[reply]Seeing a video about a bunch of old metal/industrial dudes shit around about who they’d beat up, and then scrolling down this thread seeing a group of internet buddies talk shit about these dudes creates for an interesting affect.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone on here is my ‘buddy’…
more like casual acquaintances…
And I wasn’t talking shit. Just made an observation.[/reply]
oh come on, were buddies. We hang out, right?
Late,
grmpysmrf
Rollins would destroy Al. Al looks like a tree from sleepy hollow these days. Trent, I dunno. He’s bulked up a lot, but he strikes me as one of those guys who have the muscle but don’t know how to use it.
Agreed on all counts.
Although, if it was the late '80s/early '90s I’d put all my money on Al. Back then he was one of those guys who didn’t give a shit about losing a tooth or whatever and would probably just go wild in a fight.
True. Al in the late 80’s/ early 90’s was truly scary. He certainly wasn’t the biggest or strongest fella, but he was just crazy. He just seemed like one of those go-down-in-flames kind of dude that you never want to square up against because even if you win the fight, he’d probably bite your face, gouge your eyes, and somehow lodge his boot into your teeth before the ordeal was over . . .
I remember when I first discovered the guy back in late 80’s I was reading an article by some 3rd party rock reporter. He’d met Al for the interview in some cafe and some rednecks started making douchey comments about Al’s hair, hat, beard, whatever and trying to bully up. The reporter said Al was drinking a glass of wine at the time and Al squeezed the goblet until it crushed, spilling the wine, and cutting his hand to shreds, dripping blood down his arm and on the table while Al just sat there and slowly turned toward the hillbillies and stared blankly at them, saying nothing. The hillbillies all just turned and left, realizing this was NOT the nerd they wanted to pick on.
The reporter said it was the most intensely terrifying thing he’s ever seen. Al then threw a napkin around his shredded hand and continued talking to the reporter as if nothing even happened.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of him now . . . homeboy long ago earned his street cred and then some.
There’s some pretty funny stories about Al on the Lollapalooza tour in Jim Rose’s Autobiography (“Freak Like Me”) as well.
Yeah, about him and Eddie Vedder having bile beer drinking contests. Later I read all that bile beer stuff was faked, but I have no evidence of it.
[reply]
Although, if it was the late '80s/early '90s I’d put all my money on Al. Back then he was one of those guys who didn’t give a shit about losing a tooth or whatever and would probably just go wild in a fight.
True. I just like the idea that in the early 80’s while Rollins was jacked, and playing in an hardcore band beating the crap out of people, Al was playing synth-pop with a British accent, dancing gingerly on stage.
There’s some pretty funny stories about Al on the Lollapalooza tour in Jim Rose’s Autobiography (“Freak Like Me”) as well.
That’s true. I lost that book a while ago. Sucks, cause it was a fun read.
Yeah, about him and Eddie Vedder having bile beer drinking contests. Later I read all that bile beer stuff was faked, but I have no evidence of it.
I have the Jim Rose VHS, and it looks pretty real. I also saw Jim Rose live a few times, and I seem to recall the bile beer coming out of Matt’s nose-tube thing. Foul stuff.
Yeah, I’ve seen it live as well. I’m sure they play up the theatrics about how it’s “mixed with bile” and what not, but I don’t think there can be any dispute that the beer did come out of another man’s body.
Does it taste much different than regular beer? Probably a bit (I’m sure it doesn’t improve the flavor) but not in the “stomach acid gnarliness” that we’d think. But that’s not really a feat of endurance or culinary fortitude, it’s the fact that you’re drinking something that was siphoned out of another dude’s body.
Would you let a guy spit beer into your mouth? I wouldn’t (or at least, not for free). The trick was disgusting in a psychological sense.
What a maroon.
I haven’t heard enough about Henry Rollins to give a really good opinion about the guy. Having met Trent Reznor, I can say he is an intelligent, nice and down to earth guy.
It’s true Reznor was heavily influenced by the 80s Ministry, but that was when Ministry had a great musical vocabulary. Nowadays Al is obsessed with being “badder” and “even more hardcore”. The only diversity we get from modern Ministry (Psalm 69 Version 6) is second rate remix and cover albums. I’ll probably enjoy Relapse, but it’s not going to be the “best Ministry ever” as Al claims.
Just got this email…
[i]ATTENTION MINISTRY FANS! Pre-Order Ministry’s Relapse Today
Be the first on your block to own the new Ministry album everyone including critics are calling Al Jourgensen’s “MONSTERPIECE”…
Also the 13th Planet Store has a wide range of bundles - exclusive to our eStore…and…a Special Limited Edition of The Making of…Relapse DIRECTOR’S CUT DVD documentary that tracks the Ministry pirates in the recording process of creating Ministry’s Relapse.
You cannot purchase this DVD anywhere else except at the 13th
Planet Store. So…go ahead! Make YOUR Day and get yourself some new Ministry! Make sure you know all the words to Relapse when the band tours the US and Europe this summer June through August 2012.
SPECIAL EDITION DVD
The Making of…Relapse Director’s Cut = Special Limited Edition Exclusive to 13th Planet eStore.
For four months in the Fall of 2011, El Paso videographer Omar Mena “imbedded” himself onto the 13th Planet compound and tracked the daily adventures of Ministry’s Uncle Al Jourgensen and his merry band of pirate co-conspirators throughout the making of Ministry’s Relapse.
relapse dvd.jpg
Twelve “webisodes” have premiered on Ministry’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/ministry leading up to the release date of March 23rd, 2012 for Relapse. The Making of…Relapse Director’s Cut…encompasses not only the twelve webisodes from Ministry’s Facebook, but additional never before seen footage of Al Jourgensen, Mike Scaccia, Casey Orr, Tony Campos and Tommy Victor, as well as other “associates” involved in the “process” of making something out of nothing.
This is Mena’s collective point-of-view of his experiences as a documentarian landing inside the 13th Planet compound and includes never-before-seen footage of Al Jourgensen and company crafting “…what is sure to be remembered as one of the band’s crowning achievements.” --ReGen Magazine[/i]
Yeah, I saw that too.
I want the CD, but I think I’ll just get it from Amazon. The only Ministry DVD I need this spring is Fixed.
I have a feeling most of the set is gonna be taken up by Relapse after reading that email.
Director’s Cut, huh?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The CD listed for the preorders is the 10-track edition. Wouldn’t it make way more sense for the preorders to get the limited 11-track edition?
The CD listed for the preorders is the 10-track edition. Wouldn’t it make way more sense for the preorders to get the limited 11-track edition?
^ this
I think the PR should have read “Be the only person on your block to own the new Ministry album…”
^ this
and especially
Director’s Cut, huh?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
^ this
I think the PR should have read “Be the only person to own the new Ministry album…”
Fixed again.
Well, he’ll sell at least two copies.
Are you all thinking of who I’m thinking?
Man, I never thought i’d see a day when a comparison of al to el duce would be fairly accurate. These behind the scenes videos are making me lose even more respect for al he seems annoying
[reply]I think the PR should have read “Be the only person to own the new Ministry album…”
Fixed again.[/reply]
Or to be really mean, “Pretend this is a new Ministry album.”