Samhain reunion (again)

XHonusWagnerX - 6-24-2011 at 12:24 PM

On Friday, October 7, at Chicago's Congress Theater, a Danzig "Legacy" performance will be taking place as part of Riot Fest 2011. At the show, Glenn Danzig will reunite for a performance with members of his post-Misfits band Samhain, and he'll also be doing an onstage reunion with his Misfits bandmate Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein. A Danzig set is also part of the night. In a statement, Riot Fest founder Michael Petryshyn said:

“Everyone in music has a band or a musician that changed them. For me, it is Glenn Danzig. I am in music because of Danzig, Samhain and The Misfits. I remember being a 10-year-old when my friend handed me Danzig, and it blew me away. It was different…it was the first album for me, now looking back, where form matched content. Soon after, I found this entire wealth of music he wrote before 1988 and I became an even bigger fan. Musically, it opened my world to punk, metal and hardcore,” “To have Glenn perform his solo works, to go on stage with Samhain for a set and, lastly, to play Misfits songs with Doyle will always be the one show I remember.”

Riot Fest tickets are on sale this morning at 11 a.m. EST. Other headliners include Weezer, the Descendents and Social Distortion.

Mark Lind - 6-24-2011 at 01:43 PM

I wonder if it will be half as bad or twice as bad as the last time.

gavin - 6-24-2011 at 03:31 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Lind

I wonder if it will be half as bad or twice as bad as the last time.

if there was a like button on this board like facebook, i would click it twice for this comment

Jason the Magnificent - 6-24-2011 at 03:58 PM

Looks like a BS lineup except Youth of Today.

MikeFromInhuman - 6-24-2011 at 06:26 PM

The SAMHAIN reunion show in 1999 in Philly was awesome!
I hope he does this in NY or NJ eventually.

clevohardcore - 6-25-2011 at 09:53 AM

NOt a SAMHAIN fan but DANZIG and MISFITS are the shit.

Jason the Magnificent - 6-25-2011 at 10:42 AM

$45 tickets lol....and after the promoter makes all the opening bands bid/pay for their spots. Dudes rolling in bad reunion gold.

necrobutcher - 10-30-2011 at 03:22 AM

I went to the NYC show for this tonight. I will give credit, Danzig busted his ass playing this.

They started with about 6 Danzig songs with the giant skull banner in the background. After that, they dropped the Danzig skull to reveal a Samhain banner with the art from November Coming Fire and they did 6 or 7 Samhain songs.

After that, another banner change for a huge blacklight Crimson Ghost. Danzig and Doyle played Misfits songs for a while before they went back to the Danzig setup, played a few more.

For an encore, we got Skulls.

Oddly enough, one of the openers was Corrosion of Conformity.

CR83 - 10-30-2011 at 10:31 AM

Quote: Originally posted by necrobutcher

I went to the NYC show for this tonight. I will give credit, Danzig busted his ass playing this.

They started with about 6 Danzig songs with the giant skull banner in the background. After that, they dropped the Danzig skull to reveal a Samhain banner with the art from November Coming Fire and they did 6 or 7 Samhain songs.

After that, another banner change for a huge blacklight Crimson Ghost. Danzig and Doyle played Misfits songs for a while before they went back to the Danzig setup, played a few more.

For an encore, we got Skulls.

Oddly enough, one of the openers was Corrosion of Conformity.

To me that sounds really cool and I'd like to have seen it. One thing that always gets me is why go back to Danzig songs? People are there for the Samhain/Misfts stuff.

Mark Lind - 10-30-2011 at 01:23 PM

It was awesome.

necrobutcher - 10-30-2011 at 02:31 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Lind

It was awesome.

I was wondering that too. Even more, he insisted on playing some of his new stuff which left me and the people I went with not even sure of the song names.

Mark Lind - 10-30-2011 at 03:28 PM

He opened with the first song off Circle of Snakes and then did the single from his new album. Aside from those two he didn't do anything post-Danzig IV. My one complaint is that he should have come back from the Misfits set and did Am I Demon, Long Way Back from Hell and Snakes of Christ to keep the energy going. But it's his show and he picks the songs.

Mark Lind - 10-30-2011 at 03:55 PM

Here's the set from last night:

Overture of the Rebel Angels
SkinCarver
Hammer of the Gods
Rebel Spirits ** I don't know what record this one is from.
Twist of Cain
Her Black Wings
Devil's Plaything
How the Gods Kill
Dirty Black Summer
It's Coming Down

Samhain
Initium / Samhain
All Murder, All Guts, All Fun
Horror Biz
Unholy Passion
Let the Day Begin
To Walk the Night
Mother of Mercy

Misfits:
Death Comes Ripping
Vampira
Bullet
I Turned Into A Martian
Night of the Living Dead
Halloween
Astro Zombies
Last Caress

Encore:
Bringer of Death
Not of This World
Mother

Encore 2:
Skulls

BDx13 - 10-31-2011 at 12:23 AM

damn, mark, you went to nyc for that?

XHonusWagnerX - 10-31-2011 at 06:55 AM

Quote: Originally posted by BDx13

damn, mark, you went to nyc for that?

I wish I would have gone too.

Mark - was Tank just in awe the whole night??

Mark Lind - 10-31-2011 at 06:09 PM

I saw Tank on the floor before the show started but lost sight of him once it started. I assume he spent the majority of the night in the bathroom jacking off. Mark Unseen was sitting about 3 rows in front of me and he was pretty reserved.

Mark Lind - 10-31-2011 at 06:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BDx13

damn, mark, you went to nyc for that?

Yeah. My buddy, Bob, is an insane Danzig fan so I went partly so he could see it and partly cuz I missed it when he did the Misfits set last time he came to Boston.

Discipline - 10-31-2011 at 06:13 PM

Sounds like a great show.