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Among the many quite competent yet largely unheralded American rock bands from the 1980s, Camden, CT’s Liege Lord were formed in 1982 and released 3 commercially unsuccessful but critically well-regarded albums, before quietly splitting up by the end from the 10 years. Sadly, this is actually an extremely common situation …

Guitarist Paul Nelson’s skills have helped form quite an extraordinary resumé. After going to Berklee University of Music (he was among future acoustic guitar hero Steve Vai’s 1st college students there), Nelson used the group Liege Lord, issuing a set of albums, Burn off to My Contact and Expert Control. …