It’s the human condition to be alone. You come into this world alone, and you go into the unknown alone when you die. No matter who’s around you, you are always alone in your own head where no one else can go. It’s just the human condition. The only thing we can do is accept it, embrace it, and acknowledge that it’s just part of life. Becoming comfortable with it frees you. I hope you find that place. 👍❤️ On another note, which may depress you or it may show you that Manson used to be different, and has really changed with time, age and enormous consumption of drugs and Absinthe over a long period of time. And realize it wasn’t your fault. Anyway, here it is: I met Manson once, on the Mechanical Animals tour, at The Hammerstein Ballroom; the last show of that tour in the U.S., before they headed overseas. I was 18 at the time and had a friend that worked security at The Hammerstein. I’d always been a fan going back to Portrait, but had never got to see him live. So my friend Tik (RIP) got me in to see him that night. That show, that night, was and still is the most amazing performance I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen Black Sabbath, Bowie, Slayer and Prince, so that is saying A LOT. It was everything I hoped it would be, and more. Electric. All Powerful. Visceral. Transcendent. Obscene. Primal. ART. Blew my mind. Just incredible. After the show, and with the help of said friend’s all area pass, beyond all belief I actually got to meet Manson. No we didn’t have sex. He did smell my hair though 🤣He was actually rather shy, as I am (I’ve never been the groupie type at all) and we were strangers after all. No he did not come on to me, nor I him (even though he was hypnotically sexy as a motherfucker; so long and so lean, gorgeous bone structure, lush lipsticked mouth, red tinged and full hair, just beautiful, so beautiful in person you wouldn’t even believe it). It wasn’t about that though. It wasn’t about sex. If you’re looking for that kind of story, mine isn’t it 😉Yes, we did do drugs together. Good drugs. Really top notch china. I’ve never been an addict, but back then, in my younger years, I did like to partake once in a while. And it was to good of a once in a lifetime kind of moment to pass up😉He even gave me a t-shirt that reads “I did drugs with Manson” (which were the staff t-shirts)🤣I still have that shirt. Anyway that (very very late) night, we talked and did drugs for nearly two hour, maybe a little longer, not exactly sure; time became elastic that night😂. We went back and forth about so much. Religion, books, how and why we’re both actually agnostic searchers and part time hobby theologists; he’s not a devil worshipper by any sense of the word, and his Satanism is more a philosophy than believing in some devil and doing sacrifices and shit like that 🤣. We talked about movies, Crowley, music, art, fashion, make up, medieval torture and practices, torturous early medical practices and devices, the concepts of heaven and hell, both being only children, hair products (I’ve always had amazing hair, au natural, he asked me about what I used in it 😂), being force fed religion growing up, different things that made our parents wierd and crazy (I’ve seen and lived through some horrible shit in my life including my parents being in a religious cult when I was a little kid-therefore I was in a cult when I was a little kid because I had no choice-I was a little kid), and how no matter what anyone may say, no one knows for sure what really happens when we die. We also concluded that we had a shared belief that it’s deep seeded fear of that unknown part of death that partially drives people to turn to religion for answers and assurances in the first place. It makes them feel less afraid of the unknown when they can believe that they now know for sure. Essentially the unknown ceases to be an unknown for them anymore. We talked about the nature of evil, and the evil that lies in the heart of organized religion. The atrocities that have, are, and will be done in it’s name. Including 9/11 and the atrocities of the Catholic Church. I told him that if the devil really does exist, organized religion is the greatest trick he ever played on the world. He laughed like the devil when I said that. He said I was perceptive, which was a HUGE complement that I still treasure. I told him he was a brilliant artist; he responded with “See? I told you you were perceptive” 😂 I still to this day always refer to him as a brilliant artist in all my comments and conversations. Like a little acknowledgement to myself of that surreal, phantasmagorical, magical night where I got to tell him that in person. It’s how I will always think of him. Brilliant, An Artist. He’s also very witty in person, very dry and ironic sense of humor which we’re kindred in that regard. That night I asked him for nothing, and he asked nothing of or from me. We gave each other a hug, I told him thank you, said good bye to the people backstage there, hugged my dear friend Tik (who sadly passed away from a drug overdose in 2004-heroin and cocaine) and I left. I never saw or spoke to him again. He probably doesn’t even remember that night, but I’ll remember and treasure it for the rest of my life. That night, all those years ago, he really was (and still is) the Mephistopheles of Los Angeles to me. 😉🖤🔥👍🤘 I hope this brings you solace in knowing that your hero wasn’t always the way he was when you met him. You did nothing wrong (except asking for a picture; that was a no no 🤣). It just might have been the wrong period in time to try and meet him, meet the Manson you knew and loved. Perhaps that artist I met in 1998 no longer exists. But the music still lives, so at least we always have that 👍
Ok ive been meaning to say something about this. Idk if you still see comments but the reason Manson didnt want to talk to you or be cool with you is because you didn't pay for the meet and greet. Yes even opening bands of headliners have to pay for meet and greets too. Its gotten like that for a while. Bands use to help each other like family and now you cant even look at someone at the main band without paying for a meet and greet. Had you met Manson circa 93-95 or so you would have gotten a different experience. Its like that for all opening bands now. Pay for meet and greet from the opening bands cash to pay the headliner to talk to them. It is what it is.
