MINISTRY FLASHBACK- THE RITZ - NYC - 1988

[@inrealitywetrust2610]

Love this underground music that most kids do not understand today. We use to hurt ourselves at these shows ,mentally and physically.

[@kennethdemeester4069]

+InRealityWeTrust I wasn't there, but I feel what you mean.

[@sharpvonl201]

wow, i didnt know every kid in the past listened to this music and nobody under the age of fucking 30 listens to this now. Fuck off!

[@NachtSchreck13]

InRealityWeTrust dude I was around back when this came out, saw Ministry back in the day. It was amazing, but there is a ton of great Industrial Techno and dark electronic music coming out right now. probably the best time for this music since the 80's. tons of kids are into this today, trust me. go to Berlin. you'll hear EBM/Industrial Techno everywhere. the problem with older listeners is they write off the present based on what is making the top 40. you have to work to find good music now, there is no MTV 120 minutes to dish it out. it's more like the late 70's/early 80's when you had to go to record shop after record shop and dig to find the cool, obscure underground/indie stuff- kinda like when cassette labels were big and there were a million tapes with 200-copy runs. there is so much going on right now with dark, experimental electronic music it's actually pretty insane.

[@waxtrax1234]

I’m 11

[@lolliwag]

Jeff Ward is on drums & Bill Rieflin is on Synths...I think it was the same line-up at Spize in Farmingdale back then when I saw them...Rieflin would switch up with Jeff between drums & synths...so it most likely wasn't Mike Balch. What a great fond memory for me to have had the amazing priviledge to see Ministry when they were wonderful & incredibly original....they were my absolute favorite band since With Sympathy up until & including Mind is a Terrible Thing To Taste...

[@rjadamz9117]

lolliwag Wow haven't heard anyone mention Spize since it closed down many moons ago. I was just a little morsel but i saw Ministry at the Crazy Donkey which used to be Spize...not the same though.

[@waxtrax1234]

lolliwag R.I.P. Jeff and bill

[@SenorDisuade]

Man I fucking love Ministry's short synths. This and "You Often Forget" from RevCo are fucking great for it.

[@slophaus]

I was there...unforgettable and breathtaking performance!!!!!

[@richardrock71]

Dino Prima fuckin a nice

[@nashka666]

Thanks for uploading this! It was my first Ministry show at the tender age of 16.

[@DH-fu7bx]

Nancy Ann lucky you, I’m 16 now and I have no chance of seeing them this good live anymore

[@antonyace2207]

I envy you so much.. I feel like Twitch and LORAH dropped like atom bombs back then. Seriously nothing like it before, the literal birth of industrial.

[@aaronquijano28]

Lucky lucky

[@TapeOperator]

@@antonyace2207 - no, there was plenty of industrial before that. Even if you mean "Industrial Metal", that'd been done already by bands like Controlled Bleeding.

[@rblfrmthewstdwn]

I’m so jealous…man what a first concert to go to

[@lolliwag]

saw them perform this material at Spize nite club on route 110 in Farmingdale Long Island...Nivek Ogre & Bill Rielflin were there with Al & Paul....there was one other dude doing like engineering & synths...could have been Michael Balch...don't recall...anyway, that show changed my life & I think it was right before this gig.

[@waxtrax1234]

Rest In Peace Bill, we will always miss you and jeff

[@FlyingAxblade_D20]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJSXe4Weo5iAr68 no! miss nothing! swing & hit

[@korndud]

probably my fav ministry song.

[@doberchic]

This is fucking awesome. thanks for sharing these. Looks like they were really making an effort then. love it. Epic times these. Miss it a lot.

[@bernardocoto8519]

Awesome performance of an awesome song from an awesome album from an awesome band

[@FlyingAxblade_D20]

Garner, NC.

[@ikamusics]

I love that he's just...playing guitar...rocking out

[@williamhollaway1960]

"playing" gtr

[@riftvanwrinkle6439]

I agree its alot better than the studio version

[@YOUNGBLOODGAMAGE]

This sounds way better live than the studio version!

[@danburchett9271]

Love ministry. Bad ass band.

[@tokioturtle483]

Anyone else here because of Aesop Rock's song "Blood Sandwich?" This is the show that his older brother was unable to attend lol

[@iamkmm]

i saw this a few days later at the 9:30 club in dc . thanks for posting!

[@ievakaleja]

Me too.:)) Really great stuff!

[@lolliwag]

OMG, listen to Al's voice...so unique...such a soothing yet haunting quality...I can only imagine how shredded & mutilated his larynx & voice box is now...all the booze & cocaine & cigarettes & god knows what else....when he sings now, it sounds like he's vomiting into the microphone...its quite sad to hear him sound like such shit when ya juxtapose it to the brilliance of his vocals here & during this period.

[@gasmaskboi19371945]

Saw him last night and he sounded great.

[@Jauly]

Interestingly, Al sounds here very much the same as Ogre sang on Rabies.

[@Wscate]

I agree but i wouldn't of changed a thing, Ministry was early one of the most violent bands to see they were so brutal back in a day when everyone wanted to basically act like Human League and be nice. If you remember the 80s were the days of Raganomics and AIDS there was a felling that the world was coming to an end and this was the soundtrack.

