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Fan-filmed video footage of industrial metal legends MINISTRY performing earlier today (Thursday, June 20) at Hellfest Meets Knotfest in Clisson, France can be seen below.
MINISTRY recently recruited former TOOL member Paul D'Amour as its new bassist.
A founding member of TOOL, D'Amour played on the band's classic albums 'Opiate' and 'Undertow' and recorded some of the early demos for 1995's 'Aenima' before leaving due to personal differences and being replaced by Justin Chancellor.
In a recent interview with Revolver, MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen shared the story of how he first met D'Amour in 1992 at Lollapalooza.
'I used to live with Timothy Leary, and he had given me these bottles of liquid LSD to bring on tour,' Jourgensen said. 'I'd put two drops in my bottle of whiskey that I'd bring onstage. I'd drink about half the bottle during a show. So we were on Lollapalooza in '92, I think it was San Francisco, and when we came offstage there were these two guys who were like, 'Great show, dude!' So I gave them my bottle of Bushmills, but I forgot that I had put LSD in it. So they drank it and they were tripping balls for, like, two or three days. They didn't know what was going on and they were freaking out. They were ready to call suicidal hotlines. It turned out to be Paul and Maynard from TOOL! ... But he actually thanked me for that moment because he said it really got TOOL going into being a psychedelic band. Pretty cosmic, right?'
Following his exit from TOOL, D'Amour created the psychedelic outfit LUSK with Brad Laner (MEDICINE), Greg Edwards (AUTOLUX, FAILURE) and Chris Pitman (GUNS N' ROSES). Since then, he has worked on various film and television scores.
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MINISTRY's summer 2019 European tour kicked off on June 16 in Austria.
Tool are riding high right now, as their first album in thirteen years is currently #1 in many countries across the world. But this is a high that bassist Justin Chancellor almost missed completely.
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Chancellor spoke with Ernie Ball Strings' new podcast, Striking A Chord, and revealed that when Tool was looking for a replacement for Paul D’Amour in 1995 and sent him an invite to audition, he initially politely declined.
“They were like, ‘We'd like you to come out and audition to be in the band.’ It was a little too much, really, to absorb and take in. I think right on that first call, I basically immediately just said, ‘Oh, I can't do that. I can't do that.’ Out of total fear. Just intimidation,” Chancellor said on the podcast.
Thankfully, his brother knocked some sense into him and told him to give it a shot, even though the band lived in a totally different country.
“I had the difficult thing of basically calling them back, and saying, ‘Would it be all right if I changed my mind?’ … “Anyway, they were really cool and they said yes,” Chancellor adds.
Unfortunately, his band at the time wasn't as supportive, but it all ended up working out. “I got kicked out of my band, because as soon as I told them I was going for this audition, there were fireworks. Everyone got really upset … I was assuming that the future was looking pretty open because I didn't have a band anymore. There's no way I'm going to get the Tool gig. So I'm sitting there writing music frantically, for my new project … Actually, I wrote the riff of ‘Forty Six & 2’ in that period.”
Listen to the full interview below:
[via Loudwire]