DANZIG Explains Minneapolis Cancelation (Audio)

November 11, 2010

DANZIG frontman and namesake has commented on the cancelation of the band's November 9, 2010 concert at the Cabooze in Minneapolis, Minnesota as part of the "Blackest Of The Black" tour. The show was reportedly called off an hour before the 6 p.m. showtime, with the rest of the bands on the bill — POSSESSED, MARDUK, TOXIC HOLOCAUST and WITHERED — going ahead and performing their scheduled sets.

Although there had been no official statement from the DANZIG camp regarding the cancelation, someone from the Cabooze told Secrets Of The City that the show was called off due to the fact that Glenn Danzig thought the stage at the venue was "too small."

When asked about the reasons for the Minneapolis cancelation during yesterday's (Wednesday, November 10) interview on Fargo, North Dakota's KQWB-FM (Q98 Rocks) station, Danzig replied, "Basically, we couldn't do our show there, but we had the other bands play . . . We tried to make it work, but at the end of the day it was a production call."

An audio recording of Glenn's comments on the Minneapolis cancelation can be streamed using the Soundcloud player below.

Meanwhile, the Gimme Noise blog spoke to Michelle Metz at the Cabooze to get the venue's side of the story as to why DANZIG's performance was scrapped.

"[Glenn's] version was that the ceiling wasn't high enough," Michelle said. She added, "I gotta say, in all my years here I've never heard of that excuse if you're gonna use one. . . . Frankly I thought it was all about rock 'n roll. I had no idea it had to do with the fuckin' 15-foot ceilings. We lost several thousand dollars we're never gonna recoup, between the hospitality, the ads, the runners, the people to pick up at the airport, the this, the that. . . I don't know if the room wasn't big enough for his ego or...I don't know where he was coming from with the ceiling thing. He's too old to do gymnastics, I didn't get it. I can't even wrap my head around it. It's so convoluted. It's disheartening. The whole thing is just sad. We're trying to recoup some of our losses here and we don't know where to start or stop. We tried everything to make the guy comfortable and it just wasn't working."

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