Al Jourgensen of Ministry on the Phil Donahue Show

[StanHowser]

No wonder Al is such a drug addict now.

[gangurobitch]

How much brain damage does it take before you could possibly think going on a tabloid talk show would be a good idea?

The world may never know.

[existmental]

I personally think Al Jourgensen should bring back the Robert Smith haircut.

[poisonedremnant]

Funny considering how much Jello talks crap about Donahue. There is even the lard song in which they mention him.... (Phil Donahue got his wish...)

[aaronwanker1]

all ministry kicks ass you whiny buttholes

[kelzclive]

That's awesome! Too bad you didn't have more.

[hellchild65]

i gota disagree with the below post,, Al was better off going industrial/industrial metal after WS, the 1 thing that did kinda hurt him latter one was his insane hatred of George Bush, sure he was a shitty president and making album about him wasnt bad, but 3 whole albums? imo tho, the onyl bad albums he made were With Sympathy and Last Sucker, all the in between records were great

[parlock480]

@hellchild65 i would have to disagree the last sucker was a great album i think he lost it with filth pig and darkside of the spoon even though there's maybe 2 good songs of those albums

[hellchild65]

@parlock480 i hope your kidding , those compared to most of the shitty, overly paranoid songs off of Last Sucker and Grande Blood, those albums were definitely geared towards the more metal audiences with little thought, i, and many ministry fans would gladly take Filth Pig of Last Sucker any day

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

al was great until he went fag douche metal

[empresswuhu]

For those asking about the topic of the show, it was kind of a local Chicago follow-up to a show Donahue had previously done in Los Angeles about punk rock and the Parents of Punkers group, but with "new wave" added. I'd love to get hold of more video of this. I'm the chubby chick sitting next to Al on stage, by the way... looong story.

[j37h3r]

@empresswuhu Always down for a long, strange tale...

[v73k1]

@j37h3r The topic of this show was something like Mothers against punks i think. Al said in one interview that they muted his mic.

[MaliBootyz]

@empresswuhu That's cool... What year was this exactly? God, I miss the 80s! :(

[MaliBootyz]

@empresswuhu LOL! Nevermind, I just saw the info at the bottom, duh! LOL!

[jwatson626]

@empresswuhu Someone uploaded the full thing somewhere a couple months back. I'll try to find it for you.

[edisonoside]

Public lynching..The early 80's had so many of these kinds of talkshows trying to establish order and some kind of values to the viewer..saw the danger in this back then and I see it still going on FOX NEWS!!  as obvious to me now as it was then...

[laughorgomad]

Okay that was a pointless post >:(

[LivingWorstNightmare]

If you actually listen to the very first singles on Wax Trax, and 12 Inch Singles, they sound like With Sympathy outtakes, demos and songs from that era

You can believe the bullshit story Al says that he "didn't write any of it" but his name is on those songs, and everyday is halloween is one of the many songs that would have fit on With Sympathy easily.

[novoneiro]

FAAAAAAAAAAAAG!

; )

[veggie74]

I was an audience member once on the Phil Donahue show and was from his hometown, and he couldn't care less when we had the "meet and greet" after the show when I shook his hand and told him that....not a very sincere fellow in my opinion....so his response to Al doesn't surprise me either.........

[TomFromJersey]

What was the topic of the show?

[myownme7772010]

Thanks for posting.

[NickCave13]

Al should have busted Phildo in his pasty ass face. Phildo is such a condescending asshole, that thinks his shit doesn't stink and doesn't deserve to smell Al's shit!!!

[cyprixx]

Phil seems to be condescending as usual. The theme must be to showcase all these "new wavers" as freak show characters. At least when the late Tom Snyder had these guys on (the Late Show), he new he didn't have a clue who they were, but didn't try to denigrate them.

[FedorEight]

Hilarious. I never knew the pseudo-beatnik knucklehead was in Duran Duran at one point...

[emjr65]

i'm gonna pretend i never saw this !@#$%^&^$%

[drew7473]

@emjr65 right on.

[royalnash]

lol al looks funny here look at that stupid earring he must have been on some good stuff back then.

[Locust1313]

Al! is that you? Whats happened man? You look all like Bananarama's brother, do you really want to hurt me? You could, like, damage your image, like, totally. Gag me with a spoon. You are like so tripindicular or something

[malmswax]

Beeeeeee...che cazzo?

[TheBigDickInYourAss]

lol someone said garbage

[SplatterdaySaints]

still lmao at als response

[SplatterdaySaints]

its not all the video but its still pricless prob couldnt find it no where else on the web

[SplatterdaySaints]

LOL at ALs response every time

[UncleAlianJ]

where's the rest of the vid?

[j37h3r]

That's all I have. This was passed along for years from friends I knew from dub to dub, as this was all before the days of youtube.

[j37h3r]

Here's the rest, thanks internet!

watch?v=UGOQUahAmxg

[circleofthirteen]

ROFL!!!!

[Nephilimfields]

Oh if Phil could see Al now.

[ThatOneGuy831]

9/11 was an inside

[lschultz2001]

From new wave to industrial to doom metal. Can any other band match that journey? I love the early stuff through Pslam 69. I've started checking out some of the later material but a lot of it is too dark and metallic for my tastes (but I am warming up to some of it). Still Al rules regardless! Oh and yes, he is definitely high as a kite in this clip, lol.

[TinF00L]

yeah this guy tries to rip on artist Marilyn manson was on this show too

[rivotrich7]

What is the point of this interview??

Was phil just trying to make alain and the other new wavers of the time look dumb??

shame on phil :(

[virus058910]

@rivotrich7 i bet it was a 'look at the youth of today!' type of show... stupid...

reminds me of the scene from party monster with john stamos as the host.

