Green Day, Marilyn Manson And My Chemical Romance, chapter 3
The next two weeks were chaos! It was VERY hard to convince Aifric's mother that it would be OK and that the four boys would 'protect' them (or as Shane put it 'get drunk/high and be no help whatsoever in a chrsis') and that they would be fine and that there would be 'no' alcohol. In the end all seven sets of parents agreed with Tanzi's agreeing lastly. Tanzi neglected to mention who they were touring with but had told her parents that they were backup if any of the band members got hurt/drunk/high/dead etc.
Their first stop was California to get stuff at the band member's houses. On the way there Tré and Pogo didn't shut up giggling and staring at Tanzi or Aifric or Aisling and whispering to one another. In the end Mike showed Tanzi, Aisling and Aifric to the room they had to share on the tour bus. Tré kept following them until Mike yelled at him. Aifric asked why Mike never hit Tré. Mike said it was because Tré was his 'son'. Tanzi got worried.
Their room was 'pretty fuckin' big' as Aifric put it. Mike explained that they could put up whatever posters they wanted up and if/and/or when things got gross/nasty/out of hand/sickening/disturbing we had to come up here immediately or else we stood a chance to get our innocence taken away prematurely.
"What innocence?" Tanzi asked innocently.
Mike looked away in the other direction and blushed slightly and turned back over to them and continued to say that he would leave to let them get aquatinted and that he would be showing the boys to their room and that we couldn't go ANYWHERE their room after dark. Or any of the other band members rooms for that matter. Ever. Tanzi, Aisling and Aifric agreed . For obvious reasons.
The next morning all of them piled onto the tour bus and they set off but not before Billie Joe 'kissed' his wife goodbye. He also said goodbye to his kids and so did Tré and Mike. That night, after the first gig, they were all sitting in the 'dining room'/'kitchen'/'TV room/'pass out room' eating when Tré said something that really aggravated Billie and Mike. He said that Frankito had been going out with Estelle and that Ramona had been going out with Jakob and that Adrienne's unborn child is really his. Ginger fish had to restrain Billie and Aifric had to calm Mike. Tanzi didn't have any comforting skills. But she could make things considerably worse in about two sentences, so Conal threatened to kill her as she slept. Purely because Tanzi knew better than to disobey Conal when he got pissed off like that she kept her mouth shut throughout dinner. Aisling looked confused and wondered why things were all silent. She made up for it by talking to her broccoli. Liam said that that was the quietest meal he had ever had when Tanzi was in the room so Tanzi decked him with her guitar. Then she got really pissed off when Liam got his blood all over it so she kept hitting him with it until Mr. Manson grabbed her and made Tré hold her still as he treated Liam. Bad plan. Tré held Tanzi in a certain place so Tanzi kneed him in his single testicle. Tré keeled over in pain, whimpering and clutching his ball. Tanzi went to bed. Pogo tried to follow but Mike called him back down. All the way up the stairs Tanzi was thanking Mike for saving her from a scary fate.
About three weeks later Aifric had played three times with Green Day and once with Marilyn Manson because Tré had had a hangover and Ginger Fish had been so hyperactive on coffee that they couldn't play on stage for safety reasons. (Ginger Fish had been running around in circles with Liam, Aisling, Conal and Shane for several hours) Tanzi had only played once with Marilyn Manson in these three weeks because John5 hurt his finger when messing Twiggy Ramirez. Twiggy was OK though. And Aisling had done back-up vocals many, many times. Unlike her friends, she didn't sound like a crow with laryngitis when she sang.
On stage was insane. There were so many people. And then there is the fact that NO ONE looks good in a leopard skin plastic thong. (Unless, of course, you're Aisling or Aifric, who went crazy when this happened... Night after night after night... ) After each show Tré and Billie would go up to the bathroom and you would hear a lot of pain-filled yells from Billie as Tré 'cut' or rather 'pulled' off Billie's thong. Then Tré would throw it at someone, that someone usually being a member of Marilyn Manson, and then Billie would run around the bus naked trying to get his thong back from them until he started to come over to Aifric, Aisling and/or Tanzi for 'help'. Then Mr. Manson/Ginger Fish/Mike/John5 would drag/pull/yank/lure/scare him away FAST., before Aisling could agree. Thank god.
After two months of being on the road they had all become pretty used to the bus and each other. That is, until Tré gave Shane a video that he said to put on during dinner.
