Anyone read Al Jourgensen's book out there?

[john stabb]

My ELLAYpunkrocksoulbrother, Tim posted this on the dark side aka Facebook about this new book that sounds like it may be ghost written by Steve Blush. So much mis-information, typos, etc.. ---

I just finished a book on the band Ministry called..."Ministry - The Lost Gospels To Al Jourgensen" By Al Jourgensen with Jon Wiederhorn. Some fan boy who helped write it. Man, I don't know if Al is full of shit??? Or just can't remember anything after the massive drugs the dude has taken? First off...There are many typos and the chain of events are not correct or are all over the place! Here are examples... 1. Ian Curtis the singer from Joy Division didn't kill himself in 1978! He did in 1980! JD changed their name from Warsaw to JD in that year though.
2. He talks about the punk rock scene at the beginning in Colorado and how he was there with Jello Biafra, and the Wax Traxx record owners before they moved to Chicago. For one thing there were no mohawks until 1980. And people were pogoing not slamming back then.
3. The song "Voices Carry" by the Boston band Till Tuesday from the 80's is supposedly about him and Aimee Mann's "let's do it in the bushes after jogging" relationship? Ok...I need to look into that one Al! LOL!
4.And when he did Pailhead with Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman he got him all drunk on some cheap beer, which probably was malt liquor??? Because Ian knew how fucked up they were and wanted to hang with them? Say what? HA!

[The Snake]

It seems that this Al is full of it.
Especially that part with Ian cracks me up.

[yourenotevil]

i wish that part with ian was true. ian and al buying some malt liquor at the corner store and recording
those six songs all drunk.

[earthdog70]

Almost all the songs on that 'Til Tuesday record were about Aimee's relationship with Jules Shear ("J is for Jules"). Maybe they were having that "jogging" relationship instead

On music related books, just finished a book on The Doors by Greil Marcus that was pretty cool. Next up-John Taylor's book. All FREE from the library

[MXV]

I'd like to read it even though I know it is full of errors, fiction, and revisionist history.

[JGJR]

Almost all the songs on that 'Til Tuesday record were about Aimee's relationship with Jules Shear ("J is for Jules"). Maybe they were having that "jogging" relationship instead

On music related books, just finished a book on The Doors by Greil Marcus that was pretty cool. Next up-John Taylor's book. All FREE from the library

That song is on Everything's Different Now, the 3rd and final Til Tuesday album and that was 4 years after "Voices Carry." Are you saying that she and Jules had been dating for that long?

I've also been checking out a lot of music bios from the library lately. I read the Alex Chilton biography, Morrissey's autobiography and one other I can't remember right now recently. I actually had Jourgensen's autobiography in my possession for weeks, but didn't have a chance to read it. I'd like to, though.

[earthdog70]

Oops-may have gotten my records mixed up. Thanks JGJR, I have no idea how long they dated

[JGJR]

Oops-may have gotten my records mixed up. Thanks JGJR, I have no idea how long they dated

I don't either or I forgot, truthfully, but my impression is that it was closer to when Everything's Different Now came out and it was shorter-lived than 4 years.

[john stabb]

e-dog, is there a spicy chapter in Taylor's bio about "bad hair days". Or Semen LeBone breaking a nail Hey, I dig old DD but I can't see that book being very interesting.

[earthdog70]

Andy Taylor's book was pretty interesting. I really only like DD if he is involved.

I will let you know if there are some cool JT stories about Power Station once I dig in