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This was the first Mantis I heard, aged 13, and bought for 30p after
finding it in a Bristol record shop bargain bin in October 1981.
Ray Davies wrote a great song, Praying Mantis made it sound like an anthem.
It scorches from start to finish. If Mantis had made it big, imagine what this
would have sounded like in Madison Square Gardens. Beads of Ebony showed a
softer side - I never knew it was about a seal, thinking instead it was about a
discarded lover (that's living in sheep country for you!). I wrote for the fan
club letter the next day, but it never arrived... Yet 22 years later, I can't
get rid of the record.
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