[kj] at last...
Darren A. Peace
dpeace at bigfoot.com
Fri Jun 25 14:16:13 EDT 2010
Without any sense of irony?
I think I paid £80 or £90 for an autographed Incomplete Collection,
which was doubly daft as I already had an unautographed one.
Darren
Hungerford, UK
On 25 Jun 2010, at 19:13, jon chapman <jonniespatula at hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:
> Paid 200 quid for The jokes on you about 9 years ago.
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> From: dpeace at bigfoot.com
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:13:25 +0100
> Subject: Re: [kj] at last...
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> I think mine was a BBC transcription disc with a KJ set on one side
> and a Shriekback on the other. I paid around £100 in about 1986.
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> My Dub tape has a crappy photocopy of Youth + spliff.
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> Darren
> Hungerford, UK
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> On 25 Jun 2010, at 18:08, jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:
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> What's the most outrageous relative-to-income purchase of KJ-related
> material anyone here has made? (Dave Wright is disqualified from
> answering, 'cos we all know.)
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> I think mine was a couple of videos from Camden Market in about
> 1988. I'd never seen a KJ video bootleg before, and I just *had* to
> have one or the other... and then I decided that I might never see
> another one, so I bought them both. As I recall, they were £15 and
> £20 quid. At the time, I was on the dole, which was about £70 per f
> ortnight.
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> So, I spent an entire week's income on a couple of atrocious-quality
> videos. I bet that's nothing compared to what the rest of you have
> done....
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> Jamie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpwhkj at aol.com
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Sent: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:00
> Subject: Re: [kj] at last...
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> Yours has a picture? I feel cheated! <grin>
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> Mine is dayglo orange paper with the spine title done with letraset,
> and hand-written track titles; underneath the dayglo paper is the
> standard TDK D90 card, with KJ In Dub hand-written on the spine.
> The actual cassette was just a plain D90, without even a label.
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> The Original Killing Joke cassette that I bought at the same time
> was in the same format. I knew they were bootlegs of bootlegs, but
> I'd never seen either of them before, so it was a no-brainer. As I
> recall, each cassette cost £3. Money well spent!
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> I've just listened to it, and it's better than I remember, but still
> not great. Sound quality is pretty naff.
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> Jamie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PHIL TOFIELD <phil.tofield at virgin.net>
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net
> >
> Sent: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:46
> Subject: Re: [kj] at last...
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> I really want to hear this again now but my copy is in storage :(
> If I remeber correctly, the cover is a b&w picture of Youth sat at a
> mixer with a big spliff in his mouth
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> On 25 June 2010 16:19, <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:
> Rob - does yours include the WTF-era Skinner session?
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> Does anyone know when this was released? The material is all 79-81
> (first ep->WTF) so presumably it was recorded in 81 or perhaps early
> 82, but I wonder if it was released (by Youth?) after the Joke
> split...
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> Just found my cassette copy, the full title given is: In Dub (Studio
> Out-takes)
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> Jamie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Moss <rob.moss at gmx.com>
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net
> >
> Sent: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:23
> Subject: Re: [kj] at last...
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> I bought a cd of it years back thinking it would be better quality
> than that which I had heard.
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> It isn't but you are welcome to a copy if you send me your address.
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> But no more of those naked pictures of yourself like last time eh?
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> On 25 Jun 2010, at 14:42, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Wow, thanks... Why am I only hearing of this now after 30 years of
> searching out every KJ-related item...
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> Anyone have a good-quality version of this?
> N
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> On 25 June 2010 15:38, PHIL TOFIELD <phil.tofield at virgin.net> wrote:
> its an old bootleg of 1st and 2nd album tracks remixed in a dub
> stylee by Youth. Ive got it on cassette somewhere. The mixes were
> pretty good, but the sound quality on the tape is very poor.
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> On 25 June 2010 13:40, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:
> "stuff off the Killing Joke In Dub bootleg"
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> What's that then? Is it good? Do you have it? Can I have it? :)
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> N, still waiting for the postman (mine does involve international
> post, which makes me a bit nervous)
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> On 25 June 2010 13:26, <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:
> Further thoughts, typed as I listen for the first time:
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> In Excelsis is much better on CD than the version we'd previously
> heard. I like it a lot.
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> Endgame still doesn't do it for me. Quite chuggy guitar; Jaz sings
> a bit, but quite growly vocals; not very catchy; no underlying funky
> vibe. I pressed "Next" before it was over, not 'cos it's really
> awful, but because I want to hear...
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> Kali Yuga is really powerful! Excellent singing from Jaz.
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> Ghosts is just starting... sending a shiver down my spine, partly
> anticipation from what everyone's said, partly the eerie dub
> sounds... It's *very* unusual - totally different from anything
> they've done in the last 30 years. Harks back to that first EP.
> Great that they've taken a musical risk again - it's been far too
> long.
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> (Just thinking that it's great that they have so much material. On
> previous "recent" albums, it's felt like they included pretty much
> everything available in order to fill an album.)
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> Jaz's vocals on Ghosts are still a bit growly, but he is *singing*
> which is great.
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> OK, now for the dub version. Sounds ....unsurprisingly.... like
> some of the stuff off the Killing Joke In Dub bootleg. And sorry
> Jaz, but I prefer it without vocals! Some wicked guitar in there.
> I could live without some of screechier siren noises, but overall it
> works really well. Love the way the guitar blasts in. This feckin'
> rocks!
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> It's over. Time to press "Play" again. This reminds me of what it
> was like to get your hands on new Killing Joke record back in the
> eighties...
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> By the way, mine is numbered 789. What about the rest of youse?
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> Jamie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpwhkj at aol.com
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Sent: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:56
> Subject: at last...
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> Nothing on Monday.
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> Nothing on Tuesday.
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> Nothing on Wednesday.
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> Nothing on Thursday.
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> But it arrived today.
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> First thought: artwork looks better in my hands than on the web.
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> Second thought: remove cassette from stereo and put on IE CD.
>
> Here we go...
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