Episode #65 | 10.27.20
The Misfits: Special Halloween Episode, Robbing Graves, Night of the Living Dead and the Teengagers from Mars
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In this episode
The Misfits were truly unique. Scary. Violent. Angry. Nihilistic. These words can easily describe not only their music but also the band as people. Particularly frontman, Glenn Danzig. Rumored to have been arrested for grave robbery, locked up abroad and inciting riots here in the States, the Misfits blazed a path of annihilation trading on fictional B-movie and scandal rag imagery to create one of the most enduring cult followings of all time and combating the very real sense of alienation that fueled Glenn Danzig’s creativity and violent behavior.
Sources
This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits, by James Greene Jr.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Misfits - Diffuser
The A-Z of the Misfts - Louder
Danzig on Getting the Band (the Misfits) Back Together. Briefly. - New York Times
Skateboarding in 1965: Americans Fall for Sidewalk Surfing - Groovy History
Official Misfits Bio - Misfits.com
Misfits: the story behind Static Age - Louder
Misfits’ Glenn Danzig: “We Were Angrier, We Were Faster, We Were Louder” - Kerrang!
The Misfits go looking for Marie Laveau, 1982 - Collinsport Historical Society
TIL in 1982, the horror punk band The Misfits were arrested in New Orleans… - Reddit
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak