Danny Marianino (author, musician)

Danny Marianino is a musician, author and content creator.  He gained international fame when his band North Side Kings was playing a show in Tuba City, Arizona and he punched out Glenn Danzig.  He received lot of hate mail for doing that, and collected the messages and put them into a book, "Don't Ever Punch a Rockstar."  We discuss the punch, the book, the hate mail, drinking whiskey with Dimebag Darrell, his disturbing encounter with Marilyn Manson and much more!

00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Arizona Life
00:57 - Book "Don't Ever Punch a Rockstar"
02:06 - The Story Behind the Punch
11:40 - Doyle & Other Misfits
14:41 - Excerpts from the Book
20:45 - Trolls & Bullies
26:22 - Threats & Physical Violence
28:35 - Alice Cooper & Christopher Lloyd
29:55 - Vera Farminga
31:01 - Playing in North Side Kings
35:20 - Jim Bruer
36:37 - Drinking Whiskey with Dimebag Darrell
37:55 - Altercation with Marilyn Manson
43:07 - Sugarcult
44:10 - Doing Liner Notes & Other Books
49:05 - Alice Cooper's Solid Rock
50:40 - Outro

Danny Marianino link tree:
https://linktr.ee/dannymarianino

Alice Cooper Solid Rock website:
https://www.alicecoopersolidrock.com/

Chuck Shute website:
https://www.chuckshute.com/

Transcript

Unknown: 0:13

Welcome, Danny. Hey, how's it going?

Danny Marianino: 0:15

Are you doing buddy?

Chuck Shute: 0:16

Good good so you're in Arizona to so your hottest balls as well.

Danny Marianino: 0:20

Oh god my pool is like super bright now like you go in and it's not you sweat in the pool.

Chuck Shute: 0:27

Yeah, well at least we don't have the humidity yet I don't I don't think it's not the monsoon yet right it's still pretty because I was just swimming today in it. The waters like really wars like bathwater and is what sucks is when it gets a humidity then you go in the pool and like the pool is even work. And then you're just like it's still miserable. That's terrible.

Danny Marianino: 0:45

I tell everybody that comes over any of my buddies that comes to him. And I'm like, Hey, thanks for coming to take a bath with me. That's what it's like. Taking a bath.

Chuck Shute: 0:54

Basically. Yeah, exactly. So. So yeah, I was kind of surprised to hear from you read the book and didn't know what to expect. Really. I loved it though. I love all it's just basically you did what you did is collected all these comments from Trolls and hate mail. And I mean, that's not the entire book. There's a story along with it. But it's it's peppered with all these comments. And it just, that's the best part of the book. I think

Danny Marianino: 1:20

it makes it hard to do an audiobook of it because it's impossible to like, it's you know, it talks about playing in a band, the books hold on to a bunch of Rockstar, a collection of hate mail and other crazy rooms. But it's hard to it's hard to tell the story in an audio book version, and then pepper those hate mails in, in between what do I do a different voice so I get somebody else, it then it feels like it's breaking it up. Because when you read it, it reads good. But when you listen to it, and then all of a sudden you hear something else come in. It's like a frickin interruption. You know? So right. I didn't go that route with an audio book with it because it just felt like it would take away from it. You know?

Chuck Shute: 2:04

Yeah. So explain to my listeners, the whole story. You're in this band Northside kings, which ironically, this was in Arizona, the whole incident happened in Tuba City, which I'm probably one of the few people who knows or that I've actually been there. But it's it's, it's actually a reservation in Arizona. That's what like three hours outside of Arizona.

Danny Marianino: 2:23

It's almost like six hours because it's like two and a half hours from flex next. Okay. So you got you got to drive up to Flagstaff, and then you get that drive into Tuba City. But yeah, it's a nation within its intonation, their own sovereign people. You know, they got a whole community up there. And they don't have a whole lot of stuff going on up there. There's constants here and there. I actually went up there twice. We played with soul fly up there twice. Played hate read their hate replay there, I can't remember. But we've been up there a few times. And the people love anything that they go through because there's nothing going on. If they want to go see a show. They got to either drive to Phoenix, which is ridiculously long, like Majan if you want to go see a concert in Phoenix to LA. I mean, that's horrible. But they can go to Flagstaff and SF still doesn't have a whole lot, but just don't. If you play up there. And I tell fans this all the time, if you play into the city, you're gonna have a good show. Once you play with Glenn Danzig, who, you know, may not go as well as Yeah.

Chuck Shute: 3:35

Where are the shows? I thought it was something you guys were using a high school gymnasium as a locker room like in the gym or as a shot doors or where's the show? It was

Danny Marianino: 3:45

just high school auditorium. And it's funny when we pulled up the security guy, when we come up with our beat up van and he's like, I'm here with the white people. Oh, it's a really for them. But yeah, it's a high school and you know, they do shows there in the auditorium. But there's no venue. There's no bars, there's no clubs, there's no you don't have that up there. So when you play a show you play at the high school, which is fun. I mean, listen a couple times we've been there you know we went out our guitar player Luke is pretty good field goal kicker believe it and I we were we learned that I have to passivity because he kicked a 45 yard field goal and we were like, holy shit man. Who knew? We spend them how many

Chuck Shute: 4:39

people can fit in this auditorium? Like how big is the venue? Is this 5000 People 1000 or what?

