Friday, October 17, 2014

The Misfits and why Jerry Only's an asshole

Before the misfits became the worst misfits cover band to ever exist they were one of the greatest punk rock bands to ever exist. Originally formed by Glen Danzig the Misfits reinvented the punk genre in the 70's through their use of dark lyrics a fast paced tempo and and the traditional " I dont give a fuck attitude" as most well seen in the song last caress Their style would later became the standard for later punk rock bands such as Elvis Hitler and Charles Bronson. The style of the band began to change in the 80's as you can hear on the album Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood shortly after The album Glen left the band to persue a new music project that would later become Danzig the band. Glen left the band to Jerry (an act that he should regret for the rest of his life) Jerry's first plan of action was to resell all of the Misfits early music effectively cutting Danzig out of the monetary loop his next action was to then use the songs Glen had previously written and tour while failing miserably to portray Glens voice. Only  then did the one smart move he had made in music by finding Michale Graves a 19 year old kid that would bring the band into a completely new era of music. Michale wrote music that i believe became the basis for 90' goth rock and the dark modern music such as Ryan Adams Gimmie Something Good that seems to be heavily influenced by Michale Grave's style. However Jerry not wanting to lose a single shred of the limelight kicked Michale out of the band after only 2 albums even though they are recorded as 2 of the best albums the misfits had ever created.Only then began to tour singing covers of both michale and Glens's music as his own before creating two of the worst albums I have heard in my life Only has single-handedly destroyed the Misfits image and musical credibility. Even Jerry's own brother Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein would rather play misfits sets with Glen Danzig then play a song with his brother. Jerry Only now performs as the misfits with two of his friends that have no right to call themselves members of the Fiend Club performing Jerry's terrible covers of both Glen and Michale's songs as well as his own ear deafeningly horrendous original music.While selling merchandise he did not create he has somehow managed to convince people to see what is now an old man play terrible music

2 comments:

  1. Not to mention, Michale Graves opened for Danzig a later after the misfits, and and has been rumored that him and Glenn Danzig get along fine. So for years Danzig was painted as the asshole that wouldn't do the reunion, it's become pretty obvious that Jerry Only, after winning the court case, (that was B.S. let's face it- when you really only wrote 4 songs out of 98 songs and you got rights to the additional 94 songs is horseshit or what we call the "Lottery" winnings in song writing royalties.) Jerry Only, is the issue. Interviews calling Danzig the son of satan, that's why he won't reform, or Michael Graves disrespects the fans, no...Graves actually went on to create many great solo albums, and is fan approachable, I even did buttons and stickers for the guy, Jerry Only told me I needed to speak with his Agent...So Yeah, Jerry Only....is a piece of shit that clinges to christianity when it suits him and clinges to satan if that suites him, and then clinges to whatever he can if it in fact gives him a payday...it sucks that he drug Marky Ramone and Dez Cadena down with him, which you can see many Marky interviews that showed he was hornswoggled by Jerry Only. This Article is 100%, and it's sad, it helped find a great talent in Michale Graves, but has destroyed any place in rock and roll for the Misfits....with the after math of garbage Only portraits and sells as the Misfits.

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  2. Glenn still retains the copyrights to all Misfits songs 1977-1983, because he wrotevthem. Jerry Only gained the right to perform/record under The Misfits name in a 1994 out of court settlement; a condition of that was the selling of all Misfits 77-83 master tapes to Caroline Records, Glenn owned these tapes and was paid well for them although Jerry, Doyle, Robot and Franche did pretty good too. Danzig did not "leave" the band he ended them on October 29th, 1983; Jerry came up with the idea to reform (after wrangling the name from Glenn) after his quasi-christian band. kryst the Conqueror failed, 1992.

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