[kj] Regrets fuck banshees

[fatpotanga]

4 years?! how time flies.
T'was very sad. He was a great guitarist - very creative & had a  
unique style to him which to me is far more difficult to achieve than  
technical ability - if that makes sense?
I only ever saw him with PIL & he was amazing.
I love what he did on 'Disappointed'




On 1 Oct 2007, at 09:19, MARK SAXTON wrote:


> Yeah - he died about 4 years back but I heard about his situation   

> 10 years ago to be precise, my reply was easy to misinterpret.   Mark

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> ----- Original Message ----

> From: jon chapman <jonniespatula at hotmail.co.uk>

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> Sent: Saturday, 29 September, 2007 8:32:05 PM

> Subject: Re: [kj] Regrets fuck banshees

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> i think it was about 4 years ago,sadly missed but never reached his  

> full potential.now wheres my vodka....

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> i didn't know about the alcohol, but i suppose its not the sort of  

> thing that gets mentioned when someone dies,

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> it can't be as long ago as 7 years surely?

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> I heard he'd actually trained as a nurse, I guess the video to "the  

> body" must have affected him more than we thought!

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> On 29/09/2007, MARK SAXTON <ranjeef at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> John Mcgeoch died of alcohol related ill health I believe. About 7  

> or 8 years back, a specialist nurse I knew was seeing him regularly  

> at his home somewhere in Derbyshire.Absolutely gifted and sadly  

> missed.   Mark

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> ----- Original Message ----

> From: Brian Whitehead < bawhitehead at gmail.com>

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> Sent: Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 11:16:55 AM

> Subject: Re: [kj] Regrets fuck banshees

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> "i did meet him on more than a few occassions"

> I would have loved to have met John McGeoch. He is second to only  

> one guitarist and we all know who he is.

> Saw him play with Magazine a couple of times in half empty venues.

> Never discovered what caused his death at such a young age.

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> "playground twist"

> Top track and ecellent, as are the rest, on the Voices On The Air  

> sessions CD.

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> Brian.

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> On 24/09/2007, melinda grant < hollytree1961 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  hi brian,

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> maybe you are just listening to the guitar parts and if your a true  

> fan of that instrument,i can understand you doing that

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> as for myself,i tend to take in a whole tune,what ever i am  

> listening to,that including all the instruments,plus vocals and  

> lyrics,all at once  although like most,i do hear the individual  

> instruments,but its on a unison level although for me,it does have  

> an order

> first i hear mostley in everything the drums   and vocal/ 

> lyrics,then comes the bass

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> the guitar is the last instrument that turns me on

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> ok i never said anything personally against  the guitarist they had  

> during that peroid,actually,i did meet him on more than a few  

> occassions  i can tell you now,that he was a lovely guy,genuine,a  

> bit of a one off,and he loved his guitar alot,credict where  

> credicts due,they got the right guy

>  kaleidoscope,i think personally,is definatly a mellow--mood style  

> of album  ,i did prefure the s.a.t.bansheese in there earlier days  

> to be perfectly honest(although there are still gem tracks on every  

> album they did beyound the first 2--just not every track was great  

> in my eyes)

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>  and if you want to know what track where the guitar is very  

> original to me  ,its--playground twist--i rate that track  

> alot,actually the range of instruments on that track blend so  

> superbly--the bells

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> melinda

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> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:54:01 +0100

> From: bawhitehead at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] Regrets fuck banshees

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> "i found kaleidoscope very weak in both material,power and true  

> banshee style"

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> I think it's widely thought amongst Banshees fans that Kaleidoscope  

> was one of the weaker albums, especially of the first four or five.  

> McGeoch was absolutely fantastic on this album and proved how right  

> in guitar playing terms that "less is more" or which ever guitar  

> player said "it's what you dont play rather that what you do play  

> that counts". McGeoch came up with the guitar part for Happy House  

> as part of his Banshees audition...brilliant. Maybe I'm listening  

> to the LP and just taking in the guitar?

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> Brian.

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> On 23/09/2007, melinda grant <hollytree1961 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   i saw my first bansheese gig in 1979 at the rainbow threatre that  

> was in area  called-- finsbury park,this gig was absolutly  

> amaizing,i was blown away by the sheer power of siousxies voice and  

> the instrimental side of matters left an impression on me for many  

> years,it was that effective--jealouse?? you should be  for it was  

> one not to miss

>  seen then after that time through the years!

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> as i appreciate--the scream/join hands....so very much,i found  

> kaleidoscope very weak in both material,power and true banshee  

> style,i guess that was there resting period  as it certainly  

> sounded like it they were just warming up ready for the master  

> piece of

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> --ju  ju --  ive always loved the bansheese,they were/are, on a  

> whole very good wether its solo stuff they were doing or as a  

> group,but for me o would not say they are better than k.j,just  

> different

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> melinda ps dont worry alex,   ok ;)))

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