[kj] Regrets fuck banshees

[Alexander Smith]

Always thought McGeoch was somewhat undersung/overshadowed in PiL.  
Keith Levene got a much higher profile during his tenure, whereas his  
predecessor seemed to be relegated to the back.

Alex in NYC


On Sep 29, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Stephen Robinson wrote:


> Not a great album though was it?

>

> *thinks* I've proably not heard it in 8/10 years...

>

> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:42:59 +0100, Neil Perry  

> <neilfperry at btinternet.com> wrote:

>

>> I meant Happy?, not Seattle, which is a track on Happy?

>>

>> Neil Perry <neilfperry at btinternet.com> wrote: Met him once, he was  

>> a very nice bloke. I interviewed him and John Lydon

>> once in LA. McGeoch had just bought a tape of whale noises, and  

>> the three of us sat in his car in an underground car park while he  

>> insisted on playing these whale noises as loud as the car stereo  

>> could go, so the sound boomed around the concrete. That was one of  

>> the few times, apart from the beginning, when PiL was

>> a proper band rather than just Lydon + AN Others, and I got the  

>> feeling that Lydon felt he was very lucky to have McGeoch around.  

>> His playing on PiL's album Seattle from that era was/is fantastic.

>>

>> N

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