Take somebody like Marilyn Manson. You don't think Axl and GN'R influenced him in anyway?
I do not. And I'm a pretty big Manson fan, so this is not just me being difficult.
... Another song which Manson and band have covered for use on a future single is the equally controversial Guns ?n? Roses track ?One In A Million?, on which singer Axl Rose stated: ?Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me/They come to our country and spread some f**king disease?. The lyrics caused outrage back in ?88, so much so that Rose was forced to make an awkward public apology for the offense caused to America?s black and gay populations. Manson views the song - and the storm of protest which followed - with a wicked fascination.
"It?s interesting to me that Axl Rose would write a song like that and then back down in the press and not be able to defend his statement," he says. "If you?re going to have the balls to make that kind of statement, then you should be able to back it up. So I figure I?ll say it and then show him how it?s done properly. These people really don?t know how to do anything right!" Manson huffs. "I have to take up all their slack for them. I?m not doing it because I agree with their statements, but because someone needs to do it properly."
And if there is fresh outrage when your version of ?One In A Million? is released?
"Go bother Axl Rose, he f**king wrote the song!" Manson cackles. "It?s not my f**king problem!"
Also, Manson claims in his book that he introduced Axl to Charlie Manson's music or something like it. I think they could have influenced each other actually, although it's probably not in a big way.
Are we off topic or whay?
Oh, hadn't noticed that this was in dead horse nor how inactive the thread had been since the last posts.
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