I wouldn't be surprised if Al Jourgensen HATES seeing old interviews of himself but the truth is he gave his most interesting interviews back in the day. He was such a smart guy and a music visionary.
of course. You know how you see stuff you did 5 years ago and cringe? Now add 3 decades to it... If you don't get douche chills from the crap you did as a youngster you might have big issues.
I seriously don't think he hated the music of the album as much as he didn't want the label to get any money from the sales of it. Very much how David Lynch never talked about DUNE because the studio never gave him final cut.
Wow! I have never seen this! Al so young, handsome, very intelligent, witty, personable, articulate and healthy looking. Great interviewer with great questions.
Holy shite!!! Never seen this footage... never knew he even did on camera interviews at this point. No tats, coherent, wasn't totally loaded on heroin. This is music history 👍 - and 'Over the Shoulder' was inspired by the invasion of Grenada..... who knew?!?
@@GnarMarv2 yes. And if you see old pictures he really held a variety of appearances. It started with a top hat/synth pop new wave look. No studs or spikes. There's an image I saw that looked kind of like Skrillex. To then this kind of look. Then a top hat goth look. To then leather jacket/long hair/bandana. Finally arriving at the half military/Jamaican pirate/biker.
There are demos of With Sympathy floating around containing interviews with Al stating he was shopping the album to major labels. The songs are virtually identical to what ended up on the album. So of course he wrote it. It was made before he ever signed to Arista.
It's a great album for an 80s Synth-Pop album. The musical landscape was very different back then. Hardcore had gained a lot of influence over the youth and underground scene by the mid 80s and Al wanted a piece of that energy. He felt he had to disown With Sympathy to get any respect from a large segment of his target audience. And he was right to an extent. Kids today are much different. They realize they can love Land of Rape And Honey, Twitch, Psalm 69, AND With Sympathy all at the same time. Back in the 80s, things were very tribal and your musical tastes had to conform to what was accepted by the tribe you wished to belong to. It was all very silly to be honest.
@@NachtSchreck13 That's crazy , until this day , even on the recent "yahoo" interview (which is awesome actually) he goes on about how he practically didn't write the album, definitely didn't write a few of the songs at all and that "they " wrote the songs and/or made him sing them..etc.. a certain way.
It's hard to know what is true with him at times because he was under the influence and embellishing. And even now his memory is kind of bad where he contradicts himself even in the same interviews. I agree that he likely mostly went against his early synth pop sound because he was changing his taste and styles were changing. Synthpop wasn't the cool thing any longer by the early mid 80s. A lot of it had become mainstream music and not underground edgy in the US. It seems he felt he had to find the next sound which became much darker and hard rock metal influenced. It's likely drugs played a part. It lost too much beauty and became dystopian chaos, almost like a bad psychedelic trip instead of a surreal positive experience. Electronic music did eventually also get more ambient and IDM and it's a shame he didn't or couldn't go that direction instead of metal noise sounding.
I reckon Arista had some influence/guidance on With Sympathy.. but very little. There's no chance they wrote songs for him, or demanded he be pop or new wave. Al already was pop and new wave at that time. Listening to their live gigs around that time, they play the with sympathy material with such conviction. I think Arista merely gave a bit of guidance on streamlining that pop sound a bit more. After it's release, Al was already getting into more underground or hardcore music and decided to go a different direction with Ministry. It is what it is now, but it's a shame he abandoned With Sympathy so viciously, and later Twitch. They are brilliant albums
Something you don't see anymore - a good interviewer - who researches and remembers his guest's information and facts about the band, and the music, labels, everything - and relaxed in his atmosphere. I truly miss that. Down with wiki - hit the streets.
@@leroyanthony449 right, I was talkin' bout him - it's something you don't see - today it's like they roll out of bed after a rough night and read the paper in front of them. It's a sad state of affairs that nobody remembers the work it took to get to where we are at - so it will be lost, so will the talent of the ones being interviewed are starting to become watered down and shallow, plastic. Save the whales!
This was awesome. Al rarely hits on Twitch any more, but it was a lifeline to the weird kids (like me) in high school in the 80s. Just saw Ministry on Saturday. Seeing him again in September in Cleveland.
