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A 1992 flyer for a Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids show, with artwork by Marilyn Manson.It parodies Baphomet.In 1989, Brian Warner was a college student working toward a journalism degree, and gaining experience in the field by writing music articles for a South Florida lifestyle magazine, 25th Parallel. It was in this capacity that he was able to meet several of the musicians to whom his own band would later be compared, including My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. He met Scott Putesky shortly afterward and, after showing him some lyrics and poems he had written, proposed that they form a band together. Warner, guitarist Putesky, and bassist Brian Tutunick recorded their first demo tape as Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids in 1990, taking on the stage names of Marilyn Manson, Daisy Berkowitz and Olivia Newton Bundy, respectively. They were soon joined by Stephen Bier, who called himself Madonna Wayne Gacy; Bundy was replaced by Gidget Gein, born Brad Stewart. In 1991, drummer Fred Streithorst joined the band, with the stage name Sara Lee Lucas.
The stage names used by each member were representative of a concept the band considered central: the dichotomy of good and evil, and the existence of both, together, in every whole. "Marilyn Monroe had a dark side", explained Manson in his autobiography, "just as Charles Manson has a good, intelligent side".[20] Images of both Monroe and Manson, as well as of others equally famous and notorious, were common in the band's early promotional materials.
The Spooky Kids' popularity in the area grew quickly, largely because of radio DJ Scott David of WYNX-FM, an early fan who eagerly played songs from the band's demo tapes on the air; and because of the band's highly visual concerts, which drew from performance art and used many shock techniques. It was not uncommon to see onstage "naked women nailed to a cross, a child in a cage, or bloody animal body parts";[21] Manson, Berkowitz, and Gein variously performed in women's clothing or bizarre costumes; and, for lack of a professional pyrotechnician, they would occasionally set their own stage props on fire. The band would dramatically contrast these grotesque theatrics with elements drawn from the culture of the members' youth in the 1970s and 1980s: characters from that era's children's television made regular, often somewhat altered, appearances on Marilyn Manson flyers and newsletters, and were frequently sampled in the music. They continued to perform and release cassettes — shortening their name to Marilyn Manson in 1992 — until the summer of 1993, when the band drew the attention of Trent Reznor, who at the time had just founded his own record label, Nothing Records
Main article: Eat Me, Drink Me
Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album, Eat Me, Drink Me, was released on June 5, 2007, debuting at number 8 in the United States with more than 88,000 copies sold. Released more than four years after The Golden Age of Grotesque, Eat Me, Drink Me marked another change in musical styles that the band has become famous for. The sound was of a mix between his David Bowie styled Glam rock and a Bauhaus styled Goth rock. One remarkable note of the album is that it was written entirely by Manson and Skold in a rented home studio. The album is also the first major label Manson album without Madonna Wayne Gacy (Pogo) as a listed member, making lead singer Marilyn Manson the only original member since Portrait of an American Family. Chris Vrenna, who replaced Ginger Fish temporarily on the Against All Gods Tour on drums will be replacing Pogo on tour for the time being. Marilyn Manson co-headlined a tour with Slayer in order to promote the album with Bleeding Through as the opening act and Deadly Apples on select dates. Rumors also circulated for some time that Marilyn Manson wrote the song "Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery" as an attack on the band My Chemical Romance, for his Eat Me, Drink Me release (which he later denied, saying that it was aimed at people in general seeking to imitate him). In another interview Manson stated that "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I've done".[32] In response to this, Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance claimed nothing Manson could say would bring the band down.
On January 9, 2008 Marilyn Manson posted a bulletin on MySpace confirming that former bassist Twiggy Ramirez was rejoining the band, and Tim Skold had parted ways with the band. The duo have apparently started writing new material already.
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MarilyiN MANSON
Marilyn Manson su američki rock sastav. Ranije poznti kao Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids kasnije su skratili naziv u samo Marilyn Manson. Glavni vokalist i vođa sastava, Brian Warner, također nastupa pod istim imenom; članak o njemu potražite pod Marilyn Manson (osoba).
Grupa Marilyn Manson je osnovana u Los Angelesu, u Kaliforniji, u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama. Često nazivan shock rock, zvuk grupe sadrži utjecaje od strane heavy metala, industrijala, i glam rocka. Kao cjelinu, Marilyn Mansona je jako teško svrstati u bilo koji žanr, jer svaki album ima specifičan prikaz i zvuk. Osnovan 1989-te u Fort Laurededaleu, na Floridi, kao Marilyn Manson and Spooky kids (Marilyn Manson i Sablasni Klinci), jedinstvene, teatralne izvedbe grupe uspjele su sakupiti lokalni kult koji se u rasponu od nekoliko godina razvio u svjetski široku grupu poklonika.
