marilyn manson

[spacefish]

I saw MM at Ozzfest 90-something and I thoroughly enjoyed his show, turned me onto his music and I am still listening. I haven't picked up/heard anything since MA but I'd like to. I'm also an incorrigible David Bowie fan and I don't find MM to be ripping him off at all.

[Eikman]

wow adam, you sure are a fan

[joethelion]

hmm... ok - maybe 'ripping off' isn't quite the right word, but uncomfortably influenced by Bowie... that I think is a more proper thing to say.

I mean, to me at least a lot of MM songs that I've heard, the guitar work sounds bowie-ish... like specifically like Reeves Gabrels or Mick Ronson's work.

The video for "the Dope Show" was basically a run through of Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes". What I find funny, is that when Scott Weiland did this on the video for "Barberella" he was basically killed by Kurt Loder, et al on Mtv for "not being original" and was openly mocked

and no one can honestly say to me with a straight face that (at least up until his last album) he was making open emphatic attempts to shock people. I honestly feel like it was mostly just to sell more records... like the Prodigy when they released "Baby's Got a Temper" -> except he's based the majority of his career on it.

[Leon]

He was also playing at the dutch Lowlands festival, didn't see him.