Danny Marianino: 4:45

I can't imagine him get 5000 Maybe like 800

Chuck Shute: 4:50

Oh, okay, so pretty. Pretty intimate venue,

Danny Marianino: 4:53

then. Yeah, yeah, it's not. It's not the marquee, if that's what you're thinking it's small. Other than that, it's a gym. It's just a high school gym. I mean, think about what your gymnasium is like, it's like a basketball court, you know, with a stage in the end, because they do the same. You know, like if they do drama club or whatever, they do that on that stage, and I'm pleased.

Chuck Shute: 5:17

Okay, so you go in there. And so I think there's like a lot of context that's missing from the video that went viral, though, because your altercation with Glenn Danzig, people just saw that they didn't get the backstory as to why you were going to talk to him in the first place, and also why there was a camera because this was really kind of pre cellphone, there wasn't a lot of people taking videos and things. So people thought it was staged. And they thought you were attacking him and trying to get money and stuff.

Danny Marianino: 5:46

Attacker guys playing in high school. So the reason why it was a camera is because our new album was coming out in two weeks. week or so it was pretty quick. And our record label did something new was like this new innovative technology, where the album had a video on it as well. So you could listen to the CD, or you could pop it in your computer. And it was a whole video, you're gonna watch like live footage and some interviews and goofy shit that we did on tour. So we were already planning another album. We were like, we had already built that footage for that other one. So we were like, Hey, let's do another video. I think whether we use it for DVD footage, where we use it on the next CD will have this cool video stuff. And so that's why the guy was filming friend of ours, Dan stone, he was filming us film this forever. I mean talk for years that comes with photos. But yeah, we I mean, we were really kind of in the beef mode with him earlier in the day. The show fell behind you must be in real nasty to people. There was other bands he was a jerk to and he called up guitar players ex wife fat. She was like three months pregnant. She's like 110 pounds, this tiny little, she's barely showing. And she walked past the room. And he said, Hey, she stopped starstruck because she was a big Danzig fan listens, man. I think it was are you? Are you pregnant? Are you just fucking fat. So we were already like in Kill this guy mode. This is from the stopping the guitar player fighting them. So we were really in a bad mode with them. But long story short, I don't want to tell this whole story over and over. But the show fell behind and was supposed to be two stages. All the bands got pushed back. He refused to push back his time. We negotiated with him not because he wasn't going to push his time back that we would play after him. But he had to say there were other bands playing. Let people know that the show is not over. Because when the headliner plays, what do you do? You leave? That's what everybody knows. So if he said hey, these are the bands, knowing the neighborhood knowing the community, people would have stayed just like anything else. So he didn't do any of that. And then what's missing on a video is like 10 seconds. Literally me walking over and saying hey, what gives? And him bugging out? I mean, it was that quick. I've never seen anybody react that fast. Angry other than my parents. For me, that was dumb shit when I was a kid. Nobody in the history of people reacting, overreacting quickly. I've never seen anybody do that. And that was one of those people that we say Oh, you did this. This is how you set it out that quick. I mean, that was insane as you blew up like fuck, you know the fucker we want me to do a big shot yelling with all the security guards and listen to Guy push me into a wall. I don't I don't know if he's gonna beat me up. He's a karate guy. You know, so I came back to fucking just hit him with a sloppy punch and knock them out. And I got lucky. I didn't get beat up. That's how that works. You know?

Chuck Shute: 9:06

Yeah. So what was the reaction? You were looking? I think you said something in the book like you were just looking for like him to go. Yeah, sorry, my bad or like, just to kind of apologize or acknowledge that.

Danny Marianino: 9:17

Or even go up there and say, Hey, I'm sorry to snow bans knowing because you have stuff made

Chuck Shute: 9:23

could you still have the opportunity that with the all the people the venue let you play if

Danny Marianino: 9:28

the venue the promoter, everything was already set. And it wasn't just us. It was three other bands. There was a band that drove from Canada, down to the city, Arizona and appointed that show. There was a local band here in town. They were called rapidfire. They played the night before as well with him. They were also up there in Tuba City and didn't get to play and there was another band as well. I mean, listen, we all would have played because we wanted to get paid. I mean, that was the

Unknown: 9:58

I was just you Do not get paid even for driving all the way up there and all that,

Danny Marianino: 10:02

oh, the promoter books man police came, FBI guy showed up because it's it's reservation land. So the promoter was like, whoo, we just took out, like, right out the door. It was God, you know. And, you know, you know, just like he had a contract that he was supposed to play in a certain time. We did too. And that was what we had this discussion with him with. I think we're the only other band that had a contract that um, was pretty thorough. I handled all our business so I don't I didn't know the promoter. So well. We do a couple of shows went on but not much. So I had a contract was like we played beforehand. And before before Danzig doesn't wind up having to go after just a pizza situation. We'll do it we just want to go and our merch was still in there. We do really well up there with merch. So it was a it was a financially was a good trip for us to play that show. At least that was the intention. Because nobody in my band wanted to play it. Everybody in my band did not like anything from Sam Haim or Danzig, one of the guys kinda like the misfits, but they thought he was they thought it was dopey. And also, I, on the other hand, like the misfits, and really liked the first who danza Gonzalez thought. I've listened to him a lot as a kid when they came out. So I was really hard to play the show me while I'm the guy in the back and punched a guy. How's that work?

Chuck Shute: 11:36

Yeah. Hey, I don't know. See, I don't know if you when you reach out to me if you knew that I'd interviewed Doyle from the misfits. But it was I mean, I've done almost 400 of these interviews, and that was by far the worst interview I've ever had in my life. That guy gave me like one word answers. So when I saw the video of you punching Glenn Danzig, I was like, Oh, I kind of want to like talk to this guy. That seems interesting.

