WES BORLAND JOINS MARILYN MANSON; HILARITY ENSUES
Marilyn Manson was always one of the most staunch anti-Limp Bizkit activists during that band’s heyday – so the announcement that Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland is joining his band seems kind of odd.
Luckily, Manson, ever the clever media manipulator, managed to do some damage control with this kind of hilarious statement:
“We have a new guitar player that’s gonna play for the first time tomorrow; it’s the first time we’ll play on stage [together]. His name is Wes Borland and he used to be in a really terrible band that he left because he felt that it was a destructive force in art.”
Wow. So that’s pretty great.
Borland has been making the rounds lately, ostensibly denouncing his former life as a terrorist against human ears and good taste, but to be honest, I don’t quite buy it; lest we forget, the guy has already quit, and re-joined, Limp Bizkit once, and since past behavior is always the best indicator of what will future behavior will be, when the inevitable Limp Bizkit rap-metal nostalgia tour DOES happen, there’s no doubt in my mind Borland will be there, cashing in just like everyone else.
I mean, c’mon: this little union clearly isn’t all about some deep artistic desire for Manson and Borland to work together. Manson says that “We don’t know how permanent [Borland’s membership in the band] is,” but clearly, with his own popularity flagging, he’s hoping that Borland will bring in some new fans who normally wouldn’t check out a Manson show (which Borland actually might); as for Borland, I guess doing guitar clinics in Jakarta didn’t pay as well as he’d hoped (He has some new band, too, but I don’t think they’re exactly burning up the charts).
But here’s the biggest question I’m curious to see answered: since everyone in Manson’s band basically has to play dress-up and look all “spooky,” does this mean we’ll soon see the return of Borland’s tiki statue make-up?
-AR
P.S. Borland isn’t the only one denouncing his past in order to ensure his future: check out this inadvertently hilarious article from a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly. Fred Durst has a good publicist, eh?
