[kj] FW: public image reform

[Darren A. Peace]

I fall in to the exclusive category, in that case, who loves all the PiL
stuff. I have Visage records because McGeoch’s on them, so I’d love the
later stuff anyway, and the first two albums are milestones of excellence.

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Jim Harper
Sent: 11 September 2009 3:29 PM
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] FW: public image reform

 


I do agree with the complaints about the ticket price, it is far too steep. 

 

However I can see Lydon's motivation with the line-up. The Levene/Wobble
line-up might be (almost) everyone's favourite incarnation of the band, but
Lydon is clearly proud of everything Public Image have done. What's the
point in staging a band reunion if the core members can only play material
off the first two albums, never mind the other six? I can't imagine Wobble
or Keith Levene being particularly happy about wheeling out 'Seattle' or
'Don't Ask Me' every night.

 

PiL have always been a schizophrenic band- as one reviewer of Plastic Box
said, there are people who want to hear PiL's early material, and there are
people who want to hear the later stuff, but not to many who want both. But
Lydon has always been happy to delve into the whole PiL back catalogue, and
I think he's probably made the best choice here. Pity I'm not paying £45 to
see it!

 

Jim.

--- On Thu, 10/9/09, Peter Moltesen <sneakypete at uwclub.net> wrote:


From: Peter Moltesen <sneakypete at uwclub.net>
Subject: Re: [kj] FW: public image reform
To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'"
<gathering at misera.net>
Date: Thursday, 10 September, 2009, 6:19 PM

So Johnny boy is reforming Pil to celebrate Metal Box's 30th anniversary
with a line up featuring nobody else who actually played on that album ?

No Wobble
No Keith Levine 

And he's charging £45 for the pleasure of his company..........?

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated ? 


:o(



_______________________________________________
Gathering mailing list
Gathering at misera.net
<http://uk.mc259.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Gathering@misera.net> 
http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/gathering/attachments/20090912/72b8d86b/attachment.htm>