Big Country - Local Heroes - STV, 1993.
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2019
- Stuart, Bruce, Tony and Mark interviewed by Alison Craig at The Pars' East End Park, Dunfermline about their new album The Buffalo Skinners and life in Big Country in the years leading up to its release.
A terrific video with interesting (and funny - as is the norm with a lot of their interviews) answers from the band.
The clip is interspersed with sections of Big Country video clips.
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Stay Alive and as always, thanks for viewing!
Loved the band and loved doing this Documentary..it was such an unexpected pleasure to find it online. Thank you for posting it.
Thanks for doing it Alison, your'e part of musical history !
What an amazing documentary. Sad to think Stuart is not with us anymore. He was in his prime here. Favorite Band OF ALL TIME ❤❤❤
Enjoyed that very much. Thank you for posting that BC1000Stars. Loved BC; left their mark on me and others for ever. Went through a few years ago with my dad to Pittencrief Park in Dunfermline and saw the memorial bench that had been placed there to remember Stuart. When its my time to fall off the mortal coil, as it where, I want on my gravestone; "some days will stay a thousand years, some pass like the flash of a spark, who knows where all our days go". Thank you Mr. William Stuart Adamson, Bruce, Tony and Mark for shaping my teenage years. You've left your mark on me forever and for that, I thank you. Stay alive!!
Holy smoke what a great documentary- keep finding new stuff about this band that I never knew existed!! - Best quote “certainly wouldn’t do the tour without the gigs “. Mega song to finish with the credits -Ships - what a beautifully crafted song
Great album it was a better time than now we were all young
Wow. My favourite band from my teens. Just fantastic. ❤
It is so sad that Stuart is not here to tell us about the new album or the next gig.
Fantastic band. Great bunch of guys.
Tony and Marc possibly Rocks best rhythm section.
I love when I discover something by my Favourite band that I have never seen before. Thanks for posting.
Nice of Alison to comment.
She comes across as a natural. Thanks Alison for making this a joy to watch .
Not just a group of amazing musicians but possibly one of the best comedy acts in rock.
I love how Stuart offers a deep, respectful explanation of why they left Phonogram, and when asked the same question Tony just says "They were shite" 1:52
21:02 Mark cracks me up with: "We certainly wouldn't do the tour without the gigs."
But the moment I absolutely lost it was 14:48 when Bruce calls Tony a human loofah XD
What is a 'human loofah xd'?
Tony summed it up
Great to hear Stuart
Thanks as always BC
What I wouldn’t give
for a days hang
with those guys
I’ll add the stadium
to the Bench
on my next
swing through
Cheers
Love this post! But tbh prefer them Scottish sounding than American, this is what we love BC in the first place. Thanks again for sharing!! ❤️
Another great 'find'. Thanks 👍
How can I ever thank you for these posts. By saying THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for posting. Never seen this before.
Yeah me neither. Thanks Andy!
Awesome. (2022).
Great post thanks
Fantastic great post thank you
Really interesting insight into a wonderful group. I saw them for the first time live around when this programme was made, with my first proper girlfriend at Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
Which was made into an official live bootleg album! So great you got to see them at this time, they were immense live around then.
Big country should be up there, time will see tell , seen them 7 times a lot at the playhouse Edinburgh , in the 80s , barrowlands and the new year gig that was on TV miss the big man
Thank you.
"Where were you when my ship went down?"
Glad I heard her pronounce Dumfernline!!! I'd been saying it wrong😄
Dunfermline* yes back when I was young fan and before I had heard it spoken, I used to say it "Dunferm-line"
Cheers for posting, enjoyed that.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching! 😀
Thank You.
Sadly, this album was mostly Americanised shite, as is now the UK as a whole. And when you think of where Stuart went in his last months and years, one can only be desparately disappointed and saddened with his choice. Nevertheless, the utter joy (dance like no one can see you) that was Big Country is precious indeed. I continue to follow them now- not what they were, obviously, but a lot of the joy is present. Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see.
According to Ian Grant, Stuart was offered Peter Wolf, Ted Templeman (Van Halen fame) and another i forget. Stuart himself chose Peter Wolf, who botched the recording of PIOT and undoubtedly harmed the band's collective confidence. If Stuart had done his research he'd have found that Templeman's philosophy was exactly the same as Stuarts: "just throw up the mikes and leave them to make the music.". IF Grant's story is the truth. However, Stuart, in this interview, never addressed why he chose to Americanize his singing accent, which may have contributed to the band's decline in success.
Grant was a liar and he ripped the band off and stuarts family after he died
Big Countrys demise was management. If Paul mcguiness had big country God knows what would have been.
Flame of the West didn't go down well with the American critics. That's why STEELTOWN bombed. Personally that was a better album than the crossing
Too many singles released that were at best bside material. For the life of me Damascus was up there with STEELTOWN and feck all promotion. Even critics praised it.
@@johnmacintyre6231 Hi, John - is that definite? I know there were rumours of this around 2011/12 but nothing substantial. Am interested to know. Cheers
Why did Mark leave the band?
Stuart broke the band up in mid 1989 although it wasn't announced as such. Mark then booked in other work contractually. When Stuart changed his mind and reconvened the band, Mark was unavailable due to his recently signed commitments.
@@BC1000Stars Thanks for the info I didn't really know what happened👍👍
@@BC1000Stars thanks for explaining now I know why mark left
Stuart doesn’t have the accent he had in earlier years