I met Pogo and hung out with him for a couple hours at an OzzFest '03 show and thought he was really cool. I'd finished bootlegging Manson from the lawn and was just starting to get into koRn when I saw some guy walk by in Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform. My first thought was, "Oh, that's cool, some fan's doing a tribute to Pogo's latest look," but then I did a doubletake and realized it was actually HIM, lol. So I headed down and cautiously approached him to chat him up (we'd all heard the stories and seen the videos by then), and found him to be extremely welcoming and personable. We walked around and talked and drank for a good long while and he was actually surprisingly chilled-out and friendly. At some point I fanboy-ed out on him and asked if he'd mind signing my copy of the booklet for The Golden Age of Grotesque, and he immediately got this sour look on his face and said something like, "My hand is in a cast, you dumbass." Which I knew of course (he'd punched a trailer not too long before that date), I'd just kinda asked without thinking about it. But he took my booklet and bit right into it with his mouth and I was thinking, "Oh, fuuuuck, here we go...he's gonna EAT the goddamned thing."
But instead he just handed it back with a huge grin and was all, "There you go; DENTAL IMPRINT. Way better than a signature."
:D
So he definitely has his moments, or used to at any rate. But keeping tabs on him the last few years, especially through fb, has really been a disappointment. Bleh.
As for Zim Zum, he's been kind of a dick lately too. I was as excited as anyone about his work on Pleistocene and then later The Pop Culture Suicides -- it really was some pretty promising stuff -- but whatever it was that happened it just kinda seemed to fizzle out. By the time I finally got to see them, back in '08, it was pretty much just Tim Zum and a couple burnout buddies playing some bar in Chicago. They kinda harassed what few fans DID show up because they were obviously Manson fans too, just like he did on MySpace a lot...which was really a shame since that was like 80% of their crowd and they were always pretty respectful and excited about the new stuff. He just seemed to have a huge chip on his shoulder about it and resented the fans while simultaneously using his custom DttWT guitar and hyping up his glory days on MySpace.
In the end, I guess he just couldn't find a way to reconcile all that and just opened up a hamburger-joint-slash-bar out in the 'burbs a couple years ago instead.
Meh.
:-\
Perhaps if more people concentrated on making worthwhile contributions to the conversation instead of just spewing random snarky bullshit then the thread might be a little less "meh."
Anyway, here's one of my pix with Pogo, just for the hell of it.
Last edited by Halo Infinity; 03-14-2013 at 10:46 PM. Reason: I suppose that Marilyn Manson is good enough. I also don't think discussing The Spooky Kids is off-topic either.
I only just saw the news about the Cooper/Manson tour. For the first time in nearly a decade, Cooper is playing within an hour of where I live. But I can't buy a ticket without Manson getting some of my money.
Decisions, decisions.
First one to start the new Manson thread gets to pick it's name and theme. Good luck!