"If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" is Budgie's sixth album, released in 1976. Burke Shelley - Vocals, bass Tony Bourge - Guitar Steve Williams - Drums Richard Dunn - Keyboards
Burke Shelley RIP - before his time. Budgie were unique - Shelley and Bourge sounded like no one else. Songwriting including lyrics, lead and bass guitar licks, riffs and solos up there with the very, very best.
Man this band just keeps on giving me the chills. Just listen to this amazing track. The power and the tension brought by the rythm section and THAT GUITAR TONE COMBINED WITH THAT GUITAR WORK. Tony Bourge has got to be one of the most underrated guitar players of all time...and I am not one of those people that abuse the term "overrated". This guy is one of the few that really deserve this term
What to say. It's Budgie. I've been interested in rock music since 1973. This song has been still my favourite rock ballad. Please count the time it's really long term. I really love their music and I've got all their CD. I think it is time to introduce everyone this band and remember for older music fans. Are You agree? If YES go on.
Just love Budgie. They were true originals. If you listen to The Eagles and “In Those Shoes,” they were influenced by this song. Stallion came out three years before it. I live in San Antonio native and would love to have grown up here back in the 70s.
Black velvet stallion, you are gone* Chasing a windsong, be my son Always here wondering Hoof beats are thundering through me Maybe you're running from me Black velvet stallion are you near Carry me far away from my fear Son of an Arab mare Roaming on solid air and free While you are living be free Black velvet stallion be alone Send me a messenger call me home Pictures and silhouettes Spending a pirouette on me Maybe you're coming to me Black velvet stallion you're my child Flower of tenderness growing wild Look through my wilderness No one would ever guess you're me What I am seeing is me
Iwas at a gig in cardiff castle in 1976. Budgie were on the bill. They played this track. The crowd loved it. I bought the album the next week. Welsh wizards!!!
So underated... saw them at a rock allnighter at the Scala Kings X in 1973. Was 16 years old and still remember them hitting the stage at 3am and starting their set with Breadfan. Just brilliant!
@@jeffhavas8013 ; that’s right bud, The God Father of rocken roll the town that made bands famous. Yeah well, those times are gone for ever. They only exist in our memory, shit man!! So fucken sad post bro! You know what ? 🤣💭😁 ignor…..
when i was in school i'd go round my mates and he'd put his older brothers records on. thats how i got introduced to budgie. later i saw them '81 in reading. started listening to the band again since the last couple of years. i appreciate them way more now that im older and wiser
The first Budgie track I heard was “ Parents “ in 1976 I was 16 years old I had never heard anything quite like it before it’s was something from a different stratosphere…. Peace to World from Scotland.
This song is somehow really funky and realyl mysterious/hypnotic at once. Love taht trilo of albums starting with Bandolier and endign with Impeckable. Somehow it's my favourite period of Budgie.
Their are many people who have posted hearing budgie on a certain radio station! Like in San Antonio, we had that same station in spokane washington! I won't call it a rock station! Because it played everything from jazz, return from forever, to Charlie Daniels band song saddle tramps, to.budgie! Tommy bolin also prog rock super band camel, wishbone ash etc etc! 24 hours a day with no commercials! So you heard a wide variety of music! The station was 92.9 krem fm! That s where I heard these bands and more! The dj would play 3 to.4 songs non stop! Then come on the air and tell you.their names song played and the album! Then tell you the bands coming up! It was music driven not dj personality! Many dj would just come on and say.like my name is John, or nancy! It was the 1st station I heard that had women dj? Amaxing station budgie a amazing band, it was a amazi g time in the 70s ! I am 62 now and fondly remember those days and the group budgie rocks forever!
Dale KMAC- AM was in San Antonio in around 1971. I did not even know what FM was. The radio DJs were Joe Anthony and Lou Roney. They played top 50 songs and such. They almost went bankrupt but decided to ONLY play up and coming new music. It worked and they created KISS--FM No other stations took this chance. Some of the bands that give credit to their success to them is Rush Budgie Moxy Triumph Legs Diamond Amboy Dukes and countless others Peace- 😊 ✌️
@@dianainclan2021 Me too. I am the guy that turned on my few friends to Budgie around 1971 This was in a small town near Austin. 50 years later, and I still get Thank Yous from around the country
Actually, Duran does have a good point. San Antonio in particular was a hotbed of Budgie Fandom during the seventies due to the huge amount of airplay they received thanks to Joe Anthony and Lou Roney who played them incessantly on KISS FM in S.A. They have developed a huge fan base there over the last 4 decades as a result.
I was able to see the " BUDGIE " at the majestic theater in San Antonio back in the day. Was removed by the police for some reason but just bought another ticket and went back in with my long hair , handkerchief around my head " HI " as the sky , back in the day .
That guitar solo tone is fuckin searing! Managed to see them a few times in the 70s, and that not only feels like a lifetime ago, it actually IS a lifetime ago. Great days.
i have to agree with you about Impekkable. Outside of the 3 MCA albums they did between 73 and 75, I think Impekkable, even though less heavy, was perhaps the best work Bourge ever did overall IMHO based on that alone.
VERY WELL.................................................................................................................................................
The accepted story is that Budgie tried to "break the States" with this album and Impeckable. Like Slade, they failed; Tony Bourge left and (like Slade) they scurried back to Britain where the landscape had changed radically, had a second wind with John Thomas on guitar and finally petered out. Not sure about these albums but they're still a great band.
Why does everyone try to figure out what the song is about, why it was written,etc., etc., ..... just listen to it .... it's classic rock. Who cares why it was written and what it's about ....
Not for me mate. If an artist goes to the trouble of writing lyrics, then I like to try and make the effort and understand the meaning. But, each to their own. Someone's milk is another's poison, so they say!
2:17 to 2:47 = 😧😦 4:48-end=😯😲🤯🤯🤯pure 🎸 insanity.... And the freakin drum track is so ridiculously hard to play.. yet sounds so damn simple... Such underrated talent it's a shame.. (RIP Jack thanks for clueing me in!) Luck For us music is eternal! 🤘
