I didn't realise JJ Burnel has his own Martial Arts Club !

nicensleazy
nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
edited October 2009 in The bottom bracket
Interesting stuff http://www.shidokan.org.uk/

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I can just imagine it:

    Lesson 1: How to kick a music journalist in the head after he's written a bad review. :wink:
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    johnfinch wrote:
    I can just imagine it:

    Lesson 1: How to kick a music journalist in the head after he's written a bad review. :wink:
    I watched the Stranglers play in Coventry many years ago and the pogoing punks at the front of the crowd were showering the band with gob. JJB warned them to stop, but one punk just pogoed to the front and gobbed in his face. JJB promptly pole-axed him with his bass! :shock:
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    He must be getting on a bit....anyone know his age?
  • sicknote
    sicknote Posts: 901
    nicensleazy wrote:
    He must be getting on a bit....anyone know his age?

    Dont let age let you think that he is over the hill as my teacher is 66 and One other in his 50'ss and would not like to be on the wrong side of them. :wink:
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    he is well into his fiftys,isaw him on BBC breakfast news about three years ago on a feature about the over fiftys not behaving like the over fiftys.a bit sad really old punks(altough they never really were) never die they just go on breakfast tv,mind you they did appear with rolland rat back in the day,and cheggers plays pop.
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    nicensleazy wrote:
    He must be getting on a bit....anyone know his age?
    Wikipedia says he'll be 58 in February.
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    about time to hang up the bass me thinks,so is jet black in his 90s now.
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    thejesusandsedischain wrote:
    about time to hang up the bass me thinks,so is jet black in his 90s now.

    BB King played into his 90s ffs. JLH until his death in his 80s... dont see why the punks cant be the same
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    JJB's martial arts exploits are reknown - didn't he kick seven shades out of Sid Vicious back in 76-77?
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Monty Dog wrote:
    JJB's martial arts exploits are reknown - didn't he kick seven shades out of Sid Vicious back in 76-77?

    JJ had a fight with Paul Simonon of the Clash and he blames that as why the music press gave them a sore time.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Monty Dog wrote:
    JJB's martial arts exploits are reknown - didn't he kick seven shades out of Sid Vicious back in 76-77?

    Not much of an achievement, Paul Weller gave him a doing...
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
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    JJ Burnel, the most kick ass bass player to ever kick someones head in !

    In spite of this groups name, Jean Jacques Burnel is one of the nicest people I've ever had the honour of meeting, and although I've only met him 3 times, (and the last time was many years ago), I could have talked to him for hours. He wasn't up himself, listened to every word I had to say and I would have remembered the man even if he wasn't Jean Jacques Burnel.

    Where should I start with the long list of talents that belong to Jean Jacques Burnel, he's arguably one of the greatest bass players ever, combining aggression, melody and fluidity, if you ask me he's the best. Just listen to track such as 'Peaches', 'Dead Ringer' and 'nice n' Sleazy', or any other track of 'rattus Norvegicus', 'No More Heroes' or 'Black and white'.

    A lover of and now black belt in the martial art of dojo, a keen Triumph motorcyclist and complete with a quick temper, JJ was both the sex symbol of the stranglers and always in the thick of trouble either starting or ending it.

    Hostile, intelligent, aggressive and sometimes not knowing when to stop made him fair game for the critics which he often responded to with violence. JJ often found himself in confrontations and tangles with audience members, he kidnapped one of the bbc's most influential music journalist, brought the band it's association and following of the hells angels and kicked the face in of the Clash bass player Paul Simonon.

    He released a solo album Euroman Cometh in 78 which preceded the synth revolution just around the corner and featured ideas and comments on the United States of Europe which critics laughed at but very shortly began to come true.

    Of course, let's not forget that killer leather jacket.


    Taken from a web article.



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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Brilliant bass player with a distinctive style as good a bass player as ive heard live. Spent the late 70s as a teenager following them all over Scotland and North England much to my parents displeasure as i had to rough it a few times before catching an early morning bus or train . Took my own kids to see the Stranglers last year in Glasgow and they thought it was the best gig they had ever been to, (mind you they were comparing it with Boyzone and Girls Aloud) JJ was still the star of the show even if they are not quite the same without Hugh around.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    my first ever gig as a wide eyed 14yr old was the stranglers at sheffield city hall on the dreamtime tour,they seemed to have a large following amongst cyclists in the barnsley area in the mid eighties,havent seen them much lately,they were never the same when hugh left,having said that the output towards the end of the hugh years was pretty dire anybody played 10 more than once?.i now think the gospel is one of the most underrated albums of all time and one of my fav stranglers albums.you have to admire their staying power but they should have split after la folie and enhanced their cult status. JJ is an icon though always will be.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    thejesusandsedischain wrote:
    my first ever gig as a wide eyed 14yr old was the stranglers at sheffield city hall on the dreamtime tour,they seemed to have a large following amongst cyclists in the barnsley area in the mid eighties,havent seen them much lately,they were never the same when hugh left,having said that the output towards the end of the hugh years was pretty dire anybody played 10 more than once?.i now think the gospel is one of the most underrated albums of all time and one of my fav stranglers albums.you have to admire their staying power but they should have split after la folie and enhanced their cult status. JJ is an icon though always will be.

    Yea perhaps they should have wrapped it after La Folie but its still good to go along and have a peek even if its only to watch and listen to the master at work. Oh and my fav album is Rattus surely one of the best and most innovative albums of its time.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    your right about rattus along with psycocandy it must be one of the best debut albums ever,but as ever with the stranglers they never got the credit they deserved from the music press.their treatment of music jurnos prob contributed to this.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    I think the last album with Hugh '10' was a little weak and perhpas one of those albums to end their relationship with Epic or EMI, I can't remember which one.

    The present band are doing extremely well and not only have a hard core following but also younger music fans also attend Stranglers gigs. I think they are one of those well liked bands by all ages.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBKb0iZSTfo

    How good is this 1977 Hope and Anchor gig sheer raw energy.............


    and i wonder what Burt F. Bacharach made of this superb cover

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHN ... re=related
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    The raw bass on No More Heroes is great....superb early live footage!

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