Sorry Uncle Al.... I love the with sympathy album........... all of it, and still get fucking nostalgic with everyday is halloween. I'm 48 now and still dance to it at the clubs here in Dallas Texas.
@@bradyvacationinc Ministry’s music became weaker and more generic as time went on. The last good album was “Filth Pig”, everything after that was pretty forgettable.
@@bradyvacationinc that's not cool man. I think people can like whatever. Some of the music I like probably has 10 fans on earth. Who cares? Like what moves you or you find meaningful, not what's popular. Or love what's popular, who cares? I'm gonna go listen to Ministry's Thieves. Then I'm gonna listen to Roxette. Joyride!
I Love pretty much every song Al Jurgensen ever put out. He's a musical genius. I saw them at Sick New World festival in Vegas last month and Ministry stole the show
Al Jourgensen Interview - April 20, 1986 - Virginia Theatre, Champaign, Illinois, USA. muthas against punx? refer to psychotic Lancastrians against brains..... good family innovation eventually bites back.
Watching this video helps me understand SO much better why Trent Reznor looked up to him. He's always seemed so trashed from the 90's on that I never knew he could be so lucid and sane.
Digging and searching for the good music was a total Chicago thing (grew up a couple blocks away from Al's parents) . We all did it, and our pirate and indy stations were totally innovative until recently. I grew up on weird music from all over the world because of Chicago.
Some of his mannerisms here remind me of Zappa, especially the response about "Over The Shoulder." Al's a cool guy, I'm so glad I learned about him recently!
This is a rarity among rarities. I had no idea that the backing band was called Crucial for a bit. And apparently there was going to be a 5 song EP (probably tracks later put on Trax!Box), a video for "We Shall Cleanse The World" and a video planned for the unreleased aggressive remix of "The Angel"! It was cool to see the late Bill Rieflin at the end.
@@b.l.fisher8230 I think that became the "Box Set/Wax 019" project. All instrumentals done by this incarnation of the band, minus Al. Roland's piece recently was released with the Wax Trax documentary. ruclips.net/video/ga2RV4VjQMI/видео.html&ab_channel=WaxTraxRecords
Meanwhile fast forward 10 years in 1996 and Al is wearing a diaper, shooting heroin and paranoid enough to wear a bullet proof vest on stage cause he thinks people are out to kill him. Not making any of this up. Watch the Fix Ministry documentary if you want to know why people think he's nuts. By the end of his drug run in the late 90's/early 00's he was living in a crackhouse. I believe some of his toes were even amputated. He also has a book where he talks about alot of this stuff. Probably even way crazier stories than what I mentioned. Part of the reason Paul left ministry was cause he was sick of cleaning up after Al.
It's a well-known fact that Al HATES With Sympathy, and that's too bad-for many fans, it's his best work, and sounds nothing like what came later under the Ministry banner, but that's his prerogative. Personally, I love the With Sympathy album and still listen to it to this day. Funniest thing I've seen with regards to this is a picture of Al a few years ago holding a sign saying, "Will sign a copy of With Sympathy for $1000". :D Cool interview, though-thanks for posting it!
Actually, he's re-evaluated the album in recent years and now sees it differently. He sees it as the album that put him on the map and actually has some good concepts and ideas in it. Sometimes the years can soften an opinion on a product. Maybe his thoughts at the time were based on his experience in making the album and his lack of control over the production.
I love that Al has come to peace more with the album With sympathy..he's decided to actually retire ministry by remaking With sympathy and coming full circle. I love it
He did use amphetamines around that time (allegedly that's what Twitch was named after), but from what I gather, his severe drug habits got progressively worse through the late 80s to the 2000's. Al also isn't exactly the world's most credible autobiographer, so take anything he says with a grain of salt.
@@hogmjr makes sense, there's some songs on it he doesn't even seem to contribute much to. Honestly, I always felt like Mind was a step down from LoRaH, too spotty in quality and consistency
According to his autobiography he had quite a few memories to reflect on during the making of Twitch and the MIATTTT. They did have a big bag of hallucinogens during MIATTTT and it messed with them quite a bit. But Dark Side of the Spoon is the album he says he has zero recollection of. He thinks his substance abuse got so out of hand that his mind wasn't able to create any new memories during that time.
