[kj] Chameleons x KJ

[Alexander Smith]

  Never liked the Chameleons.

Alex in NYC


On Sep 20, 2010, at 6:12 PM, n0153 jr wrote:


> Was browsing through the Chameleons site and came across this  

> anecdote of the Joke... anyone familiar with this?

> On a note about the song Paper Tigers, it reads:

> Notes by Mark - During our early touring, back in the days when we  

> had 'an agent' (gasp!!) we found ourselves, courtesy of 'Wasted  

> Talent' down to support Killing Joke in Leicester. We arrived on  

> time ready to sound check. KJ arrived four and a half hours late and  

> we couldn't check until they had, very boring but no problem. That  

> is until we started our sound check. I plugged my bass in, played a  

> few notes to make sure everything was working and the sound guy  

> shouted "ok, good, now guitar." I started laughing and looked at  

> Dave and he did the same thing, struck a single chord to make sure  

> the leads were working and we got another "great, thanks" from the  

> sound engineer. We started shouting at them that we wanted a proper  

> sound-check, not a line check and they told us that there just  

> wasn't time due to the lateness of Killing Joke's arrival. Things  

> escalated and, noticing the band at the side of the stage, drawn by  

> the commotion, Dave and I unstrapped our guitars and ran at them.  

> Fortunately for them their crew managed to stop us before we got to  

> them. We told them all to fuck off and blew out the gig. Later a  

> spokesman for the band came over and apologised and hoped we'd play  

> the rest of the gigs with them but we told them were to go. Paper  

> Tigers came from that basically.

>

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