Marilyn Manson's independent touring

Independent touring
Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids perform live for the first time. Left to right: Olivia Newton Bundy, Zsa Zsa Speck, Marilyn Manson and Daisy Berkowitz took the stage at Churchill's Hideaway in Fort Lauderdale.
Tour by Marilyn Manson
Start date	April 28, 1990
End date	April 23, 1994
Shows	97 verified
Marilyn Manson tour chronology
	Independent touring (1990–1994)	Self Destruct (1994)

Before embarking on tours under the wing of a major label, Marilyn Manson spent several years performing independently in various Florida locations including Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, Hallandale and Davie; only three shows are known to have been played outside Florida between April 28, 1990 and April 23, 1994. The band was allegedly payed over $300 more than the normal rate for their first gig at the Reunion Room.^[1] This was due to Manson's "lesson number one in music-industry manipulation: If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one."^[1] The group billed themselves until August 1992 as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, after which the "Spooky Kids" moniker was dropped.

[edit] Lineup

• Vocals: Marilyn Manson
• Guitar: Daisy Berkowitz
• Bass: Olivia Newton Bundy - Gidget Gein (R.I.P) - Twiggy Ramirez
• Keyboards: Zsa Zsa Speck - Madonna Wayne Gacy
• Drums: Yama RX-8 Drum Machine - Sara Lee Lucas

After the band's fourth show,^[2] which Manson has described as the band's "first real performance," keyboardist Perry Pandrea (Speck) and bassist Brian Tutunick (Bundy) were fired from Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids. For the next performance they were replaced by Stephen Bier (Gacy), who hadn't yet attained a keyboard so instead played with toy soldiers on stage,^[3] and Gein. Interpol's Sam Fogarino was once offered a position in the band, however he declined, much to his father's disappointment.^[4] Fogarino later arranged a remix of "If I Was Your Vampire" in 2007.

[edit] Songs

During the first two years of activity, Marilyn Manson primarily recorded the songs they were known to perform at Florida venues, some which would never be performed live again once the band found mainstream success. Popular performances included "Cake and Sodomy", "Learning to Swim", "White Knuckles", "Suicide Snowman", "Lunchbox", "Dope Hat", "My Monkey" and "Misery Machine". During production of the band's major label debut, Portrait of an American Family, Marilyn Manson's live setlist began to incorporate songs from their later demo cassettes and what would become their 1994 studio album, occasionally sampling Spooky Kids hotline voicemails at the beginning and conclusion of shows. Later setlists added "Get Your Gunn", "Filth", "Sweet Tooth", "Wrapped in Plastic", "Choklit Factory", "Thrift" and "Dune Buggy".

[edit] Stage antics

During the Spooky Kids era, girls covered in fake blood and animal masks were known to share stages with the band. Manson describes in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell a night where one woman ironed a Nazi flag onstage.^[5] Cages and heads of dolls were also strewn across stages. At the band's July 11, 1990 performance, the first 10 people who attended the show with an X across their forehead received a limited Marilyn Manson milk chocolate bar.

