Thought Sausage

Ah, Filth Pig. I was in love with this record when it first came out, while the rest of the world was talking about how much it stunk, I knew it was a masterpiece of sludge industrial. Al slowed the tempos way down and let the grind that was his herione over dose seep into every foot of tape used to capture this amazing album. A little known fact which I got out of Adam Grossman (Skrew) was that The Fall was actually written during the old Twitch days and brought back to life during the Filth Pig sessions. I'm so glad Al did it to, because The Fall could easily be the strongest song on the record and quite easily one of Ministry's best songs ever.

I saw them on this tour as well (it was the second or third tour I saw them on) and was blown away by the stage show. It was a different Ministry then than it is today. Wish I could make it to Chicago for the Cu La Tour.

Gotta love Ministry though. I would more than likely cut off a testicle to work with Al.

Was this the tour where the stage looked like a roadhouse bar (with the chain link in the front of the stage)?

Yeah I had this album since it came out but it just kinda sat on the shelf. I've never really treated Ministry like an album band (probably a mistake). There's always like 1 or 2, maybe 3 songs that end up getting played ALL the time and I sort shuffle off the rest (for those keeping score, Roadhouse Blues, Die in a Car Crash and End of Days Pt 2 are those songs on the new one).

Without a doubt, Filth Pig has an awesome continuity to it that makes it a great "album" listen. totally missed that (12 years on...better late than never right?). Funny about The Fall...as it sort of does have a Twitch-ish feel to it (to my ears)

Nope, that would be the tour before "In case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up Live" that they did the fence stuff. Which is easily one of the best concerts ever captured on tape. Man am I biased or what? No the Filth Pig tour was really stripped down and that's what I loved about it. I caught them at Roy Wilkins in Minneapolis (St. Paul actually) and the Young Gods opened the show. It was the first time I saw Ministry a little more stripped down and not 47 people on stage. Al was also pretty fucked up at the time so there was the surreal-ness to the entire event, not to mention the Young Gods had released perhaps their most commercial album to date and were also surreal to watch them trying to capture a new audience. The previous tour I caught them on was the Psalm 69 tour and that had two drummers, bones and the works. The final tour was the last one, what was it the Mastubatour or what ever. Totally stripped down to one drummer, two guitars, bass and keyboards and totally lacking what made Ministry Ministry, the chaos and the wondering what's going to happen next.

Did I mention I would cut off body parts to work with Al?