[kj] (OT) stereo issues...

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Greg, do you have the speakers on the floor, or up on a wall? Are they in the corners of the room?

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of GREG SLAWSON
Sent: 26 April 2008 02:54
To: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk; A list about all things Killing Joke (theband!)
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) stereo issues...


I just spent $500 on a "Bose" cd player/radio. I 'm a bit dissapointed w/the sound considering the ridiculous price. It has too much bass, like a hip-hop car radio or top 40 music blasted in a clothing store. It's hard to hear the treble on stuff like bluegrass, and the midrange on stuff like the Carbon Silicon cd doesn't come thru enough. Cds like KJ 2003, which already have to much bass mixed in, just sound worse. Any thoughts?


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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:53:55 +0000
From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Love and Rockets Warm-Up Show Last Night


That sounds like a great show. The setlist is pretty good too. For my personal preferences I'd like to hear more tracks of the self-titled album (I would have thought 'So Alive' was an obvious choice, since it's their biggest hit and a great tune besides, and 'Bound for Hell' would have been nice), and a few more tracks from 'Earth, Sun, Moon'. I know 'Express' is probably their most popular album, but I actually prefer ESM and the self-titled album. Certainly you could construct an absolutely fabulous setlist by just chucking in 'So Alive', 'Bound for Hell', 'Lazy' and 'Waiting for the Flood'. But for an 80-minute warm-up show from a band who haven't played the material for a decade or more (and in such personal surroundings), I definitely think you got your money's worth. Now I just hope they throw in some UK gigs at places outside London and I'll be exceptionally happy!
 
Jim.

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From: T.B. <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>
Subject: [kj] (OT) Love and Rockets Warm-Up Show Last Night
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Friday, 25 April, 2008, 6:19 PM


OK, so I went to the sold out San Diego warm-up show at Canes last night.



Canes is a very small club / bar right on the boardwalk of the beach in San 

Diego.  Probably holds maybe 150 - 200 people tops.  The floor and the stage 

are about the same size so being at the back of the floor in front of the 

soundboard is being about 6 people deep in the crowd.  The have a nice sound 

system although the band probably could have gotten away with just the sound 

from the stage they were so loud and the place so small.  Overall, great 

sound and it was like being in their living room while they played.  The 

audience was very well behaved and I'd say the asshole factor was a big 

zero.  Everyone knew who they were seeing, what to expect and wanted to be 

there for the music and not to get fucked up and be obnoxious.



Doors opened around 7:30 and by 8:30, the place had filled up and right at 

9:30, the patient crowd was rewarded when the band come out and opened with 

a tight version "Ball of Confusion."  They played a very compact, no 

nonsense 80 minute set of tracks almost all culled from their first three 

Beggars Banquet era albums except for "No Big Deal" and the slow,

druggy "I 

Feel Speed" which frankly was the only real dead spot in the show. 

"Dog 

End....." early in the set got a huge response and it was a storming,

great 

version with Ash's guitar mixed dry and upfront, not drenched in reverb

like 

the studio track.  I can't say that on paper, I'd really like this

setlist 

much as some major favorites like "Bound For Hell,"

"Motorcycle" and "So 

Alive" aren't being played not to mentioned any tracks from the

90's aren't 

included.  Still, as performed, especially with the band being so tight 

already, it turned out to be excellent.



As musicians, all three are still at the top of their game. Daniel Ash as 

always sounds great on 12 string yet can rip out feedback and effects laden 

solos and his long tour de force turn after switching from 12 string to 

electric mid song on "Yin and Yang" was mind blowing.  Haskins is an 

incredibly drummer as exemplified by the speed and power he had running 

through "An America Dream."  David J (who's birthday was late

night) sounded 

fluid and great as always on fretless bass and the often Beatlesesque 

harmonies between David and Danny were spot on all night.



The encore was a straightforward cover of The Clash's "Should I Stay

Or 

Should I Go" that got the tiny crowd jumping and afterwards, the band

looked 

very happy and pleased with the audience and their own performance.



Really glad I went.



Setlist in order:



Ball of Confusion

No Big Deal

It Could Be Sunshine

Dog End of a Day Gone By

Haunted When The Minutes Drag

No New Tale To Tell

I Feel Speed

An American Dream

Holiday On The Moon

Kundalini Express

Mirror People

Yin And Yang



*encore*

Should I Stay Or Should I Go



T.B. 



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