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Uploaded by on Sep 22, 2007

Hugh Cornwell live in The Tunnels nightclub, Aberdeen Scotland, performing Bear Cage with Caz Campbell on bass and Robert Williams on drums stranglers

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  • @jeevesthepunk Not all. I really like The Stranglers but the drummer is great and Caz Campbell is an excellent bass player I think

  • is it wrong for me to prefer this to the stranglers' original?

  • @sphereballs He wrote the fucking thing, he's entitled to play it

  • ur an arsehole. great camarawork..

  • Call me an arsehole but if he's going to play Stranglers songs why doesn't he just stay with the Stranglers?

  • Caz is as good as JJB

  • still cool after all these years,excellent rendition ! *****

  • HC in Song by Song:

    The young man I imagined ends up a victim of commerce, selling cars. People end up on a treadmill, joining the rat race and saving up for a decent life. They work hard and save money and have to be careful of those who try to exploit them. Then there's a reference to the Russian presence in Dresden and the drawing of boundaries in Germany after World War Two. The lyrics show my sypathy for the East Germans."

  • HC in "Song by Song":

    Lyrically, the letters "GmbH" mean "limited company" in Germany. From hearing GmbH, the words "Bear Cage" came into my head. The bear is the symbol of Berlin and there's the Russian Bear. I was thinking of East Germany being in a cage of the Russioan Bear and the lyrics are written from the viewpoint of a young man living in East Germany. He's living through the disgrace of the generations before, from the first and second World Wars.

  • why do you guess that?

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