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The stage was usually arranged with living room décor, not unlike that on the ''Portrait of an American Family'' album cover. A table with a lamp was the most commonly seen piece at the shows. | The stage was usually arranged with living room décor, not unlike that on the ''Portrait of an American Family'' album cover. A table with a lamp was the most commonly seen piece at the shows. | ||
| − | The first and last shows included the most memorable incidents of the tour. On December 27, | + | The first and last shows included the most memorable incidents of the tour. On December 27, 1995, Manson was misidentified as "jacking off a strap-on dildo" and "urinating on the crowd,"<ref name="Club5"/> resulting in his arrest just one night into the tour. |
When concluding the tour at the [[1995/03/11 Columbia, SC|a South Carolina show]] on March 11, 1995, Manson slipped on a beer bottle, smashing it.<ref name="LHROOHbk">{{cite book |last1=Manson |first1=Marilyn |last2=Strauss |first2=Neil |title=[[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]] |date=1998-02-14 |publisher=ReganBooks |isbn=0-06-098746-4 |page=171}}</ref> Angry, he picked up a piece of the bottle and cut his chest "from one side to the other," his first act of notoriously cutting himself on-stage. Closing the performance, the band also allegedly ignited drummer Sara Lee Lucas' kit in an attempt to ignite only his bass drum. Claims that Lucas himself was lit aflame have been made by Manson<ref name="LHROOHbk"/> but are disputed by Lucas.<ref name="FredToMW">[[Sara Lee Lucas]] told [[MansonWiki]] in November 2010, "I was never lit on fire, and my kit was never intentionally ignited. My decision to leave the band was made long before that last show but I didn't want to leave in the middle of tour."</ref> It was [[Sara Lee Lucas]]' last performance with the band. | When concluding the tour at the [[1995/03/11 Columbia, SC|a South Carolina show]] on March 11, 1995, Manson slipped on a beer bottle, smashing it.<ref name="LHROOHbk">{{cite book |last1=Manson |first1=Marilyn |last2=Strauss |first2=Neil |title=[[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]] |date=1998-02-14 |publisher=ReganBooks |isbn=0-06-098746-4 |page=171}}</ref> Angry, he picked up a piece of the bottle and cut his chest "from one side to the other," his first act of notoriously cutting himself on-stage. Closing the performance, the band also allegedly ignited drummer Sara Lee Lucas' kit in an attempt to ignite only his bass drum. Claims that Lucas himself was lit aflame have been made by Manson<ref name="LHROOHbk"/> but are disputed by Lucas.<ref name="FredToMW">[[Sara Lee Lucas]] told [[MansonWiki]] in November 2010, "I was never lit on fire, and my kit was never intentionally ignited. My decision to leave the band was made long before that last show but I didn't want to leave in the middle of tour."</ref> It was [[Sara Lee Lucas]]' last performance with the band. | ||
