Single · 1994
Get Your Gunn
Get Your Gunn is a single by Marilyn Manson, released in 1994 on Marilyn Manson / Interscope, with 4 tracks.
- 4
- Tracks
- 27 min
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4 tracks · 27 min
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Released in 1994, "Get Your Gunn" is the first official single by alternative metal band Marilyn Manson. "Snake Eyes and Sissies" was originally planned as the lead single but never released; "Get Your Gunn" was released instead. The track was released to support the album Portrait of an American Family, and was the first release from Nothing Records. A video was also released, but did not receive significant airplay. The boy on the single's cover is Wes Brown, half-brother of bassist Twiggy Ramirez. The song charted in Canada. The song was inspired by the 1993 murder of OB/GYN doctor David Gunn (hence the spelling) who was killed in Florida by self-proclaimed pro-life activist Michael Frederic Griffin. Vocalist Marilyn Manson later described his murder as "the ultimate hypocrisy I witnessed growing up: that these people killed someone in the name of being 'pro-life'." The bridge of "Get Your Gunn" includes audio from the press conference at which American politician Budd Dwyer shot himself, as well as the gunshot that killed him. Additional saxophone playing is provided by Sugarsmack vocalist Hope Nicholls. During the Columbine High School massacres aftermath, several news outlets…