I wish he had stayed beautiful and intelligent. Sadly hes changed so. I had their album Twitch and strangely enough it was introduced to me at a Christian music festival by called Jesus 86 in 1986 by some attendees. I still laugh about discovering them at a christian concert.
The same thing happened to Mobb Deep - ie. the label micromanaged their first album, the got ridiculed for what came of it, so they doubled down on their own style for Da Infamous.
I'm glad he's come around on With Sympathy in recent years. For a new wave synth pop album, it was edgier and darker than a lot of the stuff that was coming out at the time. Would have been cool to see them tour with Depeche Mode but at the same time I would have hated to see them stuck doing synthpop their entire career, then we wouldn't have gotten their fantastic metal albums. Maybe they could have spun the new wave synthpop thing off into a side project.
Al is bad AF still can't believe I met him when I was 15 at a camp ground buddy of mine was chasing his daughter and I accidentally met him talked about Yngwie Malmsteen and shredder's and he's the the coolest ever. Will always remember you Al
He's full of it, in the early 80's i listned to New Wave but when I got older in High School I stopped listening to new wave and got into rock. i would have never told my rock friends I was into new wave and I'm sure that is exactly what happened to Al.
I read a book about rock stars and their drug experiences, no one could touch Al's chapter. He lived with Timothy Leary and would shoot up just about everything people sent to them.
with sympathy is a great album idk why al jourgensen would hate it But tbh there new industrial stuff is good too but the old ministry was classic but I mean either way ministry is a good band
From what he said. It sounds like he hates With Sympathy because it didn't feel like his album. Arista Records, apparently, had producers sticking their noses so far up ass that he'd lost creative control of the album. Arista wanted a commercially friendly album, Al wanted to make a Ministry album, not an Arista one. He was probably contractually obligated to record a full length album, so he did, got paid, and went to Sire Records.
what the hell happened to him? He used to be sooooo fng HOT back in the day!!! DAM and his music was sooooo much better - "same old madness" has got to be one of the best videos and synth/ new wave song ever invented on this planet!!!! I miss the old ministry!
You can timeline track his drug abuse if you read Chris Connelly's book Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible, and Fried: My life as a Revolting Cock. This would have been right before Richard 23 of Front 242 quit RevCo and Chris and Al met, giving Chris the chance to front RevCo. According to Chris he was using large amounts of amphetamines which was substituted for coke in London at the time. So heavy drinking, coke, and or amphetamines. Heroin was 2 years away when he dabbled during the tour to promote land of rape and honey. 3 years before they were injecting everything on the Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour. It went down hill after that unless your a fan of psalm 69. He went to his first rehab before or during the Filth Pig recording sessions. Then back and forth for 20 more years.
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Al looks like Travis from the movie Taxi drive.
Holy shit he does! I didn’t notice that until I saw ur comment
Al has always been Travis.
Decent.
A tip : you can watch series on KaldroStream. Been using them for watching a lot of movies these days.
@Lee Ford Definitely, been watching on KaldroStream for months myself :)
I wouldn't be surprised if Al Jourgensen HATES seeing old interviews of himself but the truth is he gave his most interesting interviews back in the day. He was such a smart guy and a music visionary.
Very true
...and still IS.
of course. You know how you see stuff you did 5 years ago and cringe? Now add 3 decades to it... If you don't get douche chills from the crap you did as a youngster you might have big issues.
He looked better with short hair
@@spacefertilizer its still short, bald, the long hair are extensions!
With Sympathy is still one of the greatest synthpop albums of all time.
Agreed
I seriously don't think he hated the music of the album as much as he didn't want the label to get any money from the sales of it. Very much how David Lynch never talked about DUNE because the studio never gave him final cut.
Maybe but that's not saying much lol
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It blew me away when i bought it on release. Twitch was so different but those are my two favorite albums by him.
Wow! I have never seen this! Al so young, handsome, very intelligent, witty, personable, articulate and healthy looking. Great interviewer with great questions.
He's s till all of those things (minus the handsome and healthy parts!)
its funny how Ministry fans value "With Sympathy" alot higher than Al actually does.
I always consider revco the third version of ministry. The with symphony , 12 inch singles version I do love dearly too
The real Ministry is With Sympathy, Twitch & Land of Rape and Honey. Anything after that is fake.
