Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit): Marilyn Manson Is A “A Bad F**king Guy”

Wes Borland talks about his time in Marilyn Manson’s band

Marilyn Manson has been in the center of public attention after a series of events that happened these past days.

The singer was dropped by his Record label Loma Vista Recordings and had roles canceled in two TV shows after these accusations surfaced.

In an Instagram post made this week, Manson criticized the “horrible distortions of reality” and added,

“Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,”. wrote Manson, real name Brian Warner. “My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how ― and why ― others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”

Now, in a new video, former Marilyn Manson guitar player and life long Limp Bizkit member, Wes Borland, had a few words to say about the current state of events.

Limp Bizkit and Marilyn Manson have had their fair share of disagreements over the years. Even though both bands took shots at each other, they still benefited from a lot of mainstream success and attention for several years. A lot happened during the late 90s and early 2000s but one of the most important events in the Bizkit camp was the departure of their guitar player, Wes Borland, in 2001. Wes would play in several bands after Bizkit, including his solo projects Eat The Day and Big Dumb Face and Black Light Burns. While he was still working on his solo stuff, Manson asked him to join his band. The year was 2008 and, at a press conference ahead of the band's 15 August performance at the ETP festival in Seoul, South Korea, Manson announced the news.

At the time, Manson commented:

"We have a new guitar player that's gonna play for the first time tomorrow; it's the first time we'll play on stage together. "His name is Wes Borland and he used to be in a really terrible band that he left because he felt that it was a destructive force in art, and he has his own band, Black Light Burns, but now he is in Marilyn Manson. We don't know how permanent that is, but starting tomorrow will be the first step. So this will be the most indestructible Marilyn Manson."

The first performance with Borland was at the ETP festival the following day. Borland would play one more live show with Marilyn Manson at the Hot Topic yearly managers meeting before leaving the band to re-join Limp Bizkit. After Wes left Manson’s band, there seemed to be some animosity left between the two of them. Manson started taking some shots at Wes, and, according to Kerrang Magazine, Wes has tried to put an end to it. But in the age of social media, things didn’t end quite well. The shock rocker fired the first attack, saying that Borland's decision to return to Bizkit "forever eradicated my feelings on his choices in life as an artist." When asked why he thinks Borland reunited with his former band, Manson said:

"That is what I find myself asking when I urinate sometimes. He said he would never go back. If the reason is money, then I'd rather roll up a 5 dollar note and shove it up my urethra. I'd rather set my dick on fire than join something that I hated."

Wes Borland responded, saying that he ditched Manson because he felt like a stand-in, and didn't see himself evolving into a full-fledge member.

"I wrote nine songs to be submitted to the Manson record and none of them made it. I was really in hired gun land there, but was sort of being told that I wasn't," Borland says. "So when I figured that whole thing out, I knew I was never going to get an inch into that band. I love Manson. He's definitely one of the wildest personalities I've ever been around and one of the smartest people I've ever met but it's the Marilyn Manson show over there. Limp Bizkit is more of a band."

Now, in a live stream session on Twitch, while recording his podcast Space Zebra, Borland said:

“Marilyn Manson… I was in the band for nine months. He’s not a great guy. And every single thing that people have said about him is fucking true. So relax about the allegations towards the women. Like when people say bad things about these women that are coming after him right now. Fuck off. They are speaking the truth.

And I’m sorry to everyone on this podcast right now who doesn’t like this, but that guy — he’s amazingly talented, but he’s fucked up and he needs to be put in check and he needs to get sober and he needs to come to terms with his demons. He is a bad fucking guy.

I was there when he was with Evan Rachel Wood. I was at his house. It’s not fucking cool. And that’s all I’m gonna say about it. So if anyone is coming after these girls and going, like, ‘You blah blah blah, this and that,’ fuck you. That’s all I’m gonna say. Sorry to take this to a dark place, but that guy is canceled. Goodbye. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”

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