Big Country - In a Big Country - Moscow 1988

[cejannuzi]

Most of the fanboys never liked BC's politics. The band never struck very deeply in the US. Bad major label management, bad management, etc. They should have been as big as Simple Minds at least, but their politics (Stuart's)

[cejannuzi]

@cejannuzi were too dangerous for US music scene. Now there is all this bad feeling over the way it ended for Stuart, etc.

Enjoy the albums, live stuff and youtube videos. They had a great career in music, they deserved better commercially.

[TheAmericanbornscot]

@cejannuzi Steeltown should of been much bigger in us than The Crossing, it needed more demo time, more advertisement, BETTER management(not horrible), and much more radio play(Wonderland had heavy MTV airplay, but stalled to #88).

[TheAmericanbornscot]

@TheAmericanbornscot Wonderland did rise to #8 in the U.K.

[Nigelxman]

God love you always Stuart! Fantastic performance from these boys! I will never forget seeing them in twice when I was 18 and how amazingly powerful and brilliant. I still do not understand why they didn't become huge here (America) when so many other crap bands did.

[Easyandy100]

Great performance!

[pob407]

this is the best version of this song on video !

[cejannuzi]

Bruce's guitar break is such crap, Stuart should have played something and let Bruce shake hands. This group really would have benefited from having another guitarist who could do leads because Stuart obviously over-taxed himself doing all the lead work, much of the rhythm and singing at the same time.

[TheAmericanbornscot]

@cejannuzi plz shut up tony and mark AND stu helped bruce with that. thats why hes a RHYTHM GUITARIST, u can hear him. hes still good anyway. BETTER THAN YOU!!!

[cejannuzi]

@TheAmericanbornscot Shut up yourself.

[TheAmericanbornscot]

@cejannuzi im done(now U shut up and enjoy Big Country)

RIP Stuart Adamson

[cejannuzi]

@TheAmericanbornscot You like to put everything in the form of an order, don't you? I don't think this is the best version of the song on video, hence my criticism. It's pretty good, but not the best musically.

[TheAmericanbornscot]

@cejannuzi Yeah I agree with you. All this nearly bankrupted the band, Peace In Our TIme was a really pretentious album, musically. What a shame :( they shouldve stuck with what they had!

it was still an ALRIGHT album though(got to admit)

yes bruces guitar break is mediocre, but it could be worse(god awful).

RIP Stuart

[cejannuzi]

@TheAmericanbornscot I think PIOT is often cited as a mark in their decline. It certainly failed to keep them popular in the UK, while it meanwhile failed to break them as a more accessible band to more conservative US audiences (unlike U2 or even Simple Minds in the 1980s). There are some very good songs on the album though, none real clinkers. The production is distracting if you liked where they were headed on the first three studio albums.

Paul Weller never got through in the US either.

[soyghost1]

@cejannuzi you are a complete fool-- stuart's genius was to do all that at the same time and he did it fantastically...

[cejannuzi]

@soyghost1 One thing I remember about anonymous BC fans is that they are often obnoxious loudmouthed idiots who can't read. No where did I put down SA's musicianship. I said their management was crap, and that Bruce Watson was too musically limited. I would have loved to hear SA jam with someone who could play.

[cejannuzi]

@cejannuzi And I should add: I like this live version o.k. enough but it is clearly not the best live version I've heard. Don't like the sound. But it's amazing what they did to go to USSR and do that. I admire them for that.

[soyghost1]

@cejannuzi wow, i would be happy with my management if i had a solid 20-year career in music...i am sure you could have done a better job as big country's second guitar player...i surely don't think you could take potshots at Mark or Tony for any reason? ps i believe my comment related to you saying stuart was 'overtaxed'-- obviously not the case.

[cejannuzi]

@soyghost1 The other three are obviously lost without Stuart as musical leader. IGM goofed up BC's career and the Cult's. IGM suck.

[cejannuzi]

More major label sabotage and crap management. The suppression continues.

[Kilchattan7]

Ah them wur the days and a truly lovely human being

[studonator]

Why would he kill himself ,why?

[gourdonboy]

I'm just blown away by this performance. Sound not technically the best but the pure raw emotion will never be surpassed.

SheWoreLemon - couldn't agree more. Goose bumps.

[MrTaximusic]

@gourdonboy mt take it you have never been to the barras now thats a big country

[Nigelxman]

@gourdonboy I disagree. I think the sound is excellent here. K well save for the back up singers. :-)

[SheWoreLemon83]

Just to add...ordinarily speaking, this would be a phenomenal concert to be at, but the significance of WHERE and WHEN it was just gives me the chills. Imagine being one of those audience members...one of the first to attend a rock concert by a real live western band inside the soviet union...wow.

[SheWoreLemon83]

They LOST the master tape?? Good god...there's someone selling one on ebay...

[elizaanddarcy]

AMAZING!!!

[theexcelent78]

where i can get this concert?.....but full

[cavalier080854]

This is only available as a VHS tape, but last year they were going to release it as a remastered DVD, unfortunately they lost the master tape, criminal!