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| FOR ALL THOSE WHO SEE THIS PAGE, I DO NOT AGREE WITH MAZZA'S RELIGION,SO DON'T JUDGE ME) |
| Recipe for a Marilyn Manson: Take one music journalist from Ohio and add one part sex kitten, one part serial killer. Mix well. Slowly fold in some KISS, Alice Cooper, power chords, Trent Reznor, occultism, and Dr. Seuss. Season with one hell of a marketing campaign. Cover, let simmer, and ladle over the youth of America. Serves 4 million. |
| The shtick is old, but Marilyn Manson's devotees don't seem to know it. Whether or not you buy the neo-Satanism hype doesn't matte � the fans do, and there are enough of them to have propelled the five-piece hard-rock band to platinum status. While they've landed on morality-czar William Bennett's hit list, Marilyn Manson's disciples revel in their outside-looking-in status Being called "filth and crap" by America's self-declared "cultural warrior" has done nothing but increase the fervor of the band's hardcore fans. |
| If you're a death metal neophyte, you should note that Marilyn Manson is both the name of a band from Florida and the name of that band's lead singer for the most part, the two are the same. Marilyn Manson, the singer, came into the world as Brian Warner, a Midwestern boy who spent a fairly typical childhood in Canton Ohio: His parents stayed together, he hung out at the malls, and he spent plenty of time making crank phone calls just like any other red-blooded American kid. All of which makes you wonder where his newfound persona came from. Perhaps most all-American boys relish the idea of becoming the latest personification of Ozzy Osbourne. |
| When he turned 18, Warner moved to Florida, where he worked as a music critic in the Tampa Bay area. In 1989, he bumped into a guitarist who, in his post-Manson incarnation, goes by Scott Mitchell(real name Scott Putesky) The two hit it off and discovered that they shared some similar ideas about the South Florida music scene. Taking his influences from tabloid talk shows and his name from two '60s icons, Manson convinced Mitchell to change his name to Daisy Berkowitz (a freak-show combo of Daisy Duke and Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz), thereby setting the stage for the names of the new band members over the years. When bassist Gidget Gein and keyboardist Madonna Wayne-Gacy joined up, they actually had a real band Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids complete with paying gigs, their own cassettes, and some homegrown special effects (everything from Manson's makeup to Lite-Brite toys reading "Kill God" and "Anal Fun"). They soon replaced their drum machine with Sara Lee Lucas (later replaced by Ginger Fish) � a change that gave them much more of a hardcore than an industrial sound � and in 1992, they were nominated by fans for both Best Hard Alternative Band and Band of the Year in South Florida's Slammie Awards. |