Alright, welcome to Talk Is Jericho. It's the pod of Thunder and Rock n' Roll. I'll tell you someone that hasn't gotten a haircut, Glenn Danzig. That's right. You know what I'll see? He hasn't done. He hasn't done what everyone thought he was going to do. As a matter of fact, he had quite the opposite. He's reunited with the misfits for shows at two Riot Fests, one in Denver, Friday, September 2nd this Friday. The second Riot Fests
show takes place September 16th in Chicago. It's Danzig, bassist Jerry Only, guitar player, Doyle of on Frankenstein and get this former slayer drummer Dave Lombardo behind the kit. This is the first time that Danzig has played with the misfits since his very last show with them October 29th, 1983 in Detroit. These shows are going to be legendary. You need
to get tickets if you can. Much like the Guns and Roses reunion, when they just booked a few shows at first, I bet you that the misfits are back and we'll be doing a lot more shows. Now this interview here was recorded before Danzig announced his reunion with the misfits, although we do discuss the possibility of it. Now that I know what I know, he was K-Fave me a little bit, which is great because this is a very rare Danzig interview.
Danzig has never done a podcast before. Danzig very rarely does interviews, but I've known Glenn for 20 odd years and when I asked if he would be on Talk His Jericho, he responded with open arms. I met up with him at Lemmy's birthday party back in December of last year. And I just ran into him and asked him if he wanted to do my show and he said yes and we made
it happen. So Danzig is going to be talking all about the misfits. The early days make it a name for themselves at Max's Kansas City in New York City and these circumstances around the original lineups break up. Plus Danzig is not just completely back with the misfits. He's also working on a new solo record. Danzig sings Elvis. Yes, seriously. He's taken on Elvis and it's not going to sound anything like the misfits. And if you think about it, Danzig does have
kind of an Elvis type of vibe. Even an Elvis type of a voice. So it's not too far off. Danzig sings Elvis. I want to hear that. He's also recently released another covers album called Skeletons. We're going to talk about all that music and comic books and wrestling and Rick Rubin. And the time the misfits video was banned by MTV. So much to talk about with the legendary Danzig. It's a great conversation. It's a rare conversation and I know you're going to dig it right here on
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leave us comments and five star ratings. All right. Do it. Do it. Do it. Danzig coming up. Talk is Jericho. So here in the undisclosed location studio in Hollywood with with with Glenn Danzig. And this is really cool, man, because I come in here and you're playing a guitar and you introduce me to a girl that you're in there with. It's Shari Curry from the Runways. And I got that after I saw her face. I'm like, oh my gosh. And you guys are working on a
Apache client. Yeah. So what happened was she originally came down graciously and sang on a track for the skeletons record, which is all covers and just came out. And it came out great, but we couldn't use it because we changed some lyrics and the lady who's in charge of Lee Hazelwood's publishing wouldn't let us use it. And rather than getting a big legal thing,
we just left it off. But I wanted to have a track on there with her. And so we're doing a track together and hopefully it's going to be an unlimited edition one with some extra tracks that didn't make it on the show. So it's that specific and that if you change a line, they sometimes don't like that publishing usually. Usually nobody cares, you know what I mean? They're happy you're covering their song and you're not really changing the integrity of the song or anything. So
yeah, we didn't think there would be a problem. And of course, you know, anytime you cover someone's song, it's an homage to the person. Of course. And so we, you know, so this is what we're doing now. But yeah, it's a love patty climb, especially the early version of this song, which is walking after midnight. So it's way before it got, you know, overproduced and she recorded it later. So it's really cool version and I'm making it a little darker, dancing,
icing it. Yes, that's what I'm doing. That's what I have to do. But I love the concept of the skeleton's record because like you mentioned, it was a cover record. And so people will be thinking, what are you going to be covering? It's going to be punk stuff or rarons or whatever, but it's very eclectic signifying your musical tastes. Yeah, I might see a lot of, well, a lot of fans know, but you know, some other people may just think, you know, dancing, it's heavy or whatever. But yeah, my taste
are all over the place. I like everything from classical to black metal, you know, it's all over the place. I like the inclusion of Elvis too. Well, yes. So everyone knows I'm big Elvis. I'm actually doing a dancing sing-zoist record. And one of the reasons for that is, you know, big Elvis man, of course, but I'm thinking. I'm like, I remember when artists would do a whole
record and it would be like, so and so sings this. Oh, and nobody does it anymore. And so I was just like, you know, you're always doing Elvis on live or you know, whatever, we've done them before. And I was just, you know, why don't I just do an Elvis? So you're doing a record dancing sings Elvis? Yes, so I've done pretty much. That's a great idea. And so it's, but it's not heavy. It's not like, you know, a dance like, you know, the Elvis track on the skeleton's record is pretty
heavy. Which track was it? Let yourself go. Right. Okay. So the new stuff that I'm working on for the dancing sings Elvis record is more like a traditional, you know, thing. So I'm not going to really tour anymore, but if we do some shows for the Elvis thing, we're going to do it in a very intimate like loungey kind of thing. That's a great idea. And just it's going to be a really cool thing. And you know, we did this legacy show for TV. And the director Mark Brooks, who does
Metalocalypse. And now he does that, that new show, Moonbeam City, I think it's called. An adult swim. Yeah. Yeah. He had the idea he wanted to do this dancing legacy special, but he wanted to make it like the Elvis 68 comeback special. And so when he finally pitched it to me in the managers, I was like, well, you know, I'm a big Elvis man. I go, can we do the thing in the round that I did? You know, we brought Scottie Moore back in the middle of the Smoffy,
we were like banging on things. Like he's just talking and really relaxed. Yeah, we have to do that. So that was my favorite part of doing it. And so the people there was only probably like two or three hundred people maybe in the round. It was very intimate. And it was really my favorite part because we're just goofing off telling jokes, playing the songs wrong. And but it was just a very cool, intimate thing. So I think I did you wear leather pants and a black leather jacket? No,
I wore my leather jacket. I haven't stopped wearing one since 1970 or whatever. Such a cool look though, and Elvis, I mean, that 68 comeback special. He had the whole black leather suit. Yeah. And that was his literal comeback. He hadn't seen him for years or whatever he came back to. That was cool. That was great. You know, it's funny asking this as a singer and having your style and your range and your wheelhouse when you're doing Elvis songs because
he's a tremendous singer. Incredible range. So how do you try and fit that into the dancing style, but still keep the Elvis vibe to it? Well, here's a tough thing. I mean, in some ways, you know, because Elvis just kind of did Elvis, right? But when I'm singing, I'm singing, and I'm also screaming and howling too. So it's like, you're a singer, you're blowing your voice out. Right. You know how good. Yeah. And so keeping it salvaged every night and say,
you know, sometimes you're doing three in a row. I won't do four in a row anymore. Yeah. But even three in a row. It's a lot, you know, and doing what we're doing. And I'm not just standing there. So I'm running around. It's not easy, especially to keep that, like you said, keep getting the low notes and the high notes. And so it's it's it's it's it's which tune is are you doing that with the harder ones? The Elvis ones? Well, again, you know, we talked about
doing stuff on skeletons. People wouldn't think that I would do. There's a couple on the Elvis Danzig's Elvis record that people might expect. But then there's other ones. They're not going to expect whatsoever. They're going to be like, what? But I guarantee you're going to they get I actually were just on tour and we were in Memphis and I was a guest on Elvis Radio in satellite
in Creslan. Oh, that's cool. So I not only get to take over, you know, Elvis Radio for an hour with the DJ and play my favorite Elvis tracks, but I played of course the let yourself go heavy version. And then I played, you were always on my mind from the Danzig sings Elvis. So people got a taste of it. So that's very cool. Yeah, it was really cool being on that because I listened to Elvis Radio all the time. And I have friends like a Des from Cold Chamber and from
Devil Driver. They listened to Elvis Radio all the time. So hey, Des. Shout out to Des. You know, it's amazing to me too is is people forget as the years go by just how huge Elvis was, you know, how monumental. So much like the Beatles are kind of a generation later, but 10 years to know people who kind of forget. And I always wonder will there ever be another iconic figure like a Sinatra and Elvis, a Michael Jackson, that might be the end of the line.
