Marilyn Manson's independent touring

The local tour was the very first Marilyn Manson tour. The band performed at various locations in Florida such as Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, South Hallandale, and Davie, among various other one-night venues. The band left Florida only once during the tour to perform at th Club Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. Until August 1992, the band played these shows as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids. The band was on the tour from late-1989 until December 31, 1993.

Lineup

• Vocals: Marilyn Manson
• Guitar: Daisy Berkowitz
• Bass: Olivia Newton Bundy (From the beginning of the tour, until November 20, 1989), Gidget Gein (From November 27, 1989, until the December 31, 1993 performance)
• Keyboards: Zsa Zsa Speck (From the beginning of the tour, until November 20, 1989), Madonna Wayne Gacy (From November 27, 1989, until the end of the tour)
• Drums: Yamaha RX-8 drum machine (From the beginning of the tour, until 1991), Sara Lee Lucas (1991, until the end of the tour)

Setlist

During the first two years of the band's existence, they had recorded a core set of songs that they would perform favorably, some that would never be performed again following the local tour. 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"

Towards the end of the tour and the near completion of the band's debut album Portrait of an American Family, the live setlist resembled the following, occasionally with answering machine messages sampled as an intro and outro respectively:

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, the concerts featured several antics among which were girls covered in blood and wearing animal masks. Manson desrcibes in The Long Hard Road out of Hell, how one night they had a woman iron a nazi flag onstage. There were also cages and the reknown [[Pogo] keyboard paraphernalia, dismembered doll heads and such.

Tour Dates

Date/Location	Venue
1989/??/?? Miami Beach, FL	Churchill's Hideaway
1989/11/07 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1989/11/20 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Reunion Room
1989/11/27 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1989/12/30 Miami, FL	Washington Square
1990/02/15 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1990/03/20 Boca Raton, FL	Weekends
1990/04/28 Miami Beach, FL	Churchill's Hideaway
1990/06/01 Boca Raton, FL	Weekends
1990/06/27 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1990/07/04 Fort Lauderdale, FL	?
1990/07/11 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1990/07/19 Miami Beach, FL	Washington Square
1990/07/27 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Reunion Room
1990/08/11 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1990/08/17 Boca Raton, FL	Churchill's Hideaway
1990/08/29 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1990/09/13 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1990/10/26 Boca Raton, FL	Weekends
1990/11/15 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1990/12/14 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1990/12/27 Miami Beach, FL	Washington Square
1991/02/07 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1991/02/27 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1991/03/21 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1991/04/11 Miami Beach, FL	Club Nu
1991/04/26 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Reunion Room
1991/05/01 Miami Beach, FL	The Institute
1991/05/10 Boca Raton, FL	Weekends
1991/05/16 Miami Beach, FL	Club Nu
1991/05/30 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1991/06/14 Boca Raton, FL	Weekends
1991/06/27 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1991/07/19 Miami Beach, FL	Washington Square
1991/07/25 Miami Beach, FL	Cameo Theatre
1991/07/27 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Reunion Room
1991/08/01 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1991/08/11 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1991/08/15 Sunrise, FL	Purple Grotto
1991/08/17 Boca Raton, FL	Weekends
1991/08/29 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1991/09/13 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1991/10/04 Atlanta, GA	Club Roxy
1991/10/09 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1991/12/04 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1991/12/27 Miami Beach, FL	Washington Square
1992/02/01 South Hallandale, FL	The Button
1992/04/25 St. Petersburg, FL	ACL Club
1992/04/26 Tampa, FL	Morrissound Studios
1992/07/01 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Plus Five
1992/07/31 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1992/11/25 Hallandale, FL	Treehouse
1992/12/02 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1992/12/04 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1992/12/31 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1993/02/10 Miami Beach, FL	Washington Square
1993/04/17 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Squeeze
1993/05/01 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1993/09/18 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1993/11/01 Davie, FL	Plus Five
1993/12/31 Tampa, FL	Ritz Theater

Trivia

• The band's first performance, at Churchill's Hideway in Miami, is described in Manson's autobiography 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.
• After the performance at the Reunion Room, which Manson has described as the band's "first real performance", Zsa Zsa Speck and Olivia Newton Bundy were 'kicked out' of the band. they were replaced by the next performance by Madonna Wayne Gacy who hadn't yet attained a keyboard so instead played with toy soldiers onstage in the meantime, and Gidget Gein, guitarist of local band Insanity Assassin, respectively.
• 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."
• On August 1, 1992 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Marilyn Manson officially revealed the band's new name, as prior to this the band was known as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids.