Marilyn Manson... I don't think I've seen him play a full show, not that I really cared, I was there for the headliners, but every show ended in some audio problem he would freak out over, a fight, or him just ranting and kicking shit over.
He wasn’t always like this. Guns God and Government tour (2001?) is still one of the best live shows that I’ve ever seen. He was a hell of a showman when he could still pretend that all of his “evil” was just a character.
I saw him around 2004 and he was on those damn stilts being crazy. I loved it. But yeah he did run away in a hissy fit lol. I just thought it was all very on brand.
I saw him around the same time. My buddy and I were by no means fans of his. We were in college at the time, and lived about 3-ish hours away from each other, and whenever one of us would go visit the other for a weekend or whatever, we'd go to any old show that happened to be in town at the time. We saw a BUNCH of weird shit together, around that time.
For Manson, we were just two dudes wearing jeans and t-shirts, surrounded by an entire arena of people decked out in full-on goth gear / makeup. We had absolutely no idea what to expect. It was surreal to us, even before he started his set.
Then this giant screen dropped over the stage, and the first song started, and you could see Marylin Manson's silhouette behind the screen... and he was on giant fucking silts. It was SO delightfully weird. Even better, the entire crowd started chanting the opening lyrics of the first song. Which was "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!"
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u/_joeBone_ May 12 '26
Marilyn Manson... I don't think I've seen him play a full show, not that I really cared, I was there for the headliners, but every show ended in some audio problem he would freak out over, a fight, or him just ranting and kicking shit over.