The Misfits - Safe For Children (1978 - 1983)

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I owe you my thanks, Edward. I downloaded this last year (I think) for my ipod and ended up coming back to it again and again. Classic. At the time, I only had a couple of old Misfits cassettes (i.e. recordings from LPs) I'd had since the 80s. I've since bought the two "Collection" compilations for home listening - which is more than I'll ever need (I think!).

So cheers -- you re-introduced me to the Misfits!

that's great!

must convert more ghouls for the zombie holocaust

DO IT AGAIN!

I'm thinking this year I'll put up a track a day and the whole comp on halloween

lyrics fite

i wish there was a whole band that sounded like Halloween II

which is the record/song with the "pound like jackhammers" Glenn intro?

This is a really great comp, I can't think of any of my favourites that aren't on this.

same here, except for "Mommy can I go out and kill tonight"

IT BEGINS

01 Halloween (from 12 Hits From Hell)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/szsx9b

gonna be an evil month

can't wait to blast this @ work

02 20 Eyes (from Walk Among Us)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/cayipf

which is the record/song with the "pound like jackhammers" Glenn intro?

Evilive, I forget which song. when they tune up Danzig says "we pound dese guitars like fuckin' jackhammers. whaddaya think, we're lightweights?"

it's after Nike-A-Go-Go

that record is full of awesome "banter".

The music ain't bad either. :-)

03 Bullet (from Collection I)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2sxq7z

yeah this was def one of the best mixtapes anyone ever made dude. awesome.

woohoo go daddy go

yeah thanks dude, this is a band I always meant to try but never got around to, so I'm going to pull these down and give the mix a spin.

aw thanks guys! yr kind words would warm my heart if it weren't a piece of lifeless rubbery muscle encased in a cold rotting husk

Evilive, I forget which song. when they tune up Danzig says "we pound dese guitars like fuckin' jackhammers. whaddaya think, we're lightweights?"

Yes!!!

Bullet is one of my top 5 Misfits songs. Genius.

E3 I DONT WANNA WAIT

I WANT YOUR SKUUUUUUUULL
I NEED YOUR SKUUUUU-UHLL

c'mon evan can't you savor the anticipation?

04 Vampira (from 12 Hits From Hell)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/oply3u

HEARST HEIST

05 She (from Static Age)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/i2oid5

Oh hi! I also downloaded this last year, didn't know the Misfits (knew "Skulls" and thought it was rad but had somehow never got round to hearing anything else) and ended up blasting yr mix a ton. Glad to be reminded of it and hope to go home and put it on again, in fact. Thank you!

Is there a good book about The Misfits? I'd love to read a 33 1/3 on Static Age or Legacy of Brutality. I wonder what those early days in Jersey were like for those dudes. I don't really know much about their story at all. Were they buddies with the whole CBGB's/Max's scene? I know they played there, but you never hear about them in those early NYC Punk books, don't think they made it into Please Kill Me at all if I recall correctly.

Nope, don't think they were in there.

based on what I've read and heard, the misfits were on the outside looking in when it came to the early nyc punk scene. just some weird guys from jersey doing it all wrong.

http://misfitscentral.com/misfits/tourdates.php

then there was their disastrous non-tour of the UK in '79 with the damned. good times!

11/__/1979 Based on Jerry's conversation in June with Dave Vanian, Danzig began preparing for the upcoming UK tour by sending out promotional packages which included an itinerary that announced the band's plan to do 24 shows in 28 days. Around this time, the entire band appeared on WPIX 101.9 FM in New York, NY for an interview in which they talked about the upcoming tour and played some of their favorite records.

11/21/1979 Late in the evening on the 21st, the band arrived in England for the UK tour with The Damned. On the morning of the 22nd, Jerry showed up at the home of Dave Vanian while the remaining Misfits waited at the hotel. Even though Jerry and Vanian had previously discussed touring together, the members of The Damned had apparently not taken it seriously, and Jerry's arrival was a complete surprise. The Damned, who already had scheduled a tour with a North Ireland band called Victim opening, added The Misfits to the bill and found them equipment to use. Although Victim opened first, advertisements for the tour listed The Misfits as the first band. The first show took place on the 23rd at De Montfort Hall in Leicester, England. On the 24th, after doing the soundcheck for what would have been the second show, The Misfits walked off the tour because they felt they were not being paid enough and were unhappy with the instruments they had been loaned.

11/__/1979 With their return flight scheduled for the end of December, and no longer on tour, the band was unsure of what to do next. They soon befriended a man named Derek who promised to act as their temporary manager. He put them up in a hotel and discussed the possibility of touring as the surprise opening act for The Clash.

12/02/1979 On December 2nd, Jerry contacted Beverly Ritchie (Sid Vicious' mother), who took him around London sightseeing. Before leaving, he told his band-mates to "lie low" while he was gone. In his absence, Danzig and Bobby went to see The Jam perform at The Rainbow in London. Waiting outside before the show started, a group of skinheads started a fight with them, prompting Danzig to grab a piece of glass from a nearby broken window to defend himself while Bobby ran to get the police. Both Danzig and Bobby were arrested and received the following police summons:

"ON SUNDAY THE 2nd OF DECEMBER, AT HORNSBY ROAD N7 USING THREATENING BEHAVIOUR, WHEREBY A BREACH OF THE PEACE MAY HAVE BEEN OCCASIONED. CITING TO SECTION 54(b) METROPOLITAN POLICE ACT 1839."

They spent two nights in Brixton jail, where Danzig wrote "London Dungeon." They appeared at Highbury Common Magistrates court on the 3rd and were released on the 4th.

