Just saw this at Blabbermouth. Hopefully someone will tape it!
According to a posting on the DigiTech web site, MINISTRY will perform an acoustic set today (Wednesday, January 31) at the Guitar Center in El Paso, Texas as part of the Digi-Truck-Tour, which is described as a “fifty-three-foot showcase of guitar effects and modeling.”
MINISTRY has been nominated for a Grammy in the “Best Metal Performance” category for the song “Lies Lies Lies” off the band’s latest album “Rio Grande Blood”.
This is the fourth Grammy nomination for Jourgensen and MINISTRY, who were also nominated in 1993, 2000 and 2005 (for “The Great Satan”).
The 49th annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on Sunday, February 11.
Best Metal Performance:
REVOLTING COCKS guitarist Sin is currently collaborating with MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen on the final MINISTRY album, entitled “The Last Sucker”. A September release is expected.
In a May 2006 interview with Billboard.com, Jourgensen said that like its two predecessors — 2004’s “Houses of the Mole” and this year’s “Rio Grande Blood” — the final MINISTRY album will be politically minded blast at the administration of President George W. Bush.
“It’s a trilogy,” Jourgensen said. “The next one’s going to be called ‘The Last Sucker’, and it’s also about this corrupt administration. That seems to be my muse; everyone seems to think I write real shitty music when a Democrat’s in office. So we’ll do that one, and then me and George Bush go riding off hand-in-hand, into the sunset.”
Regarding his decision to put MINISTRY to rest, Jourgensen said, “I’ve got other things to do. I just started a label (13th Planet Records), and I want to sign some bands and really build it up like I did with WaxTrax in the '80s, not just a vanity label. I think it’s time — and I’ll be leaving on the top of my game instead of hanging on too long and doing crappy AEROSMITH and ROLLING STONES albums 30 years later.”