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Radio Host Reveals Dark Details Behind D'Arcy Call

It's been a weird week at the station for Chicago DJ Ryan Manno. It all started when former Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzky called in to his Q101 FM line. Initially, the call was to inquire about both Davy Jones and the Silversun Pickups, both of whom Manno featured on his show, but it turned out to be the first peep the public has heard out of D'Arcy for years, so Manno took the opportunity to ask her some questions.

Going off on a tangent (one of many) about how much fun she had hanging out with Marilyn Manson back in the day, D'Arcy told Manno a bizarre story about how "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" in the Manson family. According to D'Arcy, Manson introduced the Smashing Pumpkins to his parents at a music festival back in the '90s. "His dad got four rats and named each one after somebody in our band," she remembers. "And then when they died, he kept them in his freezer."

Thankfully, the story turns out to only be partially true. Manson Sr. himself (a.k.a. Hugh A. Warner) emailed Manno this week to correct the anecdote: "D'Arcy is right, but it was only one rat we kept in the freezer," he wrote. "She is a cool lady."

So Marilyn Manson's dad had a frozen dead rat named D'Arcy that he kept in his freezer. Not a big deal. But D'Arcy spilling her guts to a radio DJ for 13 minutes? Kind of a big deal.

Manno tells Spinner that, while he's a Smashing Pumpkins fan, he had never met or spoken to D'Arcy before the phone-in. "Having been on the receiving end of her call," he says, "the one thing that I was left with was that it was nothing more than a woman who was having a bad day or a bad week because she had lost a friend and literally just wanted to speak to someone, maybe even a stranger, and that's it.

"A lot of people have speculated that she was calling to be cryptic about the Pumpkins or about her relationship with Billy ... a lot of people are supposing that her saying 'I miss Chicago' was her way of saying, 'I want back in the Pumpkins," Manno says. "I don't think so. This is a woman who just lost her friend, her ex-boyfriend who committed suicide this week -- it sounded like she took a lot of grief in that, maybe even some blame in his death, and she just wanted to talk to someone."

Fans can hear the complete unedited phone call at Manno's Q101 blog.

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iddottaw

Hello: Old Man Manson has the appearance of a dead rat. His squealing voice immitates a fornicating pig.

June 17 2010 at 11:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lori

I think it is sad when anyone commits suicide. Usually, drugs are involved....legal or illegal.

July 20 2009 at 8:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bea

People, it's all about OHIO, and Canton, Ohio to be exact, so just...get used to it.It doesn't get any better anywhere ,and YES, WE are much better equipped than all of you , to do anything. Tragic? Someone made a decision, and someone else can't deal with it. There lies the tragedy.Now , go back to your little small worlds ,it's a beautiful day rain or shine, so make the most of it. Bonnie Lee Myers Canton, Ohio

July 20 2009 at 8:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Amy

you are in a word a Fu-king moron

July 20 2009 at 7:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Raymond

This is a test.

July 20 2009 at 6:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jkmhcc

So that was her name... Now I can sleep.

July 20 2009 at 6:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cannotbelievethis

Some dude named Billy from the Smashing Pumpkins...

July 20 2009 at 2:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hellen

You beat me to it!!! I told her to keep her day job. "Grammer." Now that was funny!!!!

July 20 2009 at 1:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ChEcK ThiS ShiT!

Cfarmer....

I believe your try was coherent and heartfelt, but if you would have read the article, the keyboard player died in 1996 during the Mellon Collie tour. The band delayed the concerts for a bit, Oklahoma City being one of those, and the show moved on.

Her ex-boyfriend killed himself this last week....

Cheers

PS. I have not a clue who that was.

July 20 2009 at 1:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jackek7

How about "grammatical" errors

July 20 2009 at 12:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply