They are saying that you simply by no means get a second probability to make a primary impression, and Ministry‘s Al Jourgensen definitely made a long-lasting impression when he first met rap legend-turned-Hollywood star Ice Dice within the early ’90s.
The previous N.W.A. rapper and Jourgensen’s industrial-metal pioneers had been each booked to play the primary stage on the second Lollapalooza tour, in the summertime of 1992. And in a 2017 interview with Steel Hammer, Jourgensen recalled that his first assembly with Ice Dice was unorthodox, to place it mildly.
“Ice Dice began consuming my fuckin’ beer earlier than we received offstage after which bitched in regards to the type of beer we had,” Ministry’s mainman recalled. “So I stripped bare and began rubbing my cock on him, which he didn’t like.”
No shit.
In Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour’s wonderful recently-published oral historical past of the ground-breaking various rock competition, Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Historical past of Different Rock’s Wildest Pageant, Jourgensen revisits this anecdote, and in addition reveals how he and Ice Dice moved previous this considerably uncomfortable first encounter and struck up a friendship.
“I bear in mind initially of the tour, he and his crew had been in our dressing room taking our beer,” Jourgensen advised the authors. “And I used to be like, Properly, fuck that. I’d simply gotten outta the bathe after coming offstage, and I had a towel wrapped round me, and I mainly chased him down the corridor with my fucking dick in my hand, going, Right here, you need a few of this? I do know that his bouncers received an enormous kick out of it. As a substitute of gettingt my ass kicked, they had been laughing their asses off.”
Speaking about Ice Dice’s involvement within the tour, Jourgensen added, “It should’ve appeared to Ice Dice like being behind enemy strains. Like, this was an experiment – let’s put hip-hop tradition in the course of this rock tradition, and see the way it works. I am positive he felt below siege.”
“He [Ice Cube] and his folks had their battles,” says stage supervisor Michael ‘Curly’ Jobson. “There was racism pointed at them by dipshit skinhead right-wing clowns.”
The turning level so far as Ministry and Ice Dice had been involved occurred in Charlotte, North Carolina, across the tour’s cease on the Blockbuster Pavilion on August 25, 1992.
“We did a present and there was a bunch of rednecks, like typical MAGA-type folks in the present day, that had been all pissed that there was a rap band at a rock competition,” Jourgensen remembers. “And so they had been there for violence.”
Which, when Ministry’s stage crew took offence at their presence, they received, as Jourgensen remembers.
“I used to be sitting on the balcony of the resort, watching my crew struggle a bunch of rednecks,” he advised Bienstock and Beaujour. “And I had no thought, however Ice Dice was within the room. subsequent to me, so he was out on his balcony together with his guys, seeing what all of the kerfuffle was about. He appeared over at me on my balcony as we’re watching, and he goes, ‘Rattling, man, I by no means seen so many white folks struggle at one time in my life!’
Jourgensen closes out the story by saying, “When Ice Dice came upon what the struggle was about, he got here as much as me and he goes, ‘You guys are cool’. So we had relationship from there on out… In the long run all of it turned out effectively. You already know, folks can get alongside.”
