Marilyn Manson co-founder and original guitarist Scott Putesky, a.k.a. Daisy Berkowitz, has passed away after a long battle with stage-four colon cancer.
The 49-year-old musician found out he had cancer when he underwent a colonoscopy in August 2013 after nearly six years of mysterious abdomen pains, some of which were severe enough to land him in the emergency room.
In a 2014 interview with Noisey, Putesky discussed his exit from Marilyn Manson: “I left because I wasn’t getting the respect and appreciation and work I deserved. I did a lot of demos more or less a year before we started recording. When we started recording, I had about ten or a dozen demos for Brian [Warner, Marilyn Manson’s real name] to listen to so we could develop something. I don’t know if he listened to any of them, but he never wanted to work on any of them. We had a number of unreleased songs that were contenders for ‘Antichrist’ that Brian didn’t want to do or [‘Antichrist Superstar’ producer] Trent [Reznor] didn’t want to record, so I was being slowly muscled out as far as my contribution. And, that’s pretty much it.”
Putesky also discussed cancer. “It’s become a huge annoyance,” he said. “It really gets in the way. It doesn’t get in the way with the kind of work I do, but the amount of work I do. When I started chemotherapy in September 2013, I thought I would have down time where I could relax and work on music or artwork. But, I quickly realized that downtime would mean extreme fatigue where I didn’t really feel like doing anything. The most I could do was catch up on movies. I didn’t realize how much it would take out of me. I have lots of plans that have just gone to the bottom of the things-to-do list.”
