[kj] FW: Killing Joke's career/[OT] Other Bands...

[Jim Harper]

Their first guitarist was Jim Martin who played on the first four albums, from We Care A Lot to Angel Dust.
 
He's an okay guitarist, but it seems that he was very much into a 'metal' way of playing, very influenced by Sabbath and Zeppelin. Not necessarily a bad thing, but on Angel Dust it sounds like the rest of the band of challenging themselves and heading off into new directions, while Jim Martin was still playing the same kind of stuff he did on The Real Thing. He blames Patton for the band's new direction, saying that TRT was the band's pinnacle (Patton didn't contribute musically to that album). Kind of ironic, given that Martin put Patton's name forward after hearing an old Mr Bungle song; apparently he though Patton was pretty much a metaller, since the song was back from Bungle's death metal days...
 
Although their subsequent guitarists were better than Martin, they never quite stabilized the guitar position after that- three guitarist in two albums, recording King For A Day with one guitarist (Bungle's Trey Spruance) and touring it with another (Dean Menta, now with Sparks).
 
Jim.

--- On Mon, 22/12/08, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [kj] FW: Killing Joke's career/[OT] Other Bands...
To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Monday, 22 December, 2008, 5:54 PM








Angeldust is epic but I’d also have to loved to see FNM touring around the time of The Real Thing:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqXJYY11eA
 
Chances of getting laid have to be good after going to an early Mike Patton gig…
 
I’ve got all their albums, even the early ones, but I don’t even know the guitarist’s name. Reminds me of Kim Thayil. Damn good. 

 


      
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