Group Misfits Biography

Chapter 2 Tineegers from Mars is one of the main values ​​of MISFITS is the sound of a struggle ... [This is a sound of how] people create art in the midst of fairness. The singer borrowed this name from the last film with the participation of the Hollywood star, Marilyn Monroe. Given the thorny path on which the group later steps, he made a suitable choice.

The film “Restless”, shot in the year director John Houston, was always known to the public not only in the story of sultry love in the desert, which the viewer sees on the screen, but also in the long -suffering process of its creation. Due to drug and alcohol dependencies, Monroe was in such a terrible state that at least once the shooting had to be interrupted. As a result, for her, as well as for her partner in the film and the drinking company Montgomery Clift, a permanent doctor was hired.

Houston himself regularly consumed alcohol when he sat in the directorial chair of the “restless”: sometimes he fell asleep during the filming of the scenes, sometimes he lost the masses of the film budget of the budget. Yes, and the almost forty -degree scorching heat in the desert of Nevada also did not play in the hands of an elderly star. Clark Gabel barely survived the shooting of the “restless”, and on November 4, the day after their completion, he had acute coronary thrombosis.

After eleven days, the legendary actor died in the hospital. Against the backdrop of this difficult situation, Monroe's marriage with the screenwriter “restless” Arthur Miller cracked: the couple divorced right in front of the premiere of the film in February. Next summer, Monroe herself died of drug overdose at home in Los Angeles. This team boasted the participation in it of the future soloist and bassist of the Moby Grapha Graph, Bob Mosley, and in addition, the musicians gained sufficient popularity to act on the warm -up of The Rolling Stones during their first tour in the United States.

Unfortunately, the raid arranged in the year with the aim of withdrawing LSD from musicians was so tarnished so much the reputation of the Houston Misfits that the team was forced to change its name to Lost and Found. Manny Martinez was invited to the new group Proostitutes. It was him from the first composition of Misfits, which also included Basist Diane Dipyazza and a mysterious guitarist, known as Jimmy Battle, Glenn will subsequently leave in the group.

Martinez, whose style of playing more resembled jazz improvisations of the Big-Bend-Basman of the X Jin Krupa than the manner of Tommy Ramon, provided MISFITS for rehearsals by the garage of his parents, whose geographical position helped the group to find their permanent bassist and the second most importantly charismatic leader. Sometimes I heard them play and all that, but did not pay much attention to it.

” Kayafa, whom family members and friends called Jerry, was born on April 21. He was the eldest of the three brothers who lived with his mother and father-mechanic on the southern outskirts of Lodi on Tikhoy Grove Street. Their father, Jerry Sr., became famous for founding the production company Congruent Machine, which created the popular Proedge mock knife, similar to the X-Acto brand.

Jerry himself, a big fan of David Bowie and Ramones, was also looking for himself in music. He asked for Christmas to Bas Gitar, listening to the wise advice of a classmate, who noticed that it was easier to play on a four-string bass than on a six-string guitar Guitar Jerry received in February as a belated gift, but could not immediately find the tool for use. Curiosity prevailed over the newly -made rocker when he began to meet with a girl who lived next door to Manny Martinez; One fine day, Jerry decided to go to the garage to Martinez, where the drummer and Glenn, bent over the electronic piano, rehearsed their numbers.

The sociable Kayafa, who played in high school in American football and called his classmates the most popular, quickly found a common language with a gnome on the basis of the heyday of punk rock. They both love British punk groups who have not yet declared themselves in the United States. Among them were The Damned, whose full -time -82 “New Rose” and “Neat Neat Neat” praised their violent behavior; The Adverts, which were distinguished by impulsive teenage restlessness, which Misfits themselves will soon be reproduced; Generation X, whose vocalist Billy Idol attracted the listeners with voice modulations, joyfully letting everyone understand that the sea is knee -deep; And, of course, the Sex Pistols, the most sensational group of the British wave of punk rock is an ardent, bright, always threatening public order.

Glenn considered that the sociable and disposable Kayaf would fit well into the ranks of Misfits, and invited him to the group. Their trio began to rehearse regularly, giving the real shape to those powerful songs that Glenn's head turned in.The performance took place on April 18, on the same evening, when US President Jimmy Carter turned to the country and outlined his plan of ten points to protect the environment in order to reduce the growing dependence on natural resources, this preceded the notorious speech of the “crisis of trust” uttered by a crankcase in the year.

Even the same evening there was a sunny eclipse. However, Glenna, whose eyes did not escape anything, was more concerned with the outfit of his bassist, who chose the group in public for the debut performance. Ancalone was outraged by the screaming platforms with an open toe and pants embroidered with sparkles, which was put on by a fan of Glam Jerry, and they were so outraged that the soloist almost canceled the performance.

