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By: Da Sissop
Date: 4/29/99 8:11:41 PM
# Replies: 13
(Sissop's note: this is NOT a joke!)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Shock rocker Marilyn Manson cut short his concert and abruptly walked off the stage when he realized someone had stuck a large yellow smiley face on a stage prop. The resulting rowdiness ended in 23 arrests.
The crowd of 4,765 appeared stunned when Manson - already the target of criticism this week alleging that his wild, ``gothic'' style influenced the Littleton, Colo., school shooting - became angry Wednesday and stormed off the stage early.
Some in the crowd became rowdy and swarmed Manson's tour bus. Police arrested 23 people on charges of assault on an officer, interfering with police, disorderly conduct, trespassing and failure to disperse, police Lt. Jerry Potter said.
Police and security officers at the scene said there were several scuffles between officers and the crowd. There were no reports of injuries. It was not known if Manson was in the bus at the time of the incident.
Inside the Five Seasons Center, 10 people were arrested on charges of public intoxication or possession of a controlled substance. Organizers had beefed up security at the center because of the controversy surrounding Manson.
Jennie Boddy, publicist for the band's record label, Nothing/Interscope Records, said today she would try to learn why Manson cut short his show.
Potter said Five Seasons Center personnel told him that Manson ``somehow saw (the smiley face) at midpoint of the song and he became very upset.''
He said it was the face, 2 to 21/2 feet across, ``large enough to make a presence,'' was stuck on the front of a prop that looked like a pulpit. It was visible to the audience but not, at first, to Manson.
``It struck me as very odd that it would be part of his stage presence when it was so uncharacteristic of everything else he was doing,'' Potter said.
Tammy Koolbeck, marketing director at the Five Seasons Center, said no one in the crowd or the center's staff could have gotten to the prop to attach the smiley face.
``It was probably put on by one of his people,'' she said.
On Tuesday, hundreds of demonstrators rallied outside a Manson concert in Minneapolis, protesting possible links between his dark music and the Colorado school killings.
At the same time, Manson announced the cancellation of next week's last five dates of his U.S. tour, saying it was out of respect for the victims of the shootings. Manson, who took his stage name from Marilyn Monroe and mass killer Charles Manson, said he blames the tragedy on ignorance, hatred and access to guns.
Response #1
By: sooz
Date: 4/29/99 11:54:29 PM
Using "goth" and "Marilyn Manson" in the same sentence is akin to saying "Christians" and "Jimmy Swaggart". One's the real thing, and the other is someone that's succeeding in commercialism.
Response #2
By: Ralf
Date: 4/30/99 12:16:11 AM
This happened in Iowa. Can you imagine the riots were this to happen in LA, or NY?
Sooz: Y'all are going to have to find another name for your faith. The radical right has ruined that good name forever.
Response #3
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 4/30/99 8:30:44 AM
Hey, what's this "failure to disperse"? I thought we had the right to peaceful demonstration. So, we can get together, but they can tell us when to come apart?
Response #4
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 4/30/99 9:49:15 AM
Gowan: "Hey, what's this "failure to disperse"? I thought we had the right to peaceful demonstration. So, we can get together, but they can tell us when to come apart? "
There you go again Gowan, thinking we still have rights in this country!
Response #5
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/1/99 12:11:21 AM
Come to think of it though, I can't really say as I blame him. Those smiley faces really piss me off too!!
Response #6
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 5/1/99 8:27:29 AM
I find humor in the fact that all it takes is a smiley face to make him run. He can dish it out, but he can't take it? Sheeze..
Response #7
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/2/99 2:12:24 PM
He's just a sensitive hurt little boy underneath that veneer of hatred and malice...
Response #8
By: sooz
Date: 5/2/99 11:36:23 PM
And obviously his mom didn't give him enough hugs.
I'm switching to "Jesusite". It's cool, 'cuz it gets the "follower of Jesus Christ" message across, but looks kinda "Jesuit", see? Jesus was Jewish, so...
Response #9
By: Ralf
Date: 5/7/99 9:03:19 AM
I like it.
Also, "Seeker of the Christ Conciousness" has a nice ring, but it's a mouthful.
I've heard that "Christ" is actually a title, like "Dahli" or "Guru". Thus, his proper moniker was "Jesus The Christ". It also implies anyone can attain christhood.
Response #10
By: sooz
Date: 5/7/99 5:53:00 PM
Right. His name given by his mama was Jesus (he was obviously a Hispanic Jew). His followers called him "the Christ". Jesus had about a half zillion nicknames, his own fave being "Son of Man". Then there's:
the great physician
the comforter
King of the Jews
Lord
Rabbi
Master
the second Adam
Advocate
Almighty
Alpha and Omega
Ancient of Days
Beloved
Branch
bread
Bridegroom
Bright morning star
Chief corener stone
Commander
Consolation of Israel
Dayspring
Deliverer
Diadem
Door
Governor
I Am.
There's oodles more.
Jesus also went about working and healing people on the sabbath, which pissed off the Jewish poobahs. He said he came to supplement those old laws, and to bring a new commandment... the biggest one ever... that we
Wasn't Jesus cool?
Response #11
By: Da Sissop
Date: 5/8/99 7:57:47 PM
Chief Coroner Stone... wasn't he Quincy's boss?
Response #12
By: Ralf
Date: 5/9/99 9:26:47 AM
That snivelling weasel? The son of god? I'll have to think about that...
Response #13
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/9/99 4:52:25 PM
"Yo, bread!"