GLENN DANZIG Says Modern Doctors Are 'Full Of S**t'

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GLENN DANZIG Says Modern Doctors Are 'Full Of S**t' - May 12, 2010
Sam McPheeters of Vice Magazine recently conducted an interview with Glenn Danzig. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Vice Magazine: I've read that you're going to slow down on touring some because you don't want to deal with the downtime that comes on the road.

Danzig: After the 2005 Blackest of the Black tour, I stopped touring. Then I said, "Well, I'll do local shows, because I don't have to sit on a bus for fucking three days between shows, doing nothing." I'm a workaholic, and so I've always got to be doing stuff. When you're on the bus, you can't do shit. You're not at home, you don't have all your shit.

Vice Magazine: But I guess you then got tired of not touring…

Danzig: I love playing live, so I started out again with a couple local shows. Then we put together a West Coast run and I flew home after every two or three shows. And then we tried this thing where we flew out to the East Coast, did four shows, I flew home, and then we started a West Coast run that went out to Denver for two and a half weeks, and every two or three days I flew home. It worked out OK, so in 2008 we did a Blackest run where I flew home every few days. That didn't bug me, so we'll try a full tour this time. I'm going to try the flying-home thing and see how it works.

Vice Magazine: That implies that you had decades of not doing that, of being on tour and dealing with the constraints of tour time. I've known so many touring musicians who surrendered to the downtime, who would let their natural rhythms go to hell and sleep until three, not exercise, not read, not do any of the things they'd do at home...

Danzig: I try to work out, but a lot of hotels don't have gyms anymore, so I always try to find a local gym where there's not a ton of 'roid-heads, 'cause I can't stand them. It's tough. I read a lot, so that helps.

Vice Magazine: Do you ever have problems with your energy levels?

Danzig: No.

Vice Magazine: What's your secret?

Danzig: I don't know. I don't eat shit food. I don't do drugs. I don't know what else to tell you.

Vice Magazine: I'm 40. I don't do any of those things. I eat salad for lunch. And I wake up almost every day feeling like a wet bag of sand.

Danzig: Salad is terrible if you put creamy crap on it.

Vice Magazine: It's low-fat creamy crap!

Danzig: There's no such thing.

Vice Magazine: So you have nothing to share, nothing to impart to those of us who are rapidly turning into jiggly piles of goo? It seems like it happens quick.

Danzig: Uh, do you work out at all?

Vice Magazine: Not every day.

Danzig: You don't need to do it every day. Diet is really important and I think vitamins are really important also. Maybe you want to go to a nutritionist and find out what your body is lacking and what it's not lacking. And I don't mean a fucking quack, chemo, murdering doctor. I mean a nutritionist, who evaluates your blood and tells you what you're deficient in and what you're not deficient in.

Vice Magazine: Those are all good things to know, but they're no surprise. You don't have any one thing that…

Danzig: If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.

Vice Magazine: How come?

Danzig: They're full of shit.

Vice Magazine: Across the board? All of Western medicine?

Danzig: Pretty much. If you had cancer would you get chemo? You'd be dead in a week.

Vice Magazine: I wouldn't be dead in a week!

Danzig: Bet you. [laughs]

Vice Magazine: What would you bet me? Let's make this interesting.

Danzig: I wouldn't bet you anything, because in a week, even if you live, you're not going to live that much longer! Chemo radiation will kill you, and it's not the way to heal your body from cancer. You need to make your body stronger. Your body has natural things that fight off diseases. Cancer is just cells deteriorating more rapidly than your body can heal and fight it. So you have to find out what that imbalance is. Doctors are too busy writing scrips that they get kickbacks on and charging you hundreds of thousands of dollars for chemo.

Read the entire interview from Vice Magazine

[GeneralsGathered]

Sigh.  What a fucking idiot.

[kaeth]

Chemo radiation will kill you

Isn't this two different things, or are they injecting people with radioactive chemicals now?

Cancer is just cells deteriorating more rapidly than your body can heal and fight it.

ohhhh

[Prof. Bananas]

It may be barbaric, but if it weren't for Chemo one of my oldest friends would be dead right now.

[kaeth]

They don't really give you chemo or radiation if you're weak enough to die. They just give you morphine to make you comfortable.

[Prof. Bananas]

They don't really give you chemo or radiation if you're weak enough to die. They just give you morphine to make you comfortable.

They used chemo (and surgery) to get rid of a brain tumor. They caught it early, but without the chemo it would have got out of control.

[kaeth]

Sorry, that wasn't in response to your friend. More so towards Glenn saying it will kill you in a week.

