Glenn Danzig on his long-awaited Elvis Presley tribute album and why he doesn't mind being called 'Evil Elvis'
— Presley’s foot-stomping rockabilly barnburner, which made it up to Number Four in 1957 — retains all the lustful passion of the original with gently buzzing guitar and as much glorious slap-back reverb as Danzig could find. Never does it drift into metal territory; it’s simply a reverent tip of the pompadour to the King.for Los Angeles and San Francisco later this year — would not do on the album is dabble with Presley’s saccharine backup vocals like the Jordanaires’ contributions to “Love Me.
Yeah, of course. I don’t have that screechy, high metal voice, so I gravitated more to that kind of vocal style, like bluesier stuff. I’ve been pretty vocal about my influences, like Elvis or Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, things like that. Yeah, the deeper voice always worked for me better.with [Danzig’s band between the Misfits and Danzig] Samhain. But I remember even back in the Misfits days, we would cover an Elvis song here or there.
The arrangements on the album are pretty true to the originals. Was it nice to do something lighter than a typical Danzig record?record. So I think people are going to be hopefully pleasantly surprised [Do you worry about what fans might make of you singing a song like “Pocket Full of Rainbows”?
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