[kj] Killing Joke - Is that it?

[Lennonka]

Really? :DDD
I've read another interview where he was quoted saying that conducting is better than all drugs.
Which of those two sentences is "more true"?

Cheers

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> Od: gregslawson at msn.com

> Komu: gathering at misera.net

> Datum: 06.12.2006 18:45

> Předmět: Re: [kj] Killing Joke - Is that it?

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>Jaz said in an interview (i think in 2003) that he doen't get blitzed

while conducting, but that he does in a "rock band"--that's why he likes
doing the Joke!

>

>From:  Jiri <unspeakable at sbcglobal.net>

>Reply-To:  "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

>To:  "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

<gathering at misera.net>

>Subject:  Re: [kj] Killing Joke - Is that it?

>Date:  Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:20:36 -0600

>>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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