Magazine - Burst (live)

mcgeogh and keith levine two genuininely innovative guitarists both have influenced many ,
magazine with devoto can seem pompous but its magnificently pompous . lads from scunny believe it or not .

Grandiose!

John had a blues influence, so it isn't strange he used a strat while other punk and post-punk bands were using les pauls, telecasters, sgs (Gibson and Yamaha), rickenbackers, jaguars and jazzmasters. I think few guitarists in that genres used Strats (like Stevie Shears of early Ultravox). Or am i not right?

Got to agree with you on that. I can't think of many UK guitarist from that new wave/ punk era who used Strats. the bloke in the UK Subs used one occasionally and the guitarist with Generation X and that's all I can think of. Strats were more common in American bands like Television (Richard Lloyd), Talking Heads (David Byrne, who also played a Mustang) and Blondie (Chris Stein).

Now i understand why See No Evil and the other songs from Marquee Moon sounded a bluesy/country, very pre-punk.

THE MOST

damn. this has got some real nihilistic validity to it. we will all forget ourselves... later or sooner we'll grow out of our shells

Absolutely mesmerising!

You're going to forget yourself, in your happiness

Wow- this is exactly the song that kept me going through the same. This whole record is the soundtrack to that whole unfortunate period of my life- probably why I can't stand to listen to it much these days, ha.