Jeordie White
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Jeordie Osborne White (born June 20, 1971), better known by his former pseudonym Twiggy Ramirez, is a musician and currently the bassist for Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle. White is perhaps most popular for his previous role as the bassist for Marilyn Manson (after which point he abandoned the pseudonym). A New Jersey native, he moved to Florida, where he grew up on "Star Wars and heavy metal". He has three brothers, Westly, Dustin and Aden. His mother Dana was formerly a cage dancer for such bands as the Ramones, giving Jeordie famous musical contact. He ended his long time musical partnership with Manson on May 29, 2002. It has been said that White quit the band in order to preserve his friendship with Manson rather than quarrel over the band's creative direction, and thought that it was becoming too much of a routine. After departing the band, he played two live shows with California punk metal band Mondo Generator, and auditioned for the role of second guitar in Queens of the Stone Age, which he lost to Troy Van Leeuwen of A Perfect Circle. He also auditioned for a spot in Metallica, where he is briefly seen in their documentary, Some Kind of Monster. Several months later, White joined A Perfect Circle, the project of Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan and former Tool guitar tech Billy Howerdel as a full member of the band on bass guitar. White later joined Queens of the Stone Age front man Josh Homme on the ninth and tenth volumes of Homme's drug-induced communal project The Desert Sessions.
White assisted in the production of Nine Inch Nails' album, With Teeth, and he currently is touring with them to support the album. Jeordie also has his own project with desert-mainstay Chris Goss called Goon Moon, an underground stoner-type music band. Guitarist Dave Catching is also involved along with Team Sleep/Hella drummer Zach Hill. Image:Twiggynow.jpg
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Trivia
White was previously a guitarist of Fort Lauderdale, FL thrash metal band Amboog-a-Lard. He is featured on their debut album and played a number of live shows, leaving the band in 1993. Amboog-a-lard's music and White's appearance while in the band are quite unlike that of his time in Marilyn Manson.
He met Marilyn Manson while working in a used records store in a Florida mall, when the two realized they had much in common. Jeordie however did not finally join until Gidget Gein (former bassist of Manson) was recovering from drug overuse. While in the band Marilyn Manson, White played a lot of vintage bass guitars. He has used a four string Gibson Thunderbird IV Reverse bass, but he often played the vintage basses of other famous rock bassists that had been given to him. An example of this can be see in the videos for "The Dope Show" and "Coma White"; the bass White is playing is actually one that belonged to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. This was the Gibson RD Artist, in black, which was made throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and a bass from Nikki Sixx (of Mötley Crüe). This is his favorite as Mötley Crüe is one of his greatest inspirations.
When White performed as Twiggy in Marilyn Manson his hair was usually mistaken to be dreadlocks. In reality, Twiggy's hairstyle was created by tiny braids, which he would often remove after concert tours. Using nothing but braids and hairspray to obtain his now famous gothic do, White would sometimes spend a couple of hours before a show or photo shoot messing his braids up and spraying them into place, sometimes including hair elastics. During the Mechanical Animals period, famed Hollywood hairstylist Alex Dizon gave White the uniquely feminine style pictured in the photo above. He naturally has medium brown locks.
White has been romantically linked to several famous women in music such as Courtney Love from Hole, Sean Yseult from White Zombie, Donita Sparks from L7, and long time girlfriend Jessicka of Jack Off Jill / Scarling. fame.
White has stated in interviews, that, since his departure from Marilyn Manson, he prefers to be called by his real name, because Twiggy Ramirez was a character, and he has since dropped that persona.
White appeared on an MTV Cribs episode, circa the Twiggy era.
White used to be in a speed metal cover band called The Ethiopians. White mentions that Metallica's Trapped Under Ice was one of the songs they covered.
Filmography
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Some Kind of Monster (2004)
- Backstage Pass 3: Uncensored! (2005)
Discography
- A New Hope (Amboog-A-Lard, 1993)
- Portrait of an American Family (Marilyn Manson, 1994)
- Smells Like Children (Marilyn Manson, 1995)
- Antichrist Superstar (Marilyn Manson, 1996)
- Dead Man on Campus Soundtrack ("I Only Want to Be With You" with Twiggy, 1998)
- Mechanical Animals (Marilyn Manson, 1998)
- The Last Tour On Earth (Marilyn Manson, 1999)
- Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (Marilyn Manson, 2000)
- Volumes 9 & 10 of The Desert Sessions (2003, Ipecac/Rekords Rekords)
- eMOTIVe (A Perfect Circle, 2004)
- I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine (Goon Moon, 2005) (suicide squeeze records)
- Goal! Soundtrack ("Cast No Shadow (UNKLE Beachhead Mix)" Oasis, 2005)
External links
- BaseTendencies - A Jeordie White/Twiggy Ramirez Fan site
- Nardwuar vs. Jeordie - Nardwuar hosts an audio interview with Jeordie White and Aaron North, currently of Nine Inch Nailsde:Jeordie White
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