A little over a week ago I attended an in-store signing and live performance from the original guitarist of Danzig John Christ. John has not played with Danzig for many years but he was on all of the hit albums. He lives in Maryland and doesn't appear too often so I jumped at the chance to meet him when I found out that he was doing a signing at a record store not too far from me. I had been to this record store once before for another signing and sometimes they charge for signings and sometimes they are free. In this case he was charging to sign... $20 per autograph and the store sold an 8 by 10 photo for an extra $5. He also had CDs and other merch on his autograph table available for purchase. He got started late and did a nice long solo concert which was really fun. He played many of the Danzig hits including one of my favorites Twist of Cain that has some awesome guitar work. After he finished playing he sat down at his table and started signing. The line moved slow as molasses because he took his time to talk to everyone but it was well worth the wait. I got a nice photo with John and he signed an eight by ten that I purchased.
After the signing my friend dropped me off at a small music venue near my house where I saw local (but national) band Any Given Sin. Most of the opening bands were pretty good but my favorite was Any Given Sin who had a very good and polished sound. When the show was over they announced the whole band will come hang out at the merch table and sign and take photos with everyone. I was overjoyed to hear this since it was pretty cold outside and I preferred not to wait outside if I could help it. I bought a signed eight by ten from the bands merch table for only $15 and got photo ops with each of the bandmembers who were all very friendly. Overall, I had a really fun day and it was a great way to start off my first combos of 2023.
Me and John Christ (original guitarist of Danzig)
Me and Vic Ritchie, lead signer of Any Given Sin
Me and Mike Conner, guitarist of Any Given Sin
Me and Mike Showalter, drummer of Any Given Sin
Me and Richard Stephenson, bassist of Any Given Sin
John Christ (guitarist of Danzig) signed photo
Any Given Sin signed photo
