Big Country 'Flame of the West' bass play-along by Scott Whitley
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Big Country bassist Scott Whitley plays his interpretation of Tony Butler's masterpiece of a bassline from 'Flame of the West'. - Hudba
Masterpiece is an understatement. ...steeltown possibly best rock album of all time. ....Tony's contribution ...immeasurable. .....great interpretation
and Tony Butler did this while singing most of the song too... very under rated bass player
This highlights just how good Tony was at this point in his career - very creative all over the fretboard. It's more like lead guitar playing than the usual bass lines that lesser talented bass players push out.
+skidco1 Agreed!
Bass chords, I met a Czech guy who played bass chords in a post punk new wave style...
where have all those days go? still amazing after all those days have gone. stay alive!
This is one of my favorite songs by them. Made more poignant by our current circumstances
The tone is spot on too!
Cheers Jack!
Excellent ! BC one of my favourite bands. Tony Butler has to be up there with Entwistle, McCartney for his prowess on the bass.
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Big country deserve your amazing talent Scott!
Very kind of you Peter! Cheers, Scott.
HELL YES!!!! I never knew the intro was bass though.. :)
Cheers!! :-)
Awesome! Big Country have always been my number one! Until seeing you play the bass line, I never truly appreciated just how complex it is! Cheers!
Thanks Jeffrey.
Amazing job!!! Great feel. If you are going to copy, copy the best. You rock and just like Tony make it look easy.
We all know how hard this is for a great player. Tony did more in one song than some players did in a whole career.
Thanks, Michael!! Very much appreciated.
Great to hear Stuart singing and your bass together Scott !
one of my favourite BC album tracks. and amazingly played. BC lucky to have you.
Absolutely amazing. DAMN!!
You should totally be in the band, oh.... hang on...... you are!! heheh.
Lol - thank you!! :)
Awesome! "Flame of the West" is one of the bass song of the 80's, in my opinion.
Superb !!!!
So good Scott,you do the legacy of Big Country proud.I saw B.C. on their first American tour in Providence and they actually played "In a big country" twice.I don't know if they ran out of material or what but it was a splendid night and I got autographs after the show.Great memories.I take advantage of your wonderful lessons and was blown away to see you as a band member.Also the Animals,my word!
Thanks for the kind words here, Kev - very much appreciated!!
Bloody hell this is good!
Wow - thank you, very kind!!
Goodness...I remember sitting in my room in Denmark as a young teen and just soaking up the incredible Big Country bass lines...and Mark King bass line too...and Talk Talk...and...
Finally!!! A great Pick Player!!!! Thanks!!
The best big country song! and more relevant today than ever before, due to the socio-political climate we are living in now being so similar to those depicted in the lyrics.
Tony Butler was and is pure class …. great bass playing Scott .. well impressed.
Thanks Paul!
Scott is a huge asset to the current big country line up superb player I hope Mr butler approves
Cheers, Andrew!
Fantastic playing Scott - love your work and great to see you live on stage with Big Country! :D
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I always loved this bassline. Butler was so brilliant. I don't usually watch play-alongs, but to see someone play this song with such precision? Utterly amazing. I'll probably be running up your views for a while now. ;) Cheers.
+Samuel J. Tannin Thanks very much Samuel - very kind!!
This is so good, Scott! I've watched several times. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
Man I wish I coukd play that baseline. My dad raised me on Big Country and they're one of the reasons I started playing bass. Saw you play with them last year, awesome gig
Thanks, Dan!
Tony Butler invented this amazing bass line, and it shows how totally proficient he was and still is! I can't play bass at all, but I think that this is wicked!
Thanks very much Michael! Cheers, Scott.
This is absolute brilliant, you make it look so easy, and it sounds great
Excellence in it's true form. Very well played, I love this band so much that it has become my personal favourite. Thanks for this cover 👍
Just WOW!
This is awesome, always loved Big Country's bass lines. I'd love to see you do Where The Rose Is Sown, that's one of my favourites to play and it'd be cool to see how close my attempts are!
I'll put it on my to-do list!! :-)
Fantastic
Superb! love the Bass in this song and all big country songs Tony Butler is amazing, you done a spot on cover cheers! :)
Amazing
Thank you very much Alexis - very kind.
Great Tone and great Job !
Thanks Robert!
awesome have seen this before a few years ago I guess. Like Stuart's voice and Scott tuning in.
Mad skills on the bass there bro! Good job! :)
Scott i hope you're on board for the Australian Tour this year! Loads of Aussie fans have been waiting patiently for over 30 years! See you in Melbourne!
+BC1000stars That is some time to wait!!! See you in Melbourne - exciting times!! :-)
Nice Job!
Brilliant Scott
Thank you!!!
Love it.
Cheers! :-)
Any chance of a play along to Big Country's 'All Go Together'
fantastic to watch :-)
Thanks Paul!
Supern Tony.. Cant wait to see the band tonight.. Tony really did like to "decorate"
Nice!
Scott you completely blow me away. Tony Butler was brilliant and so are you. Please do a play along of Wonderland, my favorite BC song and bass line! It's good to hear these bass lines up high because sadly the recorded originals are sometimes low in the mix :(
Will try and do this asap Lisa!! :-)
Tony aint no "was"... he IS still pretty fucking GOD on the bass!
