The Infamous Moment—Caught On Film—when Danny Marianino Knocked Out Danzig With One Punch
Here’s another chapter in the story that just won’t die. DiWulf Publishing House/Total Gavone Publishing is re-releasing Danny Marianino’s 2012 book, Don’t Ever Punch A Rock Star: A Collection of Hate Mail and Other Crazy Rumors, with 100 new pages.
The infamous incident happened in Tuba City, Arizona backstage at a gig wherein Marianino’s band, North Side Kings, were set to open for Danzig in 2004. But things ran long and Marianino’s band got bumped off the bill. It directedly led to the Battle of New Jersey Metal. (Danzig’s from Lodi in Bergen County. Marianino’s from Flemington in Hunterdon County.)
When the video of the punch went viral, Marianino received such a mountain of misspelled vitriolic hate mail, he put it in a book.
Danzig told Spin in 2007, “No one asks `why did you push him instead of nailing him right in the face?’ ‘Cause there’s a camera rolling! I have so many friends who’ve lost tons of money…punching people and getting sued.” He told radio station KNAC in 2006, “I know they milked it for all they could…I don’t know how much good it ended up doing for them. I’m sick of talking about it.”
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The guy who shot the video, Dan Stone, told Blabbermouth.com in 2012, “Danzig was signing autographs and the two started talking. Things got heated so I figured, “let’s see where this goes.’ I had no idea of what was about to happen. I just figured I’d get some footage of two guys from Jersey yelling at each other. A push and punch later, the scene turned into total chaos.”