[kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

Yes, I agree. You know I can't really listen to them. My memory stays in  
1983 when I last saw them with The Vandals and Black Flag which had ever singer  
come out for the "Everything went black " album. Best show I have seen em'  
play!
 
 
That is another thing. The whole Metal scene wearing their shirts and what  
not because of Metallica. That is where it really got ruined!
 
~LB
 
In a message dated 3/26/2007 6:43:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net writes:

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








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