30 Years of The Buffalo Skinners - Bruce Watson Answers YOUR Questions
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- The Buffalo Skinners was a triumphant return to form from one of the best bands to ever come out of Scotland, BIG COUNTRY! This month marks 30 years since it's release so I reached out to Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson to put YOUR questions to him about the album. We discuss the previous albums leading up to this and the state of the band, particular tracks and Stuart Adamson's inspirations, why the UK and US versions of the album were mixed differently, why certainly songs were released in different countries, why the title track wasn't included on the record and more. It's a fun interview with Bruce releasing inside information about the record and his bandmates, Stuart Adamson, Tony Butler, Mark Brzezicki and Simon Philips who recorded drums on the album.
One of the greatest records ever. Just awesome stuff.
Great interview, well done!
Despite being a fan from the very beginning, the only time I got to see them live was in Dallas on the Buffalo Skinners tour. I'd seen their live footage before on film but in person they just blew my mind - I couldn't believe how good they were.
Would love to hear Bruces views on why the long face and the Damascus sessions sometime
You should check out The Great Divide - the Big Country podcast. Bruce is a frequent guest.
Great questions and insight.
Thank you for this. It's brilliant! 👏
The original Robin Millar-Mix from "The Seer" was found. Please release it.
Class act Brucie,
half of the greatest guitar duo ever
No offense to Mark,
(whom I stole many of my early drum licks from),
and who is definitely in my top 5…
but when your favourite drummer joins your
favourite band
for one glorious album…
it doesn’t get much better than that
That being said
Broken Promise Land is an fine example of Mark and Bruce at their very best
Best band ever
Not even close
RIP Stuart
Fantastic interview.
Excellent interview
Wonderful , Brilliant album ❤
100% agree! Fantastic record
Its a shame no one asked about why the excellent Never Take Your Place didn't make the album.
Before 'Buffalo Skinners' was released (Holy cow, is that really already 30 years ago?!), it had always been my impression that Mark's and Simon's drumming styles were fairly similar, so I was actually quite surprised how different Simon's drumming on 'The Buffalo Skinners' then actually was, compared to Mark's! I do like Simon a lot on many other albums, but I admit I was glad when Mark returned to Big Country.
Following on from an evening about music in Dunfermline held at P J Molloys, where Bruce spoke which I attended last year, and the interview by Bruce and his son with Richard Jobson, I wish I hadn't watched this. Five songs on The Buffalo Skinners album are solely credited to Stuart, and according to the album notes he was the only band member involved in writing all of them, yet he barely gets a mention.
I agree if I didn’t know better I’d have thought Stuart Adamson had a minor part in the writing of this album ………….but we all know differently…don’t we !
@@michaeltye8853 exactly! Otherwise I imagine there would've been more than one album of new songs released over the past 21 years.
Hi Karen, Bruce was only answering questions that I had been sent by listeners/subscribers to my show. Most of the questions were directed at him. What in particular were you wanting him to say specifically in response to the questions asked that would've been more about Stuart?
@@VRPRocks I appreciate that, but for example, Alone was written solely by Stuart according to the credits yet he still hardly got a mention. As has already been said, listening to the interview if you didn't know better, you would think there was little input from Stuart, or to be fair Tony (it sounded like writing was mostly by Bruce and Mark), yet that clearly wasn't the case. I would've expected more recognition of Stuart's contribution to the album, and the band in general but that, imo, was also lacking in the other two interviews I quoted.
@@karenkay-ex7lm I'm not sure that's quite right. About 'Alone' the question was if Bruce felt the poignancy of it given what happened. In his 50 second response he mentions Stuarts name 3 times and says he/his (referring to Stuart) 4 times. I wouldn't say that Stuart therefore "hardly got a mention". This interview in particular was supposed to be Bruce's side of the story with questions aimed at him by fans of the band.