Danny Marianino: 12:00

We played with the misfits. But Jerry only version. Yeah. And that guy. That guy was golden man. Like we showed up. It was that you remember the Cajun house here in town? Was that the case? No. They changed the name to the venue was Scottsdale. Okay, it was an old town. Anyways.

Chuck Shute: 12:21

Across from rock bar and used to be dos gringos.

Danny Marianino: 12:25

Yes. That those were those was good. Oh, yeah, he, we walk in, we go backstage, you know, in the backstage area. He's over there. The first thing he says is, hey, you guys want a pie. And we think that pizza guys got pizzas or something. He gives us like a cherry pie. Well, like an apple pie. Like that. He was like, super nice. And let me tell you something. This was something that I saw that night. And I played a lot of shows with a lot of bands. And a lot of people that a lot bigger than his band, believe me. He Jerry only got off the stage. And when they got done, plan the walk down to the audience. And he talked to every kid there. He took pictures with every kid there. He didn't get off stage and go clean up and take off all that guar look and shit. He fucking came out, like went on to regale you on and like talk to every kid took pictures. We were sitting at the bar drinking. You know, after the show. We watched the place clear out so that he got to the last kid. And he came over to the bar. And I was like, holy shit. I've never seen anybody do that. His answer to me was, listen, these kids paid to come see me play tonight. They want to meet me. I'm going to meet them.

Chuck Shute: 13:42

Wow. That's cool. Yeah, I don't know. Doyle didn't he wasn't as a friend. Maybe. I've heard Jerry is nicer than than his brother Doyle. But well, we

Danny Marianino: 13:49

snuck a picture with oil. I don't know if you saw that in

Unknown: 13:52

the book. Yeah. I think it was in the book. Yeah. You he was posing with you? Was it?

Danny Marianino: 13:57

I don't think he knew it was us. That was Oh, right. Oh, so that was at a? No, you're talking about the cherry only thing that was that pictures with Thorpe the guy used to own our own revenue. Yeah,

Chuck Shute: 14:09

that's where you've met him at a bookstore. And yeah, you thought for a second. You might recognize you. But he probably would have been on your side. Right? Because he was they didn't have Danzig in the band at the time.

Danny Marianino: 14:18

No, no, I don't know. He was. It was on a Fangoria weekend. APARs out in California. He was doing a thing for coffin guitar cases. He gave me a look for a second like email me I'm like, This guy is gonna punch me. And he's a big guy. And ya know, we took the picture we ran like little kids, you know?

Chuck Shute: 14:39

Yeah. Well, so if I could Can I read some of the excerpts of the Bible read them all but it can I read?

Danny Marianino: 14:45

Read as many as you want, because they're fucking

Chuck Shute: 14:48

tiny. How many are there? I mean, I just wrote down some of my favorite I'm not gonna read all the ones I probably copied like 30 But that's not even half of them. There's probably a couple 100 Maybe

Danny Marianino: 15:00

Yeah, and there's a lot that didn't make it. And then there's a lot that were so, so bad that I just could not put. I couldn't mean between racial comments to comments that were just so explicitly violence. It wasn't funny. It was a little fucked up, you know?

Chuck Shute: 15:24

Yeah. Well, I got it, you get a taste of that. So I'm going to try to not read too many, like horrible ones like that. Because I don't want people to like then take that clip of me and say, Oh, look what this guy said. Because I'm just reading what's in your book, which you

Danny Marianino: 15:38

just need her to be here. Yeah, I'm interested in here which ones you picked out? That's always that's always enjoyed to hear. Okay, we once people enjoy.

Chuck Shute: 15:48

Here we go. Let's I feel like I need like a fireplace behind me and like I'm opening like a real, like literature, but I need like a sweater or something I want to be able to distinguish. So this one says, I bought your first album at a truckstop for 99 cents. I should have bought the best Lionel Richie instead, at least I would have been dancing on the ceiling instead of throwing up in the shitter like your CD made me.

Danny Marianino: 16:11

That's one of my top ones. Like what a what a ridiculous thing to sense of.

Chuck Shute: 16:17

What What the fuck is this bullshit. I would rather stick broken glass in my ear canals than to finish listening to this awful band. I would rather listen to Fran Drescher laugh for eight hours straight. When to listen to this pile of shit. I would rather listen to Master P go for 15 hours straight then to listen to that diarrhea flow out of that fat

Danny Marianino: 16:43

you guys are bad. You suck each other and Danny didn't. The Truffle Shuffle right over him. Yeah. Nice to people. It was really it was a good one.

Chuck Shute: 16:57

This band is a pile of gay. That talentless? Fuck tard Hey, fuck y'all Glen is gonna get you. He's gonna get you. I hope you folks you all fat asses up fucking pussy. I wish I could get out of my wheelchair.

Unknown: 17:12

I wish I could get out of my wheelchair and strangle your fat throat you Bunsen shit ass. I don't want to say that word.

Danny Marianino: 17:20

That word was an email. So before you get ahead, that was an email, a guy sent me an email to say that say horrible things to me. And then he threw in the fact that he's in a wheelchair. And that if you could get out of the wheelchair and struggle or fat next, I mean, you're sending an email to a stranger. Why tell him you were in a wheelchair. So when I read that, I just went like, holy shit. This guy's fucking I think I responded to that guy, but I can't remember. You know,

Chuck Shute: 17:51

think how much attention he'd be getting? How do you punch Janet Jackson's exposed to web? And then I love the user name is preparation. Haish like an Hey. Oh, there's a lot of Jenny Craig references, which makes me think some of these are a little dated, because I don't even think that's even is that even still a thing anymore?