The video consisted of the (S)aint video, Mike, Billie and Tré doing something that can't be put on paper, Tré and Adrienne doing something very odd, Mike and his first wife doing something very gross and Billie and Adrienne doing something very sick on the same tour bus they were on. Tré looked very happy all throughout this. So did Pogo.
All this was on the TV as they 'ate' (barfed back up/stopped eating because they are busy doing something... ).
Some time later Mr. Manson, Ginger Fish, who by now hadn't had coffee for several days, and Mike gave out to Pogo and Tré and made them come up to apologise to the seven 'likkel kiddie winkels' as Tré kept putting it. The seven of them locked themselves in the bathroom. Tré called Mike or, rather, Mommy, and told him that they were all naked and copying the second part of the 'funny' movie. Mike went over and knocked on the door and asked if they were. When Aifric and Shane came out fully dressed and Mike saw the other five playing cards by the toilet, also fully dressed, he apologised for Tré's actions and for sending him up un-supervised.
The next night they didn't sleep. Twiggy Ramirez made sure of that. He insisted that they compared meanings to Marilyn Manson songs, to Green Day songs, to MCR songs, to Quentin Tarrentino movies, to the meaning of The Blair Witch Project and it just went on and on.
"Jesus Christ with a fucking pointed stick up his ass," Fergus said to Tanzi at four-thirty in the morning. "What the fuck are we doing still awake?"
"If I knew I'd fuckin' tell you," she replied. Tré came over to them.
"So how was your day?" Tré asked innocently. He had his hands behind his back.
"Tré, what do you have behind your back?" asked Fergus quizzically. Tré got an evil grin on his face and Tanzi recoiled behind Fergus. Tré advanced and showed them string, ropes and leather strips. Tanzi cowered behind Fergus as he watched.
"Tré you sicko! Get away from her!" yelled Fergus protectively. Twiggy turned around. As did John5. They ran foreword and grabbed Tré. Tré grabbed Tanzi. Tanzi stayed motionless behind Fergus, still shaking. Mike came up and grabbed Tré by the ear and Billie grabbed Tré by the underpants.
"Tré, please drop her and the ropes please," pleaded Conal who had just come over. Mr. Manson, however, was standing motionless about five meters away assessing the situation and drinking absinthe. EVERYONE else had crowded around this 'contest' of strength and most were trying to get Tré to release Tanzi and now also Aifric, who had come to see if she could help. She couldn't. Dang. Aisling was standing in the corner with Liam, watching and laughing her head off.
That night neither Tanzi nor Aifric slept. They just stared at the door armed, in Aifric's case, with a hurly and slither and, in Tanzi's, a knife. Aisling slept soundly. This went on for eight or nine days before Mr. Manson decided that it had gone on long enough. He managed to console Aifric but not Tanzi. Tanzi refused to sleep for three more days before she finally fell asleep in Fergus's arms at midnight. Pogo didn't stop teasing Fergus for that so Fergus threatened him with Tanzi's knife.
"Pogo I'll cut off your dick. Fuck off. I swear I fucking will," Fergus had said. Pogo had quickly agreed shaking his head and protecting his much-talked about balls, his 'pride and joy' as he put it. Meanwhile everyone else looked on with interest at Fergus protecting Tanzi and his dignity at the same time. Afterwards Tanzi told Aifric that she was going out with Fergus. Unfortunately Billie heard this and because Billie Joe Armstrong is Billie Joe Armstrong he spread this on to everyone. When Tanzi found out she got Mike to get Billie for her because Mike wanted to hurt someone so, it may as well be his best friend. Billie Joe couldn't walk or sit down or go to the red light district much to his dismay, especially when Tré was bragging about his 'date'.
Tim Skold offered to bring out the teens with a few other band members. Mr. Manson said that he thought that they should all go because Pogo needed natural light at least once a month.
On the way there Tré was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, hyper. This was because with breakfast, instead of jelly-shots, he had had coffee. He kept skipping backwards into traffic until Twiggy had an idea. He ran into a kid's shop and bought one of those leashes for kids and put it on Tré. He handed it to Liam.
"OK Tré, now I want you to walk calmly just a little bit ahead of the group please," Liam said.
"Calm isn't in his vocabulary Liam!" Mile told him when Tré kept running on the spot directly in the path of an oncoming tram.
"Yeah, err, I knew that," Liam replied, exasperated with himself and Tré. "Tré, please, stop it!"
"Only if Aifric holds the leash!" Tré said. Liam looked pleadingly at Aifric.
