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Current
Current Band Members
1989 - 2008
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Former
Former (Ex) Members
1989 - 2007
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B I O G R A P H Y
Zim Zum joined Marilyn Manson after original guitarist Daisy Berkowitz
parted ways with the band in 1996.
Zim Zum was one of 150 people
to apply for the guitarist position
in Marilyn Manson and one of
the only 15 to audition.
Zum traveled with the band on
the Dead to the World tour
and wrote select songs on the Mechanical Animals LP. Zim
was eventually fired for not
attending band practices.
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| Timothy Linton | Chicago, IL | June 25, 1969 |
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| Current Projects |
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| Pleistoscene |
| Favorite Bands |
Mick Ronson, Queen, Adam Ant, The Melvins |
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The origin of Zim Zum's stage name was derived from a Hebrew word synonymous with the angel sent to do god's dirty work.
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So why did Zim Zum really leave the band? Here is an excerpt from an interview with Zim Zum after his departure in which he explains the reasons for his leaving the band.
RnR E: Were you fired from Marilyn Manson or did you quit?
Zim Zum: The basic story goes that we were rehearsing for a European Tour after the recording of Mechanical Animals and basically once the songs were recorded the general tone of the entire band changed, so I felt, okay, you've got me in there, everyhting was perfect while we were recording all of the ideas were coming, & then mixing it, it was done being recorded..things changed because you had an album. I was presented with some paper work that was just percentages & things of that nature that there was just no way that I was going to sign & it basically came down to that. Ginger got Mono, we cancelled the European tour, we had about 3 or 4 weeks of open time, I jumped on a plain, came back to Chicago, contacted a lawyer, went back to L.A., told them what my position was & that I felt that I had been in the band long enough & had contributed enough not to be screwed like that, so basically it was either get all of these details ironed out or stay in the band & just deal with it, so I preferred to just get everything in order & leave, because there was no way I think it could have really continued on a amicable basis, so I said I would stick around until they could find somebody & work out all of the details & stuff like that, but basically I was done and it was completely amicable, any statements to the press like the MTV release, I let them know in advance exactley what I was going to say, everything was fine, and then I think it was maybe 2 weeks later that it kinda cought me by surprise that they had flopped on the agreement that we had had, I agreed that it would be amicable, I don't think I've ever talked Shit about them since leaving, It's just generally that they flopped on it and that i heard all of this stuff..oh he was fired because of this reason or that reason, and I'm like are people really going to believe that the second time around? Everybody knows what happened to Daisy, they know the routine, so I think that they generally underestimated the intelligence of their own audience in believing the same story over & over again. Everybody knows how it works basically in Manson, it comes down toi them wanting it to be a certian way & as long as everybody else in the band in aggreance to that, everything's fine, but when somebody doens't agree that is just unacceptable, & then you'll see somebody leave. preferred
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