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Samhain was great and the first three Danzig albums were all favorites of mine growing up, still listen to III fairly often. Not too high on much after that though. Samhain's "Archangel" and Danzig's "Anything" are my favorite tracks from respective bands. Also how can you not love the Dirty Black Summer video. Its so bad its awesome

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Blut how could you..? ;p I would've loved to have seen the original Danzig line up unfortunately twas not meant to be..saw him few years back he was awesome and he signed all our stuff. Would have been great to have seen the Misfits with Glenn too.
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Blut how could you..? ;p I would've loved to have seen the original Danzig line up unfortunately twas not meant to be..saw him few years back he was awesome and he signed all our stuff. Would have been great to have seen the Misfits with Glenn too.
The guy is a total clown, and the sad part is that the videos those clips are culled from are nearly as hilarious as this fusion.
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Danzigs always come across to me as someone that doesn't totally think about what his saying or what he's doing before he does it. Take the famous GIF of him shoving a much larger man after a concert and then that much larger man landing one of the most vicious over hand rights I've ever seen on his jaw immediately after. Other than that he seems like a good guy to shoot the shit with while drinking a coldbeer.

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Hmm in my opinion his downfalls are over-scrutinised by people who have nothing better to do and don't even know him personally or what was going on at the time of said incidents, whether people feel he is an ass or not doesn't take away from his musicianship and other works. As I said above it wasn't my experience when I saw him :)

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Well I'm sure his personal foibles are over scrutinized to a degree. YOu could probably say that about all famous musicians. But that doesn't mean he hasn't shown a history of poor impulse control. You can see that every time he's asked if the Misfits are ever going to reunite, and he turns into a horses ass and ends the interview in a ridiculous fury.

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Maybe so ...and none of us will know the full story with him and Jerry apart from things wrote in the media which doesn't tend to always give full correct information or is biased and maybe he is sick of answering repetitive questions, I guess I would get sick too. However there is no denying of what Glenn gave to the Misfits they don't have anywhere near that same 'feeling' after him in my humble opinion..

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I liked everything he did up to and including 4p. Then he put out some terribly boring stuff. Met him once at a signing, seemed like a nice guy. Would love to get his pants off. BTW, I'm more a Misfits fan than a Danzig fan, love every Misfits album including the Jerry Only led stuff.

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Yeh, he is a cool guy. I LOVE the Misfits but only with Glenn and that's not cos I'm kissing his ass, they just never had the same feeling for me after...any thoughts on the Black Aria albums? 4p is a fantastic album, really nice cover art too. Hugely under-rated.

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