Marilyn Manson : Little Girl Lost
Marilyn Manson: Little Girl Lost
Marilyn Manson: Little Girl Lost
Following a tumultuous show at Poughkeepsie, New York's Civic Center, where, according to the New York Post, his fits of "infantile rage," resulted in an excess of $25,000 in damages, inflicted on both the venue and the Poughkeepsie Sheraton hotel (darned hair dye in the sink, furniture thrown through the walls), the first U.S. leg of Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals tour came to a glorious end last night with an equipment-smashing, microphone-as-anal-probe, American-flag-as-toilet-paper bum-wiping, Evian-bottle-as-dangerous-projectile-chuckin', simulated-sex-with-bikini-ed-back up-singer-havin', audience-members-breast-barin', stilt-walking, snow-fallin', pro-drug spectacle that firmly established Mr. M and his goth goons as the lone keepers of the rock 'n' roll excess flame in the staid and afraid late '90s. Egged on perhaps by a large banner that pleaded "Kill the Chickens," Manson, his band and his ass entered loudly, angry, possessed, and incorrigibly naughty and kept the bad behavior up for 90 minutes and, we hear, beyond. After a first act that drew heavily on Manson's Reznor-informed work ("Cake and Sodomy," "Sweet Dreams") the evening's clear high point came when, through a Vocoder, Marilyn introduced his alter egos: "From Hollywood, the drug capitol of the world, Omerga and the Mechanical Animals," and launched into a Vegas meets cock-rock set, culminating with a fierce version of his upcoming single "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)." Manson introduced the song with a mock sermon in full Bible belt preacher drawl: "I talked to God... and God told me, Marilyn Manson, Jesus Christ made marijuana. ...Jesus Christ made cocaine. ...Jesus Christ made LSD!" Oh, and the back-up singers wore Marilyn Says Drugs T-shirts, which, sadly, were not for sale at the merch booths. Manson resurrected his Antichrist Superstar, Bible ripping, faux fascist pulpit for the brief encore, closing the set, the tour, and the book on good taste with an amped up version of "The Beautiful People," which closed with a thorough thrashing of Ginger Fish's drum kit and Twiggy Ramirez's bass. After that, it was on to trendy eatery Lot 61 for a model-studded after party (we hear Twiggy is making the scene with Rod Stewart's teenage, catwalkin' daughter) and then... straight to hell.
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