Hey guys I was watching the Shinctour dvd today and was reminded of a question i have never had and answer to. Does anyone know what venue Ministry played at on that tour that looks like a church? Thanks if anyone can help. If not thanks anyway.
Interested to know this too, as the venue did look pretty cool. The low angle shots of Al made good use of the interiors. From the dvd it figures quite prominently on ‘Lava’ and ‘Stigmata’ but that is no help as the footage is from all over the gigs. Guess we need someone who was there or has been to that venue. There was someone on prongs who mentioned they were at one of the Sphinctour shows but I dont know which. Speak up Sphinctourians!
i think that might have been the rothko chapel in houston.
(running away with huge grin)
i think that might have been the rothko chapel in houston.
(running away with huge grin)
I actually saw them in Houston for that tour… It was the International Ballroom. If anything it looked like a warehouse.
The Rothko Chapel is pretty cool tho…
rothko chapel rules. no lights.
What a forgettable tour, along with the '99 tour. Of course, the farewell show eclipsed both of them on the lameness scale.
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i’m with you there 1002.
hm, were 96 and 99 tours so bad?
[reply]i think that might have been the rothko chapel in houston.
(running away with huge grin)
I actually saw them in Houston for that tour… It was the International Ballroom. If anything it looked like a warehouse.
The Rothko Chapel is pretty cool tho…[/reply]
Weird the place they played in Georgia during that tour was called the International Ballroom too, and it was sort of a converted warehouse. Ministry got a fine for being too loud that night if I recall right.
the 99 show was pretty f’ing good in my book
[reply]i think that might have been the rothko chapel in houston.
(running away with huge grin)
I actually saw them in Houston for that tour… It was the International Ballroom. If anything it looked like a warehouse.
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I was there too. Must’ve been 120 degrees inside that place. Horrible venue as well.
i jest.
i believe that these "novices’ who post here are looking for info for other projects. i’m not providing. screw that.
didn’t vagina girl or whatever her name was who posted the news about al’s hollywood signing wicked lake also start her post with “hey guys”?
uh, find the tour book.
that will provide details about all the venues. i have one. and i ain’t tellin’.
crew and band get the book.
crew and band get the book.
I have one for the filth pig tour! it’s pretty cool!
Late,
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hm, were 96 and 99 tours so bad?
Well, depends who you ask, really. I didn’t like FP much at all when it was released, didn’t care for the openers (Laika and Jesus Lizard), was annoyed by an hour of blaring country-western music before Ministry took the stage, and didn’t find the show itself that exciting. The '99 show was a wall of noise at Celeb Theatre in Phoenix (may have been the venue, but it was the first annoyingly loud Ministry show), and it didn’t help that I liked DSOTS even less than FP. Fornicatour made up for those two tours, probably their last truly great tour, in terms of visuals, the performance, and set list.
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wow.
I loved the filth pig tour.
Filth pig was and still is my favorite ministry album, and I dig the jesus lizard a lot, and the Finnish surf rock was kind of cool.
I got a black eye at that show from an elbow that came at me in slow motion due to the strobe lights and David Yow stage dived directly onto me when I was in the front row (his sweaty, hairy bare chest smeared across my face, which was some kind of thing).
I missed the DSOTS tour unfortunately. They didn’t come to Vancouver, and I couldn’t get the time off work to drive down to Seattle.
HUGE bummer.
tour book? are you making that up? never heard of such a thing but sounds cool.
Yeah, I’ve got one from the Australia/Japan 1995 tour and the Dark Side tour. Good stuff, if you happen across one.
What a forgettable tour, along with the '99 tour.
You know, I thought the same thing until I started listening to some of the later live shows from the 99 tour. Compared with the churning out the same old versions of the same songs on the 96 tour, there were actually some changes to the arrangements. Like the fast version of Crumbs or some of the other songs with Max Brody added on sax. By most accounts, Al was pretty out of it for the whole tour, so it’s like the rest of the band had a little freedom to play around with things.
yep they also started psalm 69 with “chorus” right away, not the intro.
i agree about fornicatour being overall best last tour, very nice setlist, too bad they were all older, vocals suffered the most, the rest of the band was pretty good.
tour book you say? what’s in it? how about some scans?
[reply]What a forgettable tour, along with the '99 tour.
You know, I thought the same thing until I started listening to some of the later live shows from the 99 tour. Compared with the churning out the same old versions of the same songs on the 96 tour, there were actually some changes to the arrangements. Like the fast version of Crumbs or some of the other songs with Max Brody added on sax. By most accounts, Al was pretty out of it for the whole tour, so it’s like the rest of the band had a little freedom to play around with things.[/reply]
Maybe there were some better shows on this tour than the Phoenix date. I even listened to the audience recording years later, thinking I would enjoy it more, but didn’t. The set list is odd to me, the first five songs created an uneven pace, and the whole show seemed too short:
Reload
Crumbs
Psalm 69
Filth Pig
Eureka Pile
So What
Bad Blood
Just One Fix
NWO
Hero
Thieves
Supermaniac Soul
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