guy i haven’t gotten this. i heard the one slower tune that everybody liked. i’m not into the bush trilogy and ladder stuff. i do like lard. but i honestly don’t think Al’s got any more GOOD lard left in him. (no offense, al)
should I pull the trigger?
guy i haven’t gotten this. i heard the one slower tune that everybody liked. i’m not into the bush trilogy and ladder stuff. i do like lard. but i honestly don’t think Al’s got any more GOOD lard left in him. (no offense, al)
should I pull the trigger?
Yeah, it’s fun and inventive and totally senseless.
Yeah, it’s fun and inventive and totally senseless.
perfect thanks dude.
[reply][reply][reply]Well, the post-Barker Ministry albums tend to have pretty detailed credits in the liner notes. Most of the songs are openly admitted to being collaboratively created, but the song “Rio Grande Blood” was apparently written and performed by Al alone.
I always thought that was weird, i don’t know if i believe it. Sounds more like Tommy Victor to me.[/reply]
Which is probably one of many reasons why Victor isn’t a real big fan of Al[/reply]
Indeed! I wonder if Tommy’s softened any toward Al? I’ve read lots of stuff even after the Prong track that totally savaged Al about how much Al liked working with him. Probably because Tommy Victor wrote so much of those albums, i suppose. You’d have to be pretty happy with someone bringing so may riffs to the table. I know some folk don’t like those albums, but i thought they were excellent personally.[/reply]
I interviewed Tommy last year and he had this to say…
http://web.archive.org/web/20141208082746/http://sfmedia.com.au/interview-prong/
I’ve nothing but good things to say about Jourgensen and Victor after interviewing them both. I even get away with pulling Al up on what Victor had to say and the answers were quite contrasting to say the least. I will say that Al definitely got quite defensive, but I suppose I would too.
Nice article, cheers!
Got the vinyl version, only 300 made. Def sounds like ministry animositisomina days. Unlistenable is pretty wild calling out several well known bands.
Got the vinyl version, only 300 made. Def sounds like ministry animositisomina days. Unlistenable is pretty wild calling out several well known bands.
“Unlistenable” doesn’t work on paper, but with Al and his assistant fiddling around in the studio, it’s hysterical. That distorted scream of “NOOOO” after Megadeth is brought up is solid gold.
Got the vinyl version, only 300 made. Def sounds like ministry animositisomina days. Unlistenable is pretty wild calling out several well known bands.
Ordered it and it arrived today.
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Another interview that I think hasn’t been posted: http://regenmag.com/interviews/al-jourgensen-interview-machines-on-meth-programmed-by-pot/
Here’s the teaser for the next new project that I doubt will ever come out:
Well, I’ve got the big three – Lard, RevCo, and MINISTRY – all in various states of disarray, and one of them seems to be a little less naked than the others, and that would be Lard. But we’ll see; Lard may come in third on that little horse race, so it just depends on what happens.
Lately, I’ve been kind of swapping beats with this guy Arabian Prince, one of the founding members of N.W.A. – he’s the one who was left out of that Straight Outta Compton record and was ripped off by N.W.A…. kind of like how I was the guy who got left in the dust of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. (Laughter) We’re the two guys who never got paid. We’ll see what happens, but he’s a totally cool dude, and we’re having fun, and that’s all that matters! If it comes into something great, don’t ask me for a name yet… you name it! Hell, we might even have a contest or something online – Name Our Band! That kind of fucking thing; I’ll let my daughter set that up since she knows her way around that internet stuff.
Also, it seems like every time Al does an interview in 2016, he’ll make some kind of reference to himself as an “old white dude” in a faintly self-deprecating way. Does anyone else find that kind of weird? Maybe his new neighbourhood in LA is less white than he’s used to.
No, he’s in Burbank. It’s white as hell there.
Tales from a 57year old man that just got his medical card?
I’ll pass.
This is what Cocker meant in Help the Aged…
i can say this, the new SMM album didn’t bum me out. it didn’t make my day or anything, but it didn’t bum me out. and dammit, thats saying something for al at this point.
now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to put the live cut of The Fall back on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZMuFy1E000
takes a minute for the band to come out. who is the chick holding the mic?
That would be Mandi Martyr, Aaron Rossi’s wife and (supposedly) future Ministry bassist.
Apparently, she just does it all.
First I’ve read about the origin of the name SMM:
"Apparently the name of the band came about one night when Dead Kennedys singer and longtime friend of Jourgensen Jello Biafra stopped by to sing on one of the songs on the album. They were trying to think of a name for the project and Jourgensen explains, “ We did one song with Jello one crazy weekend and we were thinking of names and we came up with Surgical Meth Machine. ‘Surgical’ because we did it in a studio way so it’s very surgical and clinical. ‘Meth’ because we wanted it to be really fast, and ‘Machine’ because we were using drum machines –it’s not some inspirational title.”
http://screamermagazine.com/interviews/proofed-al-jourgensen-never-dull-moment/
It’s still an unfortunate name. If I were to get a SMM shirt or something and someone were to ask me what it stood for, I’d probably just tell them I didn’t know or make up something better. I’d rather have something nonsensical like PTP was than something that brings up visions of trashy folks boiling up low grade drugs in their trailer.