Al Jourgensen in general is just an artist❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Holy shite!!! Never seen this footage... never knew he even did on camera interviews at this point. No tats, coherent, wasn't totally loaded on heroin. This is music history 👍 - and 'Over the Shoulder' was inspired by the invasion of Grenada..... who knew?!?
He also looks very military.
@@te9591 prob just steping into the goth aesthetic, its crazy at how different he looks
@@GnarMarv2 yes. And if you see old pictures he really held a variety of appearances. It started with a top hat/synth pop new wave look. No studs or spikes. There's an image I saw that looked kind of like Skrillex. To then this kind of look. Then a top hat goth look. To then leather jacket/long hair/bandana. Finally arriving at the half military/Jamaican pirate/biker.
He does some interviews since 81, in the wax trax documentary you can see, at this point he was leaving all that gothic, new wave behind.
@@te9591 this is at a time when everyone and I mean EVERY 1 wore Cosby sweaters and had mullets.
Thank you so much for uploading this! This interview used to be on RUclips in 2009 but then it was mysteriously deleted.
I'm not sure why it was taken down previously, but it happened twice.
Didn't he had another interview during the twitch era? I remember he had a ponytail shave on both sides.
He admitted he wrote the album, at least. Usually he denies that he wrote it. Well, it's good. He ought to be proud of it.
There are demos of With Sympathy floating around containing interviews with Al stating he was shopping the album to major labels. The songs are virtually identical to what ended up on the album. So of course he wrote it. It was made before he ever signed to Arista.
It's a great album for an 80s Synth-Pop album. The musical landscape was very different back then. Hardcore had gained a lot of influence over the youth and underground scene by the mid 80s and Al wanted a piece of that energy. He felt he had to disown With Sympathy to get any respect from a large segment of his target audience. And he was right to an extent. Kids today are much different. They realize they can love Land of Rape And Honey, Twitch, Psalm 69, AND With Sympathy all at the same time. Back in the 80s, things were very tribal and your musical tastes had to conform to what was accepted by the tribe you wished to belong to. It was all very silly to be honest.
@@NachtSchreck13 That's crazy , until this day , even on the recent "yahoo" interview (which is awesome actually) he goes on about how he practically didn't write the album, definitely didn't write a few of the songs at all and that "they " wrote the songs and/or made him sing them..etc.. a certain way.
It's hard to know what is true with him at times because he was under the influence and embellishing. And even now his memory is kind of bad where he contradicts himself even in the same interviews.
I agree that he likely mostly went against his early synth pop sound because he was changing his taste and styles were changing. Synthpop wasn't the cool thing any longer by the early mid 80s. A lot of it had become mainstream music and not underground edgy in the US. It seems he felt he had to find the next sound which became much darker and hard rock metal influenced. It's likely drugs played a part. It lost too much beauty and became dystopian chaos, almost like a bad psychedelic trip instead of a surreal positive experience. Electronic music did eventually also get more ambient and IDM and it's a shame he didn't or couldn't go that direction instead of metal noise sounding.
I reckon Arista had some influence/guidance on With Sympathy.. but very little. There's no chance they wrote songs for him, or demanded he be pop or new wave.
Al already was pop and new wave at that time. Listening to their live gigs around that time, they play the with sympathy material with such conviction.
I think Arista merely gave a bit of guidance on streamlining that pop sound a bit more.
After it's release, Al was already getting into more underground or hardcore music and decided to go a different direction with Ministry.
It is what it is now, but it's a shame he abandoned With Sympathy so viciously, and later Twitch. They are brilliant albums
Something you don't see anymore - a good interviewer - who researches and remembers his guest's information and facts about the band, and the music, labels, everything - and relaxed in his atmosphere. I truly miss that. Down with wiki - hit the streets.
Watch narduar
@@leroyanthony449 why
@@JSTNtheWZRD he literally does what you're saying interviewers don't do these days
@@leroyanthony449 right, I was talkin' bout him - it's something you don't see - today it's like they roll out of bed after a rough night and read the paper in front of them. It's a sad state of affairs that nobody remembers the work it took to get to where we are at - so it will be lost, so will the talent of the ones being interviewed are starting to become watered down and shallow, plastic. Save the whales!
