Gone at 49
https://www.yahoo.com/music/marilyn-manson-founding-guitarist-daisy-134251653.html
Cancer sucks.
It was as much his band as Manson’s when they started out, but he just didn’t have the vision the other guys did. It’s a shame he was never able to channel his talent into any further success.
Very sad news, he was a fantastic musician. And yes, Marilyn Manson used to be a great band before it evolved into a half assed solo project.
Daisy’s guitar style was upbeat and fun. The Spooky Kids era (pretty much everything pre- Antichrist Superstar) was more or less led by Daisy, then Twiggy Ramirez took over for Manson’s three big albums. Twiggy’s style was more intense and emotional, and just as good. The band soon dissolved and Brian has been trying to pass off his solo albums as being part of the same discography.
What is interesting is Daisey owned all of the recordings before they signed to Nothing, tons of great songs and demo versions. Hopefully someone pays tribute and puts together a nice showcase of all that material.
So long Daisy. RIP.
RIP. Easily my favorite Manson guitarist. I heard about the cancer years back and I’m glad at the very least he’s not suffering anymore.
What is interesting is Daisey owned all of the recordings before they signed to Nothing, tons of great songs and demo versions. Hopefully someone pays tribute and puts together a nice showcase of all that material.
Yeah, he started releasing them but Manson himself sued or something. The one that actually came out, Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows, is absolutely essential, it’s like Portrait of An American Family 0.5 and one of my most-listened to Manson records.
He put together a second one that didn’t get an official release and got put up online for free but it didn’t get the same remastering treatment the first one did and it sounds remarkably worse than even the old MP3s ripped from the cassette tapes by randos on the internet.
He also released the demos for Antichrist Superstar a while back and they’re pretty darn cool; aside from the rest of the album having a lot of differences, you get ACSS-era versions of “Suicide Snowman” and “Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes” which are a nice surprise.
I agree with the other statements that he just didn’t have the same creative ambition the other dudes did though. Reading interviews where he displays his sour grapes over getting fired, it’s really clear that he didn’t “get” ACSS and what they were going for with it, not at the time and not in the relatively recent interviews I’ve read. Just the fact that he didn’t understand why they changed the lyrics to “She’s Not My Girlfriend”/“1996” for the album says a lot.
Still though, his era was a lot of fun and it’s pretty sad that his career kind of sputtered and slowed when he moved on to Jack Off Jill and then pretty much completely keeled over and died after that. He was a talented guy.
Yeah, he started releasing them but Manson himself sued or something.
He had the rights to release the music, but NOT to use the original Spooky Kids artwork or old video footage. He used it anyway, and they had to take that version off the market and replace it with one that just has a logo for the cover and no live DVD (the live DVD sucked anyway, it’s video footage of the band playing but the audio is the CD version).
Also, thanks for mentioning the ACS demos - I had no idea they existed and I’m listening now on Youtube. Fascinating to hear those songs in a PoaAF style, but it sounds like they made the right decision bringing Trent in and making it more ambitious.
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Yeah, he started releasing them but Manson himself sued or something.
He had the rights to release the music, but NOT to use the original Spooky Kids artwork or old video footage. He used it anyway, and they had to take that version off the market and replace it with one that just has a logo for the cover and no live DVD (the live DVD sucked anyway, it’s video footage of the band playing but the audio is the CD version).[/reply]
Thaaaaat’s it. I forgot about the exact details
I actually used to have the version with the DVD and it really did blow. Reminded me of the shitty bootleg DVDs from the 90s that my ex would buy off eBay for ridiculous prices that were always something like godawful camcorder footage where you can’t even tell what songs are being played, or (my absolute favorite, which she somehow ended up with a few of) a handful of lo-fi MP3s of random songs laid over what are basically screensavers of various pictures of Manson and Twiggy fading across the screen with a bunch of ugly photoshop filters.
I still have my Lunchboxes & Chokilt Cows first pressing. The DVD isn’t really that impressive, but the artwork is pretty cool, and contains most of the original tour flyers in the booklet.
Another label put out the first demo sessions (Raw Bone Psalms…I think) as Birth of the Antichrist, as well as a DVD of one of the first Spooky Kids shows. I think the Choklit Cows DVD is just clips from that set to a few of the studio tracks. I think, it’s been a good number of years since I’ve watched it last.
bump I did a fan requested video going super in depth about my collaborations with Scott (Daisy Berkowitz) before his untimely passing in 2017!
He was a cute girl. (Kinda shannon elizabeth-ish) When I first saw their pictures way back when I could never tell if he was a dude or a female based on the pictures.
