Brian MacLeod Discusses the Headpins, Chilliwack

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024

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  • @ianmclean5541
    @ianmclean5541 Год назад +24

    The depth of Brian’s musical genius is not widely known. Everyone knows of his guitar prowess but few realize his phenomenal drum playing skills and also his music production skills. What a tragedy to lose him so early in his life and career.

    • @donnie8917
      @donnie8917 9 месяцев назад +1

      Genius? Hardly. His music was garbage.

    • @ianmclean5541
      @ianmclean5541 9 месяцев назад

      @@donnie8917 Your comment is quite revealing: 1]you`re not a musician 2] you have no respect for the dead 3] you have low self esteem and derive your pleasure from tearing someone else down 4] you`re actually quite clueless regarding musicality.

    • @donnie8917
      @donnie8917 9 месяцев назад

      You suffer from terminal stupidity. Calling him a genius? No one asked for your lame analysis.@@ianmclean5541

    • @JK-ry7id
      @JK-ry7id 6 месяцев назад

      What year did he die? How old was he?

    • @ianmclean5541
      @ianmclean5541 6 месяцев назад

      @@JK-ry7id en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_MacLeod_(Canadian_musician)

  • @raymondwilliams2609
    @raymondwilliams2609 7 лет назад +48

    I'm 53, from the UK. I've never been outside the UK, but if I could go anywhere Canada, would be my first port-of-call. The best metal bands and the nicest people. God bless, Canada. 🇬🇧!

    • @paulvonk1421
      @paulvonk1421 4 года назад +3

      🦋 🎾 Brian McCloud loved his style and personality

    • @joeshmoe7967
      @joeshmoe7967 3 года назад +4

      OK Ray, it has been 4 years...been to Canada yet? Be sure to come out west and check out the beautiful Rocky Mountains...that applies to anyone.
      Cheers

  • @marionunz5395
    @marionunz5395 7 лет назад +42

    he was a Monster of a guitarist.....loved his tone....he truly
    was the Canadian riff master

    • @roach2go
      @roach2go 3 года назад +3

      Canada's EVH...This guy was Eddy Van Halens equal..may have been better. Produces, collaborated with several Canadian bands
      Than Brian Adams

    • @Tacomadome24
      @Tacomadome24 2 года назад +1

      @@roach2go great player, but IMHO not as good as EVH.

  • @brockster99
    @brockster99 12 лет назад +13

    What strikes me about this interview is how clearly he answered the questions. No verbal stumbles or long pauses. No "uhs" or "you know's". I always was impressed with his musical abilities and artistic vision, but the long hair and rock and roll attitude made me assume he wasn't nearly as intelligent as he obviously was. This interview really shows how sharp he was and makes me respect Too Loud in another way now. Thanks for posting it!

  • @jerrythecoo3295
    @jerrythecoo3295 11 лет назад +22

    Gone but not forgotten...........................

  • @titily
    @titily 9 лет назад +16

    Dropping by to remember Brian, on this day April 25, 2015. 23 yrs after we lost him. What a great guy he was.... Cheers to Brian! gone way to young.

  • @lucklassen
    @lucklassen Год назад +2

    So sad we lost him so young. Love his work with Chilliwack and Headpins, amazing guitar player, still listen to both bands to this day!

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      his guitar playing was childish weak. horrible

  • @YNVNEone
    @YNVNEone Год назад +3

    The one good thing about youtube, for now anyway, is it keeps these guys alive.

  • @givoltalentgroupcanada8784
    @givoltalentgroupcanada8784 2 года назад +2

    We were so blessed to have TLM albeit for much too short a time... we love you Brian!!

  • @cindylivingston3127
    @cindylivingston3127 12 лет назад +7

    I really loved chilliwack and still do. Miss brian.

