DANZIG - "Superock" 1995
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00:00Well, I told you you were going to be really mean because you were good friends with Ricky.
00:04Oh.
00:15How are you doing, Glenn?
00:16I'm doing good.
00:17I'm so glad you could take some time out to see me from the busy tour.
00:20Oh.
00:21You're on the second line.
00:22I came just to see you giggle.
00:23Giggle?
00:24You've heard about my giggle?
00:25Mm-hmm.
00:26What was the first concert you ever went to?
00:27Black Sabbath.
00:29That's so cool.
00:30With Ozzy Osbourne.
00:31I was about this tall.
00:32Really?
00:33Me and my friend.
00:34And it was totally oversold.
00:35And the crowd was, like, we were waiting to get in the line.
00:37There were so many people.
00:38And it was going back and forth.
00:40All the people.
00:41I thought we were going to trip because we were just these little kids.
00:43So everybody's about this big.
00:44And we're like...
00:45It was really funny.
00:46Where was it?
00:47It was somewhere in Jersey, I think.
00:49Yeah.
00:50What do you hope that people that see Danzig as their first concert remember?
00:53Years later.
00:54Actually, last night, there was a bunch of them.
00:56It was their first Danzig concert.
00:57Really?
00:58Yeah.
00:59It was their first concert.
01:00Was everyone excited?
01:01Yeah.
01:02They were just, like, pumped.
01:03They were just out of their minds.
01:04God, I can't believe it's going to go well.
01:07Well, in 10 years, if someone asks them what was your first concert,
01:09what do you hope they remember from the show?
01:11That it was wild.
01:12Blew their minds.
01:13Yeah.
01:14Pretty much changed their life.
01:15Wow.
01:16The video that you did for the updated mother was sort of the video that gave you the most success.
01:20Does that make you sort of frustrated to throw a lot of money into other videos after?
01:24Yeah.
01:25I directed that, and I got nothing but excrement from the record company saying,
01:31Boy, you're going to waste money on an interview.
01:33So what we did was we went to Europe for two weeks.
01:36Wait.
01:37They said that about doing?
01:38They didn't want me to film any of the live shows.
01:40Oh, okay.
01:41This is where all the mother footage came from.
01:43So me and my director of photography, two weeks in Europe, we filmed the shows,
01:48and then we did the Irvine show.
01:51The big Halloween show.
01:52Yeah, the big Halloween show.
01:53And they had all this footage.
01:54I could have cut a movie with all this footage.
01:56You had four cameras set up in Irvine, all the European footage,
02:01and then eventually it became the mother video,
02:04which really irritated me because they never gave me a big budget to do anything.
02:10I did this for a quarter of a budget that this other person had put in a bid for,
02:14and it was the same thing with any of the other videos I directed,
02:17and it turns out the only two that really ever got played on your station
02:22were ones I directed for, like, no money.
02:25Right.
02:26And then this one, you know, was done again for really no money,
02:29and it got the most fair play ever.
02:32Okay, so we're here at St. Mark's Comics.
02:34Is this a place you used to shop?
02:35Occasionally, yeah.
02:36When I come to town, you know, I hit all the comic shops.
02:40Yeah.
02:41So this is one of them.
02:42But these guys carry a lot of the verodic line.
02:44Yes.
02:45Why don't you tell me a little bit about the stuff that's out?
02:48It's very adult in nature.
02:51It's a little sexy, isn't it?
02:52Sexy, violent.
02:54We have a erotic horror line that is self-explanatory.
02:59It's erotic horror.
03:01Sometimes it's horrific.
03:02Sometimes it's erotic.
03:03Sometimes it's both.
03:05And it's very graphic, so you'll probably never see it on MTV.
03:09Right.
03:10Okay.
03:11Does your mom read a lot of it?
03:12I don't know.
03:13I'll see.
03:14I'm sure.
03:15She'll probably look at it and go, heck, Glenn.
03:17Do your parents expect that they come to shows when you go through?
03:19The funniest is, of course, when I was growing up and doing it all,
03:23they were just like, get a real job or whatever.
03:25Right.
03:26And, you know, whenever I'd come home or whatever.
03:28But, you know, recently I wrote a song for Johnny Cash.
03:31And so my dad was very happy.
03:33And I got him a signed autographed picture from Johnny and his wife June.
03:37And he was just like.
03:39You finally made it, son.
03:40Yeah.
03:41I'm glad you're in a band.
03:43Just keep singing about Satan.
03:45Yeah.
03:47Coming up, we've got a new one from Filter and an old one from Nine Inch Nails.
03:51So don't move.
03:56Starting the Misfits, were you set out, was your plan to be like a big punk rocker?