12/18/1979 The band flew back to the United States, having funded the entire trip with Jerry's father's American Express credit card. Joey Image had left the band a few days earlier because he wasn't happy with the way the tour had gone.

it wasn't until '81-'82 that they really started getting traction/recognition. this is a fun read:

http://misfitscentral.com/misfits/timeline.php

lots of gold in that timeline:

12/03/1978 ...During the show, the band dumped grape-flavored kool-aid on the audience, mocking the Jonestown Massacre of the previous month...

07/04/1979 After getting drunk at Mudd Club in New York City, Bobby Steele vomited on John Lennon's feet.

04/13/1982 ...the band allegedly chased the members of Motley Crue (as documented by Eerie Von in The Misfits Box Set liner notes) down the street. According to Henry Rollins, Motley Crue vocalist Vince Neil walked into the bar while The Misfits were doing their soundcheck and Jerry, Doyle, and Danzig began heckling him from the stage...

08/__/1979 Jerry and Danzig spent a night in jail after trashing Mudd Club owner Steve Mass's room at Hotel Chelsea in New York City. They were arrested when a police officer noticed them throwing bottles out of the fifth floor window of the room with Patricia Ragan of Punk magazine.

^ supposedly the basis for "horror hotel"

10/29/1983 The Misfits performed their Halloween show at Graystone Hall in Detroit, MI with The Necros opening. Following the soundcheck, Brian Damage got drunk with members of The Necros, and was unable to keep up with the rest of the band when The Misfits took the stage. A few songs into the set, Doyle ejected him from the stage, and Necros drummer Todd Swalla took over for the rest of the show. Unhappy with Danzig for the drummer fiasco, Jerry and Doyle supposedly played the rest of the show sitting on their amplifiers, prompting Danzig to announce on stage that it was their "last show ever." The entire show was videotaped on U-matic tape with a three-camera mix by a local fan named Dave Hebb. Todd Swalla's portion of the show was also recorded on soundboard audio. The abundance of false starts and mess-ups throughout the recording make it clear that the band had not had rehearsed much prior to the show. Two of the songs were covers: Black Flag's "Rise Above" and Negative Approach's "Can't Tell No One." John Brannon of Negative Approach provided guest vocals on "Can't Tell No One."

10/30/1983 The band drove back to New Jersey together, Jerry and Doyle in the front, and Danzig and Brian in the back. Jerry and Doyle never spoke with either Danzig or Brian again.

^ this must have been one long car ride home

09/__/1985 The first release after the Caroline Records deal was Legacy Of Brutality, a collection of unreleased Misfits songs on which Glenn Danzig had recently overdubbed new guitar and bass tracks. As Danzig later said in Black Market #6 (1986), "Now I remixed a lot of it, laid new tracks on it and the stuff sounded a lot better."

uh, no, glenn, it really didn't

04/26/1995 After the Danzig show in Red Bank, NJ, Jerry and Doyle tried to visit Glenn Danzig at his hotel room to invite him to join The Misfits. As Jerry stated in Metal Maniacs (June 1996), "We went to his door and knocked and fifteen minutes later security came and walked us out of the hotel. So we took that as a 'no'."

06 Earth A.D. & Queen Wasp (from Earth A.D.)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/a2zanp

THANK U E3! :D

Duke's comments seconded- loved this comp when I d/led it last year, and I'm going to listen to it again this evening...

CAN'T HAVE NO DIRTY DEAD

07 London Dungeon (from 12 Hits From Hell)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lfa5ul

please continue with relevant timeline info, loving this!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fxT8zPCwO9Q/SnM0ATXkiRI/AAAAAAAAAGs/4e1mMTcn2D4/s1600-h/Picture+1.png

10/__/2001 Both Jerry Only and Glenn Danzig successfully called for Caroline to cancel the upcoming 12 Hits From Hell release. This album contained a newly remixed and remastered version of the complete 1980 MSP recording sessions that featured both Bobby Steele and Doyle on guitar. The album was originally scheduled for an October 30, 2001 release date.

^ with a history chock full of questionable career choices, this is the worst imo

yeah I am so glad that promo copies were released into the wild, resulting in a steady supply of reliably sourced bootlegs.

04/15/1982 According to Jerry Only in Ugly Things #12, Danzig and Googy got in an argument at a McDonald's in Los Angeles because the band was running out of money and Googy wanted a second cheeseburger. After the argument, Arthur decided to leave the band, forcing The Misfits to scrap their plans to record the Earth A.D. EP in California (almost a year before they eventually did).

08 All Hell Breaks Loose (from Walk Among Us)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pjaool

here try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKc0WnNxvpE

in honor of this thread here is a picture I took of Samhain in October of 1984 with a Kodak Instamatic

http://api.ning.com/files/S*grL6uXoC2yfVbEyrs980crnpSklI9hegI36P3dxc68mfvMhweULWiirJIP3go8VRaAN5ycqyqb9hQcFFx52trqOmCA2z6G/samhain2.jpg?width=434&height=348

I put this in as an MP3 station in Grand Theft Auto Vice City. It's perfect!

I'M WARNING YOU

I'LL PUT A KNIFE RIGHT IN YOU

it's that time of year.... fixed a bunch of bad tags and other assorted haunted housekeeping so worth a redownload even if you've got it already...

http://www.mediafire.com/?892847012jact4a

I kinda feel like it's time to exterminate the entire fucking race from space.

Christmas cards to which I never reply

'SUP GHOULS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEE55HXWCMs

it was fun testing the time links on this

*click*
1! 2! 3! 4!
*click*
1! 2! 3! 4!
*click*
1! 2! 3! 4!
*click*
1! 2! 3! 4!

youtube encoder couldn't handle some of the jacked up levels, eh it'll do for now

mediafire link lives on eternal, hungry for flesh

Time for this badass mix again.