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I’m an Emerson Lake & Palmer completist…
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Oh, The Nice. Another great band.
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Can, are we taking about Peter here?
Stock Aitken Waterman had some great mixes in the late 80’s.
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lol no, a friend of mine from up here in seattle.
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a guy i work with is really into marillion. they’re another one of those bands where i’ve seen countless albums in the used bins but never bothered to listen to. the album covers are awful. there’s something wrong with them, sort of “handsy uncle” that i can’t pinpoint.
anyway, we knew my co-worker liked them and one day early in the pandemic we were on a zoom call and i saw that he had a marilllion poster in his home office. it truly does take all types.
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Ha I remember Racey Some Girls. And Showaddywaddy. My Brother used to baby sit for one of them, Malcolm Allured.
The first single I ever bought with my own money was Darts It’s Raining. Similar vibe
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A kid moved into our school and introduced us to Real to Reel which was their live album, I guess he inherited from his older brother.
Anyway, we ended up seeing them a few times in Brighton. I remember lots of chanting a bit like a football crowd. Similar at Big Country and Simple Minds gigs. Just quite blokey but very freindly.
I think Fish wished he was peter gabriel and went through the whole face painted performance art stuff. He was very heart on his sleeve kind of vibe.
The albums were so earnest I couldn’t imagine listening to them now but a couple of tunes on the live album, particularly Market Square Heroes, hits the spot in a nostalgic way.
Everyone just says they were a poor Genesis tribute band really,
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Duke of Earl is a banger,
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I’ve still got a massive soft spot for heavier guitar type stuff, think its a throw back to my metal / goth days and playing electric guitar before swapping for 1210s (very LCD).
I have both Iron Maidens - Killers & Fields of Nephilim - The Nephilim > in my top 10 albums of all time.
And I’ve the a bit of a soft spot for early Yngwie Malmsteen (but not troubling my top 10)
Neither gets mentioned much…
as you were…
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this actually describes my coworker as well.
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I saw Maiden on the Somewhere in Time tour at the Hammersmith Odeon. I can’t remember who the support was, possibly, Sammy Hagar but not Yngwie Malmsteen. My albums were the first one and number of the beast.
I took guitar lessons from a mad cyclist called Mick Hutchinson of Clark-Hutchinson fame. I asked him to teach me how to play like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. I took up DJing too.
edit. support act was Samson. knew there was a sam in there somewhere.
This was my first gig. Obviously before the beloved discovered E, but looks like a strange old line up now
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A fav that never fails
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Is Kaleigh Balaeric?
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@deepconcentration Loving that first paragraph . I also know nothing of them, but i somehow totally agree with you
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I can tell you plenty thats wrong with them if you need help 
Hawkwind. There, I’ve said it.
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