Yeah, this is sad. In the first video he was proudly drinking water while the fat pigs guzzled cheap beer, now he’s joining in…
Unless this is a deliberate play on the title ‘Relapse’ (and I think we all know that’s not the case…), I’d say it’s clear he’s actually relapsed and his days are numbered.
Though why they’d make it so obvious in a promo video for the album is beyond me.
If these cronies really cared about Al, they might have the decency not to down alcohol around him constantly if he’s trying to stay sober.
It really is sad that it’s come to this. Music was predictably banal as well…
But seriously I can’t be the only one not surprised by his inevitable return to this sort of shit. Also I think some of these guys hanging out with him (except Scaccia for one) probably have an inkling he’s on the way out and want to be his buddy when it happens so they get that “prestige” and get more famous that way than they ever could any other way.
That song Scaccia was playing with the other fat guy just sounded like KMFDM’s ‘A Drug Against War’.
Al’s use of the CSA flag is most apt. He broke away into all this crap; caused a lot of trouble in the process; some people fought for him, without any good reason to do so; then he crashed and burned, yet some will still sing his praises for years to come, despite him just being a washed up asshole.
If these cronies really cared about Al, they might have the decency not to down alcohol around him constantly if he’s trying to stay sober.
People like him keep cronies around that enable him. I remember an old interview with Ogre where he said he started hanging around with Mark Walk because Walk wouldn’t lecture him for doing coke.
Anyway, I’m genuinely sad for Al Jourgensen. Feels kind of weird to say that.
he looked terrible in that new video. he’s a goner. this time next year I don’t know if he’ll still be on earth. it sounds wrong to say it. but he simply does not look well, and now that he’s drinking and smoking again…so much for that “healthier than I’ve ever been” quote he said recently.
I dont give a fuck, these new riffz sound CRunchy ass Fuck and Im looking forward to it. Ive been there since the twitch and lorah days and come to accept that he aint going to be regurgitating old shit. His production on the last couple of records was up to par…maybe a little monotonous at times, but hitting none the less. I dont expect groundbreaking shit …I dont listen to Ministry for those reasons now days, If I want my dose of experimental shit I’ll go listen to some jazz fusion or classical industrial shit. Just give me some adrenaline juice to run a 26k, and Al may not be the wisest man alive, but then again he never really gave a fuck and that is what lured many and if and when he dies Im sure he is looking forward to seeing Raven.
If you like it, good for you. I think it’s a worn out sound now. Yeah, he’s been there, done that. But IMO, the production’s lazy and half assed. Songs that he would’ve easily dumped into oblivion, he puts out. The last few albums had it’s good songs within the messes of those albums (RGB and TLS). The dragged pseudo-political banter didn’t help much either. Yeah, Bush sucked, I got it. HOTM did a good job with that. He got re-elected, alright, he did ANOTHER album. Then TLS… He’s just been going through the motions of “i’m the mighty jourgensen, and I don’t give a fuck what you think” and it got stale real fast.
just noticed it looks like he’s recording with/through an SSL (G Series, i think… although i can’t check right at the moment), which might mean a better mix on this album. fingers crossed.
Very suspicious, but to be fair we never really see Al drink any alcohol in this video (he takes a tiny sip of something out of a plastic cup, but you can’t see what it is). He says he is pouring the wine into the water bottle “for the kids,” so maybe he was dividing it up for his bandmates?
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That’s a great explanation. Do you think the jury will buy it?
Seriously, Dude, that’s pretty lame. AJ is obviously completely toasted. And I don’t really know Tony or Tommy but that gang as a whole are BEER drinkers.
Tommy seemed to really like the vodka there. And it just seemed suspect for al to pour wine into a bottle. He never actually drinks in the video though. He dipped, that was about it.
Well . . . . . he claimed to not be available for the Wax Trax Retrospectacle thing in April because he was training for a Tri-Athlon or something. So, it’s probably easier for him to run marathons if he puts the wine in a sport bottle.
Thought it had more to do with him gloating about being so godly superior at scrabble than the book club.
I don’t remember the exact statement, but the claim from Al’s team was that he was really busy training for a Triathlon or a Marathon or something. But . . . . yeah, whatever.
I may actually bring myself to kind of like Ministry again if Al dies out of guilt. It’s a long shot though.
All those folk with and including Al are musical chumps. Mike’s cool though…I only like Mike cause he cained some classic Ministry in the day…and because Pinny is gay for him.
Al’s truly got some weird identity crisis, too. I’ve never met a guy who went from looking like this:
to
It’s just bizarre that a guy who listened to disco and wore leather bondage jackets with bowler hats now sits in some bunker somewhere, laughing like Butt-Head with a confederate flag in the background like some inbred Johnny Rebel.
Never seen anything like it. Even funnier is the type of music he plays, he doesn’t even personally LISTEN to it!
