In early 1977, in the small town of Lodi New Jersey, history was made. The Misfits, their name from Marilyn Monroe's final movie were born. The Ramones had been heading the Punk scene since 1974, along with the Sex Pistols who got their start in 1975. The Misfits played thrashing, loud punk music, with melodic chorus' and dark lyrics. Their first line up consisted of original members Jerry Only on bass, Glenn Danzig doing lead vocals, Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein on guitar (I swear I'm not making this up). Many line up changes came well into the eighty's, but the 3 original members remained. The Misfits' brand of punk rock came from their love of horror movies, and they created their image of dark, black eye make-up, fierce, black hair, that was shaped to a point down their face, and leather clothes, that beared their symbol, "The Fiend" a skull. Eventually, lead singer Danzig left the band in the mid 80'. His departure from the band created a massive legal battle, that carried on well into the 90's, until bassist Jerry Only, pulled the band back together, minus Danzig, to create 1997's "American Phsyco". Jerry Only has said that he would be willing to get back together with Danzig, and forget everything. If it hadn't been for the Misfits, many bands would never have been what they are today. On Metallica's Garage Days Revisited, they covered 3 classic Misfits songs, such as Die, Die, Die My Darling. In the CD jacket of "Garage Days", lead singer James Hettfield talks about the massive effect the Misfits had on Metallica's music. In 1999, the Misfits released "Famous Monsters". The video for "Scream" was directed by George A. Romero, who is most famous for "Night of the Living Dead". The band were all made into Zombies for the video. "Vampires, Monsters, Alien Invasions, Frankenstein, we are the Misfits after all!" Jerry Only says. In 2001, the band celebrated their 25th Anniversary. Jerry Only enlisted Marky Ramone, of the Ramones and Dez Cadena of the Black Flags, for an all-star Misfits band. They recently released an album covering 50's rock and roll hits like "the Magic Moment" by Jay and the Americans and "Dream Lover" by Bobby Darin. The Misfits have proved the test of time, and will never die.