Announcer:...."John, Ginger, the band, Marilyn Manson onstage here
tonight at the Viper Room."
Audience Cheering and Going mad.
Bean: "Well this is strange, this is very cool and we want to welcome you on behalf of the world-famous K-ROQ. My friend Kevin and I got the band here and the plan for the next hour is to listen to some songs from the new cd and give you the chance to interview the band. We're going to ask a few questions too and we got our man Ralph, Ralph where are you? Ralph in the back way with his arms. He's got a roving microphone and if anybody has a legitimate question they want to ask any member up on the stage here tonight, just look for Ralph."
Kevin: "Let's check out in the audience. Ralph, do we have somebody to ask a question back there?"
Ralph: Yes got one right here.
Some guy: Yeah, have a question, it's um, are you guys ever considering starting up another label like nothing like how Trent did, in the future sometime have you guys into starting an indie label?
Manson: Um, it's possible, there's this uh,. semi I don't even know if she's mentally challenged but she's a country singer from Chicago and her name's Jan Terry. If I did start a label I'd sign her. She has a song called, uh, 'Get Down Goblin'
Kevin or Bean: Okay... (laughs)
Manson: It's like a Halloween thing. I would start it for her. She looks like a troll doll and [audience laughs] her breasts and stomach are kind of all at the same time.
Kevin or Bean: Well that's sort of a good look for her.
Manson: And I like that.
Kevin or Bean: Yeah, that's a good look right there. That's something. Speaking of uh, breasts, by the way, how do like having breasts on occasion Marilyn? Do you enjoy it?
Manson: I figure everybody likes tits.
Audience goes mad
Kevin or Bean: How true. That is true. You got the whole audience with that.
Manson: So all the people who hated me has to love me now because the want my tits.
Kevin or Bean: You wear those at home sometimes in bed right?
Manson: Oh yeah. Sure
Kevin or Bean: Ralph. Go ahead
Some girl: when you think about sex, what is your ideal?
Manson: When I have sex I think about myself masturbating. Beacuse I know what I want and I know how to get the job done.
Kevin or Bean: So you're the best sexual [whore? partner?] you've ever had.
Manson: Well one time Twiggy had my penis in his mouth. I didn't ejaculate but it was alright.
Some girl: and you're not gay?!
Kevin or Bean: Oh no, Marilyn's not gay. He's got a whole theory on that.
Twiggy: He was wearing a rubber though.
Kevin or Bean: He WAS wearing rubber. Well, that's...
[Twiggy mumbles something I can't make out.]
Manson: Which is a funny thing. The other day uh, Twiggy's mom called up out manager and she said, 'please make sure Twiggy wears a condom.'
Kevin or Bean: Twiggy's mom said that?
Manson: Yeah. And you know why? Because she didn't want him to give her a disease when he has sex with his own mom.
Kevin or Bean: Aw, aw now come on! (laughs)
Manson: It's true.
Kevin or Bean: Well Marilyn, should we make an announcement. You got a new member of the band.
Manson: Yeah, Fleisher.
Kevin or Bean: Charles Fleischer? Charles Fleischer is the new member of the band ladies and gentlemen.
Manson: He's the inventor of the thirteen string guitar.
Kevin or Bean: Is that a fact?
Manson: It's true.
Kevin or Bean: Did you have a [patton?] on that?
Some guy with an accent I don't know: We got a [patton?] pending actually. We go a little to the excitement with that..
Kevin or Bean: Well let me ask you a couple questions guys about the recording. We've heard so much about the time you spent recording this new record. Some of the people that were hanging out with you. Is there musical inspiration when you get some of the Coreys up there? The Leif Garretts of the world. What do they bring to the party?
Manson: Ahhh, phooo. I don't know if they brought anything to the album but I think they did give us...emotional support that we needed to make this record
Kevin or Bean: I mean, you're in there making it and looking at Leif Garret and going 'I got to make this record so I don't end up like him.
