Gidget Gein
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Bradley Mark Stewart |
| Born |
September 11, 1969 Hollywood, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | October 8, 2008 (aged 39) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, artist |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, guitar |
| Years active | 1990–2008 |
| Labels | Nothing, Interscope |
| Associated acts |
Marilyn Manson Dali Gaggers |
| Website | http://www.gidgetgein.com/ |
Bradley Mark "Brad" Stewart (September 11, 1969 – October 8, 2008), known by his stage name Gidget Gein, was an American musician and artist. He was the second bassist and co-founder of the alternative metal band Marilyn Manson. His stage name references and dichotomies serial killer Ed Gein and the fictional 1960s surfer girl Gidget.
Gein was born in Hollywood, Florida, to a Roman Catholic school teacher mother and police officer father.
Stewart joined the band, Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, in 1990. The band eventually gained the attention of Trent Reznor who signed them to his label Nothing Records. As the band became more famous after dropping the "Spooky Kids" title in 1992, Gein's personality was becoming more chaotic through extensive drug use and other various acts of 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 Christmas Eve of 1993, Gein was hospitalized after overdosing on heroin. While still hospitalized, he received a message from Marilyn Manson's lawyer via FedEx that he was fired due to his drug use. Gein was replaced by Jeordie White, known as Twiggy Ramirez.
After being fired from Marilyn Manson, Gein moved to New York in 1999. He formed a group called Gidget Gein and the Dali Gaggers with vocalist Anthony Taboada, a.k.a. Alistarr Liddell, and guitarist Al B. Romano which featured various displays of degenerate art, ideas, and post-punk styled songwriting. Before the release of the Dali Gaggers' only album, Confessions of a Spooky Kid, Gein relapsed and began shooting heroin. He headed back to Florida in order to kick his drug addiction for good.
Once back in Florida, Gein began work for the south Florida medical examiner as a "bag boy", spending years retrieving and cleaning up after the deceased. 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.
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