[edit] Tour dates

	Date	City	State		Venue
1	April 28, 1990	Miami Beach	Florida		Churchill's Hideaway
2	May 3, 1990	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Reunion Room
3	May 30, 1990	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
4	June 1, 1990	Boca Raton	Florida		Weekends
5	June 14, 1990	Boca Raton	Florida		Sinbads
6	June 27, 1990	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
7	July 4, 1990	Miami Beach	Florida		Club Nu
8	July 11, 1990	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
9	July 19, 1990	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
10	July 27, 1990	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Reunion Room
11	August 11, 1990	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
12	August 17, 1990	Boca Raton	Florida		Churchill's Hideaway
13	August 29, 1990	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
14	September 13, 1990	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
15	October 26, 1990	Boca Raton	Florida		Weekends
16	November 15, 1990	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
17	December 14, 1990	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
18	December 19, 1990	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
19	December 27, 1990	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
20	February 7, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
21	February 21, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
22	February 27, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
23	March 21, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
24	April 11, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		Club Nu
25	April 26, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Reunion Room
26	May 1, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		The Institute
27	May 10, 1991	Boca Raton	Florida		Weekends
28	May 16, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		Club Nu
29	May 30, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
30	June 14, 1991	Boca Raton	Florida		Sinbads
	June 20, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
31	June 27, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
32	July 11, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
33	July 19, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
34	July 25, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		Cameo Theatre
35	July 27, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Reunion Room
36	August 1, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
37	August 5, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Reunion Room
38	August 11, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
39	August 15, 1991	Sunrise	Florida		Purple Grotto
40	August 17, 1991	Boca Raton	Florida		Weekends
41	August 29, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
42	September 13, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
43	September 29, 1991	Davie	Florida		The Round Up Davie
44	October 4, 1991	Atlanta	Georgia		Club Roxy
45	October 9, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
46	October 26, 1991	Boca Raton	Florida		Weekends
47	November 24, 1991
48	November 29, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
49	December 4, 1991	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
50	December 19, 1991	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
51	December 27, 1991	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
52	January 16, 1992	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
53	January 17, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Rosebud's
54	February 1, 1992	Hallandale	Florida		Button South
55	February 5, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
56	February 16, 1992	Coral Springs	Florida		Illusions
57	March 16, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Reunion Room
58	April 12, 1992	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
59	April 18, 1992	St. Petersburg	Florida		ACL Club
60	April 25, 1992	St. Petersburg	Florida		ACL Club
61	April 26, 1992	Tampa	Florida		Morrissound Studios
62	May 1, 1992	Miami Beach	Florida		The Institute
63	May 1, 1992	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
64	May 20, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
65	May 30, 1992	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
66	July 18, 1992	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
67	July 23, 1992
68	July 25, 1992
69	July 31, 1992	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
70	August 1, 1992	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
71	August 12, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
72	August 23, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Rosebud's
73	November 25, 1992	Hallandale	Florida		Treehouse
74	December 2, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
75	December 4, 1992	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
76	December 31, 1992	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
77	January 17, 1993	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Rosebud's
78	February 10, 1993	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
79	February 24, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
80	February 26, 1993	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
81	March 12, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
82	March 13, 1993	Miami Beach	Florida		Cactus Cantina
83	April 16, 1993	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
84	April 17, 1993	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
85	May 1, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
86	September 17, 1993	Miami Beach	Florida		Washington Square
87	September 18, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
88	November 1, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
89	December 4, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
90	December 31, 1993	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
91	January 1, 1994	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze
92	February 12, 1994	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
93	February 24, 1994	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
94	March 12, 1994	Davie	Florida		Plus 5
95	April 4, 1994	San Francisco	California
96	April 7, 1994	Chicago	Illinois		Riviera Nightclub
97	April 23, 1994	Fort Lauderdale	Florida		Squeeze

There are a series of discrepancies with some tour dates listed online. Gein explains in the unauthorized documentary Demystifying the Devil that when he joined the band, he was with them for a few weeks before their performance on July 4, 1990.^[6] Some sources state that Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids' first live performance was an unlisted date in 1989, and that their second show took place in November of the same year. These sources also include nine dates between their purported second show in 1989 and the July 4, 1990 show which Gein claimed to be one of his first live shows with the band. As the band did not play shows without a bassist, these mysterious nine dates following bassist Tutunick's termination and the live induction of Gein cannot exist. Other sources state that Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids' first live performance was on April 28, 1990, which supports Gein's account, because the second show and last with Pandrea and Tutunick took place only weeks before the show on July 4, 1990.

The exact location of the band's July 4, 1990 performance has been questioned. Former guitarist Scott Putesky (Berkowitz) claimed the performance took place at Club Nu in Miami Beach, Florida, and was the first for both Gein and Bier,^[7] though alternatively, Gein mentioned that it took place at the back of a trailer in a local trailer park.^[6]

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