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Old 01-10-2009, 03:33 PM   #23 (permalink)
Farfisa
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam View Post
I like Spacemen 3 but it seems like most of their work revolves around a wall of distortion. I guess that must be Sonic Boom's influence on the band. I have heard that his drug addictions were getting to be problematic towards the end, which is why the other three members split.

Which reminds me, I seem to have lost every Spiritualized album sans We Are Floating in Space, must get back on that...
Drug addiction wasn't why the band broke up, but it did contribute towards it. I'm pretty sure it was the birth of Spiritualized. Peirce had covered "Anyway You Want Me" by the Troggs, which Kember had wanted to cover for years and that was the final straw.

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