Glenn Danzig - Interview Part 1 - May 18th, 1993 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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00:00I've never liked when people tell you what to do, you know, I try not to do it in our
00:12music either, or whatever I've always done, I always try to stress that people think for
00:17themselves and I don't know about here but in America that's a dangerous thing, you know,
00:22a lot of people don't want you to think for yourselves because, you know, pop culture
00:27depends on people not thinking for themselves, so.
00:31Do you feel totally free in a way?
00:33Oh yeah.
00:34Yeah?
00:35Yeah.
00:36Well, I mean, you know, it might happen sometimes that people are pissed off at what you do
00:39or I mean...
00:40Yeah, I don't care, they're always pissed off at what we do, I don't care, yeah, I take
00:44a lot of flack but that's okay.
00:48When did you understand that?
00:49It's part of, you know, doing what you do and it pisses a lot of people off because
00:55maybe they're not that free and maybe they can't attain that and so they're either jealous
01:00of you or they see you as a threat or whatever their problem is, but it's not my problem
01:06and if I let it become my problem, it, you know, fucks with the serenity that you try
01:11to create.
01:12I try not to read reviews of the band, you know, because so few people get it, you know,
01:33and it's really funny because half of them, more than half of them aren't even musicians,
01:37they're just people who listen to a lot of music but their opinion is no more valid than
01:41a kid on the street.
01:42So in that aspect, I kind of see like record reviews as kind of bullshit, you know.
01:53I think what should happen is, I remember in the beginning of punk, you could go into
01:58a record store and the guy would play the record for you before you bought it and if
02:01you didn't like it, you didn't buy it, so...
02:03You wouldn't have anybody to tell you what to buy.
02:06Yeah, you went in and said, oh I like this, yeah, oh I don't like that, you know, and
02:10some people like the harder stuff, some people like the softer stuff, you know, and it was
02:15great.
02:16And now, I don't know, you know, corporate rock wants you to just buy, buy, buy, buy,
02:20buy, you know.
02:21What changed?
02:22Too many bands?
02:23Too many...
02:24The big record labels got involved and the bands decided that they would give away their
02:32creativity for dollars, you know.
02:35You think that video had to do something with it?
02:37Yes, yeah.
02:38Sure.
02:39You know, you see these bands on MTV or here you have much music and I guess this is Music
02:44Plus.
02:45Music Plus, yeah.
02:46So, then they get a little jealous, maybe they want their video on and someone says,
02:50well you can get your video on if you do this, and they do it.
02:54And they don't realize, maybe at the time, or maybe they do realize that by giving away
02:58that little, you give that much of your band away and then the record company says, oh
03:03well if you record the album like this, you'll sell more records and then they'll play you
03:06on these stations and you'll be, you know, before you know it, it's boom.
03:36How old are you now?
03:51Huh?
03:52You must be 30, 31?
03:53None of your business.
03:54No, no, you know, but I mean, how do you, I mean, you...
03:55That has nothing to do with music, you know, this is one of the questions I hate because
04:00it's almost like you're trying to pigeonhole or like do something with asking an age, you
04:07know what I mean?
04:08It's not, I've told everyone, you know, how old I am, but it just is, it's kind of offensive
04:13to me, it's almost like a teeny-bop magazine, you know, because they ask those questions
04:17and I've always hated teeny-bop magazines.
04:19Yeah.
04:20And those are usually one of the questions where I beat the shit out of somebody.
04:23Okay, so...
04:24Wait till the end of the interview, you can beat the shit out of me.
04:27No, but where I wanted to come to is that, I mean, do you feel like a teen in a way?
04:32Do you feel very young and are you afraid of getting old in a way?
04:36No, I don't care.
04:37I mean, everyone knows, you know, that I have to be, you know, at least, you know, 31, 32.
04:43I've been doing this since I was a kid with the Miss Beauty stuff, so, I mean, it's kind
04:47of a stupid question anyway.
04:48Yeah.
04:49And there's, you know, if you have me sitting here, if I had me sitting here, I would want
04:53to ask more important questions than that.
04:55So, it just says to me, like, you're wasting your time.
04:58Ask something, you know, cool.
05:00I mean, if I had somebody like Elvis or Jim Morrison or Bo Diddley or, you know, somebody
05:04in front of me, I wouldn't ask them how old they were.
05:07I would be like, what were you thinking when you wrote, you know, this or that, you know?
05:11Yeah.
05:12When you said, you know, some of those, you know, lyrics Bo Diddley has are pretty evil,
05:16you know, I'd want to know why he wrote that, you know, what was going on in his head.
05:20That's just my opinion though, so, you know.
05:23Yeah.