"Fine, but you owe me BIG, OK?" she said, taking the leash. As soon as she did this Tré got down on all fours and started growling and looking at Aifric suggestively. Aifric gave Mike the leash, slapped Tré and went over to talk to Tanzi. Tré looked pretty disappointed but cheered up when Billie promised him a new porno magazine.
Their first stop was California to get stuff at the band member's houses. On the way there Tré and Pogo didn't shut up giggling and staring at Tanzi or Aifric or Aisling and whispering to one another. In the end Mike showed Tanzi, Aisling and Aifric to the room they had to share on the tour bus. Tré kept following them until Mike yelled at him. Aifric asked why Mike never hit Tré. Mike said it was because Tré was his 'son'. Tanzi got worried.
Their room was 'pretty fuckin' big' as Aifric put it. Mike explained that they could put up whatever posters they wanted up and if/and/or when things got gross/nasty/out of hand/sickening/disturbing we had to come up here immediately or else we stood a chance to get our innocence taken away prematurely.
"What innocence?" Tanzi asked innocently.
Mike looked away in the other direction and blushed slightly and turned back over to them and continued to say that he would leave to let them get aquatinted and that he would be showing the boys to their room and that we couldn't go ANYWHERE their room after dark. Or any of the other band members rooms for that matter. Ever. Tanzi, Aisling and Aifric agreed . For obvious reasons.
The next morning all of them piled onto the tour bus and they set off but not before Billie Joe 'kissed' his wife goodbye. He also said goodbye to his kids and so did Tré and Mike. That night, after the first gig, they were all sitting in the 'dining room'/'kitchen'/'TV room/'pass out room' eating when Tré said something that really aggravated Billie and Mike. He said that Frankito had been going out with Estelle and that Ramona had been going out with Jakob and that Adrienne's unborn child is really his. Ginger fish had to restrain Billie and Aifric had to calm Mike. Tanzi didn't have any comforting skills. But she could make things considerably worse in about two sentences, so Conal threatened to kill her as she slept. Purely because Tanzi knew better than to disobey Conal when he got pissed off like that she kept her mouth shut throughout dinner. Aisling looked confused and wondered why things were all silent. She made up for it by talking to her broccoli. Liam said that that was the quietest meal he had ever had when Tanzi was in the room so Tanzi decked him with her guitar. Then she got really pissed off when Liam got his blood all over it so she kept hitting him with it until Mr. Manson grabbed her and made Tré hold her still as he treated Liam. Bad plan. Tré held Tanzi in a certain place so Tanzi kneed him in his single testicle. Tré keeled over in pain, whimpering and clutching his ball. Tanzi went to bed. Pogo tried to follow but Mike called him back down. All the way up the stairs Tanzi was thanking Mike for saving her from a scary fate.
About three weeks later Aifric had played three times with Green Day and once with Marilyn Manson because Tré had had a hangover and Ginger Fish had been so hyperactive on coffee that they couldn't play on stage for safety reasons. (Ginger Fish had been running around in circles with Liam, Aisling, Conal and Shane for several hours) Tanzi had only played once with Marilyn Manson in these three weeks because John5 hurt his finger when messing Twiggy Ramirez. Twiggy was OK though. And Aisling had done back-up vocals many, many times. Unlike her friends, she didn't sound like a crow with laryngitis when she sang.
On stage was insane. There were so many people. And then there is the fact that NO ONE looks good in a leopard skin plastic thong. (Unless, of course, you're Aisling or Aifric, who went crazy when this happened... Night after night after night... ) After each show Tré and Billie would go up to the bathroom and you would hear a lot of pain-filled yells from Billie as Tré 'cut' or rather 'pulled' off Billie's thong. Then Tré would throw it at someone, that someone usually being a member of Marilyn Manson, and then Billie would run around the bus naked trying to get his thong back from them until he started to come over to Aifric, Aisling and/or Tanzi for 'help'. Then Mr. Manson/Ginger Fish/Mike/John5 would drag/pull/yank/lure/scare him away FAST., before Aisling could agree. Thank god.
After two months of being on the road they had all become pretty used to the bus and each other. That is, until Tré gave Shane a video that he said to put on during dinner.
The video consisted of the (S)aint video, Mike, Billie and Tré doing something that can't be put on paper, Tré and Adrienne doing something very odd, Mike and his first wife doing something very gross and Billie and Adrienne doing something very sick on the same tour bus they were on. Tré looked very happy all throughout this. So did Pogo.
All this was on the TV as they 'ate' (barfed back up/stopped eating because they are busy doing something... ).
