What's Wrong With This Picture? No Posts For The Psychedelic Furs? That can't be right!
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In my continuing quest to right the wrongs of unposted & neglected musicians/groups I discovered last night there were no posts for the Furs!! WTF? I know I've seen at least one post but maybe it was just a vid someone posted in the comments of someone else's post. So it got buried. Oh well.I'm rectifying this now damnit! My fav Furs song off "Book Of Days"('89).Wiki sez: "The Psychedelic Furs came together in England's emerging punk scene in 1977, where they were initially called "RKO," then "Radio." They then vacillated between calling themselves "The Psychedelic Furs" and "The Europeans", playing gigs under both names before permanently settling on the former name.[1] The band initially consisted of Richard Butler (vocals), Tim Butler (bass guitar), Duncan Kilburn (saxophone), Paul Wilson (drums)[1] and Roger Morris (guitars). By 1979, this line up had expanded to a sextet with Vince Ely replacing Wilson on drums and John Ashton being added on guitar."My intro to The Furs was by a friend who was into alternative rock bands that weren't mainstream & he introduced me to all sorts of odd groups I'd never heard of with odder sounding names. The Furs''82 album "Talk Talk Talk" was the first he played for me. A couple of years later when "Mirror Moves" came out The Furs came to Portland, OR & my friend & I went to see them since I'd become a fan by then. They put on an amazing show & we were front & center so we saw it all. Richard Butler was all over the stage wearing a big Indian style swami outfit w/billowing folds of material. He was so cool. The Bangles opened for them too & Susanna Hoffs flirted w/me making googly eyes & I got all embarassed. Those were my days of innocence! It was a great show all the way around. Here's my other fav song "I Wanna Sleep With You" off the "Talk Talk Talk"('81)live in San Francisco ('04 or '05, just the audio apparently w/still pics):So The Furs are still around & I know Richard Butler released a solo cd last year ('06) that I heard on AOL when they were my ISP. It was pretty mellow but sounded great.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_Furshttp://www.burneddowndays.com/
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