I just saw Ministry at Wacken Open Air (Germany). Since I’m with the press, I also got to hang out with Al, Mike and Paul backstage for like 4 hours. Al told me a whole lot of interesting stuff. After the next Ministry album (which is supposed to be in the same vein as RGB) he will retire and concentrate on the 13th Planet record label. He will apparently continue to release RevCo albums. He also said that another Lard album will definitely happen and he confirmed that he is working on a Buck Satan recording. According to Al, Buck Satan will basically be pure country, without any industrial, metal or whatever elements.
retire but still release revco, lard and buck satan?
he lies! =)
-al
new revco and lard probably would be totally “bleh”, considering their latest output on “cocked and loaded”, but buck satan sounds extremely interesting.
Cool news, I was really hoping that after Ministry was put to pasture Revco would still live. I know I may be in the minority, but I thought “Cocked and Loaded” was really good. One of those albums that grew better with each listening (except “Jack in the Crack” - that one started bad and stayed bad).
hey could you post a setlist? Im really interested on the euro set couse I’ll check em out this thursday in Budapest.
Last week in Paris it was the same setlist than during the US tour:
01 Fear
02 Señor Peligro
03 No W
04 Rio Grande Blood
05 The Great Satan
06 Waiting
07 Lieslieslies
08 Worthless
09 Wrong
10 N.W.O
11 Just one Fix
12 Thieves
13 Khyber Pass
Encore
14 So What
15 Stigmata
encore
16 Psalm 69
I was drunk out of my mind (Al kept on buying me Jagermeisters) so I cant say I remember the setlist ver well…
It was a festival though so the show was rather short, only about 75 minutes.
- Fear
- Senor Peligro
- No W
Waiting ----- from this moment on the order is hazy for me
The Great Satan
Just 1 Fix
Rio Grande Blood
Worthless
LiesLiesLies
Wrong
NWO
Thieves
Khyber Pass — last song
Psalm69 — encore
They indeed play a different version of NWO and its pretty good. Before the show, Al said they’d encore with So What or Psalm69, depending on how long they play Khyber Pass for (the ending is an improvised jam sort of thing). Unfortunately, this time they played Khyber Pass long enough for them to be unable to play So What…
Funny story - we were drinking at this coctail bar sort of place before the show and the music was some lame chillout stuff with a jazz flute sample in it. We all made fun of the flute by imitating the Ian Anderson pose and Al said he’d do it on stage afterwards, and he did.
Al, Mike and Paul were all extremely friendly and it was a joy to be hanging out with them, they didnt make u feel inferior or anything. As for the heroin rumors, as far as I could tell, while Al drinks A LOT, he is still heroin free.
Another funny story - in that same coctail bar, at one point some new-wavey sounding chillout came on and Al said - “wow - thats just liek my old stuff” and started dancing to it in a mocking way.
heh heh. cool.
no change in the setlists though
His motive is simple:
Hell, I’m unable to come up with anything artistically inspiring or sonically challenging on my own, that much is a given. So, if I fill my watered down take on sample laden early 90’s thrash metal with leftist political ramblings and accusations of treason on behalf of the US government, then people might might ignore my total lack of skill and proffessionalism in a musical sense and be fooled into thinking that I may actually have something to say. And if anyone does criticise my albums, then I can vilify and publicly heckle them for their conservative political leanings thereby dissuading anyone from taking a similar course of action in the futrure. It’ll work a charm. And the critics’ll love me for it, seeing as they all seem to be Bush haters as well.
Man, I simply cannot lose!
[;)]
When I asked him why RGB was the way it was, he said -
“we were broke”. That pretty much sums it up, I think
With all this said, I still really like this record.
Me too…
And I REALLY enjoyed the Paris show!
One more Lard? Sounds like Al worked out his recording issues with Biafra.
Cool news, I was really hoping that after Ministry was put to pasture Revco would still live. I know I may be in the minority, but I thought “Cocked and Loaded” was really good. One of those albums that grew better with each listening (except “Jack in the Crack” - that one started bad and stayed bad).
I agree with that statement 100%.
If they use the same lineup on the next RevCo cd that they had for the tour it should be top-notch.
Speaking of lineups, another little bit of info that I just realized Al told me (I was totally drunk, remember?) was that RGB was an intentionally simple and straight forward record so that the current Ministry lineup would have the opportunity to get used to each other. The next record is still supposed to be fast and heavy but also more complex.
Go to :
http://www.metal-experience.com/
In the menu click “Festivals” under Photos section.
Click “Wacken Open Air Day Two”
Click page 8
Wala… SEVERAL pictures of Ministry show. Very high quality, good looking stuff but it’s all copyrighted and no right click, blah blah blah…
Just figured I would share.
Peace!
Krowe
. Hey - I still hope I’m wrong tho!
then what would you have to complain about?
Liberals and P.C. types usually give me the impression of having their brains in cold storage for a period of time. They are dead to any distinctions. Especially race, sex, color, religion, politics etc.
All distinctions are elitists; that’s their flag.
As a progressive liberal myself, I can identify at least one distinction I don’t consider myself an elitist for thinking. That is,… ‘people who make blanket generalizations are morons’.
[reply]Liberals and P.C. types usually give me the impression of having their brains in cold storage for a period of time. They are dead to any distinctions. Especially race, sex, color, religion, politics etc.
All distinctions are elitists; that’s their flag.
As a progressive liberal myself, I can identify at least one distinction I don’t consider myself an elitist for thinking. That is,… ‘people who make blanket generalizations are morons’.[/reply]Damn if you didn’t beat me to it…
Prog libs are anti-anything that normal people are for.
“Normal people”? I take that to mean people such as yourself. Just trying to clarify your point so that it’s easier for me to understand. Since I’m not normal, and all. [angelic]
This is just becoming the best thread of this board ever!!!
Please,more of this!..