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Vigilante
Vardis →335 listeners3,938 plays
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about this album
Vigilante was the end of an era, not just for Vardis but also for music production. 1985 saw the advent of a digital revolution, and sound would never be recorded in the same way again. The days of big analogue studios were numbered, and this album represents the culmination of recording techniques with a direct lineage to Rock ‘n’ Roll records of the early 1950’s. While recording Vigilante we could feel it was our last statement. I could hear it in my vocal when re-mastering the record. This album only ever came out under license on vinyl in ’86, with the masters lying forgotten in storage ever since. Unearthing them 27 years later, I was surprised the ferric oxide tapes hadn’t crumbled with age, and shocked at just how fresh they sounded. We are very lucky they survived. There is a book to be written- all we wanted was to have fun, but we ended up being promised the Earth before eventually descending into “music biz” Hell. This was our fourth original album of songs and they poured out of me, Vardis were let down, promises where broken. On reflection we were not prepared to compromise our integrity at all, so we just finished Vigilante, walked away and closed the door. Gary had tried to get hold of me for years; he knew my real name but not where I was living. His persistence prevailed, and he got Terry and me to a rehearsal studio in London for old time’s sake. It was bizarre, despite the intervening years the Vardis sound had not changed at all, the fire in Vigilant
