30 Years of The Buffalo Skinners - Bruce Watson Answers YOUR Questions

[@centuryhousedw]

Great interview, well done! Despite being a fan from the very beginning, the only time I got to see them live was in Dallas on the Buffalo Skinners tour. I'd seen their live footage before on film but in person they just blew my mind - I couldn't believe how good they were.

[@turefromfinland3264]

One of the greatest records ever. Just awesome stuff.

[@sjones5863]

Would love to hear Bruces views on why the long face and the Damascus sessions sometime

[@sveinbh7777]

You should check out The Great Divide - the Big Country podcast. Bruce is a frequent guest.

[@jkeaney7]

Great questions and insight. Thank you for this. It's brilliant! 👏

[@colinwatt3958]

Fantastic interview.

[@sjones5863]

Excellent interview

[@gerhardjacoby8165]

The original Robin Millar-Mix from "The Seer" was found. Please release it.

[@DMMJBSM]

Wonderful , Brilliant album ❤

[@VRPRocks]

100% agree! Fantastic record

[@Cleverogue]

Class act Brucie, half of the greatest guitar duo ever No offense to Mark, (whom I stole many of my early drum licks from), and who is definitely in my top 5… but when your favourite drummer joins your favourite band for one glorious album… it doesn’t get much better than that That being said Broken Promise Land is an fine example of Mark and Bruce at their very best Best band ever Not even close RIP Stuart

[@ctyreman11]

Its a shame no one asked about why the excellent Never Take Your Place didn't make the album.

[@mightyV444]

Before 'Buffalo Skinners' was released (Holy cow, is that really already 30 years ago?!), it had always been my impression that Mark's and Simon's drumming styles were fairly similar, so I was actually quite surprised how different Simon's drumming on 'The Buffalo Skinners' then actually was, compared to Mark's! I do like Simon a lot on many other albums, but I admit I was glad when Mark returned to Big Country.

[@karenkay-ex7lm]

Following on from an evening about music in Dunfermline held at P J Molloys, where Bruce spoke which I attended last year, and the interview by Bruce and his son with Richard Jobson, I wish I hadn't watched this. Five songs on The Buffalo Skinners album are solely credited to Stuart, and according to the album notes he was the only band member involved in writing all of them, yet he barely gets a mention.

[@michaeltye8853]

I agree if I didn’t know better I’d have thought Stuart Adamson had a minor part in the writing of this album ………….but we all know differently…don’t we !

[@karenkay-ex7lm]

​@@michaeltye8853 exactly! Otherwise I imagine there would've been more than one album of new songs released over the past 21 years.

[@VRPRocks]

Hi Karen, Bruce was only answering questions that I had been sent by listeners/subscribers to my show. Most of the questions were directed at him. What in particular were you wanting him to say specifically in response to the questions asked that would've been more about Stuart?

[@karenkay-ex7lm]

​​@@VRPRocks I appreciate that, but for example, Alone was written solely by Stuart according to the credits yet he still hardly got a mention. As has already been said, listening to the interview if you didn't know better, you would think there was little input from Stuart, or to be fair Tony (it sounded like writing was mostly by Bruce and Mark), yet that clearly wasn't the case. I would've expected more recognition of Stuart's contribution to the album, and the band in general but that, imo, was also lacking in the other two interviews I quoted.

[@VRPRocks]

@@karenkay-ex7lm I'm not sure that's quite right. About 'Alone' the question was if Bruce felt the poignancy of it given what happened. In his 50 second response he mentions Stuarts name 3 times and says he/his (referring to Stuart) 4 times. I wouldn't say that Stuart therefore "hardly got a mention". This interview in particular was supposed to be Bruce's side of the story with questions aimed at him by fans of the band.