It's been 16 years as of oct. 8th the infamous album that shot Manson to national fame & caused dozens of controversies!

some great songs, but I don't feel like real Manson arrived until Mechanical Animals

paintsprayer said:

some great songs, but I don't feel like real Manson arrived until Mechanical Animals

That is my favorite Manson album!, i heard fans where so mixed on it when it came out but all love it now.

It is a total departure from Antichrist

Saw him live for this tour and his live voice was amazing and the band rocked.

Once he started wearing pants on stage it was all over.

An intertesting tid bid from a recent interview where he addresses the pos Columbine threats.

How do you feel about coming back to Denver this time around, and what kind of show will it be?

Marilyn Manson: Obviously, Denver has been a place for me that has changed since Columbine. Then also since [my late friend] Hunter S. Thompson's death. When I did that interview for Bowling For Columbine, some people don't realize it was two hours before I was to go on stage, and there were so many death threats.

I had pretty much everyone in my family and my friends tell me, "Just don't go on stage because it's Mile High Stadium. Someone could just take you out." There was not a whole lot that the thirty plain clothed police that escorted me to the stage could do about it. It was a matter of me realizing that I can't live without doing this. I didn't do anything to these people, and I think I need go here, and I need to, you know, be myself, stand up for myself and do what I like to do.

After that night happened, I felt that was behind me. It will always be a part of me, but one of the only reasons people don't mention my name in association with Columbine anymore is that Marilyn Manson, the name, was trademarked when I first started out and every press agency was told they weren't allowed to use my name in association with the incident without my permission. That was one of the only reasons why. I know there were a lot of local Denver reporters that didn't make the national press, as most circumstances in life, showing how it's propaganda or whatever it is.

I'm glad to be coming back there. I think now I can come there without any awkward, strange feeling of confused guilt or something because no matter what, people will always still look at me as though I had something to do with something. What's always made me confused in some ways is that people think my music causes other to do things. Why aren't they worried about what I will do? Shouldn't I be the person of concern.

Of course I cringed when the Batman movie thing [happened]. I like to call the guy "the seat clearer" because it's hard to get tickets on opening night. But I had nothing to do with that, but it did affect me, though, because I did the video for "Slow Motion." I'd already shot most of the video for "Slo-Mo-Tion." If you've seen it, you'll understand what I'm talking about. It's the band. The song itself is about popular culture and about how, "Don't worry, we'll blur it out in post and everything is fine. This is my show and everything is shot in slow motion."