04:02Was that the plan at the time?
04:04Well, basically, I'm not allowed to swear in here,
04:06but I'll just say we set out to just, what I wanted to do was shake things up
04:12instead of using the four-letter word.
04:13Gotcha.
04:14I like that.
04:15Shake it up a little.
04:17Want me to say the other word?
04:18No, no.
04:19Let's keep it clean today, Glenn.
04:20Okay.
04:21Basically, to cause trouble.
04:22Yeah.
04:23And to say things no one else was saying or didn't have the guts to say,
04:25which is still kind of what I like to do.
04:28I like to say things people don't have the guts to say or wouldn't say.
04:32They'd say it in private, but they wouldn't say it in front of people.
04:35Right.
04:36So that's the kind of stuff I like to say.
04:38So people could sort of live vicariously through you.
04:40I don't know if they can or they can't, but I have to live my own life.
04:43That's right.
04:44Do you not like talking about the Misfits?
04:46No, I don't mind.
04:47It's an important part.
04:49It was a starting.
04:52You know what?
04:53What's really funny is now people like Rolling Stone or Circus,
04:56all these people want to talk about that stuff.
04:58And I'm like, you know, you should have talked to all of us bands
05:01back when it was really important and you thought it wasn't important.
05:04And now you've seen the impact it's had on music,
05:07especially bands like us, Bauhaus, tons of bands, Minor Threat, Black Flag.
05:12Now they want to talk about it.
05:14And you know what?
05:15Their business is reporting on music and they should have did it back then
05:18when it was news.
05:19They missed the ball.
05:20Exactly.
05:21Missed the boat, so to speak.
05:22No.
05:23But I don't know, the Misfits, not to kiss your ass in any way,
05:25but it's like the Misfits still totally stand up.
05:28I mean, me and my friends will sit around and still listen to Misfits records
05:31and it still holds up.
05:33It's a testament to just instead of writing for money, writing for music.
05:40And all that will, that's why the Velvet Underground stands up
05:43and Bauhaus, which happens to be one of my favorite bands,
05:46that stuff to me still stands up.
05:48I can listen to that stuff forever.
05:50Show me how the gods kill you.
05:56On the way we've got one from Sugar Ray, the Sex Pistols,
05:59and details on how you can enter Super Rock's Warm Up the Zombie contest.
06:03So stick around.
06:06Native input that goes into each video,
06:08is that your vision and you work with directors,
06:10or how does the process sort of come to be?
06:12I'll pick a director or Rick will call me up, Rick Rubin,
06:15and say, you see this director's real, or you see this guy's work,
06:19it's pretty wild, I think you should do this song or that song,
06:22and we'll talk about it.
06:24As far as the Can't Speak video, the idea for the black contacts
06:27and the ring light was mine.
06:29Those are like full eye contacts, very uncomfortable.
06:33And then both Rick and I were into a lot of political stuff,
06:37chose the people who would appear in the back, like Farrakhan,
06:41and a lot of people don't even know who Farrakhan is.
06:56Up next, videos from the Beastie Boys, Green Day, Mad Season,
07:00and the latest from Danzig, when Super Rock continues.
07:09The success of the live video made you, like, not cheaper,
07:13but like a little more thought conscious of syncing.
07:16I've always been thought conscious about that kind of stuff.
07:19When we did Can't Speak and I saw the budget that it came in at,
07:23I was pretty pissed off, because I didn't think it warranted it,
07:26although I liked the video.
07:28I thought it could have been done cheaper.
07:31And then the new one was done on a much smaller budget,
07:35and I like it more than Can't Speak, so...
07:40I'd go for that short, sort of, 40s look.
07:47It goes in like a spoon, it just takes it all out.
07:50I'm so scared.
07:52I'm scared. Teaching you how to defend yourself.
07:54Oh, that's right.
07:55Against Ricky, you're going to come on the show and attack you.
07:57Where's my show? I want my show back.
08:08Tell me a little about your exercise routine,
08:10aside from the martial arts stuff.
08:12Do you watch the opening bands, are you usually working out?
08:15What goes on on the road? How do you stay in such good shape?
08:18Sleeping.
08:19Sleeping?
08:21No, it's hard to find a gym on the road,
08:23and then if you're not totally wiped from the night before,
08:26you know, from the show...
08:28Right. Well, that's a workout.
08:30Well, you get dehydrated, and especially wearing stuff like this.
08:33That's a nice rubber blouse.
08:35I used to have a worse one that was like a fight every night
08:38between me and the shirt, who was going to win?
08:41Because it was long sleeve, and I mean,
08:43if I just picked my arm up, water would just drain out.
