[kj] ON TOPIC - Killing Joke show on Astra

[Jiri]

Thanks, Antoni and Ana! I suspected it might be something to that effect 
-- but I'm so poor at deciphering lyrics, I wasn't even sure that's what 
he said.

pssyche23 wrote:

> The gig venue is close to the banks of the Rhine and the general area 
> has huge number of US Air Force and Army bases ... Jaz and Big Paul 
> made a few references
> to the fact that (West) Germany was (and still is to a lesser extent) 
> an occupied country ... of course the DDR was equally stuffed full of 
> Soviet bases with many squadrons of MiG's, Sukhoi's, Antonov's and 
> Mil's (most of which had left by 1992/1993) ... mind you, in the 
> 1980's with US operating RAF bases at Fairford, Greenham Common, Upper 
> Heyford, Mildenhall, Alconbury, Bentwaters, Woodbridge and  Sculthorpe 
> to name a few, so were we ...  not that I minded too much !!!
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jiri" <unspeakable at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [kj] ON TOPIC - Killing Joke show on Astra
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>> Ah, that reminds me of something stupid that has always bugged me: At 
>> the beginning of the Loreley gig right before "The Hum" kicks in, it 
>> sounds like Jaz says, "It's good to be back in the ____" sounds like 
>> "USA" or "UK" or something. What the F$%# does he say? This was a 
>> German festival, correct? Is he being ironic? I'm sure the answer is 
>> obvious, but I'm clueless and not afraid to admit it.
>>
>> Dirk Kingerske wrote:
>>
>>> it's the live at the alabama gig (munich) from 1985... much better 
>>> than the Loreley gig... and would have been probably a much better 
>>> choice the live-dvd(vcd).... my brother recorded it and I'll get the 
>>> tape on wednesday... i've already got it, but i hope that this time 
>>> the quality will be better... i'll burn it on dvd and post it to 
>>> whoever wants to host it...
>>>
>>>
>>> dirk
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Michael Head <mickhead at beeb.net>
>>>> Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
>>>> band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
>>>> To: gathering at misera.net
>>>> Subject: [kj] ON TOPIC - Killing Joke show on Astra
>>>> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:53:52 +0100
>>>>
>>>> was just about to go to bobos last night when I decided it would be 
>>>> nice to look at some bitty on my old Sky Astra set. ain't got a 
>>>> clue what channel it was on (they're all German now bar CNN & 
>>>> Eurosport), but there was Killing Joke playing Tabazan. The show 
>>>> was from 1985, I couldn't recognise the venue (indoors) but am 
>>>> presuming from the mullets in the crowd that it was in Germany.
>>>> managed to stick in a vhs tape & got (not in order) Love Like 
>>>> Blood, Eighties, Pssyche, Change, Wardance and an excellent 
>>>> Tension. line up was a virtually tattoo free, mulleted Raven, a 
>>>> quiffed Geordie  mincing around in his big black boots (anyone 
>>>> remember those ?), Jaz  in his patent leather shoes, Dave thingy 
>>>> (self proclaimed saviour of  KJ on keys) and BPF twatting the skins 
>>>> and looking resplendent, being  quiffed up to the max.
>>>> vintage stuff.
>>>> anyone (UK) with the ability to get the footage off the tape and to 
>>>> host it for all is welcome to drop me a line off list. I'll want 
>>>> the tape back tho' its got mi soft porn on. bollox now you'll all 
>>>> want it !
>>>>
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