Classic Rock: Without The Aid Of A Safety Net

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We look back in a series. Today to the "Without The Aid Of A Safety Net" by Big Country from 1994, one of the last things the great Stuart Adamson has done before he is gone in 2001 after a huge tragedy...

After the flop excursion into wide-screen rock with the CD "No Place Like Home", which the band now considers to be a complete failure and which is no longer included in the official discography, Big Country reported last year with "The Buffallo Skinners" clearly returned. Afterwards, super drummer Mark Brzezicki returned home to the band family and the first tour together after a long absence from the stage was a triumph.

Stuart Adamson and Co. made the best of it: a live CD. Programmatically entitled "Without The Aid Of A Safety Net", the seventy minute recording of a concert on December 29, 1993 in Glasgow at home begins with a comparatively tranquil acoustic set of oldies such as "Harvest Home" and "13 Valleys". Adamson, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassman Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki gradually increase the speed.

"The Storm" lives from confusing folk guitars and Brezicki's precise percussion work, the audience sings the anthemic "Change" almost alone, and from " Look Away", during which Big Country unpack the bagpipe guitars, the hall goes wild in Scottish rock. Without a net and false bottom - there's no better way to convey the intensity of a big country concert on CD.

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