Popularnost Marilyn Mansona se stalno širi, te je sada u svijetu poznata kao jedna od najkontraverznijih grupa moderne glazbe. Rezultat je to zahvaljujući, u najvećem dijelu, glavnom vokalu grupe Marilyn Mansonu, i njegovim čestim konfliktima sa osobama iz crkvenog i političkog života. U početnom sastavu benda ime je svakog člana grupe bilo izvedeno kombiniranjem prvog imena neke poznate ženske pop zvijezde i zadnjeg imena nekog masovnog ili serijskog ubojice, ali kasnije je taj koncept napušten pa noviji članovi uglavnom zadrže svoje ime. Članovi grupe su se oblačili u kostime sa glamuroznom šminkom, i bili su poznati po često šokantnom ponašanju na pozornici, a i van nje. Njihovi tekstovi su često dobivali kritike zbog anti-religijskog sadržaja i čestih aluzija na seks, drogu i nasilje. Glazba Marilyn Mansona je često bila nazivana uvredljivom i nepristojnom, i više nego jedanput, protesti i molbe su doveli do zabrane održavanja pojedinih koncerta.Marilyn Manson je postao poznat zbog koncetracije kako na svoj teatralni izgled tako i na glazbeni stil; zvuk grupe je sadržavao elemente vizualističke poezije, glam rocka, i jos češće kabarea. Marilyn Manson je kao mladić bio ljubitelj Black Sabbatha i Kissa, ali i svaki drugi član grupe je pridonio jedinstvenom zvuku. U pokušaju da uobliči tipični heavy metal zvuk teških tonova gitare i jakih udaraca bubnjeva sa električnim glazbenim instrumentima koji vode porijeklo iz industrial metala, Marilyn Mansonov alternativni metal je također označen sa raznim neuobičajenim tehnikama snimanja i glazbenog eksperimentiranja.
Nakon što je upoznao glazbu grupe Big Black, Manson je imao želju formirati rok grupu koja je koristila ritam mašinu, što je bilo malo začuđujuće u to vrijeme jer se ona koristila samo u dance i rap muzici. Raniji oblici glazbe Marilyn Manson-a su bili označeni sa ovom instrumentalnom opcijom, i proizvodili su eksperimentalne, udarne kompozicije slične Steve Albinijevom radu sa Big Blackom; kasnije sa dodatkom bubnjara, proces kompozicije, način snimanja, i izvedbe koje su imali uživo, postepeno su mijenjale predstavu grupe. Gitarist Daisy Berkowitz i basist Gidget Gein, koji su poticali iz punk-rock pozadina, doprinijeli su na svoj način glazbi i tekstovima grupe stvarajući sličnost sa Jim Caroll-om (čija je pjesma "People Who Died" bila jedna od prvih "cover" pjesama Marilyn Manson-a) i imali su sličnosti sa nastupima The New York Dolls-a. Rezultat je bio nešto što će Nothing Records eventualno porediti sa Jane's Addiction, ali nakon provođenja određenog vremena u Nothing-u, grupa je sakupila neke soničke elemente od drugih grupa iz istoimene izdavačke kuce, kao što su Nine Inch Nails i Kevin McMahon-ov Prick.
Očigledno je da je Manson bio pod utjecajem šok rok stila koji su imali određeni izvođači kao na primjer Alice Cooper; ali skoriji utjecaji su stigli većinom od strane glam rokera David Bowie-a, čija mogućnost da skoro kao kameleon prelazi iz jednog stila u drugi, i da se utopi u novi izgled nove muzičke filozofije, bila je karakteristika koja će često biti prepisivana Marilyn Manson-u od strane glazbene kritike. Hard rock pozadina John 5-a se najviše razvila u zvuku grupe tokom koncerata; Tim Skold, bivši gitarist, basist i vokalist grupe KMFDM, uobličio je zvuk grupe u takozvani "ultra-heavy beat" industrijalnih bubnjeva i gitara.
Kako je ova kontroverza počela jenjavati, tako je i sa njom počela slabjeti njena mainstream popularnost. I pored toga, njeni mnogi odani fanovi su pomogli grupi da očuva svoj visok profil: tri albuma su dostigla platinaste naklade, a tri su zaslužila zlatne, i grupa je uspjela da ubaci tri svoja izdanja u top ten albume, od tih dva na prvo mjesto. U lipnju 2003. godine, Jon Wiederhorn sa MTV.com je izjavio da je Marilyn Manson "jedini istiniti umjetnik današnjice
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