[kj] Few things here and there...

[mal spoor]

I detest BTATS personally speaking of course.
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From: "fatpotanga" <fatpotanga at gmail.com>
To: "The Gathering" <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Few things here and there...


> 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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