[kj] Killing Joke - Is that it?

[Lennonka]

How can you write something like that?
You DON'T KNOW! Neither I do know. So better we both shut up.

With best wishes
Lennonka

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>I'd certainly love another effort (if it sucks, it sucks, so what. It's 

>just music. I'd rather hear the attempt than nothing at all). Even with 

>their poor organization/motivation and another 7-year hiatus, they 

>surely will want to record again at some point. But if I had to bet, I'd 

>say we're looking at another long, post-Democracy-like period of 

>canceled tours (check!), inactivity (check!) and aborted half-attempts 

>at a new recording, with the return of the ever-changing cast of 

>discarded session drummers. And Jaz becomes Axl Rose.

>

>But this is where health enters the equation. Their lifestyle and 

>advancing age may conspire to botch their next attempt. The body 

>forgives alcoholism for a while -- hell, it forgives daily drinking up 

>to a  point -- but if they carry this self-abuse on unchanged into their 

>50s, well...I for one wouldn't underwrite their insurance policies.

>

>I've often wondered how Jaz's symphony colleagues receive his act -- 

>esp. if/when he shows up blitzed. I wonder if the "mysterious tortured 

>genius" act gets their forgiveness.

>

>TB wrote:

>> ++++++++

>>

>> I don't know if it's over, but the band is certainly not in any sort of



>> positive territory right now and I'd expect a long period of inactivity

for 

>> at least the next couple of years. The last album basically fell off

the 

>> map, the band has been mostly uninspired live the past year, they

couldn't 

>> even get over to the US (and seem to not desire to make the effort) for

any 

>> sort of tour and everything just seems to point to Jaz and Geordies 

>> lackluster interest in making any real effort to go any further at this



>> time.

>>

>> T.B. 

>>

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