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Dog 3000
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Re: Very British
Dec 09, 2007, 23:19
machineryelf wrote:
Foghat-british group-huge in the States, unknown in Britain
UFO were big in the States before they were in England
and really early UFO were big in Japan when no one else appeared to give a damn.


I think Foghat moved here sometime in the 70's -- they seem like they could be from Illinois!
UFO was never all that popular (no hit songs) -- they were sort of a fave with metalheads in the late 70's (Schenker era, when there was not much American metal to speak of -- Van Halen wasn't around until 1978, it was all Nugent & Foghat & Boston before then.)

machineryelf wrote:
I remember reading reports of a bill playing some midwest enormodome comprising of headliners Nazereth, 2nd on the bill UFO and lowly 3rd raters Thin Lizzy and thinking ''Americans must be mad'' not realising that in 76 a black Irishman singing cowboy songs was probably not such a hit in Salt Lake City as it was to a young English lad.


Of course Nazareth would headline -- "Love Hurts" was a massively popular hit single around that time(!) UFO would have had a few more American tours under their belt by that time, so some sort of fanbase already. It was probably Lizzy's first trip over, so they get to open.
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