[kj] front man Blunders

[Leigh Newton]

Todd, couldn't agree more. 

It seemed like Jaz put as much work into coming up
with keyboard lines as he did coming up with his
vocals in the early days. They hardly ever sounded
stock and added crucial elements to the music. 

And yeah, it kept him well occupied onstage which was
damned good. It was neat to have him come out from
behind the keyboard every once in awhile. 

Leigh


--- fluw <fluwdot at earthlink.net> wrote:

> ___inevitable__devacor
> 
> it may have been inevitable in light of the momentum
> of a band becoming 
> more mainstream in the mid eighties. video directors
> have an easier task 
> when there happens to be someone front and center,
> instead of trying to 
> figure out how to effectively parlay the focus via
> the aggregate of 
> people adorned with instruments. 
> 
> pointing the oculars at a lead man snogging an
> electro transducer is a 
> more simplified objective no doubt.
> 
> but as for *not* being a /*blunder*./.. i disagree.
> the change in course 
> the band took in terms of sound; since jaz went to
> the mic stand, kj 
> keyboard sounds have not had the reverberant
> tintinnabulation of early 
> killing joke. as if killing joke lost an
> /instrument/ or a/ member/.
> 
> since assuming the role of crazed bellwether, jaz
> lost his immersion in 
> the whole and ceased creating those great
> soundscapes for the band to 
> plunge through. and as witnessed through courtald
> talks, drunken tours, 
> errant interviews, etc...jaz does not possess the
> magnetism to sustain 
> such a position long enough to conclude in his
> promulgated success      
> 
> also if you consider this:
>  
> without the keyboard to keep jaz occupied - a
> musical tool/vessel in 
> which to express himself sonically - he needed to
> find something to do 
> with all his freedom...and that something became the
> uncomfortable 
> plodding histrionics of a man in search of his more
> vital and effective 
> skill; *music*ianship.
> 
> this observation is quite established: as an assize
> on this matter has 
> been deliberated on many a time on the gathering
> over the past ten 
> years, jaz's interest was effectively /more/ intense
> when he was adding 
> to the whole /instrumentally/...instead of /drudging
> through leaden 
> pantomime/, attempting to make his uncoordinated
> frame into something 
> that might be construed as mildly captivating -
> during long repetitive 
> kj tunes.
> 
> 
> Devacor at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 3/24/2006 4:44:01 PM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> > fluwdot at earthlink.net writes:
> >
> >     coming out from behind the keyboard
> >
> > ???- I would see this as inevitable and hardly one
> of the biggest  
> > blunders...
> >  
> >
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