Danny Marianino: 18:15

I don't know. I mean, you know, remember, so this book, originally when I put it out was in 2012. Yeah. And I went back and changed the tone of it because I was a little angrier when I wrote the book Rich. Now not, not to me, the whole thing is even funnier. So, you know, some of these messages are from 2007 2008 2009.

Chuck Shute: 18:42

Yeah. Uh, what was the one that was uh, to be honest, the real story is this was over a dispute over a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Like just are so off. There's one that was like kind of clever, though. Oh, I saw you cheat. I saw you cheat shot. cheap shot, I think is what they meant. You're gonna DIE DIE DIE. My darling. That's pretty because that's like a reference to a misfit song.

Danny Marianino: 19:06

That was one of the first ones that I got.

Chuck Shute: 19:09

Yeah, there's a lot of they call your been Northside queefs. I've seen that one was a lot. And then another thing about there's a whole chapter about how somebody said that you had 30 pound hands.

Danny Marianino: 19:24

Oh, god. Yeah. So so that was a new addition to the book. I added that in. That wasn't in the original. My friend Tyler works at a tattoo shop called Black Lotus. Do that image of me with a 30 pound hands. I literally sent them a picture of me like this. And he drew it and just sent it back to me and I put it in. But yeah, there was a whole bunch of stuff like it's an unfair advantage. Like I got big hands, you know, like, Yeah, I do got big hands. No question. Right? Not 30 pounds.

Chuck Shute: 19:53

No. scream as loud as you can fat ask because you can't sing worth a shit sounds like you got to rock hard dick in your mouth. Oh, why does it have to be rock hard?

Danny Marianino: 20:04

It's really the extra mile to give you the explosive. full detail.

Chuck Shute: 20:10

Yeah. Oh, so this one I thought was kind of smart. Because I don't think a lot of people would get this. But it said, Man, all those family members who came to see Northside kings must have been pissed. Because if you're in like a, you know, a smaller band, a lot of your family and friends come out and see the shows like, right, so that's like, but that's when you kinda have to think about a lot of people, the average person probably wouldn't get that one was a clever one. Yeah. Yeah, there's just so there's so many I was like, some of them are just so they're the weirdest ones are the ones where like, You should kill yourself and all that I was like, did like, wow, why does that make you so mad? Like, that's what's so strange to me.

Danny Marianino: 20:46

You know, and you have a think, you know, who are these people? You know, I mean, I personally would not send somebody a message like that, whether or not I was made on him or not. Yeah, I really wouldn't. I'm fighting right now at a radio station here in town. Because of my other book, they kind of using the same logo as the cover of my book. And I've actually sent them a few messages. And they just blocked me and they weren't even like bad messages. I was like, Yo, you're still on my thing. You kind of knock me off this and that. And like, they blocked me right away, you know? So clearly, I'm a lot more tolerable people than and other people are. That's for sure. But I wouldn't send some crazy stuff like that. It's nuts.

Chuck Shute: 21:30

Yeah, that's correct. You said that you got bullied when you were in high school, too, right. Middle school

Danny Marianino: 21:36

and high school? Yeah. I mean, most kids did. You know, I'm not saying I'm so poor, sensitive. Kid, that's just what was me, you know, but I moved from I moved to my family. I went to a Catholic school. And all of a sudden, I went to public school. And it was culture shock. And I still believed in Santa Claus and middle school Israelites. And a fight for the kid on the school bus. Because he said, Santa wasn't real. And I was like, if I will defend Santa, he's not going to come this year. So I gotta let this kid noted Santa. Like, we got into a fight on a bus. They call my parents and my parents said the film again.

Chuck Shute: 22:19

Yeah, you just kind of develop a tolerance and just kind of be able to I mean, cuz obviously, you could laugh about it. The fact that you put this on a book, it's not like, making you feel depressed or anything or I mean, you're able to laugh most of it off,

Danny Marianino: 22:33

you know, at first No. At first, you're like, man, and that's why on that video, if you see it says on the bottom notice Danny doesn't have anything in his hands. Because he actually put out a statement that said I caught him with a sharp object and fled the scene. I have a statement in the book, what he what he put out, he put it up on his website, the seventh house and he put it up on something blabber mouth and then it went everywhere after that.

Chuck Shute: 23:04

But then he changed the story to after that

Danny Marianino: 23:07

like 20 times a politician he's basically like giving you a different every time it goes a different place. He got a different story. But you know, I wanted to clarify I didn't have a sharp object because I was getting pretty crazy message right off the gun that mind you after a while you start reading these messages and talking about how I could deep road anywhere near losing a depot or burrito? Or or you know, your your like, you guys are like Bananarama, mindless the good stuff. I think somebody said one of those quotes there. I'm gonna watch that comparison. Once you start to like, you know, put them in order and you read them. All your friends laugh and it becomes a whole different a whole different outlook. It was this was mean tweets, before Jimmy Kimmel had mean. And I because this book originally came, like I said, 2012. And nobody had done anything like that before. literally putting the people's names and sent the messages, or their email addresses or their handles on on YouTube or wherever the fuck you know. Yeah.

Chuck Shute: 24:12

Did anyone get mad that you put their handle or YouTube or read sometimes a real name in the book that anyone fight?

Danny Marianino: 24:18

Somebody messaged me once? And they said, thanks. Oh, they like the compliment. And I respond to them because I don't want anybody to know whether or not I read your message or not.

Chuck Shute: 24:34

Right? Because I mean, a lot of those trolls though, they don't use their real name. They use some, you know, it's always like a picture of a celebrity or a cartoon or a tree or something or their dog. And then it's a fake name and nobody knows who they are, what they look like. And they like it that way because they don't want to ever be the target. They don't put themselves out there.

