1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. Happy Halloween, Everybody. 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: This is a Halloween episode. I tried to have a 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: sense of humor about it. If you take yourself and 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: your punk rock too seriously, you might want to skip 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: this episode and dive into your back issues of Maximum 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 1: Rock and Roll instead. But if you like to be 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: entertained and find Glenn Danzig to be as unintentionally hysterical 8 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 1: as he is talented, then strap yourselves in for this 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: special Halloween episode of Disgraceland. 10 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: Now, John, the stories about the Misfits are insane. 11 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: They were rumored who have been arrested for grave robbing, 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: They were locked up abroad for attacking skinheads, incited riots 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: at their shows here in the States. Creatively driven by 14 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: front man Glenn Danzig, the Misfits invented what has come 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: to be known as horror core, coming up in a 16 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: hardcore scene that was as violent as it was inspiring. 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: Growing up, Glen Danzig was obsessed with the weird, with 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: the strange, with the horrific. Early comic books, heavy metal, 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: scandal Rags and B movies helped fill the void in 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: him created by an ever present feeling of alienation. This 21 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: inspiration fueled him, filled his imagination, and helped him create 22 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: one of the most enduring musical cult followings of all time. 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: It also inspired him and his bandmates to create great music. 24 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: Unlike that music I played for you at the top 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: of the show. That wasn't great music. That was a 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: preset loop from my melotron called robo Penetration MK one. 27 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 28 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: rights to Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and 29 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: Dolly Parton. And why would I play you that specific 30 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: slice of Middle ear cheese? Could I afford it? Because 31 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: that was the number one song in America on October 32 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: thirty first, nineteen eighty three, And that was the day 33 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: the Misfits played their fine show and all hell brokeus 34 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: on this episode Teenagers from Mars robo Penetration Len Danzig's 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: Night of the Living Dead in the Misfits. I'm Jake Brennan, 36 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: and this this. 37 00:02:15,120 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: Disgraceland because the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens, 38 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: and because of the crisis which is even now developing, 39 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 3: this radio station will remain on the air. 40 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 4: Day in nineteen ten, Great Torture and Murder in Chicago. 41 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 3: His eight student nurses at the South Chicago Community Hospital 42 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 3: have been found dead overnight. 43 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 4: The suspect in custody is one Richards back Rude. Austen's 44 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 4: accused of one of the most ruesome murder sprees of 45 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 4: the twentieth century. 46 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: Eleven year old Glenn ANZELONEI was barricading himself in, hammering 47 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: nails into imaginary makeshift plywood barriers to keep the horror 48 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: of the world out nineteen sixty six. Glenn was just 49 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: a child, but he could tell the world was turning 50 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: from where he stood stuck in Loda in New Jersey. 51 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: He could feel it. There was a darkness on the 52 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: edge of town, and that darkness compelled Glenn. He knew, 53 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: his young boy that he was different. The horror seeping 54 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: in through radio and television broadcasts appealed to him more 55 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: than so called normal adolescent interests sports, school television, the 56 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: New York Football Giants, good government, Andy Griffiths Show. What 57 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: did Glen care? He found these things endlessly boring. How 58 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: the rest of the world did care about these things 59 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: blew his mind. The fact that he couldn't relate alienated 60 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: him from nearly everyone. He came in contact with that 61 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: school or in his neighborhood. That was the scary part, 62 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: not the horror show on the nightly news, but the 63 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: alienation who got to say what was normal? And the 64 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: vicious irony was that Glenn found so called normal to 65 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: be scary as fuck and to leave it. The beaver 66 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: types at school, with their high and tight boys, regular haircuts, 67 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,239 Speaker 1: their parents with their two cars, their garage, five o'clock 68 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: Martini hours and Lawrence Welk Show, the fucking hula hoop 69 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: and sidewalk surfboards. Glenn could not relate to any of it, 70 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: and those who could, the fact that they could scared 71 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: the shit out of him. And they were mindless in 72 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: their adoption of every new fad television program or a 73 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: piece of pat sentimental music conform his zombies. They were 74 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: downright bullish to Glenn. Whatever they were near, he'd feel 75 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: his backbone tense up. He'd get that chill, the one 76 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: that told them things weren't right, because everything about them, 77 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: these norms, said to him, You're not right, Glenn, You're weird. 78 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: Glenn buried the feeling. It made him feel alone, empty. 79 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 1: He felt the hole inside him grow and he filled 80 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: it in his young imagination with the kinds of things 81 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: that seemed to only interest him at first, He barricaded 82 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: himself in retreating him to the sanctity of his teenage 83 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: bedroom and devoured comic books, Magneto and Tales for the 84 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: crypt horror films broadcast on local New Jersey television Frankenstein 85 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: Conquers the World, Dracula Versus Frankenstein, Revenge of the Zombies, 86 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: and any and all nationally syndicated horror and adventure programming 87 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: Glenn could get his eyes on. Also The Vampires Show 88 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: Dark Shadows with Barnabas Collins. Glen didn't stopped there. He 89 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: tore into the tabloids and cult rags of the day 90 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: as well, The National Tattler and It's Happening with headlines 91 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: emblazoned across their covers like Dad Eats Baby and sterilization 92 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: may Free Kill Her Mom. Hush Magazine and