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Originally Posted by gabe100
dude, very impressive you meeting him back then.
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That wasn't all - I met and hung out a bit with Richard Bransen, who owned Virgin records, and attended a party on his houseboat. In 1977, he was a complete nobody in the States (I don't know about in the UK) and none of us knew who he was. But he was a very nice bloke and saw to it that us yanks had a great time the 6 weeks we were in the UK. The biggest name acts he had on Virgin at that time were Mike Oldfield (the Tubular Bells guy) and XTC. We attended their album release party in London while we were there.
The band I was in was called The Glen Phillips band (maybe some of you in Atlanta know the name - he is still around). Unfortunately, after the tour, we went back home to Atlanta, the album we made on Virgin's dime bombed and we were dropped from the contract. And dammit, Richard (or Bransey as I liked to call him) didn't keep in touch.
