PRONG's TOMMY VICTOR On Playing With GLENN DANZIG And AL JOURGENSEN: 'I Definitely Prefer Working For GLENN 100% More'

In a new interview with Into The Necrosphere, PRONG's Tommy Victor spoke about the differences between working as a hired gun for MINISTRY's Al Jourgensen and DANZIG's Glenn Danzig. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I definitely prefer Glenn, working for Glenn, 100% more. Glenn has just an old-school approach, and what I mean by old school, I mean from the '60s. I have an older brother, and they're very similar. And my older brother was in the military and wound up being really successful. So it's just his agenda and the way he dealt with people and the way he expects other people to relate to him is very similar to Glenn. And it's an old-school way of communicating, and it doesn't really exist anymore that much. People today have looked at it as archaic, and I definitely understand, and I'm a little bit like that too."

Tommy continued: "Al is extremely progressive, crazy and manipulative, where Glenn, he's not. He's honorable and expects everyone to be that way too."

After the interviewer noted that Tommy seems to be able to adapt to working with different people really well, Victor said: "I think it's [my] Catholic upbringing, and I talk about this with my wife and kids a lot, where we just didn't get away with anything back then. Going to Catholic school in New York City back then, we were afraid in school, we were afraid of getting in trouble with the nuns, and then we were afraid out on the street of getting beaten up by either older kids or fathers. Anybody that saw you get out of line, you'd get smacked in the head. So that doesn't exist anymore neither, where there was consequences. And that's where we learned respect, was just out of fear, really. So, I think it was beaten into me where if somebody is paying my salary or — I don't know — just maybe just being a little bit above me on the chain, I tend not to look down on them. I have learned to sort of respect them — like elders and just priests, everybody. Even now, if I go to church or something, I'm, like, 'Hey, Father, what's going...' Kids today, they don't even show that respect anymore. It doesn't exist like it did back in the day."

Back in 2016, Tommy told Burning Ambulance about working with Danzig and Jourgensen: "There's a massive difference between working with Glenn and Al. I love Glenn's old-school rock 'n' roll attitude of just blasting things out and smashing all the rules. I love Al's meticulous will to get exactly what he wants and envisions in the studio. They are both great artists, more than standard musicians. I've tried to be more confident in what I do and not worry so much about what people think. Both those guys have huge balls, bigger than mine."

In 2017, Victor told Echoes And Dust that the "problem with MINISTRY was Al tried to reel you in by telling you that you were part of MINISTRY, but when it came to getting paid, you weren’t part of it. So that's why I was, like, 'You know what? Fuck this. I'm focusing on PRONG again.' I'm not going to give anyone riffs or ideas anymore. I like Glenn and I go in and try to help him meet his needs. I treat him like I would like other guys to treat me, so it's a learning process. They are great things to be involved in."

A decade ago, Tommy told Blastzone that he first became a member of DANZIG's touring lineup after "John Christ got fired and replaced temporarily by a guy who wasn't working out. PRONG got dropped so Glenn called me. I had two days to learn the songs and then be on the first Ozzfest in '95. That was the start of the long run with Glenn."

PRONG's new, self-titled album was released on November 6 via Napalm Records.