Danzig - Interview MTV “Headbangers Ball“ 1994
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00:00In release news Danzig has finally lined up a European release date for his US
00:06hit single Mother. The 1994 live version of this 1988 song will be issued on the
00:1418th of April. We caught up with Glenn Danzig in his Los Angeles home to talk
00:19about the surprise success of Mother second time around and loads of other
00:24things. For so many years people were scared to play our stuff and all of a
00:29sudden they're saying oh it's like much ado about nothing. It's like you know gee
00:32this isn't that scary.
00:39I remember when I wrote Mother I said this is the song I always wanted to
00:42write it's powerful it's like you know it's incredible and I guess maybe at the
00:47time it was just a little too powerful and too incredible because it scared a
00:53lot of people. You know at that time the PMRC was in full swing and it was
00:56basically what that was about.
01:08The throw of a Demon's Sweat Live of the four live songs were recorded at Irvine
01:12Meadows last year or two years ago on the How the Gods Killed Tour. We played
01:17in front of 13,000 plus people and a lot of the bands that do get airplay and
01:23were the big bands at the time couldn't sell that place out. We oversold that
01:29place. That was kind of a big middle finger to everybody. You get some band
01:34who just wrote Satan, Satan, kill, kill, murder, murder okay. Sure you know
01:39Kitty's gonna love that okay but you know is there anything there? No there's
01:45nothing there. So what I'd rather do is scratch the surface and delve into it
01:50you know and you know let people decide for themselves.
01:55Speaking of the forces of evil Glenn Banzig was sleeping peacefully at home
01:58in Los Angeles last month when the big LA earthquake hit. So we had him give us
02:02a tour of the devastation. When the earthquake hit basically I was sleeping
02:06and I got woken up when a bunch of dressers fell on my head. Yeah cut my
02:10nose and my legs have got all screwed up and anyway I just rode it out but the
02:17house was going like a funhouse like this and my house rocked back three
02:22inches away from its foundation and I had to have it all shored up. Here's some
02:27of the damage from the earthquake. This is my weight room. You can pan but my
02:31stained-glass windows came off which wasn't too cool. I've never been through
02:36anything like that in my life. I've been shot at, stabbed, you name it and it wasn't so
02:41much the earthquake it's the afterwards. It's like you know you can't really do
02:46anything to control nature. Nature does what it wants. This is another thing I
02:51kind of write about where you know you can try and control the world but you
02:54really can't. And Danzig is currently working on a new studio album which will
03:00be released in the summer to coincide with a major headlining tour of Europe.
03:05But for tonight we