Magnum: Britain's melodic hard rock veterans. 

That must have been awesome and an honor! 🤘

Glad to talk about Magnum and similiar underappreciated bands. That's one point of my channel give love to those bands. I listen to a lot of bands especially once grunge hit from Europe. I want to live there pretty much consider myself European haha. I didn't know he wrote that but I do like since you've been gone and God gave rock and roll to you. I figured he was every song I saw had his credit at least partially. I didn't even know he was sick. They have tons of live and compilation albums. I have wings of heaven forgot to show it and I'd like to get Mirardor comp among others. I will check that live album out you mentioned. 123 live shows wow amazing mad respect! Most I've seen is Poison 10 times lol 😆 I live far away from big cities so that doesn't help location is crap. The world will miss Tony Clarkin for sure big loss R.I.P. Tony

Thanks you should they're really great. That's one reason I posted clips they do rock hard rock aor some progressive and good dppid ballads. So many albums yet ti discover they have tons of live stuff and compilations too.

They were great on the 80s helluva run of albums but those 3 were the height I think of their careers. I have sleepwalking on my wishlist on discogs. I listened to it it's pretty epic like don't wake the lion is mid pace moody good stuff. That's great you got to see them during "the troubles". I remember growing up hearing about how bad it was like the Omagh bombing hunger strikes and such. I was there myself in summer 2017. It's crazy to sew murals with guys in ski masks holding ak-47s painted on billboards. I was told though you may still want to not wear wrong colors in certain pubs. Didn't they have more riots recently? I think holy wars by megadeth was based on them playing during troubles and their bus got pelted with rocks and debris. I remember Dave Mustaine talking about it. Crazy times in the past in Northern Ireland. Oh I do know Magnum toured for Chase the Dragon here in the states but not sure any major tours after don't think so maybe only select dates if that.

Yup they were so underappreciated on this side of the Atlantic. One of those bands were you can listen to all the tracks of every album and not feel need to change any songs. Tony really did it all for them. In a way he was like Neil Peart of Rush wrote all the songs and it went through him and just like Rush not a bad album. It's crazy how many comps and live albums Magnum has and they're also excellent and the artwork is so killer on them as well. We probably won't see another band like them again in fact bands today can't hold a candle to these bands.

Lol I've always said Power Metal bands have the best covers these guys def have the fantasy album covers down but more aor and melodic. Asia is another one that's now power metal with a lot of stunning artwork.

It's really a gem 💎

I need to get that one! The spirit is a solid track! That's awesome I wish I were alive then damn it lol 😆 🤘

Definitely plan on it. They never made a bad record.

Me too lots of albums I haven't even heard yet.

@@retro_wanderluster9962 how about a Riot ranking??

@@Riky_Jones I don't have nearly half of them but you know what? I don't need to. I'm on a budget and I could do one eventually once I hear them all. I already have a top 2. Very underrated band. Last year, I was at a bar drinking and a guy from NYC came in and we talked Riot for a few minutes lol Also, a NEW album is coming this year.

@@retro_wanderluster9962 yeah in April gonna be good

I'm not much of a prog fan minus Rush, Asia, some Queensryche Royal Hunt maybe a few others. They def weren't traditional prog but had a little hint of it at the start I'd say. I think with Peter Gabriel they def were strange and proggy and Bowie is a chameleon he did all types of music and very well. Those 2 you listed def were not hard rock more rock and pop rock and various genres.