[reply]If I met Paul Barker at a club I would order him a bowl of chili for all the great work he’s done!
What kind of clubs do you go to where they sell chili?[/reply]
All the best clubs serve hot bowls of chili!
OKAY!
ENOUGH PEOPLE! So he’s a decent musician, and perhaps person at that! Enough with the Paul Barker wank fiesta!
Hasn’t anyone got any love for Duane Buford to spare? Or what about Wee Willie Riefer? Or Mikey? Or Louis, aka Mikey Jnr?
C’mon people, don’t waste all those wanks on Paul. Throw the love around, let it fly and stick.
I’ve got one response for you E.D. - Duuuuuude, PAUL MOTHERFUCKING BARKER!!!
There was a guy in the '90s who had an entire website dedicated solely to how much he hated Paul Barker. I wish I knew the url so I could look it up on Wayback, because it was mind boggling.
The funny thing about that site - it was ran by this guy who did a program in Texas 15 years ago called Global Jungle. His name was Alan. He was miffed because Paul basically was a smartass during the interview for his show, which can be misconstrued because the guy was probably asking stupid questions.
Why the guy created the site is beyond me…too much effort for too little bullshit…but he took it down because he supposedly ripped off Skinny Puppy fans for source material of a show he recorded for them. Ha! Asshole…
[reply]If I met Paul Barker at a club I would order him a bowl of chili for all the great work he’s done!
What kind of clubs do you go to where they sell chili?[/reply]
The sort of clubs that a man of Paul Barker’s talent would frequent always sell and serve delicious bowls of chili to all those who ccan afford it!
I’ve got one response for you E.D. - Duuuuuude, PAUL MOTHERFUCKING BARKER!!!
LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUC
VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCKKERRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Oooh, dildo’s getting his knickers in a knot.
Lubricate me then, Redvelv
You know, after Al and Paul divorced and then Al released HOM many of us prongers were left scratching our heads. Hmmm… guitar riffage, yes… drums… kinda tinny and trebly again, but yes… whats missing?
Groove! Yeah, thats it! There was a groove missing. Not only a groove, but it seemed almost any kind of experimental edge was gone. Some were happy to hear the balls-out-thrash as it had been missing for a while, but you could really hear the absense of Paul for sure.
Then came the public dissing by Al. Then came the lawsuit. Then even MORE dissing by Al. RGB was released and people were tired of the thrash, suddenly realised how great FP and DSOTS were.
In response the chorus was “Fuck Al, carrying on like a 16yr old trying to act like a metal god, what a drunken wino DORK!” and we were right.
But in doing so, many of us at prongs elevated Paul to a level of sainthood, forgetting that Lead Into Gold only had a few choice tracks. Next came USSA which had some good things going for it, but that little midget troll lead singer ruined everything! Next we know Dwayne Dennison leaves USSA to perform with The Legendary Shack Shakers! (Great band, btw). He tours with them (I think recorded too) then after a short while reunites with The Jesus Lizard (great move IMO). And meanwhile Paul releases Flowering Blight, who’s main opus was pretty fucking dope, but the rest was kinda, welll… meh…
Now I’ve come to believe that Al and Paul were kinda like Lennon/McCartney… that together they fused some kinda magic that wasn’t there when the two seperated, not to say they both haven’t done some amazing work solo, but the two together, balancing eachother out, worked in some kinda zen-like creative clusterfuck way…
Thanks for Toot for his hilarious, albeit “gay” focused animations for exposing prongs to itself!
Holy shit… that was… spot on. [shocked]
Remember everyone: USSA was derivative and average at best. Lead into Gold was hit and miss.
Paul is not a saint. He is a mere mortal like the rest of us…
albeit, a fucking cool one. [;)]
Lubricate me then, Redvelv
Naw, you’ve got another pretty young thing for that.
If you pay me enough I’ll be your fanboi.
Lol, you slay me. Btw, haven’t been on messenger lately because I’m near that business end of the semester.