Confidential gave 93 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: way to admitted mainstream fascinations for Glenn with Marilyn Monroe 94 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: and Elvis Presley, which Glenn justified by claiming additional knowledge 95 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: of less popular versions of those nineteen fifties icons. Roy Orbison, 96 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: whose darkness was overstated yet did little to curtail as 97 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: mainstream success and Jane Mansfield, who died in a fiery 98 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: car crash and was rumored untrue, of course, but Glenndy 99 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: know to have been decapitated. Glenn took all of this 100 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: in and when he dared venture out into the world 101 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: that offered him little beyond his bedroom walls, it was 102 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: to catch whatever b movies in fringe cinema he could 103 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: find Planned nine from outer Space in George Romero's groundbreaking 104 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: Night of the Living Dead. The Outside scared him. Lodie 105 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: with its horrifying conformist jocks, future frap boys, with no 106 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: tolerance for the weird, olive skinned Italian kid who was 107 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: into all that quote unquote weird shit in the Jersey 108 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: Devil lurking in the darkness somewhere outside Glenn's suburban bedroom 109 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: window in the woods, the devil's own green hell, and 110 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: the swamps of Jersey, the mafia's unofficial burial ground. Who 111 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: killed Marilyn. Glenn didn't know, but he bet the men 112 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: who utilized those swamps had an idea rotted corpse sex decay, 113 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: her breasts all full of slocks. The air at night 114 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: around Glenn's home had a different feel than in the day, 115 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: the smell from the refineries toxins in the air mixing 116 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: with the sound of the crickets, the peepers whatever they were, 117 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: disgusting insects soundtracking his nighttime worldly Glenn kept to the 118 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: cracked sidewalk, shuffling home. He could feel their presence, whoever 119 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: they were, neighborhood bullies, older kids calling him names, heckling him, 120 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: throwing rocks at him from behind, coming up fast. Glenn 121 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: kept his head down and kept walking. Even if he 122 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: didn't know them, he knew who they were, Ricky Nelson squares, 123 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: who were lucky. They were born a couple of years 124 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: before Glenn and were thus bigger. Glenn couldn't do anything 125 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: about his diminutive height, but he would morph his body, 126 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: eventually make him unfuck with the bolt, But back then 127 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: the morphine was done by the ghoulish conformists on his tail. 128 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: Glenn heard the local horror lore that the refinery toxins 129 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: made their way into the topsoil. The bugs those peepers 130 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: soaked the toxins up and transported the chemicals into the 131 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: water supply. The result a transmutation of some locals who 132 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: grew extra body parts from behind him. Glenn could hear 133 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: the continued ship talk, Hey Eddie Munster, where you're going? Solely, 134 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: Hey Lurch, where's the rest of the family, And they 135 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 1: started humming the theme to the Adams Family, snapping their 136 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: fingers out of time. Like the soulless automatons they were. 137 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: Their voices were multiplying rapidly, a multiverse of tongue spitting 138 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: vile insults, and now Glenn could feel their eyes on 139 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: him and burning into the back of his neck. This 140 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: is the ghoule's night out. Glenn knew it. All ghouls 141 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: go to Hell, and the back of his neck burnt 142 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: humans hell bent on eating flesh, the flesh of his 143 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: neck bubbling under the radiation gaze of conformists bullying him 144 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: back into his suburban dungeons transformed radiated mutants Ricky Nelson's 145 00:09:53,679 --> 00:10:02,239 Speaker 1: no more Now. With so many eyes and overload, somehow 146 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: Glenn made it home alive. He went to his little 147 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: electric piano and started picking out notes, humming melodies Black Sabbath, 148 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath, burbling up from his subconscious. Glenn, by the 149 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: time he was in high school, had become obsessed with 150 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: the album. Music made him feel less alone, less of 151 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: a target who was empowering, and Glenn knew it. Then 152 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: no more bullying at the hands of freakish ghouls. He'd 153 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: make music and make himself into something someone else, someone 154 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: they couldn't fuck with. And there was a neighborhood kid 155 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: with a bass guitar. He was kind of a norm himself, 156 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: football player voted most popular. His old man was some 157 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: kind of working class hero, but he was into the 158 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: music Glenn was into, and not just sabbath In the 159 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: Stooges and Elvis, but this new type of loud, fast, 160 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: anti authority, nonconformist music that they were calling punk, the Ramones, 161 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: Generation X and the sex Pistols. Plus this kid knew 162 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: a drummer, a drummer who had a garage where the 163 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: jam and perhaps the single most important qualifier was the 164 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: fact that this kid, the bass player, had a van. 165 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: He went by the name Jerry, Just Jerry, only Jerry, 166 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: Jerry Only. 167 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 4: A killer clown confesses in Chicago with a Christmas time 168 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 4: horror story. John Wayne Gacy, also known as Patches. The 169 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 4: clown admits to raping, murdering, and burying on his property 170 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 4: approximately thirty young men and boys, which is the latest 171 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 4: star twist this year. With serial killer Ted Bundy finally 172 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 4: under arrest and facing the death penalty in Flora after 173 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 4: murdering an assaulting fsu s Rority girls, the Hillside Strangler 174 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles remains at large. 175 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 3: Just last month, the world was rattled by the Jonestown 176 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 3: mass suicide, and. 177 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 4: The month before that the brutal murder of Fancy Sponge 178 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 4: and by rock star Sidfishes. It's the year that both 179 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 4: let up until the very last day, it seems, prompting 180 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 4: many to dub it psychos. 