[black the sky]

king's x are my favourite band, and i've been into them since their first lp in the eighties.

anyone here fans of them at all?

[karkus30]

Originally Posted by black the sky

king's x are my favourite band, and i've been into them since their first lp in the eighties.

anyone here fans of them at all?

Funny as I have just been thinking of buying Gretchen. The are known as a criminally underated band.

I'm looking at buying a Living Colour album (a band that I should have come across).

[Toasty]

Two very distinctive bands, Kings X and Living Colour have different but great sounds and yes, ultimately very under rated.

Kings X supported Extreme on their US tour, I was most disappointed when Kings X were replaced by Justin floopin Hawkings latest band for Extremes UK leg earlier this year

[Rambo John J]

Originally Posted by Toasty

Two very distinctive bands, Kings X and Living Colour have different but great sounds and yes, ultimately very under rated.

by a strange coincidence, I've seen both those bands opening for Anthrax back in 1988/89; Living Colour at Birmingham NEC and Kings X in Nottingham (Royal Theatre? it was a long time ago....). Both were impressive live and definitely held their own against the headliners

[black the sky]

you may already know this, but on living color's last european tour, dug[yes thats how he spells it now] pinnick of kx filled in as the lead singer.
plus we all are aware that many yrs ago he was invited to be the deep purple vocalist too.

i've got all their albums except the live one, i did buy it but i'm just not into live records so i ended up getting rid of it.

the gretchen album is lauded by every man and his dog, however except for a few songs i've never been able to get into it.
my two favourite lps of theirs are 'dogman'[nice and bassy], and 'faith, hope, love'. i really like 'please come home....mr bulbous' as well. their last release was called 'xv'.

you're correct in saying they are very underrated. just about every article i've seen on the band[and thats lots] goes on about how the band should of been huge, and then question why they're not.
i know they have heaps of fans from other well-known bands. i find it amazing that they've stayed together with the original line-up for all these years, despite no success.

i think a couple of the reasons were that earlier in their career they were very hard to label and therefore promote. actually at the time, they did sound very different than any other hard rock band that was around, they had a lot of songs using dropped d tuning too.
an early producer of theirs once described them as being: 'a mix of sabbath, the beatles, and hendrix, with a little dash of james brown'.

the other reason, and i think its the main reason, is that they have the christian rock tag that hangs around their neck like an albatross.

they were associated with that genre almost straight away in their career. whilst a couple of the band were/are christian, they are definitely not a christian band. actually the band themselves summed it up as: 'we are a rock band that contains christians, but we are not a christian rock band'.

actually dug pinnick 'came out' a few years back, and all his 'christian' friends and church deserted him. he was very depressed for a long time, and in fact that broke his faith in the end.

i myself am very much a strong atheist, and if i thought they were a christian rock band, i wouldn't of even bothered to listen to them in the first place to be honest.

[UKflames]

Originally Posted by Rambo John J

by a strange coincidence, I've seen both those bands opening for Anthrax back in 1988/89; Living Colour at Birmingham NEC and Kings X in Nottingham (Royal Theatre? it was a long time ago....). Both were impressive live and definitely held their own against the headliners

Holy smoke I was at that Anthrax gig in Bham

I've got Gretchen on tape, played it to death when I was at school, really great album. I think they were pigeon holed as a christian rock band early on, despite the fact they weren't, and that turned a lot of people off them without even giving them a listen.

[Jack Hackett]

What a great band ! I was the lighting guy for their first couple of shows in the UK in the 80's at the Marquee & the Astoria & have seen them many times over the years since. Last time was last summer in Pittsburgh where they ripped the roof off the place !