I Miss Nigel Watson

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Originally Posted by absinthe_boy

There's some good stuff on the studio albums but not much...Nigel's writing isn't great but its rarely actually bad.

But something went wrong...they did stagnate in the last couple of years...no progress was being made, they were treading water....in my view.

I disagree. Peter's playing was growing leaps & bounds between the first PGSG album and ...Cold 100. He was taking chances instead of playing it safe, he was actually sounding confident and assertive on that last album, as well. Compare that to Destiny Road where he was seemingly very much just along for the ride. And, as a band, I think they were growing as well...Peter was the only one not contributing original material, but Roger Cotton, Peter Stroud, Larry Tolfree besides Nigel were also lifting heavy loads of the songwriting. I think what happened was that the band just got too busy...for about three or four years, they were either in the studio or on the road...wasn't much downtime. I think Peter just got burnt out with that scheduling push.