[kj] top 10, 2003 etc.

[Alexander Smith]

Fair points, but even if the other three members didn't write a single 
thing, wouldn't it *still* have been a Killing Joke album simply as 
they'd have appeared on it?

Alex in NYC


On Thursday, November 3, 2005, at 04:43 AM, Paul Rangecroft wrote:

> but wasn't the story that even at the time it was intended to be a 
> coleman solo album but E'G insisted it was released as KILLING JOKE in 
> order to sell more? nothing revisionist about that. i doubt raven or 
> big paul wrote any of the material. there's neither of their trademark 
> qualities on any of the tracks. jaz would have told them what to play. 
> raven once said 1000 SUNS was a jaz coleman project in that sense. i 
> reckon jaz wrote the riff for 'stay one jump ahead', too. probably 
> wrote quite a bit of the guitar on that album. geordie is just going 
> through the motions in any case, you can tell his heart isn't in it.
>  
> let's have a vote. PW can compile the results. so far it's 2-1 in 
> favour of a JC solo effort. and the tension builds...
>  
> On 11/2/05, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net > wrote:
>
>
> I've never really bought the whole excuse that OTG was a Jaz "solo"
> album, being that Raven and Ferguson were *initially* involved and that
> Geordie plays on it (though, by and large, you'd never recognize it).
> Calling it a Jaz solo record always struck me as rather revisionist.
>
> Alex in NYC
>
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