Hi, Friends -
      i've got about 50 videos on YouTube now, mostly originals but also some covers. If you'd like to check 'em out, just go to YouTube and punch in Jim Danger & there i'll be. Subscribe to my channel and you'll have a list of both covers and originals to investigate. I've done quite a few just recently - did 9 in one night, last weekend, all original.
      i've done a couple by Request from friends. A friend in Kathmandu, Nepal, asked me if i'd do Kurt Cobain's, "All Apologies", so i did that, though i never would have considered it otherwise. He'd just been in a horrible motorcycle accident, so i went out of my way to learn it quickly.
      Then a GG Allin fan who found out about me, heard me do something like, "You Were A Hole To Me" {one of my originals, recent video}, and asked me if i'd do GG's song, "Rowdy, Beer Drinkin' Night" in a low, Cash-like vocal, so i practiced that one for a day or two, then did that too. {Soon, i plan to do, "Don't Talk To Me", which is not only a great song, but has a special meaning and connection for me, since i was in the vocal booth with GG when he recorded that one, just him and me. I was sitting on the floor in front of him and he was making faces at me while he read the lyrics and sang it {GG didn't write that one}.
    So, Please check out my YouTube Videos, subscribe to my channel if you will, and i'd appreciate it!
     Anyone can friend me on FaceBook, too, if ya feel like it. I've got a personal page AND a music page there.
      Keep Smilin' - or not, but
          Have Fun & Enjoy Life!
                 Your friend,
                      Jim Danger

Hi, Friends!
     Got two gigs today - my first two paying gigs EVER! First in downtown Rochester {NH} at Octoberfest, intersection of Hanson St. & Main St. {at the fork, right in center of town}, from 3:20 'til 4. That one's quick and easy. Then at a party in Kittery {Me.} on Rt. 1 bypass, southbound side, 500 feet south of Jackson's Hardware, as soon as i can get there from Rochester gig. Prob. be playing from about 5 'til 6:30 or 7 - anyone can come, but costs $10 unless you bring food or are a professional fisherman - it's basically an "industry party" for commercial fisherman - should be a rowdy bunch! That one involves rocking out, doing my originals. 
     So, it turns out that 2016 is my year to Begin. Doing that. 

Just did a Live Feed yesterday on FaceBook, the video is up on my personal FaceBook page, and anyone can see it. In Photos, click on Albums, and there are Videos up front in Albums section. It's a little over an hour long, rehearsal set for the Farmer's Market appearance i'm doing on Tuesday August 30 in Rochester, NH from 3:30 - 6 p.m..
     Anyone / EveryOne is also invited to send me a FaceBook friend request. i have both a personal page and a music page. Friend me if you wanna !
      - jim
i'm going to start aggressively seeking bookings immediately - it's been a long time, had health issues last year but am back in ass-kickin' shape!

Hi, People -
     Playing a Farmer's Market in Rochester, New Hampshire on Tuesday, August 30, from 3:30 'til about 6:00. Downtown, public pavilion, should be easy to spot. Doing mostly covers, but looking forward to it. Could be a springboard to getting local gigs. Just starting all over again, haven't played in public in about 2 1/2 years!
      Love, Peace and Fun to EveryOne -
                     Jim

Hello from Jim, May 26, 2016

hi, EveryOne -
    just a few words, updating and pointing out a couple-a things:
      There are quite a few Blogs here, writings i've done and posted here, but it looks like me that they're not easy to find. Best way i see is to scroll down to bottom of a Blog page and click on dates, poke around a little. There's a Who Is Jim Danger, there are pieces about GG Allin, the Jabbers, and periodic blurbs from me, as well as a few installments of an autobiography in progress.
     Free Music Downloads contains about 125 recordings, varying in type and quality, in no particular order. Most are original songs, those that aren't are very clearly marked, COVER.
     Please check out my latest YouTube video, the first one i'm really happy with, it's called, "Jim Danger Complete Set 2016", and features 7 originals in 20 minutes, plus two Elvis covers for good measure, done spontaneously. Just a practice session i managed to get a video of, on May 17, 2016.
         Best to EveryBody, and be in touch if you'd like. i'm on FaceBook and have a Jim Danger music page there, as well.
       Thanks -
                Jim Danger

Iggy Pop Let Us Down

Iggy Pop Let Us Down By Jim Danger October, 2015

The “Hall of Fame” - what a crock of shit!

Johnny Rotten kept his integrity & his rock'n'roll credentials, by telling this bogus enterprise to fuck off when they came calling to use him for their perverse gain. He didn't let their “prestigious” odor inflate his head. He didn't brush aside his loyalty to reality by finding some excuse to play along with the phony, ego-boosting, corporate shenanigans of the odious & reprehensible institution called the “Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame”. {It pains me even to write the name 'rock'n'roll' in conjunction with the name of this egregious, farcical club.}

There are two main considerations which move me to so vehemently oppose the existence of this institution. The first is that this corporation, the “Hall of Fame” is using each particular artist – using the artist's fame & fandom, as well as their image & their art – for their own gain. The Hall of Fame does not love these people. They view the artist as a commodity, and the inclusion of the artist in their “hallowed halls” as a way of luring more customers, selling more tickets – making more money. They use & package the artist, make a trinket of them, a keychain ornament; merchandise. Who profits by this reduction of a musical artist to a pay-to-see museum display? The Hall of Fame itself, of course. So, why would an artist allow themselves to be used & exploited by this corporation? It's strictly the appeal to the ego, to the blinding vanity of the artist, that would intoxicate them to the point of bending over for the royal & final, eviscerating shaft. Congratulations – you're now a museum attraction, one of our collection, & an item that we can sell, over & over & over, profiting immensely. Hah – sucker! What does the artist get out of it? Nothing but ego-inflation, bragging rights: “Hey, I'm in the Hall of Fame – I'm on a phony pedestal!

