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* Recordings of "The Nobodies" and "The Death Song", as well as Manson's reading from the bible which preceded it, were featured on the band's 2001 single "[[The Nobodies]]".
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* Recordings of "The Nobodies" and "The Death Song", as well as Manson's reading from the Bible which preceded it, were featured on the band's 2001 single "[[The Nobodies (single)|The Nobodies]]".
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* Protests from religious rights groups before the show are featured in the 2002 film "Bowling For Columbine".
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* Protests from religious rights groups before the show are featured in the 2002 film "Bowling for Columbine".
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 09:46, 18 February 2011

The 2001/06/22 Denver, CO performance took place on June 22nd, 2001 at the Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado, USA. It is one of the most notable concerts during the Guns, God and Government tour.

The date marked Marilyn Manson's first performance in Denver, Colorado since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Manson received numerous death threats and calls to skip the date. The Christian organization Citizens for Peace and Respect asserted on their website that the band "promotes hate, violence, death, suicide, drug use, and the attitudes and actions of the Columbine killers"[1]. In response, Manson promised,

{{cquote|I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called 'violent' point of view, but we can examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.[1]

The Denver show also provided the backdrop for Manson's landmark interview on gun violence and America's climate of fear in Michael Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine.[2]

Several years later, in 2007, Manson gave his reaction to the events of that day in an interview on the Independent Film Channel's (IFC) "The Henry Rollins Show":

{{cquote|We had hundreds, hundreds of death threats so I'm thinking, if I'm going to die it's going to be today because it's Mile High Stadium, they're not going to be able to stop it if someone wants to shoot so when I went onstage I just had to decide, I can't live without doing what I do so I have to accept the fact I'm going to die for it if its going to be today and…it was a great show. Obviously I didn't die. But when I did that interview, there wasn't a name for the documentary, it wasn't really there. I talked to him for about 2 1/2 hours and a lot of stuff that he went to say on the second half of the documentary was stuff I said to him but it opened a window that reintroduced me to the world in a way that people hadn't really understood me before.


If I got paid for every time someone came up to me in an airport or anywhere saying "I saw you in 'Bowling for Columbine'," the most common thing I get is, "I didn't know you're so intelligent." And I'm like, "I didn't know you're so fucking stupid but I don't know you, you know, so…" It's a backhanded compliment.


People ask me what I think about it (the movie) and I of course liked how I came across it but a lot of it (the movie) didn't really deliver. There was a lot of stuff in there I wanted that movie to answer and it didn't. Ultimately, I liked what the movie did but as far as the actual subject matter and the answers that I became obsessed with because I locked myself in an attic for three months and didn't want to talk to anybody because I was afraid I was going to get killed; so I wanted a lot of answers and I didn't get them from it; but that's a different thing.[3]

Lineup

Setlist

  1. "God Bless America"
  2. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
  3. "The Reflecting God"
  4. "Disposable Teens"
  5. "The Fight Song"
  6. "The Nobodies"
  7. "Rock Is Dead"
  8. "The Dope Show"
  9. "Cruci-Fiction in Space"
  10. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (With "Hell Outro")
  11. "The Love Song"
  12. "The Death Song" (With Bible Speech)
  13. "Antichrist Superstar"
  14. "The Beautiful People"

Trivia

  • Recordings of "The Nobodies" and "The Death Song", as well as Manson's reading from the Bible which preceded it, were featured on the band's 2001 single "The Nobodies".
  • Protests from religious rights groups before the show are featured in the 2002 film "Bowling for Columbine".

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 D'Angelo, Joe (2001-05-21). "Colorado Governor, Congressman Support Anti-Manson Group". MTVNews.com. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1443825/20010517/marilyn_manson.jhtml. Retrieved 2010-11-17. 
  2. ↑ "Marilyn Manson Interview on Bowling for Columbine". Bowling for Columbine Official Website. 2002-10-11. http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/media/clips/windowsmedia.php?Clip=manson1021LG. Retrieved 2010-11-15. 
  3. ↑ "Marilyn Manson: 'My Greatest Fear Has Always Been Not Being Able To Create'". Blabbermouth.Net. 2007-04-15. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=70581. Retrieved 2010-11-20. 
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