Summary of Al Jourgensen's Ministry

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#1 I was doing well, but I began to get bored. I was allowed to drink water, but not hard liquor. I got a tattoo artist to pierce me, and my daughter got a tattoo.

#2 I needed to do something creative after I got well. I decided to record a country album with my bandmates. I had never written country songs before, but I was able to learn how to play them by listening to country music.

#3 I did the vocals for Weekend Warrior myself, as I was drunk and passed out when Mikey recorded them. I expected him to go back and redo them, but when I heard them, I was like, Nope, sounds good the way it is. I’m gonna have to give you a vocal credit on that one, dude.

#4 I produced and mixed Relapse in a couple weeks of all-night sessions, and then I decided to get sober. I took it a day at a time. I had done it before, and I knew I could do it again. I surrounded myself with the things I like and avoided anything that would make me agitated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537538

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 27

Insights from Chapter 28

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was doing well, but I began to get bored. I was allowed to drink water, but not hard liquor. I got a tattoo artist to pierce me, and my daughter got a tattoo.

#2

I needed to do something creative after I got well. I decided to record a country album with my bandmates. I had never written country songs before, but I was able to learn how to play them by listening to country music.

#3

I did the vocals for Weekend Warrior myself, as I was drunk and passed out when Mikey recorded them. I expected him to go back and redo them, but when I heard them, I was like, Nope, sounds good the way it is. I’m gonna have to give you a vocal credit on that one, dude.

#4

I produced and mixed Relapse in a couple weeks of all-night sessions, and then I decided to get sober. I took it a day at a time. I had done it before, and I knew I could do it again. I surrounded myself with the things I like and avoided anything that would make me agitated.

#5

I had been a good little rock star and was being sober and well behaved. . I timed it. I knew it would take twenty-five seconds before Angie and her assistant, Jesse, turned the corner away from the house on the way to the airport. Before they were gone thirty seconds, I got in my car and went on a seventy-two-hour Hunter S. Thompson–style drinking binge.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was born in 1958 in Havana, Cuba. I was a third-world country that used dying fetuses as kindling for the poor. I had 60 percent hearing loss, and I was a mess long before I entered the music industry.

#2

I grew up with my uncles, aunts, and grandmother in Miami. My grandfather, who was famous in Cuba, was transferred to Wisconsin to do research for a cattle sperm company. But his relationship with my grandmother suffered, and he began seeing other women.

#3

I had many run-ins with the Grays as I was growing up. I thought they were the Three Wise Men, but they were actually from another planet who were keeping an eye on me.

#4

I grew up with my grandmother, uncles, and an aunt, who was also named Carmen. They never forced me to learn English, and I didn’t have to lift a finger for anything. I loved growing up with them.

#5

I was left-handed, and because of that, I was bullied at school. I eventually snapped and threw a plastic chair through a window, which led to me being kicked out of kindergarten. I was home schooled after that.

#6

I was nine years old when I first heard the Rolling Stones, and I was hooked. I immediately went out and got a Stones T-shirt. Other kids in the neighborhood wore Monkees shirts, and made fun of me for backing a loser band. I was like, Fuck you, they’re awesome. The Monkees and Beatles are losers.

#7

I got my first guitar when I was twelve, and I spent hours practicing the chords