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A Very Danzig Summer
Happy Friday to Danzig fans! In just a few hours the wait will be over and metal lovers will be able to feast their eyes on the “Danzig Legacy Special.” But that’s not all. The act has also announced a North American summer tour that begins July 11 in Pomona, Calif.
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Golden Gods Awards, Club Nokia, Los Angeles, Calif.
Glenn Danzig & the gang are bringing along Pennywise and Cancer Bats as support. The outing includes gigs in Houston, Kansas City, Denver, Vancouver, Seattle and San Francisco. The last stop of the trip is Las Vegas July 31.
A Vimeo link for the “Danzig Legacy Special” will be available April 17 at 5 p.m. at the band’s website and Facebook page, as well as the official fansite, 7thhouse.com.
The “Danzig Legacy Special,” which was filmed in May 2012 in Glendale, Calif., was produced and directed by Mark Brooks, who’s behind Adult Swim’s “Metalocalypse.”
Glenn Danzig told Full Metal Jackie (via Blabbermouth) that the idea was to make a project “loosely based on the Elvis [Presley] ’68 Comeback special; it revisited a lot of his past and a lot of stuff. So we did that with the ‘Legacy’ TV show. It was performance pieces that I do, then there’s the band playing live, we do [songs from] Danzig, Samhain. Then for the Misfits thing, we did what Elvis did when he sat down with Scotty Moore and the Memphis Mafia and we just did them all right there live, sitting and everyone’s around us; there’s no backstage, we’re just on a little podium in from of everybody.”
Here’s the plan for the tour:
July 11 – Pomona, Calif., Fox Theater Pomona
July 12 – Flagstaff, Ariz., Pepsi Amphitheater At Fort Tuthill Park
July 14 – Houston, Texas, Bayou Music Center
July 15 – San Antonio, Texas, The Aztec Theater
July 17 – Dallas, Texas, South Side Ballroom
July 18 – Tulsa, Okla., Brady Theater
July 19 – Kansas City, Mo., Arvest Bank Theatre At The Midland
July 21 – Denver, Colo., Fillmore Auditorium
July 24 – Calgary, Alberta, MacEwan Hall Ballroom
July 25 – Edmonton, Alberta, Shaw Conference Centre
July 27 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Queen Elizabeth Theatre
July 28 – Seattle, Wash., Showbox SoDo
July 30 – San Francisco, Calif., Warfield Theatre
July 31 – Las Vegas, Nev., Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
Pennywise supports July 12-31. Cancer Bats will be there July 11-21 and July 27-31.
Tickets for select dates are on sale now. For more information click here for Danzig’s Facebook page.