[kj] Few things here and there...

[bluce ree]

is a much better mix.

i wish he'd edit out the 'wo-oh-oh's though.

fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote: Are any of these BTATS rehearsal sessions knocking about?
I'd be keen to  hear them.

The Kimsey mix of Rubicon on 'KJ 4 beginners' is really good  the guitar
really stands out more.

Cheers Luca!


On 12/5/06 20:59, "Luca Signorelli" wrote:

> Hi guys, here's Luca from Italy. Not sure if it's the right thing to do,
> but still I've few thing to take off my chest about some of the
> discussions I've read recently on the list.
> 
> 1) There was never, as in "never ever ever" such a thing as "deliberate
> commercial Killing Joke". Forget it - things in the band have never
> worked that way, and that's especially true for the period from, let's
> say, late '83 (when "Eighties" was released) to BTATS rehearsal sessions
> in 1986. I'm not saying that everything the band has written is a
> masterpiece (never particularly liked "Love Like Blood" myself) or that
> when they were filling 5000-seater they weren't happy. But that was not
> the priority, and has never been since. I want to mention this because
> the world is filled with successful bands/artists (and God knows how
> many I've met) who keep repeating that they're not in for the money -
> and 99.9% of them are in just exactly for that: there's no amount of
> compromise and ass kissing they wouldn't do to maintain a certain level
> of popularity. Killing Joke is one very, very rare exception: they have
> actually a sort of penchant for irritating/abusing people who could be
> helpful to their career, just because they wouldn't compromise their
> integrity.
> 
> 2) As it was rehearsed before recording sessions, BTATS was the most
> fucking intensely gorgeous thing they had done since WTF, basically
> obliterating "Nightime" into oblivion - "Wintergardens", "Chessboard"
> and "Twilight of the Mortals" were things of absolute beauty (and still
> are in the final record, limp mix notwithstanding). What happened later
> wasn't exactly all their fault, and I really hope they will release the
> Chris Kimsey mix one of these days.
> 
> 3) There's a lot of "fun" element in Killing Joke, even if it's rarely
> "good, ole, clean, wholesome fun", but more the wicked variety. And
> thus, songs like "Me or You" or "Birds of a Feather" are very much
> Killing Joke as the rest their catalogue, and must be related with
> accordingly.
> 
> Cheers everybody
> 
> Luca S.
> 
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