During his appearance on Billy Corgan’s podcast “The Magnificent Others,” Ministry’s Al Jourgensen recalled meeting Tool when the band was still in its early days, and says he accidentally gave a member of the Maynard James Keenan fronted band LSD.
“Tool were just in rehearsals and weren’t even a band yet when they came to see us at Lollapalooza in ’92,” he said. “I accidentally dosed [Then-Tool bassist Paul D’Amour, who now plays in Ministry] with LSD.”
“‘Accidentally?'” Corgan jokingly asked.
“An accident because I used to always put a couple of drops of liquid LSD in my Bushmills on-stage and drank that,” Jourgensen said. “I only drank half the bottle…”
“Was it microdosing or trying to get high?” Corgan responded.
“Trying to get high – I hate playing live,” Jourgensen explained. “Anything I can do to make it to work, this [Frederico] Fellini meets [Alejandro] Jodorowsky film for me makes it interesting. Nowadays it’s a lot more calmed down.”
“I get off-stage and there’s Maynard [James Keenan] and Paul, but they were kids!” Jourgensen continued. “Probably you’re the same age as them, there’s probably eight years of separation but you could tell they were these wide-eyed kids. I felt like that old Pepsi commercial with Shaq coming out of a basketball game, handing out the Pepsi but it was this Bushmills with LSD in. They were like, ‘Oh my god it’s Al Jourgensen!’ Then they realised this drink was full of LSD. Next thing I know, they’re huge! They’re on the cover of Rolling Stone and this and that.”
