Like now – he chuckled, grasped the corners of the chair above him and repeated: The serious battlements of his face dissolve. His life beats in an unease of his large muscles, in shifting feet, a collar turned up against the draught nerves more conspicuous since he keeps no flatterers and sycophants to shield him.
“I think the magic’s gone.Cash seldom laughs. “I remember hearing the Cramps record that came out of Sun records, and I was like, ‘Nahh,'” he says. They were big, I mean really big.” (Incidentally, when Rolling Stone asks if Danzig would ever recording in Memphis like his idols, he says no. “The thing about Roy Orbison and Cash is when you teach them the song, you’re singing it together and as soon as they start singing, there’s no mics or anything, and these guys’ voices filled the room up.
“He was a true southern gentleman,” Danzig says. Years before he met Cash, though, Rubin connected him with Orbison for an opportunity to write the song “Life Fades Away,” which appeared on the Less Than Zero soundtrack. “I keep it a little more Danziggy.” His version went on to serve as part of the soundtrack for The Hangover. It’s cool.”ĭanzig later recorded “Thirteen” himself and, by his own account, made it “more creepy” and “kind of eerie.” “There’s a verse that I wrote that Cash didn’t do in his version, so I put that back in,” he says. “So when you get older and you are successful, they’re like, ‘Wow.’ And then you bring home a picture signed by Johnny Cash. “When you’re a kid, they don’t want you to be a musician,” Danzig says. The singer says he brought an autographed Cash picture to his dad, who was a fan, and got some validation for his career in music. The song was just my impression of who Johnny Cash was and what he meant.”
“I wrote in, like, a half-hour, as soon as I got off the phone. “I think somebody from Rick Rubin’s office or Rick called me and asked me if I knew who Johnny Cash was, and I said, ‘Fuck yeah, I know who Johnny Cash is,’ and they said, ‘Would you write a song for him?'” Danzig says. Both of those opportunities proved to be special to Danzig. During a visit to Rolling Stone, Danzig recalled how Elvis Presley influenced him and how, coincidentally, he went on to write songs for the King’s onetime Sun Records label-mates Johnny Cash ( “Thirteen”) and Roy Orbison ( “Life Fades Away”).
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