Hi! Welcome. Well, my name
is Phil Deamer, and I live in Slough, UK: near London.
As I grew up in the seventies (musically), most of my influences eminate from that era. My
first hero was and is Marc Bolan who was killed in a car crash in 1977, a memory which
sticks with me to this day.
Similarly, my sporting influences came from THE footie team of the early seventies, Leeds
United AFC. As it turns out, I do have strong family links with Yorkshire, which are FAR
too involved to detail here (!), but I remain a passionate LUAFC fan.
While my musical tastes are and have been very varied, encompassing both classical/opera
and rock/pop, and have included over the years everything from Abba, The Spice Girls and
Showaddywaddy (!), to Iron Maiden, Metallica and Megadeth, my music in the main has been
and is rock/heavy rock based.
I have been a Styx fan since 1980, when a mate of mine persuaded me to buy the Cornerstone
album after Babe had been released. From then on, I was hooked.
We went to see them in November 1981, on the "Paradise" tour, the only time they
came to the UK, I think.
I bought all their albums on vinyl, including the four Wooden Nickel releases, which I found in a small record store in Bedford, Herts (UK). When Edge of the Century was released, Martin (my mate) and I bought it for each other for Xmas that year (1990): this was my first Styx cd: acquiring the others has taken longer! But I now have all the Tommy Shaw era cds, and am now a proud possesor of Return to Paradise and 7 Deadly Zens. Since then I have signed onto the internet, found the Official Styx website and found that I am not the only remaining Stygian after all, and, well, here I am!
Click here to see a pic
of me, Tommy Shaw & my best friend, Jennifer Temmerman taken 1998.
