[kj] Casey Chaos talks up KJ

[Alexander Smith]

I hate to use this adjective in regards to the Joke, but that's kind of 
a sweet story.

Alex in NYC


On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 07:35 AM, NEIL PERRY wrote:

> From this month's Toffee Hammer, news item on Amen:
>
> 'On the upside to all this heartache has been a full
> US tour with punk legends Killing Joke which lead to
> Chaos and Joke frontman Jaz Coleman being referred to
> by one wag as "the father and son having deep
> conversations over in the dark corner".
> Casey Chaos: "There are a lot of singers that seem to
> be acting that 'crazy frontman guy' yet when you meet
> them they're all totally normal. Where as with Killing
> Joke, they're a whole band of nutbags! It's no wonder
> they changed the face of music. On the first day of
> the tour Jaz said to me, 'have your eyes seen what
> mine have seen?' so I said, 'No, I don't think so'.
> Then he went, 'do you know mesma?' I didn't know what
> the hell he was talking about. He was actually asking
> me if I knew how to mesmerise! He said everything I
> did was exciting and that he hadn't been that up about
> a band for 11 years!
> Every night we played, Jaz was right down the front
> watching us. He wants us to move to Prague just so he
> can record an EP with us but I've told him that we
> just don't have the money. He told me not to worry: 'I
> know one in four people in the Czech Republic, which
> means you know them too.' That guy just doesn't
> bullshit. He took me under his wing as if I was his
> own son. He's one in a billion."'
>
> Followed by a pic of Jaz with his arms around Casey
> and SOAD's Daron Malakian, with Jaz and Casey indeed
> looking like father and son. Good luck Casey...
> N
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