[kj] Punk vets Bad Religion on Conan O'Brien tonight

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

An old NME review of Killing Joke reads: "Visually it seems 
keyboard/vocalist Jaz has to overcompensate for guitarist Geordie and 
bassist Youth whose movements rarely go beyond stepping back and forth 
from the microphone to deliver backing vocals. It is a mite hypocritical 
when Youth tells the audience to dance." 
http://www.anirrationaldomain.net/articles/1979-1982/nme0581.html

Honestly, like I said to the person on the YouTube Jon Stewart video 
page, to someone who complained Jaz didn't move around enough, I always 
thought Jaz had a pretty creepy, deliberate stage presence. Like on the 
XXV anniversary DVD, no, Jaz isn't thrashing about, but he looks like 
he's in some sort of evil trance, which works with the music, I think. 
There are a ton of MTV boy punk bands that flail about when the music 
doesn't warrant such a display. It seems like the flailing about is a 
way of cheating for these types, fooling folks into making the music 
think it's more powerful than it is.

Similarly, although musically The gray Race was the last Bad Religion LP 
I liked, their lack of flailing about on stage has never bothered me -- 
I always took it as kind of the anti-rock star, anti rock n' roll thing 
that some bands subscribed to.

-Oliver


Christof hamille wrote:

> I remember this appearance when it happened and I still think it is a 

> good performance.  Geordie was never one to do the scissor kicks.

> \It ws the beginning of the Lemmy/Jaz vocals.  Ah whatever

>

> I enjoyed it and thanks for finding it

>

> Chris