two
more tours. We did the Walk Among
Us tour. We only had time to put out
the Evilive thing
Now you originally did that just for
the Fiend Club Why did you decide
to make it publicly available?
Because I didn't want to do it any-
more. Those were for the Fiend club.
We sold as many as we could
through the Fiend Club and it was
also a thing to prove I didn't need
distributors I sold those records
through the Fiend Club and made
twice as much as I would have made
il I sold them to distributors
Why did you have a beef with the
distributors?
I just didn't like the way they were
taking a real long time to pay us and
they were selling our records all the
time. They'd call me up and say. "We
need more records and id say well
you havent paid me for the last ones
OK, the check is on the way, so
send us I would stupidly believe
them and send them more records
and never get paid I'd have to dick
with them all the time about money
I just wanted to do it on my own. I
wanted to do it through the mail. We
had a very big Fiend Club.
How did you start the Fiond Club?
We just put little inserts inside all the
45's We wanted to get more feed-
back from our fans and wanted to
get a little closer to them to see what
they liked and didn't like and offer
them stuff, like t-shirts and stickers.
It didn't cost anything and we always
sent out free stuff. We were the only
band giving away a lot of free stuff
And a lot of bands followed suit, but
it was always the younger bands who
werent signed. Any established
band never gave anything away free.
With the Misfits it was always kind
of a fun thing for us. We liked doing
that kind of stuff.
You weren't recording, so basically
you were doing the Fiend Club thing
making shirts and things
We were trying to generate some
money, because Jerry and Doyle
were going through so much money
it was ridiculous. They were destroy-
ing guitars at every show. It was
getting into a big show thing They
would break guitars and spend the
money on this and that and getting
involved with drugs. The band never
had any money, so what I did was
make the side money that nobody
could touch
When was your last show as the
Misfits?
October 31, 1983 was the last show
but the only show before that was in
August in Boston Our last West
Coast show was in Santa Monica.
Are you going to put out any more
Misfits records?
There may be more, we'll see. I know
I'm going to re-release Beware,
maybe a singles album with all the
stuff you can't get anymore on sing-
les, and a few tracks that have never
been released.
Out of all the Mistits stuff, what's your
personal favorite?
I like Walk Among Us, 3 Hits From
Hell, and, as crazy as it sounds. The
Night Of the Living Dead 45 is my
favorite Misfits thing
What happened after the Misfits?
There were various things I was
doing at that time, but basically Eerie
and I had decided to start a band
which was going to be called Sam-
hain or, if we came up with a better
name we would come up with a bet-
ter name, but we had a song called
Samhain. We were already doing
The Shift and Black Dream, I had
already started working on Archangel
with Al Pike from Reagan Youth in
August Eere was learning drums
for a lot of the stuff then. He was
drumming for Rosemary's Baby
then. So basically, what happened
was. Al Pike just wasn't happening
because he was a nice guy but he
couldn't go on tour because he had
a steady job and he didn't want to
lose it. So, it was me and Eerie. We
were going to do Samhain. I told the
Misfits the last show I was going to
do with them was the October show
and that was the end of the Misfits.
I got a call from Lyle and Brian Baker
(of Minor Threat). They wanted to
start a band and they wanted me to
be the singer. They wanted me to
come down to DC, so I went down
and did two rehearsals with them
and it wasnt happening. It was cost-
ing me a lot of money to fly down
there to just dick around, so I said,
look, just forget it. Lyle said he still
wanted to work with me and Eorie
so I said, okay, if you want to come
up we're going to do a show as Sam-
hain, and we're already recording the
album. But it just didn't work out with
Lyle because he didn't fit in with us
personality-wise.
He wasn't into the image. or...
Well, at first he was, then he said he
started getting shit from the people
down in DC or something. I don't
know. That was the end of that. We
just said, look, this is where were at.
We never lied to you, this is Samhain,
this is what it's all about. And, that's
how it went from there. We got Damien
after that.
So where did you come up with the
name Samhain?
It was just something I was into. It
was real tough getting information
on it. I'd been into it for awhile, if
wasn't just something that popped
into my head. I had written a song
called Samhain
Was that orginally a Misfits song?
No, it was a song I had written. There
was lots of stuff I'd written you just
couldn't give to the Misfits because
they couldn't do it. I had a song. The
Crystal Waltz, that I brought down to
rehearsal and those guys butchered
Most of the stuff Eerie plays, Jerry
could never play in his wildest imagi-
nation.
Basically then, is Samhain what you
wanted the Misfits to grow into?
Samhain basically, for lack of a bet-
fer discription, is the Misfits with a
new name, where they'd be right now
if Jerry had practiced and we grew
as we were supposed to. A lot of
people don't realize that. Its a whole
different band and it still has its own
sound because there are different
people in the band and different per-
sonalities, different ideas coming in
too. But song-wise, a lot of this stuff
I had written (the Shift and the Howl)
was written in 83. Archangel 1 wrote:
in 1981 for Dave Vanian (of The
Damned)
Are you happy with the way Sam-
hain is going or do you want to see
them go another step?
I want to see it go as far as it can
go. I'm never happy with anything.
and I get bored with stuff real easily
You do something and you just over-
do it, and once it's done you go onto
something new
So you like the way the progression
of Samhain is going now that there
are three releases out?
