Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday july Rock performers foes fall into promotion top Marilyn Manson a false Martyr nothing Gladden a Rock stars and fatten his like a sturdy denunciation from the failing a Wail of outrage from the faithful will always do in a Marilyn Rock musics lat est knows the frontman for the theatrical death Metal quartet that bears his stage Manson is nothing if not a curating he understands that offending the guardians of moral rectitude will draw a predictable and that response which involves lots of Ink and air time devoted to his moronic noodling is Good for As we Marilyn Manson is still slated to perform to use the verb in its broadest sense at the Walker theatre on july the Hall is sold out the much larger Winnipeg convention Centre opted to Side with the forces of decency and turn Manson a july 26 Edmonton show will go despite a noisy and the Calgary cancelled May now locate a new the pattern is familiar to what has happened As Manson toured the United the method of marketing this show was by not by spending any Money an Edmonton City official arts commentary Morley Walker a self professed satanist whatever that Means who rips bibles onstage and urges his teenage fans to kill their belongs to a Long tradition of vilified Rock in the de Sullivan allow his to camera to focus on Elvis Presley swivelling a decade pastors urged kids to Burn their beatles albums after John Lennon quipped that the mop tops were More popular than the 70s gave Rise to the vulgarities of Sid vicious and the sex Pis kiss and Alice rap singers spout profanities in rhyming pop Singer Sinead Salv ing her wounded Catholic ripped a picture of the Pope on Satur Day night and so it at its Rock music expresses the soul of adolescent Blas sexual nihilist anger that what the form is the irony is that most of its practitioners Are Selling a product As much As a anyone who has illusions about the so called integrity of Rock should read a new the mansion on the by music journalist Fred who details How effectively Commerce shapes what gets marketed in the name of it is hard for me to believe that Many of the performers who stake a to making music with con science and interested in that message As they Are in what it does for their careers As Goodman Manson surely Falls among the most cynical exploiters of the i pity anyone who has to spend a Day with he once told a journal trying to emphasize his danger anyone who can say that about themselves is not really its the weird people who think there Normal that you have to worry who began life As Brian son of a furniture knows that his bands vulgar High Jinks will draw out society censors and if that results in a few cancelled that of by most Rock concerts Arent that profitable by they serve As elaborate promotional vehicles for cd mansons latest Antichrist Marilyn Manson is nothing if not a calculating has sold a million a few months few people Over age 25 had heard of the now they have become a topic of conversation at water coolers and doughnut of those offended by Man son and his rated antics have As much right to protest his presence in their or refuse his admittance to their concert As he has to profit from his sacrilegious but the guardians of morality should remember one thing they risk turning Manson into an unde serving Martyr for free and 20 years from they could look foolish in retrospect if he turns into an elder statesman of pop Cul like former subversives Mick Jagger and Ozzy what you need now costs a whole lot less lets you turned left at the was headed North at the now you go or is it South West takes you Back the Way you or does it with its that Sav Thedoy feeling is just a phone Call away and now Yog have until july to get to your its mobility dealer and take advantage of this very affordable Price on your Choice of five popular cellular there Are no upfront activation charges when you sign up for a 36 month As a Bonus offer on every get a free 30 minute its mobility prepaid cellular Long distance theres still time to get in on the action and save a bundle in the Call one of the More than 100 its mobility dealers today or 1 800 3623347 outside Winnipeg g Nokia 4pqfqk Aluko Smittl Ericsson what you on 36 month Ali Glion of any Rale plan and above excluding All in with onetime activation charge waived and annual system Access fes for the first new customers must activate in the its network at Lime of Purchase Choice of phones includes Motorola dk650 flip Nokia Mitsubishi 129 and Ericsson Rok Friendship festival on their first visit to Winnipeg july 12 noon to 6 Assiniboine Winnipeg North of the Pavilion sponsored by the Winnipeg free press time travel museum s v am in planetarium daily Stenc e c in Ike dam to 956 2830 ;