Somewhere in 1992 I walk over Hamburg`s wild mile Reeperbahn. It is any night during week and it is raining, but it feels good in my warm clothes and I enjoy the walk among the blinking lights reflecting on the wet and dirty streets. Suddenly a couple comes towards me, the female part says loud to her partner: "How beautiful, this guy looks so happy", which indeed I was. Aimlessly I enter any bar among the many to have a beer. A stage is set for concert there, but only another couple standing at one of the many high round tables is there with me, drinking. I join them with my drink, introduce myself and it turns out they come from the same little town as me, 600 miles away. She is a red-haired painting artist and we three get along very well, happy to use our local dialect in exile. Then the gig starts and it is KILLING JOKE, live here and only for us three and them - a love like blood. It was like a strange dream and I am glad I have my two witnesses this happened indeed.
2023 November 26 morning. Killing Joke gitarrist Kevin "Geordie" Walker has died in Prague.
I haven!t heard the sad news yet, only later the day when the first snow has fallen here.
That morning I study moving houses and antennas on roof tops, later I am in the forest, taking pictures of an impressive tree that seems to rise and turn around like a Lovecraftian kraken-monster in a stormy Sea.
Later my phone asks for the PIN-code. I head home to find it, turn many stones and look into many boxes. While at it I find old fotos from 1992 (me in POEMS FOR LAILA - KATAMANDU t-shirt) and another picture I had created, when I was six years old: Four jokers, one of them seems like a ghost.
A group member posted on the "FAUST" movie (1926) directed by F.W.Murnau 1926. The Murnau Foundation also cared about the GOLEM-film restauration, Prague and houses moving like wild trees.
In the mid-1990s, Walker lived in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit with his wife Ginny Kiraly, and his son Atticus. At the time of the recording of Hosannas from the Basements of Hell in 2006, he produced UK girl punk rock act Mary–Jane at Faust Studios in Prague. He later resided in Prague, where he co-operated with Studio Faust Records recording other artists's music.
Two times royalty: "Royal Oak" and Kiraly, which is Hungarian for "king". Also Atticus is not just of A Mockingbird fame, but relates also to King Attila the Hun.
The last 4 weeks I had spend a good time with a book from Joseph P. Farrell that came out this year: The GIZA DEATH STAR REVISITED, but - despite having pre-ordered this book already in April - damazon would NOT deliver it to me. Also the second time I tried to order it, they would not send it to me, but only take my cash and refund me later. The same thing happened my third time, when I ordered it from an antiquarium second-hand! Only when I asked a friend to order it on her name, she would receive the book. As if I should not read it. But now I do and I follow Prof. Farrells incredible research on his hypothesis - on the pyramid`s secret function as a sound(!) -weapon in awe.
I can totally recommend it, and the same is true for the follow up, which also came out this year: "The Demon in the Ekur - Angels, Demons, Plasmas, and Pyramids". Also I had enjoyed Walter Bosley`s "The Esoteric Napoleon" this summer a lot, where he tells in detail about the time Bonaparte had spent inside the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid.
Now Walker said reunion talk began in 1990, when Youth and Killing Joke were recording in the same studio. The deal was cemented two years later in 1992(!), and "Pandemonium" was made during the next 18 months -- with Coleman's vocals for one song, "Exorcism," recorded in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Egypt!
You can read, see and hear more about it here:
https://www.loudersound.com/features/killing-joke-inside-the-great-pyramid-at-giza
When hearing the clip of "Exorzism Live in the King`s Chamber" I think that also band MINISTRY must have heard from the material before it!s official release in 1994, in how their Psalm 69 album came out in July 1992 and sounds A LOT like them pyramish. While I think about it I get confirmation via Facebook (see below).
And a video with Jaz Coleman and Jimmy Page in Egypt, already in 1990:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLo-DSclqt8
I found this out today, on Full Moon Monday November 27: jokers day... four great jokers and one of them has left.
Addentum 28.11.2023: This morning I look for a quotation of Charles Fort and open a book:
"...Both on either side of this marvelous track, with its shining asphalt and neon light, there are great tracts of wild country, full of prodigies and mysteries.
Stop! Explore in every direction! Leave the high road and wander! Even if you have to make wild and clownlike gestures, as people do when they are trying to stop a car, no matter it`s urgent! Mr. Charles Hoy Fort, the Hermit of the Bronx, feels obliged to go through a number of clownish acts which he considers indispensable as quikly and as energetically as possible."
Louis Pauwles and Jacques Bergier: The Morning of the Magicians, page 118.
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