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After 30 years, Ministry says C U LaTour 

One last fix

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click to enlarge SO WHAT? Ministry's Al Jourgensen

  • SO WHAT? Ministry's Al Jourgensen

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Why do you think you've lasted so long in this business? So many bands just burn out.

I think because of the studio work that I do. I could stay there -- I do stay there 16 hours a day, seven days a week and I love what I do. I love being in there. Especially when you own your own studio so you're not looking at the clock and worrying about bills and all that stuff, I could sit in there forever. I think the music kind of reflects that. I'm totally into that. It's all the press and the fuckin' parties and the traveling around and all that other stuff that I grew over, but the studio stuff's great. I'm busier now in the studio than I've ever been in my life.

Will you keep creating music, or will you just work with other bands?

A little bit of both, but not under Ministry and not under Al Jorgensen. I talked to Jello Biafra the other day about doing another Lard record. I talked to Ian MacKaye about doing another Pailhead record. I've got my country project that I've been bitching about for 20 years that I finally can now be freed up to get it done. Ministry takes up a year-and-a-half of my time with just one release when I can be doing six or seven release on my label a year if I don't have to do four months of press and six months of touring and all that other shit.

I was going to ask about the Buck Satan project ...

Yeah, I've actually gotten one song done that's called, "I Hate Every Bone In Your Body Except Mine." So ... we'll start with that.

Will you still perform in the future or will you just stay home and be happy out of the studio?

Yeah, I'm just going to release stuff. I promised the Cocks ... I told the Revolting Cocks that cause we've already finished the album, but it won't be out until next September. I tried to get all of my studio stuff done before I went out on this massive Ministry brouhaha that we've got going. So, the album is smokin'. It's, to me, I think it's the best album I've ever done in my life and that includes Ministry, Lard, Pailhead and all that stuff. I think this Cocks album that's coming out in September is the best thing I've ever done in 30 years in the studio. I'm really excited about it. So, I promised them that I might fly in for a cameo thing for a city or two or something like that. I'm not gonna tour or put together a band. Buck Satan will not tour.

Gotta ask, obviously, what your thoughts and hopes are going into the next election. At least you don't have to worry about Bush, right?

Yeah, thank God for that. It's not just Bush, it's the whole administration. It's the whole malaise of the country. I mean, everything that guy has ever touched has turned to shit. How do you buy an oil company in Texas and go bankrupt? That's just like you're a retard, man. You buy the Texas Rangers and all of a sudden they're the worst team in baseball for the next six years. He takes over the country and all of a sudden we're hated by everyone and the economy is falling apart and people are getting killed and blown up. Everything that guy touches -- he's just a fuckin' ... he's a plague. He's a plague and a blight on our society. So, good riddance to him and Cheney, Rumsfeld and all the other fuckin' idiots, and Ashcroft and that whole little evil team that he put together. I didn't set out to do three Bush records, trust me, it's just that us idiots kept voting him in.

Yeah, how did that happen?

I figured that after one record, Houses of the Mole, he'd either be impeached or beheaded or something ... and then he got re-elected! So, I did another record. Then, finally the tide started turning in 2006 with some of the congressional elections, but everyone just has Bush fatigue right now. We're just counting the days, holding our breath. Just go away! As far as the rest of them -- they're all corrupt bastards. Even though Obama is probably the least corrupt of the three, they'll get to him, too. It's just the Washington way. It's like a fuckin' cancer there. It's the lesser of whatever evils, but I tell ya, it can't get worse no matter what because policies have to change. There's no doubt cause this just can't go on. No matter who gets in there -- it will either be superficially or cosmetically different, at least. Although it's still really just run by the insiders and lobbyists. I basically hold my nose and pull the lever and vote. You should vote, but there's a lot of holding your nose involved.

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