[kj] Anyway we can get KJ to play Austin's South by Southwest Music Fest this March!?

[Brendan]

It appears that you had the WRONG key depressed during that entire email
Jamie... ;)

I take it you don't mind Bonham tho?


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> Tedious, self-indulgent guitar.

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> Overblown vocals.

> Pretentious lyrics.

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> I think you'll find that plenty of bands managed that.

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> Jamie

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> <gathering at misera.net>

> Sent: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 1:14

> Subject: Re: [kj] Anyway we can get KJ to play Austin's South by Southwest

> Music Fest this March!?

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> Well, that was the point -- NO ONE took up that particular torch. Sure,

> lots of bands attempted -- everyone from Kingdom Come through the Mission

> through Soundgarden -- but there is only one Led Zeppelin.

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> Alex in NYC

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> On Jan 13, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Brendan Quinn wrote:

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> Yeah Olly, ROCK THE FUCK UP! When you’re playing Led Zep records, you

> can always make the excuse that there’s a Killing Joke link that you

> need to explore…I promise I won’t tell anyone on Cult Punk that

> you’re listening to SYMPHONIC PROG ROCK COVERS (well at least for a

> couple of days that is)

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> So anyone willing to venture a comment as to who if anyone took the torch

> from Led Zep after they broke up?

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> From:Â gathering-bounces at misera.net

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of melinda grant

> Sent:Â Monday, 14 January 2008 10:58 a.m.

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] Anyway we can get KJ to play Austin's South by

> Southwest Music Fest this March!?

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> yeah,i knew you would feel this way about the idear,

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> but again i stress--k.j riding on coattails of  ledzep,would get them

> more respect fpr doing that,than (as they did) with motly crud--!!

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> as a man of your knowledge and exsperience  oliver,of both music and with

> a purpose i am alarmed by your pairtinf thus those 2(mot..crud/zep ;( how

> very dare   bleeeep..............................

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> ---as with the 3 bands in question k.j/ledzep/ and crud lol,i will put 3

> different catorgorys

> music with feeling/music with a purpose and

> Â music with no purpose at all really apart from arse and

> titilation----k.j and zep,fall into first two catorgorys ;D/

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> motly crud fall only into the last catorgory,there just a bunch of itis

> really,apppealing to people who are interested in nothing but tits ;D))))

> !!!!

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> can you see now what i am getting at  ok zep have about 5 tracks in there

> vast back catologue of tunes,that will appealing to men being men,you get

> my meaning?good--every track of the muts cruds(motly crew)is there to

> appeal to men being men and some more  ;/

> if you cannot see the similaritys between k.j and zep,then you either dont

> know  enough about k.j or enough about zep,i suspect it is the 

> latter,,try reading up on the zep a bit,inside the zep--to find out what

> they were about.

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> i have footage of when the damned appearing on marc boland show on vid,i

> know what you mean,those 2 groups were not similiar,either in dress or

> thought,but mysterially,as time moved on,i can kinda link a bit of a

> sililarity in style music wise,if only on a handful of tunes,between

> marc.b/t.rex  and the later damned of say--mid 80s onwards.

> ppshere you go,judging anaudieance b.4 you have given them a chance to

> prove you wrong or right--i still think you are wrong on this one,and as

> long as you keep thinking,ledzep are motly crud mutt part 2,you will never

> change your mind about k.j and zep gig----move away from the image of

> zep/mutt crud forget it,there from 2 different mind sets completley..now

> visualise,k.j and ledzep.but go really learn about zep b.4 you do that ok

> ;) xx

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>> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:31:34 -0600

>> From:Â bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net

>> To:Â gathering at misera.net

>> Subject: Re: [kj] Anyway we can get KJ to play Austin's South by

>> Southwest Music Fest this March!?

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>> Yeah, KJ supporting Led Zeppelin just sounds like a nightmare for

>> about 

>> 3 or 4 different reasons I can think of off the top of my head. KJ

>> will 

>> come off as the odd sideshow during which all the folks will be

>> milling 

>> around and ignoring, or trying to show up after. KJ shouldn't try to 

>> ride the coattails of folks like Led Zeppelin or Motley Crue --

>> they're 

>> too good for that, and it's an odd, incongruent fit. Imagining Jaz inw 

>> arpaint blasting through "The Wait" while people want to hear

>> 'Stairway"Â 

>> -- I don't know; it strikes me as really odd.

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>> Early on The Damned did a small support tour for Marc Bolan, circa

>> 1978. 

>> That always struck me as really odd. Not sure how that actually fared, 

>> though.

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>> -B.

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>> Alexander Smith wrote:

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>> > "if they take the opportunity to be the support band for led zep"

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>> > I don't know, Melinda --- I think they'd be eaten alive. I hate to 

>> > suggest it, but your *AVERAGE* Led Zep fan isn't notorious for being 

>> > especially open-minded.

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>> > Alex in NYC

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