Glad to hear it worked out well for him though.

[Prof. Bananas]

Thanks. With any luck Danzig will get some cancer up his ass, and then he'll be able to tell the good-for-nothing doctors that they're all full of shit to their faces.

[Brendan_pr]

we all say stupid shit, the thing is noone is there to fucking document every word we say. never took much pleasure in knocking on people who have made music I respect...... you don't have to be book smart to write good songs (although he is in fact smart when it comes to the occult) and ignorance has bred many a work of art

the misfits songs i grew up with outweigh anything he could possibly do, because no matter what he does those songs are still there

[GeneralsGathered]

You make a good point, you can write good songs and then loudly proclaim your antiscience and willful ignorance in the face of evidence to the world.

But I think it's only fair to criticize people, espeicially public figures for saying dumb shit.
If Glen said everyone who doesn't worship Jesus/Odin/Oprah will be tortured forever and deserves it, I'd call him an asshole.
Same with 9/11 conspiracies and other Hippybakeresque shit, I'd say he was wrong.
Pyramid power/ crystal magic/ astrology/ numerology, I kinda write off as harmless but ineffective fun.

But antimedicine pisses me the fuck off.  If one overzealous Misfits fan stops taking meds because of this, it's a pretty sad thing.  Sure it would be "pretty metal" and/or "cull the herd", but if it was my friend who did it, I'd be pretty fucking angry.

[Brendan_pr]

sure, someone needs to set him straight. but it's not us on some random forum that he is never going to see

but that said danzig has been doing some really questionable things. but there are many musicians whos music i love but there personalities have turned for the worst. like bob dylan, he is now a born again christian, and evangelists are like the scum of the earth in my eyes. but i still love his music and i bet if i met him in real life he would be a swell guy

[Prof. Bananas]

sure, someone needs to set him straight. but it's not us on some random forum that he is never going to see

but that said danzig has been doing some really questionable things. but there are many musicians whos music i love but there personalities have turned for the worst. like bob dylan, he is now a born again christian, and evangelists are like the scum of the earth in my eyes. but i still love his music and i bet if i met him in real life he would be a swell guy

It's not as if paparazzi are following old man danzig around with baited breath, hanging on his every musing. He courts attention and then says stupid shit. I can comment on it when he says stupid shit to get attention. It's naive to think he wasn't excited to spew in front of a camera or tape recorder. And to say that because the guy recorded a few songs that meant a lot to you gives him full pass to do anything, no matter how dumb or offensive is childish. It at least warrents some mocking.

[GeneralsGathered]

and he has some really REALLY faggy songs as well.

[Brendan_pr]

sure, someone needs to set him straight. but it's not us on some random forum that he is never going to see

but that said danzig has been doing some really questionable things. but there are many musicians whos music i love but there personalities have turned for the worst. like bob dylan, he is now a born again christian, and evangelists are like the scum of the earth in my eyes. but i still love his music and i bet if i met him in real life he would be a swell guy

It's not as if paparazzi are following old man danzig around with baited breath, hanging on his every musing. He courts attention and then says stupid shit. I can comment on it when he says stupid shit to get attention. It's naive to think he wasn't excited to spew in front of a camera or tape recorder. And to say that because the guy recorded a few songs that meant a lot to you gives him full pass to do anything, no matter how dumb or offensive is childish. It at least warrents some mocking.

no, you are totally missing the point actually. the point is that the songs will be good no matter what he does. and how are you going to argue with that? if they are good, they are good

[Prof. Bananas]

sure, someone needs to set him straight. but it's not us on some random forum that he is never going to see

but that said danzig has been doing some really questionable things. but there are many musicians whos music i love but there personalities have turned for the worst. like bob dylan, he is now a born again christian, and evangelists are like the scum of the earth in my eyes. but i still love his music and i bet if i met him in real life he would be a swell guy

It's not as if paparazzi are following old man danzig around with baited breath, hanging on his every musing. He courts attention and then says stupid shit. I can comment on it when he says stupid shit to get attention. It's naive to think he wasn't excited to spew in front of a camera or tape recorder. And to say that because the guy recorded a few songs that meant a lot to you gives him full pass to do anything, no matter how dumb or offensive is childish. It at least warrents some mocking.

no, you are totally missing the point actually. the point is that the songs will be good no matter what he does. and how are you going to argue with that? if they are good, they are good

I understand. My point is that it's hard for me to give a shit about somebodies songs if I don't respect them. I don't care about Hitler's art, either.