Chords for JOY DIVISION & KILLING JOKE stories by Jaz Coleman

Hello everybody, this is jazz Coleman and I'm on the 13th floor
now the aim of this program is to
recapitulate on some of the tunes that really inspired me inspired my career their sort of
Music where I found common ground with my colleagues in killing joke
[Ab] For the best part, so I'm gonna have a look at my influences
which
Predominantly drawn from the late 70s and early 80s
And the first track I'm gonna play a piece of music that she
Was very close to me and I know close to the rest of the band at one time in somewhere around 79 80
[G] I did a co-headline with Joy Division the band Joy Division and
_ [A] There are many sort of iconic [F] photographs in my mind [F] I can remember
_ _ [E] Seeing in Curtis a very [N] fragile looking in Curtis
holding hands with his little Belgian girlfriend and
_ Everywhere he went he was holding on to it.
He looks very insecure and
And this has always stayed with me and I remember the last
date of the two with Joy Division, I remember walking backstage and I had a quick peep in
Into Joy Division's dressing room and there they were just sitting down in deathly silence minus hooky
I may add
And then then looking over into the killing joke dressing room and not everybody was just partying and smoking
and drinking and dancing and
And most raucous and they call this to this did scores every night they call this to
_ Northern gloom and southern stomp and they used to put like a football score
Whether depending on who's had the greatest effects and
of course hooky was always in our dressing room because he it was party central with Peter hook who's a
remains a dear friend of mine and
So it was an incredible time
_ To be living I remember driving
Driving to Berlin
Listening to the last Joy Division album, I think closer and and
after just learning the news that he'd
committed suicide and
At that time when he drove to Berlin the last part
I don't know if anyone ever did it out there the last part of the journey
Would always be through this kind of Russian base, which would have all these
SS-20 missiles that were quite clearly pointing towards the West
so it was a really crazy time and of course Berlin at that time was amazing because
There was a huge subculture
because most young Germans
to get out of going to the army and
Conscription they would go to West Berlin where they were safe basically so I had a massive
subculture or counterculture there
Which is very very exciting we ended up recording two albums in in in Berlin anyway, I digress I
can remember
_ watching many Joy Division concerts as we were playing with them and
The first thing you notice was that the audience never moved
they just stood there and watched and and sometimes Ian would
Would go into this kind of well he had epilepsy as everybody knows he'd go into these kind of
Trances, but I found that the music live it didn't rock the house
And it actually didn't project, but it was just great on record and this is one of the things I think
We all came to conclusions with
after
Consulting with King on the other hand like killing joke at the same gigs the place would just be very physical
Be a very physical
Expression and a close connection with the audience so it was different, but it had such a strong atmosphere
The track I'm gonna play you she's lost control.
It is the extended 12-inch version, which is just magnificent and
_ I've always had a great respect for Joy Division especially people like Peter hook who he really plays a tenor guitar and I
Jordi and myself
played with Peter hook and we did the fly spiel project which very few people are aware of a German project together and
He really wanted to be part of killing joke at one point, but he plays a
Sort of tenor guitar and and and why we did some amazing recordings together
It sounded like a hybrid between Joy Division and killing joke, [D] but it was an incredible project, but
You know and it's something that we're still talking about doing but anyway, she's lost control [Dm] this iconic track of the [Gb] time
79 [Dm] 80 the 12-inch version you're gonna [D] love this
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