Lard

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Lard is a hardcore punk/Industrial band founded in 1988 as a side project by Jello Biafra (vocals), Al Jourgensen (guitar), Paul Barker (bass), and Jeff Ward (drums).^[1] Biafra is perhaps best known as the former frontman of the punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Jourgensen is the founder and only continuous member of industrial metal band Ministry, of which Barker was an official member between 1988 and 2004, and Ward was also once a touring member. Over the years, several other members of Ministry played with Lard, namely Bill Rieflin, Mike Scaccia, and Rey Washam.

Like most of Biafra's work, Lard's songs are angrily political (the War on Drugs is a particularly common theme) but often have a tinge of humour.

As of 2007^[update], Lard have not officially toured and have only performed live a handful of times, mostly around the San Francisco area (where Jello lives and operates his Alternative Tentacles record label). The band played during Ministry's 1988 tour and throughout their 1989-1990 dates (Jello was a touring member), once in Chicago after wrapping the recording of The Last Temptation Of Reid, once at the conclusion of a Ministry concert in Los Angeles (March 24, 2003), and at the San Francisco (September 26, 2004) and Seattle (September 29, 2004) dates of Ministry's Evil Doer tour. Because its key members are active with other projects, it is unlikely that the band will tour.

Barker left Ministry in 2004 and has now started a new band called U.S.S.A.

Al Jourgensen has stated that Ministry's new release "The Last Sucker" will be the last album for the band, and that Lard will make one final album before calling it a day.^{[citation needed]} Rumored guest appearance by Scott Ian of Anthrax on guitar on a few possible tracks.

According to a March 2009 interview with Jourgensen, he and Biafra are working on a new Lard album, which is being recorded in Jourgensen's El Paso studio^[2].

Discography

• The Power of Lard – (12"/CD/Cass EP) 1989 - Alternative Tentacles • (12" EP) 1989 - Fringe Product
• I Am Your Clock – (12" EP) 1990 - Alternative Tentacles
• The Last Temptation of Reid – (LP/CD/Cass Album) 1990 - Alternative Tentacles
• Pure Chewing Satisfaction – (LP/CD/Cass Album) 1997 - Alternative Tentacles
• 70's Rock Must Die – (12"/CD EP) 2000 - Alternative Tentacles

Compilation appearances

• The Bat Is Back - An Alternative Tentacles Records Sampler – (CD Sampler/Promo) 1992, track #2 "Drug Raid at 4am" - Alternative Tentacles
• Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film – (CD) 1994, track #22 "Forkboy" - Nothing Records • (2xLP) 1994, side D, track #2 "Forkboy" - Nothing Records
• Selections From Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film – (CD Sampler) 1994, track #2,"Forkboy" - Nothing Records/Interscope Records
• The Futility of a Well Ordered Life – (CD) 1994, track #1 "Forkboy" - Alternative Tentacles
• Music from and Inspired by Natural Born Killers, an Oliver Stone Film – (CD) 1996, track #22 "Forkboy" - Nothing Records/Interscope Records
• Mind the Gap Volume 14 – (CD) 1997, track #3 "I Wanna Be a Drug Sniffing Dog" - Gonzo Circus
• Rock Sound Volume 9 – (CD Sampler) 1997, track #9 "Generation Execute" - Rock Sound
• The Virus That Would Not Die! – (CD Sampler) 1997, track #16 "I Wanna Be a Drug Sniffing Dog" - Alternative Tentacles
• The New, The Classic & The Unexplored – (CD Sampler) 1998, track #11 "The Power of Lard" - Visions Magazine
• Movie Madness – (CD-ROM/MP3 format) 2000, file #11 "Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter" - Riffage Records
• The Record Shop - 30 Years of Rough Trade Shops – (2xCD), disc #1, track #14 "The Power of Lard" - V2 Records, Inc.

Samples

	I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog "I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog" from Pure Chewing Satisfaction
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References

External links

• Lard Fansite
• Alternative Tentacles Site