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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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