Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Not many 'casual' Stranglers fans could name a song after Golden Brown
And Hugh left 8 years after that came out
Like most bands it's a downward spiral from their early stuff
The Stranglers released Dark Matters last year and considering it's well over 40 years since their 1st,it's very respectable
They have just finished a UK tour,which was a 'final' tour as a tribute to Dave Greenfield, endorsed by his wife
Very polished and professional, very emotional for 'hardcore' Stranglers fans
Actually probably more professional than the Mk1 version
But that is by no means to say it was better,Mk1 gigs were all rawness and attitude
I abandoned the Stranglers myself when Hugh left,it took me 20 years to go and see them again
Baz Warne has actually been in the Stranglers longer than Hugh
Hugh has been absent longer now,than he was actually in the band
Sorry about the rant,but the Stranglers for me are up there with Brighton & Hove Albion
The only 2 things that mattered to me for many years was
Brighton's fixture list & Ths Stranglers tour dates
The debate of whether they still are 'The Stranglers' has and continues to be done to death on a Stranglers forum
Each case is different with many histrionics
I think you need to be attached emotionally to a band,to have some sense of what has gone on
And for that reason,I wouldn't even to begin to question other people's loyalty to other bands
Again,sorry for the rant
Up the Albion & long live The Stranglers !
Great post. I feel your passion.
I feel slightly guilty now...I was a huge Stranglers fan who abandoned them, completely, after Hugh left.
I've been tempted to return, but have never done so.
You have made me quite jealous.