You know what Elvis was lucky in that when he did what he did, it kind of revolutionized everything. And then a bunch of people were around him at the same time kind of doing what he did, but only kind of doing. And so like you said, and then the Beatles came later and kind of like he's, you know, revolutionized everything. And the hears these guys that didn't just perform other people's songs, they wrote their own songs. And similar a little bit to Rolling Stones kind of had
the Beatles and Rolling Stones with the Bad Boy version of the band. But they all, you know, not only did other people's songs like traditional covers, but they wrote their own music. And I think that's the difference between people like the Stones and the Beatles and Elvis. And of course, you know, new artists now too, right? Right. You're on songs. And that was they were like the first generation of musicians that could prove that you could play your own songs and write your own songs. Yeah.
And I have hits. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, you know, it's funny. You mentioned, you know, doing the the Danzig sings Elvis and this ties into when I saw you last, where we kind of talked about this was that Lemmy's birthday party. Yeah, yeah. It reminds me of Lemmy when he did head cat, where he would go do rockabilly tunes with Slim Jim and just do his own thing. But were you a pretty good friend of Lemmy's? I wouldn't say I was his best friend. Yeah, I knew each
other and and we've done shows together, of course, all over the world in Mexico. And you know, Europe, of course, everywhere. But I remember it was 94, 95, I was in Europe, and I was the host of Viva TV, which at the time was kicking MTV's ass over there. And they gave me a list of people as a guest and they said, who do you want? And of course, I'm a major motor head fan. Anyway, that shows him. And then Lemmy's name was on there and I said, I want interview Lemmy.
And then I've interviewed him. I had to speak a little German in the beginning and then introduce him as Lemmy. Lemmy about motor head, you know, but yeah, it was great. Did you did miss fits and motor head kind of started around the same time frame? I think I'm not sure they might have started before us. Maybe only by a few years though. Maybe. You know, because it's interesting because they were kind of a metal punk band. You guys were almost a punk metal band. It was like a
kind of a mirror image, but just a little bit more on the other side of each way. Yeah, I we definitely the stuff I was writing was, I guess, you know, metal punk, you know, because I'm a major black Sabbath fan, of course. And so punk, of course, you know, changed so many people's lives and it was kind of weird. Yeah, and they might have been no other band other than Venom. You could put in that category. Right. Right. Right. And so yeah, I've been a motor head fan for
ages. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's fine because like, you know, you talk about how a motor head was influencing you. My first taste of misfit slash dancing was obviously Metallica, always see Cliff Burton wearing the dancing shirt. Oh, yeah. The misfit skull. Yeah. The misfit skull. And then of course, when they did Green Hell and I can't remember this,
it's escaping right now. Last chorus. Last chorus. And so that again is a perfect example of like this very powerful punk metal that's that's that's that put kind of put you back on the map in a bigger way. Metallica's covering your stuff. Um, I don't know. I think it made people aware of it. But that's time though. I was already doing Sam Hayne. Right. And so actually those guys would come into town and we'd hang out and I'd give them a bunch of shirts. Yeah. James always were a
Sam made shirt. Yeah. And then we'd also, you know, go out maybe one or two nights at drinking or whatever. You know, getting in trouble. We got in trouble. I know a few times there was a time in Ireland when we were on tour with them. And we got in a lot of trouble. But it's all stuff you think back now on your laugh, you know, and but at the time we were laughing too, it's just that we didn't know how much trouble we were going to get into the next day. Right. You woke up in jail
or whatever it was, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, yeah. It was a good time. Yeah. But it did open the door to a whole new fan base. Like I said, I was one of the people. Yeah. I think, yeah, by that time when that record came out, we had already signed with like my band Danzig, Head Simon Rick. Okay. So and actually Rick and myself, my lawyer at the time, and James and a bunch of other people I think slash and the South of the Guy Hacks were hanging out at the rainbow. And my lawyer was
so happy because always bands would have met the table and he's still my lawyer. And Rick and I had to go back out to the valley to finish up some stuff on the Danzig record. And James came out and sang a bunch of songs on the first Danzig record. Which I was listening to it on the way over here. And you forget like first of all, definitely you have to have a Jim Morrison influence as well. I think it's not it's not a lot of that. But I think there might be some of it. There's a
lot of Elvis, but also people forget that I listened to a ton of blues. Like one of my favorite singers is Halem Wolf. And I think maybe there's that connection because I think if I'm not mistaken, Jim Morrison liked blues. Like we all have kind of a similar voice. Elvis has a deep voice. I don't have the high, you know, like the Rob Howford or Bruce Dickinson voice. And I wouldn't try to get it right. You know, it makes me sound good. But you know, so I have a deeper register voice. And
I like a lot of blues, especially, you know, Halem Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters. I love that stuff. And I sing that stuff all the time. In the 90s, we would do acoustic sets every once in a while. And it was predominantly blues. You know, just two guitars and me screaming. And so, yeah, I think it comes from that. Just having that, there's when you think about it, there's not a lot of singers with a deeper register voice like this. So it's very unique. Like when you hear your
voice, you know it right away. That's cool. You know what I mean? Like it's a, it's a pretty cool because I know it's my voice. Yeah. Yeah. How instrumental was Rick Rubin and it kind of taken you guys even higher? I think when I first met Rick, because we were talking, I was talking to lots of different labels at the time. And when I met with Rick, it was pretty crazy. And at the time, he was a very hands-on producer.
