As previously reported, Marilyn Manson has reached an out of court settlement in his ongoing legal battle with former keyboard player Stephen Bier. And now that the majority of the case is over, you'd expect Manson and Bier to let bygones be bygones right? Wrong! In posting on his blog, Manson said he "would not piss on [him] if he was on fire."
Bier, who went by the stage names Madonna Wayne Gacy and Pogo, filed a suit in November 2007 claiming that Manson spent the band’s royalties on Nazi paraphernalia, a $150,000 engagement ring for ex-wife Dita Von Teese, African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a four-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair. Bier was seeking a $20 million dollar settlement. Manson counter sued claiming that Bier did not fulfil his obligations to the band.
"I want to make clear that, aside from the wasted legal fees, in no way did I pay off the person that stood behind a keyboard - pretending to play music other artists in this band wrote," wrote The Double M. "And I would not piss on Pogo if he was on fire. Thee end. Or is it? Let's wait until all the really bad things I covered up for him are suddenly uncovered. I got a far more severe type of karma for traitors and people that owe me, legally a lot more than what I wasted tolerating your rape of a band you never deserved to be in."
In another post, Manson wrote: "I don't want this to be confused as anger. I feel nothing for a person that betrayed me and my band. My band. And I'm sure that if anyone wants to discuss this with him personally, I won't be so rude to NOT give you his or his family's addresses. Since I paid for both soon to be destroyed buildings. That's at least what I just had a dream of, that I awoke from. So good luck to you, sir. You are gonna need it. Sweet dreams."
Damn. Best live band SHOULD have been Green D