[kj] Killing Joke: Clash influenced?

[Alexander Smith]

I seem to remember reading about a lot of mutual antipathy between the  
two camps and something about a shared rehearsal space. But then Jaz  
told a story somewhere about making amends with Joe prior to his death  
and them sharing a beer. Can't be more specific, though.

Alex in NYC


On May 22, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Javier Garcia wrote:


> Today i gave a listen to some Clash tunes here at work, and after  

> listening a couple of times "The Magnificent Seven" it was evident  

> to me that Jaz has some Joe Strummer influence in his singing. It's  

> not the first time i think about this, but today after listening  

> this song carefully I found some very familiar shoutings/screams,  

> you know, the ones that go between the verses, some sort of  

> "encouraging" choirs/screams by Joe Strummer. Those are pretty  

> similar to the ones that you can find on songs by Killing Joke,  

> let's say Pssyche (actually is it Pssyche or Psychee!?!?).

>

> What do you think?

>

> Nice weekend

>

> Javier

> (In a rainy and shakey Mexico city.

> Just experienced a 5.9 Richter earthquake a coupe of hours ago.

> No damages thankfully.)  

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