Live on the Black Hand Side is a double-disc live album by American heavy metal band Danzig. It was recorded at various shows between 1992 and 2000 (including Danzig's infamous Halloween '92 show at Irvine Meadows, CA), and was released in 2001 on Glenn Danzig's Evilive Records label, distributed by Restless Records. It is the first official, full-length live album from the band, however, the 1993 EP, Thrall-Demonsweatlive and select CD singles have featured live material. In fact, Thrall-Demonsweatlive, includes four additional live tracks from the Halloween '92 show that are not included on this release.[2]
It's been a while since Danzig made music that was even marginally significant, and it's been even longer since he last collaborated with the Misfits, the seminal punk band he co-founded with Jerry Caiafa in 1977. Since breaking up his original backup band (Eerie Von, Chuck Biscuits, John Christ) after the release of Danzig IV, Danzig has been touring and recording with an ever-changing cast of heavy metal stagehands, producing loud, abrasive rock filled with masturbatory solos and plenty of nods to the buff singer's favorite muse, good ol' Lucifer. Now, diehard fans can feast on Live on the Black Hand Side, a high-priced, two-disc tour souvenir that commemorates Danzig's fall from grace in a conveniently linear, chronological fashion. The first disc captures Danzig in the early '90s, performing all the "hits" from his first lousy solo effort, 1992's Danzig III: How the Gods Kill. (If Danzig and Danzig II treaded cautiously along the fine line between clever and stupid, How the Gods Kill boldly crossed the line, venturing into the realm of self-parody.) The guitars are screaming and Danzig's distinctive crooning (imagine an unholy hybrid of Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, and Dio) adds a bit of raw passion to fine renditions of "Dirty Black Summer" and "Pain in the World," but the recording is muddy, and the vocals distorted enough to make mediocre numbers like "Godless" and "How the Gods Kill" unlistenable. The second disc isn't much better. Amazingly, the sound quality is worse, which is odd considering that it was recorded with big, expensive equipment in 2000. Nevertheless, it's more of the same -- Danzig performing a handful of early hits and misses with varying degrees of success. This time he's accompanied by guitarist Todd Youth, bassist Howie Pyro, and drummer Joey Castillo, conventional metalheads who clearly lack the sense of restraint that made Von, Biscuits, and Christ such a tight unit. The band plunders through obligatory renditions of "Mother," "Twist of Cain," and "She Rides," as well as material from embarrassments like 1999's Satan's Child and 2000's Blackacidevil, but the music is barely audible and even Danzig sounds disinterested. It's enough to make one wonder why he ever bothered to release Live on the Black Hand Side, a glorified bootleg that seems like an afterthought.
Danzig Live Hand
As previously reported, Glenn Danzig and his band will perform DANZIG's 1992 album, "Danzig III: How The Gods Kill", live in its entirety exclusively at this year's Psycho Las Vegas festival, set to take place August 17-19 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will mark the only time "Danzig III" will be played in full in the U.S. this year.
Round 1: Stevenson pushing forward early but coming up with air. Danzig lands a push kick, keeping Stevenson at distance. Danzig using his reach well, pumping his jab. Stevenson lands a right hand and chases Danzig. Danzig lands a left hand as Stevenson comes in that puts Joe to sleep.
The live tracks made up the second half of Thrall: Demonsweatlive. The studio (Thrall) side included the single "It's Coming Down", "The Violet Fire" and a cover of "Trouble", originally sung by Elvis.
Ah, the enigma that is Glenn Danzig. On one hand, he is the trash-culture savant whose canny mix of melody and B-movie melodrama helped propel The Misfits to become one of the most recognisable punk brands of the last 30 years. On the other, as the purveyor of particularly lumpen base metal, he is so lacking in self-awareness that the endless YouTube parodies and homoerotic caricatures seem almost cruel in their fish-meets-barrel goading.
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Ein unverwackeltes Live-Foto von Glenn Danzig zu finden, ist sowieso nahezu unmöglich, da seine Shows vorwiegend von der Tobsucht des Frontmannes leben. Leider gleicht dessen Bühnengebaren oft einem hormonbehandelten Ochsenfrosch in der Brunft. Und viel zu oft hält der Zappelphilipp einfach das Mikro nicht vor den quakend kreischenden Mund. Aber so kamen wenigstens die Fans beim Mitsingen mit auf die Aufnahmen.
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Inherent in this concept of border is populations on either side, and populations live on land, not water. Only if Britain were ringed with floating settlements of houseboats, would "border" make sense to my ear.
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