That's the end of the concert. He leaves the stage on a stretcher. And now he's in the hospital with injuries that are not specified. (Daily Mail.)
For the record, the official lyrics to "Sweet Dreams" do not have everybody wanting to be abused:
Everybody's looking for somethingI believe I'm hearing — as Manson climbs the scenery — the line quoted in the post title. Looking up the lyrics, I see that at the end of the song Manson adds lyrics that were not in the original song by The Eurhythmics. Those extra lyrics are:
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
I'm gonna use you and abuse youHere's how Marilyn Manson wanted people to experience the song:
I'm gonna know what's inside
Gonna use you and abuse you
I'm gonna know what's inside you
And here's the classic Eurhythmics video, downright wholesome by comparison:
I hope Marilyn Manson is okay. I saw him in concert once (back in the 90s), and he put on a fine show (not that I can remember any of the "shocking" details (except his wearing leather pants with a sewn-in yard-long fake penis)). But climbing on the scaffolding is a bad idea, unless you've got trustworthy people putting it together in a way that's guaranteed to support you. I don't exclude the possibility that the falling scenery was a publicity stunt, but I don't see how it helps him to look like he's part of some Spinal Tap-like stupidity. And it's not as though you could do it night after night, like Alice Cooper hanging himself...
... which sets an entertainment standard that scenery falling over scarcely approaches.
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> with a sewn-in yard-long fake penis
Did it have a bike path?
The Manson prop-gun screw up reminds us of the time Alice Cooper's execution equipment malfunctioned:
"[T]he practically invisible, incredibly strong piano wire tasked with literally saving Alice’s neck unexpectedly snapped; luckily, Cooper was able to react in a fraction of a second, whipping his head back just in time to slip through the noose and collapse to the stage instead, unconscious, but still breathing. As he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in a 2009 interview, it was the guillotine trick that failed him next, almost finishing off the shock rocker in a careless moment. “It was before we knew how to do it safely,” Cooper explained. “[One night] I said ‘Let’s just do it.’ And the guillotine missed me by six inches, and that’s a 40-pound blade!” Even more frightening than these two in-concert near misses, however, was the 1988 incident during a rehearsal for Cooper and his band’s impending concert tour, because this time, Alice wasn’t able to anticipate the faulty piano wire and found himself “hanging loose” in the worst possible way. Fortunately, an attentive roadie noticed that the carefully orchestrated stunt had gone awry, and after several seconds of more shock rock than Cooper had ever been bargained for, the roadie rescued the singer from what may have been certain death by asphyxiation."
@chuck
Now, that's a good joke. It took me a few seconds to get it.
"Did it have a bike path?"
Path? I like to think of it more as a pump track.
I can't stand live shows. The acoustics suck and the fans next to you are either zombies or fanatics. Why would you go to a live show, even in the 90s?
Answer: "I was there."
Annie Lennox was born on Christmas, and I was born on Valentines day 1954.
She was beautiful and could write lyrics and sing, I was without talent, but could buy her chocolates and ask her to be my sweetie...
Alack and alas...
From the Internet:
After a brief relationship in the late 1990s, porn-star Jenna Jameson has revealed that Marilyn Manson spent their relationship being "obsessed with anal".
According to porn-star Jenna Jameson, her ex-boyfriend (shock rocker Marilyn Manson), was "obsessed with anal" sex while they were dating. Jameson, who starred in 1997's 'Private Parts', met Manson at the film's premiere before going on to indulge in a kinky love affair together, involving the aforementioned bedroom antics.
While talking to the 'Daily Star' newspaper, Jameson complained that: "He was just too big to go there. He wanted to f*** me in the a** a little too much for my liking. Every time we were naked, he'd be going for my butt like a rat to cheese. He was obsessed with anal. He even tried it the first time we went to bed."
Now watch the 'Sweet Dreams' video again.
I am Laslo.
Yet more "Gun Violence"
A teenage boy who obsessively listens to Bruce Springsteen will dream about cars, girls, small towns, factories, and highways.
A teenage boy who obsessively listens to Marilyn Manson will ..........
a. become a mal-adjusted psychopath; or
b. become a well-adjusted psychopath
When suicide becomes entertainment.....
