https://www.watersoundstudios.co.uk/for-sale
Nice place for someone making second rate thrash for the last 30 odd years, although I think I remember reading he was a ghost writer for a few big country artists. Anyway...
Alison Sells
The Fund Palace
Schizos (Are selling their home)
Reduced for Cash
Always had a soft spot for Waters, seems like a sound enough head and say what you like about Annihilator, you had to admit that they are tight as balls. I love the late 80s/early 90s stuff, lost interest around refresh the demon
For a band that wasn't exactly massive he has a nice place! Either he's invested well elsewhere or he married into money. Not that I begrudge him for either.
The first two albums are genuinely brilliant but the decline was sudden and steep after them. I suspect he has many things on the go, Annihilator wouldn't be enough to sustain a living wage.
£250,000 for a bunch of Epiphones is fucking mental, however. Yeah, there are a few decent guitars in there but averaging £2,500 per guitar is lunacy. His celebrity value is quite limited, at best, I would say.
Spot on in every respect dude. He's a super talented bloke but let's face it most of the records are rubbish. First two are tops then in the right humor I like the third but everything worse should be in the unintentionally hilarious thread.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJcTDjARak
Quote from: Bürggermeister on October 20, 2025, 08:03:29 PMThe first two albums are genuinely brilliant but the decline was sudden and steep after them. I suspect he has many things on the go, Annihilator wouldn't be enough to sustain a living wage.
£250,000 for a bunch of Epiphones is fucking mental, however. Yeah, there are a few decent guitars in there but averaging £2,500 per guitar is lunacy. His celebrity value is quite limited, at best, I would say.
Even if he was looking for less just remember that you'd never fit another 100 guitars in the guitardrobe and the missus would kill you :laugh:
I have higher standards and so does she :laugh:
His unusually high wealth is a combination of ghost-writing songs for pop and/or country artists (business must be particularly booming now) and his wife being involved in property. He wrote three Van Halen-like solo albums for a computer game recently (I think two of which were released) and said he made more from them than anything he made off Annihilator.
I love the first four Annihilator albums and Criteria of a Black Widow. The other albums might have two excellent tracks per album but diminishing returns. It just all sounds the same.