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Thursday 24 August 2017

Example of that "crunchy" bass sound (bad sound quality)



Here is a poor sound quality clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP5nNur37A) taken off a VHS (or maybe super VHS?), or maybe even what was considered HD tape at the time. Anyway it's from a Killing Joke show from the 1986 era, which is often considered when things began to fall apart for the band, after having released an outrightly commercial rock album ("Brighter Than A Thousand Suns"). In this case, they perform one of my prefered tracks from the album (more on my views of Killing Joke later), "Twilight Of The Mortal" and if you listen carefully you will hear that "clanking", "crunchy" bass type played by my bass hero Paul Vincent Raven. After all it was after hearing his bass playing with Killing Joke that I myself decided to pick up the bass. Enjoy the clip, even if the sound quality is far from excellent.

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