Partial differential equations are still sodomising me, sans lube. [mad] (chose that emoticon because if you think about it, and squint real hard, it looks like it’s taking it up the bum).
…I’m near that business end of the semester.
That is a fantastic description of Finals Week!
BTW LEAD INTO GOLD WAS BRILLIANT! there are no misses on those albums! I had Paul Barker sign my copy of AGE OF REASON, Bra’h!!
I agree with The singer being pretty weak for USSA but it was still a very solid Album!
Can’t believe he’s singing/sang for the Shack shakers! Those guys are great! Excellent party music. I have a couple albums, all of 'em catchy as hell! I like the Obit that they sing at the end of one of them. They took it randomly from a newspaper!
Late,
grmpysmrf
Paul Barker can’t sing.
Pink Anvil ruuuules!!!
Lead Into Gold was a lot more hit than miss. Maybe 1 or 2 weak songs on Age of Reason, the rest was great imo.
I don’t know what he did.
He bleached his hair during the Clitour and pushed over a keyboard during the Sphinctour
Paul Motherfucking Barker. Badass.
As time went on it went from industrial to WTF?
“paul was the computer guy, i was the guitar guy” - so i think it was more al who drove ministry from “mind” to filthpig and onwards to have “MORE GUITARS!!!”.
filthpig was made to be what it is because everyone was expecting another psalm69, so they tried sort of an opposite approach.
dsots was probably drugs.
and after animos, ministry became just second-rate metal band. or something. w/o barker.
The difference between Barker Ministry and non-Barker Ministry is that albums featuring Barker were better produced (except ‘Animositisomina’) and the repetitiveness of the songs can grow on you. The non Barker stuff is flat and becomes boring after a week.
Paul Gordon Barker. Dude
Paul Barker can’t sing.
I reckon his voice sounds cool tho… pretty distinct. Love that geek chic. [:P]
. At least for me, anyway. I liked the pre-Barker just fine. LORAH was the first album with Barker but I don’t know how much that was influenced by him. As time went on it went from industrial to WTF? Was that Paul’s fault or mere coincidence? I don’t know. I understand that it was Paul who held Ministry together during the tough times when Al was goofing off but other than that I don’t know what he did.
I liked the WTF elements of Ministry! Paul contributed plenty to LORAH methinks, he was credited as a ‘member’ of Ministry. I always wondered why Paul had this status, rather than Bill and Chris… band politics, meh. I think Paul did plenty, nonetheless; check out Stolen on Animositisomina to dig what he brought to the table, and listen to post-Animositisomina to hear what it lacked without him.
dsots was probably drugs.
I don’t know why everyone sez this… after all, wasn’t Al meant to be the only one fucked up on drugs around this time? Unless what he sez about him ‘being Ministry’ and everyone else being ‘employees’ is true… [crazy] Nonetheless, someone said before that Al and Paul are like Lennon and McCartney… far better together. Same applies to those Mexicans in disguise from System of a Down (prepares to get flamed on account of people disliking this band…[blush])
I liked the WTF elements of Ministry! Paul contributed plenty to LORAH methinks, he was credited as a ‘member’ of Ministry. I always wondered why Paul had this status, rather than Bill and Chris… band politics, meh.
You’d have to ask Chris why Chris wasn’t a full member. Maybe he’ll show up in this thread.
I read a long time ago that they asked Bill to be the third member, but he declined. I get the impression that he prefers being a mercenary drummer to being a legal bandmember.
As for Lead Into Gold, it’s all hit baby! In fact, I’m going to put on Age of Reason right now…
I think maybe some of the “magic” of al’s past partners is that, depending on the time/album, al would get fucked up and make music, and it’d be in this case paul fixing it up into somethng more presentable. When he left so did that filter
I think maybe some of the “magic” of al’s past partners is that, depending on the time/album, al would get fucked up and make music, and it’d be in this case paul fixing it up into somethng more presentable. When he left so did that filter
I think this is exactly right!
Late,
grmpysmrf