This brings me to the second reason why it's a grievous crime for a rock'n'roller who should know better {there are some 'inductees' who I would not expect to know better}, to accept the money-green laurel offered by the corporate hand of the “Hall of Fame”: it's a snobby, self-important, ego-inflated insult to all rock'n'rollers everywhere who are not chosen by this bullshit-stuffed committee, for inclusion. “Ooo, they picked me, they picked me!” Who picked you? God? Rock'n'roll itself? Rock'n'roll fans everywhere? Your own fans? No! Some fucking duly-appointed panel of judges picked you. The institution picked you. {I've said many times, 'rock'n'rollers get thrown out of institutions – not inducted into them. The other way around is anathema to the very spirit of rock'n'roll, which is street-level.} Shame on you for selling your legitimate place in rock'n'roll music for a seat in the esteemed halls of the bureaucracy of the business world. You sold out your friends. You accepted being singled out for a luxury cabin on the corporate yacht, leaving all the rest of the legitimate, hard-working, fully-devoted rock'n'rollers flogging the treacherous waters of ignominy, or paddling honestly in little rowboats. “You can come in, they can't.” “Okay! Gee, thanks for letting me join the club! It sucked just being one of them{pointing to all those pure-of-heart rock'n'rollers who are not allowed on the yacht}!”

I used to really look up to Iggy Pop. I didn't make an effort to buy a lot of his recordings, because so many of them sucked, and it was hard – and expensive – to glean good stuff that was to be found among the useless. Even on a double-CD “essential collection”, I liked only a handful of songs enough to listen to them repeatedly. Still, though, he stood for something – I thought; he was one of us – I thought. He was a no-bullshit, bare-bones, real person – I thought. All of that disintegrated, the moment I found out that he'd played along with the offensive farce that is the “Hall of Fame”. I have absolutely zero interest in hearing him again, or seeing him again – and he was one of my main heroes in life! {I saw him perform in person twice, once in '80 & once in the '90s. I got a letter from him once, too.} Now I see him for what he is – a self-obsessed poser. He stopped surprising anyone decades ago. He has a set-list & an act, & he goes onstage & does all the regular hits, & does his ultra-predictable Iggy Pop act. Once you've seen it, expect nothing different; that's it – that's his jump-around-like-crazy-with-your-shirt-off, same-old-vocal-but-getting-weaker act. There's really nothing there, if no gut-level integrity & substance, which, when I presumed them to be there, kept me signing on as a big fan even when I stopped paying much attention to the same act I'd seen over & over. It was the idea of Iggy Pop – the Iggy Pop integrity – that kept me a fan & somewhat of an idolater; he was real.

Learning that he had accepted induction into the Hall of Fame, & played along with it hook, line & sinker, obliterated the idea of “the Iggy Pop integrity”. He sold it – and me along with it. Now he's got as much depth & substance as any other bubble-gum card. He let me down – he let us down.

An anti-torture ad campaign sought to make the point that anyone can be made to say anything, under torture. They made their point by using Iggy Pop's face in their ad, making it look beaten & severely roughed up, & he was saying, “I really believe that Justin Bieber is the future of music.” This was meant to be considered totally absurd, for if anyone could be trusted to speak the gut-level, no-bullshit truth about music, one would think it would be Iggy Pop. This is what he used to represent: integrity in rock'n'roll. He's the guy, one assumed, who would never sell out. That's what he meant to me, even though I'd heard he could be very deceitful & conniving in matters of business. Well, now I see that his conniving duplicity in matters of business, has bled over into his very rock'n'roll persona, as he's allowed himself to become a product hawked by the institution; and it didn't take torture to turn the messiah into one of the temple money-changers & flim-flam peddlers. Just a high-priced invitation. He has shaken hands with the devil of commerce, hype & phony laurels. I'd guess it was a marketing decision, probably also tinged with a healthy dose of sheer egotism.

It was a fuckin' bad move, though, because to me & probably many other fans, he destroyed the essence of his career by accepting this bureaucratic “honor”.

Recently, I made a note to myself, not thinking of Iggy Pop at the time, but what I wrote can well be applied here, to him:

“Some things are bad for your career, but good for your image – and that's a trade I'll make, any day. Integrity is everything; if you can't believe someone, why listen to them?”

I'm not listening to Iggy anymore. For me, he's lost his Pop.

GG Allin Handwritten Letters To Be Auctioned April 24

Hi, Friends -
     Anyone interested in GG Allin stuff, please be aware and spread the word that a couple of the letters GG wrote to me and/or stuff he wrote on, signed, etc., and sent to me, will be auctioned off in Australia on April 24 - serious bids from anywhere will be considered, i'm sure. The money raised from this punk merchandise auction will go toward helping homeless kids. The guy in charge is known to me personally and is legit.
          Thanks,
                    Jim