Very few bands that book final shows or farewell tours ever seem to actually both go and stay away. Several notable artists have reneged on the promise that a show or tour would be their last including Ozzy (several times), Motley Crue, Slayer, KISS, Scorpions. The Who and Judas Priest, among others.
Horror punk/metal icon Glenn Danzig recently spoke with Wired In The Empire about a variety of subjects including slapping the farewell tag on shows. Danzig said if your tour is billed as “final,” then it should actually be final.
“I mean, I remember when Danzig went out with Ozzy, that was supposed to be his final tour,” he said. “And then he’s done a bunch of final tours since then. So I don’t know. If it’s gonna be final, it should be final. If you say it’s gonna be final …You’ll see all these bands say it’s 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 still playing shows both with his solo band and the Misfits but has said that he doesn’t plan on doing any extensive touring going forward. “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. 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.”
Danzig’s West Coast run of shows, which also feature Down, Abbath and Cro-Mags, begins March 21 in Las Vegas.
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