Great bump ....
It was to be expected that my beloved Saxons are already coming due to age, the time to retire or things that I do not even want to think about, as has been happening for a few years with emblematic Rock and Metal stars (all the original members of Saxon are over 70 years old).
And so, yesterday with this photo he announced on the web his withdrawal from O.D. Saxon with great regret Steve Dawson, without any bad vibes with the band or with his inseparable partner since the 70s, Graham Oliver who wishes him all the best in his retirement.
As a fan of the band from my beginnings Dawson was the component that most freaked me out of the original Saxons (I've always been bassists) and his departure from the original Saxons in 1986 after the Innocence Is No Excuse Tour was already a big setback.
At the end of the 80s he recorded his solo album Pandemonium Circus together with the former Saxon drummer Nigel Durham, but this album would not see the light until 2002 due to problems with his record company.
Following the departure of Graham Oliver from Saxon after recording the magnificent Dogs Of War En (1995). Oliver and Dawson redo the ranks of Son Of A Bitch, a band prior to the original Saxons, taking Pete Gill's original Saxon drummer out of his retirement from the active musical world after his departure from Motorhead and recording the album Victim You (1996), but after the collaboration in the recording Pete Gill returned to his retirement definitively, it is then when both assemble Oliver / Dawson Saxon along with the ex Saxon Nigel Durham and Hayden Conway who already recorded with Dawson their Pandemonium Circus album.
They came to court confronted with the Saxons of Byford and Quinn over the band's name and logo.
O.D. Saxon have been a GREAT band with only one studio album, the terrific Motorbiker 2012 very much in the vein of N.W.B.O.H.M. , the rest have been direct based on his time in Saxon.
It was a shame the decision they will make to put their career on track to be a band stuck in limbo between a tribute and semi-original band, only recording live shows and touring exclusively with classic songs from their years in Saxon 35 years ago determined to keep the same. name and logo that the "Others" Saxon of Biff and Quinn, instead of starting a serious career, with the great quality of musicians they have had in any of their times and with the prestige and fame they had as musicians and composers of to be great veterans of British Metal, who would now have almost 20 years of history with several albums that surely would not have had any wasted.
As they would do in a successful example of an artistic career with a change of name and their own themes, for example the Thin Lizzy reconverted to the great Black Star Raiders
O.D. Saxon will obviously stop continuing with that name, but Graham Oliver seems to continue his career, together with his son Paul and Gav Coulson, we will see what direction things take now ...
I am particularly grateful for being able to see them in concert, meet him, get his autograph, enjoy his kindness and direct stage performance in Valencia thanks to the brave promoter, friend, fan and Metalhead Rafa Vida, on a tour of the territory that did not arouse interest among him. public, in concerts of 20 people and who gave everything on the small stage as if they were playing for 20,000 and that is a fond personal memory that I keep stamped on my head of one of my most important idols.
From here I wish Steve Dawson a happy retirement, remembering his magnificent and extensive musical legacy that he leaves us.
NEVER SURRENDER !!!
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