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}} The Beautiful Monsters Tour was a North American concert tour co-headlined by American rock bands Hole and Marilyn Manson. Launched in support of each band's respective third full-length studio LPs, 1998's ''Celebrity Skin'' and ''Mechanical Animals'', the tour was planned to run from February 28, 1999 until April 27, with 37 shows confirmed. However, due to a highly publicized quarrel between the bands' respective lead vocalists, the tour only visited arenas until March 14, for a total of 9 shows before Hole withdrew from the bill. The tour garnered a large amount of media attention and was billed by MTV as a "potentially volatile mix" due to the public feud between both band's outspoken vocalists. The co-headlining tour was conceived by Hole's management company, Q Prime. Hole singer Courtney Love teased the press that she aimed to launch a tour with Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. However, Hole's management aggressively pursued Marilyn Manson's eponymous band, even amid the quarrel between her and the band's singer. Both of them aired their objections in the press. Nevertheless, both groups agreed to tour together provided that costs and revenue were split 50/50. The tour was marred by on–and–off stage squabbling between Love and Manson, as well as private disputes over the tour's financial arrangements, which resulted in Hole unwittingly financing most of Manson's production costs at their own expense. After Hole left, Marilyn Manson continued the tour under the name Rock Is Dead, despite that name being used by American rock bands Korn and Rob Zombie for their own concurrent joint tour. Marilyn Manson released two recordings that documented portions of the tour: a live video album titled ''God Is in the T.V.'' and a live album titled ''The Last Tour on Earth''. Love and Manson finally reconciled their differences in 2015, more than 15 years after the end of the tour. ==Background and development== Plans for a joint tour were conceived by Hole's management company, Q Prime, during the band's stint at the 1999 Big Day Out music festival in Australia in order to support their third studio album ''Celebrity Skin''. Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson admitted that the band itself had "anxiously been awaiting" their first full-scale U.S. tour for some time, but their previous attempts "kept falling apart because we couldn't find someone to tour with". Erlandson said he was "just psyched to hit the road with ''anybody''". Hole frontwoman Courtney Love toyed with the idea of touring with Canadian pop rock singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette in the press. During an interview on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, Love claimed her opinions on Morissette had changed. She had previously maligned Morissette's pop work as being "too commercial (Morissette ) to ever be considered a genuine feminist symbol".〔 Nevertheless, Love, who was one of the most prominent and prolific figures of feminist music in the 1990s, began to see Morissette as a positive influence on female empowerment.〔 In 1998 and 1999, Love and rock singer Marilyn Manson were engaged in a highly publicized feud and regularly traded insults with each other in the press. Love took offense to Manson's depiction of her in his autobiography ''The Long Hard Road Out of Hell''. In spite of their squabble, Hole's management aggressively pursued a joint tour with Manson's eponymous rock band.〔〔 Manson was initially reluctant to accept the offer. He had reservations about Love, whom he pejoratively described in an interview with ''NME'' as "an opportunist" whom he felt tried to exploit his band's newfound fame to bolster hers. He noted that Love never attempted to befriend him until he had sold a million records. Love also voiced her concerns about touring with Manson, whose explicit stage shows, she felt, were potentially deleterious to her young daughter, Frances Bean.〔〔 Despite their mutual enmity, Manson accepted the offer to support his band's own third studio album.〔 He joked that he agreed to the tour because he realized "what better role models to lead the youth of America into the new millennium than us two? So it had to be done". During their negotiations, both sides agreed that the opening act from the inaugural show until their scheduled performance on April 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania would be Manson's option, stoner rock band Monster Magnet. A dispute arose on who would take over. According to Erlandson and Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, the two groups had a two-hour meeting to arrive at a resolution. Manson and his band voted for early 1980s Brit-pop groups like Fun Boy Three and Fine Young Cannibals, while members of Hole wanted "more modern" bands. Auf der Maur noted that "we want romance and they want theater. We want love and they want shtick. We had to explain to them that those kinds of bands make them look good, but us look silly".〔 Eventually, Manson's band ceded the selection of the subsequent opening act to Love, who chose Imperial Teen. During their negotiations, both band's agreed to split the cost of producing each show, which resulted in Hole unwittingly financing most of Manson's production costs at their own expense. The revenue earned at each show would be split 50/50 between the two bands.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beautiful Monsters Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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