Manson: Looking at Leif Garrett makes you write a song like 'I don't Like the Drugs but the Drugs like me.'
Kevin or Bean: Ahh, I see
Kevin or Bean: That was a great song.
Manson: And I mean that in the best way.
Kevin or Bean: I understand. Tell us about the paintings Marilyn. And how can we get one? I understand your paintings are moving in Hollywood now.
Manson: I haven't sold any, but
Kevin or Bean: You trade them, right?
Manson: I trade them sometimes for drugs
Kevin or Bean: sure
Manson: for sexual things. You know whatever
Kevin or Bean: What did you trade for the last one you traded?
Manson: a haircut
Kevin or Bean: a HAIRcut. CAN you paint or are they real bad?
Manson: I don't know, you know, that's up for people to decide, but uh,
Kevin or Bean: what kind of stuff do you paint?
Manson: portraits of people. but some of them are on the cd rom of our album. I mean, you could check them out if you want.
Kevin or Bean: Do you own any artwork? Do you buy paintings?
Manson: Well, uh, I own a picture of Jimmy Stewart of the Harvey, of the rabbit.
Kevin or Bean: The rabbit, right
Manson: And uh, it reminded me of Fleischer because it reminded me of the Roger Rabbit so I'm going to paint of picture of him giving fellatio to Roger Rabbit.
Kevin or Bean: that's good. Ralph, where are you? We need some more audience questions here.
Some girl: Um, Mechanical Animals, it's different... a lot calmer than your other albums. Are you ever going back in the directions of your other albums or is this a new direction for you?
Manson: We go in all different directions, you know, and to repeat ourselves would be sort of silly, but to try different things, to me, is the only rewarding thing about art. You know, not be limited to one thing. We explored heaviness in different ways with this album. And the first time it was about feeling... at all. It was different for us.
Kevin or Bean: Is that Antichrist Superstar character exist on this new record at all or is this a different form of the voice or..
Manson: I consider this record to kind of be part two to it, and it's like the other side of the coin. But I mean you know this is such a big part of my life and I can't..forget about what I am.
Kevin or Bean: Right, right. And this might be a good time to bring it up beacuse, I have, uh, heard about you talk about the tour and it starts very soon. And you're gonna be doing obviously songs from all your records, but, you're gonna have one part Antichrist Superstar and one part the new guy, right?Are you separating it like that or what?
Manson: Well, it's uh, there's three parts to the show. It kind of represents a whole trilogy of what the last two albums were about.
Kevin or Bean: Mm hmm. And one part Lionel Ritchie.
Manson: Heh heh. And one part Michael Jackson.
Kevin or Bean: And one part Hootie. And has your friends from the Christian [coelition?] already been protesting against tickets going on sale too or have they given up yet?
Manson: No, they're back.
Kevin or Bean: They're back! Your old friends are back.
Manson: I love 'em
Kevin or Bean: have you had any trouble? have you already had some places where you already know you're not able to play on this tour? Or are you still findin' locations.
Manson: uh, they're fighting us on every city, so..
Kevin or Bean: But after you went on that last tour and played hundreds of dates,and nobody got killed, and nobody went out on a killing spree, what is the real
Manson: it's a real shame
Kevin or Bean: heh heh. So what is the real
Kevin or Bean: You're trying harder this time
Kevin or Bean: But what is it that they're afraid of? They've already seen the show go out on the road and everybody comes home unscathed. What is it now that they think is the danger.
Manson: I mean most of the time it's just a mayor running for re election and it's some guy wanting to collect money on Sunday in church. It really has nothing to do with us it has nothing to do with the fans. It's somebody trying to be a good guy, by pointing his finger at who's the bad guy
Kevin or Bean: Do you think you would be as famous as you are without those people.
Manson: Yeah. No, I think everybody has a potential to be a star and everybody should do as much as they can, I think that everybody here is as much as a star as we are.
audience cheers
Kevin or Bean: So we're all stars in the dope show, that's what you're telling me.
