[kj] front man Blunders

[fluw]

___inevitable__devacor

it may have been inevitable in light of the momentum of a band becoming 
more mainstream in the mid eighties. video directors have an easier task 
when there happens to be someone front and center, instead of trying to 
figure out how to effectively parlay the focus via the aggregate of 
people adorned with instruments. 

pointing the oculars at a lead man snogging an electro transducer is a 
more simplified objective no doubt.

but as for *not* being a /*blunder*./.. i disagree. the change in course 
the band took in terms of sound; since jaz went to the mic stand, kj 
keyboard sounds have not had the reverberant tintinnabulation of early 
killing joke. as if killing joke lost an /instrument/ or a/ member/.

since assuming the role of crazed bellwether, jaz lost his immersion in 
the whole and ceased creating those great soundscapes for the band to 
plunge through. and as witnessed through courtald talks, drunken tours, 
errant interviews, etc...jaz does not possess the magnetism to sustain 
such a position long enough to conclude in his promulgated success      

also if you consider this:
 
without the keyboard to keep jaz occupied - a musical tool/vessel in 
which to express himself sonically - he needed to find something to do 
with all his freedom...and that something became the uncomfortable 
plodding histrionics of a man in search of his more vital and effective 
skill; *music*ianship.

this observation is quite established: as an assize on this matter has 
been deliberated on many a time on the gathering over the past ten 
years, jaz's interest was effectively /more/ intense when he was adding 
to the whole /instrumentally/...instead of /drudging through leaden 
pantomime/, attempting to make his uncoordinated frame into something 
that might be construed as mildly captivating - during long repetitive 
kj tunes.


Devacor at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/24/2006 4:44:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> fluwdot at earthlink.net writes:
>
>     coming out from behind the keyboard
>
> ???- I would see this as inevitable and hardly one of the biggest  
> blunders...
>  
>
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