Killing Joke Live The Tube 16/12/83

[@ornamentum5579]

Geordie RIP....Fucking James Dean on the old plucker....what a musician

[@merrymack2926]

Always loved their sound. We all felt it - the tone of his voice, unique orchestration, rhythm -- it will always be so awesome. Geordie (R.I.P.) was so beautiful 😢 ... Slainte!!

[@phoebsc5993]

Utterly gutted ref Geordie. Huge KJ fan and so glad I saw them live)

[@danielsjeff]

Saw this in the UK when it was broadcast - showing my age! Loved it then - love it now. Timeless.

[@userfxnet]

0:00 - Dominator 3:20 - Eighties 6:10 - Frenzy

[@merlin5476]

Bizzare that this was 1983... because thats roughly how many times I've seen it 👍🎵

[@carlosdelcid6841]

Killing joke is so underrated.. is one of the best bands ive ever heard...concept...sound..everything...these guys even invented new sound styles...they are really mindblowing...

[@DJAlgorhythms]

You lost me at “underrated.”

[@scrambleddimension7361]

Theyre actually pretty popular and were huge in the 80s

[@roddockstader89]

Still killing in 2021

[@mapndo2337]

@@roddockstader89 dude their new material is fucking brilliant!!!!

[@gogoyubari366]

What makes you believe they're underrated?

[@ifutureman]

Geordie is in my top five guitar tones ever

[@kendavid891]

Long live the Kings,Killing Joke

[@danielmoraes743]

Mine too

[@davidpattee3472]

My FAVE guitar player in style and tone!

[@danielmoraes743]

@@davidpattee3472 does any one know his rig?

[@charlottelopez4181]

Literally just was saying this yesterday

[@nickturner4150]

Saw them 6 days later after recording this in Leeds. I was 16. It was a jolly good night.

[@FlippantOne]

This totally rules. Such a killer band. One of my all time faves.

[@3rdmm]

"Eighties" wouldn't be released until April `84. Wonder if this could have been the first public play of it.

[@gr3y_eminence]

I think this was!

[@JonathanGoslan]

Blew my tiny teenage mind... Imagine coming home from school, switching on the telly and seeing something like this today! Inconceivable! And undeniable, fossil evidence that some people have diluted audio-visual culture to a point where there can be no more surprise excitement.

[@saintgeorge6706]

Sadly that is the snowflake generation for you.

[@TheDaveman75]

I blame Simon Cowell. He's sucked the creative soul out of music and turned it into glorified, over produced karaoke.

[@bobmitchell6775]

Georgie caught my ear on John Peel originally, and I still have admiration to this day for the constant musicality in his symphonie sound. Unique 👍

[@ianholmes3761]

The tube was brilliant every Friday night had some good bands on.

[@Drjackdempsey9644]

Hate to live in the past, but I’d do anything to go back to those times.

[@patkelly3966]

Category " Education " haha nice one.

[@celticwarrior1365]

This is the Joke at their primitive best!

[@davethecrow]

30 quid blah blah blah

[@ashleymonday298]

Banshees reference?

[@southerner4566]

@@ashleymonday298 Arabian Knights

[@nix4pool]

Saw this band in mid 80's in Liverpool, my ears are still ringing now! Phenomenal band

[@kendavid891]

Gosh I was smitten then 15 years old!!still listening 40 years later,2019

[@duncancampbell8295]

me too!

[@Dracconn_X]

Such a great band with awesome performances RIP Geordie 🌟

[@SuperCroc69]

40 plus years now and consistently brilliant. Name another band that does this, seriously would like to hear them.

[@PaulUpdike-s8k]

Voivod.

[@spankymacfarlan]

Dominator here far outweighs the studio version. I clearly recall watching this performance on The Tube as it occurred and still have the footage on home video cassette somewhere in the attic.

[@RagedContinuum]

yeah - needs a remaster and release

[@hudsonsirheshicks2653]

Absolutely badass. Totally superior to the album versions (minus “Eighties”). The crowd must have been just blown away. Hard to believe this is 1983, the sound, drive and punch here is easily way ahead of its time. Coleman, one of the greatest frontmen of all time; his commitment and how the music takes hold of him reminds me of one Peter Garett, of Midnight Oil. Catch the fucking brilliant concert Oils On Water (1985) to see what I mean...

[@TheLostBoy1974]

Dick B. Danglin Oils on the water is mind blowing! One of the greatest rock performances of all time.

[@rminter44]

Its too bad i only heard them frok outside tge main auditorium while i waiting in line for 40 minutes to get my Tool sweatshirt.