He did not want their group to be dumped into one pile with endless imitators of the New York Dolls, which at that time filled the punk scene Manhattan. However, at the last moment, Glenn softened, went on stage with Jerry and wrote off this case for misunderstanding when choosing an image in which Misfits wanted to appear. In the early years, Jerry was often a brighter representative of the counterculture than Glenn, who initially preferred to wear a soft brown leather jacket over an unbuttoned shirt, and his whole image emphasized the cosmatian mane, falling slightly below the ears; In this form, he looked like an ordinary street hooligan from New Jersey.

But in some ways, Kayaf was more mundane than his group comrade: immediately after graduating from Jerry’s school, he worked twelve-hour shifts in the mechanical workshop of his father in the city of Paterson. Later, Kayafa recalled that exhausting lifestyle: he spent the whole night on Manhattan, and then rode immediately to Paterson, washed off the punk-rock makeup in the staff toilet, and for the whole day got up to the machine.

The song is written in the form of a stream of consciousness and with its rhythm resembles a terrifying, feverish nightmare of the poet-bonnic 87 “Permanate your face into darkness, Harkai with blood, when you coughing a cold, cold, cold cough” against the backdrop of a strange, incessant bobming of a synthesizer and stuttering drums. Glenn’s strong vocals cannot be confused with anything; When he holds out the notes, they triumphantly rise above the rest of Lowe 88 by noise.

This two -minute composition has a rarefied construction at the beginning and is gaining momentum with such intensity that by the end the listener feels herself wrapped in a moist blanket from the chords of electric piano and jazz -like sounds of shock, characteristic of the genre of Misfits beat one chord, following the drums of the mannie, dripping the described by the Koshmar.

Directly in the head until the song breaks sharply, which is emphasized by a barely audible ringing of a plate through a second pause. In a less intricate song from the back of the single - “she” - with the whole topical situation, the scandal with the abduction of Patti Herst is retold, this unbridled and producing strong effect is the song draws a portrait of a girl who loved to “sin”, but does not judge the “dad’s daughter” with a “machine gun in my hands”.

The composition even more sexualizes the criminal story already overgrown with sensational details through Jerry's whining bass and pure emotional shouts of Glenn during the chorus. There is so much energy in his voice that on the record you can hear how he almost achieved the effect of distortion with his singing; Fortunately, the frequencies withstood this test, and one of Glenn's best performances remained intact.

On the back, Glenn accidentally made a mistake in writing the surname Jerry, calling him “high”. In response, the bassist demanded that he be called "Jerry, just Jerry 91." Glenn deftly turned his request into the nickname “Jerry Onley” - a brilliant stage pseudonym, it seemed that it was not a hidden meaning, unlike the nicknames of the British heroes of Misfits Johnny Rotten, Dave Vanian or Gay Advert, the singer has evasively answered questions about the origin of his pseudo He insisted that Danzig is his present, given at birth, and even now he only says that there is a kind of related relationship between him and the Polish city of the same name on the shores of the Baltic Sea now known as Gdansk.

However, among the associates of Angsalon, there was rumor that Glenn simply fell in love with Port Danzig - a picturesque place with an intricate Gothic architecture, erected back in the X. Young Antsalon visited this city during a trip abroad after graduation and decided to take its name as his own behalf. Over time, Glenn officially replaced his surname with Antsalon to Danzig, apparently a few years after the collapse of Misfits.

By October, Misfits were tired of the muffled sound made by Piano Glenna - they intended to play a more aggressive punk. The group abandoned the electrician Danzig, allowing the soloist to concentrate on vocals; As a guitarist, a childhood friend Jerry Frank Likatu was invited to the team.Likata, another native of Lodi, the youngest child and the only boy of four children, played the guitar since childhood, then throwing, then starting again, and considered the guitarist David Bowie Mick Ronson, Ramones, as well as the legends of the blues Baddy Guy and Willie Dixon.

With blond hair lined back and tightly adjacent to the eyes of the dark glasses, Frank, whom Glen christened Franche Coma, apparently playing the name of the eastern “free region” of France Franch Contain, looked exactly like a hooligan-grier 94, which for the suburbs of America X were already a relic of the past. The inherent cerebral, aggressive style of strokes with a mediator on strings from top to bottom, borrowed from the frantic guitarist Johnny Ramon, pushed Misfits to the evil, rude sound to which they strove.

Despite the minimum technological equipment, the liquid was able to extract a fierce, drilling sound from his instrument, which seemed to grow continuously when the musician gave out chords. However, with regard to writing the texts of songs - letter nuts and bolts that fasten the composition together - Danzig spoke here the main force. The guitarist is firm in his assessment that “Glenn wrote everything, [all] words and melodies,” although he admits that sometimes they worked together to bring harmony in a proper form for a particularly complex song.