Yeah, I think the new one is the bost
one. All the other arums represent
the band, but this one is a more
someone said to me. Which rocord
should I get that really portrays Sam
hain? I would trave to say the new
one
Do you think it's gesing to take as
ong for the people to pick up ont
Samhain as it did to get into the
Mislits ike they are now?
No. Because already wore drawing
about the same amount of people
as the Mislits were drawing. Some
places were drawing more. There
are a lot of new people, a lot of the
people who used to be into the
Mislits have just dropped out of the
scene totally or switched to heavy
metal, like AC/DC type shit. We just
played up in Boston and had a totally
different audience than we did be
fore. In fact, I don't remember many
people who used to go to our Beston
shows being at that show, except for
the promoter and a few photo-
graphers.
So what in the crowd like now?
It's young. It's a lot of kids who don'
even know who the Misfits aro. Thora.
are a lot of people who do como:
because they're interested in my
career or whatever. They just ke the
song writing, and that's cool I have.
people come up to me and say
There'll never be another Misfits
and then walk away. But then other
people come up and say to mo,
Malils were never this good."
A dark corner of toys in Glenn's room.
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MISFIE
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Most of the Plan 9 catalog on display
Do you still get people asking for
Mists stuff
That's going to happen wherever it
goes. I'm not going to deny my mus
ical heritage, I wrote those songs
For the most part, most people now
don't even compare Misfita to Sam-
hain, even in a breath Semhain is
just too unbelievable for them. Voo
ally and lyrically the new band is so
much heavier than the Misfits its
ridiculous Even musically it's so
much more together as far as doing
different parts and compositions
Are you real picky in the studio.
Yeah, I'm real picky. I know exactly
what I want and 13 go do it. If some
one in the band can't do it, do it.
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Legacy
Brutality
How does that make them feel?
It doesn't matter how that makes
them fent. This is a business. There
is a bixdget for everything. Money
overrides everything. The record has
to come in under a certain budget.
I'm pretty lenient with that stuff, but
basically, I don't even have to say
anything. If Damien can't play a
guitar track he'll come in and go, 1
can't do it, so will you do ?
How did you get into all this
Japanese stuff?
First, with animation when I was a
kid: 8th Man. Kimba, Astro Boy, Gigan-
tor, all that stuff. After not collecting
for a long time I started collecting
comics. I was at this show and there
was a guy selling Japanese books
and toys, but basically paperback
books. There's thes character called
Captain Hadock. He had a skull and
crossbones shirt, a big massive scar
down his face, an eyepatch, hair hang-
ing in his face just the way I was
wearing my hair at the time. I im
mediately identified with all these
heroos. He rides this space ship In
outor space, as a space pirate, and
tries to stop greedy enterprising cor-
porations which have taken over the
earth by exploiting it and other
planets. They are hoarding all the
stuff which only rich people can af
ford. Like super rich, Pm talking
people who control worlds So it's a
pretty cool story and he thinks no-
thing of blowing poople away. Blow-
ing their whole bodies to pieces. He
doesn't care about reputation, he's
really taxing care of business and I
respect that and I'm really into the
Harlock thing. And then I got into
finding Astro Boy books Those Astro
Boy cartoons are really good anima-
tion. This is really good stuff, it has i
personality to it. Look at a cartoon
right now and you'll see they have no
personality. The budgets on American
cartoons have been slashed so much,
and the work forco on them has been
cul so dramatically that there isn't a
semblance of what they used to be t
ko in the 60's and 60's. While the
American animation companies were
getling worse the Japanese were get-
ting better The Japanese had a
sense of honor, senso of pride, brav
ery was shown in every cartoon, a
moral, emotion Things you could
use in your daily life. Like the old
Bugs Bunny cartoons had, a sense
of realism.
That started what you have here,
this giant collection of toys...?
The toys, I just really got into the
toys. I started with the books and
then, "Wow look at this, a toy of such
and such. I'm gonna pick this up t
love this old animation stuff, Cyborg
000, Astro Boy, Gigantor. Mezingor
2. Gelto Roboto, Captain Harlock,
Captain Future what else.
Devil Man?
Devil man is my favorite character,
again that's all good versus evil,
can relate to him on a personal basis.
it's on a parallel to something I'm
Going
Toys are big again, in in the 60's.
think it's good, I'd rather see kids
buying toys than drugs. That's just
my opinion, basically I think drugs
are for jerks. I don't care, if someone
wants to go out and kill themselves
with drugs, ne, go do it, Toys are
happening, if you want to got em.
get 'em. If you don't you don').
The big question is, arent you a little
too old for this?
I don't think in terms of age. If I want
to buy something I don't care what
someone says to me. I'm buying
for me not for them. If I cared what
they thought, I would say to them
before I bought it, "Do you think
should buy this? and in that case
I'd be a moron. I don't care about
other people. Basically 1 give two
sits about people. I'd just as soon
kill the whold human race right now,
Elecause I have no great love for
humanity, especially now It just
grows worse and worse everyday
The more and more things I see
humanity do..t's like it someone
said. "Heres the button, this will blow
up the whole world." I would press
it right now. And that would be it
Well that's basically what most
people are doing now they're al
lighting and bickering
No, but they're doing it in a stupid
way I'm solking about nobody would
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