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Freitag, 24. März 2023

The Damned






 

SPIEGEL ONLINE Forum, 17.09.2008

Kleine Tour durchs Reich der Verdammten. Es muß mal gesagt werden. The Damned haben 1985-1986 mit "Phantasmagoria" und "Anything" zwei Platten gemacht (und dazwischen "Eloise"), die so klingen, als hätte die Tochter von Bela Lugosi und Maila Nurmi Dave Vanian gezwungen, die besten Songs aller Zeiten zu schreiben, andernfalls sie ihn wie Turandot ihre Freier köpfen lasse. Vanian tat sein Bestes, und für Sachen wie "Sanctum Sanctorum" oder "The Portrait" wäre gar Lord Byron nochmal angerannt gekommen, wäre er nicht mit dem Luziferfuß umgeknickt. Dave Vanian hat zweifelsohne eine phantastische Stimme.














"Oh yeah, he's quite a strong bloke old Dave. He actually really used to be a grave digger. He really lives the lifestyle. I know it sounds weird but he really is into it. The whole lifestyle, the motorbikes, the ex-grave digger bit and all that stuff. I like the bloke a lot, he's a bit of an enigma. I think he's tinged with madness. I really think he is, because of the twenty years I've known him he's never changed and he's always backed up whatever he said. Once I went round his house, he was living in a basement and he'd had a flood. I said " 'ello Dave how's it going " - He said "The drains have flooded, can you help me get this carpet out". Actual sewage had come up through the drains and it wasn't very pleasant. We got the carpet out and I said "What's that under there then, that's a pentagram. Is that like satanic stuff or what?" And he says "It must have been put down by the previous owners of the flat". Now does that ring true to you, the bloke sitting there dressed up as Dracula, with a hearse sitting outside the house and he's telling me it must have been someone else who done the pentagram. I don't think so, do you." - Captain Sensible

 

 






 
 
"We complement each other as songwriters, neither of us treading on each other's toes. We both love 60s garage music and appreciate a bit of dark melancholy  ... And the bloke is the best singer of his generation." – Captain Sensible 2019
 
 















Nicht seit dem Tag, an dem ich Antipapst wurde.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hommage an Pink Floyd mit Syd Barrett + Hawkwind + Neu! + Ron Asheton +++, + ureigene The Damned-Perfektion. Und ja, das ist Dave Vanian.

 



 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

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