Email with video of “Uncle” Al dancing in the studio years ago. I can’t stand the “Uncle Al” moniker, it’s retarded. Also, watching a video of Al dancing would’ve been cool before I knew how much of a sellout asshole he was/is.
I always hated that Uncle Al crap too. In 1993 he was GRANDPA JOURGENSEN!!! Now . . . 17 years older he’s my uncle? Sorry, Dude, that’s fuzzy math.
I think, realizing he really was old and uncool, he tried to upgrade himself to “Uncle”. It’s like when pathetic middle-aged ladies try to wear miniskirts and hang out with their 16 year old daughters and want to be seen as “sisters”.
Bitch! Your face looks like a slab of salted beef and the varicose veins on your legs look like a relief map of Minnesota! You ain’t foolin’ anyone!
My friends and I actually referred to Al as “Uncle Al” from around the LoRaH days, so “Grandpa Al” seemed odd to me. Go figure.
Dave Kendall from Mtv’s 120 Minutes also used to call him that, which is funny considering that Al almost wiped the floor with his face when Kendall disrupted one of their soundchecks.
I’m totally fine with “Alien Jourgensen”. My first taste of Ministry was the “Burning Inside” video. He looked friggin’ deranged. I had absolutely no problem believing he was from another planet or dimension or something.
Aside from Hypo Luxa, I don’t like any of the stupid names he’s come up with.
Grandpa Jourgensen? Oh, I know Grandpa Jourgensen. Yeah, ya’ll might know him by other things. Punk ass motherfucker. Hypo Luxa, alien son of a bitch. Buck Satan; Buck-Buck Satan. Buck is a scary motherfucker. Buck. Don’t fuck with Buck, 'cause Buck will fuck you up.
Fuck Buck though.
I think we’ll leave it to Chevy Chase and Paul Simon to settle this one and keep it simple [crazy]
Thank you very much for that one evil
As far as all the monikers it is pretty stupid. Alien is the only one that really makes sense. Look at his name for instance, Alain. One could mistake that for Alien. There’s also the urban myth that he’s been abducted by aliens on more than one occasion. Hypo Luxa is pretty cool bc it’s so out there. I mean who else would name themself after a prostitute(not counting Barker)? The whole Uncle thing comes from Uncle Sam and Al just mocking politics. Had he not gone out with the Bush Trilogy, shitty covers and rerecordings then it’d be pretty funny imo.
so what if he’s “uncle al.” Most of you poeple weren’t even sperm dna when he first staring making musical waveforms.
I was telling some people how I hated being called uncle when you’re not even related to their kid-- and on that point I agree.
But Ministry was NEVER about 9-12 yr-olds. It took someone older than me to turn me on to twitch. ministry always seemed like an older band catering to an older audience. I’m sorry if that wasn’t their management’s stated goal, but you gotta face reality:
Like when I went to see X (an LA punk band from the late '70’s through the '80’s) recently live, the audience was [i]old–grey hair, fat. '50’s body modification forming. In fact they looked older than the band. Nothing wrong with that. I call it “getting real.”
so, in Ministry’s case–some of their fans are young enough to be offspring. Some fans were in their 20’s and have parents who could easily pass for Al’s generation. And if i were him I might enlighten them about the age differential–because there is something fuckin’ funny about young people watching 50-somethings act like rockstars.
What I dislike about this forum is there’s this elitist attitude that permeates the place where most presume to know so much at such an early age.
Life doesn’t work that way. The older you get, the more you find out you don’t know.
Chris referred to him as “Uncle Buck” in the live RevCo recording of “Public Image,” so they’ve been calling him “Uncle” for at least 20 years.
Hey! My name is Al. I am no ones fat uncle. However, it is very boring as a name…
Big Al was always ok with me though.