Big Country - In a Big Country - Moscow 1988

Palace of Sports, Moscow 1988. Track 10 of 10.

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[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!

[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. 

[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]

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

[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]

@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.

[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.

[soyghost1]

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

[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!

[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.