Big Bad.....Two worlds....

The guy up by the wall in the back of this photo is Lee, This was 1991 when he was with the rock band Big Bad from Leeds.

I found this photocopy in a book of Bon Jovi guitar tabs. The book belongs to Lee and was something I was about to give away to a budding teenager who is just getting into playing guitar. There was also a book about The Doors...mainly Jim Morrisson that had belonged to my step son and a Steve Vai guitar book. The last two went to the budding teenager, but after I discovered the newspaper article Lee wanted to keep the Bon Jovi.

Big intrigue here! I knew Lee was in a band and had heard all the stories about the Bradford arena and other gigs played and his rehearsal studios in Holbeck Leeds......though he has no photos or recordings from this time.....so I had never seen any of this before. All new to me. How exciting! I then wondered if any of his former band mates were still around.

They most certainly are and they are all still playing . I posted a photo on Leeds face and asked if anyone remembered this band and "are you in this photo?" very quickly the post was shared and Jono who was the leader and the singer posted me a history and a link to the demo mentioned in this article.




Lee at this time owned and ran a rehearsal studio in Holbeck Leeds. This is how he met up with this band. He heard them rehearsing and decided that was what he wanted to do, and invited himself to join in.
listen to Big Bad.

listen to big bad

Listen to big bad

These links to sound cloud were sent to me from Jono Hudson's sound cloud. These are the tracks from the demo mentioned in the Article.
The songs and arrangements are all done by Jono and his brother. All of the band are still playing to this day in various forms. Lee does not play at all now and has nothing to do with music at all now. currently he does up wrecked cars.
His project at the moment is a Vauxhall Frontera with a totally knackered engine.
I did not know Lee in those days. I lived in Bath in 1991 and was married to a very different guitar player. Bath was another very different world. It was the days Tears for Fears and Van Morrison and "climbing up on Solsbury hill" (Peter Gabriel) both of which had studios in and near Bath. My local pub was a magnet for buskers and session musicians and the cellar was an improptu gig/ busk and over a glass of wine sat at the bar there was usually someone who picked up a guitar to strum and sing. The buskers in Bath in those days were all professional session guys mostly employed at these studios.
I had a shop on Lansdown hill at the time....a dressmaker with a shop at the front of my studio.
very different times indeed.