Marillion

[coyote]

Am new user...so may have them on board..would imagine so.
Love to hear Marillion anytime..particularly from Marbles(most nearly perfect concept cd i've heard in years). Also from Brave and all others.

Most underrated prog band ever..amazing artistry and longevity.

Glad to have found aural moon and to know prog is alive and well.

[sharcnorris]

Welcome to the Moon. Marillion is here and many members such as I rate them as special.' Also some wonderfull photograghers have modern shots of the band that you may find in these forums. Have fun Here and Rq a Favorite

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by coyote

Am new user...so may have them on board..would imagine so.
Love to hear Marillion anytime..particularly from Marbles(most nearly perfect concept cd i've heard in years). Also from Brave and all others.

Most underrated prog band ever..amazing artistry and longevity.

Couldn't agree more.

Originally Posted by coyote

Glad to have found aural moon and to know prog is alive and well.

Hi Coyote,

I will try to complete the Marillion catalogue here on Aural Moon (as well as a number of other artists) soon. I've just been too busy with my day job, evening job (photography) and troubles in the home life to get to ripping them.

As for Marillion, my wife and I are well acquainted with the band. Anything you would like, let me know. If you want, we have lots of pix of Marillion too. See: http://brave.tmesis.com/

[sharcnorris]

Well Vax, that was of course exactly what I had in Mind but needed you to do it for privacy reasons!! I consider your shots some of my all time Favorites

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by sharcnorris

Well Vax, that was of course exactly what I had in Mind but needed you to do it for privacy reasons!! I consider your shots some of my all time Favorites

I'm currently backing up my Powerbook drive in anticipation of installing a much larger drive. Once that is done and M and I have completed our CalProg/Wedding Anniversary trek, I will get to processing more photos. I have ROSfest and NEARfest photos which are just lying about waiting for me to put them up on my web server.

Originally Posted by VAXman

I'm currently backing up my Powerbook drive in anticipation of installing a much larger drive. Once that is done and M and I have completed our CalProg/Wedding Anniversary trek, I will get to processing more photos. I have ROSfest and NEARfest photos which are just lying about waiting for me to put them up on my web server.

Can't wait to see them VAX...............also if you have any pix from my party I wouldn't mind seeing them too.

Now to get back on thread.

Welcome Coyote. This is a great place to be. Lots of great like minded people around here. We call it a community because everyone looks out for everyone else in whatever way they can. It's ALWAYS great to welcome new faces. I hope you stay a long while and post often.

[coyote]

sharcnorris VAXman KeithieW

Thanks for warm welcomes to the community
Hope to be around for along time
long live prog

coyote

cause its only knock and knowall,
but i like it!!!

[Rick and Roll]

I'm not a big marillion post Fish fan at all..but the only time I saw them was on the seasons End tour.

But I did want to welcome you in...where in Ohio?

[rick_wakeman]

Welcome bro, I'm from France. there are 2 kind of marillion fans : Hogarth's and Fish's. I like both, but speaking of Fish era, i prefer the Script's Fish-with album. It is also said there are two kind of Hogarth's Marillion fans : Season's end 's and Brave's : i must say i prefer Brave sounding albums...

... And i dislike Fish albums after he "gentleman" excused.

[PFD]

Plenty of Marillion fans here. I've been a fan since I first heard Script in 1983. Like both the F era and H era as well as Fish's solo stuff. Going to be heading out to Haddington later this summer to watch Fish in Scotland

[VAXman(Admin)]

I was introduced to Marillion in the early '80s when I was visiting a record shop in Red Bank proNJ -- Jack's Records. I wearing a Genesis shirt and the proprietor said I should check out Marillion if I liked Genesis.

Early Marillion didn't sound too much like Genesis to me. It was pretty crude and the early Fish lyrics reminded me of a critique I got from my creative writing professor -- LOSE THE THESAURUS.

Fish honed his lyrical talents as Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws made their appearance. Still a few too many alliterations and thesaurus gilded verses but not as blatant as before. However, by this time, Fish's habits had caused too much friction in the band and they parted ways.

Along came Steve Hogarth. The band themselves asked him to join. I don't know why he's treated like the Yoko Ono of Marillion. Fish left; H didn't toss him out. At least he's not like Phil Collins,who sold out and he was "promoted" from within.

The early albums should not be any indication of later efforts. H was trying to find his way in a band that had been fronted by a rather well received former frontman. However, if you have some of the old demoes (I do), songs like "Berlin" are much better with H and his lyrics than the original lyrics penned by Fish. There's still plenty of great stuff on the first 2 albums... Brave was the real defining moment though.

H is a much more emotional man. He can sing joy, sadness, pain and sorrow in a lyric that Fish could never do; hell, Fish was lucky to hit a note on any good try. He also has taken inspiration from many facets of life -- his and others, unlike Fish. He draws from personal experiences like his autobiographical "This Strange Engine" -- an ode to his Father, as well as from the lives and life stories of others, perhaps not well know, but interesting people -- Jake LaMotta(Gaspacho), Donald Campbell(Out of This World) and -- a favorite of many from Marbles(Ocean CLoud) -- Don Allum.

If you're a heavy metal head, you won't like H's singing and lyrics but the band has progressed and tried many things that would have never happened with Fish at the helm. H's lyrics are much more personal and emotional -- for example, "House" about his home life -- and somber than Fish. There's a lyric in "This is the 21st Century" that sums him up.

FWIW, I have a very good rapport with Marillion (there are a few here that know this). I can tell you all are much happier with H at the helm than with Fish. There are a few other things I'm not at liberty to disclose in a public forum but if you ask me privately...well...

Also, and the purists will dis them for this, they are a working band. Unlike a great many of the artists here who have day jobs outside of the band, Marillion are musicians and make their living only from the music. The UK music scene is different and strange. Marillion put a poppier number or two on their releases to get the radio airplay needed to try to get sales. Remember, it is not 1972 when free-format radio introduced us all to the great music we are all here to hear. Marillion are paying their way to their retirement years on their musical output.

BTW, if you haven't seen Marillion live, you really ought to. There aren't many bands that can perform and reach out to the audience like they do.

Respectfully, VAX -- who has seen Marillion so many times there aren't enough fingers and toes and other body appendages on which to count them all.