Fact: Stuart Adamson is underrated. If you know who he was you will probally agree.
Stuart Adamson is THE GOODS. Well, was... God rest his soul. Shame he's gone. Edge had long been a fan and had 'borrowed' many ideas from Stuart from The Skids days, and maybe a bit from Big Country days too.
Bruce Watson of Big Country, also UNDER-RATED.
And I'd like to add Bruce and Stuart to the dual guitar teams list. The weaving of their guitars wove the rich sonic tapestry of Big Country's music.
While some might call Big Country a one hit wonder, I beg to differ. I think that thier "The Crossing" (album), "Wonderland" (EP), "Steeltown" (album) and "The Seer" (album) are 5 star goodness. Kate Bush's backing vocals on "The Seer" (song) are amazing! And "Peace In Our Time" (album) is pretty strong too.
I think I shall have to listen to some Big Country here at work now...
PS - Mark Brzezicki (sp) is a phenomenal drummer. LOVE his playing. He was a huge influence on my drumming. AND Mark also played drums on ALL of The Cult's 1985 album, "Love", except "She Sells Sanctuary". Oddly enough, Mark IS in the video for "...Sanctuary"!
Didn't know you were a fan. Live 1995. Contains some nice extended improv.
Shame that the only song most people know by them. That entire album was good. I also recall reading somewhere, that they were Pete Townshends backing muscians on one of his solo albums.
Didn't know you were a fan. Live 1995. Contains some nice extended improv.
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Shame that the only song most people know by them. That entire album was good. I also recall reading somewhere, that they were Pete Townshends backing muscians on one of his solo albums.
Mark played drums for Pete. And Tony Butler played on Pete's records too... And Tony Butler also guested on two songs on The Pretenders 1984 album, Learning to Crawl.
This from Wikipedia:
After a more than two-year hiatus - during which time Pretenders members James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon both died of drug overdoses - new wave pioneers The Pretenders released their third album Learning to Crawl in 1984.
After Farndon's dismissal from the band and Honeyman-Scott's death, Chrissie Hynde (vocals, guitar) and Martin Chambers (drums) initially recruited Rockpile's Billy Bremner and Big Country's Tony Butler to fill out a caretaker line-up of The Pretenders in 1982. Bremner played guitar and Butler played bass on the band's September 1982 single "Back on the Chain Gang"/"My City Was Gone", both sides of which were later included on Learning to Crawl. As the album sessions got under way, Bremner, The Rumour's Andrew Bodnar, and Paul Carrack (formerly of Squeeze, Ace and Roxy Music) played guitar, bass and piano respectively for the track "Thin Line Between Love and Hate."
Finally, Robbie McIntosh (guitar) and Malcolm Foster (bass) were recruited to join Hynde and Chambers, and the band was now officially a quartet. It was this line-up that recorded the majority of the tracks featured on Learning to Crawl.
The November 1983 single "2000 Miles"/"Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law)" was the newly reconstituted foursome's first release, followed shortly by the full Learning to Crawl album in January 1984.
Didn't know you were a fan. Live 1995. Contains some nice extended improv.
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Shame that the only song most people know by them. That entire album was good. I also recall reading somewhere, that they were Pete Townshends backing muscians on one of his solo albums.
I love anything that doesn't suck! Hahahaha...
If a band has good riffs, good guitar and drum sounds and textures... there is a good chance I like them.
Big Country, The Police, U2, Coldplay, Radiohead...
Did Stuart ever actually play the piano live, or was it just a studio instrument?
Of the live video I have, I've not seen Stuart play piano or synths live.
What song are you thinking of?
The only synth playing I've seen was a supplemental keyboard player on the Peace In Our Time tour in 1988. And truth be told, it was unnessary, didn't add and actually detracted from the sound of the band. The sounds used by the keyboardist were dull and dated.
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