Post from John Spinks of The Outfield on his blog:

[Seven Wishes2]

Doesn't look very promising. Very sad...This was posted towards the end of June...

Hi everyone, please allow me this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and words of encouragement.

Over the past eighteen months Tony, Alan and I have worked non stop in an attempt to get the new 'Replay' album completed. We all believe this is the best collection of songs since 'Play Deep'.

It was great working together again (as a band), especially finishing off the album by 'mastering' at Abbey Road. Although we recorded 'Play Deep and Bangin' at AIR studios, (owned by George Martin), it was such an amazing experience to work in the same building where so many of our favourite Beatles songs had evolved.

We did compile a lot of new material during the recording sessions and I'm sure some of the other tracks will eventually see the light of day. In the meantime, we really hope you enjoy the songs we've chosen for the new 'Replay' album.

For me, the past four months have been especially difficult (health wise) but music always kept me focused. Having finished making the record, I hope you will all understand that I need to take a back seat and spend some time with my family.

A Big thank you to Brent for all his help and tenacity in pulling everything together.

Have a great summer.

Love and peace,

John

[No Surprize]

Thanks for posting this SW. Damn, it's sad about John Spinks. In the prime of your life and shit like this happens. This band was so under rated as far as I'm concern. I was hoping for a tour off this new release but with Spinks health in decline, that won't happen. I think I'm gonna go listen to some Outfield today!



"Josie's on a vacation far away"

[Seven Wishes2]

The silence is deafening. Haven't received a return email from Danny Roberts, who used to be very prompt returning emails.

[mikemarrs]

That is what is so strange about life in general.You can be doing things right and everything will be going so great for so long and then all of a sudden out of the blue with no warning life altering things can happen in a heartbeat and throw everything into complete turmoil.I just count my blessings and take things day by day.You never know what might happen tomorrow.

[Don]

That is what is so strange about life in general.You can be doing things right and everything will be going so great for so long and then all of a sudden out of the blue with no warning life altering things can happen in a heartbeat and throw everything into complete turmoil.I just count my blessings and take things day by day.You never know what might happen tomorrow.

I'm thinking of what Micky Dolenz said regarding Davy Jones. Davy was the youngest, most health conscious of the group yet he was the first to bite it.
That's the thing about the Grim Reaper though, he is an equal opportunity slayer.

[Arkansas]

I recall seeing The Outfield on tour with Starship back in the day. Loved their songs & their playing, but what I really remember was the mix...so clean, crisp, ans soaring. This was in a theatre, so the venue accoustics were much better than say a sports arena. And you could tell they took advantage of that. It was a very memorable night overall.


later~

[Seven Wishes2]

They were pretty incredible for a three piece ensemble. I saw them at least a dozen times in the 80's, and then again between 1998-2006.

I remember vividly one of their first shows back after their nearly decade long hiatus, in Anderson, SC, in 1998. Middle of summer, mind you, but some knit wool-cap wearing douchebag donning a Nirvana T shirt drunkenly staggered to the front of the stage and screamed out "Play some Pearl Jam, dammit!"

To which John Spinks replied, "We're not a cover band, you wanker. And if we were, we would only play good music."

A great body blow against the then-titular machine that was Grunge - which (for the most part), thankfully, has gone the way of Michael Dukakis and parachute pants.