Danzig Live At Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC 10-29-11: Just Like Your Crazy Ex. Seeing Danzig live, especially performing the "Legacy" set (meaning Misfits and Samhain) is sort of akin to running into a batshit crazy ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend, if your tastes run that way) that gave amazing, earth-shattering blowjobs. Let me digress... You see the ex in question (Danzig) would just drive you crazy with her constant screaming, bitching, and moaning (everything post "Danzig III How The Gods Kill"), but you would sort of put up with it for the chance to get that amazing blowjob (Big D singing the Misfits stuff), or you'd even settle for a handjob (Samhain). Thankfully, for this NYC gig, Danzig did more than just give us a handy followed by some sloppy head, he took us around the world (do the working girls still use that term? Er, I mean, I read about it somewhere..sometime..in National Geographic). Danzig opened the show with a a really great choice of solo material, the kind ("Twist Of Cain", "Dirty Black Summer" so on, so forth) that if it were a crazy ex, it would lull you into thinking "I am sooo gonna get some tonight". Seriously, I didn't look at my watch once to count down the minutes to Samhain/Misfits handjob/blowjob time. The Samhain handjob was awesome. Danzig in his gimp mask, bellowing through ferocious versions of "Horror Biz" (I damn near wet myself when that started. I have been waiting since the 1980's to hear him sing "I'll put a knife right in you!"), "Unholy Passion", "All Murder, All Guts, All Fun" along with four other tunes, practically burned the house down. But it was when the Misfits Crimson Ghost banner went up that NYC went apeshit. I was prepared for that awesome sloppy blowjob, but instead I got served an all-inputs-on-the-menu sonic feast. To say it was epic belittles the sheer momentous occasion of finally hearing G Dizzle destroy all in attendance with this evening's performance of "Night Of The Living Dead". It was like having a tank roll back and forth over you for a minute and a half. His voice never wavered nor cracked, the band (with Doyle in tow) pounded those guitars "like jackhammers". Which goes along with the crazy ex analogy. I felt I was pounded like a jackhammer, when all I expected was head. Epic? Nay. LEGENDARY. I completely forgot about the crazy side of the ex, and was left sweaty, spent, and in need of some serious electrolytes. It's too bad the crazy ex side of Danzig reared it's ugly head again at Fun Fun Fun Fest, but that's a story for someone who was actually there to tell... - Jay (Mazeffect) Ingstrup www.danzig-verotik.com