DB10GOONER wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:30 am
Block93 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:59 pm
Great that two of you have finally stuck your necks over the Marillion parapet!! Not the first time I have mentioned them.
I was a huge Fish fan and Misplaced Childhood remains one of my top 5 albums of all time. And I am now touching 60, sadly.
But, post-Fish, the extended double Marbles album , with Ocean Cloud etc is just stunning, Hogarth a more than adequate replacement.
And Rothery is still there!
My fave band was always Genesis. Lamb lies Down also in my top 5. Maybe even No.1. Was listening to Musical Box only today. And much later on, 'Driving the last Spike' still one of their very best.
Steve Hackett lives in the next road from me in SW London. Ordinary semi. Several divorces apparently. Check out his version of 'Can-utility and the Coast Liners' on You Tube. As good as the Gabriel version.
Listen a lot to Dylan and Neil Young now.
But keep the faith with Marillion's latest! Especially 'Care' and 'Crow and Nightingale'.
I'll check it out.
I've mentioned Marillion on here a couple times before I think. I loved the Fish years because his voice and delivery were so original and distinctive and his lyrics were superb. And then of course the guitar playing was immense. But I would not be much of a Prog fan in general, though I do like some of the later yank Prog metal like Dream Theater a lot and I like some early Genesis and Yes.
I'm mostly a metal head but I do like anything that is just good music too. I love Ska and punk and bands like The Police.
And I love Neil Young too.
If I like something I like it Regardless of what others say etc
My old Brother Michael used to let me borrow his Motown & Stax 45's when I was 12 or 13yrs - so I was well into The four Tops, Marvin Gaye and
The Temptations, but at the same time I was also beginning to get into The Moody Blues, Deep Purple (In Rock still in my top 10 albums) and Sabbath... All just starting to emerge in the early 70's
Then I heard Yours Is No Disgrace by Yes on the Alan Freeman (Saturday) Show and that was it... It was One of those "Moments" when You discover something never heard before...
Within the space of 3 weeks in 1973 I went to Yes perform Topographic Oceans AND then saw Genesis perform The Lamb in its entirety (in Bristol - misses the last train and slept on a bench in the station - it was Winter
and we fuckin FROZE!)
First band I ever saw (when I was 11yrs old) was The Four Tops, my brother and his then girlfriend took me as a birthday treat... it was AWESOME! - 3 weeks later I went to see the Who doing Tommy... Pete Townsend in a white boiler suit and DM's whirling like a windmill....
I saw Marillion at Glastonbury, they were performing Script For A Jester's Tear AND Market Square Heroes....I remember seeing Fish ambling along out in the food tents etc a bottle of whisky in one hand and a BIG Bag of chips in the other and I remember thinking FUCKKKK He's BIG!
Besides "Yes" who are my favourite band, some of the best Live bands I've seen are Van Halen - They were supporting Black Sabbath on VH's first UK Tour/Gigs) and they BLEW! Sabbath off stage...
Also It Bites - They were EPIC! Francis Dunnery was incredible - But the whole band were so tight.
And (for sheer power and in your face) Level 42 - Mark King on Bass... SLAPPPING!
King Crimson, ELP and of course Jethro Tull.
Love Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Jackson Browne...
Oh! went to the Midsummer's Day Gig at (The Old Wembley Football Stadium) (73 or might have been 74 or 75???
) A HOT Summer's Day
Line-up:
Stackridge
Rufus (With Chaka Khan)
Joe Walsh & Band
The Eagles (with Jackson Browne on Keyboards)
The Beach Boys - UNBELIEVABLE!
Elton John (playing Captain Fantastic - which had just been released)
The Beach BOYS Totally DESTROYED Everyone -- Doing all their hits... Elton John came on and after the opening songs Funeral for a Friend and Crocodile Rock - at least 50% of the crowd left! I know we did.....
Also Wishbone Ash on the Argus tour I was only 17 and the twin guitars of Andy Powell and Martin Turner were something else.
LOVED The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Saw them in Germany overnight ferry - No Sleep till Brandenburg
- Several lines of Charlie & Billy Whizzz and I think I recall Crowd Surfing and losing a shoe....
<sigh> Those WERE the days.