181 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: Jerry Only was making pasta for his friends, Sid Vicious, 182 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: infamous bass player for the Sex Pistols who was rumored 183 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: to have killed his girlfriend Nancy Sponge in Sid had 184 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: just getting out of jail that day. The word was 185 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 1: he was going to fight the case. Mick Jagger was 186 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: footing the bill for his lawyer, but Sid didn't care. 187 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: All he cared about was getting high. He kicked his 188 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: nasty heroin habit in Riker's, but within minutes of getting out, 189 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: all he could think of was jacking something hot into 190 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: his vein. He didn't care about Jerry's pasta either. Little 191 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: did he know it would be his last meal. Jerry 192 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: had befriended Sid. He was a fan, and he saw 193 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: an opportunity. Sid had a hit his version of Frank 194 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: Sinatra's My Way, and Jerry knew a tour was in 195 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: the works and wanted in on that action with his 196 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: new band, The Misfits. Jerry wanted the Misfits to back Sid. 197 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: It's not clear where Jerry Only's singer frontman for the Misfits, 198 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: Glenn Anzeloni, who was now going by the name Glenn Danzing, 199 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: fit into his plan. It didn't matter. Sid would die 200 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: that night of a heroin overdose. There was no skin 201 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: off Glenn Danzig's back. He never knew what to make 202 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: of Sid Vicious. He understood Jerry's fascination with him, though 203 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: Sid was famous and punk, a very rare combination at 204 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: the time, But Glenn would never understand Jerry's fascination with 205 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: Sid's mom, An Beverly Ann, was there the knight Sid 206 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: died with Jerry, and the rumors were sickening. Sid Vicious 207 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: was pretty fucking far from alive after his mom left 208 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: his room that night hotshot, they'd said Glenn and Jerry 209 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: hung with Sid and Nancy at the Chelsea Hotel, where 210 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: the couple was living. Glenn and Jerry got busted and 211 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: ended up spending the night in jail, not for heroin, 212 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: which was everywhere at the Chelsea, especially on the first floor, 213 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: but for throwing bottles up the Viru escaped down onto 214 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: West twenty third Stream. Nancy wouldn't get off that easy. 215 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: The world thought Sid had been the one who put 216 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: knife and Nancy. Sid was so smacked up at the 217 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: time of Nancy's deadly stabbing that even he didn't know 218 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: if he killed her. Glenn Dancy didn't give a fuck 219 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: with Sid Vicious thought he thought he did it, or 220 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: at least thought enough of the batshit crazy incident to 221 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: know that it would make for one hell of a song. 222 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: So he put pen to paper, wrote out the lyrics 223 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: to a new tune about Nancy Spongeent's demise, called it 224 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: Horror Business, and headed into the studio with the Misfits 225 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: to get it on tape. Bassist Jerry, only friend of 226 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: Sid Vicious at the time, had taken to shepherding Sid's 227 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: mom around town after Sid's death, making sure she okay, 228 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: making sure she had enough drugs, degenerate junkie that she 229 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: was just like her son and in general showing her 230 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: a good time, which is how Anne Beverley, he said Vicious, 231 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: his mom wound up. At the recording session for Horror Business, 232 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: the Misfits song written about her son murdering his girlfriend. 233 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: Anne sat in the control room either wilfully ignorant or 234 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: too high to care while Glenn Danzig reimagined Alfred Hitchcock's 235 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: psycho through song with vivid hardcore imagery. And there's a 236 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: line in Horror Business a lyric word Glenn says, my 237 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: mirrors are black for you. What a fucking lyric? My 238 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: mirrors are black for you. It was Glenn Danzig's worldview 239 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: channeled through the murderous punk rockers Sid Vicious, a worldview 240 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: that took the ghoulish conformity society offered him and reflected 241 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,479 Speaker 1: back the blackness that drove him to alienation. The worldview 242 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: biting back this alienation, this anger, was at the core 243 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: of the Misfits music. They were louder, faster, angrier, scarier 244 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: than all their punk rock contemporaries, The Ramones that clashed 245 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: the pistols when it came to pure nihilistic rage. None 246 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: could hold a candle to the hardcore brutality. Glenn Danzig 247 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: and Jerry Only were imagining and recording bullet the aforementioned 248 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: horror Business, Night of the Living Dead and Halloween scorching 249 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: singles that blasted with infernal ferocity off the tape, telling 250 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: tales of presidential assassination, zombie apocalypse and riotous anarchy with 251 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: dead cats hanging from poles, and b sides that any 252 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: other band at the time would have been lucky to 253 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: count as lead singles, such was their hooky, infectiousness and 254 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: originality attitude. Hollywood Babylon, Teenagers from Mars, Last Caress, Ghouls 255 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: Night Out in Horror Hotel. Lyrically, all were steeped in 256 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: the prepubescent oohs of Glenn Danzig's childhood bedroom. You can 257 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: hear the tabloid smut in Hollywood Babylon, the syndicated creature 258 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: double features in Horror Hotel and Night of the Dead, 259 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: the cult rag exploitation of Last Caress, and of course, 260 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: the painful adolescent alienation in Teenagers from Mars, Danzigg's Broadside 261 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: at the ghoulish lowd Eye Bullies and authority figures who 262 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: tried unsuccessfully to bend him to the conformist ways and 263 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: shut him out as a child. Gibberish lyrics to parents 264 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: and mainstream rock and roll gatekeepers, but the secret serum 265 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: for fifteen year old kids out on the margins trying 266 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: to find their way through the perils of teenage wasteland. 