Talk:Saxon (band)

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Just noticed that vyvyan in The Young Ones wears a saxon tshirt through the series. Could be added somewhere but iono

Err..

Saxon *are* Spinal Tap.. in a way..

It was Saxon that Rob Reiner, et al, toured with, and it was Saxon who got Lost Backstage, etc...

This should be mentioned.

also (ex-)Darkness bass player Frankie Poullain owes much of his style to Steve Dawson.

This article is good, nice seeing you covered a lot of the members as well! But a little update couldn't be wrong (Dubai as said below) Grinder0-0 14:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Dubain controversy
Why isn't the Dubai thing mentioned in the article? Surely it is a topic that should be mentioned when discussing the band. A banned band in 2006? Surely worth a mention. 82.181.208.26 10:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree TheMetalChick (talk) 23:59, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Metal ?
The article consistently calls them a metal band. I think that's misleading, as they're a typical late 70s hardrock band that was obsoleted by metal when that took over around 1983. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.202.201.4 (talk) 14:17, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, Metal is
We must end about this confussion. Hard Rock is only a subgenre of Metal. I don`t care if a lot of people today wants to separate the Hard Rock of the rest of Metal because it`s sound is no stronger like the Extreme Metal. Today we can say Extreme Metal is Metal, but if the things change...¿will be renamed "cumbia"?¿Flamenco? The Hard Rock is the first genre to be named "Heavy Metal"in the last sixties, and now, Hard Rock has an evolution like Metal, because, for example, like the rest of Metal, sounds harder than years ago. Compare the last albums of Whitesnake with the Hard Rock of the seventies, compare the sound of Wolfmother with the Black Sabbath music of that times... it sounds much harder, and the guitars have influences of the last metal(more notes, more wah-wah, and more importance of "solos"). Saxon is an exemple of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band, and Hard Rock is Metal, the first subgenre to born. I`m sorry about my english, i`m spaniard.

JMC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.60.143.173 (talk) 07:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Bruce Gaines
Hi, I'm a freelance Stagehand. I've worked with a Sound Engineer called Bruce Gaines. He claimed to be ex-drummer from Saxon, but we are not sure - he did not seem to be that profficient a drummer.

Can anyone clarify?

I met Bruce a few times and heard the same thing,he said he played session and live for them a few times but i can find no reference of him anywhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.168.90 (talk) 08:41, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea but just thinking laterally perhaps he was in Oliver/Dawson saxon? They were at one time calling themselves just Saxon? The Roadie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.50.110.36 (talk) 06:03, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Saxon and Harvey Goldsmith
Is anyone going to add anything about the collaboration as seen on TV in "Get your act together"?

-I'm going to edit this section soon. That programme was absolutely appaling - a complete straw-man argument if ever there was one. Saxon have played to much bigger crowds in the past 15 years than the 1800 the Sheffield Arena can contain, and in England too no less. Xzamuel 02:10, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

_The Very Best Saxon Album Ever_
I recently saw this CD at the library, but it's not mentioned in the discography.

It's a compilation by EMI http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=103797 --Neo139 (talk) 02:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

"At the end of the programme, Saxon played at the sold out Sheffield City Hall"

Is there anything to substantiate the 'sold out' claim. The hall didn't look anywhere like sold out on the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.23.208 (talk) 06:48, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

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Sheffield city hall capacity...
...is listed in the brief note about the Harvey Goldsmith show as 20,000. Think it is more like 2,000 ant this is either a typo or just an error. Short of Earls Court/O2 arena I don't think any indoor venues hold 20,000 in th UK. Does anyone know the actual capacity of the venue? Sanctuary73 12:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

it's a typo Sheffield city hall capacity is 2271 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.168.90 (talk) 08:42, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Even for this band, 2000 wouldn't mean much. And there are venues I know of that go up to 18k, 20k isn't far off. I think it would be possible. (The Elfoid (talk) 00:40, 24 November 2007 (UTC))

"Collaboration with Harvey Goldsmith" - "At the end of the programme, Saxon played at the sold out Sheffield City Hall" Can anyone validate this. The shot of the hall at the end of the show made it look far from near capacity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.43.222 (talk) 19:43, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Oliver/Dawson Saxon
Needs it's own page. I put information in here, in the hope of splitting it up later. But I've ended up not having time (stupid Van Halen reunion ruining my attempt at fixing up the Van Halen page by dramatically upping the workload). Someone do it please!(The Elfoid (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC))

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Crusader label error
Crusader was the band's final release with Carrere. Their first release with EMI was Innocence is no Excuse. (2013-03-13) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.162.2 (talk) 08:28, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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What kind of metal?
What kind of metal do they play? The Mo-Ja&#39;al (talk) 02:24, 14 July 2020 (UTC)