I don't know, you know, what he does now. But he told me stuff that I agreed with. And him and I were kind of on the same wavelength of where I saw myself going and what I wanted to accomplish. And so that's why I ended up signing with Rick. And I think it worked really good in the beginning. What was the mindset that you wanted to do? Well, I just, I said, look, I want, you know, my records to be like, all the records that I like, where it's like people don't listen to them just for a year.
I want people listening to my stuff and coming back to it for like 10, 20, 30 years. I want to be like, you know, an artist that makes a difference in that people are inspired by. And that, you know, that's what I want. He goes, that's exactly how I see you. That's what I see you doing, like being an album artist. If you have a record great, if you don't, you go back tour and then you come back home,
you do another record and go back out. And you're not doing it just to do hits. You're just going to make the greatest record you can. Kind of like AC, DC, and Black Sabbath and all these other things. Like a longevity, kind of thing. And I said, that's exactly how I see what I, you know, myself doing. But yet here you stumble onto mother, which becomes a generational hit. Like I was, I was listening to today, and you remember like what I was living in Knoxville, Tennessee at the time,
which is another story, which I'll tell you in a second. But that song was on MTV like every five minutes. It was massive, massive, massive song. They didn't really want to play it. Really? No, they, when they first came out, they banned us. Why? Because the video has, because you're sure of, I'm surprised, and some crazy stuff. And Rick gave them a wrong video by accident. And they showed it on TV and then they hated us. They hated Rick. They hated Slayer. They, Rick had, at the time,
Rick had us, Slayer, Dice Clay, and somebody else had, they hated all of us. So what happened was at the time, MTV had a competitor called the video music box. You know, you could call up and for a dollar or 50 cents, they would play your track. And it was exploding there. And on, you know, FM radio, all over the country, like six years after it was released, because we put out a throw record, which was live. And it's just people going crazy. Yeah. And so we came back from tour. And we had
to hit a huge hit. It just blew up. It's I used to be. And so MTV had to play it as my story is that and they didn't want to play, but they had to play it because everybody else was playing it. Yeah. Yeah. And then they kind of, yeah, because it's such a big, big song. To the point where, I used to be obsessed with guitar hero. And I used to play mother all the time. I could play the best guitar hero solo for that tune. That's awesome. I went to Cincinnati, it was a bit of Knoxville.
I went to see Metallica, Danzig, and Suicide, I believe it was. And Rick was there. And unbeknownst to me, he was the secret investor to the wrestling company that I was working for. That's Smokey Mountain Wrestling. Smokey Mountain Wrestling. Yeah. And I used to send me tapes to that on the road. So that, because I met you there. And I was, because you actually, yeah, I was watching smoke. I was like,
I didn't know, I couldn't believe that you knew who I was. Nothing you knew. I was. Yeah, I've seen you on Smokey Mountain Wrestling. I was like, wow, that's cool, man. So were you one of those guys that would be on the bus watching VHS tapes of wrestling? Yeah. Of course. I see it's so funny. I was just telling this to Sheree before. I, I think I told you already. I wanted to be a wrestler. Really? Yeah. But I didn't think I was big enough. I met some wrestlers. And I'm like, I kind of
had a wrestler, but it all worked out pretty good. Yeah, it's I think you did okay in the end, right? But, you know, I, yeah, where did you grow up? Back East. Okay. Jersey. Jersey, New York, and Boston. Also, my mom's relatives are all from Boston. So were you watching like WWF? WWF, yeah. And but also we got Florida Championship Wrestling. And I got Mexican Wrestling on the Mexican stage too, you know. So I watched and we had a w a 2. That's what I grew up on. Yeah, so I grew up
on. I come from Winnipeg. Yeah, but yes, so I mean in high school, I used to wrestle and then I saw my friend's arm snap when he fell on our wrong hold and it was in a metal pins in three spots. Yeah. You know what I think coming back to my band. That was always part of your gimmick too. You always had like the big chest, the big arms. That comes from other stuff. Yeah. So, um, yeah, but um, it did turn out okay for me. So I guess it's better that it wasn't. I get the same amount of injuries
as you guys go out. Yeah, but it was funny too though because like you said in rock and roll, most guys are skinny and they're, you know, the cracked out or whatever, but you always looked to eat really big because if you have any muscle at all in rock and roll, you look like a giant. Yeah. You know, it was you and the guitar player from Alice Cooper. Remember that guy,
Cain Roberts? I remember him. Yeah, I wasn't that big. Yeah, but yeah, so, um, it just, you know, I think it was just I, at the time, I wanted to take my body and my mind to like just other spot. Mm-hmm. And that's what I just did. Mm-hmm. You know. Did you, uh, who were your some of your favorite wrestlers when you're when you're growing up getting influenced by them? My favorite all-time wrestler is Freddie Blassey. Nice. And then I like, uh, I like superstar Billy Graham.
And you're not going to be at my top five. Yeah, that's okay. But I actually, when you did come to the WWE and you did the whole Rose Jericho, that was incredible. Oh, cool. And I think it took you from here to just, well, it just, you know, it, it's where you should have been. Well, it's the same kind of similar to what you're saying when you went to go with Rick Rubin. You go from a certain level to through the roof because of the push that you're getting and the machine that's behind you.
You still got to go on the road and do it. You know what I'm talking about. Of course. You gotta pay your dues. Of course. We played a lot of shate holes on those. Yeah. Two records. Yeah. And a lot of other, but like, you know, I'm sure you have to do the same. Always. Yeah. That, I think that everyone was waiting because I have tons of friends who are wrestlers, you know, in other bands and just friends in general. And when you came to the WWE, I offended that first
Rose Jericho was, yeah, it was electric. Yeah, that's cool. See, I love wrestling still. So, we still watch? Yeah, when something cool happens, I'm so excited because it's, you know, I don't watch football. I hate football. I hate baseball. I like watching wrestling because it's like this crazy spectacle. Yeah. Also, but still it's very physical and violent. And you know, that's
the kind of stuff I like. You know, like I love the movie, the original movie rollerball because it's just so crazy and violent and just, and that for me, wrestling, you know, adding all the entertainment value and the craziness and the storylines, it's just, it's my thing. Have you seen, like, what are some of the other like electric moments that you can recall from wrestling? Is there other things
that stand out for you? Let's see, there's so many other wrestlers that I love, but I used to like macho man when he first broke in and was like the anti-hero. You know, it's supposed to be a bad guy, but people liked him. So, yeah, I still call him bad guys. I don't usually internet terms. So, me neither. Yeah. So, yeah, but there's so many great characters, you know, wrestling that, you know, I think one of my new favorites is the Wyatt family. It's like this Cape Fear Charles
Manson family or something. It's pretty cool. They actually base that a little bit on Cape Fear, but also on the House of a Thousand Corpses. Oh, cool. The family. Yeah, Rob. Yeah. Yeah. Are you your big horror movie fan? Of course. So, what kind of stuff do you like from... I kill some eyes, the original. Yeah. I like so much horror stuff. But then there's stuff I hate too, like some of the new, like, you know, a movie will be a hit and then they'll make 18 movies like it.
