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Marilyn Manson Reunites With Ramirez, Thanks Led Zeppelin

Their reunion inspired him...

  • by Scott Colothan
  • Monday, January 14, 2008
  • Photo by: Carsten Windhorst
  • filed in: Indie Rock

Marilyn Manson has announced that he’s got back together with estranged bassist Twiggy Ramirez for his forthcoming tour, and says that he owes it to Led Zeppelin for burying the hatchet.

The shock-rocker parted ways with his song-writing buddy and band member Ramirez – real name Jeordie White – six years ago but confirmed on Thursday that the pair will reunite again for Manson’s 2008 ‘Rape The World’ tour.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Manson said: “The turning point for me was when I went to see Led Zeppelin’s reunion show, and I saw Jimmy Page and Robert Plant look at each other for a moment, and they probably said, ‘Holy shit, we wrote ‘Stairway To Heaven.'’ I wanted that look again.

“I want to look at Twiggy and go ‘Holy shit, we wrote ‘The Beautiful People.’ I called him and I said ‘Let’s go do this.’”

And fortunately, Manson says that the pair plan to record some fresh material together in the future, saying: “We started music together because we wanted to bring about the apocalypse, and we realized we didn’t finish. The world could suffer much more if we were together again, and we really wanted to bring back the suffering.

"The concept originally of he and I getting back together was ‘Let’s write some music together, but life’s too short, and this has to happen now because we couldn’t stand not being on stage with each other, and wouldn’t want to wait until we made another record to tour. So this tour will spawn another record, one hundred percent.”

CLICK HERE to see Manson in live action in London and Manchester last December.

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  • ..manson is a SIGHT GAG. all he needs is a few animal acts for his traveling side show.

    ~ by IGBT 1/14/2008

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  • incisive commentary IGBT!

    ~ by chockablock 1/15/2008

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  • MM kicks ass

    ~ by Anna 1/15/2008

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  • Here, here Anna!

    ~ by Christine 1/18/2008

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  • He looks freaky on purpose, just to get comments from idiots like you and to get on peoples nerves! Apparently the group likes to make the world suffer.... alot!!!

    ~ by SNAP 1/22/2008

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