Big Black Bus

Big Black Bus
Demo album by Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids
Released	September 1990
Recorded	March 1990 at Sync Studios in Miami, Florida
Genre	Alternative metal, heavy metal
Length	31:28
Label	Beat Up Your Mom Music
Producer	Daisy Berkowitz
Discogs	View at Discogs
Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids chronology
The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat (1990) Big Black Bus (1990) Grist-o-Line (1990)

Big Black Bus is the third cassette by Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids. According to Daisy Berkowitz, this is the first cassette that was officially sold. It featured four re-recordings of songs previously released on The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat, accompanied by 15 minutes of answering machine messages left on the band's hotline.

Track listing

Side A:

1. "White Knuckles" – 2:25
2. "My Monkey" – 4:42
3. "Strange Same Dogma" – 3:52
4. "Red (in My) Head" – 4:33

Side B:

1. Answering Machine Messages (Unlisted) – 15:54

Album credits

copyright 1990 berkowitz/manson

SONGS
1 WHITE KNUCKLES
2 MY MONKEY
3 STRANGE SAME DOGMA
4 RED (IN MY) HEAD

MUSIC/BERKOWITZ
LYRICS/MANSON

Marilyn Manson
vocals

Daisy Berkowitz
guitars, percussion

Gidget Gein
bass

Madonna Wayne Gacy
samples, percussion

RECORDED AT SYNC STUDIOS/MIAMI, FL
PRODUCED BY SCOTT PUTESKY
ENGINEERED BY RALPH CAVALLARO
2ND ENGINEER: TONY SCHREIBER

MANAGEMENT: BLIND MAN PRODUCTIONS, JOE DISANO
(305) 749-5926

the new spooky kids hotline
number is 972-0541

MUCH THANKS TO JOE DISANO, SCOTT DAVID,
TRENT REZNOR, BOB SLADE, GLENN RICHARDS,
RICHARD KENT, OUR GIRLS AND ALL OF YOU
WHO HAVE SUPPORTED OUR BOUNDLESS PERVERSITY.

Cover gallery

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  Foldout, side 1
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  Foldout, side 2
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  Foldout
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  Foldout
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  Cassette, side 1
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  Cassette, side 2

Trivia

• "Side 1" of the Big Black Bus cassette misspells "White Knuckles" as "White Knuckle".
• The cassette was titled after the bus used by the infamous Manson Family in the 1960s.
• The front cover of the cassette features the band's first use of the term "Holy Wood", where the words "HOLYWOOD PROD." can be seen on the side of the school bus. This term was used as the focal point of Marilyn Manson's 2000 album Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) ten years later.
• The title of the cassette is a parody of the Los Angeles bus operator Big Blue Bus.

Personnel

• Marilyn Manson – vocals, lyrics
• Daisy Berkowitz – guitars, percussion, producer, music
• Gidget Gein – bass
• Madonna Wayne Gacy – samples, percussion
• Ralph Cavallaro – engineer
• Tony Schreiber – engineer
• Joe Disano – management