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Does Al’s story about the Ministry reunion happening because of the Buck Satan sessions even make sense? Every Day Is Halloween - Greatest Tricks was Al and Mikey playing as Ministry, and it came out over a year before the Buck Satan debut.
I would not be surprised if one of the conditions for interviewing Al these days is “Don’t mention Greatest Tricks”…
Come on . . . . . he didn’t give Mikey full credit in one of the previous interviews where he was saying it was the greatest album he ever made and one of the 50 best all time rock and roll records of all time.
Now he’s downgraded to, “Uhh, yeah, it’s pretty good” and throwing it all on Mike?
Blame, Criticism, and Praise should be shared properly with proportion to the various contributors’ INPUT on a project and not re-assigned following how good or bad someone decides something is.
It almost sounds like a pre-emptive strike to excuse himself if the album is received negatively. When “With Sympathy” first came out was he telling everyone how he had nothing to do with it? Or was that just later after he decided he wasn’t a fruity little new-waver but actually a gnarly junkie biker badass cowboy from Hell?
I’m just sayin . . .
I would not be surprised if one of the conditions for interviewing Al these days is “Don’t mention Greatest Tricks”…
HAHAHA!!! I’m picturing Angie coughing and waving her finger as the interviewer stumbles . . .
“And then you released some CD’s with Cleopatra . . .”
“AHEM[COUGH]AHEM”
“I mean, then you went straight to work on Buck Satan . . .”
THE BEASTIE BOYS OF NEW MEXICO
THE BEASTIE BOYS OF NEW MEXICO
lulz
Mexican Beastie Boys . . . . Are they opening for Australian Pink Floyd?
Now he’s downgraded to, “Uhh, yeah, it’s pretty good” and throwing it all on Mike?
this has happened before too, he was kinda all positive about rantology and then couple years later he said it was boring shit because 1. label didnt give him much leeway in choosing tracks 2. revisitionism is boring 3. he likes to move forward.
i guess that explains 3 cover albums with mostly the same tracks with Nth version of Stigmata/NWO stuck somewhere inbetween, 3 bush albums with nothing new to offer since “houses” and now relapse.
i bet once he was excited about With Sympathy too.
Here I was last year actually sort of excited that he was embracing sobriety and that, even though he was doing another thrash album, he would at least be having real FUN making it.
Sad.
Forget Relapse - the real interesting bit is that Al’s met Barack Obama. I want to hear THAT story.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Shame on the interviewer for not asking a follow up question on that. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but after the ostrich story 5-6 years ago I don’t put too much stock in his tall tales . . .
guh, i just don’t understand why people would want to continue to support a guy who has made it clear before hat he hates touring and didn’t even wanna do this record. jesus.
Another new interview is up: http://regenmag.com/interviews/al-jourgensen-interview-surviving-into-relapse/
He does get asked about the 2009-2010 Ministry releases, but dodges answering anything about them.
Same reason anyone would want to work with someone or buy something from someone who doesn’t enjoy their job. Who really enjoys their job? And who really cares if the Chinese people who make the crap at Walmart have a good time making it?
i guess i see your point although you comparing what al has done here with an assembly line i find hilariously accurate.
i don’t think musical performances can really be compared with a physical product. the attitude of a worker in many many cases does not reflect upon the quality of the product. (notice i qualified that with “many” as i am aware that there are many cases where a workers attitude directly affects the product.) i would argue that when music approaches the point where the end product has nothing to do with the feelings and attitudes of it’s creators, i begin to seriously question it’s value to me as a person and/or musical consumer.
in this case i feel that al saying he didn’t wanna do this record and generally being negative about the experience, then turning around and charging $70+ for tickets to a show which he also hates performing is unacceptable.
do i care that the performer i am seeing is concerned with the quality of their performance, since their attitude has DIRECT correlation with the quality of the end product? why the shit would i not care? especially for 70 fucking bucks. i’m not paying that so some asshole can stand on stage and give me a “phoned-in” performance (or gets other people to flat out perform FOR him) while he counts down the minutes until he can get the shit out of there.
He sounds stoned in the interview
Pretty much everyone here agrees that MINISTRY was done after Animositisomina anyway so whatevs to Big Gay Al.
Bottom line. Ministry isn’t over until Al reaches the point the point where he literially can’t physically do it anymore. He’s pinning the possible failure on Saccia. And if it does “well”, then there will be some update about yet another album, and how it’s better than the last, and everything before it.
So in other words, Ministry is over when Al is (permanently) dead? It doesn’t take much physical capacity to yell some lyrics and tell other people how to play guitars and program some beats, which I get the impression is what Ministry currently is.
So in other words, Ministry is over when Al is (permanently) dead? It doesn’t take much physical capacity to yell some lyrics and tell other people how to play guitars and program some beats, which I get the impression is what Ministry currently is.
Dunno. Sounds like he’s struggling to me. I just refuse believe that this is the last one. He’s already done this trick once.
Well, he’s said himself that he’s been temporarily dead a few times.