267 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: Hearing The Misfits for me, at the age of fifteen, 268 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: literally changed the course of my life. Nothing I heard 269 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: to that point sounded like the Misfits, and I would 270 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: hear nothing else the same for as long as I 271 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: had years. Music wasn't supposed to sound like this, broken down, 272 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: shredded lo fi at times even out of tune, messy 273 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: but precise, filled with rage and an energy that I 274 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: could uniquely identify with that was already coursing through my veins, 275 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: but to this point untapped. It had no outlet till 276 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: I heard The Misfits. And when I first heard the band, 277 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: I literally wanted to break things. It moved me to violence. 278 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: My friends and I donned black hooded Champion sweatshirts and 279 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: took to the streets of our neighborhood. A group of 280 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: ten or more of us at a time and shouted 281 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: out the game vocals to Misfit songs in the dead 282 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 1: of night. Imagine sitting down in your laisy Boy after 283 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: a long, hard day of work and turning on your 284 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: Magnum p I or your cheers to relax, and hearing 285 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: a gang of fifteen year olds marching down your street 286 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: singing in unison about hacking heads off little girls and 287 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: putting them on our walls. We called ourselves the Hoods, 288 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: and honor the Misfits logo the hooded Crimson Ghost go ahead, 289 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: fuck with us. Misfits music was imbued with violence, rage. 290 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: We'd never seen them live. They were long broken up 291 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: by the time we got turned on, but the influence 292 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: of their recorded output and their live shows informed every 293 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 1: Boston and New York hardcore band we saw back then, 294 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: but still as violent as the all age as Matt 295 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 1: Maysworth that we attended. There were nothing like the shows 296 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: the Misfits played, where Glenn Danzig was known not to 297 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: only accost the crowd verbally from stage, but to also 298 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: get into the crowd and physically a self fans for 299 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: unknown tons and offenses. A growing audience of dedicated punk 300 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: rockers did little to make Glenn Danzig feel less alienated. 301 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: Sometimes it seemed as though it only made his problems worse. 302 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: Who the fuck were these kids? Didn't they get it? 303 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: Mixing it up with the crowd was no doubt seen 304 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: as less of a risk, given the Glenn you lose 305 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: back by his bulky bass player Jerry Only and Jerry's 306 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: little brother Doyle on guitar. Both were former high school 307 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: football stars, and both muscled bound jacked on stage. They 308 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: aspired to look like the monsters they worshiped on television 309 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: on Saturday mornings, growing up bulging biceps and packs, augmented 310 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: with dyed black hair combed down over their faces into 311 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,360 Speaker 1: the Misfits patented devil loock, a reverse da with two 312 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: mass garret peering out behind it, big platform heels, leather spikes, 313 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: skeleton shirts and skulls draping their amps. Sounds silly now, 314 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: but at the time, in the late seventies and early eighties, 315 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: there was nothing like this in music. There was no horrorcore. 316 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: The Misfits invented it, and there was hardly yet anything 317 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: approaching goth. The closest thing to the Misfits was kiss, 318 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: but they were more shlocked than Shock more comic than 319 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: Killer Kiss were entertainers. The Misfits were nihilis, which isn't 320 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: to say that they were without ambition. In the late 321 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: seventies when they were starting out, Glenn and Jerry hustled 322 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: their band all over Lower Manhattan, socializing inside and outside 323 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: of cpgbi's Maxis, Kansas City, and Hurrahs with other punk 324 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: rockers trying to make their way. It was here at Hurrahs, 325 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: after a gig the Misfits shared with Britain's The dam 326 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: a gig that counted Iggy Pop and Blondie's Debbie Harry 327 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: amongst those in attendance, that Jerry only somehow talked The 328 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: Damned into allowing the Misfits to open for them on 329 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: their European tour. Jerry was stoked, he talked to his 330 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: old man and financing the band's first foray across the Pond. 331 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: When they arrived and hooked up with The Damn, they 332 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: were surprised to learn that they weren't actually booked onto 333 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 1: any of the Damn shows. Glenn was pissed, so was Jerry. 334 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 1: What a fucking waste his old man was gonna put 335 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: his nuts in a vice. Three grand in travel expenses 336 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: down the drain, Jerry and Glenn worked it out so 337 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: they could play a couple shows, opening for the opening band, 338 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: but without pay. Total bullshit and they bounced after a 339 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: gig or two. But before heading home, the Misfits hit 340 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 1: up the Rainbow Club to see the jam outside. In line, 341 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: trying to scam their way into the show, two skinheads 342 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: started heckling them for the way they looked. Glenn, Jerry, 343 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: and then guitarist Bobby Steele murdered out in all black 344 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: in a pre goth London, skinheads giving them shit. Glenn 345 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Different side of the same ghoulish coin 346 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: was a nonconformist skinhead shitting on him for dressing differently. 347 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: Some thing's never changed. Alienation was one of them. But 348 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,479 Speaker 1: this wasn't like back in Lowdie. Glenn now knew how 349 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: to fight and frankly didn't give a shit about the outcome. 350 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: Plus Jerry had his back and Jerry was jacked. The 351 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: skinhead slid into him some more, and Glenn took the 352 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 1: bottle of soda he was drinking from, smashed the bottom 353 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: of it into a makeshift jagged glass dagger, and dove 354 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: straight out the skins. A melee ensued, smashing, stabbing, Doc 355 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: Martin's kicking, grabbing wild and wolverine fury and then knight 356 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: Stick's fists and more kicks from Unholy Living Dead cuffs 357 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: back of the wagon in a free Knight's stay in 358 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: a British hell. 359 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 4: We'll be right back after this work were were. 360 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 5: Plundering underground are Glenn and Bobby Glenn and Bobby Glen. 361 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 5: Glenn and Bobby dame after hearing an emergency couch about 362 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 5: a series of brutal killings, and Glenn and Bobby are 363 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 5: securing themselves from angry Zombi even was dug in in 364 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 5: the cellar, which they believed to be singer. Meanwhile, the 365 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 5: Ghules are relentless and their assault dead set on the 366 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 5: siege of Glenn and Bobby Glenn, especially in ever increasing numbers. 