But at that time he, or we, decided not to give her a move. " In the year, the bassist said - like many times before - that he and other members of Mispits wrote at least a quarter or even a third of their entire repertoire, including various introductory riffs for the guitar and arranging of songs, and that Glenn was indicated as the author only to satisfy his ego “had a real bzik to ensure that everything was recorded in his name, and everything was written in his name, and everything in the name and everything was in the name Such a kind.

" Over time, Only admitted that Danzig, whom he considers “excellent author of songs”, wrote to the lion's share of the texts of Miffits 96, but sometimes not without help. Around the beginning of October, the boiler exploded in the Martinez garage, damaging the drum installation of Mannie and amplifiers that the group members stored there for rehearsals. The tool, fortunately, was still in the case, but this incident seriously frightened the already very worried likat, who had never performed in public before.

But at the same time, the group has achieved some progress. Frank Likata remembers their performance at the beginning of the year at the warm -up of the singer Richard Hall, who was known from his previous group, known for his Blank Generation and Destiny Street albums, in the Show Palace institution in Duvre. Then Misfits made a splash “The hall was scored to capacity,” the guitarist recalls.

The audience jumped onto the tables ... Everyone went crazy! In November, the Mercury Records-the Chicago Libble, founded in the year and the release of plates of various genres-prepared to spread the debut album of the avant-garde punk group from Cleveland Pere UBU, whose experimental cat envelopes were already captured on several single-silles of their own publication.

This company had no idea about the existence of MISFITS or that just a few months earlier the group was ahead of it, officially registering the BLANK brand. After the call from the angry Danzig, the Mercury leadership agreed to provide Misfits for the recording studio for thirty hours to record the album with the possibility of its release on the label, in exchange for sole possession of the name “Blank”.

Misfits, which this proposal was delighted, booked their thirty free hours at C. Recording Studios in New York for January. In addition to the accusations, that the drummer did not take the case quite seriously and often turned out to be too drunk to speak, Misfits referred to creative disagreements, claiming that his love for participating in the Santana style was incompatible with the spirit of punk.

Catha is a restrained, good -natured person with hair hanging to his shoulders, and invariably with a stoic expression on his face - and his straightforward manner of playing on the drums gave MISFITS the rod necessary for the group to firmly stand on their feet. Katanya played without excesses and accurately held the rhythm. His style, definitely, resembled free, but he never cluttered music, but only stimulated its course.

Initially, Katania, nicknamed Mr. Jim, joined Mispits as a joke, but he quickly understood the potential of the group. He was impressed by Glenn's “Incredible Talent”, who, in turn, forced the group “to want to do as much as possible [and] to take on everything for which we could take up.” The album was attended by the sound engineer of Mercury Records Dave Achelis, among the production merits of which by that time was cooperation with the New York Dolls group, great jazz musician Dave Brubek and many advertising songs on the radio.

Achelis grabbed the opportunity to work with a novice punk group with both hands, which was abandoned by other sound engineers C.Any fears about unprofessionalism and the rude nature of punk rockers disappeared almost immediately. Achelis found that Misfits are talented, concentrated musicians who were not distracted by drugs, and therefore recorded a lot of material for their debut album.

He also drew attention to the group hierarchy. Their relationship reminded me of Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry. Jerry, of course, made a great contribution to the work, and his game largely determined the music itself. He added power to his bass. It was a bass sound typical of punk rock: very fast and energetic. ” Songs such as “Static Age” and “TV Casualty” - two stories about the stupid seat in front of the TV, not to mention the gloomy history of the murder of “Theme for a Jackal”, are a sullen monotonous hum in the style of their previous single, built around one or two chords and uniforms of Danzig.

However, at the same time, Misfits were looking for a more straightforward approach to writing songs. The accelerating pulse composition “Hybrid Moments” is largely owed to its romantic drama by the influence of Roy Orbison. At the same time, it is a fervent rock brivad, a golden middle between the classic melodic approach of the 10ths and the serious sensuality of Black Sabbath.

In a similar way, the five -minute ballad “Come Back” in his desire to resemble the song Elvis relies on a typical chord sequence characteristic of the period of the emergence of the genre in which the king played. However, one cannot help but admit that Glenn's voice, especially in the early stages of his formation, was surprisingly similar to the voice of Elvis Aaron Presley, the king of Rock-n Roll, a handsome man who, who, with his voice, existing outside the ranges, has changed the course of the development of popular music with obscene movements.

Of course, Danzig liked Elvis, since Glenn throughout his career made covers for various songs glorified by the performance of Presley. Nevertheless, it is unlikely that Danzig considered him a person who should admire.