Danny Marianino: 24:55

It's sometimes I'll track him down and I'll find something about him. You know, just from My own conscience who sent this, especially if they send, you can't troll somebody on Facebook as much, because I can see what the account is. So like, you know, I didn't save a lot of that stuff from MySpace back in the day, because I didn't think that that was I was ever going to need to do this book and everyone thought about it. But like in the newer version here, I actually put like this girl said, for example, sent me a message from and also from Pomona or somewhere and she said that you come to Pomona we curb stomp ditches. And she sent a picture of the guy from American History X curb stomp and the guy's face No. No, I mean, I looked at it. I went, I just clicked on it. And I found her payloads on her page. And she's like, got all these kittens and puppies. And you know, like she's got this whole like real persona that's probably to her friends. But you know, she sent this like wack message. It's in the book that when I can't remember Yeah. But you know, it just goes to show you that. You don't know who people are you look at Oh, she looks nice. She's got puppy dogs and kittens shit. While she's talking about fucking curb stopping me. A girl. Come on. I'm like a fucking giant guy. Get out of here. Yeah.

Chuck Shute: 26:20

Did any of the people did anyone ever follow through on a threat? Did you ever have someone show up at your house or view or show up to a show that you were doing or anything like that? We had some shows

Danny Marianino: 26:31

where we had threats at the show. We played this place in Anaheim called chain reaction. And they were getting calls to the point that they called the promoter who then reached out to us about it. But I mean, it's foreign like that was with med ball and h2o. loans come into that show once. And you know, I mean, there's people are crazy. You never know who's who. But you really want to throw your life to either lose or win something against me because chances are 5050 is gonna go either way. You know,

Chuck Shute: 27:11

you would have thought that if it was you and Danzig, I think most people would put the money on Danzig, but you you want that one. So

Danny Marianino: 27:18

you just listen. He knows how to fight. And I'm being honest, I am not a fighter. I can I can hold my own. Because I'm a big guy. And I'm a strong guy. But that doesn't mean that I'm a skillful fighter. You know, in his case there, I think he's gotten a little too compliant with people being scared of him. And that, and that. That's what sealed his fate on that. Yeah. I don't think he expected me to do anything. I honestly did not expect me to do anything. I mean, when I hit him, I say, really quick. It's funny because it's in the urban dictionary and the word fuckity. Right? But I don't say fuck it. I say you fucking hit me. But I said it so fast. Because I was shocked. And I knew that like if I didn't react, which this guy should love better fighter than I am. He does the G condo that Bruce Lee shit. You know, I mean, I got all my fighting motion watching rocky for that, you know, it's not gonna really hold me in the real world there. So, you know, I just don't think he was. I don't think he expected that to happen.

Chuck Shute: 28:30

Right? Well, and despite all the hate mail you got, I think it's cool. In the book he talks about all the people that actually loved the hit, including was the James Hetfield and Alice Cooper and some other celebrities.

Danny Marianino: 28:42

Yeah, Alice Cooper actually punched me in the arm in the middle of a movie and whispered to me, the number 23 I think it was a Jim Carrey movie. And he said, Now if you say I punched a guy that punched Danzig, I'm like, don't start. I don't need that my life.

Chuck Shute: 29:00

Yeah, that's cool. I asked Cooper lives around town. I saw him at Peavy mall once. And I told my girlfriend go that's Alice Cooper. She goes no, it's not I go I swear to God, that's him. And I yelled Alice and he just turns around and, and I just and then I just froze. And I was like, Rock on. Like, I didn't know what to say. I was like, Damn, I should have got a picture with him or so he's the nicest guy.

Danny Marianino: 29:21

Yes, yes. I had a moment like that. With Christopher Lloyd. I was at an airport in Burbank. And I was waiting for my bag. Christopher Boyd was standing there waiting for his back. And I went hey, man, what's up and he looked at one point 21 He just he just kind of smiled and I'll leave you alone because I froze I didn't know what to say. He just said one point 21 Sugar wants to let me get the fuck out of this guy's gonna do so

Chuck Shute: 29:54

but didn't you go to it. So tell me this. Tell me about this. You went to high school with Vera for manga from the car. Andreen and a bunch of others, she did the Bates Motel show and she's been in a bunch of stuff. Did you ever like come across her? Or she was Oh,

Danny Marianino: 30:06

yeah. So she dated a guy that I was friends with actually in high school. But she was like in the drama classes and stuff. I have another book called To make matters worse. And I did an audio book for it as well. I tell a story. And now that me and my friends used to poop around the school. They poop in places and leave poop for people to find them. And I put them on the stage where the Java class would go meet. And she was there with her Java class and they came in for like a rehearsal or whatever. And then it was like a shit let the fucking witch's hat style or I could pinch it off like a champ when I was a kid.

Chuck Shute: 30:50

And she had to she didn't have to clean it up. She

Danny Marianino: 30:53

had called an officer they called the janitor so I, honey. Wow. But yeah, I mean, then

Chuck Shute: 30:57

you had a lot of run ins like, I mean, it must have been fun being in that band. Obviously, what a lot of people remember is the dancing punch. But you you played with all it Corrosion of Conformity, metal church, hate breed, and a bunch of other awesome bands.