Bean?: it's just easy for a polition to put up a picture... of you that's gonna turn off most people of voting age--
Kevin?: and he looks good without having to do that much. I know what you're talking about.
Bean?: Ralph, where are you. You've got some more questions for us.
Some girl: I have a question about the significance of the number fifteen and what the future holds that's about the date that's happening in the future and what you're leading up to.
Manson: Well, 15 has a lot of numerological significance you know, we've always kind of put that into everything we do. Uh, the 1 5 is my birthday, I'd be turning 30, that's half my age, and Marilyn Manson equals 6, uh, we debuted at number 1, the next week it was 5, and third week it was 15. So some people might see things as a coincidence but I see them as very important.
Kevin or Bean: Do you believe in numerology?
Manson: Uh, my own brand of it.
Kevin or Bean: can you predict the future with it?
Manson: I think you can kind of, work with it.
Kevin or Bean: Ralph, who's next?
Some Girl: Are you guys planning to play in L.A. anytime soon?
Manson: Yes
Some Girl: When?
Manson: I don't have the exact date but it'll be before New Years Eve.
Audience goes mad.
Kevin or Bean: Before New Years eve. Great. That is a brand new announcement. That is terrific news. Who are you using as for the first leg of the tour, do you know?
Manson: 12 Rounds
Kevin or Bean: 12 Rounds? And Fleischer?
Manson: And Fleischer.
Kevin or Bean: Good. And you were just talking a few minutes ago about the fact that this is a lot about emotion than the last on, and my favorite song on the album by far is 'The speed of pain.'
Manson: Thanks.
Kevin or Bean: Explain that. Where did that all come from because that is just uh, amazing.
Manson: Um, that was a song that Twiggy and I actually wrote in Montreal at 6 AM and that was one of the first songs written on the album.
Kevin or Bean: Was there some pain involved?
Manson: Oh yeah.
Some guy: Did you guys do speed?
Manson: heh heh heh
Kevin or Bean: Was that?
Manson: The pain of speed, actually.
Kevin or Bean: oh, I see.
Kevin or Bean: Marilyn Manson tells us that he's gonna play, Southern California, before New years.
The other guy: Before New Years.
Guy: We're at the Viper Room a couple Friday nights ago tapng this interview with Marilyn and the band and as we're listening back to it, we I hear how the crowd is getting more and more restless
Girl: yeah
Guy: and in the next segment I think they start bringing out torches
Girl: laughs. Oh no!
Guy: and try to burn the place down.
Other Guy: yeah it gets a little unruly.
Guy: Heh, she almost died.
(commercials, announce morning's guests and then they play 'Sweet Dreams.')
Kevin or Bean: Marilyn, I gotta tell you we're so happy when you walked in tonight and saw we didn't have to look at your bare ass again.
Manson: chuckles. Really?
Kevin or Bean: Last couple times I saw you on TV it's been all about your ass.
Manson: Are you trying to challenge me to show my ass again?
Kevin or Bean: laughs. Oh no, that's enough.
Some guy: I just wanna say I think Marilyn's has a pretty nice there
Kevin or Bean: Thank you very much I think he appreciates it there.
Manson: See, Roger Rabbit thinks I have a nice ass.
[note: was that Fleicsher?]
Kevin or Bean: That was a
Some guy: that was experience, my brotha
Kevin or Bean: I'm sure you have. That was a hell of an outfit you had going on at the MTV awards last month
Manson: Sits on the ass
Kevin or Bean: That's what I'm talking about. You know, as you mentioned earlier, everybody loves tits. You know we saw you there when you walked in when we were broadcasting from Universal that night and you know, you could hear a pin drop when you arrived, when you walked in because everybody couldn't believe what they were seeing, sure enough, there it is, two weeks later is was in Rolling Stone magazine, s all the world can share. Let's get a question from the back of the room. Ralph, do you have somebody back there?