[@gr3y_eminence]

@@rminter44 I wish I had seen The Joke more often when I could have still seen shows. Also a Tool fan. I missed the crazy intense Maynard of the Undertow days, but glad to have seen them nonetheless. I heard Tool with KJ in 2019 and thought, damn I'd love that but that's going to cost $$$ bank, you know. lol. After Tool I got into King Crimson, when asking about influences. Killing Joke though they've got a fucking killer back catalog and later saw they connected to a bunch of bands I liked in industrial and electronic genres. I just love it. Like several bands in one, some of the albums are at first often putting once you get into one era of their sound, but you look up the lyrics and there's all this great thought put into it which runs over 40 years. Normally don't find the time to rave about a band in my 30's, but with all this "time" lately and so many good rare live video uploads of them from the 80s, I've found them all worth catching bit by bit.

[@Abruzzo333]

Is it me or are the some of the lyrics slightly different in this early version of Eighties?

[@demo3456]

Name me another band that literally puts off this kind of energy.,.. Jaz used to scare the hell out of me when I was like 5 watching stuff like this in the 80s haha the only thing I'd change would be that I could of been to all these shows. To have seen those nights with KJ and JD playing together would of been priceless

[@richardclarke376]

absolutely brilliant and Jaz is still just as good today! Imagine Jaz wrote Love Like Blood in his early 20s. Most people appreciate its content only decades later

[@sisteray3539]

One of the best bands ever!

[@wilson2810]

awesome guitar tone!

[@OldSethOnetooth]

I remember recording this onto betamax video when it went out.

[@JonathanGoslan]

And playing til the drop-out was so bad you couldn't see anything anymore.

[@sisteray3539]

I have it too on vhs. Used to watch it all the time as a kid

[@danielmoraes743]

@@sisteray3539 you guys should upload

[@deeder2000]

I agree with the comments about snake-like moves by the guitarist - v. original, as is his guitar-playing! Theirs is such an original sound that it hasn't been, or cannot be copied!

[@1599maybole]

He only ever used one guitar. Served him fine. Awesome guitarist

[@Leonidas7410]

Los Rammstein de los 80 que bueno 😂🤘👌

[@suzi8277]

I was merely 12 years old.......Love it. Whenever I heard it on the radio I would blast it!!!

[@coley2340]

Yes! I remember watching this, in awe, when it was originally aired in 1983.

[@paulf1734]

Absolutely Gutted.. R.I.P Geordie.

[@mjc4462]

Raven rocking The Peaky Blinders look. RIP.

[@cindywebster8167]

Now thats my boys!!! Love em always!!

[@GriefTourist]

This show gave exposure to a lot of under exposed bands but unfortunately not my favourite band the Chameleons!

[@pinktigerstripes2824]

Obsessed with this performance

[@dbdillboy]

Always loved them,saw them many times in Boston MA,incredible band,for some reason I started thinking about them,turned on KZbin,this shows up,fuckin incredible,Geordie you are incredible,Jaz you Blow me away!

[@UrbanTaxi99]

Way ahead of their time... love them to death

[@bobk9879]

Tremendous back then and tremendous now! Thanks for uploading 👍

[@PAULLONDEN]

This was actually live....Love the snake movements of the guitar player.....

[@celticwarrior1365]

PaulLonden Geordie has to be the most laid back guitarist on the planet yet produces a sound like no other!

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Watch some youtube guitar covers. You just can't do Geordie right until you get the "efforless strum."

[@alanhigginson7679]

I saw them in 83--84 at the cedar club in Birmingham the drummer passed out on the kit great band

[@jaylashmenn5999]

Frenzy. That is that coolest Mooozt badass song eVvVeRtr

[@SteveAFCLondon]

Rip Raven. What a bass player.

[@SumRemex1]

Who else made a Wal bass growl like that?? No-one, ever!

[@duncancampbell8295]

yep

[@LaepsynPaepsyn]

Saw him with Prong in '94. Was not disappointed. Then I heard of his passing at a young age. Such a shame.

[@TheWolfsnack]

@@SumRemex1 Um...Youth Glover?

[@efg1673]

Raven is holding it down!

[@CrimsonThorns]

- He was 22yrs old there...i miss him...RIP Paul Vincent Raven

[@stevewilson9479]

i saw em on this tour in Hull Spring Theatre..i was only 14...I said my mam was on the bar! Happy days..great gig !

[@logiclust]

RIP paul

[@celticwarrior1365]

Hope you mean Raven and not Big Paul. Haha!

[@konducta3095]

Best vocals of Dominator! much better than the other versions.

