Marilyn Manson announced last night that he’d hired a new guitar player for his band, and that man is Wes Borland, late of Limp Bizkit and Black Light Burns. And from the way Manson referred to Borland’s previous musical exploits in the announcement, I wouldn’t expect Fred Durst to be invited backstage to any upcoming shows: “He used to be in a really terrible band that he left because he felt that it was a destructive force in art, and he has his own band, Black Light Burns, but now he is in Marilyn Manson,” Manson told a press assemblage in Seoul. “We don’t know how permanent that is, but starting tomorrow will be the first step. So this will be the most indestructible Marilyn Manson.” It can’t even be stopped by a horde of red-baseball-cap-wearing angry dudes, or even by people who think that Manson’s schtick is pretty tired by this point! Clip of Manson’s press conference after the jump.
Me, I’m just hoping that Fred Durst’s mom comes back to weigh in on all this.
Marilyn Manson Interview Korea 08 [YouTube via Blabbermouth]
@raihala: Thank you Dr. Cooper for your wonderful drug.
@NeverEnough: Yeah, it’s actually a bad bleached blond now. I see him at shows around NYC always with a young boy-toy in arm.
“So this will be the most indestructible Marilyn Manson.”
Not to be a grammar dick, but “indestructable” does not come in degrees. And you’re not “indestructable.”
Whoops — double negative.
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MM is ok as long as you realize he doesn’t take himself nearly as serious as everyone else does. Wes Borland, on the other hand? I will listen to absolutely anything he plays on. I’ve kinda outgrown MM but I’ll give the next album a shot if Wes sticks around.
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: I adore you for all eternity for this comment.
This would be very big news to John Norris and Serena Altschul.
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: lol
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: i just want fred’s mom to come back and weigh in.
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: Where the hell is Serena now, anyway?
Ahhh limp bizkit (biskit? bisquit?).
Makes you pine for the era when whole bands were lost in plane crashes.
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: John Norris actually usually goes to my gym. And, let’s just say his secret is one of the worst kept.
On a more-realted note, I’ll put LB’s Significant Other over MM’s Eat Me, Drink Me any day. At least the former has Matt Pinfield throwing a tantrum at the end of the disc.
@2ironic4u: Being a friend of Dorothy or the bad hair plugs?
Hidden in here, of course, is the realization that Iraq has drained the US military presence in South Korea to such an extent that they sent over “… the most indestructible Marilyn Manson … ,” hoping that his costume alone was enough of a deterrent to active engaged combat.
Or … is this some sort of cultural exchange?
I adore Manson and eagerly await hearing the fruits of his collaboration with the rape-rock Johnny Marr. I hope it’s more, say, The The than Modest Mouse.
Also, who else was at that press conference? I’m guessing college radio, Weapons and Helmets magazine and, of course, Girl Beat.