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Wishbone Ash "Argus" at 50! |
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octopus-4 
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 Topic: Wishbone Ash "Argus" at 50!Posted: April 19 2023 at 08:18 |
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I actually purchased Pilgrimage before finding Argus in a shop. I din't know anything about it nor about the band, but I loved Pilgrimage so I decided to invest some bucks on Argus and...never regret it. Sometimes world is the first thing that I played when I have bought my first bass. The second was the Renaissance's solo on Ashes Are Burning at Carnegie Hall
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Posted: April 18 2023 at 20:42 |
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Thank you! Now I can't unsee the Darth Vader on the cover. xD
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Posted: April 18 2023 at 15:34 |
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Later on, the Album Cover was called by some "Darth Vader's Greatest Hits"
Perhaps because of the over hype the album received, I never appreciated as much as the similar early stuff, but did like the songs when played live, except the equally over hyped live recording from the same time period, when I much preferred the other live recording Never minded the much condemned Tom Dowd produced recordings, where the only ones that stunk were the ones with Heavy Metal Album covers, trying to cash in on the twin guitar playing a number of hard rock/heavy metal bands commented on, but which were no way heavy metal or hard rock, but bad "Poser" Wishbone Ash trying to pull the wool over peoples eyes with sub standard songs that were trying to give the appearance of such music They weren't the only one's whose management pressured in trying to cash in on the HR/HM trend in those days |
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Posted: April 15 2023 at 02:35 |
Well, I must say that the warrior & spaceship immediately clinched it for me.... I was down at Toronto's Vortex (used) records (the old place around Dundas & Jarvis, not the new one in Yonge & Eglinton) and had a talk with Bert (the owner) and he spoke of the duelling guitars and Wishbone. I went over immediately to the bin, and he had all of them (well it was around 75/6), and I immediately flashed over Argus. I was at a stage where I trusted Bert and normally, he'd put on the albums you were curious about, but here, I didn't even ask and took it home. Never found better, though I loved the first two I'd bought afterwards, but very disappointed by W4 Every new album (bought new) brought diminishing returns as the decade unravelled and I think I dropped them even before No Smoke Without Fire (Front Page News was really "average"), which sleeve I have no recollection ever seeing in the bins for decades (but then again I have never touched a copy of 96's Illuminations either, though I'd heard that it was a somewhat return to form and looked for it). ================== The really sad thing is that the shaceship of the back cover was erased from many/most or the reissues for decades. It's only sporadically reappeared on some re-releases, like the mini-Lp I own (too bad for the live bonus tracks, which are expandable). .
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Posted: April 14 2023 at 17:25 |
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Wow, time flies! This LP was very influential upon me as an aspiring guitarist/bassist (and still is!)
What are some of your earliest Wishbone Ash/Argus memories? I remember a good friend showing me the LP cover with flying saucer, and I was hooked! |
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