“For me, there were two humorous aspects. One was simply to undertake such a ridiculously complex, time consuming project for no practical reason.

“The second was the idea of making a somewhat mysterious and difficult object - a brain - out of a ‘cuddly’, cheerfully coloured, familiar material like cotton yarn.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4245919/Psychiatrist-knits-anatomically-correct-woolly-brain.html

“Danzig had selected Brian Damage, formerly of Genocide and Verbal Abuse, as the band’s new drummer. However, Damage became drunk before the show and could not play properly.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_(band)