Some Girl: um, what are your views on sexually transmitted diseases?
Audience groans
Manson: Ask our new guitar player.
John 5?: yeah, I'll think about [(?) sorry, it's hard to make out from the crowd's noise]
Manson: Yeah, I think anybody who has sex with a person in a band deserves what they get.
Audience laughs and gets noisier
Girl: Thank you
Manson: it's sort of a buyer beware
Some guy: Where do you see yourself five years from now and what kind of goals do you have set for the band?
Manson: I never try and look that far ahead, you know, concentrate on each day. That's a real common question and that's how I kind of always look at it, you know.
Kevin or B ean: Are you the guy that takes a lot of time off you know some people can spend three four years between each album and just chill.
Manson: I don't consider it to be time off because I don't see what we do as work. You know, for me, I wanna do it, I have to do it, I enjoy doin' it.
Kevin or Bean: And if you didn't have a record label or deal you'd still be maing music for your own enjoyment, you think?
Manson: I don't know if I'd make music, I'd make something. I've got a need to *express myself.*
Kevin or Bean: So when you're not out there expressing yourself, you're bored?
Manson: Sleeping or masturbating. Watching Jerry Springer.
Kevin or Bean: Sure. And the movie's coming out Thanksgiving too, I can't wait for that. Ask Ralph. here Ralph.
Some Guy: Hi, I just wanted to know what you thought of the new proper goth bands, who are the best of them. Switchblade Symphony, London After Midnight, etc.
Manson: Well, I think our influences when it comes to goth, and we're always labeled goth has always been either you know, Bauhaus and maybe Joy Division. But, uh, I have really listen to too much, you know, from our contemporaries, so
Some guy? Kevin or Bean?: Where do you find uh, new music to hear that's hard to find on radio or TV? People sending you tapes or, friends around the world or what?
Manson: I like a lot of British music, you know. Like Pulp. Radiohead. Some of that Brit-pop shit. What's the, I was, there was that new band called, uh, what are they called, the New..
Kevin or Bean: The New Radicals
Manson: yeah, they said some--I challenge them to come here right now and I'll shoot them right then.
laughs
Kevin or Bean: You don't even know what they said about you, do you?
Manson: I don't care
Kevin or Bean: They mention your name, they're out as far as you're concerned, right?
Manson: Yeah
Kevin or Bean: Go ahead, Ralph
Norma Bates: Hi, my name is Norma Bates from Venice Beach, California and I wanna find out who did you used to write for when you were a rock journalist and can we read your writing anywhere?
Manson: I've put a few of the articles in my book, but it was all pretty irrelavent, I thought. What I discovered was that was---
Girl: I wanna suck your cock (beep) Pogo!!
Manson: What I found was sucking Pogo's cock (beep) was more important.
Kevin or Bean: I can tell you that I've never heard that screamed out from a crowd before.
Manson: I heard it once but it was by a deaf girl, and it sounded a little different.
Some guy: I got ya. Did you always write lyrics even before you had a band?
Manson: Uh, in high school I was one of those poetry fruitcakes I think and you know
Kevin or Bean: Yeah and everybody's been giving such kudos for the new album to and it seems like there was a huge step forward from uh, the lyrics of the last
Manson: Uh, some people hate 'em, some people like 'em, you know. I wanted to say what I was feeling at the time. You know, cuz I said so much I had to say on the last album and to entire repeat it would be, you know
Kevin or Bean: Are you the guy who sits down and a whole song pours out or do you get a few words at a time or do you have to work a long period of time
Manson: I get inspired by stuff I see every day.
Kevin or Bean: Once you get inspired does it just go quick or does it take, is there hard work?
Manson: I don't think I've ever spent more than like five minutes on a song.
Kevin or Bean: That is amzaing. Wow! What's the best song you ever written, you think?
