[kj] Getting in touch w/ jaz and his likelihood of responding

Karen Weil karen.weil at sddt.com
Thu Jun 12 19:37:35 EDT 2008


Hey, it's moshing, not slam dancing! ; )

k.w.
(who did both in her heyday!)
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From: "Brendan Quinn" <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
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> Haha, my 2c - that slam dancing shit is fucking stupid in the 1st place,

> and

> b) the 2nd lot are not the reincarnation of the 1st, they're emo wannabes.

>

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

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]

> On

> Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard

> Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 8:07 a.m.

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

> Subject: Re: [kj] Getting in touch w/ jaz and his likelihood of responding

>

> I don't know if there is anything I could call a "punk community"

> nowadays with a straight face.

>

> Having said that, in what I do still think of as the, uh, "punk

> community," yeah, it is the norm. Rob of Amebix, for example, is not

> inaccessible; either he or someone in Amebix emailed me after I

> pre-ordered their DVD, in fact, to thank me, and it wasn't a form

> letter. Didn't Iggy Pop's _American Caesar_ release originally have some

> note inside of it actually ASKING fans to write him by mail, saying he

> would reply to them? This was 1992 or 93, punk was hot shit again,

> seemed like he was trying to bone up on his punk cred by specifically

> putting that notice in the LP's liner notes.

>

> In any event, this graphic pretty much sums up how I feel about the, er,

> "punk scene":

>

> http://www.kvltpunk.com/images/beforeandafter.jpg

>

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Alex Smith wrote:

>> At this stage of the proceedings, I'm pretty far removed from the

>> existing

> Punk community --- is this DIY/egalitarian aesthetic still the norm?

>>

>>

>>

>>

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