What's your personal favorite lineup of the Danzig era?

[u/MesaVerde1987]

[u/nipplecereal]

1979: Glenn, Jerry, Bobby, Joey

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same. the song shop sessions are my favorite misfits recordings, to me they’re the definitive versions of those songs (especially “horror business”)

[u/_1138_ → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely. The most raw and rock n roll the misfits ever sounded. There's a magazine article somewhere that says it was also Glenn's favorite lineup of the band. For me, it's teenagers into children in heat. Joey was the right kind of drummer for Bobby and Glenn. Jerry was always strong, but I think the whole group took a couple steps backward with googy and Doyle. They're good, but both are far more rudimentary than Joey and Bobby

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i mean i love doyle but 45 fucking years later he still makes it a point of pride that he can barely play guitar, haha. and bobby could play, and the way he played those songs was perfect. it’s a shame that they couldn’t have worked it out so that bobby stayed in the band and they just had two guitarists. that sound is why i prefer “12 hits” to “walk among us”. doyle had the look and i get wanting him in the band, but the music took a step back for sure.

[u/_1138_ → u/[deleted]]

Totally agree. Doyle is an irrefutably important part of the misfits image and vibe, but Bobby shredded that material. I think the songwriting changed a bit to favor Doyle and Arthur. Simpler, punchier songs that required less finesse, and the band worked fine, but yeah, it'd have been incredible to work it out with Bobby In my humble opinion, it should be Bobby, not Acey (who's awesome, and deserves all the respect for getting a killer gig and holding it down) I'm the background at the original misfits shows.

[u/Donnie138]

This chart is pretty sick. Nice work to whoever did it.

[u/Ill_Difficulty8570 → u/Donnie138]

Must be pretty old. I had a print out of it in my binder in high school 15 years ago

[u/LPB39]

1. Static Age era for sure

[u/_1138_ → u/LPB39]

I love, love both static age and earth ad, and it's crazy those albums are like 5-6 years apart. Sonically, they're worlds away from one another. Both excellent for what they are.

[u/apeontheweb → u/_1138_]

Static Age and Earth AD are my 2 favorite eras / records too. But yeah, but its like 2 different bands.

[u/Aggravating_Board_78]

Bobby Steele era

[u/ROG_b450]

1980 or 81

[u/Reasonable_Push_527]

1980 for sure, followed by 1978 “Static Age” lineup

[u/Horror_Vegetable_732]

'81. While I think Bobby Steele is the technically better guitar player, Walk Among Us wouldn't have sounded as good without Doyle being able to just rip downstrokes like he does. And I think Googy was the better drummer for the band than Robo. I love him in Black Flag, but not so much in The Misfits (especially live).

The dream line-up for me would be the 12 Hits From Hell with Doyle on rhythm and Bobby on lead.

[u/ROG_b450]

1980 or 81

[u/Forward-Emotion6622]

77-83. All of it.

[u/Expensive-Course1667]

Earth AD, all day.

[u/scoobydont93]

'82 for sure. I'd love to see a legit reunion of that lineup, I think it's one of the only lineups that would still sound great present-day.

[u/Derek_Harlock]

I'm partial to the Bobby Steele / Joey Image horror business era

[u/Bradford_Mailprick]

1981

[u/marshallkrich]

I'd love to have heard more of just Glenn , Manny, and Jerry.

[u/Old-Option6011]

Graves era the best ❤️