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RIP.

he had a blog on the Kiling Joke website around the time of the 2003 Killing Joke album (even though Youth/Martin Glover and Geordie ended up playing bass on the album), and he mentioned a warning from his doctor that he had to stop drinking.

80's and Love like blood have great basslines. I think the Nighttime album has got the remaster/expanded release now.

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My favourite memory of Raven is on the Night Time tour ('85 or '86) - some geeza got on stage at the Oxford Poly gig & was charging around like a madman. Got too near to Raven & bang - he dropped him with one punch - without missing a note of his bassline. Class.
A proper old school bass playing hard man.

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[quote name='ARGH' post='77802' date='Oct 22 2007, 05:56 PM']IS this for real?

Because Its a VERY VERY Killing Joke thing to do!

I had a right session on KJ last night,great Bassist..Live like Kings and Queens....[/quote]


[url="http://www.killingjoke.com/"]http://www.killingjoke.com/[/url]

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[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7056986.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7056986.stm[/url]

that's Youth in that pic, isn't it?

also Gideon Coe is playing "requiem" on 6music right now as a tribute to Raven- that was Youth too, wasn't it?

ah well, it's the thought that counts.....

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[quote name='SJA' post='77962' date='Oct 22 2007, 11:58 PM'][url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7056986.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7056986.stm[/url]

that's Youth in that pic, isn't it?

also Gideon Coe is playing "requiem" on 6music right now as a tribute to Raven- that was Youth too, wasn't it?

ah well, it's the thought that counts.....[/quote]


Yes - you're right that's Youth in the pic (probably 'Follow The Leaders' off TOTP as it's the BBC)...
I've emailed the BBC site to complain - as I'm sure it would upset me if I was one of his family.
And 'Requiem' was most definitely Youth playing bass.
They could have made a bit more of an effort to get it right!

[b]UPDATE:[/b] Well fair play to the BBC - they've taken down the wrong picture since I emailed them (I expect other people did as well).

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pics in the Killing Joke blog-
[url="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47477713&blogID=321287968"]http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...07D591C30201019[/url]

below the pic of him with a warwick, looks like a Stingray cutlass (graphite neck)
I think it's the same one he's using in the video of prong's "snap your fingers snap your neck".

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[quote name='SJA' post='78423' date='Oct 23 2007, 05:02 PM']pics in the Killing Joke blog-
[url="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47477713&blogID=321287968"]http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...07D591C30201019[/url]

below the pic of him with a warwick, looks like a Stingray cutlass (graphite neck)
I think it's the same one he's using in the video of prong's "snap your fingers snap your neck".[/quote]


Good article here on his gear...
[url="http://www.gearwire.com/paul-raven-killing-joke-ministry-prong.html"]http://www.gearwire.com/paul-raven-killing...stry-prong.html[/url]
I remember him using Status & Trace gear for one tour - he's used loads of stuff over the years - was using Warwick amps & Schecter basses for the last Killing Joke tour he did (before he left the band that is).

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