Nardwuar vs. Ministry.. why didn't it ever happen? .. would've been great!
This was awesome. Al rarely hits on Twitch any more, but it was a lifeline to the weird kids (like me) in high school in the 80s. Just saw Ministry on Saturday. Seeing him again in September in Cleveland.
Holy crap this is an amazing interview. Thanks for posting.
- What are your plans for Ministry in the future?
Al - This isn`t even my final form
Sorry Uncle Al.... I love the with sympathy album........... all of it, and still get fucking nostalgic with everyday is halloween. I'm 48 now and still dance to it at the clubs here in Dallas Texas.
I think he’s warmed up a bit to the early Ministry tracks,
He doesn’t talk harshly about them anymore.
What about the brilliance of "Twitch".
Check out the live version of Halloween he did recently. Maybe a year or two ago anyway. Dave Navarro is on guitar. Cool version, I think!
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Ministry’s music became weaker and more generic as time went on.
The last good album was “Filth Pig”, everything after that was pretty forgettable.
@@bradyvacationinc that's not cool man. I think people can like whatever. Some of the music I like probably has 10 fans on earth. Who cares? Like what moves you or you find meaningful, not what's popular. Or love what's popular, who cares? I'm gonna go listen to Ministry's Thieves. Then I'm gonna listen to Roxette. Joyride!
I Love pretty much every song Al Jurgensen ever put out. He's a musical genius. I saw them at Sick New World festival in Vegas last month and Ministry stole the show
I always thought he was a music genius as well. He was so innovative for the 80s
Al Jourgensen Interview - April 20, 1986 - Virginia Theatre, Champaign, Illinois, USA. muthas against punx? refer to psychotic Lancastrians against brains..... good family innovation eventually bites back.
Insane how much he changed in just 3 years. From 83 to this
Probably the drugs
Uncle Al is so charismatic here. I love it!
Deep also, uncle AL on full cylinders here
Been looking for this for years thanks a lot for uploading brilliant footage and finally back on RUclips! 👍
It was yanked twice before and I'm not sure why.
the Burroughs goof at the end is gold....hahaha!
That last bit with Bill Reiflin.....Awesome!!
Watching this video helps me understand SO much better why Trent Reznor looked up to him. He's always seemed so trashed from the 90's on that I never knew he could be so lucid and sane.
Only lucid and sane for a few short years, then. I wonder which version Trent looked up to.
Every moment or interview from this guy makes him sound like a really nice and decent guy.
Damn, he looks so young...
I can’t get over how much of a hottie Uncle Al was in his younger days! 😍
Al was a hottie 😻😻😻
He was so hot 😍!
Because of the odd size of youtube on my big screen....looked like the Girl w/ The Pearl Earring with a ball gag. Someone needs to paint that.
Digging and searching for the good music was a total Chicago thing (grew up a couple blocks away from Al's parents) . We all did it, and our pirate and indy stations were totally innovative until recently. I grew up on weird music from all over the world because of Chicago.
Some of his mannerisms here remind me of Zappa, especially the response about "Over The Shoulder." Al's a cool guy, I'm so glad I learned about him recently!
I was actually trying to find this interview.
This is a rarity among rarities. I had no idea that the backing band was called Crucial for a bit. And apparently there was going to be a 5 song EP (probably tracks later put on Trax!Box), a video for "We Shall Cleanse The World" and a video planned for the unreleased aggressive remix of "The Angel"! It was cool to see the late Bill Rieflin at the end.
Been dying to hear that remix of The Angel for years, did it ever make it out as a bootleg?
What happened to the Crucial e.p.? Did it get folded into the Land Of Rape & Honey album?
@@b.l.fisher8230 I think that became the "Box Set/Wax 019" project. All instrumentals done by this incarnation of the band, minus Al. Roland's piece recently was released with the Wax Trax documentary. ruclips.net/video/ga2RV4VjQMI/видео.html&ab_channel=WaxTraxRecords
Thank you for this video! I’ve been searching for this interview forever!
Very cool! His book is intense as hell
Whoa random awesome upload on RUclips 👌👏
With Sympathy is a GREAT ALBUM!!!
With Sympathy is my favorite Ministry album. Funny how that goes
a perfect example of why AJ is one of my idols
With Sympathy is still one of fav.
