Glenn Danzig

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9/2/2024

Glenn Danzig

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00:00We're here with Glenn Danzig, and if you want to see some other Danzig videos and find out

00:10some interesting stuff, like the kind of stuff that drummer Chuck Biscuits collects, then

00:14you might want to check out their home video, Lucifuge.

00:16And on the video, for instance, I think it was the video for I'm the One, you wrestle

00:21an alligator.

00:22Yes, this is true.

00:23Is this your idea?

00:24No, it wasn't.

00:25It was a 600-pound alligator down on the Louisiana bayous, about 90 miles outside New Orleans.

00:34It was kind of funny.

00:35I mean, I thought I was going to wrestle an alligator this big, and I guess they all went

00:42under the water, because it was kind of cold.

00:45So the only one they had was one this big, and basically it was a situation where you

00:53could get very hurt, very quickly.

00:56And they didn't put this rubber thing over his mouth, which they're supposed to.

01:00They just, two times with some black masking tape, and said, you know, those Cajun guys,

01:05like, when you grew up in the bayous, like, come on, Glenn, get up, we on a gator.

01:10You know?

01:11But don't stand there, he'll break you in half with his face, and don't go back there.

01:14He's going to whack you with his tail, going to crack you in half.

01:17And then he's just bouncing on over, get on up here now, come on, get up.

01:22There was another segment in that video which has you running with wolves, which was like,

01:25really neat stuff.

01:26Yeah.

01:27I like, you know, animals.

01:28I get along very well with animals.

01:31And the wolves, you know, I went down, and the wolves said, be careful with these wolves,

01:36this one's very temperamental, and you know, started petting them, and...

01:40Great.

01:41Just like that.

01:42Just like that.

01:43Check that stuff out, that's on the home video.

01:44But right now it's time for the results of tonight's Crank Your Ink, and we will be back

01:47talking to Glenn Vanzig.

01:48Now, it was your choice, and it looks like you just, I noticed, after seeing you live

01:53so many times, is that you seem to have some influences from Elvis.

01:59This is true.

02:00I think Elvis was a great singer, regardless of what everyone says about him, and that's

02:06the way it is.

02:08Because I remember you did, you did Trouble when you started off, I don't know if you

02:12still thought you did it.

02:13We did it the other night on tour.

02:14Because that was a killer song, and when you, I think you opened up with that when I saw

02:16you play a couple years back.

02:18It was an encore song.

02:21An encore opened up, it was somewhere in the front of the beginning of the show.

02:24You thought they were late.

02:25Exactly.

02:26Now tell us about Vanzig tour plans right now.

02:29We just finished up some dates with Black Sabbath, just to warm up before we go over

02:33to Europe.

02:34We're going to be over there for at least two months, and we'll come back here and do

02:38our own tour.

02:39Everyone's scared to have us open a show for them, basically.

02:45Now it seems like this record's doing really, really well, which I'm very glad, because

02:48I've been telling everybody at home for a long time, you know, that the stuff is great.

02:54One thing good about the record, it entered into Billboard at 24, and what it did was

02:58it sent a message to all these people that just think music like what we do is a fluke,

03:04and that you know, it shouldn't get out of here, play here or there, and that it's just

03:08a flash, it's not going away, it's staying, and you know, we have more fans now than we

03:13ever had.

03:14Basically, without any kind of airplay on MTV or radio, you know, dedicated fans.

03:20And the fan base is growing, and one thing that I remember that I felt glad you did at

03:24my club Bordello a couple years back, which I brought some of the people, matter of fact,

03:28from the studio down here, is you played some acoustic stuff, which was just you sitting

03:32around, and it was amazing, I mean, you've got an amazing voice.

03:35We do that twice a year.

03:37And it was amazing.

03:38Do you ever thought about maybe sitting down and doing a blues album, or just an acoustic

03:43record?

03:44Rick wanted us to do a record like that, I don't know if he wants it live or studio.

03:48Maybe we'll do it.

03:49The thing I liked about doing it at your club was, it was, you know, what, about 50 or 60

03:54people we could fit back there.

03:55No, it's as small as this.

03:57Yeah, and so, I like it like that, you know.

03:59Because I think everybody's like, oh, Danzig is this, and they don't understand how talented

04:04the band is.

04:05I mean, your drummer Chuck plays on the smallest kit, but he's got the most amazing sound and

04:10is a great drummer to watch play too.

04:12In my opinion, he's the best drummer playing today.

04:16I think pretty much in there.

04:17And pretty much a lot of people just, you know, come to the show and they sit their

04:20drummer behind him and say, watch this guy, like Ice-T, you know, drummer, yeah.

04:25Because he doesn't need that much, but he's just amazing.

04:28And we're going to be back with Glenn Danzig, and we're also going to find out about this

04:30contest, and that's coming up after these messages.

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