Whats axl's interest in Charles Manson

[Ezza]

Always wondered what it was, from what I've read he liked Manson's art and that's why he chose to cover Look At Your Game,Girl. But later said people didnt understand Manson's art and would remove it from future issues of spaghetti incident.

Or did he just like getting a reaction from wearing Manson Tshirts lol 

[Axlman17]

I always wondered this myself. Axl had to find him intresting in some way, to do his song.

[perfect_spy]

It was a good song, shame it came from Manson

[mooney]

i think it had something to do with people making Axl out to be the bad guy all the time so he wore the shirt, kinda like a "here's c. manson... and you call me bad?" if that makes sense?

[Iconic Shawn]

If you ever saw a Manson interview (loads of them on youtube) you'll see that the dude is crazy.. but to himself he's the most sane person in the world.  It goes hand in hand with what a lot of people on here support.. that relativism shit.

No boundaries beyond yourself when it comes to rules, morals and pretty much anything.

Everyone knows Axl is all about being right.. no matter what. Like when he made his friends sign over the Gn'R name. I'm sure Axl has a 'Manson' like explanation for it.

~S~

[wyldechild]

sexual interests of course!!!!
what else it could be

[Milles]

If you read Marilyn Manson's autobiography, Axl apparently got the idea from him. I can't remember why exactly, I only read it once - that was enough

[Iconic Shawn]

If you read Marilyn Manson's autobiography, Axl apparently got the idea from him. I can't remember why exactly, I only read it once - that was enough

I didn't know the dude wrote a book?  I have to get that for my brother who is a big supporter of the gent.

~S~

[GGS]

Charlies pretty fucking smart for a dumb fucker, i can personally see the attraction.

[Jus10]

If you read Marilyn Manson's autobiography, Axl apparently got the idea from him. I can't remember why exactly, I only read it once - that was enough

this is true.  axl and manson met bkstage a long time ago (around '92), and MM excited axl with his manson-talking.

the rest is history for both dudes.

Axl = Manson shirts & Look At Your Game Girl.
Marilyn Manson = the band, eventually.

[Starscream]

A direct quote from Axl about Charles Manson and his interest in him
Taken from the Jan 1994 Rockline Interview with himself and Slash

I liked the lyrics of the song, you know, I also thought that it was something that people hadn't heard, it was the missing part of the puzzle, I mean almost everything about Charles Manson has been made public, but this was never public on a really big scale, to my knowledge, and just thought that people would be interested in hearing it, but even one of the victim's son, who is getting some of the money, supposedly, was talking to the media about people worshipping Charles Manson, and I was getting a vibe that people were trying to paint a picture that I worship Charles Manson, now it's exactly for me, the opposite.

And another bizzare quote from Axl on this track

However, I am donating all my personal profits from having that song on our album to a charity, an environmental group to help protect wildlife and our oceans. In our video for Estranged, which will be the last video for the Use Your Illusion albums, we used dolphins, and this is my way of giving something back to the dolphin, which are endangered and threatened with extinction.

And a quote from Slash on why picked this song specifically

Stuart, Axl's brother, had a copy of the Manson cassette, and that particular song had significant lyrical matter, especially since Manson was singing it. We were a little bit shy about doing it, because we didn't want anybody to pin us on a Manson thing.

[Guns N Axl]

this is true.  axl and manson met bkstage a long time ago (around '92), and MM excited axl with his manson-talking.

the rest is history for both dudes.

Axl = Manson shirts & Look At Your Game Girl.
Marilyn Manson = the band, eventually.

Charles Manson dude not Marlyn 
Read the subject 

[Artaxerxes]

Charles Manson dude not Marlyn 
Read the subject 

you DO know that Marilyn Manson took the 'manson' part from Charles Manson. And that MM DID meet Axl. And that it WAS MM that got Axl excited so he did Look At Your Game Girl. And that hopefully CM WASN'T backstage at a GNR concert?

[venus1111]

Anyone who studies Charles Manson and listens to his word back then can see now that there is not a thing he said about the state of the world that was not true or has not come to pass! Everything with the exception of hurting and killing people is true. If Charles Manson had parents who loved him instead of a drunk whore for a mother and a "john" for a father, he would have been somebody. If he had been loved instead of being passed around from pedophile to pedophile, he would have been somebody. He did not overcome. He has a genius IQ and is an artist and if he were to repent right now and say Jesus is the only way to Salvation, it would seriously piss off a lot Demons in this world. Charles did not kill these people, he only said it should be done and of course sold his soul. I was troubled for a very long time that GnR attached themselves to this Demon, until I looked. Repent Charles! And Happy New Year GnR, Chinese Democracy was worth the wait!

[pestilence]

this is true.  axl and manson met bkstage a long time ago (around '92), and MM excited axl with his manson-talking.

the rest is history for both dudes.

Axl = Manson shirts & Look At Your Game Girl.
Marilyn Manson = the band, eventually.

March 4th, 1998

Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out Of Hell

In this segment Manson is being interviewed by Sarah Fim (a journalist for a magazine called Empryean Magazine in 1995).

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SF: Why do you think it's become so trendy for musicians to make references to Charles Manson in their music

MM: That pisses me off. Axl Rose was in a hellstorm because he recorded a Manson song, and I'll tell you how he got that idea in a minute. Meanwhile Trent was living at the Sharon Tate house, so I end up looking like I'm this Marilyn Manson guy that's riding Trent Reznor's wagon, which is kind of funny. But I never got a chip on my shoulder. I never minded because otherwise I would never have gotten to record there and sleep there and get freaked out by the ghosts there.

SF: That's a good attitude. Why don't you do another line?

MM: Okay, but this is the last one (sucking sounds). So what happened with Guns N' Roses was that Trent took me to a U2 concert one night and backstage I met Axl Rose. He was very neurotic and was telling me about his psychological problems, his split personalities, and I felt like "This guy's a total fucking flake." Being that I'm the overzealous type, I started telling him about my band anyway. And I said "You know we do this song 'My Monkey' and it's an adaption of a Charles Manson song off his album Lie."

And he's like "I never heard of that before."

I told him "You should check out the album, it's cool." And lo and behold six months later Guns N' Roses put out the Spaghetti Incident? and Axl Rose covers "Look At Your Game, Girl" from the Lie album.

Then he started getting all that heat from Sharon Tate's sister and everybody.

[Janies Got A Gun]

Kind of irresponsible of axl to wear openly a tshirt, with a serial killer on it in front of thousands of young impresonable fans.

To me its like he was glamourising it to his fans. Whatever his sane reasons for the attraction, he shouldnt have done that. Not all those people would have read the interviews where axl explains the obsession wit CM. There was no internet & no way of making it crystal clear.

Maybe Im being abit too uptight about this, but its dangerous to make serial killers popular. They crave attention anyways and get it from killing, they dont need anymore publicity.