[kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube

[Leigh Newton]

If it weren't for Metallica, I wouldn't have found out about the Misfits as early as I did. The very same can be said for Killing Joke. So there you go. Thank you, Metallica.

Leigh


----- Original Message ----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:43:31 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube


For me there are no Misfits past 1983.... everything else is just a 
taint on their legacy and should have never been. It seems like a big 
cartoon-y joke now when originally it was actually a pretty novel 
approach for a very grassroots, shunned, despised band that genuinely 
frightened normal people; what they lacked in musicianship (though what 
Glenn Danzig never lacked in voice), they made up for with shtick and 
stage presence, and they did practice the DIY ethic, Glenn 
screenprinting all the shit himself in his parents' basement, inventing 
the new hairstyles, influencing/creating horror punk and als influencing 
psychobilly (now so much of which is laughable), establishing their 
underground fiend club, all kinds of cool stuff for a very underground 
group that was lucky to have attracted 75 people to a show until they 
broke up.

Now people speak as if they were these big guys like KISS< but hardly 
anyone knew about them. They've been dredged up into prominence and 
retrospectively folks seem to think they were larger than they are, only 
because folks like Metallica came along afterwards and relentlessly 
namedropped them, along with other metal bands, when the Misfits were 
never metal.


-Oliver


LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

> You know the Misfits are a bit overrated now with that Crimson Ghost 

> Skull. I see it everywhere and some people wear it because they have 

> no clue it is the band's logo thingy. I saw them abut 3 or 4 times 

> back in 1982/1983 and they were awesome live! I have seen the 

> new Misfits about 2  times and they were good musically. Has for them 

> singing for them forget it! Danzig well always be the one and only. 

> You could only get away with that in a band like Black Flag.

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