Geordie Walker
Geordie Walker (born Kevin Walker the December 18th 1958, in Chester-le-Street, county of Durham, the United Kingdom) is a guitarist of Post-punk and industrial Metal, especially known for its active participation with the career of the group Killing Joke.
Life and artistic career
During her childhood its family moves towards the south, in Milton Keynes, close to London. It is there that it will acquiérera its nickname, due to its strong accent “Geordie” (ndr: the North-East of the England).
Walker joined the founding members of the group Killing Joke in 1978 while answering an advertisement passed through the singer of the group, Jaz Coleman; Walker and Coleman will have been the only recurring members of the group since then.
Geordie Walker will have also been, during its long career, member of the groups of industrial metal Murder, Inc., The Ramming Manual and Pigface.
It is famous for its gilded guitar, a Gibson with semi-hollow case models ES-295 (of electric type “ Spanish”) only produced between the years 1952 and 1957. This guitar, désaccordée a tone lower than the normal to give D-G-C-F-A-D (D-ground-C-F-the-D) since the album Revelations in 1982 and on which Geordie adds distortion, Chorus and Réverbération, forged its single sound.
Although more known for its play of hypnotic and rough electric guitar, he is also follower of the acoustic Guitare, in an anecdotic way on Outside the Gate (1988) and Pandemonium (1994), and much more insistent on Democracy (1996).
It has habit to smoke on scene, even with the the United States where that is prohibited.
For the recording of the album Killing Joke (2003), Walker would not have been even paid sufficiently to buy a ticket of bus to go to the publisher, if one believes Jaz Coleman of it.
Walker lives with Detroit with his wife and his son, Atticus. Throughout recording of the album of Killing Joke Hosannas from the Basements off Hell left in 2006, it resided at Prague.
Related articles
Killing Joke, Murder, Inc., Pigface
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