Biography
Side projects have long served as a creative detour for established rock musicians seeking unfamiliar sonic territory. Goon Moon stands as one such venture, fronted by Twiggy Ramirez—formerly the bassist for Marilyn Manson and later a touring member of A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails—alongside Chris Goss of Masters of Reality, the producer behind landmark recordings by Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age. Drummer Zach Hill, known from the noise-rock outfit Hella, completed the lineup.
Goss first encountered Ramirez during an early Marilyn Manson performance at the Whiskey a Go Go. The two quickly formed a friendship; once Goss learned that Ramirez had co-written several of his preferred Manson songs, among them the well-known single “The Beautiful People,” and shared an eclectic, shape-shifting taste in music, the pair began trading ideas and composing together. After Ramirez departed Marilyn Manson, these informal sessions grew more consistent. Ramirez then invited Hill to participate, with Ramirez and Goss alternating vocal duties while handling a range of instruments themselves.
Free from label expectations, the three tracked roughly fifty songs at Rancho de la Luna by early 2005. From that extensive collection they distilled a concise, ten-track EP clocking in just under thirty minutes, titled I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine after an episode of the television series Green Acres. Suicide Squeeze issued the release in June 2005. The resulting recording proved stylistically restless, weaving together disparate genres with scant connection to the hard-rock terrain for which Ramirez and Goss were best known.
Goon Moon intended to tour behind the EP, yet Ramirez’s commitments to Nine Inch Nails throughout most of 2005 postponed those plans. A full-length album is slated next, likely drawing from the remaining unreleased material.
Goss first encountered Ramirez during an early Marilyn Manson performance at the Whiskey a Go Go. The two quickly formed a friendship; once Goss learned that Ramirez had co-written several of his preferred Manson songs, among them the well-known single “The Beautiful People,” and shared an eclectic, shape-shifting taste in music, the pair began trading ideas and composing together. After Ramirez departed Marilyn Manson, these informal sessions grew more consistent. Ramirez then invited Hill to participate, with Ramirez and Goss alternating vocal duties while handling a range of instruments themselves.
Free from label expectations, the three tracked roughly fifty songs at Rancho de la Luna by early 2005. From that extensive collection they distilled a concise, ten-track EP clocking in just under thirty minutes, titled I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine after an episode of the television series Green Acres. Suicide Squeeze issued the release in June 2005. The resulting recording proved stylistically restless, weaving together disparate genres with scant connection to the hard-rock terrain for which Ramirez and Goss were best known.
Goon Moon intended to tour behind the EP, yet Ramirez’s commitments to Nine Inch Nails throughout most of 2005 postponed those plans. A full-length album is slated next, likely drawing from the remaining unreleased material.
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