08:46So, again, if you have the energy to go and do a workout,
08:49then you have to find a place to work out.
08:52And get there, and sometimes you have radio interviews,
08:55or you have to talk to people like yourself.
08:58Like myself today here at St. Mark's College.
09:00That's right.
09:01How are things working out with your new drummer?
09:03Very good. Joey's a really nice guy.
09:05He comes from the same background as Erie and I,
09:08so that works out really well.
09:11I can't say enough great things about him,
09:13because he's just a really nice guy.
09:15Who do you consider your peers, musically?
09:18I mean, because you kind of said before that you're sort of in a genre of your own.
09:21Who do you...?
09:22I can just tell you the kind of stuff I listened to when I was growing up.
09:25And that was...
09:27Above and Underground, New York Dolls.
09:29I had two older brothers, so I heard everything from
09:31Blue Cheer to The Doors.
09:33I listened to a lot of blues growing up.
09:35I've been in a few bands.
09:37Black Sabbath, of course, the early Black Sabbath.
09:39Gotta love Black Sabbath.
09:40Which is pretty much a lot of people listen to that.
09:43And Alice Cooper.
09:45Early Alice Cooper.
09:47And so many other bands.
09:50Just so many.
09:51Do you like any new bands at this point?
09:53I mean, besides the ones you have on tour,
09:55as far as stuff maybe we wouldn't expect you to listen to,
09:57like, do you...?
09:58I like the new PJ Harvey record.
10:00What's on tour opening for Danzig right now?
10:03Korn.
10:04Very heavy, young band.
10:06It's good.
10:07And Marilyn Manson is one of my favorite bands.
10:09So we try to take out bands that not only I like,
10:13but who I think are effing things up.
10:16And a lot of people are scared to take out.
10:19We've taken out Jenna Torturers.
10:21We took out Zombie a long time ago.
10:23We did a double tour with us in Soundgarden,
10:25back on a second record.
10:27We like to take out bands that, you know,
10:29at the moment should be heard.
10:32Do you ever try to take out bands that, like,
10:34will kind of challenge you as far as the live show,
10:36that'll make you feel like you have to sort of...?
10:38I feel like all the bands are like that.
10:40I mean, the people want to see a lot of good bands.
10:44I know a lot of bands that do what you're talking about,
10:46where they take out bands that...
10:47Are really boring.
10:48Yeah.
10:49So they come up and just, like, not even do much
10:51and just, like, look good.
10:52Yeah, exactly, so...
10:54So you're pushing the limits a little.
10:55Yeah.
10:56Well, see, we've tried, in the beginning,
10:59we tried to get on a lot of tours,
11:01but no one would let us on the tours.
11:03If I had a band, I would have took you.
11:05Oh, I wish, because they just didn't, you know,
11:09they didn't want the competition.
11:11And it shouldn't be competition.
11:12It should just be a great show.
11:13Everybody's there playing great music.
11:15But unfortunately, a lot of the older bands
11:18feel like it's a competition, or they feel like...
11:20Right, threatened.
11:21They feel threatened, or they feel like they have to,
11:23you know, they're on the run, or, you know,
11:25it's only about playing a great show and...
11:27Right.
11:28Giving people their money's worth.
11:29Exactly.
11:30OK, before you were in a position to take bands out,
11:32like Marilyn Manson and Korn,
11:33you know, you were opening for certain people.
11:35Like, what was the...?
11:36No, we never got... Slayer...
11:37I saw you open for Slayer.
11:38Slayer, I was going to say, Slayer's the only band
11:40who ever gave us a shot...
11:41Really?
11:42...to open for them.
11:43Before the album was released,
11:44we did four shows across the country with them.
11:55Stay here for the latest from White Zombie,
11:58Get Down and Dirty with Danzig,
12:00and one from two natural-born killers,
12:02after these messages.
12:10I kissed when I was four years old.
12:12Four?
12:13Four.
12:14These two girls lured me into their little dollhouse...
12:16Wow.
12:17...and offered to give me candy if I would kiss them.
12:19And you went for it.
12:20Yep.
12:21All right.
12:22Candy is candy.
12:23Candy is candy.
12:24You still dress up for Halloween?
12:29Would you be psyched if kids were...
12:30If someone told you that a lot of kids in their town
12:32dressed up as Glenn Danzig for Halloween,
12:33would you be proud of that?
12:34I see them all the time.
12:35Oh, you do?
12:36They come to my shows, not even Halloween.
12:38Every night of the year, though.
12:39It was really funny, the first Danzig show,
12:42it was down in New Jersey at this old gig,
12:44Trend City Gardens.
12:45City Gardens, I've been there many times.
