“If it’s gonna be final, it should be final”: Glenn Danzig says it’s a “scam” when bands tour after they retire
Should artists who announce their retirement from touring perform subsequent shows? Glenn Danzig certainly doesn’t think so, and even goes as far as to say the practice is a “scam”.
Several of rock’s biggest acts have played shows after officially calling it quits: Kiss, Mötley Crüe and Ozzy Osbourne, for example. But the Danzig and Misfits man won’t be doing the same.
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In a new interview with Radioactive MikeZ on 96.7 KCAL-FM, Danzig expresses his position that “when it’s final, and if I say it’s final, it’ll be final”.
“I remember when Danzig went out with Ozzy, that was supposed to be his final tour [laughs],” he says [via Consequence]. “And then he’s done a bunch of final tours since then.”
He goes on: “if it’s gonna be final, it should be final. If you say it’s gonna be final… You’ll see all these bands [announced 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 currently have no plans to call it quits, and Glenn is hesitant to call their upcoming six-date US trek a “tour”.
“Right now, pretty much what I’ve said is kind of what I’m doing,” he says. “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 concludes: “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.”
While Kiss officially hung up their guitars after their triumphant final show at Madison Square Garden in 2023, the band are working on an ABBA Voyage-style show experience for fans with holograms of themselves performing. Naturally, for a band as lucrative as Kiss, when there’s money still on the table, they’re unlikely to call it quits for good. And Gene Simmons is not ashamed of this opportunistic mentality.
“People call me a sellout. You’re damn right, bitch. I sell out every night,” he said in 2022.
Take a look at Danzig’s upcoming tour dates via their official website.
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