Reply #14: I went with Ministry, although NIN was pretty good [View All]

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I've seen both. But I've Ministry 4 or 5 times. NIN seemed too calculated. Ministry was truely scary and real.

I met Al in the studio when he was mixing down Every Day is Halloween. His studio time ran over into our and he asked if we would mind letting him have another couple hours. No problem. Got to shake his hand and talk for a bit and watch him work on the fairlight computer and sound board.

I saw them at the Avalon in Milwaukee the first time they came back to town after being banned for throwing a beer bottle at a fan.

Saw them somewhere else in Chicago, but I don't recall where.

But the best was just past the time they dropped the faux-brit synth crap and got real real loud and heavy, and they were doing 2 shows at a pub called McGreeveys in Glenview, IL, just outside of Chicago. The first show was all-ages and I took an underage friend who realy wanted to see them. Al was throwing playing cards at the audience for some reason. I have one. The stage was 6" off the floor, so standing in front I was spat and seat upon and they were loud and obnoxiously heavy and scary and wonderful. I dropped off my friend back in the city and then came back for the late show too. Bliss.

RL