Manson: the Dope Show. Twiggy and I wrote that song in five minutes in the studio, you know
Kevin or Bean: Did you know when you wrote it that it was going to be such a big hit, could you tell?
Manson: Uh, we didn't care. We just wanted to talk about drugs and being famous.
Kevin or Bean: We always talk about how Marilyn is the only guy in the world who has a responsible drug policy. Everybody else's is 'Don't do it' but yours is 'Hey do it, but don't die.'
Manson: You gotta enjoy it, you know.
Kevin or Bean: Enjoy it. Hey do you wanna play a song and the we'll get some questions from the assholes in the front. Let's play The Dope Show.
Playing Dope Show.
(Kevin and Bean break in after commercials and talk)
One of them: We are playing back an interview with Marilyn Manson and the band recently in the Viper Room in Hollywood and I think if you listen closely during this segment, I think a member of the audience was actually killed. I'm pretty sure that's not a myth. (Done)
Kevin or Bean: we've got a few minutes left here with the band Marilyn Manson onstage here at the Viper Room and the guys are kind enough to stick around, we've got to squeeze in a bunch more questions here, Ralph is going to the front and try and get some of you waiting to on.
Some guy: Marilyn, I wanted to ask you why did you chose to do something for K-ROQ where they always play a lot of censor music and they always play a lot bands that you don't like.
Manson: I think my philosophy has always been, if you don't like something in the mainstream, change it. You know, it's easy to sit back and say, I hate Sugar Ray or say I hate whatever, you know, but instead, you do something and make it different. That's the best you can do. And they gave me a bunch of drugs, you know, so I couldn't really mess with it
Kevin Or Bean: okay, go ahead. I'm gonna go out of the Straker lawsuit. Okay, go ahead.
Some Girl: Um, I have a question for the other members of the band, how come you guys are just sitting back there, like , how do you feel about him getting the big chair? You guys aren't answering many questions. Marilyn's answering every question you guys have.
Another member of MM ( I can't tell who, confirm who somebody!!): Yeah! Dammit! Heh heh. no
Another member of MM (a different one) Twiggy?: We can't answer, we're just sitting here.
Manson: they're not allowed to answer
Kevin or Bean: Yeah, go ahead, in the audience
Some Guy: yeah, I have a question. You mentioned the Smiths a couple times in your book and I was wondering what you think Morrissey as an Eighties pop icon and you as a Nineties now.
Guy from Crowd: Johnny!
Manson: I like the Smiths, that's the irony of the whole joke though
Kevin or Bean: But I understand if you have sex to a Smiths record you are gay though
Manson: Yeah
Kevin or Bean: Okay, all right, just make sure I understand that
Some Girl: Marilyn? I masturbate to your book every night, could you sign it for me?
Manson: Are the pages stuck together? If they're stuck together I'll sign it.
Kevin or Bean: Okay, calm down folks. Marilyn, you're not a guy sequestered in the castle, you get out on the streets a lot, you go places and you run into fans all the time, what is your relationship with the, with them?
Manson: I just appreciate the fact that people care enough to like us, you know. A lot of the people who complain about being a star you know, what's the point?
Kevin or Bean: It never becomes a hassle to be Marilyn Manson quote enquote?
Manson: No, no.
Kevin or Bean: are there times when you, take off the makeup, watching Friends, having a pizza? Be normal again for a minute?
Manson: I've never seen Friends
Kevin or Bean: Never seen Friends? Good. I think Marilyn would kill Ross and Rachel if he had to see and episode.
Manson: But I have noticed that David Schwimmer's nose keeps getting smaller.
Kevin or Bean: Somethin going on there, I don't know. Another question or two in the audience?
Some Guy: I just wanna make a comment. My name's Mark and I uh, I wanna thank Marilyn and the rest of the band for making such a great album and for uh,
Manson: Thanks man
Mark: And just being as strong as you are in going forward and not letting anyone stop you.
