5/28/2023 0 Comments Chameleons vox youtube“I find myself getting really close to my songs when I do them on my own.” I thought to myself, ‘That’s the one thing I’m good at-singing.’ So, I stopped smoking, just stopped drinking and worked on vocal techniques to regain my former glory.” I heard a Suede record or something on the radio and I thought, ‘My God, someone who can actually sing!’ And I think that inspired me. “I smoked too much, drank too much and lost interest in performing. It’s refreshing to be able to see him perform, but what caused the extended absence and what changed in more recent years? “I’d become very jaded, that’s for sure,” says Aston. This upcoming show will be Aston’s third performance in Salt Lake City in the past two years. The group hadn’t toured North America in a decade, and Aston’s solo acoustic performances were infrequent and tended to be located in areas within reach of London or Los Angeles. Up until last year, Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel hadn’t released new material since 1999. The sound of the highway somewhat obscures his Welsh accent. Well put Escapist.having turned into a prick in early 80's Manchester I missed some music and some united games due to drugs and a little was while I was away my mate wrote about seeing the best band on the planet and I would love em.and they were and I very very did.ist album he taped for me and the chameleons are in my blood forever.i like the reegs and I liked burgess more with sun and the moon as opposed to sons of god.but preferred them together which was never enough.was it? yeah it was brilliant they got back together and I suppose in a way it makes you appreciate it more with all the breaks for one reason and 100 others.but they sound awesome as always with to my mind the best pair of guitarists I have ever heard for playing off each other, and fuck me I've heard a few.ageless music of the highest and mightiest order.i love keef and Ronnie ,and I know they have an excellent 'old Flemish weave' between them but its standard blues/rock maybe various tunings where as they don't have the colour and textures as well as the heavy fuck off drive that the Manchester boys have.I am writing this belatedly im sad to say.chameleons vox are vox without the chameleons, and a really great sound all the the same.until the next reunion then.It’s mid-August, and I’ve caught Aston as he and the Jezebels drive between tour stops. The dawning of a new millenium saw an ending to the 'hostilities' as the band buried hatchets, kissed and made friends once more, culminating in a reforming of the group, and a new 'unplugged' album entitled 'Strip' - with live albums following beyond. While signed to Geffen, the band released what was to be their last album together for fifteen years, "Strange Times" as the band literally fell apart, acrimoniously, with grief after the 1987 sudden death of band manager Tony Fletcher. After their second album, "What Does Anything Mean? Basically", they signed with Geffen. They then became unhappy with Statik and tried to get away from them, but were bound by contractual obligations. The band was really pissed when they found out about the reduced version which was released by MCA in the US. The debut album, "Script of the Bridge", was recorded in Rochdale during a six-week period. However, Statik was distributed by Virgin, so they couldn't qualify for the independent charts and were thus overlooked by the music press. CBS dropped them after the one single, despite encouraging sales. They originally signed with CBS, but they disagreed with how they should sound. After the recruitment of drummer John Lever of The Politicians (6), their first single "In Shreds" on CBS, made number 42 on John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1982. The three started without a drummer and got the attention of the legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Mark Burgess had been in The Clichés, while Reg Smithies & Dave Fielding were in Years (3). New Wave Rock band formed in 1981 in Middleton, 6 miles north of Manchester.
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