I don't understand why people call this man crazy...his music is wild and awesome but his personality is super laid back.
Meanwhile fast forward 10 years in 1996 and Al is wearing a diaper, shooting heroin and paranoid enough to wear a bullet proof vest on stage cause he thinks people are out to kill him. Not making any of this up. Watch the Fix Ministry documentary if you want to know why people think he's nuts. By the end of his drug run in the late 90's/early 00's he was living in a crackhouse. I believe some of his toes were even amputated. He also has a book where he talks about alot of this stuff. Probably even way crazier stories than what I mentioned. Part of the reason Paul left ministry was cause he was sick of cleaning up after Al.
It's a well-known fact that Al HATES With Sympathy, and that's too bad-for many fans, it's his best work, and sounds nothing like what came later under the Ministry banner, but that's his prerogative. Personally, I love the With Sympathy album and still listen to it to this day. Funniest thing I've seen with regards to this is a picture of Al a few years ago holding a sign saying, "Will sign a copy of With Sympathy for $1000". :D Cool interview, though-thanks for posting it!
Actually, he's re-evaluated the album in recent years and now sees it differently. He sees it as the album that put him on the map and actually has some good concepts and ideas in it. Sometimes the years can soften an opinion on a product. Maybe his thoughts at the time were based on his experience in making the album and his lack of control over the production.
He needs to revisit the old stuff.
I love that Al has come to peace more with the album With sympathy..he's decided to actually retire ministry by remaking With sympathy and coming full circle. I love it
Al Jourgensen for president!!!
I can’t believe I just turned 8 when this interview happened
Same with me.
I personally dig deep for music that is mind blowing, underground gems! I won't settle for mainstream $h¡T!
Great upload! Thanks!
Al appearing cognizant even though I read that he barely remembers the Twitch era from all his drug taking then.
He did use amphetamines around that time (allegedly that's what Twitch was named after), but from what I gather, his severe drug habits got progressively worse through the late 80s to the 2000's.
Al also isn't exactly the world's most credible autobiographer, so take anything he says with a grain of salt.
The mind is a terrible thing to taste is the album he almost dont remember shit
@@hogmjr makes sense, there's some songs on it he doesn't even seem to contribute much to.
Honestly, I always felt like Mind was a step down from LoRaH, too spotty in quality and consistency
According to his autobiography he had quite a few memories to reflect on during the making of Twitch and the MIATTTT. They did have a big bag of hallucinogens during MIATTTT and it messed with them quite a bit. But Dark Side of the Spoon is the album he says he has zero recollection of. He thinks his substance abuse got so out of hand that his mind wasn't able to create any new memories during that time.
Northern Illinois, yeah baby! Love you uncle Al! Pailhead Trait forever!
Omfg Al is sooo young!!!
Al understood everything decades before the others. It marked an incredible growth of badness in his music
As a Cuban/American who started listening to Ministry back in the late 80’s I had no idea Alejandro Ramirez Casas Aka Al Jourgensen was Cuban.
That ending was gold. Lol
Here is a guy who took a step back, figured it out, then never took a step back again.
I'm drunk,, is that Bill Rieflin at the end?
Dude looks like he just stepped out of the movie Taxi Driver.
Oh you right 😂
Good interview
I wish he had stayed beautiful and intelligent. Sadly hes changed so.
I had their album Twitch and strangely enough it was introduced to me at a Christian music festival by called Jesus 86 in 1986 by some attendees. I still laugh about discovering them at a christian concert.
What kind souls, introducing you to music that didn't suck.
I remember wearing ministry shirts back in the day and Christians thought it was a religious group 🤣
Gotta love this guy
is that bill rieflin at the end? I bet Crucial was everyone from The Blackouts
yes
The same thing happened to Mobb Deep - ie. the label micromanaged their first album, the got ridiculed for what came of it, so they doubled down on their own style for Da Infamous.
is that Bill Rieflin at the end?? R.I.P.
I'm glad he's come around on With Sympathy in recent years. For a new wave synth pop album, it was edgier and darker than a lot of the stuff that was coming out at the time. Would have been cool to see them tour with Depeche Mode but at the same time I would have hated to see them stuck doing synthpop their entire career, then we wouldn't have gotten their fantastic metal albums. Maybe they could have spun the new wave synthpop thing off into a side project.
great interview
I loved that random stuff at the end. Was that a William Burroughs impression?
