Did Steve Rothery Panic When Fish Left Marillion? - Interview

[@companyof8]

He’s one of the best guitarists ever. So underrated. Also a real nice guy who comes out after the shows and meets with the fans (for free!😅). Thanks for this interview. Favorite band.

[@MrWheeler715]

Totally underrated player. The solo from “Easter” is transcendent.

[@jasonhalogen]

I actually tried for about 10 minutes to learn pick sweeping because of that solo. Didn't work out :)

[@dr.phibesincrimson]

It's a beautiful song. And the solo is the icing on the cake. I stopped listening to them after the following album, because they changed their style radically and that wasn't my kind of music anymore. There might be some interesting stuff on later albums, but I lost interest. Things like that happen.

[@Stoovey24]

I need to get reacquainted with Marillion's entire catalog...

[@MrKipvw]

@@Stoovey24 Hope you tied the new Album. It really is Phenomenal

[@MotownGuitarJoe]

Totally agree. One of the guitar's finest moments.

[@Edmond347]

One of the most underrated and under appreciated guitar players ever. His solos on the albums with Fish are arguably the best solos in rock music till this day. I’m not familiar with his post-Fish work, but I suspect it’s as high quality.

[@chinlengfong]

Underrated guitar player. His playing so melodic!

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

There is no rating in music but for morons. This ain't sports

[@Bravemarbles]

Wonderful melodic guitarist with so much great work; band just get better and better over the years and looking forward to the new album!

[@nickimontie]

Rothery is a phenomenal guitarist. I could listen to him all day.

[@72Z15SS]

SAME HERE!!! I like the Rothery Solo's compilation videos...

[@ollysanders2746]

Steve is undoubtedly one of the great guitarists of all time. Up there with Gilmour. I was a massive million fan as a teen. They were incredible. The comparison with genesis is telling though as after Gabriel left genesis both went on to achieve huge global success whereas with marillion the opposite occured proving together their sum was greater than the parts.

[@72Z15SS]

Steve's guitar solos have always resonated with me since I first heard Marillion back in the late 80's! I grew up listening to Prog and my Brother turned me on to Hotel Hobbies and I was completely blown away. Never looked back!!!

[@elmolewis9123]

"millions of guitarists playing the same licks". Steve is one of the tastiest guitarists ever, and he couldn't have said it any better.

[@steevidrums]

This is a surprise moment, I didn't think Marillion were on your radar John, but thank you. First gig I ever went to was Marillion in 1986, was a phenomenal night. Saw them with Steve H in 1994, 1997 and then in 2001 (I think) My first drum clinic was also with their drummer Ian Moseley too. This band have a massive place in my upbringing!

[@72Z15SS]

I missed them the one and only chance that I had, just outside of Philadelphia but they cancelled for some reason. It was a place called the "23 East Cabaret"... Not sure if it is even there anymore...

[@JB-cz2xf]

L E G E N D wrote some of my favorite songs of all time.

[@antrygis1]

I love his guitar work on Easter after the grand Misplaced Childhood album. His tone and feeling on that were great.

[@joebill3400]

Met him about 30 years ago, very friendly guy, he signed a copy of a Marillion record I had just bought.

[@daviHuggMonster]

huge Marillion fan since 1983- geat to see this interview thanks for that

[@mattmcnally5620]

Very underrated guitarist!

[@gatekeeper65]

I LOVE steve Rothery's playing. It's kinda sad that Marillion isn't so well known outside the UK or Europe really. If it weren't for Kayleigh, probably nobody in North America would have ever heard them.

[@johnnydigiorgio5299]

Except in Montreal.

[@markhrobo]

If it weren't for Kayleigh 90% of people would never had heard of them.

[@charlesnolan7602]

I ( from N.J./ Pennsylvania )started following Marillion in April, 1983. Kayleigh was alright; I liked Script much better...

[@tekoguitar]

Dude they are very well know in Brazil, since 84. Always were. Lots of fans here.

[@tonictonetomrockstar1931]

I love Marrilion

[@skottcoucill8343]

A truly original sounding guitar player. Beautiful way of creating sounds.

[@krishouseholder261]

Thanks for this interview John! I had only discovered Marillion about 2 years ago 🤔😎 I’m so enjoying their discography as well as their live Marillion Weekend shows!! Steve Hogarth was/is a one in a million find for the replacement of Fish 🎸🥁🎹🎤💥

[@Stevesmith-0890]

Marillion without fish just isn't marillion

[@sebed2337]

Steve Rothery is my favorite guitarist. He is not demonstrative, he simply spreads enormous emotions in his game. He is incredible and is one of the only ones to give me such emotions

[@JaimeMartinezJr-k5v]

Marillion is the best..Fish and H eras both are great..

[@greg-warsaw4708]

A trouble when you want to listen to the aforementioned _Care_ is that the CD manufacturer failed in its job. Track numbering is wrong - it counts entire songs as well as individual parts thereof. In effect, for example, cover list no. 4 _Murder Machines_ is no.8 in your player, and no. 7 _Care_ is 15 through 18. You have to read micro fonts and do your own recalculations to listen to any selected track (I know I know, such albums are listened to in their entirety, but still, such a silly mistake to do while finishing a big work).

[@neuron05]

This was good, nice to hear Rothery speaking.