Pissedman Yes, Tony is still brilliant though no longer with Big Country. This was where the "was" came from. His students are indeed lucky to have him as a mentor.
Scott Whitley thank you! Love the Wonderland play along!
Scott using a pick is awesome...Scott without a pick is mindblowing :)
Wow
Excellent! Hope you become the regular bass player with the band!
+El Nino Chris Thanks! :-)
+Scott Whitley yes! From what I've seen you really seem to enjoy yourself on stage! And if you can belt out this song, I'd say your passed the audition! 😁
Outstanding Scott. Unbelievable bass grooves going on here. There's a huge deficit in BC Bass Covers on you tube, so thanks so much. Hope some day u might do Wonderland or IABC. Cheers, Niall
It's coming!!! :-)
WOW
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this. This is one of my favorite BC songs. Any chance you can do a demonstration of Angle Park?
Awesome bass line, executed faultlessly....
My brother bought Steelstown when it came out in the early 1980's, think I was bout 13 years old. i was addicted to this album until it was unplayable with years of scratches to the record, Big Country, Buzzcocks and cornflakes, is what I grew up on....lol.
A stranger came by traveling
And he went to every door
He said he'd lost his people
He'd come to look for more
And many did believe him
As he talked upon the square
The spell he wove upon us
Fills my body with despair
And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests
He had the voice of an angel
And the face of a saint
And though they fell behind him
I knew what it was he meant
His eyes where full of demons
As he made his message clear
He strode the world like Caesar
With a trident held as fear
And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests
It's just how it's always been
One man with a ruling dream
And everyone falls for him
Heroines in an ancient film
It's just how it's always been
One man with a ruling dream
And everyone falls for him
Heroines in an ancient film
Called the flame of the west
Look out for that stranger
If you pass him on your way
He never sees a danger
In the darkening of the day
There will be dollars in his hand
He has all hell to pay
And he will pass them to you
If you promise you will stay
And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests
What Lyrics, Stuart new exactly what's being played out in this realm we live in.. RIP Stuart Adamson.....
Hi Scott,
I saw Big Country last month in Auckland, NZ for the first time and it was fantastic. Grew up with Big Country music! So, so nice to see it played live and to see it played so well. This is one song I was really hanging out for (and Steeltown). Is there a reason its not part of the set?
Great tone. I've always wondered exactly how/why Tony's basses usually had a "chorus-effect" sound to them. I know he used a lot of drones(like with Angle Park) and some bass chords. This is great.I was running this through to isolate the bass track. I see you've got a custom bass too. The body looks like that of a common bass that was used by Tony Butler and Mike Oldfield back in the early-mid 80's...but I can't remember the brand. As for the head...looks Rickenbacker shaped. Keep going, the world needs better bass players to prove...there's so much more that you can do with 4-strings(or 5...for those who want less exercise on the fretboard). Cheers from a gringo living in Mexico!
Hoofing! Saw them in 86 and 89 I think.
+Pete Devlin My pleasure Pete!
Nice Scott..Sounds awesome...Now can you talk the boys into bringing the show over to the states?
Cheers Mike! I can try... :-)
Loud as Lemmy. Tony was a genius
Hey, Scott, why don't you give it a try with 'Where the Rose is Sown'? I'd really love to see how that one sounds on bass
Great idea, Carlos!!
Scott, which one of Tony Butler's lines or Big Country Tune was the most challenging for you to learn?
Hard to say really. This one's a tough line to learn, East of Eden has a few surprises too. Fields of fire and Wonderland probably take the most concentration live, though they're two of my favourite to play! :-)
Fantastic playing Scott. I have a couple of guitars but I am on no way musical in any shape or form. How long does it take you to learn a new song? And how do you actually learn? Is the music written down or is it by listening?
That's a tricky one... I always wanted to see how that was done. Which one would you say is the trickiest BC one Scott?
Hard to say. Lots have their quirks - I'll have a think... :)
@@ScottWhitley Yes, I can imagine! Cheers.
Very impressive. I'd wish to hear those clear and LOUD basslines live, since in my opinion on 99% live and on tape also, bass is too quiet.Only 6 weeks to travel to good old germany (the country of the fifa world champions :-) ), maybe you play the LOUD bass then.
What chorus pedal did Tony use? What chorus are you using here? Great cover btw!
Thanks! I'm not sure re Tony, but I was using the chorus built into the Zoom B1on
Was that an actual Gibson EB-3 on the wall behind you?
Or an Epiphone or some other copy?
Hi Bryan. It was this bass: www.shortscalebass.co.uk/product/revelation-rsgb-short-scale-bass/
A Revelation RSGB. A VERY cool bass indeed. I used it on the first Animals tour I did.
Don’t suppose you could tab this Scott?
It's on my very loooong 'To Do' List! Cheers, Scott.
After seeing 3 shitty finger style bassists destroy Tony's sound in their pathetic attempt's to do "In a Big Country" you are a breath of fresh air. Your pick tone rocks and that left hand is off the chain.
Many thanks for the compliment!!
Scott.
Not as good as as Tony
Thanks Greg for the constructive comment - much appreciated.
Scott.
one of my favourite BC album tracks. and amazingly played. BC lucky to have you.
Amazing job Scott! Love this bass line.
Adam Tucker Thanks Adam.
Wow