367 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: Glenn Danzi came to to the sound of banging, a 368 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: remnant from his dream, the sound of barricading himself into 369 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: his room, away from his childhood fears, and the reality 370 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: he awoke to was much scarier. The banging was replaced 371 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: by the faint sound of wailing, moaning someone in pain. 372 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: Glenn was on the ground, Bobby lay next to him. 373 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: Jerry was not there. His dumb luck must have prevailed again. 374 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: And there were iron bars, and Glenn and Bobby were 375 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: obviously on the wrong side of them. Concrete walls that 376 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: looked to have been chiseled out of a cave by 377 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: disinterested slaves centuries ago. Within the walls thick iron loops. 378 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: No doubt where the chains went, the ones connected to 379 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: the shackles. There were no windows. The wailing grew but 380 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: remained faint, as if it were there, but it wasn't. 381 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 1: The must in the air was thick, and they were 382 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: underground for sure, trapped in some sort of medieval torture 383 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: chamber europe societies that were hundreds, if not thousands of 384 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: years older than yours. You were bound to run into 385 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: some weird shit. And it appeared that Glenn Dan's Egg 386 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: and Bobby Steele had found themselves locked up for their 387 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: assault on the skinheads inside of an actual dungeon, a 388 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: London dungeon. Bobby knew immediately that their unfortunate circumstance would 389 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: make for a great song. The two got down to 390 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: it straight away, blocking out their fears and channeling them 391 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: in the music. On the spot behind bars, and Bobby 392 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 1: banged out a beat with his hands on his thighs. 393 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: The slap of his palms on his greasy jeans, combined 394 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: with the natural echo of the cell they were in, 395 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: made for a hell of a makeshift backbeat, and the 396 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: faint moaning The painful cries imagined are real weaved through 397 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: Glenn's imagination into a glorious bed of ghostly feedback that 398 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: lay on top of a box speed. In a fear 399 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: induced blast of inspiration, Glenn's words came barreling out. The 400 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: Misfits song London Dungeon, written in Jail, was recorded upon 401 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: the band's return to the States and released as the 402 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: A side on the band's EP three Hits from Hell 403 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one. The song makes a brief appearance 404 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: on the band's masterpiece LP Walk among Us a year 405 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: later as the live outro to the song Mummy, Can 406 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: I Go out and Kill Tonight? The song, despite its 407 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: inspired origin, played but a bit part on the band's 408 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: fullest artistic statement to date. Walk among Us brought the 409 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 1: band to a new level of underground fame. The power 410 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: of the album was undeniable. The band weren't selling out 411 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,959 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden or charting on the Billboard top forty. 412 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: But their shows were attracting more fans, diehard committed fans 413 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: as well as fly by Night fans who just wanted 414 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: a gow at the Freaks on stage in black with 415 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: the skulls and the eyeliner and the hair covering their faces. 416 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: Glenn resented every last fucking one of them music the Misfits. 417 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 1: It wasn't some novelty for him. Despite the imagery, the 418 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,479 Speaker 1: comic and horror influence, the themes alienation and nihilism. They 419 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: were real. They came from a real place, and the 420 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: aggression and violence they inspired. To Glenn Danzig was very real. 421 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: Treating it as anything less was an affront to his 422 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: creative sensibilities, not to mention an affront to him personally. Increasingly, 423 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: it was obvious to Glenn that his bandmates did not 424 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: share the same passion, the same motivation mutant conformist ghouls, 425 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: that they were nothing illustrated this more to Glenn then 426 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: seeing Jerry and his little brother Doyle show up for 427 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: band practice in their father's van with Van Halen's unchained 428 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: blasting from their stereo while chugging cans of beer, the 429 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: two of them muscle bound and sawed off T shirts 430 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: and cut off jeans, looking like nothing more than a 431 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: couple of ex meat had jocks that they were. How 432 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: the fuck he wondered had he wound up in a 433 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: band these guys. On tour, the band's fans weren't much better. 434 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: Their show, as violent as they still were, were now 435 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: being populated by the smart set and college kids who'd 436 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: somehow gotten hipped to the Misfits, and in general punk 437 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: rocks growing popularity. Things were changing, and if Glenn Danzig 438 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: wasn't careful his band, their image, his image, his art, 439 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: would be co opted by the very ghouls he'd made 440 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: strides his whole life to avoid. And they were everywhere, 441 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: especially on tour, in strange Midwest and Southern cities, creeping 442 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: around every corner, peering, leering, looking for any opportunity to pounce, 443 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 1: to sink their flesh eating soul sucking teeth into you 444 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: and bleed you of whatever it was that made you special. 