The Misfits; the band not the movie....

[zombiehorror]

but I do prefer the fuller sound of vinyl.  Especially with the music that I learned to love from listening to records. 

Oh I gotcha, I've never noticed the difference between vinyl and cd....then again I always listen to my cd's in the bathroom where the sound is always fuller...

[poseablemonster]

Oh I gotcha, I've never noticed the difference between vinyl and cd....then again I always listen to my cd's in the bathroom where the sound is always fuller...

I think CD's tend to be more of a compressed, cleaner sound.  Records seem to have more "space" between the tones.  For guitar players, it's a lot like the difference between tube amps and solid state amps.  Really, just personal preference, I guess.

[BlackLagoon]

Been away from this thread for a little bit, but as of last night there is a slim chance of David Calabrese (Dr. Chud) comming into the studio to jam with my band. He is a close friend of our manager...I've been in "psuedo" contact with him and Salbee from Sardonica.

I heard alot of incredible stories last night that are all Misfits related.

Anyway, very stoked about this...lol his friend asked if when I meet him I would put out my hand and say "dude I heard you were a d*ck" lol. (Chud knows I'm a big fan and I was told he may pour the rockstar routine on, so this is all in good fun)..Chud was my managers best man.

Slowly but surely I'm trying to work my "death metal" self into the NJ Horror/Punk circle.......

More to follow as it unfolds!

[marsattacks666]

Been away from this thread for a little bit, but as of last night there is a slim chance of David Calabrese (Dr. Chud) comming into the studio to jam with my band. He is a close friend of our manager...I've been in "psuedo" contact with him and Salbee from Sardonica.

I heard alot of incredible stories last night that are all Misfits related.

Anyway, very stoked about this...lol his friend asked if when I meet him I would put out my hand and say "dude I heard you were a d*ck" lol. (Chud knows I'm a big fan and I was told he may pour the rockstar routine on, so this is all in good fun)..Chud was my managers best man.

Slowly but surely I'm trying to work my "death metal" self into the NJ Horror/Punk circle.......

More to follow as it unfolds!

Wow. how cool!!!!!

[charp13]

Sorry to be such a Johnny Come Lately, but I enjoyed reading all the history and inside info and personal memories about the Misfits. I also think Earth A.D. was one of the greatest albums ever! However, for some strange reason as I get older, I have been listening to Project 1950. At first it was so garbled and horrible, I bought it on Itunes and felt sick after the first listen. But I kind of like " You belong to me". I'ts ok.  Also, this is probably going to go off topic, but has anyone ever seen THe Independants? They were an opening band I saw at least twice in the 90s. They were very confusing to me, they didn't do covers per se, but they tried to sound Misfit-esque. I think they may have opened for The Queers or Swinging Utters I'm not sure.

[zombiehorror]

Just happened to see that John Grimm had been doing some auctions and low and behold he still had up a pic of the Hyde crew shirt~

Also, this is probably going to go off topic, but has anyone ever seen THe Independants? They were an opening band I saw at least twice in the 90s. They were very confusing to me, they didn't do covers per se, but they tried to sound Misfit-esque. I think they may have opened for The Queers or Swinging Utters I'm not sure.

Your post never came up in my unreads back in March?  Project 1950 isn't all bad; the instruments are great but Jerry is not a singer!  As it so happens I was just checking out some Independents stuff yesterday (Along with a ton of other horror "punk" bands at http://horrormusic.blogspot.com/).  I actually saw them open for The Misfits back in 2001 during the 25th Anniversary tour and loved them.  Really wanted to get their stuff but never did...Gotta check out there version of C is for Cookie.  They also did a killer cover of Mother that night but I don't think they ever recorded/released that.

In other Misfits related news I finally hooked up my dvd recorder so I could transfer our wedding video, after the 12 min. it took to do that I figured what the hell might as well transfer all my old Misfits/Samhain/Danzig vhs boots to dvd!

[marsattacks666]

Just happened to see that John Grimm had been doing some auctions and low and behold he still had up a pic of the Hyde crew shirt~




Your post never came up in my unreads back in March?  Project 1950 isn't all bad; the instruments are great but Jerry is not a singer!  As it so happens I was just checking out some Independents stuff yesterday (Along with a ton of other horror "punk" bands at http://horrormusic.blogspot.com/).  I actually saw them open for The Misfits back in 2001 during the 25th Anniversary tour and loved them.  Really wanted to get their stuff but never did...Gotta check out there version of C is for Cookie.  They also did a killer cover of Mother that night but I don't think they ever recorded/released that.

In other Misfits related news I finally hooked up my dvd recorder so I could transfer our wedding video, after the 12 min. it took to do that I figured what the hell might as well transfer all my old Misfits/Samhain/Danzig vhs boots to dvd!

I agree to that, Project 1950 was decent. But, ONLY can not sing very well. He really should stick to
playing bass......and the DVD that was included was a joke.

                                                                                                p.s., thank goodness for DVD recorders.

[slayergriffith]

Just happened to see that John Grimm had been doing some auctions and low and behold he still had up a pic of the Hyde crew shirt~

Great Shirt!!

[BlackLagoon]

I agree to that, Project 1950 was decent. But, ONLY can not sing very well. He really should stick to
playing bass......and the DVD that was included was a joke.

                                                                                                p.s., thank goodness for DVD recorders.

1950 wasn't bad...I know alot of traditional fans are gonna throw rocks at me, but it had some good tracks and I "understood" it.

Jerry's voice wasn't as bad on that as it was to the tour just prior to it....listining to Jerry sing the Ramone's "Pet Cemetary" live was painful.

Again, it's still not the Misfits the way it was...but his voice has come a long way. I'm actually pleasantly suprised at the Land/Twilight of the Dead tracks.

