[kj] Damage Manual

[Jim Harper]

According to Martin Atkins, the original tapes sounded like two old farts stuck in the eighties. 

That's a quote. Whether it makes the originals sound more interesting or less is up to your own musical imagination.

Jim.

On Mon, 6/8/18, wessidetempest . <wessidetempest at hotmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kj] Damage Manual
 To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
 Date: Monday, 6 August, 2018, 15:32
 
 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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