[kj] R.I.P. Raven

[fatpotanga]

I think this sums it up for a lot of people.
I posted something on here an age & a half ago about a trip to the  
States when out of the blue I get an email from raven with his phone  
number saying if I make it to LA give him a bell & we'll 'have a beer  
or a cuppa tea'. I was gob smacked. Like many others I had a few  
emails from him, most memorably being porn to my work address!
The guy seemed affable, approachable & genuinely interested in fans.
Sadly, he was the only member of Killing joke I never met, &  
ironically the one I never met was the one who knew of me.
very very sad.

I'd like to do something.
Could we send a 'gathering' floral tribute perhaps to our most  
revered member?
hell - even a tribute album.

Your true heroes never really die.



On 22 Oct 2007, at 18:33, Jokers wrote:


> I second that Javier! i felt a bit ridiculous too! but I´m still  

> shocked! and feeling very sad!

>

> I shared this wife my wife, some close friends and my band mates  

> (who are very into kj just like me) and we are all very shocked  

> with the news!

> I´m feeling very very sad for a guy i never knew in person, but was  

> like a part of my life! he was the only one guy that I had ever  

> chated in the band and had exchanged some e-mail with me, always  

> asking me about how my band was going, about brazil and football,  

> and he also once told me, when we were talking about kids and  

> stuff, that he had a daughter in brasil. that lived in Salvador if i 

> ´m not wrong. (some on the list closer to him may say that if it´s  

> really true). the guy was a real gent and tthe mighty force into  

> the joke. I never saw KJ live but they are the band I like most in  

> the world above any of aIl others

>

> Raven - Rest In Peace

>

> diaz

>

>

>

> Very sad and shocking news, i was hoping to be a joke or something  

> like that when i was reading all those "subjects" yesterday night.  

> I even felt kind of ridiculous when i shared the bad news with my  

> wife (she's not a fan but of course she knows very well the  

> importance of KJ in my life), and i dropped a couple of tears... i  

> mean i was crying for i guy i never knew in person!... but shit!! i  

> was really sad!!. I've never been on a KJ gig and i'm positive i'll  

> do it the next time they tour, and i love KJ with Raven in!. Well,  

> now it's never going to happen.

> It's incredible how can i be this sad, i exchanged some e-mails  

> with him out from the list by the time he was in The Gathering, and  

> he was really a very nice man, he used to ask me for some spanish  

> words or some mexican food to practice and surprise his mexican  

> friends in LA... i guess this is it, while i never knew him in  

> person he was the only member of Killing Joke who i've "talked to"  

> ever, and he was a great-open-nice guy.

>

> I agree with you Jamie, at least uncle Raven died sleeping after  

> partying like an animal.

> Maybe he will make some new project up there with Hendrix, Dimebag  

> and Ian Curtis.

>

> Honours and respect to mighty PAUL RAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

>

> Javier

> mexico city

>

>

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