I rescued this off of an old cassette tape yesterday. MTV’s Dave Kendall interviews Al for about 3 minutes, prior to the start of the Lollapalooza tour, and you get to hear three short live song clips. Nothing profound, but funny to hear Kendall allude to their previous run-in.
http://thecorrugation.com/120_Interview.mp3
1002
thanks for encoding for us - going to listen now. then i’m going to the bar. w00t w00t.
look out for possible drunk posts of bad humor on my part. 
Thanx 1002 for providing us a glimpse into the past.
Awesome. To the core.
I love how he stripped Ministry down to just himself and Paul Barker.
I never understood Al’s hardheaded idea of “upgrading…throwing out the old…this is the last time we’ll play that album…”. Some of his older songs are great songs, and he should acknowledge them. It’s not like he had to play the Twitch songs a thousand times, he can’t use burnout as an excuse. Of course, Al didn’t exactly stick to those statements over the years, but he also doesn’t deliver much variety with the set lists.
Just look at Robert Smith, whose band is 30 years old, and still breaking out songs like “Another Journey By Train”, “M”, and “10:15 Saturday Night”. The Cure is probably one of the best examples of a band rewarding its fans when they play live. I always felt that’s what touring was about, rewarding the fans. Even though The Cure doesn’t sound so great live anymore, I’m looking forward to this upcoming tour. They played a 4-encore, 36 song set in Copenhagen last week, and Fat Bob’s not breaking up the band for another year or two. Al’s closing up shop this summer, and I’m only counting on half of that (I’m really setting the bar low for this tour, so I can achieve some sort of satisfaction from the concert).
1002
I never understood Al’s hardheaded idea of “upgrading…throwing out the old…this is the last time we’ll play that album…”. Some of his older songs are great songs, and he should acknowledge them. It’s not like he had to play the Twitch songs a thousand times, he can’t use burnout as an excuse. Of course, Al didn’t exactly stick to those statements over the years, but he also doesn’t deliver much variety with the set lists.
Just look at Robert Smith, whose band is 30 years old, and still breaking out songs like “Another Journey By Train”, “M”, and “10:15 Saturday Night”. The Cure is probably one of the best examples of a band rewarding its fans when they play live. I always felt that’s what touring was about, rewarding the fans. Even though The Cure doesn’t sound so great live anymore, I’m looking forward to this upcoming tour. They played a 4-encore, 36 song set in Copenhagen last week, and Fat Bob’s not breaking up the band for another year or two. Al’s closing up shop this summer, and I’m only counting on half of that (I’m really setting the bar low for this tour, so I can achieve some sort of satisfaction from the concert).
1002
The Cure’s going to go on for a long time. But I agree what you. There is a diversity and instead of one show or some “farewell”, they do play just about everything from since the beginning. They still play Boys Don’t Cry, and that’s fucking old school. But out of the 12 albums in the cure catalog, they perform something from each, which I think is highly respectable.
I can kinda understand where Al might have been coming from. You want to move on and progress, which might have been his motive. But from a certain standpoint, it’s a very stupid and stubborn idea.