Without Hugh they'll never have the songs but 'the sound' is very easy to emulate - and for a lot of people that's enough.StanInBlack wrote: ↑16 Sep 2021, 11:05 And it's a particular sound that will never again happen because one of them is dead, one of them is dying, and the other two can't stand each other.
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Whilst it's incredibly tragic that 2 members left not of their own accord it doesn't change the band's current situation. I appreciate the emotion (which I think every fan agrees is still hurting) but this is where we are now.
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MiB81 wrote: ↑16 Sep 2021, 11:14My thoughts, pritty much exactly.aldinblack wrote: ↑16 Sep 2021, 11:01 ...No the wheels have not fallen off anything...
1 member has died, another is very old and has ill health.
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The picture is no worse than the cringe pics of the 5 piece in the 1990s.I don't think the pose is pretending to be the band the Stranglers once were, it just shows what remains today, in a quite dignified way.
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It really isn't though, because no line-up post-MKI has been able to truly emulate it even with the presence of 2 or 3 original members in the band. It literally has to be those four exact people to create that exact sound.
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Just because they haven't pulled it off doesn't make it so. God knows why they couldn't get it right - I've done it with shitty equipment and Straighten Out do it effortlessly - I know writing original material is different from covers but it's not that hard.StanInBlack wrote: ↑16 Sep 2021, 11:31It really isn't though, because no line-up post-MKI has been able to truly emulate it even with the presence of 2 or 3 original members in the band. It literally has to be those four exact people to create that exact sound.
If the new keys player becomes an active member we will see this.
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So, I've finally got around to reading this. Yet more tiresome Hugh bashing and of course JJ is wrong when he implies that it doesn't matter who is in the band - of course it does.
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Yeah, pretty sure now that the only point of StanInBlack haunting the post-1990 forums is to fucking troll everyone else.StanInBlack wrote: ↑15 Sep 2021, 19:51 Well, would you look at that picture. The state of "The Stranglers" in 2021.
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Whole different time 1977, were there any current acts then that had been going since 1933 ?
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Great comment and sums up HAC pretty much
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I bet their followers don't whine and moan about it not being the original line-up all the time.
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I'll bet they don't, given that pretty much all of their original followers'll be dead by now.droopsnoot wrote: ↑17 Sep 2021, 08:54 I bet their followers don't whine and moan about it not being the original line-up all the time.