[@martinfitzgerald1605]

A marvelous start to the weekend, 80's of course. Watch The Tube with Jools and Paula and then down to the Friars for the evening. 🍻

[@gregstevens2917]

Holy shit, that was awesome. RIP Geordie...not gonna lie, that one hurt. He was such an amazing player... :(

[@efg1673]

Effin'ell they were tight at this show. Sound and performance was great!

[@sublime12201]

Sooo many bands trying to sound like killing Joke... But there's only one killing Joke !!

[@antonio47anos]

the bass very good!

[@danielamaria-kay]

Si sottovalutati, è una band che mi ha dato tantissimo la chitarra di Geordie è unica, i contenuti. Una band di nicchia. Ciao Geordie ❤️🎸 tu VIVI PERCHÉ SEI GIÀ LEGGENDA 🌹🌈

[@mrnhkr]

god i love jaz coleman with my whole body and soul

[@RUDI-UK]

Now i know where Nicky Wire stole the look he had during 'The Holy Bible' era.

[@TaraVanflower]

Geordie always looks so cool as a cucumber.

[@sublime12201]

Man......eighties live is UNBELIEVABLE

[@spookybuk]

Geordie the King

[@trevorloughlin1492]

Maniac energy level: Somewhere in between Devo and Southern Death Cult. Image: Ziggy Stardust reincarnated as a zombie. Quite impressed though at the time I was so into the Bunnymen and Chameleons I wrongly dismissed them as noise merchants.

[@BGNOLA]

Reminds me of the Undead from Phantom of the Paradise

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Fire Dances (4th album) does not get the love it deserves. Had the manifestation of nuit. Sorry, was that some kind of secret?

[@TJGornik61]

Got back stage, Phantasy Night Club, Lakewood Ohio in the mid 80's. Killer show, but the lads were smoking some gawd awful weed. So I pulled out a joint and passed it around....Jaz especially commented on the potency and proceeded to bogart. They were real nice guys, especially Geordie.

[@andrewburgess633]

So good!

[@TheFunktipus1]

That was ace.

[@dogtownsurf]

Amazing

[@lonniewild9277]

those kids don't know how to mosh - and get a load of the phones they're using to video this - they're like as big as a suitcase!

[@Abruzzo333]

They're dancing, which is way cooler IMO. Always thought moshing was a bit stupid since I started going to shows in the early 90's.

[@mez6323]

Killing joke best band live by miles. It's a religious experience! No one comes close!!!!

[@shawntaylor8637]

You can tell Kurt C. was a fan

[@cherylchaison5085]

She pass away wear similar makeup on thier video called soluh both killing joke and she pass away are standout bands from two different eras

[@cheryl7785]

Georgie is always so cool

[@rodolfoconcha2379]

3,26 ......come as you are Nirvana ?!?!? In 1983 ??? , come as you are KJ !! , Nirvana is a fake

[@jacobbuchanan4317]

Rodolfo Concha killing joke stole the riff from The Damned

[@southerner4566]

@@jacobbuchanan4317 Life goes on.

[@Abruzzo333]

I recall reading an interview where they said they were inspired by the 60's song 'Baby Come Back' by The Equals. IMO Come As You Are sounds completely different in nearly every way and is a great song in it's own right.

[@jamesgaskell3982]

Wish I'd been there.

[@thedukeofchortlebury9124]

THE GOVERNORS.

[@fabdb8208]

Perfect

[@keithgardner2646]

RIP Geordie

[@reyesnoemi1267]

Joderrr que buenos

[@friendlyghost6564]

this is something else

[@johnringoo756]

Yes!!

[@michaelperry6641]

🤘❤️🤘

[@friedrichnietzsche6153]

Enrico Macias en uniforme de Tsahal

[@Man_Ray78]

First Joker

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Ever read the Batman comic "The Killing Joke?" The artist said he used Jaz as the Joker's face. Kinda obvious really.

[@stuarttomlinson802]

Legends

[@stefaanvandendriessche2805]

Laugh at your own peril

[@andyjordan79]

Genius and then there's kj

[@reyesnoemi1267]

The best España

[@AvailableHandle]

Named for irony?

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

You think?

[@reyesnoemi1267]

Joder4rr q buenos

[@reyesnoemi1267]

Muero con ellos

[@attentionaddicts]

The second song sounds like Come as You Are - Nirvana

[@robertvonvolland4737]

It's kinda the other way around!

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

@@robertvonvolland4737 That's the joke. Kurt's favorite band.

[@roddockstader89]

Ahead of their time...

[@Mob557]

Song names

[@STEVEFINNERTY]

such a better band with youth, hes such a dullard

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Raven's a different cookie. Youth has his own style to complement the guitar. Raven is 100% driving the drums.