Danny Marianino: 31:11

You know, listen, people say to me, like, oh, you know, that whole thing with Danzig and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that was a part of our band's history. I mean, it was more to our advantages that, but that was part of it and fighting with a lot of bands. We toured the us a few times, with multiple bands, and I got to play with a lot of just during that era, I got to play with a lot of musicians that I never would have thought that I would have able to even play with I always wanted to play with Slayer. We didn't play with Slayer, but I did play guitar with soul fly once at Mesa amphitheater when they played with Slayer, so, you know, that was my one little Slayer time. Dave Ellison, I think played bass. And I actually wanted to play that Megadeth Kay, the he was the bass played bass just on that live thing. But yeah, and they get to do some fun stuff. And you listen, you play music because you enjoy music. We, you know, we never knew. We knew. We know. We weren't gonna have like a big career. We weren't playing that kind of music. I watched your interview with the guy from Sevendust. Yeah, that she did. And I saw Sevendust playing at what used to be called the mason jar. Now, so rebel lunch, when they were just kind of coming up. My friend Rudy, you played an idol band with me. He was he was a sound guy there. And he said, Man, I just did soundcheck for this band. You got to come down here. I never heard of them. But they're going to be huge. And I went down and I saw him play. That night there was eight to 10 people on that show. And you know, when you see a band like that, you're gonna go, these guys are gonna have a monster career. I mean, this is that kind of music. People are gonna love it Northside kings, we cater to that kind of music played like a heavier kind of a thrash hardcore thing wasn't for the masses, it was a little bit angrier was, you know, we did it for fun.

Chuck Shute: 33:12

Yeah, but when you put your heart and soul into music, which I'm sure you did, and you put a lot of effort and work into making the album and then doing shows and touring and you driving to Tuba City for six hours, all this effort that you put into this band. And then like some of the music isn't as remembered as this, like, incident is not annoying, because I know just for me as a podcaster. Like, I put my heart and so on to interviews. And I'll get like, you know, 100 views on YouTube and then it's like I do the one that shitty interview with The Misfits. And that's the one that everyone brings up all the time. Like, yeah, I saw that interview with Doyle. Oh my god, and I'm just like, okay, like, isn't that frustrating?

Danny Marianino: 33:51

Is because Okay, summer album came out two weeks after. So everybody that got the album to do a review. What do you think that they started with? Oh, we got Northside kings got a new album out. organized in our neighborhood. From the guy that punch dancing. If you ever saw the video is you get to a fight to the city. doesn't mention one fucking thing about the album. It talks about that. It really was a little bit of a scar on my bed. You know, and my guys had to deal with that. I mean, you know, nobody was happy. organizing our neighborhood, I think was a incredibly good album for us. It really we did it we did the first two albums that came out good but then organized our neighborhood was like a bone. It was like light years better. And that whole thing scarred that and then a couple of years later we put out suburban royalty, another album, they just want to review say same shit. So you know it definitely. It definitely. We put a lot of work into it for that, too. A tag of interest people always say, oh, you know, these these crazy fans and say, Oh, these guys did this wasn't me. That was not the publicity that we wanted. That definitely was not. We were like a party man who are looking for like, you know, fight publicity that there really wasn't it?

Chuck Shute: 35:18

Yeah. Well, so you say in the book that there's a bunch of people that gave you, in their opinion on the whole thing, but then you didn't say what the opinion was. So like, one of the names you mentioned, D. Snyder, what did he say? I've had him on the show a couple of times. He's I think he's a really smart, fascinating guy. What was his take on this whole thing?

Danny Marianino: 35:35

On numbers for so long?

Chuck Shute: 35:38

What about Jim Breuer, you said that? Jim? Jim Breuer.

Danny Marianino: 35:43

Brewer left Yeah, I met him and he actually met him at one of his shows here in town. And I talked to him for a minute and ultimate love this music. Personally, impersonations and I mentioned I was in a band notes, I Kings, and he knew I was the only one with a crazy face. And we took pictures and stuff. You know, I mean, yeah. Same with the guy from Lamb of God. I got a picture somewhere him punching me in the face. You know, it's usually usually when somebody goes, Hey, let's take a picture and they want me to pretend like I'm punching them. Like, why don't you pretend like you're punching me. I don't want to put that vibe out there. So that Randy White's got there's a picture of somewhere and punched him like, oh,

Chuck Shute: 36:29

wow, that's pretty cool. So then, and then tell me about this one. Again, some of the stuff you just fleetingly mentioned. I wanted to dive more into it if you have the details, like drinking whiskey with Dimebag. Darrell, I want to hear that story.

Danny Marianino: 36:41

Yeah, so I was backstage in an office. And he had like a listerine bottle. That he put whiskey him. And it looked like Listerine. I mean, you couldn't see it and he, he had little, little plastic cups and he's like, Come on, man. Like line them up. And I'm watching him. For the Listerine. I'm like, it's got this has got to be alcohol clearly and, and yeah, I ended up doing some shots with the Californian whiskey enema. listerine bottle on backstage. You know, that wasn't even backstage. It was like in the back area. Behind desert sky blue. And it wasn't quite. There's not really much of a backstage area. It's more busts.

Chuck Shute: 37:24

Why did he have it in a Listerine? Like, who was he hiding it from? Or was that just

Danny Marianino: 37:28

a walk around the place where the Listerine bomb? Nobody looks at anything different. The guys. I don't think anybody

Chuck Shute: 37:35

looked at him anyways, he's Dimebag. Darrell. He could have walked around with crack or something.

Danny Marianino: 37:41

Yeah, I mean, you guys walk around and open container with a bottle of Listerine. You know, I mean, you drank the whole bottle. That's awesome.

Chuck Shute: 37:51

So then what did you do? You said you offended Marilyn Manson. I got to hear this because like, I feel like he's not an easy person to offend.