Right. You know, hate that shit. All it would go to those phases where they'll put out, you know, okay, here's the creepy doll movie and then there'll be 20 other creepy doll movies. So, like, you know, it's like for a while, it was a conjuring and would not insurgent whatever is called instead some in something whatever insidious and a bunch of movies all similar within the same year or two. I think they're on insidious eight now. Exactly. And a couple years before there was saw and saw two and
saw three and so forth and saw eight and all those things. Actually, the stuff I'm into now is like, I think there's some great stuff on TV now. Oh, I watch Bates Motel. I like the first two seasons of America Horror Story. I like the Lizzy Board and Chronicles, but I also like America on Earth with a, you know, Trace the Templars and all the other stuff and the history you know isn't really the history. You know, this is all stuff I've been into for decades. So explain that a little bit,
like we tell them about the America, like the Templars. Okay, so America on Earth is basically the show and I want to say it's based on this old book I got back in the late 80s or mid 80s called America BC. I think it's more than that though, but basically it's saying like, you know, you think that these people discovered America, but they didn't discover America and this is, you know, this and this is this and look at this and look at all this, you know, stuff and you're just like, whoa.
So are they saying discovered America? Well, of course, they're showing you like Iberian trade routes and you know, they're showing you Celtic graveyards in America and they're showing you also the crazy stuff and like this guy was the show America on Earth is showing you a Templar burial tomb in Arizona and then they're showing you Mexican pyramids in Minnesota and and Wisconsin and that they're saying that you know, at Sland, the American, the Mexican homeland is actually up north.
It's not you're getting down and then they're showing you proof that when you know, the Aztec Empire was under invasion, they sent the gold back up north of the Malthusumbas gold. I guess I can't find it now and just crazy stuff like that and that the Templars came over and landed in Nova Scotia, which everybody knows and yeah, and then you have government trying to like cover it up and say, no, no, no, no, no, and these people. Yeah, and then they start disinformation, you know, what
a disinformation campaign is, right? Well, explain. Disinformation is where you put out false information as if it's real. Yeah, and then people believe it. Right, which would be seem like a government trick for many things. For centuries. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, and this is the kind of thing that you know, it's so and it's so easy to do disinformation campaigns now on the internet because there's no, you know, it's like the Wild West. Well, all it takes is two or three, you know,
tweets or our Facebook posts or articles and people start believing as if it's fact. Exactly. You know, that's that's the world we live in. That's how they used to do disinformation campaigns with media. So a lot of different, a lot of, you know, we're going to get into crazy government stuff, but basically it just which I love by the way, just or then you love a lot of stuff I read. So basically a lot of different people in government control a lot of the media. So it's so easy to
even before the internet to put out a disinformation campaign. And the government does it all time, and they don't want you to know something they'll just put something out there and then, you know, it's supposed to shut everybody up. And that's the way it goes. Yeah, I've had a lot of conspiracy theorists on the show saying that basically if you go into like the early 1900s, like the Rockefellers and all these type of they had so much money and were manipulating the entire banking system that
whatever they said basically goes. Yeah, you know, well, you have people who run all the newspapers in the right, yeah, Hurston, you know, the Hurston family. Yeah, so they can do whatever, because they own all the newspapers. Yeah, it's there's a lot of good books that you can get on that stuff. Where's you know, the Bilderbergs? What's the Bilderbergs? The Bilderbergs is a group that's been around for a long time. A lot of people, I guess maybe in their early stages, people would call
the New World Order or whatever, the Illuminati before that. And basically it's a group that wants, you know, wants the award does control everything that goes on in the world that we know. I love that stuff, man. You know what I mean? You should get the Bilderberg group. Then there's another Bilderberg conspiracy book, but there's another good book called the Committee of 300 Conspirators Hierarchy. That's really good. Because it talks about the Delenos and the Roosevelt's.
Okay. The Chinese will be in trade and all that kind of crazy stuff and ties it all in. I mean, well, like you said, there's so much more things that we don't really know. And that's kind of the way that people like it. I think there's people that want to know, and there's other people like, I don't care. I don't, you know, I don't, you know, I always said this before with knowledge comes responsibility. Some people don't want to, you know, don't want to get involved. Yeah,
don't want to do anything about it. That's cool too. Actually, you know, that's your prerogative, you know, I was thinking about that even today when I parked up front in the street and that you had turned the alarm on your car. I'm like, if someone breaks in the car and the alarm's going off, no one's going to do anything. You know, it's someone going to walk by and go, hey, you know, not now. I was going to ask you a question. What is your last name, Danzig?
What national, what national? It's German, but there's a big dispute about it being German. So we'll just say it's German. Okay. So where are some of the biggest countries that you tour and we're Danzig as a big value and big name? States. But Europe, of course, you know, Scandinavia, Germany. It's amazing though, like pretty much a worldwide, you know, yeah. We've been touring Europe and Scandinavia, you know, forever. It's like from the beginning. Some of the
mother video actually shot at festivals and at shows in Europe. It's not just shot at the Irvine show, it's shot also. I took the camera crew for about a week over to Europe and England, you know. Well, I mean, because you kind of pioneered this style, like we talked about, really, plus you have a lot of different interests with horror movies. I've also come up with books too with the Verotic series, which is really cool stuff. It's crazy. Yeah. That's been going on
for a long for years. Yeah. We started. I decided I was going to do it around 93, 94 and then we put out our first books at the tail end of 94 and we're still going. So are you writing? You write them? Yeah, I write all the stuff now. Before we use other people now, I'm writing all of it now. So you have a lot of similarities to me and that it's not just about one thing. It's about doing a bunch of different things under the brand name of Danzig. I, you know, it's my
podcast or with wrestling with Fawzi and other different things that I do. It's so important to spread your wings that way and not be afraid to try different things. You know what? For me, it's all about still like the art aspect of it also. So music and the writing songs and performing and everything. I still love it. You know, creating, doing and creating, like you said. And so, you know, there's some people that just want to be in a band and that's it and that's great.
