The Bruce Welch Show that never happened

[Arpeggio]

It WAS indeed a BIG deal. I interviewed Bruce for that little feature. I can tell you all now that Bruce was very forthright, very fiery and very angry. He said some very harsh things indeed. Those of you who know Bruce also know how brutally frank amnd honest he can be. After the 'formal' part of the interview (which took place in the offices of a P R firm near Hammersmith) we chatted for about 20 minutes or so. I mentioned to Bruce that he had probably said quite a lot which he wouldn't want to appear in print. He seemed surprised. He simply smiled, clapped me on the shoulder and said : "No Rob. I meant it. All of it. You can print anything that I've said...anything......" He added more, which I am not going to divulge. 20 yrs or so ago now & Hank and Bruce patched up their differences enough to be onstsge together once again. Let's put it this way...I think that I had one eye on the future. Despite having 'Carte Blanche' from Bruce...I took a deliberate decision to omit quite a lot of what he said and I toned down much of what I did use. To be honest, I'm glad that I did. I will leave you all to draw your own conclusions.

PS: Yes, a shame that "An Evening With Bruce Welch" was cancelled

PPS I saw 3 shows on the first Hank / Brian tour and all three were sold out

[anniv 63]

Regarding the Hank/Brian Tour of 1994, the attendance was certainly not full at Edinburgh Usher Hall.
No meet and greet here and the venue ushered (if you will pardon the pun!!) all punters out into the street
in lightning speed banging the front door shut!!!
Pretty moth eaten venue at the time, no doubt sorted now.

Mike

[Fenderman]

I remember reading the Record Collector interview, i bought specially for that reason. I remember Hank making a comment about wanting to do a live album at the time which Bruce wasn't keen on and also that Hank wanted to do an outdoor gig, something the Shads hadn't really done very much. Again this didn't happen but it would have been nice if it did.
Then, at the end of the interview Hank made a comment about 'going back to playing wimpy stuff which was a mistake' after Flingle Bunt which i was surprised at.