[kj] Damage Manual

[wessidetempest .]

I’ve coincidently been revisiting both DM and MI. 
For the most part I liked MI. Some songs were filler and most were a tad to long. But that’s been the KJ mode since EDaVRE. 
DM had potential but the majority of it is filler.  If I remember Geordie and Jah were gripping about it as it came out. Over produced, Martin essentially sampled everything and remixed/edited the songs. The core concept looked great in type. The live show was a phone in. You can tell Geordie didn’t want to be there. Connolly tried. 
And in typical Atkins fashion he tried milking that cow dry. I think there was a MI attempt also. 

> On Aug 6, 2018, at 10:16 AM, Stephen Robinson via Gathering <gathering at misera.net> wrote:
> 
> Bit quiet init?
> 
> Anyway, I was just reading an interview with Jah Wobble and he mentioned Damage Manual, I had the CD EP back in the day, didn’t bother with the album, which probably says it all. 
> 
> Songs with too long, pointless fiddly, intros, and outs, all over produced, just let us hear Gordie playing his guitar and Wobble doing his thing under it. get all that rubbish off the mix, Even in 2000 that scratching sounded embarrassingly dated.
> 
> Their best song was just a remake of when the Levee breaks, all in all a waste of the talent involved, and even worse, the group Damage Manual keep pumping out records after Geordie and Jah Wobble had left. 
> 
> Oh dear. Another Martin Atkins cash in. 
> 
> But what say you? Tell me how I’m wrong and they’re only the group Murder Inc. could have been.
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