But I'm, you know, and maybe you're the same way. You want to do other stuff. You want to experiment and try different stuff and this maybe stuff that you're interested in. You want to do it. And I remember when I started the comic company, I was like, nobody was doing it. And, you know, a comic fan, I'm not just United States comics, but Japanese, European. And their stuff is everywhere from little kids stuff to crazy adult stuff. And I'm like, why don't we
have it here? And I'm talking to all the fans at the end of the night and 80 to 90% of them are comic fans and they're asking me about this comic and that comic and like somebody should do a cool company and I'm like, sitting back finally and I always wanted to do it. And I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to do it. It's yeah. It's time he's right. And you know, I know that there's at
least a certain portion of people out there who want to see this kind of stuff too. You know, and then, you know, and we don't have any superheroes, you know, so I mean, that's nobody in spandex running around saving the world. You know, we don't have any of that. We just have crazy characters killing children going crazy. When I was a kid growing up in the 80s, I discovered the EC comics. Yeah, you know, which was before the comic code was invented. Which if you go back and look at it,
it's just horrible things happening and their comics. There's worse comics than EC comics. From back in that time frame. Oh yeah. So there's, see, because I'm also a comic fan. Yeah, yeah. And so there's pre-code horror comics that are just crazy. Which is like the covers are just severed heads and someone taking a bite of a severed head like it's an apple or something. Someone about to stick a red hot poker in someone's eyeball. That's all the coverage. He's a big eyeball and a poker
getting ready to go viral. I mean, getting ready to go in the eyeball. I'm just crazy stuff. I'm just going, you know, stop bothering me. But I guess maybe some parent might see your kid looking at this, you know, comic with a poker getting ready to stick in someone's eye and go like, not me. I'm not that person either. Like, yeah, this is cool. That's the comic. I don't want to read Superman. I want to read that. Yeah. Yeah. That's me. Because yeah, there's also these
magazines. They're called creepy magazines. Creepy. Which was, and they were black and white the horror comics. Yeah. Like just newsprint type of stuff. Yeah, those were cool. See, that's like the stuff I liked. And then at that time, I was discovering underground comics. And a lot of the really, really good artists at like DC and Marvel didn't want to work there. And they started working for those companies. Like Bernie writes in and all those guys. Yeah, the famous guys. Yeah.
Yeah, for that, I had already moved on to, you know, paperback covers and getting more money to anybody else. So yeah, but all those guys, that's one of the reasons I used collude for the black area record because I love his stuff. Right. Yeah. So, you know, and then I know the second black area I used, Bill St. Kavitch. Okay. Yeah. I know the new anthrax. They use Alex Ross. Yeah. So they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, everybody likes, you know,
their favorite artists. Yeah. You can get in that position where you can actually hire these people to do your cover, like, Bizley, I've been working with him now since 92 is when I had him do the throw all cover. Okay. And we actually filmed it with my crew. There was over there filming the festivals and I've been working with him since 1992. We still work together. We're working on
a new book again, another lyric book. Is there just erotic come out every month or like just when you want to put them out or what happened was it started becoming everything I didn't want it to be like the other companies we started using artists and writers. I didn't want to use just because we had to put out a book every month or a month and I'm just finally I just put the breaks on it. I saw one of the books we did and I didn't like it at all and I was like this is stopping right now.
We're all making a put up books. We'll me have something to say. Is there still a comics code now? No, that's gone. So those just kind of in the 70s and 80s or something. I think it was in the it was starting probably around 53 right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe 54 some like right around there and then it lasted until the 80s I think. But I think it was a ball. It was the 80s. The indie comic scene started
happening. Right. And then I think towards the end of the 90s it was gone. Well because at that back at that time too when the code was there basically was just Marvel and DC that was it. There was maybe a few like gold key or whatever some other inciliarie ones but there really wasn't a lot of options in that time frame. Yeah. I think that you know Archie comics was having no problems with the code. They probably weren't even checking the Archie books. They were just like
yeah I would have read those three. But I think that actually in the 60s and 70s and even in the early days I think they still had to send the book to the code to be approved. How crazy is that? Yeah right. If we had to send the Verotic books to a code it would be like 4F. No. Yeah 4F right. Yeah. And he's just like here's it's a 24 page book you have to take out 24 pages. So do you still do how much tour and do you still do a yearly basis?
Uh well now I'm done. Are you not touring anymore? No no. I heard you say that earlier. I wasn't sure if I heard or right. Yeah no I'm not going to tour anymore. I stopped touring back around 2005. Really that long ago. And then the manager said well what if we just do like a regional tour here on the west coast and you fly home all the time?
Yeah because my problem isn't being on stage is the bouncing around on the bus and not being near my stuff and being able to do you know we're talking about the creating and all that other stuff and doing all this other stuff I want to do and you can't really do it on the road. So I said okay we'll try let's go out from two maybe three weeks and I'll fly home every couple days.
And that worked. And so then they said okay well why don't we try something a little more like go to the Midwest and back and you fly home by the same thing two three weeks and try that and that worked. So then I think it was around 2008 they said okay let's try the whole country and you fly home all the time and then that worked. So I said okay I can do this if we can do it that
way. So then when it came time to tour I would do that. This last tour it didn't work that way and I wasn't able to to fly home as much as I wanted to just because of rooting and you know I won't take flights that stop places I wanted to direct. You want to get stuck in Shaboygan. I don't even know what that is. You've got to see Wisconsin. Okay nothing was the fine people of Shaboygan but I don't want to get stuck there.
