[kj] Chameleons Home is Where The Heart Is

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Chameleons - neck and neck with killing joke for me and just as innovative
both as genre setting and from a unique guitar stance. Brilliant! Swamp
Thing, up there with the greatest guitar riffs of all time, except nobody's
heard it :)
On 29 Jan 2016 20:37, "Carlos Fandango" <stronkle at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Haven't chameleon box packed it in also? I think they recently did a
> "final" tour. Was watching some old episode of Luther the other week and
> was surprised & pleased to see they used chameleons tune for end titles.
>
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> From: Nick Scott <npscott at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Sent: ‎1/‎29/‎2016 3:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [kj] Chameleons Home is Where The Heart Is
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> One of my favourite bands and were very intense live.  Chameleons Vox
> playing the stuff live has all gone sour though and Mark Burgess is a self
> indulgent twat, but definitely check out their albums...to me they had the
> intensity of KJ and are like a bastard child mix up of The Cure/Killing
> Joke/Echo And The Bunnymen.
>
> Criminally overlooked, the record label they originally signed to made
> them ineligible if I remember right for the indie charts and besides some
> help by John Peel sessions were stuck in no mans land.  The death of their
> manager when they were finally signed to Geffen and beginning to get some
> successes was the last straw.
>
> Despite reforming in 2000 and a final album coming in 2001, they split
> again in 2002 and in 2009 saw the birth of Chameleons Vox between Mark
> Burgess (vocalist) and John Lever (drummer) which then turned sour about 18
> months ago with Lever stating they conspired to 'oust' him out and Burgess
> calling it lies.  Splitting fans, myself on the side of John after reading
> about Burgess's questionable personality and antics.  Chameleons Vox whilst
> still worth checking out are themselves a shadow of their former self.
> Former Wonky Alice guitarist and well known producer in the Manchester area
> Yves Altana who has played with Mark in various outside Chameleons projects
> has put his hands to the drums, and whilst competent enough is no match for
> Lever's drumming.
>
> Check out particularly the first three Chameleons albums, Script Of The
> Bridge, What Does Anything Mean Basically, Strange Times...all brilliant.
>
> On 29 January 2016 at 19:43 "adrianwason at btinternet.com" <
> adrianwason at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> I've just been played this never having heard the Chameleons before-sounds
> like something off BTATS-very
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