Asheville had the intro and first verse then transitioned to Mud IIRC. Also on YouTube. The full song is pretty rare up to now.
You have the right of it – they usually only play a little bit of it. Killer song.
Ahh ok…admittedly i was on what was a full day of drinking by that point…
Anybody got anything to say about the merch?
I couldn’t even find Ministry mercy at the show I was at…saw like 3 booths with all Slayer shit…
When I saw Slayer a few years ago they had comedian Jim Florentine doing jokes between bands and since then he’s said that he had t-shirts on sale that tour but he was forced to match Slayer’s merch prices to sell them so he had to list them at like 35 bucks or whatever.
The merch is fucking horrible for ministry. One shirt. (The uncle al for president one.) A keychain bottle opener with the M logo on it. Amerikkka cd for 20 bucks. a generic black beanie that says ministry in block script. And an M patch. Pitiful.
Primus has a nice merch presence though multiple shirts a zip hoodie vinyls, a poster. Primus brings it!!!
And of course slayer has a truckload of merch
Ha ha Al is more animated than the crowd. The crowd are a bunch of lifeless fucks. And the moron behind me bitching on ministry, “great the same song for 20 minutes” dumbass
Such an insane show.
I bought pit tickets, but told myself I would stay in the back. As soon as Slayer came on, I got in the pit. Paying for it now.
Ministry’s set was good, but did some of the songs sound off? JBMH sounded strange.
Tried to meet up with grmpy, but it just didn’t work out. Apologies again, for leaving you hanging.
Ministry’s set from 11/30 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzMW6yWpdQQ
The pit consists of maybe 4 people. Oy… Man, that’s pretty lame.
It was mostly Slayer fans. They responded much better to Primus, but then again, they were more liquored up by then too.
I know lots of Ministry fans who skipped this (Gunnar and others) because the Slayer factor kicked the ticket prices up too much.
The pit for Ministry at the Asheville show was pretty rabid and sizeable…I was actually pretty surprised…and then of course for Slayer the pits were just totally off the rails…and Minstry seemed more well received than Primus also…
They sound good on the bits i heard in that video. dude, there’s no fucking way i would get into a fucking mosh pit myself. Early 20s and teens - sure. Now - nah. I’d rather nod my head from a nice view point.
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You aren’t alone…no way in hell I’m getting in a pit either these days…
I’m not actually suggesting that I would get in a mosh pit now. These days I’d blow out my knee, roll an ankle and dislocate a shoulder, maybe both in about 38 seconds if I even watch that sort of thing on video. I just thought it was lame that out the thousands of people there, only 4 could be bothered at all. The whole crowd seemed disinterested for the most part. I get it that it was a Slayer crowd.
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I lost two teeth in a Pantera pit in the mid 90s. Drew the line right there.
My first pit was during Rage Against The Machine’s opening set at Lollapalooza 93. My second concert. I had no idea pits were even in a thing, so before the band came on, I strutted right up to the stage and positioned myself to get the best view of the show. Band comes out, starts into “Bombtrack.” The whole world turned into a 3D ocean of dust and elbows. I fled the pit like my ass was on fire and my dick was catching.
I turned to one of the guys I went to the show with and asked, “They gonna do that for every band?” And he said, “Yeah, except for Arrested Development. And maybe them too.”
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I remember people moshing at They Might Be Giants.
The mid '90s was a weird time in some ways.
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I attended one of the Bowie/NIN shows in 1995. I had tickets in the pit and attempted to join in the mosh pit during “March of the Pigs”. I took a combat boot to the head and after that I retreated to the back. I also discovered that my Timex Ironman watch had come off in the melee. When Bowie took the stage (which was a transition where both bands performed together for a few tracks), the mosh pit ceased and order was restored. At the conclusion of the concert, I found my Ironman watch covered in mud beneath one of the floor mats. Surprisingly the watch still worked and just needed to be cleaned up. What was that old Timex jingle about watches taking a beating and still working?
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It was “takes a licking and keeps on ticking”
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yeah it was …and yeah no way in hell am I getting in a pit again… bones brake 2 easy now and healing time has increased ,