What does Marilyn Manson have in store for this summers Ozzfest?
“I plan on doing things that most people say won’t work in a festival environment,” he promises. “Whether that’s a chorus line of girls or me singing to piano accompaniment to disabled women in the nude — whatever the case may be, I want to bring a new definition of family fun.” No doubt that includes tracks from his new CD, The Golden Age of Grotesque, and the sort of stage play that led Italian authorities to speculate that Manson’s genitals were detachable. Read on! The last time you played Ozzfest, things didn’t go so well. We were a year into our record being out, and we’d just survived Columbine. It was a battle. But we walked away from that tour playing with every band on the radio that was clearly, in technical standards, more popular than us. And we showed people who was really running the show. Did you make friends with other bands? I think on the last Ozzfest, the Osbournes definitely embraced me as a family member. Not only did I take Jack Osbourne to his first strip bar a
