Hadn’t done a Ministry youtube search lately, but did one today and found this little gem I’d never seen before. As the guy who posted this points out, Al’s performance enthusiasm makes it hard to believe he was Arista’s little puppet going through the motions. Check out the little dance he does around 2:00 [laugh]
But seriously, even though it’s easy to make fun of the new wave attire and the faux British accent I’d have to say that this is truly a solid performance, nothing to be ashamed of. This is still WAY more bad-ass than the Last Sucker. I wish I was old enough to have seen Ministry way back then. Too bad there is no real high quality concert footage that exists either
Awww, come on… other than the hat how many real similarities are there with this and Boy George? Come on behind the 80’s synth-fagginess there is a good performance here! [;)]
this is pro-shot full set. live in minneapolis, i believe. i have it in 2 mpg files. same bad quality as youtube though, which is a shame. the setlist was:
Work For Love
So-So Life
Revenge
Effigy (I’m Not An)
What Is The Reason?
I’m Falling
I Wanted to Tell Her *
What He Say *
Here We Go
Overkill
the * marked tracks definately have black chick on vocals/back vocals. not sure if it’s shay jones, probably not. all songs are “extended”, i.e. having longer intros, etc.
I remember seeing “Work For Love” on YT a year or so ago. One of the comments said “He looks like Madonna with a penis”. He sure was getting into the groove…
Yeah I saw this footage on youtube. Funny that I once heard a story that Patti met Al when he was on the floor crying about with sympathy’s poor album sales
