Chords for Glenn Danzig talks about Jesus Christ and Hitler with Eric Blair 09

This is the [C#] Blaring Out With Eric Flair Show and today I have the man, the myth, [C#] the legend, the icon, Glenn Danzig on [G#] the show.
How you doing today Glenn?
I'm doing good.
What in your youth led you into music?
I hate everybody.
Yeah?
Yeah, it's my outlet for my hatred of everybody, yeah.
Now, I read that when you were 11 you actually toured, you were a roadie, and then you took up bass after that.
Yeah, no, I didn't tour, you know, it was just like local shows.
I was like a drum tech.
And then I got a gig singing, so the drummer was like an asshole too, so I peed on his drums.
I used to have [G] to like polish his cymbals and everything, so I just peed on all his drums and left.
[E] Nice, nice.
[F] And I know from touring with drummers that peeing on cymbals destroys them pretty much.
Yeah, well, [G] I peed on his whole kit.
At what point did you decide to put together The Misfits and what was your motivation?
I just hated all that 70s crappy music, like Journey and Foreigner, all that crap, and all those bands like The Who,
and all those really bad corporate crap that was shoved down everybody's throat.
And it was kind of a thing that was happening in New York at the time.
And so I put my own thing together.
I'm not going to do the cover band thing.
I'm going to do my own songs and just started putting people together.
And that's what happened.
And eventually started playing out around New Jersey and New York and CB's.
And we didn't play in CB's very much at all.
I think we did two or three showcases.
They never paid us and we got an offer to go to Max's Kansas City, which was the place.
And that's where everybody came out of.
What was your fascination at that time with horror, gore, occult and religion?
Just stuff that all I was always interested in.
I mean, when I was a kid, I started reading, while other [D#] people were reading,
some dorky crap I was reading, Edgar Allen Poe and Baudelaire and things like that.
And it just sprung from that.
And on TV, I was just watching old horror movies and crime.
And Elvis, so that's it.
I also know that you're a comic book fan.
I don't like all comic books.
But you like Golden Age.
I don't know.
I don't like Superman.
I don't like Batman.
I don't like any of that stuff.
I really got turned on to comics as a kid.
And then [F#] I started seeing the underground stuff that came out and how crazy it was.
And that's [G] really_
_ Growing up in New York, you see lots of stuff come over from Europe,
like the Italian comics, they're crazy.
Yeah.
And Japanese stuff too.
And it's nothing like our comics.
And then eventually, that's really what made me start doing my company.
Because American comics was so retarded and still all these guys in spandex and stuff.
And we don't have any of that.
And your company is called Veronica.
[B] It's called Veronic.
Yeah.
And not only are you doing comics, [A] but you're also making motion pictures [C#] too.
We're starting to, yeah.
I mean, a little while ago, some porn company did one of the characters
because it could only be done as a porn.
It was so over the top.
And I guess someone's going to be doing Satanica now.
And I just did a Veronica short. _
Who knows?
We'll see what happens.
Yeah.
What do you enjoy more?
Oh, music is the first.
Yeah.
There's always gonna be music.
Okay.
I love music.
So_
That's your first love [F#] for that.
Once you do that, you get on stage and_
Yeah, stage is great because you get to interact with your fans right away.
The people that love what you do.
And so that energy, and especially at a dance show, it's just like, it's everything.
It's like violence, high [E] energy, sex.
It's everything.
It's like what a heavy music concert should be, you know?
And it's like a total release for you.
And that's why you're going to a concert, to get your nuts off, you know?
And, you know, that's what you'd be for me.
There's always been a scary [G#] side to your music,
but there's also been a very erotic, sexual side.
Where do you think that comes from?
_ Life.
_ It's life.
Yeah?
You've joined the two together.
If life is good, yeah, then that's what it is.
Yeah?
Scary and sexual at the [N] same time.
Sometimes it can be scary.
That's true.
If you get married and get divorced, yeah.
That's the worst.
You've never been married, Glenn.
No, I'm not an idiot.
You don't see yourself having kids in the future, do you?