Funny thing is, I first saw Manson during the HolyWood Tour and my Dad met him randomly after the show just behind the venue as they were going from the venue and into their tour bus. My dad borrowed a Manson tee from me & dad understood it was them, the band I worshipped, but he didn’t know wtf to do - so he just stood there lookin at em while they went into the bus. BUT Manson stopped up, took his shades halfway down and looked at my Dad and said: «Nice t-shirt, Old Man.» and then went into the bus. While all of this was happening, I was at our hotel room, being rightfully pissed at my dad for being drunk (he is an alcoholic and he promised to be sober for the gig but he failed at it) but I was happy for the excuse cuz then I could watch my newly bought adult vhs while he was out gettin food for us - what I found out after he was gone - AND after calling down to reception - was that VHS players weren’t normal to have in the hotel rooms - so I just stared at the cover while doing my buisness. When my Dad came back and told me what had just happened I got so pissed I completelly lost it😅 During the show I’m talkin about in this video they did no meet and greet. But yes, it’s super sad its become like this now. BUT I got to meet so many of my heroes without havin to pay for it, but just hanging outside the venue etc, like Alice Cooper, iggy (on stage with him singing), Wednesday 13, Acey Slade, Rob Zombie, BMTH and more :)
@@MartinMentzoni Da har jeg guttungen på helgebesøk, men skulle noe forandre seg der, så skal du sjenkes på kaffi! Melder deg på facebook, kaffisiden. ;)
It’s the human condition to be alone. You come into this world alone, and you go into the unknown alone when you die. No matter who’s around you, you are always alone in your own head where no one else can go. It’s just the human condition. The only thing we can do is accept it, embrace it, and acknowledge that it’s just part of life. Becoming comfortable with it frees you. I hope you find that place. 👍❤️
On another note, which may depress you or it may show you that Manson used to be different, and has really changed with time, age and enormous consumption of drugs and Absinthe over a long period of time. And realize it wasn’t your fault. Anyway, here it is:
I met Manson once, on the Mechanical Animals tour, at The Hammerstein Ballroom; the last show of that tour in the U.S., before they headed overseas. I was 18 at the time and had a friend that worked security at The Hammerstein. I’d always been a fan going back to Portrait, but had never got to see him live. So my friend Tik (RIP) got me in to see him that night. That show, that night, was and still is the most amazing performance I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen Black Sabbath, Bowie, Slayer and Prince, so that is saying A LOT. It was everything I hoped it would be, and more. Electric. All Powerful. Visceral. Transcendent. Obscene. Primal. ART. Blew my mind. Just incredible. After the show, and with the help of said friend’s all area pass, beyond all belief I actually got to meet Manson. No we didn’t have sex. He did smell my hair though 🤣He was actually rather shy, as I am (I’ve never been the groupie type at all) and we were strangers after all. No he did not come on to me, nor I him (even though he was hypnotically sexy as a motherfucker; so long and so lean, gorgeous bone structure, lush lipsticked mouth, red tinged and full hair, just beautiful, so beautiful in person you wouldn’t even believe it). It wasn’t about that though. It wasn’t about sex. If you’re looking for that kind of story, mine isn’t it 😉Yes, we did do drugs together. Good drugs. Really top notch china. I’ve never been an addict, but back then, in my younger years, I did like to partake once in a while. And it was to good of a once in a lifetime kind of moment to pass up😉He even gave me a t-shirt that reads “I did drugs with Manson” (which were the staff t-shirts)🤣I still have that shirt. Anyway that (very very late) night, we talked and did drugs for nearly two hour, maybe a little longer, not exactly sure; time became elastic that night😂. We went back and forth about so much. Religion, books, how and why we’re both actually agnostic searchers and part time hobby theologists; he’s not a devil worshipper by any sense of the word, and his Satanism is more a philosophy than believing in some devil and doing sacrifices and shit like that 🤣. We talked about movies, Crowley, music, art, fashion, make up, medieval torture and practices, torturous early medical practices and devices, the concepts of heaven and hell, both being only children, hair products (I’ve always had amazing hair, au natural, he asked me about what I used in it 😂), being force fed religion growing up, different things that made our parents wierd and crazy (I’ve seen and lived through some horrible shit in my life including my parents being in a religious cult when I was a little kid-therefore I was in a cult when I was a little kid because I had no choice-I was a little kid), and how no matter what anyone may say, no one knows for sure what really happens when we die. We also concluded