[kj] Rare Raven Footage (revised)
Jim Harper
jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Feb 9 18:13:42 EST 2018
Yeah, that's Ray McVeigh. I've never been entirely sure just how much of the guitar on the Zilch album was played by McVeigh. What I've heard of the Professionals doesn't convince me that he's particularly suited to drop-tuned industrial metal. And every note sounds like hide.
Jim.
On Fri, 9/2/18, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [kj] Rare Raven Footage (revised)
To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Friday, 9 February, 2018, 22:54
Notice the main guitarist
McVeigh(?) is playing a modified Gibson ES-295.
Raven looks kinda like Adam Clayton of U2 in
this clip.
T.B.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gathering [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of Jim
Harper via Gathering
Good evening everyone:)
I know we all like to see
unusual footage of the Blackbird in action, so I
though I'd post this up here.
Here's the backstory. As
most of you know, Zilch was a band recruited by
legendary Japanese guitarist hide with a group
of British and American
musicians: Raven on
bass, Ray McVeigh from the Professionals on second
guitar and Queens of the Stone Age drummer Joey
Castillo. They only recorded
one album
before hide's death in 1998, but the album also featured
guest
appearances from Jaz and Geordie, as
well as some familiar song titles:
Inside
the Pervert Mound and Psyche. It also featured a guest
appearance
from drummer Chris Vrenna, which
means that the entire KJ lineup that
recorded 'Our Last Goodbye' appear. Ray
McVeigh tried to keep the band gong
in a
blatant attempt to screw more money out of hide's
suicide, but Raven
refused to be
involved.
Now, the video
here is not a Zilch track. It's called
'Bacteria', and it's a
song from
hide's second solo album. Although Zilch are credited
with backing
vocals on the song, the music
is performed by hide and his then current
backing band. The song wasn't released as a
single, but a promotional video
was made,
and as you can see, it's not hide's regular band,
but Raven,
McVeigh and Castillo in the
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8X15saCO_0
Interesting glimpse of Raven
in a non-KJ setting.
Jim.
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