Al Jourgensen
Al Jourgensen
Alain David "Al" Jourgensen, is a Cuban-American musician and music producer, best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Uncle Al, Hypo Luxa, Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan. He is a member and/or founder of several industrial rock bands, performing as a singer, guitarist or keyboard player...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth9 October 1958
CountryCuba
teaching rocks careers
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
second-chance kicking want
It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.
animal rocks rock-n-roll
Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
dope doors cracks
I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back
technology ministry
Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.
business record sell
Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.
future interested ministry people records
I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.
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I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.
people effort directors
I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.
grocery line presence reluctant reviews seen stands
I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do. It's like the person in a long grocery line who stands out because he's so agitated. He'll have presence, too.
envious people
I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.
bow box christmas goes ministry wrapped
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
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It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.