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Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen
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About Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen
Product Description Ministry: The Lost Gospels is both ugly and captivating, revealing a character who has lived a hard life his way, without compromise. Jourgensen, one of the most innovative and prolific artists ever to pick up a guitar, mandolin, harmonica, or banjo, wanted to be a musician, yet became a rock star. And fame and fortune almost killed him. An IV drug abuser from the age of fifteen, Jourgensen delved deeper into heroin, cocaine, methadone, and alcohol for twenty-two years before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live. Filled with humor, heart, decadence, and tragedy, Ministry depicts the epic life of a renegade iconoclast. Review A compelling read Al is amusing and wry throughout and this is a real warts and all tale that has a jaw dropping fact or story on virtually every page Even if you are not a fan of the music this is still a compulsive read This really is not far off from the sort of biographical great American novels told by the likes of them, Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski An absolute gem and a real treat of a book.” Caught in the Carousel, 7/10/13 What Ministry brings to light is Al's sense of humor and his rollicking way of spinning a yarn. In other words, the guy's hilariousand Ministry provides a brilliant, dark comedic take on the very stuff that inspired Ministry's greatest albums Al's book reads like a more accessible version of Burroughs' Junkie, Naked Lunch, and the Nova Trilogy' His deadpan humor and smart philosophical and political insights (he's one of the most politically aware and truly progressive musicians on the planet) save the book from being a downer Al's Ministry is so good that you'll just have to read it for yourself to have your side split and your thoughts provoked. Just go out and grab a copy!” The National (United Arab Emirates), 7/6/13 Ministry is charming and offputting all at once Proof, if more was needed, that being a rock star, like playing professional contact sports, takes a permanent toll on its most dedicated practitioners.” TheGauntlet.com, 7/19/13 The book is both riveting and horrifying at the same time No gory detail is left out as Al recounts the debauchery and extreme drug use that fueled his life. What sets Al's autobiography apart from others is he admits to every last bit of the shocking tragedy almost as if it were his final confession to a priest and he was trying to sneak into Heaven. Nobody said rock n' roll wasn't ugly.” Dallas Observer, 7/16/13 [A] harrowing tale of drugs, sex and, of course, rock 'n' roll, inspired by the artist who influenced a generation of musical pioneers like Nine Inch Nails to take metal to the next level.” Rock Star Radio Show,” KCLB Radio (Palm Springs, CA), 7/18/13 One of the best music based pieces of literature, or any literature, that I have set my eyes on. Read the book. You're going to love it.” Intravenous Magazine (UK), 7/3/13 Under the Radar, Spring 2013 In the colorful and often highly amusing anecdotes recounting his years as a musician, Jourgensen covers his time with Ministry and Revolting Cocks in high-flying detail.” Revolver, June/July 2013 A tale of outlandish debauchery and mayhem Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas crossed with The Dirt, it's both insanely compelling and compellingly insane.” Texas Monthly, July 2013 Jourgensen [is] poised to forever raise the bar on tales of rock star excess with a new memoir, Ministry The book offers a laundry list of degenerate behavior and near-death experiences. But where most rock and roll biographies and memoirs end in the subject's demise or redemption, the arc of this one is a lot murkier.” Examiner.com, 7/1/13 One needn't be intimately familiar with Ministry's musical mayhem to enjoy Ministry Entertaining, enlighteningeven inspirational A riotously revealing retrospective that cements Jourgensen's place in the modern rock lexicon while chronicling the decades-long descent into drug addiction that nearly cost the Ministr
