[kj] Question

[Janean Lancaster]

Well, I hope you're not a Residents fan - $100,000 for their box set...

http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/21538/the-residents-release_100_000-ultimate-box-set

Cheers,
Janean

On 10/01/2013 05:54, Brendan Quinn wrote:

>

> Box sets...I dunno, you drool over the idea of buying it for a week or 

> three, then after a drastically boozy and disappointing night out with 

> a bunch of Robbie Williams fans you cave in and fork out a 

> not-so-small fortune (including currency conversion and exorbitant 

> postage) for the Super Deluxe limited / numbered / signed / 

> cubic-zirconium-encrusted / ermine-fringed version (because you're an 

> ELITE FAN, not because you're a drunken fool), you wait with baited 

> breath........six agonising weeks later it arrives but you have to 

> pick it up from customs and pay as much as you already paid for the 

> whole package cos they think you're trying to smuggle a blunderbuss 

> into the country in parts using a homemade submarine, the bottom 

> corner's slightly dinged in, so you open it up, go through the 

> mini-posters (that you will never post) and singles and booklet ever 

> so gingerly with jeweller's gloves and a hockey mask on so as not to 

> smear a cheesy-snack-dust-covered thumb-print on it...then later on 

> that night you're three songs in and trying not to feel WRONG because 

> they've painfully re-ordered songs that you've listened to in a 

> particular order since the Nixon administration...and noticing that 

> yes, they have indeed fucked up the mastering and over-compressed it 

> all to shit to cater to gormless iPhone toting kids, and the originals 

> -- which you have all of - sound much, much better, just like that 

> bloke who looks like Comic Store Guy from The Simpsons who did the 

> Youtube video where you got into a seven-page-long argument with 

> another fan over a misunderstanding about a piece of trivia which it 

> turns out was about another band anyway, said (pause for breath)...and 

> you swear that's definitely the last time you ever buy anything a) off 

> the internet b) drunk and c) that you ALREADY FUCKING HAVE, and 

> somehow you STILL manage to get a permanent, prominent, oily, orange 

> cheesy-snack-dust thumb-print right over (insert lead-singer's) face, 

> which now has cat hairs stuck to it...and you DON'T EVEN HAVE A 

> FUCKING CAT (you're allergic to cats)....so you stay up for hours 

> torturing yourself by listening to how bad it sounds, but ripping it 

> to FLAC anyway, and you eventually come to the drunken conclusion that 

> you know one thing that can get rid of EVERY STAIN KNOWN TO MAN...so 

> you go off to get your lighter, *and that's when things start to go 

> downhill...*

>

> Maybe it's a me thing.

>

> **

>

> *From:*gathering-bounces at misera.net 

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] *On Behalf Of *Darren Peace

> *Sent:* Thursday, 10 January 2013 5:23 a.m.

> *To:* A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> *Subject:* Re: [kj] Question

>

> Guy mentions various Killing Joke-related incidents in his excellent 

> autobiography, but I don't recall him saying he'd played on anything.

>

> I'd always assumed Raven was on Birds Of A Feather.

>

> Perhaps the book in this FUCKING BOX SET will clear it up.

>

> Darren

>

> Hungerford, UK

>

> On 8 Jan 2013, at 12:52, "Phillipps, Marc" 

> <Marc.Phillipps at nclondon.nhs.uk 

> <mailto:Marc.Phillipps at nclondon.nhs.uk>> wrote:

>

>     I have read somewhere that Guy played on Revelations! . . . . he

>     is an old friend of Youth & Alex P so there may be some mileage in

>     the rumour?

>

>     He's on Twitter, I may ask him

>

>     *From:*gathering-bounces at misera.net

>     <mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net>

>     [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] *On Behalf Of *Rob Moss

>     *Sent:* 08 January 2013 12:19

>     *To:* Gathering

>     *Subject:* [kj] Question

>

>

>

>     Seems very quiet by the way................

>

>

>     But anyway. I have been asked a question and i am not 100% sure of

>     teh answer.

>

>     Did raven actually play on Birds of a Feather.

>     I thought someone said that it was a session player - Guy Pratt.

>

>     Anyone know for sure? Wiki says he did but y'know..............

>

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