NORTH SIDE KINGS Frontman: I Saw DANZIG's Eyes Roll After Knockout Punch

NORTH SIDE KINGS singer Danny Marianinho recently spoke to the U.K.'s Live 4 Metal webzine about his altercation (video) with DANZIG frontman Glenn Danzig following DANZIG's performance in Tuba City, Arizona on July 3. Several exceprts from the interview follow:

Live 4 Metal: How tired of the Danzig questions are you?

Danny Marianinho: "I'm pretty fuckin' over it by now [laughs]. It was funny when it happened, but at this point it's kinda like… There are still moments when a band wrote some songs or sent me a video or something that I thought was kinda funny. But a lot of people are still dwelling on it, like pissed off metal DANZIG fans are flipping out about it. You didn't even know the guy, what are you pissed off about? You know what I'm saying? I'm kind of over that by now."

Live 4 Metal: Really the thing I'm curious about is that everybody saw Glenn go down after the punch, but what happened after that?

Danny Marianinho: "Basically, afterwards he went down and I was kinda shocked. I didn't think I hit him good; I wasn't ready to hit him. I wasn't planning on punching him. I just reacted. He went down and at that second I said, 'Where the hell is he?' He was down on the floor. They basically had to pick him up off the floor and they kind of pulled me back, and they dragged him out of there. He wasn't getting up on his own, that's for sure."

Live 4 Metal: He was actually knocked out?

Danny Marianinho: "Yeah, I saw his eyes roll. I looked down at him and he was on the floor, and his eyes were kind of like rolled back into this head. He was trying to get up. His back leg was shaking or something [laughs]. I knew at that point I hit him pretty good and it was over. That was cool. Thank god I didn't have to go the distance. The guy teaches [indecipherable, martial arts]. I'm the farthest thing from any kind of [martial arts] guy [laughs]."

Live 4 Metal: So after that did you guys just take off?

Danny Marianinho: "No, no, no, all our gear was still in the venue. We were ready to go on. We had to load up all our gear and then our friends' band, RAPID FIRE, had to load up all their shit up too. I was there for a good hour, hour-and-a-half afterwards."

Live 4 Metal: So you were still trying to find out why the lights were turned out?

Danny Marianinho: "What it boiled down to… There's a lot of versions to the story. Everybody tells the story a little differently. It's like when you're a kid. I got caught in middle school with an M-80 and it turned into I had an M-16. You know what I'm saying? The show fell behind, he would not move his time, and his management was very uncooperative. He [Glenn] was kind of an asshole. He talked shit to my guitar player's wife that afternoon. She's tiny; she must weigh a 105 pounds. She's pregnant, having a baby. He goes, 'Are you pregnant or are you just fuckin' fat?'"

Live 4 Metal: No shit?!

Danny Marianinho: "Yeah, so he was kind of like pushing buttons with us already. He wouldn't push the time back, which is fine. We didn't care, we didn't mind going on after him at that point. We were five-and-a-half, six hours away from home, so what we were gonna do? Go home? We'll play after, big deal. We do well up there too, so it didn't really make that much of a difference. But he was supposed to say, 'There are more bands coming on, stick around.' There was none of that and he closed the show. 'Everybody get him safe,' type of a deal. I don't remember what he said word for word, but it was along those lines. So at that point his crew was up on stage tearing things apart, the PA guys were pulling all the PA down. They didn't know the agreement we had between us and DANZIG or the promoter. I was basically telling him [Glenn], 'Hey, thanks for pushing your fuckin' time back.' What I was getting at was, is there any way you can tell your crew to stop because they're tearing everything apart? Before I could really get that far… The only thing that's missing on that tape is maybe 30 seconds of me shaking his hand saying, 'Hey, my name is Danny, I'm in one of the bands that were supposed to play tonight, NORTH SIDE KINGS.' And he turned around and said something to the effect of, 'Well, what the fuck do you want from me?' He was a total asshole."

Read Danny Marianinho's entire interview with Live 4 Metal at this location.