So Marilyn Manson (the board’s favorite, I know…) did a photography book collaboration with this photographer Perou who’s been snapping his pics since 1998 (the glam phase). I love this book and it’s incredibly high quality coffee table material, so I did a fun in depth review. Enjoy! Or hate, it’s all the same to me!
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Good review. Looks like that video took some work. Kudos.
I’ll check this out later. Thanks. I was never a big fan of MM’s music, but I always admired the visual presentation of both his performances and himself.
That’s cool, let me know what you think!
Thanks! Getting faster with my skills so that really wasn’t all too time consuming! I’m pretty proud of how it turned out. My home recording set up and editing, mixing, etc. is really upgrading~!
it would be ideal for you to be in a position that you should be able to throw some shit down (demo) to show others. all you have to do is be good enough to get shit down to hard drive. doesn’t have to be Brian Eno or Rick Rubin approved.
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Justin, that review was really excellent!
Well explained and great selling of the product.
I love your editing too, and how you brought in images of Bowie, Rozz, Ogre, etc., when discussing MM’s influences. Great job, Brother!
I’m not even a big MM fan, but you made even casuals and outsiders like me take notice. Cheers!
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it! The photographer who made the book loved it. Hoping it gets its way to MM and he brings us on tour winky wink … More videos like this coming!
I hope you get the exposure from a Manson tour, but I think you may be disappointed meeting Manson. I get the idea with his last decade of releases and horrible interviews that he may not be as sharp, articulate , or just as fun to be around as he probably once was in the 90s. People say it’s always best not to meet your heroes. I think this may be the time to keep liking Manson from a distance. Just my 2 cents.
I’ve seen MM exactly twice. First time was fantastic, at the Roxy (tiny venue) with almost no theatrics. It was a special Halloween show, I think like 2013 or so.
The last time was just a year or two ago, when he had the broken leg. Full theatrics at the Palladium. I did not mind that he was sitting in a chair the whole time, as it worked with the stage set. However, he was a lousy, sloppy drunk and/or pilled out mess and could barely sing and keep up with the music. An absolute embarrassment.
I have zero hopes or need for approval when it comes to meeting Marilyn. I respect him as an artist above all else. As a person, I know it’s a mixed bag. Touring with him would be more of a business venture at this point for me than a chance to bond with my idol (which is admittedly how I’d have looked at it a few years ago).
I kinda think this might be worse considering what Acid said…
"However, he was a lousy, sloppy drunk and/or pilled out mess and could barely sing and keep up with the music." I can’t imagine he being very business savvy in this state, either. But either way good luck to ya’. Prongs knows you’ve proved me wrong before, for the better 
I think he means moreso that it would be a fantastic opportunity to get in front of some big crowds and expand his visibility / fanbase. I suspect Al’s team didn’t pay out huge either, but getting on a substantial ticket like that gives great opportunity to roll shit forward to where it would make some dough. And merch sales are typically better when you’re playing to a couple thousand people who had the money to shell out for a big rock show . . . . as opposed to a small solo gig, or performing for 100 people who came to see Bunny and the Bear or William Control or some such jibber jabber.
Manson can be a shitty mess of a businessman. Voidy’s got a good head on his shoulder and can parlay that shit regardless.
You ain’t gonna get an argument out out of me.
I get the bigger audience. That’s why I originally wrote
I was just kinda talking about interactions with Manson in general, whether it’s hero worship/meeting him, or business interactions. I can’t imagine anything good coming out of any one on one situations, given the state of his social presence (interviews/albums, performances, etc) the last 10 years.
But yeah a larger audience would definitely do Voidy some good. No argument there.
Yeah that’s what I was referring to. Ministry paid us nothing by the way, other than catering. But even nothing and covering gas costs, trailer rental, etc. and playing for a thousand people a night is more profitable than a couple hundred bucks as a headliner plus merch sales to a hundred people or less.
More people = more potential fans, more money.
Manson is deceptive. He goes through lucidity and then drunken bouts. He’s a savvy businessman even if he’s not a coherent performer all the time, though. He wouldn’t have a career today if he wasn’t savvy. Having a long career like he has is no walk in the park in the music industry. It’s next to impossible to sustain. And believe me, he’s doing a lot better than a lot of rockstars that might have been dismissed as a fad just like he was in the late 90s.
That being said, yeah I don’t expect him to “put me on”, produce my album, “shout me out”, collaborate etc. If some of that happened, cool. I’d not hold my breath. Manson cares about #1 … HIMSELF. That much is beyond crystal clear. He is the mainstream pop culture figurehead of Satanism after all…
I just want to play for his fanbase. Hell, I’ve made more new fans handing out CDs at the parking lots of his shows than on some small tours I wasted my time doing!
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