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I dont check the site for a few weeks and miss J playing a 5 min bus ride away from me!
So is that it? After over a year of no show in UK acoustic or wired, we get one show?
Did J return to America afterward or is he somewhere in Europe?
K
well i havent actually found out how to convert RA files yet, but yes it has been a help thanks
and english isnt your first language you speak a dialect version!Only us wot live on this sceptered isle speak the queens english
I reckon my versions the correct one, it makes more sense I think and it scans better with the repetition of ‘so’ creating a fulcrum point mid line and ‘so who helps who’ and ‘so help me’ is a nice touch. J does demonstrate a good sense of poetic structure sometimes
K
thanks
btw
We’re all nuts so who helps who Some help when no one’s got a clue-J
I always heard ‘so help me no ones got a clue’
but then im british
well he may have been working for j, but i dunno. Looked more like some bloody first year film student the way he was waving it around.
the funny thing (i thought) was the guy who made him stop. This guy was one of those Ive seen at every gig Ive been too in the last 20+ years (maybe its the same one!). They are always extra tall,have weird blonde beards and hair and sort of disconnected body movements like someone cut the strings.
anyway, he got the camcorder guy to stop so hurrah for him
incidentally all through the late 70s early 80s I was a freelance photographer at gigs and invariably I would get in someones way if I wasnt in the pit or in the wings, but I would always move around so as not to piss the same people off constantly. (punks were not known for their gentle nature) Plus of course I kept my camera at my eye, not waving it around at arms length which helped. Essentially I took up no more room than anyone else
k
heh i havent been to dingwalls since i was a 17 year old punk in, ermmmm 1977.. and this wasnt it! Some horrible room.. I suppose the old one got pulled down to make yuppie £500,000 flats.. nice to see camden is still full of confused japanese youth wearing lampshades and other things they read were ‘cool’ in style mags.
Good show sound wise and not a bad view apart from some prat with a camcorder who seemed to feel this entitled him to distract everyone else with his lame camera moves.. plus the bugger was at least 6ft tall. Finally somebody even taller and more pugnacious made him stop -not that he did so with good grace. I hope that camcorder person was not one of ‘us’ cos if so he should be fucking ashamed of himself and should examine his selfishness more closely. You are very tall and you have a zoom lens, so you dont need to stand at the very front you git! J gave him the occasional look too, especialy when he virtually shoved the camera into his face
anyway, yes acoustic freakscene – sort of worked but the solo descended into sonic sludge as might have been expected – little of the new album. J seemed keen but Im sure he must be getting tired..I know i sort of drifted off during some of the solos although 99% were very good indeed. Hes got a punishing schedule and hes been playing these same songs a very long time indeed
For me its all worth it the very first time he goes ‘electric” mid song always a great moment especially when you see those audience members who didnt know/werent expecting it react. The sudden transition back to acoustic always gets a cheer too.
yeh he was very good, better than at metro I think… but I dont think I can see another J acoustic show for a while.. no matter how good the solos its getting a bit repetitive. I need to see him with a band again
K
Dont buy it because its irrelevant
Killing himself was cobains career move. If he was still alive we would have rejected his immature teen lyrics and dull tunes a long time ago
k
best get over to UK – london or brighton
now that J’s having his gall bladder out will he have less gall?
k
I havent been back to dingwalls since i was 17 year old punk in 1977… but here we go
£12.99!!! I think I paid £6 to see J in oxford street last month
I hope dingwalls has a new layout since 1977. Only the front few people could ever see anything, everyone else got to look at iron poles holding the roof up
k
so the uk gets a peel session and no more
seems a bit unfair, the bbc wont exactly be selling tickets
k
interesting pics, why do those people keep making that stupid shape with their hands. This is 2002 isnt it?
k
cortez the killer eh? Very true. J is rather shadowing neil young’s career. I heard some richie blackmore in the the album too, but then i am very, very old
why are there more reviews in foreign than in english? because we here in england are a lot ‘hipper’ and, im afraid, j’s music is deeply unfashionable. In belgium, netherlands, germany etc where musically time has stood still since about 1973 he gets a lot more notice.
k
Im afraid it was a poor joke. I didnt read to the end. If it was intended to be a pastiche it needed to be a lot sharper and wittier. Unfortunately, there are many reviewers who write like this in all seriousness and I assumed he was one of them.
k