People still watch Spinal Tap?
Inconceivable!
-XC
Everybody wants to be Absurd.
Here's better video of the incident.
Whether it was a deliberate pull-down or not, it immediately followed the lyric "everybody want to be abused."
The scene reminded me of the Seventh Station of the Cross, Jesus Falls for the Second Time.
Coincidence?
Manson did a concert in Biloxi, MS back during his Antichrist Superstar days. I was in tech school at Keesler AFB. Our flight commander banned us from going. Bummer. I liked his brand of shock rock.
The only thing shocking about that article is he's still doing it at nearly 50. Grey hair and rebellious rock and rock and roll don't mix; its a younger, non-millionaire's game.
Listen to the guy in the audience scream @2:47 "finish the fucking song!"
The allegory would have been complete if the concert promoter forced Simon of Cyrene to help Marilyn Manson finish the show.
I remember what a big deal it was when Ann-Margret fell 22 feet from a stage prop back in '72.
In a sick fuck kind of way, Marilyn Manson is imaginative and daring. He's certainly willing to sacrifice for his art. I had never seen his video until today. My life was not impoverished because of this, but I can see how such a video might appeal to users and abusers. Me, I stay firmly in the camp of avoiders.
Probably most people saw this stuff:
"Climbers on cannabis rescued from England's highest mountain"
As I predicted, it turned out to be Fake News about alcohol.
Bill said...
I remember what a big deal it was when Ann-Margret fell 22 feet from a stage prop back in '72.
And they had to wire her jaw shut, didn't they?
Look for Democrats to give Hillary! some shaky stage props for her upcoming tour.
I almost gave up absinthe when I learned Manson shared my taste for it.
Almost.
The corrupter got some karma.
Everybody wants to be abused?
The national anthem for sadomasochists, Marxists, social justice adventurists, abortionists/Pro-Choicers, and other ideologues who deprecate and self-deprecate?
I have never been able to locate it online, but on the radio once, about 10-15 years ago, they played Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" as a soft chirpy ballad. When it played, I didn't even realized until about a minute into the song what I was listening to. Has anyone else ever heard it?
I loved rock before all this show shit started.
“I can't stand live shows. The acoustics suck and the fans next to you are either zombies or fanatics. Why would you go to a live show, even in the 90s? Answer: "I was there."”
Last time I went to a live show, i had to listen to the guy behind me talking for an hour before the show started about every live show he’d ever been to. This is one subject where people have a ludicrously distorted idea of how interesting this topic is to other people. But I was highly amused when I leaned over to Meade and was about to say a something like “that guy” and Meade just said, without my saying anything, “I know.”
Intelectually I know that "Marilyn Manson" is a guy, but I always think for a second that it's wrong when I read "Marilyn Manson, he . . . ." Why is that?
"I hope Marilyn Manson is okay."
Why?
You have this odd sense of sympathy for people doing things to themselves, and then hoping they never learn anything from it.
You expressed the same thing about Anthony Weiner.
Why?
True story: First time I heard "Sweet Dreams" was on my alarm clock radio and I was hearing it while still half asleep. I remember wondering why I was dreaming about some stupid song that kept repeating itself over and over and then slowly waking up and being relieved that it was all just a bad dream.
Still can't stand that song.
Except for the cow in the video.
I'm gonna use you and abuse you
I'm gonna know what's inside
Gonna use you and abuse you
I'm gonna know what's inside you
Way to ruin a song by turning subtext into text.
Tour of remaining live shows canceled.
I wonder if that antic was improvised. That piece of truss with big props (metal or plastic?) on top would need massive weighting (in lieu of permanent bolting) at base to allow a dude his size to climb it safely.
Jim: Why?
Basic human empathy?
("Being okay" is not the same as "never learning from things", you know.
It's just the opposite of "permanently crippled or dead", basically.)
Given he thinks his career was almost ruined due to Columbine, gun props almost killing him and then the right thereafter Vegas slaughter by gunner, he might want to satay away from that issue.
Stick with dick jokes...
"He was just too big to go there." -- Jenna Jameson
If he's too big for her, who's the joke on, and who's laughing?
One sympathizes with him.
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