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It was in the summer of 77 when I first bumped into Stuart Adamson. I was very drunk at the time and have been bumping in to him ever since. Stuart was playing with his punk combo 'The Skids' and I was in the support band The Delinquents. I was very impressed with his guitar playing and he was more than complimentary about my burst couch hairdo. My band supported The Skids on and off for a couple of years and I remember Stuart saying that we should get together and do something in the future, little did I realise that he meant going on a bender for a couple of months. We got talking and soon discovered that we both shared a passion for 'The Kinks'. I cautiously suggested that we form a camp Kinks tribute band and record a cover version of their hit single, 'Pictures of Willies'. Well, as you can imagine he thought I was mad, I then told him in the strictest of confidence that I had invented the seagull, and that was it. He immediately decided that we should form a band. We got together and set up a studio downstairs in the local institute to record our first demos, The line up was Stuart, myself and a bossa nova drum machine called 'Doctor Roboto.' I still have the demos of Harvest and Inwards with that drum machine on it. Harvest home has a sexy salsa beat to and Inwards sounds like Ricky Martin on speed. Our manager lan Grant hawked these tapes (but not his ass) around every record company in London but came away disappointed everytime. 'Guitars are out and synths are in' was the standard reply. Well, we wouldn't take no for an answer so we decided to drop the drum machine and look for a proper rhythm section. Lady luck blew my way as I was browsing through a copy of Good Housekeeping down the clinic. I was checking the small ads at the back and came across a two by two advert that simply said 'Rhythm for Hire I passed this info to Ian and he set up some proper studio time with Mark Brzezicki and Tony Butler I instantly clicked with Tony but Mark was a different beast all together. He heard about my tropical fish keeping hobby and kept demanding to know if they had todgers. I took an instant dislike to him and in the nineteen years that I have been his colleague I have never so much as uttered one word to him. I can be like that you see. Tony once told me that I was a grudge holding son of a bitch, to which I replied ‘No one fucks with my fish.’ That pearl of wisdom held me in good stead down the years. Mess with me and you mess with my fish. Get heavy with me and Harry the Halibut gets heavy with you. Any way I would like to thank all of you good people out they're who have supported us over the years and if I was in AC/DC I would certainly salute you. Bruce Watson www.bigcountry.co.uk
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