Danny (Shredder) Weizmann
As both "Shredder" and Danny Weizmann, this former teen scribe was a key writer on the West Coast punk and Paisley Underground scenes of the early '80s, writing for FLIPSIDE, the L.A. WEEKLY, and other magazines. His writing also appears in the books DRINKING WITH BUKOWSKI, TOO COOL, HARDCORE CALIFORNIA, and ZINEMANIA. He is currently working on his first novel.
32 articles
List of articles in the library
The Middle Class: Middle Class
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Flipside, 1981
MIDDLE CLASS were interviewed at Argos Coffee Place in Hollywood. Bassist Mike Patton, singer Jeff and drummer Mat were present – and me, Shredder... ...
Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs: Pig Music For Beer People: Top Jimmy
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Flipside, 1981
(Top Jimmy speaks out on the issues) – on his band, THE RHYTHM PIGS...TJ: Who’s in the band? Uh, dig the pig, Carlos Guitarlos, and ...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Flipside, 1981
THE GUN CLUB don’t give a shit. Born and bred under the scorching suns of Dallas, El Paso and (yuk yuk) Los Angeles, rifle in ...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Rag In Chains, April 1981
Shredder: Tell me what it’s like being the number one band around. ...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Rag In Chains, 1982
FEAR were interviewed by Shredder & Grant Miller a while back, before Fear were on Saturday Night Live. Fear has been a major band in ...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Flipside, 1982
PENELOPE SPHEERIS is the director of the now quite old L.A. punk film The Decline Of Western Civilization, and she turns out to be a ...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Flipside, 1982
YOU'RE PROBABLY thinking "Why the Blasters' guitarist Dave Alvin and bassist John Bazz in Flipside?" I, Shredder, am thinking "Why not?". They're just an aspiring ...
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 11 November 1982
RIOT LOOK like a more wretched New York Dolls and play powerhouse meatrock, and as meatrock bands go, they are enchanting. The singer yodels in ...
Book Excerpt by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, 'Hardcore California', 1983
IN 1978 THE suburbs of Los Angeles (Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Redondo Beach etc.) were still a home for Disneyland, Movieland Wax Museum ...
The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson: Dennis Wilson, 1944-1983
Obituary by Bill Bentley, Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 12 January 1984
Give The Drummer Some by Bill Bentley ...
Circle Jerks: Real Men Don't Paint Themselves Into Corners: The Circle Jerks Story
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 13 January 1984
It probably isn't very easy to be the Circle Jerks. What with all the jaded Angelenos pulling their pinkies out of their pupiks every waking ...
Leaving Trains: Six Articles In Search Of Leaving Trains
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 24 February 1984
CHUGGACCHUGGACHUGGA CHOOCHOO: Y' know, this rock & roll critic stuff is not nearly what I bargained for. Here I am with about five, ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers Will Pose Nude In Public...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 31 May 1984
THERE WAS gonna be a free newfangled video-disc taped to the cover of this Weekly . Yes, we music critters in the business (we in ...
The Gun Club: Gun Club: Idiot Savants In a Cruel and Unusual World
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 10 August 1984
You know... IDIOT SAVANTS. Those people who can’t complete a simple sentence or add two and two but effortlessly create anatomically PERFECT works of art. ...
Malcolm McLaren: Building Better Bandwagons
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 22 March 1985
Me on Malcolm: Just in case you’ve been on Pluto or in Fresno for the last eight years, Malcolm McLaren is news with a capital ...
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 3 May 1985
Al Einstein, man? He had it all wrong! E isn’t the thing that equals mc2. Fishbone’s riding high off a self-titled cbs ep, rocking down ...
Black Flag: SST Records: Working Muscles, Packaged Wallop
Report and Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 5 September 1986
YOU COULD SAY this is the darkest Dark Age the music world has seen yet, what with commercial radio more dead than death itself and ...
Public Enemy: Westwood Plaza, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 4 March 1988
THE IRONY being that I had to ditch Afro-American History to see Public Enemy play for free, sponsored by the Black Student Alliance, I think ...
INXS, Sting, U2: The Major Rock Stars Who Make My Life Miserable
Comment by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 4 March 1988
MUSIC, THEY say, is all a matter of mathematics. Numbers combine, add up, subtract or divide to make tones, chords, harmonies, etc., etc. Music criticism, ...
Redd Kross, Howling Dogs: Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 30 June 1988
THERE MUST be hundreds of bands out there like the Howling Dogs: normal-guy foursomes who work hard and veer toward '66/77 power pop with melodic ...
Tiffany: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 15 July 1988
BARELY ANYONE I know likes Tiffany, where they might at least appreciate someone like Debbie Gibson who writes her own songs or someone like Leslie ...
The Dickies, Metal MC, Pigmy Love Circus: Scream, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 29 July 1988
TEN YEARS of anything is a lot... usually too much. When I was younger, I worshiped the Dickies as the overlords of my conscience, wrote ...
J.J. Fad, N.W.A: J.J. Fad: Fadmania
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 18 August 1988
L.A. Rappers Pop Hip Hop to the Top ...
The Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (Capitol)
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 20 July 1989
THE BEASTIE Boys make an unbelievable transition here, from juvenile delinquents to psychedelic gurus, from the vulgar to the sublime. This record will quite likely ...
Cutting Crew: The Scattering (Virgin)
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 3 August 1989
NOTHING WHATSOEVER is cutting about this Crew except for maybe the incisively average music they make, or the little 14-year-old girls' hearts they plan to ...
The D.O.C.: No One Can Do It Better (Ruthless)
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 1 September 1989
THIS IS the first album to come out of Ruthless Records and the N.W.A. crew since they became an international press phenomenon as the meanest, ...
The Beastie Boys: Boogie and the Beast: Mike D, MCA and King Ad-Rock on U2, Aunt Bea and the Ozone
Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 7 September 1989
"REAL LIFE is much stranger than fiction, man." Mike D speaks from the turntables in the den of King Ad-Rock's Hollywood apartment. He haphazardly scratches ...
Malcolm McLaren: Deep in Vogue
Profile by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 5 October 1989
Malcolm McLaren looses another musical mutant ...
Chris & Cosey: Chris and Cosey: Trust (Capitol)
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 12 October 1989
IT'S A beautiful world, where Chris and Cosey can inhabit the same record store as, say, Slim Whitman. Frigid and anti-human, and at the same ...
Sir Mix-A-Lot: Beepers (Nastymix video)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 23 November 1989
YOU GOTTA have guys like Sir Mix-a-Lot in the world of pop music, guys who jumped the trend-train so late, and imitated their predecessors so ...
Madonna: A Madonna Discography: The First Decade
Guide by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 1990
THE ABBREVIATED HISTORY of music: first some guy banged on a rock in a cave somewhere: later there was Missing Persons, and now there’s Madonna. ...
Juno Reactor, Traci Lords: Techno Queen of Melrose Place: Traci Lords
Report and Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Los Angeles Reader, 7 April 1995
Seven years ago, Traci Lords was an underage Porn Queen. Now she's America's Girl Next Door. ...
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