OFF: Marillion in Europe etc.

[Chris Warburton]

At 17:00 24.09.1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Folks...
>
>Does anybody still like this band?  I thought Radiation was crap, but who
>knows what the masses think?  Of course, I thought Fish's Raingods with
>Zippos was crap too, so there's twice as much crap out there from one
>original source.  Lucky us! :)  Sometimes I cheer on reunions for just this
>very reason!!  Half (or sometimes a third!) as many lousy albums.
>
>(I should say that I thought Sunsets on Empire was quite excellent, so
>*sometimes* one or the other comes through...of course, Steve Wilson was
>probably the *real* reason for that success.)

Me, I never liked them, thought they gave rock (hah!) music a bad
name...pompous, derivative, recycled & regurgitated...one of the many
reasons why I spent most of the '80s listening to various kinds of (shhhh!)
jazz.

(ducks anticipating wall of flame)

but that's just MHO, I'm sure they must have some redeeming features. 8-{P>

>P.S.  Did anyone go to see the Deep Purple concert in the Royal Albert
>Hall??  As much of a fan of DP that I am (and have been since I was just
>able to walk), I'm not really sure that there was a point to doing this rock
>band w/ orchestra thing ONE MORE TIME!  Haven't the Moody Blues already
>beaten this to death by now?

I don't know about the Moodys - gave up on them by 7th sojourn, but it
seems strange to me that DP were revisiting what most people consider to be
their biggest mistake.

>P.P.S.  Queensryche's going out on tour now...anybody got the new album,
>Q2K?  Is it any damn good?  I imagine it would have to be different at
>least, now that DeGarmo has split.

I'm curious too as quite a fan of "Operation Mindcrime" & "Empire"

ChrisW - In "sad bastard at home on Friday night" mode!

"a cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin" -
Bierce