Glenn Danzig has made it known that he’s pretty much done touring, outside of short runs and one-off performances, as has been the case with the band Danzig and the reunited Misfits in recent years.
In a new interview, the 69-year-old singer was asked if he’d ever consider playing a big farewell concert before retiring, a la Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s upcoming final show. Although Danzig has no immediate plans for calling it quits, if he did bill a show as his “final” performance, you can bet that he’d stick to his word.
“I mean, I remember when Danzig went out with Ozzy, that was supposed to be his final tour [laughs],” Glenn told Radioactive MikeZ, host on 96.7 KCAL-FM. “And then he’s done a bunch of final tours since then.”
He added, “If it’s gonna be final, it should be final. If you say it’s gonna be final… You’ll see all these bands [announcing what they say will be] the last tour, and then they’re back again two years later. And it’s kind of a scam, I think. So, when it’s final, and if I say it’s final, it’ll be final.”
Danzig is likely referring to bands like KISS and Mötley Crüe, who famously embarked on farewell tours before eventually touring again.
As for Danzig, the singer hesitates to call the band’s upcoming trek of six major US headlining shows a “tour.”
“Right now, pretty much what I’ve said is kind of what I’m doing,” he said. “I don’t really tour anymore. I’ll do a string of shows, which I don’t consider a tour. If it’s, like, you know, six to 10 shows, I don’t really consider that a tour. When I used to go out on tour, we would go out for three or four months at a time, come home for a couple of weeks or a month and then go back out again for another couple of months.”
He continued, “That’s touring, where you’re hitting every city in the United States or in Germany or Europe or Scandinavia, wherever you’re going. That’s a tour. I mean, this is just a small string of shows here on the West Coast.”
Tickets to Danzig’s upcoming West Coast run are available here, while the full interview with Danzig can be streamed below.
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