[@ziggypop79]

My favourite guitar player

[@sheiladocherty8537]

Steve Rothery IS Marillion, Steve Rothery is God

[@kevcatnip7589]

jUST gotta mention that the album is already getting tears and much praise,,cant wait

[@UjjayaEthnoambient]

The trick about about the guitar licks of Steve Rothery is simple . Never rely on the pentatonic scale, always includes the semi tone which sound the best in the scale,play on one or two strings, the rest is sound (sustain , vibrato and clear sound) and speed : never play fast to let the emotion pierces through the mix . The trap for every guitarist is the speed . Dare to play slowly is the key .

[@stevegungel787]

Marillion must be sick to the bone on the topic of Fish. Yes, Steve is a phenomenal guitarist, my favorite along with Steve Hackett who interestingly is one of Rothery's major influences.

[@rickcooper7475]

Good interview.fish was not the original lead singer it was Doug irvine from 1978 to 1980 and he left the band and the following year fish joined marillion as the new singer

[@mikearchibald744]

My favourite track is Made Again. The lyrics are beautiful and the guitar doesn't over shine them, but perfectly equals them. I can't say that its totally original as in I don't go 'wow how did he come up with that', its more like if somebody had sang him the lyrics that he'd go 'oh yeah, this is what that need..." It reminds me a lot of a much shorter track, which is Steve Hacketts guitar work on 'aisle of plenty'.

[@davidemanieri8255]

Magic Rothery! The best!

[@MarkandSandieInMotion]

'holy snapping turtles'?...dude. lol

[@mickb44]

in my top 3 guitar players the guy plays with such a feeling unreal

[@jeffsimon9594]

Well I know for sure one of the singers they auditioned was Stuart Nicholson from the band Galahad because they thank Marillion in the 'Nothing Is Written' sleeve notes for "showing him the door"! 😁

[@stevepelham9010]

I like Steve talking about his process of creation. I do not know about Steve but I got no schooling and that is bad but also of good as many of those great players even in simple dirty rock that they will add something of unordinary in to it that will tickle players minds for decades to come.

[@paulovitorpetruzzelli3860]

Please! Someone knows what is the music at the end of this video and who plays??!

[@pizzalover1525]

It's in the description :)

[@Philopantheon82]

Well, we can deny it all day but Marillion without Fish just doesnt sound like the original Marillion, the groovy edge, the poetic touches and the theatrical nature of their Gigs were all missing.

[@eliesalloum8750]

Steve is god s strings on earth- first last and always best guitarist than comes up gilmore ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jeffreygorey5540]

Why do people still ask questions about Fish leaving the band? It's been what, 30+ years now? It's got to be frustrating for them.

[@michaelfaith3]

It's annoying for both the band and the fans who've been listening to it for the whole 30 plus years.

[@booshting3520]

"Holy Snappin Turtles!!!"

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

IMHO, he didn't panicked, it was just that the whole band shat in their pants, knew that they had no choice but going on or go back to work at some factory or shit jobs and they must have been furious because they knew there is nobody else like Derek... Of the very few that would have been able to keep Marillion at the height they reached end 80's? Ronnie James Dio, Jon Anderson... There later were some wonderful people who appeared in prog-metal, especially girls with amazing voices and talent, but end 80's, at best, they were in middle school, if not elementary school

[@WhyTheHorseface]

I loved his solo band live album from several years ago. Obviously big fan of classic marillion, but haven’t really been into them since Radiation. That was 1998! Yikes!

[@xaviermakoof]

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[@mcrobbj]

Didn't know Peter Gabriel played drums for Genisis! Rothary a great guatarist but Marillion were the sum of the parts. Not as good without Fish, likewise he wasnt the same without them.

[@Gerardjhughes]

Not at all , he had another couple of hundred genius riffs up his sleeve

[@stevenhearnden66]

Reading Mark Kelly's autobiography, Fish sounds like a paranoid psycho. Not a nice person.

[@patricklangdon5853]

Perhaps he wasn’t. They got big very quickly and Fish panicked. But he and Marillion have moved on now.

[@stevenhearnden66]

@@patricklangdon5853 have you read the book?

[@dr.phibesincrimson]

That happens when you try to compensate your quick career with lots of booze and drugs. Fish said so himself.

[@canalaverdade.]

Hoghart improved Marillion.

[@Guido1470]

Pfffff of course it was a problem when Fish left. Why deny it? Yes it went out well with H. Butt Fish was Marillion, so when he left the future was uncertain for a while

[@mikearchibald744]

To be fair, Clutching at Straws was not the huge success that MC was. And I remember a long time ago reading that either this guy or the keyboardist or someboyd in the bad was mad that Warm Wet Circles could maybe have been a single if it didn't have the racy words that Fish insisted on. You have to remember that a lot of bands don't give a shit about lyrics or singers. There are LOTS of singers out there and Marillion was always accomplished musically. So its just as likely that when Fish left they were like "phew, maybe we can just get a singer who will sing what we like and maybe get some airplay again.

[@Didds3max]

@@mikearchibald744 Warm Wet Circles was a single, and I'm sure it hasn't any 'racy' words....

[@stevemillerick7302]

@@mikearchibald744 maybe not a huge success but their best album in my opinion, followed closely by seasons end.

[@vermaxranak2706]

For my personal taste, the two best progress rock guitarists are Rothery and Latimer.

[@swiftusmaximus5651]

No, they just got another stanky poo see

[@Gerardjhughes]

Not at all , he had another couple of hundred genius riffs up his sleeve