Arm's lost control again wrote: Perhaps Hooky could headline Glastonbury with his superb DJing skills?
Are you suggesting putting a stylus on the end of his arm so he could be a sort of human record player (rather than using a pre-mixed Mixmag CD)?
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Linus Solanki wrote:
PH: ...And this is one of the problems I had with the others suddenly deciding to take away New Order from me. That's a big asset of a company. And I felt that that the way they did it was sly and underhanded and, in my opinion, illegal. Which is why I'm seeking a legal remedy to it at the moment...
Notice a subtle shift of wording there... it used to be "when I split the band", now it's "I've had New Order taken away from me". Can someone who left a band later claim he had said band stolen from him?
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Linus Solanki wrote:
PH: Joy Division was a partnership that still functions today. And although Bernard, Stephen and I argue because they accuse me of stealing the music when in fact they played the music before me--which is another one of their delightful little contradictions that I find difficult to live with. That's supposedly why they took New Order away from me. It was because I was playing Joy Division music. But anyone is entitled to play anyone's music. And the fact that they played it before me in Bad Lieutenant doesn 't seem to come into the equation. ....
Trainspotter mode here, but technically Hooky got the whole ball rolling himself in this regard when Revenge covered "Failures" at live outings back in the early 90s. Electronic didn't do JD tracks live, but Revenge and Monaco did them frequently - how is that different to what BL did?
And, how can you possibly fail to see the difference between a few JD and NO tracks in a BL/Revenge/Monaco show, and an entire evening composed of JD albums played in their entirety, complete with sampled sound fx, etc? A bit disingenuous I think.
Only an opinion, mind...
CTB wrote:
Notice a subtle shift of wording there... it used to be "when I split the band", now it's "I've had New Order taken away from me".
Also, in this interview at least, he brought the subject up before the interviewer had chance to. Ive never noticed that before. He's not tired of talking about it, is he?😄
Very curious. Hooky didn't have New Order taken from him : he walked away, he quit, he left, he resigned : he chose to leave New Order, and thus, put New Order 'down'.
If the remaining members want to pick the band back up without him, that's up to them. If they didn't ask him to rejoin well, firstly he had chosen to leave, and secondly, I see the sense in not working with someone who is probably trying to sue you and screaming about it to any interviewer.
After all, you don't ring up your ex-wife and ask her if she fancies another try when you want another relationship, don you? Well, you can if you want, but I wouldn't.