We use them a while, then it's over the shoulder... ❤
"we've got in down in Carbondale"
SIUC !!
“No junkies on the bus.”
Bill the cat with the short cameo
Wow he was a stud
I really liked this interview lol, the interviewer seemed cool
Al is bad AF still can't believe I met him when I was 15 at a camp ground buddy of mine was chasing his daughter and I accidentally met him talked about Yngwie Malmsteen and shredder's and he's the the coolest ever. Will always remember you Al
I can't get over how hot he looks and sounds here lolll
Gaaaah Al is so hott 😍😍😍😍🥴🥴🥴
fucking brilliant man.
Al in total Ed Gein-chic lol
Right? Geez
Why is he claiming Wax Trax! as his own label? Jim Nash & Dan Flesher (RIP) would disagree
I have never seen this interview with Bob De Niro as Travis Scott
He's full of it, in the early 80's i listned to New Wave but when I got older in High School I stopped listening to new wave and got into rock. i would have never told my rock friends I was into new wave and I'm sure that is exactly what happened to Al.
In 86 I even didn't know them
Man I I love how Politics were discussed back then.
excellent! al before he got destroyed by drugs.
Love this
4::20 1986
"...buy the new stuff - it's better." (mischievous grin)
Al's voice has certainly changed.
He's so cute and smart. We appreciated a free thinker like him in the '80's. What happened? He let them change him.
tks
Does Al have ANY healthy habits????
I read a book about rock stars and their drug experiences, no one could touch Al's chapter. He lived with Timothy Leary and would shoot up just about everything people sent to them.
Al? Is that you, Al????
My Favourite Uncle
Al Jergusen was so dreamy and what a sexy mind❤️🥰❤️
with sympathy is a great album idk why al jourgensen would hate it But tbh there new industrial stuff is good too but the old ministry was classic but I mean either way ministry is a good band
From what he said. It sounds like he hates With Sympathy because it didn't feel like his album. Arista Records, apparently, had producers sticking their noses so far up ass that he'd lost creative control of the album. Arista wanted a commercially friendly album, Al wanted to make a Ministry album, not an Arista one. He was probably contractually obligated to record a full length album, so he did, got paid, and went to Sire Records.
what the hell happened to him? He used to be sooooo fng HOT back in the day!!! DAM and his music was sooooo much better - "same old madness" has got to be one of the best videos and synth/ new wave song ever invented on this planet!!!! I miss the old ministry!
Watching this with the knowledge of where things have ended up, Jourgensen is a tragic drug casualty. By the time he got clean, the damage was done.
Handsome Al existed.
remix of angel?! i dont think i ever heard that...
This is weird, it's like realize your extraterrestrial friend was cheating on you, he always was human.
If only Al was able to sign to Sire records at the beginning. I would had loved to hear that first album.
Great interview. Question is, however: Did he ever make it down to Carbondale?
HOLY SHIT!
I want Al's hat.
I’m pretty sure it’s a WWII German M43 Officer Field Cap
Annnd this is why you shouldn’t do drugs kids 😬😃
Definitely not nodding out on smack here.. did he really say he couldn’t remember this period?
You can timeline track his drug abuse if you read Chris Connelly's book Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible, and Fried: My life as a Revolting Cock. This would have been right before Richard 23 of Front 242 quit RevCo and Chris and Al met, giving Chris the chance to front RevCo. According to Chris he was using large amounts of amphetamines which was substituted for coke in London at the time. So heavy drinking, coke, and or amphetamines. Heroin was 2 years away when he dabbled during the tour to promote land of rape and honey. 3 years before they were injecting everything on the Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour. It went down hill after that unless your a fan of psalm 69. He went to his first rehab before or during the Filth Pig recording sessions. Then back and forth for 20 more years.
what is the "Crucial" band he's talking about releasing on wax trax? guessing the project either fell apart or got renamed.
Where is the English accent?😂😂😂
He did it a bit at first but eventually lost it.
He sold it to that guy in Green Day
As if half of the UK bands didn’t try to sing like Americans
He did say “bloody” lol
He lost it when he ditched Arista