Oh yes!! Please! Sock it to each other.
Like we was back in the good old days…
<gets comfy on sofa>
<opens pack of seasalt and balsamic vinegar crisps>
Oh yes!! Please! Sock it to each other.
Like we was back in the good old days…
<gets comfy on sofa>
<opens pack of seasalt and balsamic vinegar crisps>
Probably not. I’m sure his electricity is bound to be shut-off any minute now. and if not, I got tired half way through writing that post. So, he’s back on ignore status. I just don’t want to bother with his boorish ramblings.
I used to be punk rock policeman back in the day. I was very possessive about certain bands and when certain people would wear their gear after me I’d go kind of vigilante on them. In high school my buddy pointed out that Craig Beakins had a Dead Kennedys pin on his hat . . . and it was one that I didn’t have. I confronted him and told him, “You can either hand me that pin right now, and I’ll give you a dollar, or I can take your hat and remove the pin myself.” He sold me the pin.
In my Freshman year of college (it was a very small community college in the desert), there was a kid named Nathan that I just hated because . . . 1. He looked like an ass. 2. He had a whiny, annoying voice. 3. I decided he was a poser and that didn’t sit right with me.
The part that irritated me the most was he had a Dead Kennedys T-Shirt. So, when he tried to come into History class wearing it, I wouldn’t let him come in the door on my side of the class. I told him if he wanted to enter on my side or walk past my desk he needed to change his shirt or go turn it inside-out. He used the other door.
Yeah, I guess I used to be kind of an asshole. Since I’m a middle-aged corporate dildo now, I’m happy to run across ANYONE that I can talk bands/shows/music with.
I was the biggest music Nazi up until about…oh, maybe 2001.
I remember one time in the early 90’s at art school, making one poor sod a Neubauten compilation tape and giving it to him and then having him come back and tell me it was “unlistenable garbage”.
I gave him such a “hipster” dressing down in front of our peers, about how he had no idea about this and about that, that he didn’t talk to me again for the rest of the term. In fact nobody did.
Too cool for school was I.
And woe betide anyone foolish enough to admit to liking Pearl Jam back in 1993 whilst I was in ear shot…
Gunnar, you officially have me beat on being a music nazi. I never actually bullied people about it.
Jeez, when I was at school you either liked Duran Duran and The Human League and were popular or you liked Motorhead and AC/DC and nobody talked to you.
Wish I’d been in high school during the alterna-explosion.
Never really liked that grunge fad.
Freshman year was pretty much you either liked rap or nu-metal. The hardest thing in the mainstream at the time was Slayer’s God Hates Us All. Spring came around and I went through a Cradle Of Filth phase til their Heavy Left Handed and Candid dvd came out later that summer. When I saw how bad they sucked live, I lost interest. Then I dug deeper and actually got into real black metal for sophomore year. Black metal pretty much dominated til graduation and nobody else understood it but me.
Well, that’s always the way.
I remember liking Generation X and Radio Birdman.
People thought I was “un hip”.
I never cared what was hip or not, to be honest. I just liked being an asshole.
I try not to be an asshole about music, it does annoy me when i see kids wearing band shirts when i know they don’t know anything about the band, but i wouldn’t accost them over it. A lot of my friends think i have shit taste in music, but that’s because they like fruity-ass alternative crap and think what i listen to is “too heavy” or just stupid. I showed a friend the video for Dirty Black Summer and she thought it was the most hilariously awful cheesy trash, yet i was at her house and stuck Danzig III on and she loved it, thought it was like fuckin’ Jim Morrison reborn [:)] It’s strange how the visuals can either make you like something more or make it a load of bollocks.
It’s strange how the visuals can either make you like something more or make it a load of bollocks.
True, and for some of us, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive (see YouTube for Candlemass’ video “Bewitched” – it’s amazing).
Kinda makes me think of my friend. He was debating getting an AC/DC shirt when he only really knew “You Shook Me All Night Long.”
[reply]It’s strange how the visuals can either make you like something more or make it a load of bollocks.
True, and for some of us, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive (see YouTube for Candlemass’ video “Bewitched” – it’s amazing).[/reply]
Haha, i’ve somehow seen this before, it is very funny. Cool song though. It looks like it was made by the same great director who made Iron Maiden’s video for Holy Smoke, if you’ve ever seen it.
Jeez, when I was at school you either liked Duran Duran and The Human League and were popular or you liked Motorhead and AC/DC and nobody talked to you.
Wish I’d been in high school during the alterna-explosion.
Never really liked that grunge fad.
Oh, I was in high school during the alterna-explosion. Back in the good ol’ days of 120 Minutes on MTV being hosted by the “exotic” English VJ. The coverage and understanding of what ‘alternative’ was got much worse post-1991, but before that there were still many “wait…did I just see that?” moments, after seeing 120 Minutes play mind-melting videos like Greater Than One’s ‘I Don’t Need God’.
But back to the Misfits - during high school, I lived in an area of Western New York that was mainly and proudly Italian, and that made for a weird situation where Misfits and other Glenn Anzalone-related projects were like acceptable mainstream fare for my otherwise non-“punk”, jock-ish high school classmates. Then again, I believe one of the 'fits played high school football himself, so there’s a kind of continuity there.
This seems like a good place to tie together various threads within this thread (Dead Kennedys, Misfits, the hilarity of Danzig doing ‘everyday’ things, etc.)
Look for an episode of the “Alternative Tentacles Batcast” on the AT website or iTunes, from April 25 of 2006 (‘Nardwuar’ interviews Jello Biafra and the Melvins.) Although it’s amusing in its entirety, from about 16:25 in there is some high-quality riffing on Danzig, whichever side you might take in this particular battle.
choice exchange:
Dale Crover: “hey, careful, you might run into [Danzig] in a comic book convention in L.A…”
King Buzzo: “I have seen him in comic book conventions, thumbing through ‘Archie’ comics.”
Jello Biafra: “I do hope it was the CHRISTIAN Archie comics…”
Dale Crover: “hey, careful, you might run into [Danzig] in a comic book convention in L.A…”
King Buzzo: “I have seen him in comic book conventions, thumbing through ‘Archie’ comics.”
Jello Biafra: “I do hope it was the CHRISTIAN Archie comics…”
Gold!!
And oh! to have been a fly on the wall during that supposed Danzig / Def Leppard stand-off.
Apparently he’s a real cunt to bands he doesn’t like whenever appearing on the same bill.
Didn’t Iron Maiden have him booted off a festival once?
Silly Danzig.
Fuck me but I do love that self titled album though.
I want to see Danzig using Jello Biafra as a club to beat The Melvins to death.
In today’s comedic Danzig news…
http://loudwire.com/golden-statue-of-glenn-danzig-riding-dragon-austin-texas/
In today’s comedic Danzig news…
http://loudwire.com/golden-statue-of-glenn-danzig-riding-dragon-austin-texas/
I kind of hate that jackass who backpedaled saying the idea wasn’t serious and then making it unobtainable by demanding it be made of gold and rubies. Stupid hipster dick. Just own it and push forth! Pewter or bronze or some other regular sculpture material . . . and VOTE YES!!!