Daisy Berkowitz

"I left because I wasn't getting the respect, appreciation, and work I deserved. I'd recorded a lot of demos for more or less a year before we started recording. When we started recording, I had about ten or a dozen demos for Brian to listen to so we could work something out. I don't know if he listened to any of them, but he never wanted to work on any of them. We had a few unreleased songs that were candidates for Antichrist that Brian didn't want to play or Trent didn't want to record, so my input gradually increased."

On the opinion of the album Antichrist Superstar after its release:

“When the album came out in October, it debuted at number three on Billboard, and I was shocked. I was shocked and proud that what we’d created had reached that level. I couldn’t believe the title—we’d created a lot of anticipation, but… I thought the name would be too offensive. When a punk rock band has a really offensive name, it attracts attention and creates controversy, but will people put a name like that on their shelves? I was proud, but I felt worse because I wasn’t a part of it anymore. It had peaked. It was a big step, but it was also a negative change because the core had changed.”

On working with Trent Reznor on his debut album, Portrait of an American Family:

"Around the time of recording Smells Like Children, Trent began to regret helping us as much as he did. Throughout 1994 and 1995, Manson became increasingly more interesting and controversial than Nine Inch Nails, and Reznor began to develop a subconscious rivalry with Manson. Reznor disliked the original mixes of Portrait of an American Family (done at Criteria Studios in North Miami) and forced us to re-record and remix our debut album. I felt this was unnecessary and worried it would make us sound like a Nine Inch Nails spinoff. However, the end result is a very high-quality work."

The worse the albums get, the cheaper everything else he does becomes. When this came out, people asked me what I thought, and it's a good example of how much his career is now outside of music. He's in the news for being a fan of a cable TV show.

Even before signing with the label, Daisy recorded a 4-track demo album for the band on his own equipment (January 1990), which included early versions of songs like "Red (in My) Head," "White Knuckles," "Cake and Sodomy," and "Dogma." It was a bold move for the underground: he didn't wait for the industry's "permission," but simply did his thing.

curiosity and a broad musical taste (from Talking Heads and David Bowie to post-punk and grunge

It was Scott who suggested taking the pseudonym "Marilyn Manson" - a combination of the movie star's name and the killer's surname;

Together they laid the foundation for the project's aesthetics and mythology: provocation, a mix of pop culture and dark imagery;

Putesky became the first guitarist and co-writer of early songs for Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids.

played the flute and snare drum;

sang in the choir;

independently mastered the keyboard (on a Casio synthesizer);

took guitar lessons, inspired by The Cure and U2.

Putesky attended art college, where he excelled in advertising design.

Little-known fact: Putesky taught Brian Warner (the future Marilyn Manson) the basics of vocals, recording, and arrangements. This is unusual in the rock world: the guitarist essentially "created" the frontman, laying the foundations of the band's sound.

Even before signing with the label, Daisy recorded a 4-track demo album for the band on his own equipment (January 1990), which included early versions of songs like "Red (in My) Head," "White Knuckles," "Cake and Sodomy," and "Dogma." It was a bold move for the underground: he didn't wait for the industry's "permission," but simply did his thing.