Big Audio Dynamite - Bottom Line Live video free download


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Uploaded: 2007/08/26

French TV footage of BAD performing first single, The Bottom Line, at La Cigale, Paris, in 1987

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11 years ago

Kjell Beilman

Saw BAD (actually Big Audio, for the Higher Power record) in New Haven at the Tuxedo Junction. T'was for my thirteenth b-day party,after my sister's boyfriend won tickets from a radio show in 1994. Had been a fan since I heard London Calling when I was 6 and Megatop Phoenix (one of the most under-rated albums) when I was 8 in '89' and started accumulating all their back records from presents and whatnot. After the show, a group of Fairfield punks (I know, an oxymoron) showed us the way to BAD's tour bus in the back of the venue. We waited for the band to come out and they initially rushed past us, saying they needed to clean up but that they'd come back out. We waited in the rain for about twenty minutes until Mick himself stepped out of the bus. He sat and shot the shit with us for a good half an hour about filming "Rude Boy," (after I did my "get off the fucking stage!" impersonation of him) his Clash days, and how he, Don Letts, and even, perhaps, Joe Strummer would eventually work together again. He was surprisingly friendly after hearing of his reputation back in the day for being a bit of an Elizabeth Taylor. He chatted in the rain with a group of fawning former Clash/BAD fans asking all sorts of obnoxious questions and had a smile the whole time. He signed a picture I had of him (still on my wall) and went on his way to eventually make F-Punk. Quite possibly my greatest childhood memory... Meeting Mick!

11 years ago

Shane Johnson

FAC51 1987 Top gig! Black Uhuru played night before

11 years ago

RACING CORAZÓN

que musica de mierda hacia el tipo este....se ve que no aprendió nada del que mandaba.

12 years ago

Oscar Salazar F

Check out this video on YouTube:

13 years ago

batong buhay

1980's music -the era of good new wave music.

13 years ago

bristolcityifcation

rock on the mighty B A D !!!

13 years ago

pinoygolfer13

one of the best song ever

13 years ago

Todd Sokolove

when you reach the bottom line...

13 years ago

PAZPERDEE

@strummer101 yo strummer i finally got to see them in manchester they were brilliant about 20 of us went loved every minute of it i think our journey home was a little easier than yours tho !!!!!!

14 years ago

windhover294

Great stuff, I saw them at the town & country club in 86. I believe it was their first ever gig

14 years ago

inchwormgreen

@tangent5000 ?

14 years ago

tangent5000

The clash should sue.

14 years ago

strummer101

@PAZPERDEE I saw them just before christmas 1989 at a place called the Subterranian in west London. Its was one of the greatest nights out .The gig end at like 2.30am there were no trains running or buses we got well stuck and had to walk miles to get home. Singing all the way home!

14 years ago

PAZPERDEE

its funny how many people i meet who have never heard of big audio dynamite, apple cart my favourite song, but what a band, my youth is BAD, campfires and all that shit, great times indeed just wished i had seen them live

14 years ago

leanmachene

Had a face like fatima whitbread licking a nettle bust but aside from the what a great groop!

15 years ago

chertzyb

Talk about an awesome wall of sound - saw them live way back when at the paladium and never saw a crowd so incited with mad energy!!!

15 years ago

balsamic22

shame no sand

15 years ago

Daniel King

Anyone see BAD II at Alexandra Palace for the Town and Country clubs celebrations, about 1990. Good gig, supporting was Dee-Lite, The Farm, The Jungle Brothers. Awesome gig, me and the lads had a great time.

16 years ago

spiffyblackcat

Way back when I was in eighth grade I had a tape with B.A.D.'s self-titled album on one side and Fishbone's first album on the other. What a great tape and a great song.

16 years ago

coolzoolander

this is the greatest track of all time.. i dislike anyone who puts crapy comment about them! my parents listen to this and it is not crap. so screw you!

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