KING'S X

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HOO-HAA
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Posted on: March 27, 2009 - 1:21pm

Anyone a fan? Three-piece power-pop/ metal/ (prog?!) combo from Texas.

I caught these boys at London's ELECTRIC BALLROOM, recently... very cool band. Best live show I've ever been to.

I've been into them for years, now. Their main vocalist and bass player turns 59 soon, and he looks about about 25 years younger than that.

They have a song called 'FREEDOM' which has libertarian overtones - check it out on i-tunes.

 

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FUR3jr
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Posted on: March 27, 2009 - 9:09pm #1

I have an album by them, and I have no idea where I got it, nor how I acuired it.  I haven't listened to it in a long time.  I'll be getting it up on my iPod tonight.

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Gardner Goldsmith
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Posted on: March 28, 2009 - 11:01am #2

HOO-HAA wrote:

Anyone a fan? Three-piece power-pop/ metal/ (prog?!) combo from Texas.

I caught these boys at London's ELECTRIC BALLROOM, recently... very cool band. Best live show I've ever been to.

I've been into them for years, now. Their main vocalist and bass player turns 59 soon, and he looks about about 25 years younger than that.

They have a song called 'FREEDOM' which has libertarian overtones - check it out on i-tunes.

 

I like King's X!

 

Dude, you need to move to NH so we can hang out with a bunch of my friends! Is everyone in Belfast this clued-in to good cutlural creations?

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HOO-HAA
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Posted on: March 29, 2009 - 6:18am #3

heheh! Weirdly, there were a load of us at school (in the 80s) who loved King's x. They haven't played Belfast, though, since supporting Anthrax back in the lates 80s.  

I had the pleasure of running into Dug Pinnick in Camden Town when I was over for the gig, recently. I was totally starstruck, man, and started babbling like a moron. But he's a real nice guy.

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FUR3jr
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Posted on: March 30, 2009 - 8:05am #4

That's happened to me, (babbling like a moron) upon meeting people that I admire.  Not just musically (Yo-Yo Ma, Allen Woody) but upon meeting other people I admire (Thomas Szasz).  Those are the only times that I've met someone that wasn't incredibly beautiful, that caused me to stammer.

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HOO-HAA
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Posted on: March 30, 2009 - 2:24pm #5

I know what you're saying, Fur. I mean, my day job is training - so I know how to communicate (or should do, anyway) but this guy's poster was on my bedroom wall when I was a kid. I idolised him!

It was really as if I was talking to him, in Camden, as a 16 year old kid - not a 34 year old man.  

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