In better news...I'll be seeing Doyle team up with Danzig again for a Misfits set in NYC...that is gonna kick butt!

[marsattacks666]

1950 wasn't bad...I know alot of traditional fans are gonna throw rocks at me, but it had some good tracks and I "understood" it.

Jerry's voice wasn't as bad on that as it was to the tour just prior to it....listining to Jerry sing the Ramone's "Pet Cemetary" live was painful.

Again, it's still not the Misfits the way it was...but his voice has come a long way. I'm actually pleasantly suprised at the Land/Twilight of the Dead tracks.

In better news...I'll be seeing Doyle team up with Danzig again for a Misfits set in NYC...that is gonna kick butt!

LUCKY!!!!!!

[monster_island]

In better news...I'll be seeing Doyle team up with Danzig again for a Misfits set in NYC...that is gonna kick butt!

WHEN?!?!?!?!???

[CULT of FRANKENSTEIN]

MISFITS rule!!! It's all about Static Age.

[monster_island]

just saw Danzig and Gorgeous Frankenstein last night in Boston and it was greeeaaaat !! ... very impressed by Gorgeous Frankenstein ... Alex Story's a cool mofo and he will be doing vocals on a couple tracks for us when we record in July
... i had some hope that there would be some Misfits tunes played but no deal

here he is with Cancerslug
Hateseeker - Cancerslug: Live at Judge Crater's

[zombiehorror]

Haven't really followed any Misfits news since....oh I dunno..Famous Monsters, but it seems they (whatever the current line-up is) are set to release an album sometime this year.

From Blabbermouth.net~

On the forthcoming MISFITS album, "The Devil's Rain":

Jerry Only: "It is, in my opinion, probably on the more classic-sounding MISFITS records. It has a little bit of everything in it. Dez [Cadena, guitar] wrote a couple of songs [where] the timing is off the map — [they're] super-thrash; we wrote a song called 'Dark Shadows' that is hopefully gonna be in Johnny Depp's film. We're submitting it to [director] Tim Burton. We've sent stuff to Tim before. When he did 'Mars Attacks', we sent him the 'Mars Attacks' song off the Geffen record and he was already done editing and he sent back a nice letter saying he liked it. And then we sent him the 'Fobidden Zone' for 'Planet of The Apes', which he left that whole part out of 'Planet Of The Apes', so the thing was there was no 'Forbidden Zone'. So this is our third shot at bringing something in. It's a ballad, and it's a really strong ballad. And that's kind of my focus now — trying to hit hit songs out of the park, do something that's just gonna be huge from a commercial standpoint and the media, and just totally up our game writing-wise. We recorded it in Colorado with Ed Stasium, who did all the RAMONES stuff. Ed is a magician; he has all kinds of fantastic backing vocals. My daughter does one of them, actually, on one of the songs — it's about Juarez, Mexico where all the girls have been missing; it's called 'Where Did They Go?' We have a song called 'Sleepwalking', which is kind of like a chain-gang kind of thing, where we just keep building it and building it and building it, which is kind of rare; usually, we come out and do a song that 's got a structure to it — this is wind; it just builds itself up. We've got a song called 'The Monkey's Paw'. 'The Monkey's Paw' is kind of the love song of someone who wants to bring back their deceased lover from the dead. 'Land Of The Dead', which we put out with [former drummer] Robo, we re-did that; that's on there. And 'The Devil's Rain' itself is, in my opinion, a real masterpiece. It was recorded in Colorado where we took all the rain and the thunder and built it into the song, so all the sound effects were produced in Colorado. And the last song, which is called 'The Death Ray', when we first did it, we used 'War Of The Worlds', we used 'Star Wars' sounds, and we called Paramount [studios] and they just wouldn't get off their ass and do anything, so we actually went out and recreated all the sounds. The 'War Of The Worlds' raygun is Ed with a bottleneck thing playing guitar with all this reverb. Those lightsavers you hear crashing are me and my son banging rocks off a metal bleacher out by the football field. And he has this other thing that's like the 'Jingle Bells' that he slowed down and it sounds like when the Martian ships are moving down the road. So that's how our album ends — our album ends with a 'War Of The Worlds' battle scene between humans and Martians, and it kind of covers everything."

On "The Devil's Rain" cover artwork, which being created by Marvel Zombies cover artist Arthur Suydam (who also worked on MISFITS' 2009 single, "Land Of The Dead"):

"'The Devil's Rain', the concept is that a bunch of people sold their souls to the devil and 300 years later, they've come to collect them. And the way they are collected is through the devil's rain — the devil's rain melts them. So the cover is basically going to be a melt job of MISFITS being stuck in the devil's rain."

~He only mentions 7 songs here but I would assume there are quite a few more on this album?!  There are also two 11min video clips up from Jerry Only interview http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=151540 but I didn't bother to watch them.

I had read a rather long post awhile back (Hell I think it was last spring?!) that was reposted from a Nascar forum (Of all things?) where a guy mentioned working with The Misfits and Ed Stasium on new material.  He seemed really enthused about the songs [but didn't seem like a total fanboy over it all!] and was especially psyched about working with Ed Stasium (Who let him hear tracks from Joey Ramone's as of yet released 2nd album....Lucky bastard!).  I'll probably give the Misfits new stuff a listen but I don't expect to be running out and buying it day of release....if I buy it at all!

[cereal7]

So who is excited for the new Devil's Rain cd with Only frontmaning on the whole cd? Land of the Dead LP wasn't to bad but we'll see what land of the dead  sounds like re-recorded for cd. I'm hoping for some good songs i just wish Graves was fronting if Danzig isn't. I have seen Misfits live two times with Only as frontman and it was really good so fingers crossed.