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Question: have you ever had heavy spanish red vine out of a beecer with a straw. No?! You should try though. Because I promise, that you'll gonna be helplessly drunk after just one glass and not first after four or five. So when this kind of drinking is practiced by the entertainer up there on stage, then you've got to ask yourself, in which condition this egocentrics is right now.
No, Al Jourgenson doesn't let himself go,he won't make a mistage. He presents himself arrogantly and extremly aggressive towards his audiance, who hail him just like the glorified god of industrial metal, who he probably really is. And that's why the 47 year old cuban can afford to spread his angry mood over the aprox. 1.000 fans. The inches he misses on his height, he puts in his overwhelming aura. It's showtime kiddies including the full power of at least a 120 decibles and a bit more. Oh, only Al's sunglasses are not worn to show even more coolness. He needs them because of eye desise suffering a high sensitivity of light.

Carrying  ‚Rio Grande’ in the luggage, this Title takes the piss outta  ZZ-Tops ‚Rio Grande Mud’ by the way, just for your information, the mastro of sarcasm has found back to his old  former condition. And because of this, we apology his  weakness over quite a few years.
According to Al himself, this Cd will be the last one of Ministry and will be put into a grave with this accompanieing tour. He's got enough of that shit, and wants to concentrate on other perspectives. The Revolting Cocks is only one of them. But back to the scenery tonight. The venue is boiling and slowly overheating. Al is dominating the show, without even loosing a single spoken word. His dudes in the band stand in the shadow of the king and loose their importance, even it's Tommy Victor from Prong on guitar, on bass - Paul Raven from Killing Joke, Mike Scaccia of Rigor Mortis and the poor drumkit is tortured by none other the Joey Jordison of Slipknot. All of them got names for themselves. But Al Jourguson is the focus, who fights with his lungs and with the raping of his boney microphone. I can't help. But somehow it reminds me of Mr. Blacky Lawless instrument within a W.A.S.P. show. But I couldn't tell, who has copied who. Never mind.
Yes, you can't deny, Ministry are somehow special, and not like many other bands of this kind. It's the expression, the high energy level, and the already mentioned aura of the big little boss himself. He underlines his image by shooting off stage during the second encore without a word good byes and leaves the rest of the band back on stage within a rain of samples and
 echoes.
Some fans described the show afterwards like followed: ' he just leaves burnt out ground behind him' .
Yep, there's something true about it.
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