Longtime Killing Joke member Martin ‘Youth’ Glover has posted a eulogy for his late bandmate Geordie Walker, who passed away over the weekend. “Nonetheless in shock and laborious to consider he’s not with us,” he wrote. “At all times appeared indestructible to me. Bullets bounced off him. He was really destined to be. No man was cooler than Geordie, one of many perfect and most influential guitarists ever.”
Youth continued:
He was like Lee Van Cleef meets Terry Thomas through Noel Coward. Very charming, inscrutable and gracious, with a mild easy contact, ( each on the guitar and making you’re feeling welcome) that’s, when he wasn’t shredding you along with his razor sharp articulate shrapnel. He was a virtuoso gunslinger, each along with his music and verbosity. He wouldn’t hesitate to throw his flicknife into the blending desk and demand a two bar depend, not 4, for his drop in, which all the time managed to focus the engineers consideration !
He understood that the chemistry was the rub and that’s really the place the magic and soul was ….within the battle.
He was my trainer, accomplice and at occasions a terrifying foe.
Eternally grateful for the celebs colliding that introduced our fates collectively.
He’s now flying excessive with The Valkyrie’s, on his strategy to the halls of Valhalla, the place his seat on the desk of legends is most definitely assured.
He outlined a era or three along with his genius.
I’m personally honoured and privileged to have served with him and share a imaginative and prescient with him of what the band might grow to be after which see it go means means past that and what any of us might have imagined.
Pondering of his household, mom and family members, band mates, all of the followers, gatherers and lots of musicians he has influenced along with his visionary taking part in and writing.
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