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Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Type O Negative Share Halloween Memories
10/31/2002 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Brett Anderson
(10/31/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Halloween conjures up images of gothic horror-tinged rockers such as Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, and Type O Negative. In keeping with their spooky images, members of the aforementioned acts shared some of their Halloween memories with LAUNCH.
Marilyn Manson told LAUNCH that he likes the "trick" part of trick-or-treating. "Halloween was always my favorite time of the year because I always liked dressing up. I used to wear Halloween masks all year around. Halloween was the chance to really...I really got into the idea of trick or treat. I was much more of the prankster. I used to sit up on my roof with a BB gun and I would shoot other trick-or-treaters and do other things to torment the other kids in my neighborhood. The old trick of putting dog sh-t in a bag and lighting it on fire and then knocking on someone's door. Toilet papering people's houses and eggs and all of those things. I was definitely into the 'trick' aspect."
Rob Zombie told LAUNCH that Halloween is the only time where he feels normal. "To me, it was always a big event. Because it just seemed like that was the moment the whole world seemed normal. Everything was a skull, everything was a skull, a ghost, a pumpkin, a witch, you know, cookies were all of the sudden the shapes of skulls or spiders, and, you know, you could run around in costumes scaring people. I just remember every year since I was a kid it was the biggest thing. You'd start planning it out in July and then it drags out until December."
Peter Steele of Type O Negative, whose "Black No.1" remains the quintessential Halloween rock/metal tune, told LAUNCH the origin of Halloween. "I always got into the real spirit of Halloween, which as you know Halloween was a Celtic holiday where that night or that evening the sun was taken prisoner by the evil winter spirits and so the job of the townspeople that night was to dress up as scary as they possibly could to chase these evil spirits away."
-- Darren Davis, New York
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