No, I don't.
Just give me some [E] highlights of your time with the Misfits.
I don't know.
It was tough back then.
It was?
A lot of work?
A lot of people, you know, maybe embellish it as the years go on,
or people look back on it and were like,
[F#] but it was like, we didn't make any money.
You drove around in a van.
You know, some nights you'd play for, you know, a couple thousand people,
and some nights you'd play for like 50 people.
That's the way it was, you know?
Who do you think Jesus Christ is, and why do you think so many people worship him?
[Em] Well, which Jesus?
The Jesus of the Bible.
Okay, the phony Jesus. _
We want your opinion, Glenn.
It's just, it's an old story that's been handed down from different cultures,
and different cultures, and eventually, you know,
the people in Jerusalem got a hold of it, and whatever.
I mean, there's lots of people have different takes on it.
I personally don't buy into it, so [F] that's my take on it, you know? Okay.
Hitler, [C#] hero, or abomination?
_ _ _ Depends on who you ask.
I'm sure when everyone put him in power,
everyone thought he was going to be the hero, you know?
But also, you know, only one person can't make things happen.
Other people follow that person, you know?
[G#] Are you happy that the new version of the Misfits are touring,
and still putting out CDs?
[F#] I don't really care.
You don't care, either way.
Yeah.
You did have a deal with Jerry Only, correct?
There is some kind of deal that you guys have worked out
where he can use the name legally?
A long time ago.
I'm not going to use it, so, you know.
But he has to say who's in the band, and he doesn't do that anymore,
so it's kind of misleading.
I'm not doing a reunion with him.
Ever?
Yeah, it's not happening.
Musing Festival, and what you felt was important about performing here today.
Back [B] in the day, actually, _
friends of mine and myself were some of the only people
that had tattoos.
It was kind of a stigma if you had a tattoo.
_ So it's kind of wild to see how it's now this kind of like status symbol,
very, you know, cool to have tattoos,
because back when we were getting it,
the only people other than us that had tattoos were gangsters or marines, you know?
Yeah, it's become mainstream.
It's very mainstream.
What would you like to be remembered for after you're gone?
I don't care.
[C#] You don't?
You really don't?
No.
You're a pretty happy guy, aren't you?
I'm pretty happy.
Good, good.
What was it like for you to be able to write songs for two of your greatest heroes,
Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison?
It was an honor.
Yeah, it was a real honor, because they're two real musicians, you know?
And so when a real [C#] musician asks you to write a song for them, it's a big honor.
Yeah.
I mean, that means they think you're a musician.
So that's really what it's about, is being considered a musician, a songwriter.
That's great.
I mean, if a guy like Johnny Cash asks you to write a song,
and then he asks you to write more songs for him, and same thing with Roy, I mean,
that's an honor, man.
Will we see a new Danzig album?
Yeah, we're working on it right now.
So actually, we're only doing like three shows here,
just because we're doing the music thing.
We added a couple local shows, and then the day after,
we're going to the studio to bang out some more.
Nice.
Some basic tracks on some stuff.
Can you give us any hint of what it's going to be like?
Uh, I don't know yet.
It'll be_
_ _ There's a lot of different stuff on it right now.
There's a song called Long Dark Road that I did,
and it's very kind of [F#] creepy and [Bm] echoey,
and it's like an old kind of 50s-ish kind of song.
So I've been having it [C#] in my head probably for about six, seven, eight years.
I haven't gone around recording it, and I recorded it.
So it's pretty cool.
[A] Nice, Glenn.
What's next for you?
Uh, [B] [G#] the new record,
_ [C#] _ _ Hank 3 and I did a couple things.
I might do some more stuff with him.
We might put it out.
That sounds pretty cool. _ _
And then the movie stuff, you know?
And any news on the [N] Jerry Cantrell blues album?
Uh, I don't know.
We'll see.
All right.
We'll, you know.
Well, Glenn Danzig, you are the man.
[F] Oh, thank you.
So good talking to you.
All right, Blaring Out with Eric Blair with Glenn Danzig, signing off.
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