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I'd been playing guitar for a bit already, just cos of the punk thing and the desire to show off and get girls, but "Strangers..." was the album that made we want to play better.
What I didn't realise for way too long was you're not automatically entitled to play like that. But be able to play to some kind of standard then I'd have to put some effort into it. Still got miles to go.
And then similarly a few years later with Surfing with the Alien and Passion and Warfare.
By coincidence, I lived near Whitby at the time and it turned out I had the same tutor at school as Steve Rothery and loads of friends in common... everyone else knew who this hero was and took it for granted. He'll always be one of the greats imho and he is such a nice guy as well.
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Whoa you were at that concert. I had the album and literately wore it out. Akkerman's solos on the Focus II track still sends chills up my spine to this day.
I think that I hear new albums that make we want to play guitar just as much as I did back then. i.e. rarely, but when they do crop up it's always nice.