Danzig @ Getaway Rock Festival 2011
Glenn Danzig performs at GRF 2011
I came into Danzig’s performance at GRF with an open mind. I wasn’t a huge Danzig fan, but I didn’t necessarily dislike Danzig either. This evening in Gavle, Sweden would likely sway me one way or the other.
There is a certain type of musical entertainer who feels compelled to perform by being (or pretending to be) angry. Sometimes they are mad at the audience, sometimes their band, and sometimes it’s their road crew. Regardless of who they spew their vile at, it is not the least bit entertaining or endearing to me. Glenn Danzig is one of those kinds of people so he quickly fell out of favor in my eyes. (His music didn’t do anything for me either.) The Swedish press seemed to agree as the next day the paper gave him a horrible review. At least I think they gave him a poor evaluation. I couldn’t actually read the article as it was all in Swedish, but Danzig got a 1 out of 5 stars, and every other act reviewed scored between 3 and 5 stars.
The photo of Danzig posted above is actually very flattering. He looks better in it than he really did on stage. Danzig looked similar to Meat Loaf in reality. Given that he’s in his 50s, I shouldn’t be so negative. However, Wolf Hoffmann, who is a similar age, looked great, and even Alice Cooper, who is almost a decade older and who played later in the evening, looked much better. Also, Danzig himself once said, “I’ve always been attracted to the Nietzschean idea of perfection, and so I began trying to perfect my body.”