![]() ![]() If you`re going to do an album like that, don`t cry when it doesn`t go Top 10 unless you`ve worked for it. You have to take your case to the people, which is fine. ''Because there`s going to be no promotional push. ''When you do an album like the new one-with no tried-and-true, stereotyped hits on it, no love ballads-you pretty much have to take your case onto the streets,'' he says. But, aware that Ministry`s recently released Sire album ''Twitch'' is not the sort of mainstream pop that dominates the charts, Jourgensen thinks it`s necessary to take the band`s music ''to the people.'' The current tour, says Jourgensen, is not being underwritten by Sire. Jourgensen and a Ministry line-up consisting of bassist Ion Barker, drummer Bill Rieflin and sax-keyboard player Roland Barker will kick off a four-month tour with two shows Saturday at the Vic, then make another area appearance April 12 at the Holiday Star Theater in Merrillville, Ind. If it`s not, you didn`t expect it to be anyway-you were just doing it for the love of it.'' And you do one of two things:Ĭompletely block it out of your mind, or just press and press and press and hopefully get to the point where you can pretend it`s a Wax Trax release, where there`s really not that kind of pressure. Announced as a Wax Trax-era set, Ministry's performance featured a thrilling selection of classic late Eighties and early-Ninties cuts (dubbed 'doggie treats' by the band's founder, Al Jourgensen, who was clearly enjoying himself) from Land of Rape and Honey, Psalm 69 and The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste. ''It`s more of a pressure-cooker situation. ''Even if Sire completely leaves you alone, you always have in the back of your mind that your music is going to be distributed to a lot of people, and a lot of people are going to have opinions on it,'' says Jourgensen. Jourgensen, Barker, and assorted cronies would continue to work with Wax Trax despite various involvements with major labels. While he is enjoying relative freedom at Sire, says Jourgensen, the very fact that he`s on a major label can affect his thinking. He created Ministry with bassist Paul Barker a short time thereafter, and the group released its first single, Cold Life, on Chicago ’ s Wax Trax label in 1981. I want people buying them because they`re interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.'' I don`t want people buying my records for this summer`s hit. so when we release a record in the future, people will buy the record because it`s Ministry and not because there`s a song on it that`s on the airwaves at that time. ''Sire`s going to let me go for a couple records and build a following The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits. I mean, it`s such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. ''They pretty much leave me alone, which is good. ![]()
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