445 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: Glenn wouldn't allow it to happen. Jerry and Doyle could 446 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: have their van Halen in football and whatever other mainstream 447 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: rock star McDonald's eating crap they wanted. Glenn wanted out, 448 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: and if he couldn't get out just yet, then he 449 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: wanted darkness, destruction. Wanted to fill the hole growing inside 450 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: of him with something he could relate to, just like 451 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: when he was a kid, But now as an adult, 452 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: wasn't that easy. Comic books and creature double features weren't 453 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: going to cut it when the occult, the afterlife, in 454 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:20,719 Speaker 1: real darkness were all possible. The gig in New Orleans 455 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: that night went okay. Glenn was inspired by the city 456 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: and the voodoo magic in the air. He could feel 457 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: Nola's ghosts, the living, Professor, Longhair, doctor John, and the dead, 458 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: mainly Marie Levau. Marie Levau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans, 459 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: the powerful priestess, died in the nineteenth century, but was 460 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: rumored by locals to have continued her practice from beyond 461 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: a grave. Marvel Comics based a character on her in 462 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies, a fact that was not lost on 463 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: Glenn Danzig. Her grave was the exact type of connection 464 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: Glenn needed at the time. After the gig, Glenn and 465 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: the rest of the Misfits set out to find Marie 466 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: Levo's ancient tomb and to conjure up's real darkness. Saint 467 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: Louis Number two Cemetery is one of New Orleans' oldest 468 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: Catholic cemeteries. Its graves are above ground. Vaults, tombs, and 469 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: mini mausoleums all rest on top of the ground to 470 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: avoid New Orleans's high water table that rises up near 471 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: the ground's surface, making subterranean burials impossible. Glenn wondered about 472 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: topsoil contamination. The night air stuck to their skin. Glenn 473 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: the rest of the band, Jerry Doyle and drummer Robo, 474 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: were accompanied by two strippers named Poison and Venom, who 475 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: Robo was very pleased to learn We're more than happy 476 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: to tease him by pleasuring themselves with his drumsticks in 477 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: the back of the band's van on the ride over. 478 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: Glenn had no time for such bullshit. He'd just as 479 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: soon make his pilgrimage on his own without having to 480 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: suffer the foolishness of his bandmates and their new groupies. 481 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: They made their way on foot through the maze of 482 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: the dead. The air hung heavier with every footfall. Crickets 483 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: peep whatever they were, they were back for Glenn and 484 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: chirping out their disapproval, snaking in and around their shrieking chorus. 485 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: The sound of the wind soft, near dead, but they're 486 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: all the same. Heavy On top of it hung the 487 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: muffled sound of g naighing. The sound rode up behind Glenn. 488 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: It rode up the back of Glenn's neck where was 489 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: Marie Levoe's grave. That gnine sound got louder. It swirled 490 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,719 Speaker 1: up from behind him, and for a moment it blanketed him, 491 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: and then passed on, nighing, gnahing, gnahing. There then gone, 492 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: but not fully and not fully demonic either, And there 493 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: was a strange warmth to the sound of it, something inviting. 494 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: It beckoned Glenn pulled him toward it. He followed it, 495 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: sought it out. Now in his heart it would lead 496 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: to her tomb, and once there Glenn knewie get answers 497 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: the priestess would provide. He moved closer to the sound. 498 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: The sound grew louder. He maneuvered over the tombs. The 499 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: sound became more and more real. He heard laughing from 500 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: the reard demonic ghoulish hellhounds on his tail. Up ahead. 501 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: The gnawing had given the way to soft whispers, to 502 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: a chorus of soft white noise, soft white noise that 503 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: broke through into a vision of white flesh, beckoning. He 504 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: could see it now, he could in his mind. He 505 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: fought off the ghoulish normalcy following him. It was now 506 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: soundtracked by a different kind of gnawing sound, more hellish, carnivorous, cannibalistic. 507 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: It was poisoned, venomous. He focused, tried to block out 508 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: the sensation the sound made him feel, but he could 509 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: feel it burning up his back, singing the flesh of 510 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: his neck. He kept stride, kept his two eyes up ahead. 511 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: Followed the white noise, followed the vision of white flesh 512 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: went forward into the light. It grew more intense, more real, 513 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: and there were voices, real voices, actual voices. He moved 514 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: faster toward them, faster, toward the light, in a way 515 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: from what lay behind him, his band, his past, the poison, 516 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: the venom, toward the priestess, toward his future. He rounded 517 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: the mausoleum, blocking the light around the back side, toward 518 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: the voices, the whispers, and ran straight into the arms 519 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: of a New Orleans police officer. Where are you going? 520 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: Any monster? Glenn was sunk. It was also under arrest 521 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: criminal trespassing. The next day, the New Orleans Times Piggy 522 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: Une ran the headline punk rock musicians arrested in cemetery. 523 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: Word around the punk scene spread the misfits had been 524 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: arrested for grave robbing. 525 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 3: Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens, 526 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 3: and because of the crisis which is even now developing, 527 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 3: this radio station will remain on the air nineteen this 528 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 3: hour at Epidemic of Massport, Virtual. 529 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 4: Kind of Tank. 530 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: Early eighties hardcore shows were unlike any other musical experience 531 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: before or since. These shows were distinguished by their extreme violence. 