Danny Marianino: 37:59

Okay, I told some stories in the book, but I was kind of prefer them. So you really? You really took a dive here? Yeah. So Marilyn Manson. How long have you lived in Arizona?

Chuck Shute: 38:10

I've lived here since 2008. Okay,

Danny Marianino: 38:13

so you you live here when club Rio was here? Club Rios long as the match but watch was on tour with Maryland man's a friendly with the guys and clutch. On the tour bus. We're hanging out. Marilyn Manson comes in. I don't even know who mela Manson is. Obviously, everybody knows now. But at this time, Marilyn Manson was just kind of getting played on MTV. So he wasn't quite as big as he became or even was at a certain point. So he's sitting on a tour bus and he's next to me. He's all crazy fucking looking and I'm bullshitting. And I'm animated hands are moving the guy in Jersey guy. Do my thing. And, and I feel something next to me. You know, when you vibe something like something's going on or somebody's looking at you or they're pointing at you. Something's going on. And look over to my left, nearly Manson's got his fucking Brage old in his hand, and he's jerking off. And before I get to that, I look, he's looking at me and I go, what's up? And he goes, You know, I'm the priests in the high church of Satan. I'm like, Alright, cool. And then I go back to talking to whoever I'm talking to. And then I get the vibe. I see some kind of movement going on. And he's got his fucking dick in his hands. And he's jerking off. And I go, Oh, fuck are you doing I'm gonna get the fuck out of here and throw them off eclipses tour bus, and the guys that caught you like that? Can I catch the band? We're toying with man. I'm like, That guy had his fucking dick out. There. We're like, Yeah, he does it all the time. He's crazy. But yeah, that was my running with.

Chuck Shute: 39:53

It sounds like he offended you more than you offended him. I mean,

Danny Marianino: 39:57

he ran off the bus and laughed at me. He thought he knew he got he got the guts oh my god, you know? And I'm like who fuck is this guy check it off with the crazy fucking contacts you know it doesn't look like he's ever been in the sun his entire life while skinny crazy looking fucking fishnet fucking I don't know what the fuck he was wearing I mean just I was already like who is this guy sitting next to me let alone what

Chuck Shute: 40:22

was he aiming towards you like was it going to like no

Danny Marianino: 40:25

I don't remember if the flick and if I was gonna get blasted but I just remembered the dick in the hands

Chuck Shute: 40:33

so did you see that mini series on him on I've came up with HBO or Showtime

Danny Marianino: 40:39

oh why he did that jerked off on other people.

Chuck Shute: 40:42

Oh he's just he was like really like according to the his ex girlfriend the actress I forget her um space on her name right now but she said he was like really abusive and rate said racial things and anti semitic things to her and things like that. And oh the

Danny Marianino: 40:55

girl the girl talking about Brento Vaughn

Chuck Shute: 41:02

that's Greta Van Fleet. The band. I forget. No, but like he's he's like, cancelled. Like there's record label dropped him and like, facing charges and stuff. So yeah, just didn't know if like when you saw that if you if you went yeah, that sounds about right. Or,

Danny Marianino: 41:18

oh, this was like 2000 and Johnson 2000 2000. Yeah, maybe.

Chuck Shute: 41:28

Yeah. Cuz, after in the 90s is when they kind of blew up was,

Danny Marianino: 41:31

I believe it may have been even before that. Yeah, really long time. So yeah.

Chuck Shute: 41:36

Wow. That's a crazy story, though. Yes. metal case. I'm surprised that they didn't put that one in there is some of the stuff in the other books. I know. You have a couple of other books too, right.

Danny Marianino: 41:46

I don't really want to tell too many stories about, you know, crazy people and other bands. I don't want to talk about other people too much. But I do tell Megadeth story in this book. With Dave Mustaine it's kind of funny. Yeah, that one is funny. You know, I've had I've had a few stories with other guys and other bands. And there's a few that I didn't even put it in a book. There's a whole article on the new times. If you look back, if you Google Phoenix, New Times about typo negative and the Deftones in a fight Phoenix. I was there for all that. Right? So we should go down and now almost gotten into some trouble with that. But he just uses Google new times. Like when I mean, listen, you're playing a band, you're in edge. If that's your thing, and you're in that field, then I think we're gonna get along. We're gonna, you know, get along. There's a lot of guys in bands that I met some of the greatest guys you've ever met in your lives that have give anything to you give you the shirt off their back. You know, like, I like a perfect example of the band sick of it all. Or Agnostic Front. Absolutely. Unbelievably, the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Ever. There's other bands that you play with? We played with some crazy band called the sugar cult.

Unknown: 43:09

You'll be hearing him share. Yeah, I have heard of them.

Danny Marianino: 43:12

We played with them in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and I guess they were on they were on a Warped Tour and this was like an off show. And they were super pissed off they have a play this off show Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. We didn't we were okay. And what's different sauce, run tours. And he shows his show. And I was excited because that was a fan of CK why this was kind of a fourth Jackass was really like a big thing. And those couple of those guys from there from the Jacquez crew were at the show, but the sugar called guys were like super dickheads to us. I mean, they were like they were like complaining how, you know, we don't do these kinds of shows. We're on a Warped Tour. Now. This is bullshit. But like complaining all the time, we're like going along with you guys play this. We're gonna bust into your man and steal your beer. We did. So

Chuck Shute: 44:06

Wow. So are you still friends with some of these guys? Like I think you mentioned Jamey Jasta was your buddies are you still friends with him? Or is there any

Danny Marianino: 44:13

kind of lost touch with James and I just did some minor notes for heap read they put out a double heap readout and there's a label in Europe that just put out forgot which two albums maybe perseverance and another one and they had some different musicians talk about hey, breathe and stuff and I did some minor notes in that I get one for now bomb two. I think the nail bomb ones out right now. Right I talked about a little bit about they did point blank and then proud to commit commercial suicide as a double album, the slave on there but I really haven't talked to Jamie.