12:47Me and Erie walk in, and there's two guys
12:49dressed up as me and Erie from Sandman,
12:51standing there, trying to get people to get them
12:54to think that they were me and Erie.
12:56It was hilarious, and he goes,
12:57Glenn, you've got to come over here.
12:59So we went over, and it was a friend of ours, Bill,
13:01with us, and we looked, and it was just like,
13:03I can't believe it.
13:04I mean, they had everything,
13:05they had skull gloves, and it was silly.
13:07It was hilarious.
13:09It was pretty funny.
13:10It's flattering.
13:11It was comical.
13:12We got pictures of him and everything.
13:13Oh, you did?
13:14Oh, Erie went up and said,
13:15oh man, are you Erie Vaughn?
13:16Can I have your autograph?
13:17And the guy goes, yeah.
13:18But didn't he know it was Erie?
13:19He didn't know, it was funny.
13:21He was totally posing.
13:26Next, details on how you can enter
13:28Super Rock's Warm Up the Zombie contest,
13:30Danzig's Dirty Black Summer,
13:32and Smashing Pumpkins.
13:42A guy that's been around for a long time like yourself,
13:44what's more important to you,
13:46keeping an old fan or making a new fan?
13:48Both.
13:50Is there a successful way to do that?
13:52Yeah.
13:53Just do what you always do.
13:55Keeping it real?
13:56Yeah.
13:57So, if anyone doesn't like something you do,
14:00like Next Record,
14:02for whatever reason,
14:04you always have to stay true to yourself.
14:06When you're doing, at least this is my viewpoint,
14:09if you're doing music,
14:10you're doing it not only to make your fans happy,
14:15but you have to make yourself as a songwriter,
14:17as a creative artist, happy.
14:19What I try to do is not lose sight
14:22of what I like about music
14:23and just go off the deep end.
14:25So, I mean, when I write songs,
14:27I'll take some of them,
14:28play them the next day, next day,
14:29and if I still like them after that,
14:31I'll keep them.
14:33If I don't, I throw them away,
14:34and I look at them again.
14:37So, normally what happens is,
14:41like with the success of Mother,
14:44people say,
14:45oh, you guys sold out.
14:47The song is seven years old.
14:50Do you know what I mean?
14:51Yeah.
14:52So, all of a sudden, they don't like you.
14:53It happens with a lot of bands.
14:54It's not you've changed.
14:56It's that because now you're more popular,
14:59you're not their little personal band anymore.
15:01Right, of course.
15:02And a lot of bands will move up to a bigger venue
15:05and people don't want to go see them there.
15:07They want to see them in a club atmosphere,
15:09and that's really what it's about.
15:10Right.
15:11It's that they're not going to be able to see you
15:12in a club atmosphere.
15:13We still play lots of small theaters,
15:14so it's still pretty intimate.
15:17Is it totally weird when you,
15:18I don't know,
15:19like when you walk into a store
15:20and you see like, you know,
15:21like a Misfit single for like $400?
15:23Like how does that feel?
15:24You know what I don't like?
15:25When I see kids come to the show
15:26with a bootleg that they paid $100 or $200 for
15:29and they think it's the real thing.
15:31Right.
15:32And that's a shame
15:33because you know it only costs somebody
15:34like $2 or $3 to press it.
15:35Right.
15:36So it's just a rip.
15:38So is there any way, I mean,
15:40do you try to control the bootleg situation?
15:42We're working on getting the,
15:43you know, we've popped a few people,
15:44but it's just so hard.
15:46Don't go away,
15:47because Glenn's got more to say.
15:48And a debut on Super Rock
15:49from No Use for a Name.
15:51Uh-huh.
15:52Like a silver block,
15:54talk of the night,
15:55talk to me,
15:57my feet in a lock.
15:59Soon she comes,
16:00she comes now.
16:02Dance and roll, baby.
16:07The comic book company,
16:08I did an interview with Rob from White Zombie
16:10and I think he's going to be doing something with it.
16:12We're going to do Alphabet of Murder Part 2
16:16and he'll be doing some drawings for that.
16:18And again, I've told Rob,
16:19I love your stuff,
16:20so whatever you want to do,
16:21just tell me and bring me the project
16:22and we'll do it, yeah.
16:24Yeah.
16:25So are you working with a lot of people
16:26that you respect
16:27and sort of letting them do what they want to do
16:29as opposed to the confines of a normal comic book company?
16:31There is no censorship in our company at all.
16:33If you want to draw someone getting ripped open,
16:35you can do it.
16:36If you want to swear in the comic,
16:37you can swear.
16:38Whatever you want,
16:40you're allowed to do.
16:43Bye now.