532 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: Hardcore came after punk had its dalliance with the mainstream 533 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: in the major labels. Hardcore in its infancy, was the 534 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 1: more extreme version of punk and its sound, its fans, 535 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: its name, and its live shows. Norms could hang at 536 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,239 Speaker 1: punk shows. Norms could not hang at hardcore shows. They 537 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: would be beaten, stabbed or worse. Hell band members performing 538 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: on stage would be beaten, stabbed or worse. But the 539 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: hardcore scene didn't just leave behind a legacy of brutality, 540 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: marginalized teens, outcast, literal misfits who couldn't find their way 541 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: through adolescents found a home in hardcore that proved to 542 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: be its own island of misfit toys for wayward teens 543 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: and young adults. It was a place where you could 544 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,320 Speaker 1: truly be yourself, where individualism was encouraged. We're going against 545 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 1: the grain was celebrated. Your identity didn't matter. You were 546 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: whatever the fuck you were, and nobody could say shit 547 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: because if they did, they get beat down. Intolerance was 548 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: not tolerated, and neither was tribalism. You could be who 549 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: you wanted, dance, how you want to dress, how you wanted, 550 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 1: fuck who you wanted, fight who you wanted, and none 551 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 1: of it mattered because Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were 552 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: going to blow the world up imminutely anyway. That spirit 553 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,240 Speaker 1: of individuality, nihilism, and destruction manifest on hardcore dance floors 554 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: with a far more aggressive form of slam dancing than 555 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: what came before in the punk scene. Bodies pummeled into 556 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: one another with vicious abandon the pit not only How's 557 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: fists and steel toed kicks from heavy engineer boots, but 558 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: also brass knuckles, knives, and chains. The violence was legit 559 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: and inspired early eighties hardcore bands black flag tsol circle jerks, 560 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 1: bad brains, and minor threat pummeled their audiences with blasting 561 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: beats and anvil swinging rifts, and their audiences were not 562 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 1: afraid to pummel them right back. In hardcore, there was 563 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: no separation between band and audience. There were no bouncers, 564 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: there was no security, no protecting the sanctity of the 565 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: rock star. Unlike punk, in hardcore there were no rock stars, 566 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: and that shit didn't fly. These were the shows the 567 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: Misfits played, and they didn't know it then, but on 568 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,760 Speaker 1: Halloween of nineteen eighty three, they were walking on stage 569 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: to play their last show ever. By eighty three, the 570 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: worm had started to turn in the hardcore scene. Tribes 571 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 1: were taking root subsets of the larger scenes, skinheads, gang bangers, 572 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: straight edged kids, college kids, horrorcore kids, goths, even rastafarians, 573 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,840 Speaker 1: you name it. The spirit of hardcore allowed entry for 574 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: one in all, provided you had the steel in an 575 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: open mind. The irony, however, was that the tribalism was 576 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:11,240 Speaker 1: demolishing the hardcore spirit, extinguishing its flame of individuality. Glenn 577 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: Danzing didn't know about all that. He could just sense 578 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: that things were different, and when he looked out onto 579 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 1: the audience from the stage. Things were starting to look 580 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: a lot more like high school than they were the 581 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 1: hardcore scene. This dude didn't like that dude because that 582 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 1: dude rocked his hair this way, and then the other 583 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,799 Speaker 1: dude wore the wrong colored laces in his boots, but 584 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: that dude had the wrong braces holding up his leviyes. 585 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,279 Speaker 1: And those dudes over there from the suburbs didn't drink, 586 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 1: but the drug dealers were owed money from the gang 587 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: bangers who hated the Rastafarians were now hanging out with 588 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,320 Speaker 1: the Harry Krishnas, whom nobody liked, not even the goths 589 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: who were disliked by nearly everyone, and blah, blah, fucking blah. 590 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: They looked up at Glenn, anxious for the band to 591 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: start their much anticipated annual Halloween show in Detroit at 592 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 1: Graystone Hall. One thousand strong in the crowd, Glenn could 593 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: feel their eyes, all them eyes on overload, staring him down, 594 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: burning into him. Ghoules, fucking ghoules, he thought. Behind him, 595 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,280 Speaker 1: miss bandmates Jerry Only and his big little bro Doyle, 596 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,240 Speaker 1: the two of them hulking goth versions of Paul Newman's 597 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: handsome brothers jacked on schnops, Eddie van Halen Riss and 598 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: Gene Simmons correspondence courses, too dumb to see the irony 599 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 1: and the comic book characters they turned themselves into, or 600 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,720 Speaker 1: too jacked on the crowd to care, and their new drummer, 601 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 1: Brian Damaged Keats, drunk behind the kit for his first gig. 602 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,360 Speaker 1: This was now too much for Glenn. What the hell 603 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: had happened? How would he ended up here? In the beginning, 604 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: the Misfits were supposed to be a rallying oral assault 605 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: for all the kids who, like Glenn, couldn't fit in. 606 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: My mirrors are black for you. Glenn wore black and 607 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: created the Misfits and his image to reflect back onto 608 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: the world the alienation that the world made him feel. 609 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: The Misfits as a band and Misfits fans were supposed 610 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: to feel the same thing. But now this, this was 611 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: something else, bigger, stranger, monstrous and obomba, a monster of 612 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:06,280 Speaker 1: his own creation, not by design, by a mistake Ghoules. 613 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: From the opening riff of Knight of the Living Dead, 614 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 1: the crowd erupted. More than just dancing bottles were thrown 615 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: at the band and the audience spat up on a stage, 616 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 1: rushed the stage, overtook the stage, slamming into Glenn, Jerry 617 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: and Doyle, before diving off into the pit. On the 618 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 1: dance floor, the audience swirled themselves into a massive cyclone 619 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: of a pit fury. Glenn was outside of himself, he 620 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 1: could taste fear, and Jerry was loving it. Doyle couldn't 621 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: decide if he was more into playing and throwing shoulders 622 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: into unsuspecting stage divers who had the misfortune of coming 623 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 1: his way, and the new drummer, Brian Damage couldn't keep up. 624 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: Such was the furious energy and pace of the band's set. 625 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: He dropped the beat one too many times in those 626 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,799 Speaker 1: first few songs, and Doyle made an executive decision on 627 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 1: the fly, dropped his guitar, rushed the drum kit, grabbed 628 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: Brian and literally threw him off stage. He pointed to 629 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: Necro's drummer and Fred Todd Swallow, who had opened the 630 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: show and was standing on the side of the stage. 