Yeah. So they didn't work out that well and I did two runs in the States on this last thing like that and I just said that's it. I'm done you know. So I'm not going to stop performing. I'm just not going to tour anymore. I'm you know so you know maybe I'll fly here do a show and then fly home. Gotcha. Or I'll do local shows here and you know Southern California or Northern
California whatever but it's not going to be like. Make it more of an event type thing. Yeah I'm just not going to do that thing and maybe you know three four years from now I don't know revisited if I can fly home you know or maybe just do regionally kind of thing and you know
it's hard to be on the road for two three four five weeks at a time. Yeah when you're younger you know you don't care right as you get older you priorities change and things are different and you know like we were talking about before you're doing lots of different stuff you know you want to be able to still do all that different stuff now and it's not as important you know right you want it if you can do all the things you want to do then of course you're going to want
to do it but if you can't do you miss the buzz of being on stage the live element of it. There's nothing like you know it you know there's nothing like being on stage and sending out that energy and getting it back from them because then it just amplifies and you turn it out into something
even more powerful and then they send it back in use and it back and it's pretty intense it's cool you know because we're not doing a ton of petty show we're doing you know yeah doing a crazy you know sometimes our pit is insane you know and you know and then you
got everybody else on the sides it's not in the pit going out of their minds and to me that I love I'm I'm helping them and they're helping me you know I'm forgetting about all my crap I have to do it and they're hopefully they're doing this experience and forgetting about all their crap too
and they can leave that concert just like wow yeah yeah man that was great yeah you know it's all-sted whatever you know emotionally physically whatever but they had a great time an experience I don't want to just do a concert I want people to have a great experience something that they
can't get anywhere else hmm that's what I look for when I go to a concert sure be knocked off my socks have you ever seen a concert like what's your favorite concert that you've seen when you were a kid or or now has there been bands that do that to you I still when you you see
Slayer and you hear those yeah it's oh it never gets old yeah you know it's I went to we play Carolina rebellion last year whatever it was and I went and stood not in the pit but right at the front of the stage like wrestling my you know and that band is so powerful and you
not forget but you you just cool to go forget until you see it again you're like you said it's so powerful man nobody does that like like I like distinctive bands and I think that's one of the things that Rick when when we sign when he just tell me goes I don't want like middle of the
road bands he goes I want bands like you I want like Slayer I want an artist that has something to say and I want people to react either negative video or positively do that's exactly what I don't want anyone middle of the road about me I want people that either love me or hate me yeah
yeah which is great that's the way it should be that's what I want I want that extreme reaction I want them to just like be like yeah and you know and that's one of the things that Rick and I agree now I was like you know you know you know to be an artist you have to have a statement you have
to be saying something right yeah you want to have that like I said that distinct unique quality where people just know that's that's dancing or or whatever or whoever it may be like when we're talking about Mordere before as soon as you hear Lemmy's voice you know it's Mordere but also you
hear that bass it's it's like a guitarry kind of bass right and it's like he's pounding on the thing yeah one of the things I love about Mordere because that's how I play guitar I pound on the thing which is so I mean that that his rig was called murder one and like you said just to see like
I haven't obviously since he passed away and you know when musicians pass away I mean it's always sucks or friend but Lemmy was a friend too so I was watching a lot of his stuff and just remembering just not just as a singer as a personality as a drinking whiskey but just as a bass player he's a great player man yeah you know and that Mordere one that just shooting out the the distortion of it the power that's another like you're talking about Slayer when you hear the riff you know I mean when
you hear Ace of Spades you know it you know yeah you know the song yeah exactly then you hear Lemmy's voice and you know you're hearing something yeah pretty unique and that's the saddest thing I mean it we had we had Lemmy and then Bowie and then Glenn Fry I'll pass away with the strip here at a time not only you lose the guy the legendary guy but the music like you will never be played again live by
those guys like Motorhead Motorhead we lost Motorhead and Lemmy that's that to me is like hard to envision that yeah Bowie I was lucky enough to see some of the earlier Bowie really yeah I didn't get to see Ziggy that was a little before yeah a little before your time yeah but I got to see
the Diamond Dogs and the David live stuff at Radio City I actually took pictures at Radio City because I was going to near a institute of photography no kidding yeah so you're in the photo if it takes a pictures yeah I would I would bullshit my way with my camera all the time yeah press
where's your pass I said my guys got it I don't know because as you know the secret to being somewhere just acting like you're supposed to be there yeah as long as you're acting yeah so I would do that and I learned that in school they just like bullshit you way up there and
whatever you're gonna do you know and I was able to take lots of pictures of lots of bands back then I have Sid on stage wow Texas Kansas City I have Lou Reed God the Cramps Backstage at CBGV's Richard Hell hanging out at CBGV I mean just like name some bands I got actually I got Iggy on stage with
Bowie playing keyboard no kidding yeah for the idiot tour yeah because they worked together quite a bit yeah well I he helped do the idiot record and then he came out on that tour as a keyboard player and backup singer there was such a scene in New York in the 70s at that time frame I got
Hunter and Ronson on stage you know I think I think my manager has been talking and I think I'm gonna do a photo book I'm not sure of all my old photos why not right I guess I got to find all the stuff and everything but yeah the cardboard box somewhere yeah so yeah I'm pretty sure
that's yeah I just watched this I was thrown on Netflix and I just saw this random blondie documentary blondie in New York and it was like this you know 70s blondie and making one of the records or whatever and just all of the vibe in the scene and just there's so much different kind of
you know it was punk but it was disco but it was this but it was that just a great vibe it must been cool to grow up at that time in the beginning it was all kind of lumped in it was kind of a one thing punk new wave and then it kind of punk became more violent and more angry and new
wave became more acceptable and fashionable yeah even though there was still fashion punk but it wasn't the same kind of and that's when it's kind of schizm then and then you know hardcore out so what was your your guys' minds that we first started in misfits where were you trying to get it
I just wanted to destroy the world I basically I think my mindset was like a lot of everybody else it was in into punk we just hated all the crappy bands putting out records that sucked and like 20-minute leads and drum solos and it's like yeah it was you know brought it back to being about the song
being able to play it like you know some artist you know soloist or whatever yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it was the vibe yeah a lot of people still don't get that about punk that it was more about the vibe the the the thing that made punk like you can copy a punk song and it
sounds like a punk song but it kind of isn't a punk song you gotta have that reason the thing that people demeaned punk about they didn't play the couldn't play their instruments well that was half of it it was just the attitude of just being like kill the world like you said yeah well
but then if you listen to early rock and roll they said the same thing about them people they said oh they can't play their instruments are terrible yeah yeah yeah and but and we were talking about Elvis before but man when I was doing this OS record trying to sing some of those songs his
range was incredible I would like to see some of those other people do those Elvis and not just range with the feel like if you listen in the ghetto for example like he sings that like so emotional his vibrato and the the notes that he chooses you see the scene that he's setting and that's
part of it too this is the crazy thing I remember actually Rick and I were talking about you know like doing vocal after vocal and I go man my throat's getting you know messed up he's like Elvis used to do 90 tris eggs of each song and he would do like five songs a day I'm like I'm not obviously
the same 1985 dude yeah exactly that's what pro tools and editing and but it tells you exactly like here's this guy and you know he's doing all these takes and each vocal is probably getting better now you know you know you start thinking about it going wow well it's the same as the Beatles when
