Gidget Gein

Gidget Gein

Gidget Gein (born Bradley Stewart, September 11, 1969 – October 8, 2008) was an American musician and artist. He was the second bassist for Alternative metal band Marilyn Manson. His stage name references serial killer Ed Gein.

Early life

Bradley Stewart was born in Hollywood, Florida. He was born to a Catholic school teacher mother and police officer father. As his biological mother and father began to separate, Bradley's early childhood character was molded through an acid-fallout host of 1970s kid shows, AM-radio, and drive-in movies, while learning to play guitar through a Catholic priest. A bit further on in his life in the mid 80s, he would be seen as a popular clothing model and local band member while enjoying his leisure time as an effective South Florida band heckler.

Career

Gein's character, style, and reputation at this point had become the prototype for what young Brian Warner would adapt into a Marilyn Manson ideal. As they became closer friends, Bradley and Brian's personalities expressed themselves through fun ideals in Gidget Gein and Marilyn Manson. The personal stylings, influences, and experiences of each member would showcase as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids to the south Florida music scene and eventually gain the attention of a newly successful Trent Reznor.

As the band became more infamous after dropping the "Spooky Kids" title in 1992, Gidget's personality was becoming more chaotic through extensive drug use, increasing bisexual public displays of affection, and other various debauchery. In October 1993, Reznor agreed to rework the production on Marilyn Manson's album, taking them and their tapes to The Record Plant in Los Angeles. On the Christmas Eve of 1993, when finding himself in a hospital bed after a heroin overdose, Gidget discovered through Federal Express, that his services were "no longer needed" by Marilyn Manson. He was replaced by Jeordie White, now known as Twiggy Ramirez. Noticeably, most of Jeordie White’s signature early “Twiggy Ramirez“ look, down to the multi colored dreadlocks, was taken directly from White’s girlfriend at the time Jessicka (Jack Off Jill) and Gein himself. After writing a great arsenal of music for the band, Gein claimed to see a substitution of his style and personality inserted into Marilyn Manson albums for years to come. Earlier songs Gidget had written such as "She's Not My Girlfriend" would be retitled with different lyrics as the song "1996".

Gidget's path of indulgence would continue for years after his departure from the band. He moved to New York in 1996, befriending many artists and characters over the next few years. As his own art and ideas began to gather, he formed a group called Gidget Gein and the Dali Gaggers which featured various fun displays of degenerate art, ideas, and post-punk styled songwriting ("This is not a band. This is libel, slander, and defamation of character"). By examining the flyers, lyrics, and propaganda in the Dali Gaggers, it is evident that Gidget was a major influence in the earlier Marilyn Manson newsletters, flyers, and song writing. Before the release of the Dali Gaggers only album Confessions of a Spooky Kid, the temptation of the New York city party scene proved to be too strong for Gein and he headed back to Florida in order to kick his drug addiction for good.

Once back in Florida, Gidget began work for the south Florida medical examiner as a "Bag Boy". Over years of retrieving and cleaning up after the deceased, Gidget continued to gather extreme experiences and ideas for more and more art. His experiences at the medical examiner's office have been documented in various international magazines and spurred early production of a motion picture based on this period of his life. Over time his arsenal of art and ideas began to outweigh his position as a Bag Boy and Gidget found a friendship with the freshly announced UNPOP art movement and, surprisingly, a collaboration with Marilyn Manson and Asia Argento in a music video for the song "(s)AINT", which was later banned by Manson's record label Interscope Records. Leaving Florida behind in 2004 and taking his collection with him, Gidget began to execute art and fashion shows in Hollywood, California, under the organised name GOLLYWOOD. His creation of sculpture, bedroom and bathroom suites, clothing, themed music, and books continued to develop in Hollywood in association with his fans, associates and close friends.

Death

After some years of sobriety, Stewart died of a heroin overdose on October 8, 2008 at 9:30PM - as cited by the Los Angeles County Coroners office, at a friend's home in Burbank, California. His body was found on the following day.

At the time of his death, he was recording an album with record producer Dave Jerden, in a television deal with Roxane Davis for "Bag Boy" and had been contracted to publish his art.

Aftermath

On October 15, Khloe Kardashian visited a Los Angeles morgue. Her visit was one of the stipulations attached to her March 2007 DUI arrest, in order to see a dead celebrity and get the point across about drug and alcohol abuse. Stewart's body was lying at the morgue that Khloe visited.

On December 8, 2008, months after Gein's s accidental O.D., a memorial benefit at the Dragonfly in Los Angeles, featured Gein’s art and an array of friends and fans performing in his honor. The guest list included Ego Plum, Kim Fowley, ex Courtney Love guitarist Lisa Leveridge, Jessicka, Allen Wrench, Damian Crowley, Lenora Claire, Courtney Cruz, Brian Clark (co-founder of UnPop art movement to which Gein belonged), Bill Schafer of Hayena Gallery, and drag queens Squeaky Blonde and Fade-Dra. Funds raised from the gathering will buy Gein a memorial plaque at Hollywood Forever cemetery (his ashes are with his mother in Florida, his homestate).

In July,the legendary gallery, La Luz de Jesus will be posthumously exhibiting Gein's work in a gallery show called Post Mortem. This show was something he had been wanting to do for years, and he was scheduled to appear at it before he passed.

Discography

• Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, Grist-O-Line (1990)
• Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, Big Black Bus (1990)
• Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, After School Special (album) (1991)
• Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, Lunchbox (album) (1992)
• Marilyn Manson, Portrait of an American Family (1994)
• Marilyn Manson, Antichrist Superstar (1996)
• Dali Gaggers, Just AdNauseam (1998)
• Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows (2004)
• Gidget Gein, Suspension of Misbelief (2007)
• Gidget Gein, Law of Diminishing Return (2007)
• Gidget Gein, Rig Demos (2007)

Written Songs in Marilyn Manson

• Red (In My) Head
• Negative 3
• Trouble In The Van
• She's Not My Girlfriend
• Learn To Swim
• IV-TV
• Chokolit Factory
• Lunchbox
• Organ Grinder
• Cyclops
• Dope Hat
• Get Your Gunn
• Sweet Tooth
• Snake Eyes And Sissies
• Misery Machine
• 1996
• thing maker
• other songs on Antichrist-superstar that cannot be reveled due to court orders

Filmography

• God Is in the T.V. (1999) (V) .... Himself
• Demystifying the Devil: Biography Marilyn Manson (2000) .... Himself
• Marilyn Manson - (s)AINT (2005)
• The Three Trials (2006)
• The Devil's Muse (2007) .... Detective Jeffrey Mourir
• In A Spiral State (2009) .... Avi

References

• Gidget Gein

External links

• Gidget Gein's fan page
• Gidget Gein's former official site, now maintained by Nancy Marzulli
• Gidget Gein at IMDb
• Gidget Gein's page on the MansonWiki
• Former Marilyn Manson Bassist Gidget Gein Has Died
• Dali Gaggers on Last.fm

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