631 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: You're Up swallowed up behind the kit, and the Misfits 632 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: continued with a midset lineup change without missing a beat. 633 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 1: It was the last straw for Glenn This was a circus, 634 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: This wasn't nihilism. The crowd, the different sects worn amongst themselves, 635 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: stupidly sheet wasted an endless parade of stage diers and 636 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,120 Speaker 1: slam dancers, avoiding the coming apocalypse instead of taking it 637 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,439 Speaker 1: head on. The song the band was playing broke down 638 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,800 Speaker 1: on the ceremonious say. Glenn knew it. Then he was done. 639 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: He grabbed his mic and shouted, this is our last 640 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 1: show ever. The band then launched into the next song 641 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 1: of the set, but Glenn was gone on stage. Sure 642 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 1: still there, yes, but purely going through the motions mechanical. 643 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: The soul was good, he thought, just like the crowd. 644 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,839 Speaker 1: He floated. He looked down at the crowd. He could 645 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: see them now morphing, changing shape, shifting into an amorphous block. 646 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: The sound of the band slowed in his head to 647 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,400 Speaker 1: a dirt Swallow's high hat was replaced by the chirping peepers. 648 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: Doyle's feedback swirled itself from the sharp hitchcocki and staccato 649 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:27,240 Speaker 1: psycho strands. Jerry's bass plotted big, thick, heavy souled frankenside 650 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: steps rhythmically timed to the beat of the slow moving 651 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: crowd now pushing its way on the stage, Gules, soulless 652 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: conformist ghules, all wanting him to play the part of 653 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: the burning punk rock front man clad in black hardcore 654 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,320 Speaker 1: Elvis cast a star in their own private Halloween party. 655 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 4: Since the brain of A has been activated by the radiation. 656 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:55,480 Speaker 1: Trap, the fear flooded back. But there was no barricading 657 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: himself in up there no bedroom to hide it, just 658 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,320 Speaker 1: an open stage that was now being flooded by ghoulish 659 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 1: conformist zombies. The death in their eyes was evident, and 660 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: they grabbed Doyle first. He swung his axe with precision, 661 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,960 Speaker 1: braining them back off of the stage, but they kept coming, 662 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,279 Speaker 1: more of them with every swing. They grabbed at his biceps, 663 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: pulled at his thighs. One grabbed him by the back 664 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,560 Speaker 1: of his head with both hands and tore into his 665 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: cheek with his teeth, ripping the flesh from the young 666 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 1: guitar's face, consuming it on the spot with the blood 667 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,120 Speaker 1: dripping from the gul's mouth. And the other girls smelled 668 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,359 Speaker 1: the feet and pulled Doyle down off the stage into 669 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,400 Speaker 1: the pit and tore them limb from limb. On the 670 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,720 Speaker 1: other end of the stage, brother Jerry was in shock. 671 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,399 Speaker 1: The Ghuls took advantage of his state and pummeled him 672 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 1: from all angles, ripping into his skin and tearing out 673 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,759 Speaker 1: his innards, feasting on him on all hallows Eve, right 674 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,280 Speaker 1: out in the open in his punk rock public square. 675 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 1: Todd Swallow dropped his sticks and made for the exit backstage, 676 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 1: but was tripped up immediately and dragged off into the dark. 677 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,920 Speaker 1: His screams could be heard throughout the entire concert hall, 678 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,360 Speaker 1: sheer terror. The gulls did not stop coming for the stage, 679 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,239 Speaker 1: coming from Glenn like entrance soldiers taking to a hill, 680 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,760 Speaker 1: Zombies crawling over one another, moving slow like molasses toward 681 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,439 Speaker 1: their feasts, fighting their way to the top of the heap. 682 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: The Ghules, conformists, all marching through to once and for all, exterminated, 683 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: He who shall not be conformed to this world, He 684 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,560 Speaker 1: who shall not be transformed by the renewing of his mind. 685 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 1: The mind he knew it all along, the damned Conformists's 686 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,640 Speaker 1: what the bodies of men from Earth, that's what the 687 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,719 Speaker 1: faces are, the ones he loved. Glenn grabbed Doyle's axe 688 00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,400 Speaker 1: and hacked his way through the coming Ghules to the backstage. 689 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:40,680 Speaker 1: He swung with wild violence, braining one decapitating another, and 690 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 1: once inside the backstage alone with that familiar alienation, he 691 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 1: began the familiar routine of barricading himself in, stacking furniture 692 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,280 Speaker 1: against the door, hacking nails and a ripped up plywood 693 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,440 Speaker 1: across the doorway, and the ghules did not stop. He 694 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,480 Speaker 1: could hear them outside. He could also hear sirens and 695 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,200 Speaker 1: the growing sound of gunfire, a blaze of bullets from outside, 696 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,800 Speaker 1: no doubt, authorities there to save the day, and more guns, 697 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,680 Speaker 1: the sound of bullets flying everywhere, and soon the sound 698 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: of the nine ghouls trailed off. Now he could hear men, 699 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,319 Speaker 1: humans coming for him, to help, to save him. He 700 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: began ripping apart the makeshift barricade, wanting would every fiver 701 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:21,759 Speaker 1: of his being to be out of that room and 702 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,319 Speaker 1: amongst humans to connect, to be safe. The men on 703 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,480 Speaker 1: the other side rattled the door and attempt to get 704 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: into whatever was on the other side, making its own 705 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,440 Speaker 1: rattle to them, another ghoulish death rattle, and Glenn finally 706 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:38,200 Speaker 1: got the door open and there they stood the authorities, cops, 707 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,840 Speaker 1: riot gear, shotguns raised pointed straight at Glenn danzig dressed 708 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,600 Speaker 1: head to toe in black devil lock, heavy eyeliner, skin, 709 00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,760 Speaker 1: tight shirt with a pentagram drawn on his chest, looking 710 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,680 Speaker 1: every part the ghoulish zombie. The authorities took one look 711 00:43:53,719 --> 00:44:08,680 Speaker 1: at him, pulled their triggers and blasted him away. 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