when you know they would do they did the first record like and I think it was in 12 hours the please please me record in 12 hours the whole record but they'd also been singing you know 14 hours a night in Germany yeah you know on pills and drinking and on speed so I'm sure they had
it locked in at that point I don't know about any of that someone told me that's what happens I could be Germany I think they were playing in the repabond right that's right what we uh I remember we were playing early on in dance and career we were playing the same club that the
Beatles played in the repabond in hamburger was it the star club or the Kaiser Kellogg's I forget yeah they and they actually gave us the tour and everything yeah yeah it's pretty funny it's funny because I was in Germany in 93 I did a six week wrestling tour there but you wrestle the same
arena arena same tent every night and I went I was like I went to the Kaiser Kellogg and you walk in it's like this place is socks yeah it's you know stinks of like beer and it's this is it you know it's pretty funny because when we played there I drummer passed out because it was no air
they passed you're pretty fast it's downstairs you know it was just like it was great anyway but that's kind of like you said the the beauty of like these legendary places that really kind of shit like the ECW arena you know the famous ECW arena that's basically is a bingo hall and there's
no air conditioning in it or or or heat in the winter so it was a shithole but it had that vibe you know but you know what if you were playing the two shitholes under that and you get to that shithole at you oh yeah that's the age in your career like hey it's a kingdom yeah did you um did you
guys uh if you're what was gonna say um when you're talking about um CBGB's the famous places used to hang out there I used to hang out there um but later on I didn't hang out there um because we the misfits like I would book the band oh really we didn't we kept on getting tryouts there
and I'm like well what do you mean try out if you like this the first time yeah well you gotta keep coming and doing tryouts and really even if you played there you'd have to go back and you didn't get paid you didn't get billing okay and so I started getting frustrated and I'm like
when we get in our own show and you know and like well we're gonna have you do play with another one of our terrible bands you know you'll bring all your people they don't bring anybody and you don't get paid yeah and finally I'd had enough and I'm I knew the people that um that were booking
maxes at the time maxes Kansas City's right famous venue another famous round your dolls I think this is you know blonde yeah yeah all like well blonde was the CBGB okay so you either one or the other but what happened was Max is was making a big push to get you know bands and I knew the book
needs is there and I was telling them my probably why don't you come here we'll make you a house band we'll give you billing and we'll pay you and we'll give you a bar tab and we'll drink your drinkers at the time I was like okay that sounds great you know this is way better you know and we
you know misfits made a lot of Maxes we did not and it just was like before I knew it we were playing uh Erwin Plaza or a you know and then on and upward getting bigger and bigger did you where you doing the white base and uh at the time to you miss it uh the first Irwin Plaza I did
the uh I didn't did the other guys Jerry was the only one who put on the you got the eyes but on the first Halloween show you I did the full skull face and this you know I was wearing the skull shirt and then I think I did it a couple more times and then stopped doing it and then it then the music started getting more thrashy. Yeah, and it started changing really. Cause you left the misfits in like 84, 83, 85. 82, and I think I did one final show in 83, the band broke up actually.
It wasn't like I, you know, I, and I had moved on to doing the same thing. Yeah. Does it blow your mind? Were fans and God bless them? Are they still safe? Are you ever going to go back to the misfits? Really, my mindset is like, you know, I'm glad you like the old stuff. You know, like it better than whatever, you know, but, you know, I'm so into doing what I'm doing right now, you know. For the last 35 years, you know. So the success I've had with Danzig is just, you know, crazy.
And a huge, a lot of work, you know, and a lot of people besides myself to think, like Rick and a different people who are involved, you know, with the labels and, you know, booking agents who took a chance on us. And, you know, and what I was doing, you know, and so, you know, it's just been crazy. It's, I couldn't have asked for, you know. It's, it's, it's just a little bit of a stroke of luck too when you think, you know, like you just never know right place, right time. Of sure it is.
Absolutely. Absolutely. It luck is maybe part of it, but it's a lot of hard work. Once you get in there, they're not just going to hand it to you. You've got to, you know, and it's probably like that and wrestling. Absolutely. They give you the ball, but you got to run with it. If you can't run with that ball, you ain't going anywhere. And that's not just for the first five years or ten years. That's up until this moment that we're sitting here right now.
Yeah. You know, you got to be hustling and constantly expanding your horizons. Yeah, you're as good as your last record and your last tour. Absolutely. Absolutely, right? So what do you want to do then over the next few years that you mentioned? You're not touring anymore. Will you still do like, I see you have like an annual Halloween gig like at Universal Theater or something. I wish Universal, where Shereena, I was just talking about that. It's like my favorite place to play and it's gone.
We did the last show there. Oh, they took it down? Yeah, it's torn down. So we did the last rock show and then there was a comedy show the night after. But when we were there, you know, doing sound checks and everything, all the demolition trucks were in the back. Yeah. To a bus. So I was like, oh man, this is my favorite place to play. We did a shirt just for that night and it had all the dates, Danzig played Universal. Oh, wow. It's seven or eight shows there.
Wow. Since, since 92 to now, seven or eight, you know, and you would play to other places like Irvine or whatever. Sure, of course. But this, for me, was my favorite place at nice size stage. Pit in the front, if you want to go crazy, seats going up like this so it's not a bad seat in the house. Sounded great and it's gone. Yeah. You know, and I put Sheree on the bill and she'd always wanted to play there and never had the opportunity.
It was what made her, she saw Bowie there on the Diamond Dogs tour. And it's what made her decide she wanted to be a singer. Really? Yeah. And she was like, at the Universal Theater. Yeah. And so I was like, how would you like to come and do this show? And she was like, oh no, you're, you're, you're kidding me. I've always wanted to play there and it was great. And she did a great job. Were you a runaways fan? Yeah, I remember seeing them at CBGB's. That's great. On the old stage.
I love how you're such a fan. So that's cool that you're working with or then. Yeah. You know? Yeah. So when I originally wanted to do a duet on the record for the song, all the managers were like, oh, you've got to get this hit person or that hit person. And I wanted somebody with more like history legacy and like some more like kind of cred. And I'm just like the flavor of the month, you know, girl. And I was like, what about tree curry? And they're like, what?
Mm-hmm. And I'm like, yeah, what about tree? She's great. Like, I don't know. And I'm like, trust me. And she did an incredible job. And you know, she's, you know, she's a legend. It's like an OG, yeah, like, to a list. It's funny because we did the kiss cruise this year and lead a forward was on it. And just watching her play, it's like, you think this chick has been doing this for 40 years. And she still kicking ass.
And then I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two years ago when they had Joan Jett singing with Nirvana. And you think that's kind of a weird mix. But she was, she was the perfect fit. Like all those, all three of them, you know, they got that cred and that spirit. When you think about it, they runaways with the first real, old girl band. Right. Yeah. They were girl bands before, but they were kind of like manufactured. Yeah, I don't know if they played their instruments or whatever.
They might have been singers, but they were, I think, I don't know if I'm in my wrong, but they... I don't even know if there was any that even pretended, like besides like the Parkridge family or whatever. But I think the run was definitely... That was an old girl. No, no, but... Yeah, definitely the first all girl band. Yeah. You know, I can't think of any other ones. And playing like heavier music. Yeah, heavier rock and roll. Yeah, kick ass too, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That's it.
Couple of last questions, Glenn. What's your favorite horror movie? The 52. Wow. I don't know if it's a horror movie, but my favorite... My favorite movie, I don't know if it's considered horror movie, but I love Jean-Cocque Toe's Beauty and the Beast. Really? Yeah, it's just the craziest, like... Interesting. Impressionistic, but it's also really cool. The cinematography is great.
