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Zim Zum
Zim Zum at a Pop Culture Suicides performance in 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Timothy Michael Linton
Also known as	Zim Zum
Born	June 25, 1969 (age 40)
Genre(s)	Post punk, new wave, folk rock, progressive, electronica, experimental, industrial rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1989–present
Label(s)	Artfist, Interscope, Nothing
Associated acts	The Pop Culture Suicides, Pleistocene, Life Sex & Death, Marilyn Manson
Website	http://www.zimzum.com/

Timothy Michael Linton (born June 25, 1969), better known by his stage name Zim Zum, is a professional, multi platinum musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist of industrial metal band Marilyn Manson before moving on to Pleistoscene in 2002, and The Pop Culture Suicides in 2005.

Zim Zum was the first member of Marilyn Manson whose stage name was not deviated from the female celebrity/serial killer format. It is derived from the Lurianic Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical text. "Tzim-Tzum", a Hebrew term meaning "contraction" or "constriction". It is the space where God contracted Himself to make way for creation.

Career

Marilyn Manson

He joined the band Marilyn Manson, after Daisy Berkowitz left the band due to antagonism from the other members, particularly Manson. The guitars on the Antichrist Superstar album were recorded by Daisy Berkowitz and others: Twiggy Ramirez, Sean Beavan, Robin Finck, Danny Lohner and Nothing Records' founder, Trent Reznor. Zim Zum (who played live guitar on "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" for the album) was 1 out of 150 people selected to audition for the live guitarist role for the band's Dead to the World Tour and landed the job.

His first show with the band was at Nothing Records' Nothing Night showcase opening for Nine Inch Nails at New York City's Irving Plaza in September of 1996. This was only the 2nd time he ever played live with the band.

The Beautiful People music video was the first Manson video Zim Zum appeared in.

His first song written while in Manson was "The Suck for Your Solution" and can be heard on the soundtrack for the movie, "Howard Stern: Private Parts", and for this song he gets the platinum award.

He wrote and recorded on 10 out of the 14 tracks from Marilyn Manson's album, "Mechanical Animals", which was released in September of 1998. It went to number 1 in its first week of sales and was the first Marilyn Manson album to do so. "Mechanical Animals" is still the highest charting, highest selling MM album to date.

He left the band in the summer of 1998 to pursue solo interests (before the album was release and its subsequent tour began) - although Manson himself has claimed he was fired for not attending band practice. The latter of the two reasons is perhaps dubious as Manson has been known to abash and take credit for contributions by band members who have departed - as well as Zim Zum - notably Daisy Berkowitz, Twiggy Ramirez and John 5. Zum was replaced by the latter.

After Manson, from Pleistoscene to The Pop Culture Suicides

After leaving Marilyn Manson, Zim Zum focus was to apply what he did to a lot of different kinds of music. So, the unprecedented variety if high profile projects and performances (Cher - "Crimson and Clover", Korn - "Got the life Remix" with Producer Josh Abraham, an appearance in Jane's Addictions "Three Days" concert film and a now notorious VH1's Behind the Music) that followed his resignation from Manson, was no accident.

In 2000 Bizarre Magazine's Bizarre Lives feature Guitar One magazine features Zim Zum as one of the most influential guitar players of the last 4 decades.

A year later, Zim Zum completely isolates himself for more than a year, cutting off all ties to the outside world. No tv, no radio, no friends, during that “self-imposed exile” he spent 14 hours a day writing and recording over 100 songs.

In 2002 makes its debut Pleistoscene, the new Zim Zum musical project. The site www.pleistoscene.com will be visited by more than 500.000 fans. Today, Zim talks about Pleistoscene as his “own orchestra”.

In 2003 two songs by Pleistoscene are released on the net. They are “Who will save us now?” e “Ordinary Life”. “Sonic Monk Magazine” says that “"Zim is a highly esteemed mega studio rock star of the highest order".

2004: Zim appears in Jane's Addictions "Three Days" concert film.

And in the same year, Zim Zum gives birth to a new musical project, The Pop Culture Suicides, a self proclaimed Rock n Roll opera, that is now his main musical project (although the project Pleistoscene is still fully functional ( www.myspace.com/pleistoscene ), as well as his solo musical project ( http://www.myspace.com/zimzum ).

The Pop Culture Suicides clearly flirt with elements of Rock Opera, Orchestral pieces and Performance Art, and play by a completely unique set of rules, if any at all. Accepting and presenting nothing less than music as art and approaching each moment is if it were the last, they are loud and thunderous, quiet and introverted, fearless, optimistic and unapologetic, all at once.

In 2005 The Pop Culture Suicides released exclusively on myspace 4 songs: "To Have Lived and Died in the 21st Century", "The Art of The Bruise", "The Disillusioned Revolution" and "Whatever the Future Holds" and during the years the band released more songs and previews exclusively on their myspace profile (www.myspace.com/thepopculturesuicides ). During these years, The Pop Culture Suicides played live in some of the biggest clubs in Illinois, Ohio, Winsconsin, Iowa. Zim Zum is now working on their conceptual debut double-album that will be released as 4 eps.

Trivia

• He has got five cats.

External links

• Official website
• Official MySpace profile
• Official MySpace Music profile
• Official Twitter feed
• Official YouTube channel