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[MindRuler]

 

[Bruins1]

 

[JudasMyGuide]

That's not the fusion/soft jazz band I guess?

No, it's the UK folk-prog band, but the confusion is common.

https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1596

This debut album is very recommendable, IMHO, check it out.

 

[Bruins1]

 

[Bruins1]

 

[Jer]

 

[GhostofCain]

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Great album! Brings me good memories of seeing the band live in my (distant) youth.

 

[GhostofCain]

Definitely not produced by Tony Newton.

 

[GhostofCain]

 

[____no5]

 

[GhostofCain]

 

[GhostofCain]

Simply phenomenal!

 

[____no5]

Great sound, surely by Tony Newton

PS: Why Whales flag? I mean I know why but still...

 

[GhostofCain]

Great sound, surely by Tony Newton

 

[GhostofCain]

PS: Why Whales flag? I mean I know why but still...

In their early days the (English) music press used to laugh at the band showing anti-Welsh bigotry, which only made them be even more proudly Welsh. They have been flying the flag (I think it is the coolest flag ever... It has a dragon!!!) since then.

Manic Street Preachers recount ‘lazy anti-Welsh bigotry’ they suffered

Manic Street Preachers have opened up on the ‘lazy anti-Welsh bigotry’ the band experienced when they started out. In an interview with frontman James Dean Bradfield and drummer Sean Moore in The Times, Bradfield recalled the earliest days of the band and the reaction from the London music press...

nation.cymru

 

[____no5]

Agreed it’s super cool flag. I like Welsh people & Black Bart was Welsh too!

Speaking of dragons,
I’ve read in an astrology book that the Chinese zodiac of England is dragon, no idea how they came in this conclusion though.
In China the dragon is not a bad thing, it has a god status.
I always thought dragons are a deep DNA memory of dinosaurs…

 

[MindRuler]

Great album! Brings me good memories of seeing the band live in my (distant) youth.

I saw them on that tour with Elegy and Conception! Great gig!

 

[GhostofCain]

I saw them on that tour with Elegy and Conception! Great gig!

I saw them in July 1998, still promoting that album but with less exciting support bands.

 

[GhostofCain]

 

[TheMercenary]

Promo mp3 for a future review.