[kj] atkins & budgie - a drummer's view

[ade]

There's some great stuff on KJ2k3 & I prefer to think of the album as
encapsulating 'that sound' that it has. Which seems to be how they've worked
for a quite a while now - maybe since Nighttime? Or even Firedances?

As it is, I think the new album's great - I'm hoping the, ahem, *next* album
will blow my t!ts off.

ade.

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Subject: RE: [kj] atkins & budgie - a drummer's view


on a positive note regarding Hosannas, I think
> Geordie is trying to
> recapture some of that sound, at least in terms of
> the playing style - how
> much it comes across seems compromised by his modern
> sound. But I guess
> that's how he wants to sound :) I think his new
> material is definitely back
> on-track compared to KJ2k3, even if it's not fully
> realised yet.


I think you hear bits of the harmonics return in the
ascender chord in "The Death and Resurrection Show".
It's not ALL chug-chug. I admit that I started doing a
bit of the eye rolling myself when I heard the chugs
were back in "Hosannas", but, as you said, that must
be what Geordie wants.

Just not what I want. Hense the varying opinions.

-jim

--- ade <ade at the-lab.zetnet.co.uk> wrote:

> I really like Geordies sound on that album - still
> plenty of twang & not the
> massively compressed overly chug-tastic sound of
> more recent stuff (scoop
> them mids). The twang gives the harmonics/open
> strings a chance to go wild -
> on a positive note regarding Hosannas, I think
> Geordie is trying to
> recapture some of that sound, at least in terms of
> the playing style - how
> much it comes across seems compromised by his modern
> sound. But I guess
> that's how he wants to sound :) I think his new
> material is definitely back
> on-track compared to KJ2k3, even if it's not fully
> realised yet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of
> dammit bleep
> Sent: 31 March 2006 22:53
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
> Subject: RE: [kj] atkins & budgie - a drummer's view
>
>
> No one instrument on "Extremities" comes through and
> is produced better on the entire album than Atkins'
> snare. That goes for guitar, bass, synths or vocals.
> IMHO (albeit biased to a slight degree), that snare
> sound is almost as important to "Extremities" as
> Geordie's guitar.
>
> Some tracks don't capture the toms as well as I'd
> like
> them to. However, the overall result is a dark,
> ferocious eruption of a release that, dare I say it,
> did much to re-solodify the KJ legacy.
>
> It's IMPOSSIBLE for me to hear Age of Greed and NOT
> start air drumming. I've often interrupted dull
> moments in rehearsals with the intro.
>
> It DOES make you wanna play drums.
>
>
> -jim
> --- Papa Lazarou <circuit_bender at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > When I hear extremities, I want to hear drums. ;)
> >
> > ade <ade at the-lab.zetnet.co.uk> wrote:  db, what
> > Atkins material are you basing this on? Just
> > interested. When
> > i hear Extremities, I wanna play drums.
> >
> >
> >
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