The Samhain Appreciation thread.

[Beware the Beast Man]

Time to show love for the band that eventually evolved into Danzig.

I didn't care much for them back in the day, because they were very much unlike the Misfits, but I appreciate them a lot more now.

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Alright, I'll try this out on the morning crowd.

:kick:0

[progmom]

2. sympathy kick

:kick: :)

[tigereye]

3. all my black-booted guy punk pals loved those guys!

I can still picture them at the bar ready to head out to the Halloween shows.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. I tried in vain to grow a devilock when I was 13.

I ended up looking like Elvis. :(

[tigereye]

7. I can just picture you at those shows

or did you pass on all the regalia?

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. I was there for the late 80's- early 90's.

Mostly thrash metal shows, too.

[tigereye]

9. no, but did you wear eyeliner, and all that good stuff?

(actually the guys I looked more like bikers than punks.) And they were usually loathe to bathe. :scared:

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. No, I did the black tour shirt, jeans, jean jacket with 1000 patches thing

Typical 80's headbanger kid who was also into punk.

Occasionaly, though, I'd throw on the black trenchcoat I got at the Red White & Blue for $4.

[tigereye]

11. black trenchcoats were very cool

I had this long black wool coat from the Goodwill. I wore it home the first time over X-mas vacation from college, and my mom said I looked like a gangster. ;) I loved wandering around my small town in it.

[LostinVA]

4. I was thinking, "Aren't you six months early???"

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. This is a Sam-hane thread, not a Sow-win thread.

:)

[vi5]

12. I'm the opposite on this....

I liked them when they were around strictly for the Misfits connection. Now I go back and put on some of the stuff and it's cringeworthy. Some of it holds up but at times it sounds like each of the players weren't even in the same room.

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. The production turned me off initially.

Glenn Danzig is notorious for that. The first Misfits album I ever bought was "Legacy of Brutality," after hearing a friend's version of "Elvilive." I was initially let down. The remixing on Legacy is godawful, which is a shame considering there are some great songs on there.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Eh....

As a vociferous 'fits and 'zig fan, I have to say Samhain does little for me. I liked "He Who Cannot Be Named," because it had, like, uh, a melody. But I always thought Samhain was a "goth" version of the 'fits, or 'zig before they could play their instruments.

Which of course, didn't stop me from getting a Samhain backpatch to put on my jean jacket in ninth grade. It was sweet: It had a hot big-boobed skeleton chick with devil horns and wings, and it said "Hold On To Your World It's Breaking Loose" underneath her. This was in my transition phase from Metalhead to Punker. I also had the "Shaved in back, long in front" hairstyle. Kids were confuzzled by my presence.

I wish I still had that jacket...

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. "All Murder, All guts, All Fun" is a great sing-a-long number.

[RandomKoolzip]

16. True, but the production on their albums, man....

There was a time (1985-1989 or so) when all the potentially great punk-metal crossover bands (Samhain, SWA, St. Vitus, DC3, etc.) were cock-blocked by incredibly poor production. On Samhain's albums, they sound like they're playing in a wind-tunnel and the recording booth is in the garden outside. Boomy, no high end, etc.

St. Vitus's recs were worse than that. "Hallow's Victim," as much as I love it, has a guitar sound that sounds like a four year old accidently pressed the "record" button on a 5-buck dictaphone, then played it back with the treble knob all the way down.

It wasn't until 1988, when Danzig's first (AMAZING, still amazing) record came out that bands like this started to get wise. Rick Rubin's super-compressed, AC/DC-like sound on that one is still potent.