Chuck Shute: 44:55

So what are you up to these days? I mean, obviously the band is kind of not really necessarily broken up but how As you do occasionally one offs here and there but so what are you up to? Are you involved in the music business or something else are

Danny Marianino: 45:06

up and writing I got another book out that I really keep busy with called It blows my mind. It's all kinds of stuff that I'm completely annoyed by him like a list sky. So I write these lists down. And I keep these lists of things that are stupid that that most people are annoyed by. And I point out why it's funny that I'm annoyed by him. And there's cool illustrations throughout the book. And so I make a lot of videos for that. And I'm working on volume two right now with the artists. It's gotten MC really good friend of mine, Mickey's out of Australia. He does like a lot of band stuff, shirts or posters for tours, and he just did this. Are you familiar with biohazard? Oh, yeah.

Unknown: 45:46

Evan Seinfeld him? Yeah.

Danny Marianino: 45:48

So biohazards do some shows again. And they played with sheer terror, New York. And my buddy Mickey did my book. He did this knockoff of biohazards urban discipline, album cover. But it says sheer terror. And it wasn't the kid that would jump rope. It was like an old skinhead. And it said bourbon discipline instead. It was really cool. Really well done. So he does a lot of stuff like that. And he's, he's going to just stay busy making YouTube videos and instagram videos. It blows my mind.

Chuck Shute: 46:21

So what's some of the shit that annoys you that I obviously don't give away the whole book. But is there something that you can mention here?

Danny Marianino: 46:27

I got it here.

Unknown: 46:30

Yeah, give us a preview here.

Danny Marianino: 46:31

Let's just pick a page here. 6969 Okay, that's a funny number of pixels. See what's six 760 nines image so I'm gonna have to do the page before drinking coffee from a glass. I may have mentioned, drinking water from a coffee cup was a horrible experience. Oddly enough, I find up coffee from a glass just as nausea. And it's it's got the guy drinking coffee. Water. Will

Unknown: 47:05

anyone do that? I

Danny Marianino: 47:06

feel like I've read do they do people do you see like in movies, too, like they just fill up their coffee cup at the water fountain at work. I'm like, Oh, I see. Well, apparently. But yeah, I mean, that one, maybe it's not my favorite but counting your pregnancy by weeks. So there's a lot of illustrations, you know, with a guy that kind of looks like me. telepresence right which Why do I have to be a mathematician to understand you're four months pregnant? I get it you go by trimesters shit, but I go by months like the rest of the fucking world.

Chuck Shute: 47:39

Where I think a lot of this shit must come from social media because everyone is just so I mean, and I'm probably guilty of it, too, is just so narcissistic. On social media, you know, it's all about Nene. And like, a lot of people probably say why is who cares? You know, I think that's kind of the theme of social media a lot of times is why do I need to know this? Why do I need to know what the guy I had high school biology with had for lunch today?

Danny Marianino: 48:04

Everybody posts everything. Yeah. Yeah, it was a lot of stuff that like we all deal with, like, like, you know, like with COVID. blowing out the candles. This is what I thought of during that time. I always wondered what you're inhaling saliva tastes like those 90 year old teeth. And that mustache mix with a strong spray of spit is a combo Nolan should endure, let alone all her relatives. Can we stop blowing up bullshit candles already? Which is don't come true.

Chuck Shute: 48:34

Sounds inspiring. Awesome. Well, now that book is out now. Right? And then this what is this call? Is it just called? Don't punch rockstars? Or was there was like a foot longer title right there. Don't ever touch a rock star.

Danny Marianino: 48:46

Don't ever punch a rockstar, a collection of hate mail and other crazy rumors. That's the newest one that's out now through the wolf publishing. You can get it on Amazon as well. Just search Danny Murray and you know, on Amazon, you'll find all my books will all come up.

Chuck Shute: 49:03

Okay, cool. And then I always am promoting a charity or nonprofit. Is there something that you want to give a shout out to here?

Danny Marianino: 49:08

Yeah, I'm really into Alice Cooper's organization for kids. It's called Rock or rock solid rock, a super solid rock teen center. So what they do people give donations. It helps them run the facility for for it and there's all kinds of people that teach kids the arts there that like do it on volunteer basis, like guitar lessons or singing lessons or drums, teaching them video stuff, editing, all that stuff. And it's done for kids up to like I think the age of almost one years old. You can go there and get lessons for free and learn the arts, you know where maybe kids couldn't afford lessons today. This is an opportunity for them to really excel, learn more. And Alice Cooper is really doing a great job. He's got two facilities and value.

Chuck Shute: 50:00

Yep, I've promoted that one before. Great organization. Great man, Alice Cooper. We've both met him technically. So very cool. And thanks for doing this Danny, I appreciate anything else you want to promote.

Danny Marianino: 50:12

Just you can follow me on instagram Tik Tok, and on this ship it's at It blows my mind. Or you can go to Danny marino.com Subscribe on the website there. Anything that I got, including this podcast? I'll probably link it over there as well. So yeah, thanks a lot, man. Really, thanks for giving me the opportunity. I'm a fan of your show. And that I was able to come on in and

Chuck Shute: 50:35

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