[kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

Maybe he's doing the chug here for commercial value and saving the bell for more choice moments on the album. But I fear we'll be disappointed. He hasn't rung the bell for over a decade, has he? (That's not meant to sound like a euphemism for jerking off). Maybe there was an echo of the bell on 'Dirt...', but that was it. I've been impressed with G's geetaring since then even though there has been a lot of chugging going on.
 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:38:06 -0400
From: vassifer at earthlink.net
To: gathering at misera.net; gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:




As much as I love a good chug (ooh..er...Missus), I have to agree with Todd here.... BRING BACK THE TWANG (i.e. THE BELL!)

Alex in NYC



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From: fluw 

Sent: Jun 10, 2010 3:13 PM

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

Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:



















 

Geordie is soooo much more than chug 1234 greg.

 

He is a master of arpeggios from another
world and making single twangy notes hit like an anvil the size of Jupiter. For
my money he does this way better than the little tiny bees in the jar chug
which every pants shitting toddler can do.

 

If Geordie’s legacy is too heavily
weighted with memories of chug it will be an abomination, and he would surely
be forgotten in short order.    

 

 









From:
gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of GREG SLAWSON

Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010
12:13 PM

To: gathering

Subject: Re: [kj] "In
Excelsis" on YouTube:



 

Wow, people are really down on poor old Geordie.
Correct me if I 'm wrong, but hasn't he pretty much been the master of heavy,
dense, 4/4 downstroke guitar for the past 30 years (with the exception of some
pop crap on BTATS and OTG)? I thought we liked that kind of guitar sound...

 







From: fluwdot at earthlink.net

To: gathering at misera.net

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:23:33 -0500

Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:



The bad:

 

What? Why can’t kj learn that less
is more, space is more important than yet another track of guitar buzz
saturating and obscuring what came before it. The guitar has no body, no power,
no point of existing. Why have Geordie play if what he creates sounds like a
kid who just learned IV chords at a guitar center on a POD.

 

1234 1234 downstrokes for a
groove…fucking lazy rudimentary and not interesting or
inspiring…for robot dancers only.

 

On the positive side:

 

The voice sounds better then the past
couple albums at least jaz isn’t trying to sound like a old warty toad
possessed by a B movie villain.

 

Youth doesn’t sound like he has in
the mid 90’s

 









From:
gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Rheinhold Squeegee

Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010
10:40 AM

To: Gathering Gathering

Subject: [kj] "In
Excelsis" on YouTube:



 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq2EBh8OFV8

 

For those who don't want to or can't download.

 

 







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