[kj] OT: Glenn Danzig at Fun Fun Fun Fest

fluw fluwdot at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 15 14:39:36 EST 2009


The little man is a clown, I find it pathetic that people pay money and
spend valuable time in their lives to witness anything he does.



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Subject: [kj] OT: Glenn Danzig at Fun Fun Fun Fest



Didn't see Danzig in person - me go outside? pshaw - but reading second

hand reviews has been funny, as in the Austin Chronicle.



You know how Texas has technically been having a drought year? All lake

levels, etc., are lower than average. Way lower. When Danzig took the

stage it began pouring. According to the Austin Chronicle, Danzig began

by saying something like, "I hear ya'll in Texas have been having a

drought this year. So I thought I'd bring you guys some rain." Thank

you, Glenn danzig!



Then he also dedicated his set to Randy "Biscuit" Turner. Turner was the

founder and singer of old Austin hardcore band Big Boys. He was openly,

flamingly gay, like so many of the singers and founders of the classic

80s Austin, TX, hardcore bands (The Dicks, MDC). Turner died a couple of

years ago from untreated stomach or pancreatic cancer IIRC - he just

ignored it, and it cost him. Anyway, one of Big Boys' songs was named

"Fun Fun Fun," so this annual fest is sort of named in Randy Biscuit

Turner's honor. Big Boys played happy, up tempo ska and also fast punk,

even some proto-funk, Red Hot Chili Peppers type stuff that in 1981 was

original and whose originality is hard to appreciate nowadays.



So here comes Danzig, swaggering on stage, all 5' 2" of him, a guy who

used to say "fag" and "that's gay" a lot in interviews when asked about

other bands. And he says his set is dedicated to "my friend Randy

Biscuit Turner." Turner was flaming. Pink scarves, flamboyant, etc.

Something about that was and is hilarious.



To top it all off: The last time Danzig played Austin was 1995, and

opening for him? Two bands called Korn and Marilyn Manson.



Danzig did not play any pre-1988 songs. But I also do not believe he

played anything off his absolutely awful 1996 "industrial metal"

_Blackacidevil_ LP, which has the immortal opening line, "GIRL I'M GONNA

MAKE YOU CUM!!!" One of the worst lyrics ever, and it starts the LP off.



--Oliver

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