Er... AC/DC? (OK, Scottish exports to Oz but there's a Bon Scott statue in Scotland so there is that...) Or the Sensational Alex Harvey Band? After these guys, it's slim pickings, agreed. I might give Big Country and Annie Lennox a slight pass but... nah, they're not rock. Lots of soft rock happened from the 80s onwards, in tandem with the softening of the culture, national psyche and so much else... Simple Minds, Texas, Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand, Glasvegas... all corporate drones.
+1 for Simple Minds, one of the most underrated bands ever. Theme for Great Cities and New Gold Dream are excellent, never mind the Breakfast Club soundtrack shite.
Also Scottish are the Shamen, a 90s techno group. Vox Day has been posting antivaxx songs based on real songs, such as the Shamen’s Move Any Mountain.
I was there in the 90s when Ebeneezer's were good, those were one of the best decades of my life... Did not know there was a Scottish connection... You've reminded me that I should check in on Vox Day, I checked in just before Christmas and he was characteristically on point as always, speaking very much in militaristic terms to describe our current predicaments. His take now as we migrate to the next phase will be interesting...
Scotland has to produce a good rock band before we begin taking them seriously.
Nazareth was great, but that was 40-years ago. Nothing important since.
Er... AC/DC? (OK, Scottish exports to Oz but there's a Bon Scott statue in Scotland so there is that...) Or the Sensational Alex Harvey Band? After these guys, it's slim pickings, agreed. I might give Big Country and Annie Lennox a slight pass but... nah, they're not rock. Lots of soft rock happened from the 80s onwards, in tandem with the softening of the culture, national psyche and so much else... Simple Minds, Texas, Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand, Glasvegas... all corporate drones.
Big Country was close enough.
Was gonna say.
+1 for Simple Minds, one of the most underrated bands ever. Theme for Great Cities and New Gold Dream are excellent, never mind the Breakfast Club soundtrack shite.
Also Scottish are the Shamen, a 90s techno group. Vox Day has been posting antivaxx songs based on real songs, such as the Shamen’s Move Any Mountain.
I was there in the 90s when Ebeneezer's were good, those were one of the best decades of my life... Did not know there was a Scottish connection... You've reminded me that I should check in on Vox Day, I checked in just before Christmas and he was characteristically on point as always, speaking very much in militaristic terms to describe our current predicaments. His take now as we migrate to the next phase will be interesting...
Gonna look him/them up! 👍🏽
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Halestorm?
Nay. "ALESTORM"
The best (only?) "pirate metal" band!
Arrrrrgh! Blacksmith approves!
Keelhauled that filthy landlubber
Send him down to the depths below...
Awesome! I have a new groove.
https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0
Dude…THANKS 👍🏽
Hair of the dog?
Do bagpipes count?