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Danzig Gets Plug Pulled at Fun Fun Fun Fest: Festival Booker Tells Story of Danzig Fiasco

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Danzig played a short set at Fun Fun Fest on November 4th, 2011. The ex-Samhain/Misfits crooner scheduled an hour-and-a-half set of Danzig, Misfits and Samhain material, but only played two Misfits songs. On Fun Fun Fun Fest's Facebook page, Graham Williams, the festival booker, comments on what may be the concert fiasco of the year
"Hi. I book the fest. Those that are hating could NOT be more wrong. Yes, someone has your money and ripped you off. His name is Glenn. Stop by his house in LA with some kitty litter in trade for your refund, but we still had to pay him and he didn’t deserve it after what he pulled. Here is how it went down…check the timeline:
-Glenn flies in this morning and says he has a cold and doesn't feel like playing the show. he demands french onion soup and vitamins brought to his hotel suite. He wants soup now and wants it hot. We get it.
-Glenn says it's freezing in Austin and he can't go on. He says it's going to be 28 degrees tonight and he won't perform (keep in mind, it's currently 71 and sunny with a night forecast of maybe 50+). He says we have to move the show/festival inside if we want him to play (obviously, that's not possible).
-We rent stage heaters (no other bands--Public Enemy, MCD, Passion Pit, etc need or want heaters on stage...it's warm up there and not cold out) for Glenn per demand, as well as bring in an onsite doctor to make him happy and be there if his cold doesn't go away.
-Agents and managers assure us he's going to play now.
-Glenn's band/crew arrive before him in the afternoon and load gear. They said it all works, they get up the Danzig banner, check lights and are happy.
-Glenn arrives at 7:45 (half hour before showtime, they go on at 8:15 exactly and have a 90 min. set...park curfew by the city/police is 10 PM sharp)...when he arrives, he says he's not going to play. (He) Says he doesn't like how the banners are hung on stage and doesn't like the lighting or stage size (all this was advanced in email and phone well in advance and the band/crew loaded in mid day and were happy with it and said it would work...stage wasn't small at all). He wouldn't leave his trailer to go look at the stage, though, so the lighting company drew up specs for him to look at of the stage lighting 50 feet from his trailer and brought it to him to look over and prove him wrong.
-In the meantime, Glenn's bodyguard gets pushy (literally) with Murder City Devils manager and tells them they can't have their friends watch MCD from stage and wants them to cut their set. (Then) kicks them off stage and gets physical with the band and staff....oh, also Danzig says he's just as big as Slayer and Slayer is playing a bigger stage on Sunday and that's bullshit and wants to play the same stage slayer is playing...or won't play. makes him look bad.
-It's now 8:15 and time for them to go on. The band is ready, corpse make ups done, guitars tunes. Glenn says he's not playing and that it's too cold outside. He said big stages should have windscreen so wind can't blow on him from the side. The stage managers then goes and gets tarps and tarp the entire side of the stage so now wind will hit him.
-It's now 8:40. We explain that it's cutting into the set and he's going to have cut the 90 min set if he doesn't play soon, as park curfew is 10. He says he doesn't feel like playing and says "I got a death bug. If i go on stage and get sick, I'll die. I'm not getting sicker for this show" (NOTE: he totally looks and seems fine...no coughing, no paleness, no vomiting, just some balding and a gut, from what i can tell). We get the Dr. and he says he can do a B12 shot or anything he needs if he feels bad...Danzig says he only treats illnesses naturally, so won't do that. We finally get him to agree to play and have already informed his crew that it's only 60 mins (9 PM at this point) and they start cutting some songs from the set list, so they can still do Misfits, but obviously didn't cut enough.
-They went on almost and hour late due to the HANDS DOWN biggest rock star moment we've ever dealt with and then he tries to start a riot and blames the fest, the city, the cops and everyone but himself. (He) goes backstage and tries to fight a few people and gets in the van and leaves.
The end.... we're bummed to. We wanted to hear Skulls."
Check back in to Metal Underground.com for the show report of not only this performance, but all three days of the festival. Believe it not, there are bands playing the festival other than Danzig.
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WOW! I almost flew in from North Carolina to see this performance because I am a huge fan of the original Misfits and wanted to see Glenn and Doyle do some of the old stuff. Glad I didn't waste my time and money. What a complete ass! As big as Slayer? I don't think so, and certainly not as professional. You're lucky that anyone out there cares about what you're doing these days anyway. You've been pretty much washed up since the first 3 Danzig albums. You think you're such a big man, why don't you grow up and act like one?
Seems like a d*ck move on Danzigs part. Promoter did everything in his power to make him happy,so the show could go on. Glen got huge in the early 90's with the crosser hit "Mother". Heavy rotation on MTV sold him alot of records,so in a way,he was bigger than Slayer at one point. Ive seen him three times,he's always put on a great performance. I wouldnt mind seeing him again ,play this Danzig/Misfits set. Glen needs a reality check,remind himself who really pays his bills;his fans!

I was there.. very dissapointing. but not surprising. *IF* he haad jsut showed upon time and not been a whiny little bi***H it would have been a cool show. They did costume changes for each phase of music. I give him credits for the idea... but he totally failed on the delivery. TONIGHT THE DAMNED!

