This interview just popped up on YouTube. Really fucking cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDle13wb0P4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFO906DA04&feature=related
He looks like a flasher.
Thoughts on pt. 1
- What’s with the We Shall Cleanse the World video he mentions?
- He was trash-talking With Sympathy earlier than I ever thought.
- Angel remix and video?
- Who is Crucial?
Wtf happened to that EP he was talking about? And how come I’ve never heard anything about Crucial
He looks like a flasher.
Thoughts on pt. 1
- What’s with the We Shall Cleanse the World video he mentions?
- He was trash-talking With Sympathy earlier than I ever thought.
- Angel remix and video?
- Who is Crucial?
This is a nice interview as media stuff from the Twitch era seems to be very rare. Lots of interesting unreleased stuff mentioned here. Along with the stuff rev posted above, Al mentions a short tour with Al, Luc, and Richard 23 as Revco that never happened. I would love to see a video for We Shall Cleanse The World.
I guess the band Crucial must have been an aborted project that probably included Paul and Bill as they were part of the tour. It must have fell apart when they joined Ministry.
The Burroughs imitation at the end of part 2 with Al and Bill [shocked]
Crucial was an offshoot of Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters.
So ur saying Al was into country in the 80’s. No way…
BTW I would watch a Ministry/Sting concert
This is amazing. Can’t believe stuff like this is still surfacing at yardsales.
For the list above: Al was casually implying to people that Wax Trax! belonged to him in 1986. And hawking endless remixes. 
That was a find and a half. Interviewer was an awkward bastard. Al could have and should have been more cruel. At least now I know where the ‘twitch’ name came from. That eyebrow.
That’s really cool. Definitely some new info there and stuff from 86 is so rare that it’s nice when anything like that pops up.
The EP he mentions could either have been an Angel EP, since he talks about the remix of the song quite a bit, or the scrapped I See Red EP.
Crucial must have been Bill, Paul and Roland, since he mentioned that they’re his band. I guess the original idea was that it would be yet another side project, but Bill and Paul stuck around and the material for that project ended up being used for Ministry. Perhaps some of the unreleased songs from the tour originated there - Thrill Kill Kult, Eyes Of Christ, etc.
I’m almost willing to bet that the Abortive/Twitch ver. 1 medley was part of that EP
This is awesome! So much info I never knew.
Crucial must have been Bill, Paul and Roland, since he mentioned that they’re his band. I guess the original idea was that it would be yet another side project, but Bill and Paul stuck around and the material for that project ended up being used for Ministry. Perhaps some of the unreleased songs from the tour originated there - Thrill Kill Kult, Eyes Of Christ, etc.
I feel tremendously ignorant having to ask this, but what came first, “Thrill Kill Kult” the unreleased Ministry song, or My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, the band? Why did one borrow it from the other?
TKK the song was written by Frank while he was doing lighting for the 86 Ministry tour. TKK the band came a year or two later.
Great stuff, we even get his take on the Donahue appearance. It’s a shame the Angel remix didn’t appear on Early Trax. I hope more Twitch-era material surfaces, this is the most fascinating (and least-informed) era of the band for me. Loved these clips.
That said, any doubts that Al has always been a self-absorbed douche have been completely erased. I can only imagine what a pain in the ass he was during the Arista period. Seems like he’s always felt bigger than the band he’s leading. After all these years of good-to-atrocious interviews, the only thing that’s really changed is his level of coherency. Even in the '83 Skinner interview, the guy is kinda full of it.
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Wow cool… that interview just inspired me to play TWITCH. LOL’d hard on the Phil Donehue thing.
Now it’s really time for a rarities collection
this is so awesome, thanks for find / sharing!
- He was trash-talking With Sympathy earlier than I ever thought.
iirc he wasn’t that happy with all deal in 1983 all of a suddent, describing “here we go” as his anti-label song in that richard skinner interview.
this 1986 video interview just made me want to get all the 84-87 unreleased stuff even more. give it now.
For the list above: Al was casually implying to people that Wax Trax! belonged to him in 1986. And hawking endless remixes. [:)]
My thoughts exactly. Funny as all hell.
Thanks for the heads-up!
(Phorkboi! [laugh])
The interviewer mentions that Ministry’s playing at the Champagne, but it doesn’t seem to be listed in the Tours section of Prongs. Any ideas?
I thought it was in Champaign (IL). But yeah, not a date we had yet. I may add it this weekend, if I get the chance to make a few updates then.