Wait a second… Al came on stage during the that tour with Puppy? Pictures?! Videos?!
Yes… and the funny thing is Bill Morrison backstage had to refresh Al’s memory on how to play Tin Omen, his song!! I haven’t run across any recordings of this historic moment, but they are rumored to be out there.
It makes me wish that the 2004 tour had come together that Ministry was to do with Puppy that Al blabbed all over VH-1 on some show [:(]
‘Last Rights’ is a masterpiece. Amazing album.
I’ve tried and tried to like ‘VivisectVi’. I just don’t it’s that good.
‘Too Dark Park’ blows it out of the water.
This was a cool interview. Good time capsule kind of piece. It’s amazing how much has changed since then.
I was at the show when Al played with Puppy in 04. I was up in the balcony, hanging out just a few feet away from him and Ogre before the show. Really surreal moment.
Rabies was actually the first Skinny Puppy I bought, and it really pissed me off. Songs like Facist Jock Itch and Tin Omen just sound too much like Ministry, and not in the good way. Al was probably lauphing his ass off when Rabies was released. Good thing they bounced back with the masterpiece that is Too Dark Park.
I’m a Skinny Puppy “homer”, I like all their albums but picking a favorite I’d go with Remission and least favorite Greater Wrong of the Right.
I really dig Rabies, Last Rights and GWOTR. Some of the others I can listen to now and again - but apart from those 3 I just mentioned, nothing else really floats my boat. Something about the vocals just doesn’t gel with me.
So Paul says they recorded 30 songs (!!!) for Psalm 69. And only released, what, 9 of them. I wonder what happened to most of the others. Some more noise tracks on that album what have been appreciated. I think far too much of Psalm 69 plays it ‘safe’.
Just out of curiousity, does the Chris Connelly book detail much of the recording of Psalm 69? Did he have anything to do with that album? I always wondered why he featured so heavily on The Mind and yet was completely missing for the follow up. Weird.
From what I hear - and maybe those of us who know the band a little better can confirm this - the band recorded for about a year and had very little to show for it when record execs went to check on their progress. Supposedly Jesus Built My Hotrod was thrown together in an evening and yet I also heard that Just One Fix was done/redone about 50 times.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during that recording sessions - although I probably would have perished from all the noxious fumes in the air.
Last Rights gives me a bit of a headache (and I like a lot of noise music). I saw Puppy first day of Too Dark Park, so that holds special appeal and Remission has a really cool post-Fad Gadget feel but at the end of the day I’m most likely to put Rabies on. It’s my favorite - especially with the new remaster that makes it so the CD sound isn’t crap (Rabies used to be a vinyl only sort of album for me). Also I feel Rabies is much better if you ignore the CD “bonus tracks”, they destroy the flow of the album and meander like hell.
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Just out of curiousity, does the Chris Connelly book detail much of the recording of Psalm 69? Did he have anything to do with that album? I always wondered why he featured so heavily on The Mind and yet was completely missing for the follow up. Weird.
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Connelly mentions working on it alright. He worked on JBMHR and TVII but the other songs he worked on were scrapped. He said he didn’t like working on it. He toured with them for that album if I’m not mistaken.
So Paul says they recorded 30 songs (!!!) for Psalm 69. And only released, what, 9 of them. I wonder what happened to most of the others. Some more noise tracks on that album what have been appreciated. I think far too much of Psalm 69 plays it ‘safe’.
I’m pretty sure some of them became Lard songs (since Rieflin plays drums on Lard albums that came out long after he left the collective). Maybe some of the material got recycled for Linger Ficken’ Good?
Just out of curiousity, does the Chris Connelly book detail much of the recording of Psalm 69? Did he have anything to do with that album? I always wondered why he featured so heavily on The Mind and yet was completely missing for the follow up. Weird.
Like Mick says above, he worked on JBMHR (he got writer’s block and so they called Gibby who did it in one take) and TV Song (though obviously Al sings on both the single and album versions - don’t know why that is). He may have worked on some stuff that got scrapped entirely - Al, Paul, and Bill apparently just started over from scratch apart from those two songs, and Connelly was no longer involved.
I imagine he still gets a little check for TV II every now and again, though.
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Just out of curiousity, does the Chris Connelly book detail much of the recording of Psalm 69? Did he have anything to do with that album? I always wondered why he featured so heavily on The Mind and yet was completely missing for the follow up. Weird.
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Connelly mentions working on it alright. He worked on JBMHR and TVII but the other songs he worked on were scrapped. He said he didn’t like working on it. He toured with them for that album if I’m not mistaken.[/reply]
Toured with them and actually rehearsed vocals for all of the psalm 69 songs, but ended up only doing vocals on a couple tracks. If I recall correctly, his voice gave out when trying to do those heavier songs. Chris on NWO or Just One Fix could’ve been interesting.