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Comment on Seeing Big Country for the first time in 20 years by BCFan

BCFan — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:12:37 +0000

It’s not that I don’t think he’s honoring Adamson’s legacy, far from it. I think he has the utmost respect for Stuart and the band’s past. I just can’t listen to him (sorry) butcher those songs — and to me, that’s what it sounds like he’s doing. The new songs, fine. They were written and sung with his vocals.

And I totally get your point about DtD. I actually prefer most of the demos around that time as well and think they could have swapped some of the demos and unreleased songs in and made a better album. That said, I still think the last two were pretty stellar, but that’s just me.

Comment on Seeing Big Country for the first time in 20 years by Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:29:20 +0000

Thanks Bill – I’ve seen several of the posts on the BC FB page but I must have missed that one. I’ll look for it.

Comment on Seeing Big Country for the first time in 20 years by Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:28:19 +0000

Thanks for writing. I can understand your reticence seeing the band without Adamson. But you may want to consider it – Peters mentioned him more than once, and has a very clear sense of his legacy – he’s not trying to replace him.

Personally I like WTLF, but other fans I’ve talked to don’t seem to like it as much. I like a lot of the songs on Driving to Damascus, but it doesn’t come together as an album for me, I prefer the demo recordings of several of the DtD songs.

Comment on Shashin 3.4 Beta: please help test by Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:07:05 +0000

Thanks very much for taking the time to test it. I really appreciate it. I also noticed that in prettyPhoto on my phone, the space needed for the caption text didn’t leave much room for the photo. I’m thinking of adding a media query, so that if it’s a phone-sized screen, to have prettyPhoto not show the caption at all.

I put the “view at Picasa” link in a box to make it clear that it’s not part of the caption text, but even with the font size set to x-small, it still seems too big. I’ll see what else I can do with it (it’s not actually essential to show that link for Picasa, but for Twitpic it’s part of their user agreement that you must provide a link back to the original photo).

Comment on Shashin 3.4 Beta: please help test by Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:57:55 +0000

Brad’s already resolved this, but for anyone else with this problem, the folder name needs to be “shashin”, with a lower case “s”. I’ve now highlighted this in the blog post.

Comment on Shashin 3.4 Beta: please help test by BradRLewis

BradRLewis — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:46:20 +0000

Mike,
i did get 3.3.99 installed by just copying the code, via ftp, over the existing code. I have tested on several smart phones, tablets, laptops and browser and really the only issue i am having the the smart phones. As described before the photos is smaller than the thumbnail and the caption area takes most the page. Also the “view at Picasa” is now a large white box. Let me know if you need a screen capture. I really like the new thumbnail display and navigation between pages when viewing an album with many photos, very nice. Brad

Comment on Shashin 3.4 Beta: please help test by Brad Lewis

Brad Lewis — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:21:30 +0000

Mike, just downloaded version 3.3.99 and am getting the following error when trying to activate. Fatal error: Class ‘ShashinWp’ not found in /home2/inmylens/public_html/wp-content/plugins/Shashin-3.3.99/start.php on line 24
Brad

Comment on Seeing Big Country for the first time in 20 years by Bill

Bill — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:05:59 +0000

Mike Peters struggles with leukemia could be a contributing factor to his voice problems. His wife writes of his courage battling this disease on the Big Country Facebook page. Well worth the read.

Comment on Seeing Big Country for the first time in 20 years by BCFan

BCFan — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:36:46 +0000

Thanks for the review! I am psyched for a new album, but I just can’t go see them live this time (I saw them twice during the Buffalo Skinners tour). I’ll probably get crucified for saying it, but I just can’t listen to Peters sing Stuart’s songs.

And as for “While the band’s last couple of albums with Adamson were not among their best,” I have to disagree. I think “Why the Long Face” and “Driving to Damascus” were two of the band’s best albums. “You Dreamer,” “Send You,” “Wildland in My Heart,” “Driving to Damascus,” “Loserville,” “Dive Into Me,” — some of the best songs BC ever wrote.

Comment on Shashin 3.4 Beta: please help test by Dr John Studley

Dr John Studley — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:53:23 +0000

Hi Mike

From memory – with 3.4 (and the BB browser) the images took ages to render and then they were 95% caption and 5% image

John