I mean, every time he kills an animal or something and he's the beast, his hands are smoking and he's blood on his own room. I mean, when they're walking down the hallway, there's these arms holding these candles and they light as they walk by each one. They sit at the table and you'll see the furnace and there's these faces that they've molded, real actors into the furnace. Wow. And then all of a sudden, they go, and smoke blows out of their mouth.
They sit down at the table and you'll see an arm holding a goblet and it just starts pouring stuff into their... It's pretty great. What year is that from? Oh, is it early old? I think it's the mid to late 30s. I'm surprised that you've never made a movie. I'm about to. I've been trying. Yeah. So, you know, how it is in Hollywood. Yeah. I directed a lot of the dancing videos and then also I've directed a lot of the, you know, the four camera shoots for the live shows and things like that.
Put together all the home videos and tied them all together with the stuff that goes in between everything and so hopefully this year it's going to... Yeah, because you remind me a lot of Rob Zombie, a lot of similarities between him and... Rob is a really cool guy. Yeah. We actually just did a show together in Vegas. Oh, really? Yeah. And he would come out on some of our shows.
I remember one time I would come out and sing with him, but we both got together at the end of the night and Tommy, you know, my guitar player, Tommy Victor. Yeah. And we played a bunch of songs at Rob and John V and the rest of the band. Oh, that's cool. So, you did a dancing gig and then a zombie gig and then you came together. And then we came out at the end of the end. What songs did you do at the end? Oh, I mean, I think we did... Did we do Vampara? No, we did Vampara.
We did something else. I forget right now. Oh, okay. So, it might have been not. I forget what it was. I saw you actually at the Metallica 30 doing die-diamond darling with... Oh, yeah. We did die-diamond and I think we did Green Hell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no. That was great. I still think that's one of the most amazing feats that any band has ever done playing those 80 songs in four nights or whatever it was. Did you guys rehearse that?
I flew up that afternoon and just, you know, but we done it like... You know, he talked about that tour, the Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal tour. A couple of times on those shows I came out and sang some stuff with them. So, you know, I remember actually, they came to town once, it was during Sam Hayne. I think it was when Sam Hayne was turning into Danzig and we would go into rehearsal places in New York and just jam on crap together and just beat up equipment, smash it and play our songs.
Yeah, it was much different then. But yeah, it was nice going up and seeing them all again. Yeah, it was a cool vibe. It was very cool. And also Jerry Cantrell was on it. Everybody was there. Yeah. Biff from Saxon was there and Halfer was there and Ozzy was Giza were there. So, you know, Jerry Cantrell would be one of my favorite guitar players. Oh, he's a singer, too. He's a great singer. Totally, yeah. You always sang the doubles on all those Alice and Chains records. Yeah, well, on live, too.
Yeah. But they did... Nothing else matters at night. Kind of acoustic. And man, it was really good. Yeah, good moment, good moment. It was really, really good moment. What's your favorite Danzig song to play live? It changes all the time. Yeah, because you know how... Because you're in a band, too. You're just a wrestler. So, you know, you're playing a song and, you know, tonight it's this song.
Yeah. And, you know, you get tired of playing a song but then you go out on stage and all of a sudden, because of the audience, you like it again. Yeah. So, it changes all the time. Yeah, it depends on what kind of a reaction, energy you're getting. This last couple of tours, I would just stop, you know, doing the set list and I go, what do you guys want to hear? And we start telling them what we, you know, what we've been playing. You know, this record, that record.
Okay, you want to hear this song and people screaming, you know, 80 different songs. Did you know them all? And then you have to start going, okay, what about this song? Yeah. Okay, then what about this? Whoever's loudest, then we'll play that song. Because there's always some of those songs like maybe track number nine on the third record that you wrote it, recorded it and haven't thought about it since.
And so, you know, would you play, you know, Lazarus would have one of our twos like, I don't even remember how that goes. Like, I'm sorry, man, I wish I could whip it up but I have no idea. We, we have a lot of songs that we practice aside from the set. Really? Yeah. So, if we're down at rehearsal before the tour, we'll be rehearsing the set and then we're rehearsing extra songs. And just brushing up on songs that aren't in the set. So, in case we feel like doing it. Yeah, which is good.
And so, we do a lot of that. And, you know, people dig it too, so that's great. Man, it's great talking to you and excited to hear it. Oh man, yeah. I'm glad we got to talk about wrestling too because I love wrestling. Oh, I know you do, man. And whenever I see you, I was like, hey, I can tell that you're actually happy like to see, like, hey, what's up, dude, you know, which is cool. Yeah, man. I'm glad you're still healthy too.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's, you know, like you said, both of us when you've been doing this for a long, long time to stay, you know, stay above water is pretty cool. Yeah, no, I still have injuries from the last run. Yeah. Crackney, you know, you know. Yeah. We still broken all this stuff and we're filled too, you know. We still think we're 18. You know what? We're not going to lie.
Danzig is back, fronting the original misfits, well, at least for two riot fest gigs this Friday, September 2nd in Denver, I keep an eye out for a victor from the ascension. He's going to be there. And again, on September 16th in Chicago, that's going to be huge as well. So like I said, and who knows after these two gigs, if they decide they're having a great time, they could be doing a whole lot more. It's been over 30 years since the misfits played the original lineup.
And I'm very, very excited about it. I want to thank Glenn Danzig for taking the time to share so many great stories. And of course, not only did the misfits reunion also be looking out for his upcoming studio album, Danzig, Sing's Elvis. And if you don't know, ever have a copy of Danzig's skeleton album, you got to get one. All cover tunes, very cool. You know where to get it. Amazon, use the talk as Jericho links and pick it up. All my Amazon links are at podcast1.com.
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Thank you guys so much for being here. We've had a lot of great shows over the last few weeks. Michael Sweet from Striper was tremendous. Today of course with Danzig, another great show. Johnny Banana is from MTV, the reality shows. Those are grueling. Those are tough. I had no idea how much physical battering he takes to in those shows. But we got a great one coming up for him Friday. It is the amusement parks of America as recited by the two biggest fans of amusement parks.
I know Cody Rhodes and Zach Ryder. That's right. It's amusement parks of America with Rhodes and Ryder. And they have got some great stories. They travel to the States going to different amusement parks together with their respective girls and have wacky adventures, arguments, fights, disagreements, opinions on what rides are best. It's Zach Ryder and Cody Rhodes here on Friday talking about the amusement parks of America.
Who's going to bring a topic such as that? Only me. We'll see you on Friday. Thank you very much. Have a safe weekend. A big yeah boy. You can download new episodes of Talkies Jericho every Wednesday and Friday at Podcast1.com. That's PodcastONE.com.