Some time later Mr. Manson, Ginger Fish, who by now hadn't had coffee for several days, and Mike gave out to Pogo and Tré and made them come up to apologise to the seven 'likkel kiddie winkels' as Tré kept putting it. The seven of them locked themselves in the bathroom. Tré called Mike or, rather, Mommy, and told him that they were all naked and copying the second part of the 'funny' movie. Mike went over and knocked on the door and asked if they were. When Aifric and Shane came out fully dressed and Mike saw the other five playing cards by the toilet, also fully dressed, he apologised for Tré's actions and for sending him up un-supervised.
The next night they didn't sleep. Twiggy Ramirez made sure of that. He insisted that they compared meanings to Marilyn Manson songs, to Green Day songs, to MCR songs, to Quentin Tarrentino movies, to the meaning of The Blair Witch Project and it just went on and on.
"Jesus Christ with a fucking pointed stick up his ass," Fergus said to Tanzi at four-thirty in the morning. "What the fuck are we doing still awake?"
"If I knew I'd fuckin' tell you," she replied. Tré came over to them.
"So how was your day?" Tré asked innocently. He had his hands behind his back.
"Tré, what do you have behind your back?" asked Fergus quizzically. Tré got an evil grin on his face and Tanzi recoiled behind Fergus. Tré advanced and showed them string, ropes and leather strips. Tanzi cowered behind Fergus as he watched.
"Tré you sicko! Get away from her!" yelled Fergus protectively. Twiggy turned around. As did John5. They ran foreword and grabbed Tré. Tré grabbed Tanzi. Tanzi stayed motionless behind Fergus, still shaking. Mike came up and grabbed Tré by the ear and Billie grabbed Tré by the underpants.
"Tré, please drop her and the ropes please," pleaded Conal who had just come over. Mr. Manson, however, was standing motionless about five meters away assessing the situation and drinking absinthe. EVERYONE else had crowded around this 'contest' of strength and most were trying to get Tré to release Tanzi and now also Aifric, who had come to see if she could help. She couldn't. Dang. Aisling was standing in the corner with Liam, watching and laughing her head off.
That night neither Tanzi nor Aifric slept. They just stared at the door armed, in Aifric's case, with a hurly and slither and, in Tanzi's, a knife. Aisling slept soundly. This went on for eight or nine days before Mr. Manson decided that it had gone on long enough. He managed to console Aifric but not Tanzi. Tanzi refused to sleep for three more days before she finally fell asleep in Fergus's arms at midnight. Pogo didn't stop teasing Fergus for that so Fergus threatened him with Tanzi's knife.
"Pogo I'll cut off your dick. Fuck off. I swear I fucking will," Fergus had said. Pogo had quickly agreed shaking his head and protecting his much-talked about balls, his 'pride and joy' as he put it. Meanwhile everyone else looked on with interest at Fergus protecting Tanzi and his dignity at the same time. Afterwards Tanzi told Aifric that she was going out with Fergus. Unfortunately Billie heard this and because Billie Joe Armstrong is Billie Joe Armstrong he spread this on to everyone. When Tanzi found out she got Mike to get Billie for her because Mike wanted to hurt someone so, it may as well be his best friend. Billie Joe couldn't walk or sit down or go to the red light district much to his dismay, especially when Tré was bragging about his 'date'.
Tim Skold offered to bring out the teens with a few other band members. Mr. Manson said that he thought that they should all go because Pogo needed natural light at least once a month.
On the way there Tré was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, hyper. This was because with breakfast, instead of jelly-shots, he had had coffee. He kept skipping backwards into traffic until Twiggy had an idea. He ran into a kid's shop and bought one of those leashes for kids and put it on Tré. He handed it to Liam.
"OK Tré, now I want you to walk calmly just a little bit ahead of the group please," Liam said.
"Calm isn't in his vocabulary Liam!" Mile told him when Tré kept running on the spot directly in the path of an oncoming tram.
"Yeah, err, I knew that," Liam replied, exasperated with himself and Tré. "Tré, please, stop it!"
"Only if Aifric holds the leash!" Tré said. Liam looked pleadingly at Aifric.
"Fine, but you owe me BIG, OK?" she said, taking the leash. As soon as she did this Tré got down on all fours and started growling and looking at Aifric suggestively. Aifric gave Mike the leash, slapped Tré and went over to talk to Tanzi. Tré looked pretty disappointed but cheered up when Billie promised him a new porno magazine.
