This should be of interest. Suela, the xdollarx group moderator, just posted this to the group at http://groups.yahoo.co.uk/group/xdollarx about the subject of KLF/X$X. I think she's been 'connected' to Michael K more than most;-)and definitely is the number 1 insider for what's going on although even she says she doesn't know the half of it But quite illuminating on this subject... Ray ------------begin quote------------------- Subject: [xdollarx] Re: X$X/KLF Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 08:10:52 -0000 From: "suelajordan" <suelajordan@yahoo.co.uk> Reply-To: xdollarx@yahoogroups.com To: xdollarx@yahoogroups.com Hmmm..you're not the only one who finds this a bit boring, especially as I know little about the KLF and havent really heard any of their records. Before my time, I think. Either that or The KLF were a bit of a boy's group:-) I just never noticed them at all. I discussed this in the long interviews I did with the 'real' (?) Michael K and he also said that The KLF had pretty much passed him by until their last record and their split and that The Black Room title for the first X$X CD-Rom was pure coincidence. I can't put up the interview section I'm talking of until I see which parts were used by the magazine I sold it to. I sold on an exclusive basis so until I get paid I'm not going to risk it:) Whatever they don't use reverts to my copyright, so if the stuff on KLF was not of interest (which is likely), I'll put it up. But in essence, 'The Black Room' title referred to two things in K's original gameplan. One was a book by Colin Wilson (1971) which is about sensory deprivation experiments using black rooms with no sound or light, AND most importantly, 'The Black Room' at Apple Corps Ltd, Savile Row in the 1960's where The Beatles stored all the unlistened to demos, unread manuscripts et al which followed their launch of the Apple organisation. K said that when he discovered the KLF by hearing 'The White Room' on the comedown after his first 'E' and then reading the gatefold sleeve of the 'Who Killed The Jams?' LP which documents all the press received by the inital KLF outings under that name. He said he recognised fellow travellers and became interested after the fact. Almost simultaneously with that, KLF fans became interested in X$X because of the title of the initial X$X CD-Rom which was well ahead of the pack in 1992 and the X$X/KLF connection went from there. He also mentioned meeting Drummond but I didn't pursue it as I didn't even realise at the time of the interview that Bill Drummond was connected with The KLF. Hope this clears something or other up for you. Regards Suela --- In xdollarx@yahoogroups.com, "Brave Hertz" <brave_hertz@y...> wrote:
HAVE TO ADMIT THAT I FIND THIS X$X/KLF LINKAGE THING A BIT BORING! THERE"S SO MUCH MORE TO LOOK AT THAN WHETHER 'MICHAEL K' IS CONNECTED TO, PAYING HOMAGE TO, OR OTHERWISE REFERENCING ELELMETNS OF THE KLF THING. KLF? WHO?
:-) KLF WAS DEAD OVER TEN YEARS AGO. X$X IS LIVE...NOW!
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