[kj] Killing Joke - Is that it?

[Jiri]

Lennonka wrote:

> How can you write something like that?

>   

Easy! Turn on the spigot, and it drips out! And you?

> You DON'T KNOW! 

Of course not! But the question from Neil was "What do you guys think," 
so I said what I thought...

> Neither I do know. So better we both shut up.

>   

There are two parties in that bargain!

Seriously, I'm just speculating based on a) history; b) visual evidence 
at gigs; c) reports from others at gigs, d) the number of "hard-livin' 
rock and rollers" who have dropped dead and/or fallen ill at relatively 
young ages; and e) *way* too much experience with alcoholics.

Best wishes for you, and Jaz, and Geordie, etc. I'd prefer nothing else 
than that they be healthy and prolific...

> With best wishes

> Lennonka

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>> Od: unspeakable at sbcglobal.net

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>> Datum: 06.12.2006 18:24

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

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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:

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>>> ++++++++

>>>

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

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

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> for 

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

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> the 

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

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> couldn't 

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

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> any 

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>>> 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

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>>> time.

>>>

>>> T.B. 

>>>

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