[SplatterdaySaints]

not drugs he hates that era and hates his image back then you can tell he did not want to even be on there i noticed that in the 10 secs of talk time he had in this clip

[renton66]

drugs.

[Rockgod2099]

This is hilarious!

[angelforfreedom]

I like Ministry's synth-pop and industrial work better than his newer metal stuff. "Twitch" is my favorite album. His style was so much more unique back then...but he's always been an in-yer-face bad-ass! Just doin his thang and not givin a fuck what player-haters be sayin!! AL RULES!!!!

[bandbeyonddescriptio]

I thought Al is a cool enough music lover who did well for himself with a lot of hard work, starting at Recycled Records in Rogers Park, Chicago, and rocking in the band Special Affect circa 1980 (the era I first knew him), before moving along and making many music industry contacts and busting out with Ministry. It figures some people to this day would try to tear him down, so I ask: What have any of them tangibly produced in the way of art, besides troll postings on youtube?

SteveinTokyo

[Sesquipedaliantique]

@angelforfreedom I think Ministry's peak was 88-92, with that awesome trio of albums. After that, the drugs started to wear off and yer left with a somewhat boring, washed-up rock band.

Interestingly, Chemlab put out an AMAZING album in 1993, and could have easily become the next Ministry had industrial rock not suddenly gone out of fashion.

[surrealebm]

@Sesquipedaliantique i don't entirely disagree, but i think the drugs got stronger not wore off. (see dark side of the spoon and filth pig not respectively). to be honest, i think he came back hard with rio grande blood and before that houses of the mole was pretty remniscent of psalm 69 and such. in my opinion

[Sesquipedaliantique]

@surrealebm I think the comeback albums had the good ol' aggressive bite, but weren't as warped as 69. Psalm 69 had all kinds of wonderfully fucked up looped, sample, reversed, chopped up & sped up riffs, kind of like a heavy metal band being swallowed up and spat out by an early industrial musician armed with tape machines.

Which I *think* is what Al was going for. If not, it rocks anyway.

[surrealebm]

@Sesquipedaliantique well put.

[j37h3r]

Like Uncle Al would say "You are what you eat..."

[Deathkill06]

You're a dumbshit

[6999999METAL6666669]

u like sell outs? thats cool bro

dumbfuck poser

[Deathkill06]

I do, you do too apparently.

[Deathkill06]

obvious troll is obvious

[6999999METAL6666669]

nnQQ lmk when you grow some balls, kthx

[ewconnection]

Al's dad has Norwegian heritage, but I don't know about mom.

[Deathkill06]

Al's stepdad was Norwegian, his real mom and dad were cubans

[t1201971]

I heard dad was a Swedish race car driver and mom was Cubano, but whatevs, I could be wrong. It would explain the Dodge Challenger SRT-8 tho.

[deemilieu]

wow, they even had video back then...

[zincink]

MOARRRR

[rcastaldo666]

why the hell was he on donahue?

[korndud]

even if they didn't make him dress like that, who cares? people change. no biggy. i love him either way. i love him more because of his insecurities and flaws. it makes him human. like the rest of us.

[astrolabjiggy1]

What was the topic of this Donahue episode? New Wave Gone Bad?

[rivotrich7]

Or maybe Hair gone bad :)

[tkpshane]

After being a fan of Ministry in their early years, lolliwag went to ministry show in the early 90's and has been crying ever since.

[JakeSpade79]

i need to see the rest of this bad

[lvampira]

I remember watching this! this brought me back! Thanks

[Scum71succer]

Gawd he was such a sexy young man ...and still is

[skanktimonious]

I hate to break this to you, but folks who don't use drugs age too. Often just as badly.

[evolunacy2]

Yeah, what a fuckin' letdown. Al coulda been something and had a "fruitful career in modeling" (?!) but instead he chose the disgraceful path of Ministry! And now he's getting older too, almost like he's...HUMAN or something.

[flaym3d18]

disgraceful???????? naw man, ministry rules

[Lateralus281]

@flaym3d18

He was being sarcastic. :-)

[Arbow1986]

he looks so young. Wow heroin is a helluva drug

[azrial4421]

lol some dude in the crowd says "garbage

[VinMetal666]

This was almost 30 years ago.

[DarthMink]

wow, he was 25 in 1983? he has held up pretty damn good over the years. i'm a little drunk but i think that makes him like 60?

[cheapy2006]

he's 50.

[d00derman]

That makes Donahue 90?

[funeralhome]

@DarthMink yea, al's got a nice bald spot on the back of his head behind all those dreads. :)

[josereinaldo]

lo maximo este desgraciado jajaja

[peavy69]

oh my god !! the early days of ministry !

[turbotikigod]

I have been looking for this for years..Awesome, I remember seeing this when it came on.

[VinMetal666]

He was probably high on H.

[batsinmybed]

this is hilarious. thank you.

[TurkBack2]

My favorite part is the last 25% of the clip - black screen.

[StanAlter]

Music was a temporary job for Al?

[Dubwise4u]

Take that all industrial people. Those were the Boy George years. I just don't like the Sound of Ministry after 89.

[MexicanHumanoid]

but you refer to the part you do like as the boy george years? i like both eras, even if al disowns the early shit.

[cman7142000]

that was cruel,where's the rest of the show?Donahue,what a dick !!!

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[HHDV]

Ummmmm.... Explain? Drugs? Toolin fer hairy anus? Just don't get it....

[Schlitzie64]

Does anyone have the entire video?

[charlesneyando33]

What the fuck hahaha, shit al, dammit

[carmangary]

It's funny because it's true.

[icepickmessiah1010]

Oh, WOW.

This is fucking GREAT.