that we had a shared belief that it’s deep seeded fear of that unknown part of death that partially drives people to turn to religion for answers and assurances in the first place. It makes them feel less afraid of the unknown when they can believe that they now know for sure. Essentially the unknown ceases to be an unknown for them anymore. We talked about the nature of evil, and the evil that lies in the heart of organized religion. The atrocities that have, are, and will be done in it’s name. Including 9/11 and the atrocities of the Catholic Church. I told him that if the devil really does exist, organized religion is the greatest trick he ever played on the world. He laughed like the devil when I said that. He said I was perceptive, which was a HUGE complement that I still treasure. I told him he was a brilliant artist; he responded with “See? I told you you were perceptive” 😂 I still to this day always refer to him as a brilliant artist in all my comments and conversations. Like a little acknowledgement to myself of that surreal, phantasmagorical, magical night where I got to tell him that in person. It’s how I will always think of him. Brilliant, An Artist. He’s also very witty in person, very dry and ironic sense of humor which we’re kindred in that regard. That night I asked him for nothing, and he asked nothing of or from me. We gave each other a hug, I told him thank you, said good bye to the people backstage there, hugged my dear friend Tik (who sadly passed away from a drug overdose in 2004-heroin and cocaine) and I left. I never saw or spoke to him again. He probably doesn’t even remember that night, but I’ll remember and treasure it for the rest of my life. That night, all those years ago, he really was (and still is) the Mephistopheles of Los Angeles to me. 😉🖤🔥👍🤘
I hope this brings you solace in knowing that your hero wasn’t always the way he was when you met him. You did nothing wrong (except asking for a picture; that was a no no 🤣). It just might have been the wrong period in time to try and meet him, meet the Manson you knew and loved. Perhaps that artist I met in 1998 no longer exists. But the music still lives, so at least we always have that 👍
Ok ive been meaning to say something about this. Idk if you still see comments but the reason Manson didnt want to talk to you or be cool with you is because you didn't pay for the meet and greet. Yes even opening bands of headliners have to pay for meet and greets too. Its gotten like that for a while. Bands use to help each other like family and now you cant even look at someone at the main band without paying for a meet and greet. Had you met Manson circa 93-95 or so you would have gotten a different experience. Its like that for all opening bands now. Pay for meet and greet from the opening bands cash to pay the headliner to talk to them. It is what it is.
Funny thing is, I first saw Manson during the HolyWood Tour and my Dad met him randomly after the show just behind the venue as they were going from the venue and into their tour bus. My dad borrowed a Manson tee from me & dad understood it was them, the band I worshipped, but he didn’t know wtf to do - so he just stood there lookin at em while they went into the bus. BUT Manson stopped up, took his shades halfway down and looked at my Dad and said: «Nice t-shirt, Old Man.» and then went into the bus. While all of this was happening, I was at our hotel room, being rightfully pissed at my dad for being drunk (he is an alcoholic and he promised to be sober for the gig but he failed at it) but I was happy for the excuse cuz then I could watch my newly bought adult vhs while he was out gettin food for us - what I found out after he was gone - AND after calling down to reception - was that VHS players weren’t normal to have in the hotel rooms - so I just stared at the cover while doing my buisness. When my Dad came back and told me what had just happened I got so pissed I completelly lost it😅
During the show I’m talkin about in this video they did no meet and greet. But yes, it’s super sad its become like this now.
BUT I got to meet so many of my heroes without havin to pay for it, but just hanging outside the venue etc, like Alice Cooper, iggy (on stage with him singing), Wednesday 13, Acey Slade, Rob Zombie, BMTH and more :)
"never meet your heroes" si! Kjipt med Manson, men han hadde forhåpentligvis bare en dårlig dag. Hærlig å se vlogsa dine i allefall :-)
Magisk som alltid
Manson < Mentzoni! Håper du hadde det kjekt med Arabrot
Og rop ut neste gang du er i hovedstaden så tar vi en kaffe hvis du vil. My treat!
Bjoernar Kristiansen eg e i Oschlo neste helg!:) e i Fredrikstad nå og ska ha Utstilling på Moonrise Record Shop kl.18:00 idag!:)
@@MartinMentzoni Da har jeg guttungen på helgebesøk, men skulle noe forandre seg der, så skal du sjenkes på kaffi! Melder deg på facebook, kaffisiden. ;)
Du er kul bro
Code High Ground takk!:) utroli kjekt å
Høre:)
Du e me meg fra stavanger iaffal😉
Never meet your heroes
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That's so sad... #FirstWorldProblems
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