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Independent touring
Tour by Marilyn Manson
Start date	April 28, 1990
End date	June 4, 1994
Shows	98 verified
Marilyn Manson tour chronology
	Independent touring (1990-1994)	Support for Nine Inch Nails' Self Destruct Tour (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 June 4, 1994. The band billed themselves until August 1992 as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, after which the "Spooky Kids" moniker was dropped.

Lineup

The lineup for Marilyn Manson's early performances.

Typical setlists

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. The following list contains the most commonly played songs in the order they were most generally performed:

1. "Cake and Sodomy"
2. "Learning to Swim"
3. "White Knuckles"
4. "Suicide Snowman"
5. "Lunchbox"
6. "Dope Hat"
7. "My Monkey"
8. "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 resembled the following:

1. "Get Your Gunn"
2. "Filth"
3. "Suicide Snowman"
4. "Dope Hat"
5. "White Knuckles"
6. "Sweet Tooth"
7. "Wrapped in Plastic"
8. "Lunchbox"
9. "Choklit Factory"
10. "Misery Machine"
11. "Thrift"
12. "Cake and Sodomy"
13. "Dune Buggy"

Stage antics

During the Spooky Kids era, girls covered in 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. Cages and heads of dolls were also strewn across stages.

Tour dates

Trivia

• After the band's second show, which Manson has described as the band's "first real performance," keyboardist Speck and bassist Bundy were fired from Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids. For the next performance they were replaced by Madonna Wayne Gacy, who hadn't yet attained a keyboard so instead played with toy soldiers onstage, and Gidget Gein, respectively.
• 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.
• 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.^[1] 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 Olivia Newton Bundy's departure 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 Speck and Bundy took place only weeks before the show on July 4, 1990.
• Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino claims to have attended the Churchill's Hideaway audience for Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids' first show, admitting he had even wanted to join the band. Today Fogarino and Manson are friends, with Fogarina arranging a remix of "If I Was Your Vampire" in 2007.
• On July 31, 1992 in Davie, Florida, Marilyn Manson officially revealed the band's new eponymous title, having been previously known as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids.
• The band was allegedly payed over $300 more than the normal rate for gigs, to perform at the Reunion Room. 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."
• The band's first performance, at Churchill's Hideway in Miami, is described in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell. The band opened up with what Manson described as his favorite poem, "The Telephone". 20 people attended the performance.
• The exact location of the band's July 4, 1990 performance is uncertain, although then-bassist Gidget Gein has mentioned that it took place at the back of a trailer in a local trailer park.^[1] Alternatively, former guitarist Scott Putesky, better known as Daisy Berkowitz, claims the performance took place at Club Nu in Miami Beach, Florida, and was the first for both Gein and Stephen Bier, best known as keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy,^[2] however each of these suggestions can be disputed.

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