[kj] (OT) stereo issues...

GREG SLAWSON gregslawson at msn.com
Sat Apr 26 12:33:02 EDT 2008



It's the single unit. I actually moved it into the room next to the kitchen and it sounds better. It sounds
better in the room that you're not in. Fire Dances sounds great on it (since the treble is less apparent), but
HossanASS is missing some of the trebly stuff in Geordie's guitar...


From: thepunisher at blueyonder.co.ukTo: gathering at misera.netDate: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:08:49 +0100Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) stereo issues...



I'd guess its a Bose "wave" which is a single unit

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From: ade
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) stereo issues...

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

-----Original Message-----From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of GREG SLAWSONSent: 26 April 2008 02:54To: 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?


Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:53:55 +0000From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.ukTo: gathering at misera.netSubject: 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.http://www.flipsidemovies.comhttp://jimharper.blogspot.com--- On Fri, 25/4/08, T.B. <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com> wrote:
From: T.B. <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>Subject: [kj] (OT) Love and Rockets Warm-Up Show Last NightTo: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>Date: Friday, 25 April, 2008, 6:19 PMOK, 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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