[@HandOfKwll]

I was there!

[@tracksofnyc]

Pretty sure I was there~!!!

[@mrpicnmix]

Thanks for posting this man

[@lemon_curry]

can someone tell me which instrument/synthesizer they use to create the drum track that starts at 0:24 ?

[@nemesiswontdie]

I fucking love that sound and have been trying to track down info about what gear was used for Twitch and TLORAH and so far the best possible answer I can give you is that it MIGHT be from a Kawai R-50 or R-100 drum machine.

[@ArtisticAutisticandAiling]

It sounds like they cut the decay and sustain on a synthesiser, recorded the loop for the whole track and I presume they must've burnt the loop to a 12 bit floppy disk that goes into the keyboards both Rieflin and Barker use. :)

[@j37h3r]

@thatentrenchingtool Yes the kids love to fantasize about how cool the 80s where but it was indeed a dangerous time to be "different"

[@thehatebox]

i am euphoric!!!

[@EdwardEdgemenace]

@AOCRkid You might notice the whiskey bottle he's drinking from. It had a MINISTRY label on it, but taking a swig of it, I was convinced it was jet-fuel, not just moonshine. I remember stage-diving, swinging off from the middle of the fence after taking a swig. I landed on the floor of the moshpit. Didn't notice I had broken any bones landing, until I woke up the next day. All I could feel, was my throat burning, for the rest of the show.

[@rocco036]

this tune is fukin amazing, i feel like throttling the mrs!

[@Wendy-hv8zm]

Holy Shit!!!!

[@iamkmm]

@j37h3r in dc michael balch of frontline assembly who also wrote "just one fix" played some quitar

[@michaelklosinski2902]

Aesop Rock's brother would have love this.

[@jonnybravvo]

"You will not be going to the show, and that's final!"

[@OB1Canobi]

My all time favorite every bitch Ex-woman song!

[@Deathkill06]

Yeah I agree lol, this song is fucking badass live though...I love how they start it up, they should have done that on the album verison

[@j37h3r]

Ogre of Skinny Puppy...

[@kobaltocr6927]

🔥👁🔥👁🔥

[@jaysonnitro]

Fuck Yea!

[@FlyingAxblade_D20]

[@ingejacobsen1910]

Fin sang,lun og go..

[@randblackwell8675]

Amazing album. But Al's hairpeace... Too funny!

[@crumbumxr]

Not bad... doesn't get any better than live. I like "The Tapes of Wrath" version better.

[@AußerirdischeLebensForm]

Whish the 80s were my teenage hood.

[@benjaminlong3345]

You playing at repent?

[@lolliwag]

wow, such a different band back then...Avante Garde / Cyber-Punk sounding...this was unique in a class by itself...this is the stuff Richard Patrick, Chris Vrenna & Trent Reznor so yearned to emulate & Hypo Luxa_Hermes Pan were their idols...Nivek Ogre joined up with Uncle Al & Barker too which was so awesum for us Goth Industrialytes...they were the 2 hottest underground "Fuck Art" post-punk groups back then...college radio was all over this stuff man. So sad Al Jourgensen has been slowly murdering the Ministry brand since like 5 or so years ago with all this trite thrash Death metal crap

[@Silks]

Seems just slightly pitched down/slower than it should be.

[@simonsin666]

Ha, pLATOON SAMPLE.

[@ingoandthecoconutsvol.8717]

..den kanin sangen er også fin.

[@RAM_DOS]

Ogre vocals

[@Barbabapan]

@GigglinRiddler why's that?

[@jam6000]

Does what it says on the tin.....

[@hectorsilva2205]

Long live Uncle Al...Rock on motherfuckers!

[@ВладиславСмирнов-е3й]

Why they didn't play "work for love" at this show???

[@ingejacobsen9694]

Den kanin sangen er også fin.

[@killzer48]

who is the 2nd guitarist?

[@fartsniffer257]

Ogre.

[@kenyattauhuru4462]

This is when the mosh pit gets rabid

[@erreur]

great video....although I really doubt Jeff Ward is really playing the drum track here. If you are familiar with the original song and the changes, the playing here is pretty much exactly the same. The timing is impeccable, syncing to a sampled/tape backing track with a pretty weird percussive synth arpeggio rhythm that's all over the place with samples flying everywhere. It just sounds way too much like the original track, and it they are already using a taped backing track, why not just use the original drum track too?

[@glenbellefonte9620]

It's obviously him.

[@korndud]

lol he could have actually tried singing though. he's talking into the mic :(

[@logiclust]

some idiot on reddit said that was Ogre

[@4evernate28]

I dedicate this song to my ex-girlfriend. :D

[@surfq9313]

all it is, poetry to techno, that's like white ppl rap...lol...words n chords ..revco up tempo, feedback echoes, like dark synth sepos...hey i think i got the hang of it...im strating a band called the "insulting mocks"....; )

[@lapdnypd]

drug drunken high top flying

[@Cevanfx]

One dislike

[@nagash73]

Killer sound 🖤