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| Birth Name(s) : Daisy Berkowitz |
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Full Daisy Berkowitz Biography
Scott Mitchell Putesky, born April 28, 1968 to Sanford and Sandra Putesky, is an American musician more famously known as Daisy Berkowitz and was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock group Marilyn Manson until he left the band in 1996, during the recording of Antichrist Superstar.
Putesky's discovery of MTV after his moving to Fort Lauderdale in 1980 gave him the inspiration to save up to buy a small Casio keyboard. He taught himself to play, and later, in 8th grade, took guitar lessons. Influenced by his early favorites, Putesky learned to play songs by The Cure and U2, leading to his development of an odd personal style sometimes described as a fusion between blues and grunge. Putesky's first band, "The Flying Eggbeaters" featured schoolmates Tom Wolf and Jim Neuman as drummer and bassist. This gave him the experience needed to later go on to other bands, such as "Blue China" and "Ear Wacks".
A period of drifting followed, in which Putesky attented a local art college where he majored in advertising design. Though his musical abilities were sidetracked, he began to visit local metal clubs such as The Gutter and The Cell. In 1988, after being given a small 4-track recorder by his parents, he bought a bass guitar and a drumkit to record his music with a full ensemble. At this time, Scott also played with a surf-rock band called "The Hodads", and later formed a band named "Kinetic Ritual" with Hodads' bassist Rick Waters and future 'Spooky Kid' Fred Streithorst on drums. Another drifting period soon set in, however, as Putesky was unsure where to take his unique style.
Putesky, who had at this point not thought to advance his lyrical ability, began to meet up with Warner and brainstorm after his admission of wanting to start a band as a creative outlet for his poetry-writing abilities. Dual input from both parties gave the band its darkly psychedelic style, and as early as 1989, they began to record on Putesky's 4-track songs that would seven years later become known as "Cake and Sodomy" and "Dogma". They quickly assembled a band with Warner's schoolmate Brian Tutunick, better known as Olivia Newton Bundy, and, as Warner describes in his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Perry Pandrea, a gawky teenager given the moniker Zsa Zsa Speck in reference to his acne-ridden complexion. The band played its first show at Churchills, a club in Miami. A popular local band named "The Goods" gave them their initial break.
At this point, creative differences between Warner and Putesky reached their peak - Putesky, somewhat introverted on stage compared to the riotous antics of Manson, Gacy and Ramirez, began to be pushed off stage by Manson, find his equipment mysteriously broken, and was criticized at every possible opportunity - his image was, according to Warner, just not shocking enough. Excluded from photoshoots and videos (he features less than any other bandmember in the "Dope Hat" video, for example) and ignored by production crew, his feelings of isolation and frustration grew. Apathy, however, soon turned into active victimisation, and before Antichrist Superstar was completed, an airline ticket for a one-way flight back to Fort Lauderdale mysteriously appeared in the studio. Putesky said nothing, returning home silently with no backup plan, job, or opportunity.
Abandoning the Daisy Berkowitz moniker in favor of his own initials, SMP, Scott began recording demos for his first solo project, Three Ton Gate was named for the massive coral gate at the entrance of the Coral Castle in Homestead, FL, built single-handedly by one infatuated Ed Leedskalnin for his Sweet 16). A three-song demo,3x3 was his first musical undertaking post Marilyn Manson. The tape featured rough tracks written and performed entirely by Putesky, under the name "Scott Mitchell"(his first and middle names). Shortly thereafter, Scott hired Tyreah James to handle the vocals for the full-length Three Ton Gate release, "Vanishing Century" based on the 3x3 demo tapes. Scott produced Tyreah's vocals in the studio for all the basic tracks at the now defunct Digital Beach Recording Studio in Fort Lauderdale. The disc was released in 1997 in limited quantities, and sold out its entire run of pressings. Copies of the disc can occasionally be found on e-bay. The album, written entirely by Scott Mitchell, was the first Three Ton Gate official release and featured gothic vocalist Tyreah James. At the same time, Putesky was playing live shows in a whimsical side project called the Linda Blairs created by Jack Off Jill singer Jessicka as an opening act for her band's shows. The Blair's featured several unknown South Florida musicians who performed cover tunes previously recorded by female fronted 80's rock bands. The Linda Blairs did several live performances dressed in drag. Focusing so much time on the side project detracted Scott from his creative genius with Three Ton Gate and the project with Tyreah soon faltered and was put aside. |
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