Hey there my friends and welcome back. Now before I get started on this post from the earlier this month’s Toy Fair, I wonder if you’ve had enough by now and wish for me to stop. If you answered “yes” for some reason I am afraid that I can’t help you since I still have a few more posts to bring to your attention. With this post I’m beginning the discoveries over at the Super7 booth. I’ve been a fan of their releases for a few years and now let’s get into it.
Anytime that we see Super7 at the Toy Fair or even the New York Comic Con they have their guardian at the gates with the giant statue of Mummy Boy. Offhand I don’t recall if they’ve brought it him to the New York Comic Con but they might have and I’m just not remembering it. He’s a really cool figure just the same and I always smile when I see him welcoming in the buyers and media at the booth.
Our friends at Super7 are way big on the blind boxes in terms of releases and while the originally packaged a whole lot of Godzilla Reaction Figures, there are now a few different sets coming to the purchaser as a mystery.
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Now this should be exciting news for a lot of people because it appears as though Glen Danzig will be bringing his band Samhain to tour for a few select dates and one of these exclusive appearances will be at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on November 1st. Pretty cool huh? I think so.
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Artist: Samhain
Title: “Live 1984 Stardust Ballroom”
Label: Music Video Distributors
Release Date: 10/25/2005
Genre: Punk Rock
Rating: 6.5/10
Glen Danzig had left the Punk Rock force that was the Misfits and formed Samhain. This footage is taken from a Stardust Ballroom performance in 1984. It is one of those things that are more important historically than for quality’s sake. Filmed by Al Flipside (from the Hardcore/Punk magazine Flipside) it captures Danzig and his band mates at their Punk best. Samhain walked a little closer to the material that Glen would later do in Danzig than the Punk that was focused on in the Misfits. Punk in design yet leaning a little more to the Hard Rock and Metal scene that was beginning to form. There is no elaborate stage setting and this is strictly a concert video recording. The camera angles and sound are not that great but it is a cool piece of Danzig history that merits observation. This was the bands first L.A. Show so is very raw in nature. To my knowledge there is not a lot of other performance footage from this band available to the general public. Whether you recall loving or hating them they did have a fan base and many of them carried over to Danzig’s solo material. In 1984 this scene was still very strong and overall this documents it as best as the means allowed. The members of Samhain were Glen Danzig (vocals) and Eerie Von (bassist), Steve Zing (drums) and Damien (guitar) and it was probably one of the first bands to introduce a Gothic-edge to Punk music. I enjoyed seeing Damien playing an axe-guitar like the one Gene Simmons uses as a bass.
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Where Heavy Music & Pop Culture Collide
