A Peavey Bandit 65 that I've had for nine years is still my favorite thing to record with.
But my main guitar is a Yamaha RGX model that's been through about eight paint jobs. I've finally settled on a rich red with a devil's face whose mouth is around the bridge pickup.
But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Each member of the band has varied influences,and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
I don't feel left out because of all the activity around me and I don't force myself to do something drastically new, musically speaking, to compete.
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
I have a bunch of different guitars that I can choose from, and then it's just a question of which of two amps I want to use.
I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
I think enthusiasm for our music will be the spark that ignites the fire under the people that hate it and think we're a bad influence on kids.
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
It wouldn't be fair to pick, say, three bands, and say that they influence us, because that wouldn't do justice to the music.
It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
Most of it sounded so similar that you could listen to one band and have a good idea of every other band remotely like it.
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
One of those involved a girl and myself - she wrote the lyrics and I backed her up with guitar and drum machine.
Tampa's significance to us was that it was the first place that we had really played out of town, and it was heavily rooted in the death metal scene.
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
When we were out with Danzig, we played to a lot of crowds that had a disproportionate amount of kids there to see us.
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