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leaving bands like Lone Star seeming old fashioned. Tony Smith said "We were the right band at the wrong time, we lost popularity overnight when punk rock exploded on to the scene. I remember my girlfriend taking me to the Blitz Club in London's Covent Garden, when it was all kicking off with Steve
402:(ex-Kimla Taz), bassist Dave Dawson, drummer Rob Allen, and keyboardist Paul Abrahams. Driscoll, Gwilym and Allen, along with former Iona/Quest bassist Ray Jones, also featured in the oddly named Tom the Lord but the band disintegrated in its formative stages despite interest from Epic Records.
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producing. Driscoll had suffered a broken collarbone in a car crash (that left his girlfriend paralysed from the neck down) shortly before recording the album, and claimed to have recorded all the vocals for the album in three hours while drunk, and was disappointed with the results. The album
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were re-issued as a 2-for-1 by BGO Records in 2004, and again in 2011 by Rock Candy
Records, as newly re-mastered single CDs, with previously unreleased BBC sessions and live cuts added as bonus tracks on each album.
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Rick
Worsnop returned to Canada in 1979 to pursue a career as a software developer. He currently alternates solo keyboard recording with voice acting, and teaches systems analysis for a consulting company in Toronto.
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Rockfield Studios and tried unsuccessfully to obtain a new
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on 19 December 1977, which was broadcast on 5 January 1978 ; This session appears to be their only recorded output. As well as
Driscoll, Hiding Place included guitarist
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in the mid-1980s and settling in the US. Chapman worked as a guitar teacher in South
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in late 1978, before teaming up with John Sloman in the short-lived Pulsar. Lee also cut some demos with an early incarnation of
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