[kj] BP blog post video

[Karen Weil]

Yay you, indeed. Interesting little story

k.w.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alex Smith 
  To: Darren A. Peace ; A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) 
  Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [kj] BP blog post video


  I was in the studio (largely sitting on a couch, drinking beer & delivering slavishly unsolicited commentary) during portions of the recording of THE MAN ON THE BURNING TIGHTROPE. Specifically, I was in the studio during the painstaking tweaking of "Ponzi's Revenge" (I was there for the blink-&-you'll miss it Perez Pardo sample placement) and "Dark Days Indeed."  This was at Tamir Muskat's Virbamonk studios, deep in the heart of backwater Brooklyn. It was fun to be a guest in the studio, but it was indeed a long ways a way from glamorous. Annoyingly, I didn't get a credit on that record, but I was thanked on the liner notes to THE GOLDEN HOUR (I believe I might have made it onto the notes for SONGS WE SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN, too.) Yay me.

  Alex in NYC




   

    -----Original Message----- 
    From: "Darren A. Peace" 
    Sent: Nov 16, 2009 3:45 PM 
    To: Alex Smith , "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
    Subject: Re: [kj] BP blog post video 


    Which Firewater, Alex? I'd love to hear about it.


    Darren
    Hungerford, UK

    On 16 Nov 2009, at 20:34, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:


      "Oh relax" is not a command. It's merely a compassionate suggestion born out of the suspicion that someone is taking things a wee bit too seriously.

      And for the record, I've been in a recording studio during the making of an album (notably Firewater), and yes -- recording sessions can be as dull as dishwater and rife with the inclusion of many dreary individuals (witness the fact that I was let in the room).

      And, really now, are people genuinely concerned to see Geordie sitting down when he plays? Wouldn't *YOU* rather sit down while you played (especially if sequestered for hours on end in a cramped, airless studio with a handful of other people)? Angus Young of AC/DC evidently records all of his incendiary guitarwork while sitting down, and no one's accusing him of losing his edge.

      Alex in NYC










       

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: fluw 
        Sent: Nov 16, 2009 3:17 PM 
        To: 'Alex Smith' , "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'" 
        Subject: Re: [kj] BP blog post video 


        Oh that is relaxed alex, don’t go making commands brother 

         


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        From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Alex Smith
        Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:36 AM
        To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!); 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
        Subject: Re: [kj] BP blog post video

         

        Oh relax -- it was just a flippant observation. I'm sure they're fine, upstanding, sonically-atuned individuals, despite their sweatshirts.

         

        Alex in NYC



          -----Original Message----- 
          From: fluw 
          Sent: Nov 16, 2009 10:57 AM 
          To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'" 
          Subject: Re: [kj] BP blog post video 




          Would it be any better if it were a bunch of bald small foreheaded paunchy

           40 somethings with too many piercings, bad tribal tattoos and flea infested chin mullets? 

           

          Maybe the bespectacled college boys will help to feed a culture of intelligent melodies in the joke’s music as apposed to the cookie monster knuckleheaded-ness of the past few albums.

           

          change is a constant dynamic with killing joke and frankly it is time for some variety in their music,   

          i will choose to practice optimism for the future of the joke. 


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          From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Alexander Smith
          Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 6:06 AM
          To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
          Subject: Re: [kj] BP blog post video

           

           

          Makes ya wonder: Who are those bespectacled college boys in there with them, and do they understand they're in the presence of gods?

           

          Alex in NYC

           

           

          On Nov 16, 2009, at 4:39 AM, Cliff Livingston wrote:






          http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=100678662

          On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:10 AM, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

          damned if I can find it - anyone grab the clip...?
          http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=47477713&blogId=518593155
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