Some Guy: What do you think of your fans like Jenny Jones?
Manson: I love em' all. Jenny Jones sent some producers to Chicago when I did a book sign there and tried to lure me with sex to be on the Jenny Jones show.
Kevin or Bean: Is that right?
Manson: But she was real brown. And wrinkly. So I said no.
Kevin or Bean: You can get far better women on your own, you don't need that. That's for sure.
Some guy: What did you think of the Claymation done on you on Celebrity Deathmatch. Did you like that?
Manson: I'm still the champ.
Kevin or Bean: Who did you beat, by the way, on the deathmatch?
Manson: I beat them all. I killed them all.
A member of MM John5?: Except (all comers?)
Some girl: What do you do really think about your fans?
Other girl: We love you!
Manson: As long as everyone supports me, I support them, you know.
Kevin or Bean: Let me ask you about a couple of records. Your friend Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins album, what did you think of that?
Manson: uh, it was weird record, you know? To me. Cuz he was making it the same time we were making ours, so uh, it was hard to listen to it and be objective about it because I heard it when it was being made.
Kevin or Bean: How about the Hole album. How do you like that?
Manson: I thought it was pretty decent.
Kevin or Bean: Mm hmm. All right, Ralph where are you?
Ralph: I'm in hell
Some girl: Well Marilyn, I want to know what inspired your new, much more 'glam' look.
Manson: It was about kind of going back to where we started, I think this is kind of uh, we were always about. Antichrist Superstar saw us going through more a transformation and that's where we started from so we just went back there.
Kevin or Bean: Another question in the back?
Some girl: Hi guys, I would like to know not that you're rich and successful, what do you really want out of life?
Manson: Drugs.
Kevin or Bean: Marilyn, you love the drugs so much, why is it that you're not gonna be the latest rock star overdose? How is it that you are able to, uh.. So many people have start down the path they have access to so much it's impossible for them to say no when the time comes.
Manson: I mean, uh, they kind of got it right. It's about..
A guy: He's too smart for that.
Manson: The abusers make the users look bad.
Kevin or Bean: All right, next question?
Some Guy: I wanna ask you, do you ever get out to small clubs to check out bands?
Manson: I haven't had the opportunity, but uh,actually there's one small band that I know of in Detroit that is an actual dwarf
Kevin or Bean: A dwarf band? Good deal!
Manson: I like that.
Kevin or Bean: Okay, just so people know cuz I don't know when they'll hear this again, you did say that you'll have a tour uh, date here in Los Angeles before the end of the year.
Manson: Yeah
Kevin or Bean: How long are you gonna be out on the road with this current tour?
Manson: Year or two maybe.
Kevin or Bean: This is a big one right? This is gonna be a round the world thing?
Manson: yeah.
Kevin or Bean: Round the world?
Manson: yeah
Kevin or Bean: All right, one more question. Ralph
Some guy: Thanks. Okay, just wondering Marilyn, how did you find your new guitar player? How did you go about that?
Manson: um well, he, he
Kevin or Bean: By the way, he kicks ass with this album
Manson: He played with a lesbian. He played with a gay guy. So I figured he'd done everything so I wanted to bring him in. And uh, the audition was, uh, we asked him to play 'Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner' by Iron Maiden, and then Twiggy and I showed him our penises and we was fine with it and that was it.
John 5 (pretty sure it's him): And (s)eeking 'Compatible Man' the 'Lights Dungeons and Dragons' and Iron Maiden.
Manson: yeah
Kevin or Bean: Well it worked out well, that was a good plan. Quite a process there was what it is. Well Marilyn you've always been terrific to us on K-ROQ and you know we've always enjoyed the opportunity to spend some time with you and we would like to thank the rest of the band for being here too and the Viper Room, and thank the fans of Marilyn Manson too.
Manson: Thank you.
Kevin or Bean: Marilyn Manson everybody! Manson: Thank you guys for coming I really appreciate it.
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