MSIG Band Profiles | Muscular Skeletons Into Gore

Please Note: This Is Originally from 1997, so it is wayyyy out of date...

SAMHAIN, FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT IN THE KNOW, WAS GLENN DANZIG'S NEW BAND AFTER HIS FIRST BAND THE MISFITS BROKE UP. I'M SURE YOU WOULD KNOW THAT BY NOW, BECAUSE I BET YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE WASTING YOUR TIME READING THIS IF YOU DIDN'T!! WELL ANYWAY, THESE ARE PICS I SHOT WITH MY KODAK DISC CAMERA BACK IN THE SPRING OF 1986 (REMEMBER THOSE PIECE OF CRAP CAMERAS?????? THANK GOD IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN COMPACTS). THE PICTURES QUALITY IS NOT THAT GREAT SINCE I DIDN'T TAKE VERY GOOD CARE OF THE ORIGINALS AND THE NEGATIVES ARE SHOT TO ALL HELL.....) BUT FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH, HERE ARE THE PICTURES I SHOT OF THEM THIRTEEN YEARS AGO. IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY. THESE PICTURES ARE FROM APRIL, 1986 AT THE METRO IN CHICAGO, IL.

SO FOR THOSE WHO WISH THEY COULD HAVE SEEN THEM...

THESE NEXT THREE PICS ARE FROM THE NOVEMBER FIRST OR SECOND, AT THE METRO IN CHICAGO, IL IN THE FALL OF 1985. THEY PLAYED MOSTLY MISFITS TUNES AT THIS SHOW, WHICH WAS O.K. BY ME. SAMHAIN ALSO PLAYED WITH THE MINUTEMEN WHO PLAYED BEFORE THEM. IT WAS A WEIRD SHOW BECAUSE AS SOON AS THE MINUTEMEN WHERE DONE PLAYING THE MOSTLY COLLEGE TYPE CROWD LEFT AND ONLY PEOPLE LEFT, WERE DRESSED IN BLACK.. IT WAS A SUNDAY NIGHT, IN THE WINTER AND I'M SURE THAT WAS THE ONLY REASON THEY LEFT EARLY.......I'M NOT COMPLAINING BUT, I DIGRESS!

THE PLACE WAS SPARSE BYE NOW AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF ROOM TO GO CRAZY. THE SONGS I REMEMBER THEM PLAYING THE MOST, WERE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER; SAMHAIN, DIE DIE MY DARLING, WOLFSBLOOD, DEMONAMANIA, BLOODFEAST. IT WAS A NICE MIX AF NEW DANZIG MATERIAL WITH THE OLD STAPLES OF MISIFTS.

WELL HERE THEY ARE THE THREE PICS THAT TURNED OUT ( I DIDN'T HAVE MONEY AT THE TIME BECAUSE I MYSELF WAS ALSO A COLLEGE STUDENT) SO I COULDN'T AFFORD NEW ROLL OF DISC FILM. I WAS ONLY ABLE TO SHOOT ONE SHOT OF DOUG BOON OF THE MINUTEMEN, WHICH WAS A SHAME BECAUSE THREE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS LATER THAT YEAR DOUG, DIED IN A TRAGIC CAR ACCIDENT ON HIS WAY TO VISIT HIS PARENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS, . SO I BELEIVE IT WAS HIS LAST CHICAGO PERFORMANCE. THE MINUTEMEN ALSO ROCKED THAT NIGHT. I'M SURE THEY WOULD ALSO BE HUGE RIGHT NOW IF HE WAS STILL ALIVE TODAY.

AND FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE THEM IT IS RUMORED THAT THEY ARE REGROUPING WITH MOSTLY ORIGINAL MEMBERS! WITH GLENN DANZIG ON VOCALS, LONDON MAY ON DRUMS, DAMIEN ON GUITAR AND STEVE ZING ON BASS, ERIE IS NOT IN THE BAND. I ALSO HEARD THAT THEY PLAN ON RELEASING NEW MATERIAL TO SUPPORT THE TOUR! I CAN'T WAIT!

New additions to my collections ! My old girly friend shot these pics with her 35mm at the same show. I uncovered them in my box of wonders that I had stashed from my youth. The box holds lots o goodies to the past. I was happy to find them. I thought they were lost forever. But here they are a new addition to the MSIG collection. Enjoy!

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