Danzig, Your a C*NT!!! Seriously, you suck!!! Your Music sucks! Your voice sucks! You somehow think that if you actually were a good musician, that you deserve to be treated like some kind of god or something? There are a lot of great musicians out there with better bands that are more popular and they still manage to retain a level of class. Glen Danzig, you have no class. I hope everyone reads this ridiculous BS and never buys another one of your albums or tries to book your stupid ass.
I'm not sticking up for Danzig. He showed his cards to me in '05 and I've never been the fan I used to be, but the fact that this article has been viewed over 8,600 times says something about his popularity. Also, bad news is better than no news, if you catch my drift. Anything less than a full-scale Misfits reunion probably won't get me out to a Danzig show from now on.
What a premadonnda p***y! hahahaha going from "ooo hardcore punk with scary make-up!" to a whinny little p***y... I can't believe this bullsh**, this douche gets paid and has a record deal with this sh**ty attitude, yet other bands are out there slaving and paying their dues in this society. People like this should just be treated like Limp Jizzcult, throw bottles at him and boo him offstage hahaha
NP: Oh Jeez... - Buckethead

Danzig fans angry after a "Classic Songs By The Misfits" show that included 0 Misfits song, and hardly any classic Danzig either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp3pIumHmIk
interview with fans from that show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWoOfVY4wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz6U5kyIRjo

I totally disagree with everything that he pulled, and I'm not going to defend that idiocy. I do how every take offense to someone spewing nonsense about how good The Misfits were back in the day. The left a mark on music. i don't care for anyone besides Doyle from back then, but i still appreciate everything they put out. So stop being nearsighted in saying they sh** or whatever, because your being as idiotic as this f***... BTW SLAYER!!! you f***ing wrong about that Danzig... you don't even come close to comparing to them by yourself.
^^^^
Some common sense. I find it odd that the promoter ran to the internet to "blog" about what happened, and the first thing that the explanation of events starts with is a reference to kitty litter.....very professional for someone trying to show how unprofessional Danzig is. There are two sides to every story, and since concert promoters are usually huge egomaniacs themselves I would like to get a second hand account from the Murder City Devils or some other band/party not associated with the Danzig camp or the promoter's group before I give out the title of douchebag. My guess would be they BOTH were unprofessional, but again I will wait to judge.

Ha! Slayer is probably the second biggest metal band in the world, only behind Metallica. Danzig is a f***in prissy little b****, he thinks he deserves the treatment of an A+ musician, and he's always been a B- musician at best. He was just p***ed because they weren't treating him like a king. He's crazy if he thinks he's bigger than Slayer.
I love Danzigs music,his attitude and behaviour,not so much. And all the folks hollering that Slayers bigger,probably werent around in the mid to late 90's. Slayer struggled to fill large clubs with Fear Factory opening. Slayer,Megadeth,Anthrax,etc have only gotten bigger in the last five years or so,probably due to the guitar hero phenomona. Its great theyve gotten bigger,but i dont know why this becomes a Slayer vs Danzig debate. Yea,Danzigs a delusional d*ck,we all know that,but i still love the music he's created.
Hey 46, thanks for typing my name wherever you please and then acting like I'm the basement-living obsessive. Hey, since you're out here spreading my name around, why don't you join my fan club? I need good street teamers. And you sound like you have experience working the street.

Danzig is not Slayer.
ONLY SLAYER IS SLAYER
I can understand being sick and not wanting to perform, but you perform anyway, because that is what you do.
Slayer would have played, and they would have destroyed.
Glenn is having a hard time understanding that he's a punchline.

Anyone who went to see this loser deserves to be disappointed. Glen has always showed that he doesn't care about his fans and only uses them to feed his ego. As big as Slayer, maybe 15 years ago, but Slayer has always put on a good show no matter what and respects its fame. If I were the Misfits Id dump Danzig again.

I agree with Bruno on comment #55.
I have heard that Graham Kelly (the promoter of FFFfest) is also very unprofessional and difficult to work with. And the comments about kitty litter and bald spots really have nothing to do with what happened.
I'm not saying that Danzig didn't do anything wrong, but I would like to hear another side of the story.
Also, on a side note, if Austin can claim to be the "live music capital of the world" then why on earth is there a 10pm sound curfew?
aah f*** this cry baby his music nowadays not so good anyway
remember couple of years ago at a festival in holland dynamo open air same thing but there he got a beating from the stage crew and went running to his mother
in holland nobody wants to go to his shows any more he is done

Danzig is a d***head. I don't know why this move is a surprise to anyone.
Still, though, Deth Red Sabaoth was a great album.
One of the best come back albums I've ever heard.
One of the best of his career, really.
To all of you scumbag elitists, before you fire off at me: f*** your opinion.

Rex_84
Oh, I get it.
Go to the dictionary,look up narcissist and you'll find his picture. Look at the artwork Simon Bisley does for him. The guy sees himself as some larger than life invincible,big,demonic tough guy with no bald spot. Videos and photographs so far depicted reality. He's short, going bald, he's not that invincible(NSK) he falls off the stage, he lost his looks . For us mere mortals it's nothing to laugh at. For a Godlike creature like him it's all too much to bear so no pictures. What I advise people at his shows to do is snap away during the encore.
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