Gibby Haynes showed up in voice and spirit for “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” and Jourgensen reminded that Ozzy himself pronounced Ministry’s “Supernaut” cover “bloody-well better” than the original, encoring the Greatest Fits tune after the Revolting Cocks’ “No Devotion. “Thieves” was a song about gun control, he said, as his five-man backup banged war drums and shredded through 90 minutes. Jourgensen then sing-barked his lyrical sermon, gently pantomiming. post-punk and synth-pop rousers Cold Cave followed the screening and discussion by proving the far reach of the Eighties synth/dance movement and the place that ferocious, gloomy music holds in the minds of acolytes across generations expressing their shadows. Though no longer with Ministry, Barker mused that “industrial, as it related to dance music, probably came about because of Wax Trax!,” while Steve Albini appears in the doc praising initial Wax Trax! punk act Strike Under because “it owned up to the fact that in Chicago, punks would go to dance clubs and dance.” In 2016 Julia Nash began work on directing and producing a documentary about the history and impact of her father and his partners independent store and label. The latter three sat with last night’s local audience of at least 300 to discuss the film post-screening. Industrial Accident revives savage Wax Trax! music with reams of live footage, photos, and commentary from Jourgensen, Flescher, Nash, Thrill Kill Kult’s Groovie Mann, and Ministry/Revco lieutenant Paul Barker. “It seemed the more conservative the small town you were in, the more you needed a Revolting Cocks record.” “Wax Trax! always had a really good market in the Bible Belt,” says label employee Matt Adell in the movie. Julia’s mother, Jeanne Paynne, remained close to Jim even after he left her for Flescher and manned the merch booth, and Julia welcomed Wax Trax! fans to the fray “because we’re like family,” she said.īorn in Denver and relocated to Chicago in the late Seventies, Wax Trax! hosted and sold imports from then-new European bands including Bauhaus and Cabaret Voltaire before launching a label with dark but danceable experimental music from Ministry, Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, Throbbing Gristle, and other acts now called “Eighties industrial.” His deep dive on the 25-year-old ballad about an abused outsider ready to fight back wrapped an uncaged set following the screening of a new documentary, Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records.Ĭo-produced by Julia Nash, the film traces her father, Jim Nash, and her partner, Dannie Flescher, and their Seventies love child: a record store and label that coalesced a community of like-minded musical aesthetes, American misfits, and a micro LGBTQ community. Jourgensen boasts about a dozen metal piercings in his eyebrows, three more in his nose and lips, and face tattoos you can’t blame on Post Malone because Jourgensen tatted first. The film is produced and directed by Julia Nash, the daughter of Wax Trax co-founder Jim Nash, and the current president of the Wax Trax Records label, which she revived in 2014. In addition to the band’s concerts from Chase Center being streamed via Amazon Prime Video on both December 17th and 19th, The Coda Collection will stream the coinciding SF Film Festival – part of the band’s 40th anniversary takeover of the city.Posters at Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records at Fair Market on Ap(Photo by John Anderson) The Coda Collection also recently announced their partnership with Metallica to stream the band’s 40th anniversary celebration from San Francisco. We just had to cherry pick some of our favorites that we felt were important to tell.” I think that there are so many more movies to be made from this one film, and that’s how the bonus material came to be. You pop it into the machine and it feels free like you have a seat in the editing room to see these little stories unfold. The aesthetic we were going for with the bonus footage is that of an old VHS tape with no label on it. We realized that we had so much other great material that we were able to make a whole second movie. ![]() “There were so many interviews that went into making ‘Industrial Accident’ and not all of them would fit into the original documentary. “This is a story about my dad and his partner, their record store and label,” says director Julia Nash. ![]() This one-time event is being presented to celebrate the streaming launch of the Wax Trax! bonus film, Accidents + Outtakes, premiering on The Coda Collection, Dec 10. The film was directed by Julie Nash, the daughter of Co-founder Jim Nash and also include interviews by Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker (Ministry), Richard 23 (Front 242), Sascha Konietzko and En Esch (KMFDM), Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl, and more. Originally released in 2018, the film traces the origins of Chicago’s legendary record label & store and chronicles how founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher tore through the 80s underground, and how the legendary record label continues to have a deep impact on the music scene.
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