by black francis » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:16 pm
SCHIEPPATI Is your music taking a backseat to movies now, kind of like a Rob Zombie thing?
DANZIG No, music’s first. In fact, I’ve already started working on the music for this movie, laying down voodoo drum tracks and weird sound effects. I did a show with Hank III [country punk Hank Williams III who was the bassist for the now-defunct Superjoint Ritual] on 6/6/06, and it was a lot of fun. I was gonna do this thing with [Alice in Chains guitarist] Jerry Cantrell, depending on when our schedules would line up again, but I’m starting to think that I should do it with Hank, because the stuff we came up with was fucking incredible. It might fit the Ge Rouge movie because it’s very minimal, creepy, eerie blues stuff. I played the tapes of our rehearsal for a couple of people, and they were like, “This is serial-killer music!” I was like, “Okay, cool!” [Laughs]
SCHIEPPATI So the thing with you and Jerry Cantrell isn’t going to happen? It would be so cool to hear you guys do something bluesy together.
DANZIG Well, we’ll see. He’s trying to do this Alice in Chains reunion thing. I’m sure we’ll touch base in a month or so or whatever, but who knows where his head will be at and my head will be at by then? He’s a great guitar player, though. He played on a couple of tracks on [Danzig’s 1996 album] Blackacidevil, and it was really some incredible guitar work. He was like, “Can I do another take?” And I’m like, “Why?” [Laughs] Alice in Chains was always my favorite band from that era. They always had a darkness to them that I liked. I don’t like that many singers, but that guy [Layne Staley] could sing. It’s a shame that the whole scene was very steeped in heroin… I don’t do drugs, you know? I’ve just seen so many people die and get fucked up and lose their focus and their path. Drugs are just a waste, you know?
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