  • @ian1eh944
    @ian1eh944 5 лет назад +12

    Man, I just LOVED this guy's playing! Very lyrical and I love how he used a lot of chromaticism in his solos.......very unique and recognizable in a sea of sameness! RIP Brian! :)

  • @snairotearp
    @snairotearp 13 лет назад +6

    I watched Brian play for the Headpins in Vancouver at Rohans Rockpile on 4th Avenue.
    If I remember right it was 1978.
    When I saw Brian play that day I was in absolute awe! I had seen the best-of-the-best
    play live in Vancouver at the Coliseum and I saw/heard Brian do things on an electric
    guitar I had never seen done before!

  • @mygirlvicki
    @mygirlvicki 13 лет назад +10

    He wrote the song MY GIRL about me. Felt bad for decades for leaving BC without saying goodbye. He was sure upset with me when he did run into me in 83 backstage at a Toronto and Tom Cochrain concert. I was 3 months pregnant with Downchild Blues Band keyboard player's child. He told me about the song. I took him home and he signed my album cover and we both cried while he made me listen to the depth of the song. I do miss you Brian, I'm so sorry!

    • @amerocker
      @amerocker 6 лет назад +4

      mygirlvicki I had never heard of Brian MacLeod, Chilliwack or Headpins until tonight, August 11, 2018, thanks to me awaking in the night and going on RUclips. Their music was not played in the US, to my knowledge. I did see a commenter say "My Girl" was one of the first videos on MTV but I did not have cable tv. Brian was very talented and a great guitarist. It must feel good to have a song written about you. Greetings from MA, USA. 😊

    • @pokeysue8988
      @pokeysue8988 Год назад +2

      YOU ARE SO FULL OF SHIT BILL WROTE THE SONG YOU RETARD

    • @martinpidhany8278
      @martinpidhany8278 4 месяца назад

      Never knew the backstory to my girl wow that's so sad knowing how it all played out but you can't turn on the radio anywhere without hearing it even to this day. His brilliance lives on.

    • @davescott8399
      @davescott8399 Месяц назад

      I'm glad you live in this fantasy world Remember i know who you are😊

  • @allancrow134
    @allancrow134 8 лет назад +11

    Saw him live with Darby at the Surfside in Victoria somewhere around '84...he was on fire that night...one of the best rock guitar performances I've ever witnessed. I got a lot of inspiration from that. RIP Brian...:)

  • @kylemiller47
    @kylemiller47 4 года назад +5

    Brian was a fantastic talent, he could play everything! He had unlimited energy and I am proud to have known him as a friend for a few years. Indeed he was a fantastic person, a Prince among men and musicians. RIP Brian :o)

  • @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1
    @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1 10 лет назад +27

    Too Loud was a highly technical and downright brilliant musician.
    Only the good die young, indeed.

  • @shanejb2121
    @shanejb2121 Год назад +1

    Been realy digging back into all my old Chilliwack and Headpins stuff the past year or so, and have alot of fond memories, especially with Too Loud's contributions.
    I got to meet him once (I think it was either Coal Harbour or Horseshoe Bay where he was moored, most likely C.H.) when I was around 11 or 12, and he was real warm, and just very nice to me with no "star attitude". Just a relatable easy going guy.
    At the time admittedly I had no idea just how big he was, or what sort of an influence he would later be on my playing.
    I still remember the day I heard from my dad's girlfriend that he had passed. She was pretty broken up about it, frankly angry because cancer had taken so many family, friends and acquaintances over the years, and many like Brian, far too young.
    I felt terrible, and horribly down simply because beyond meeting him that one time, so many of the Chilliwack members past, (going back to the Collectors period with Claire Lawrence) right on up through Brian's time with them... that whole family were closely linked with mine, and aside from chance encounters here and there, and they were always the topic of discussion, and in our thoughts.
    It really was hard for me to hear the news. I always hoped someday we'd actually get to sit down and jam together, give me some pointers. Hell...Maybe just go fishing!
    He's missed greatly.
    Hard to believe, but if he we're still with us, he'd be in his 70's now!
    He'd still be rockin' though. Bill is, and he's done alot to keep his legacy alive, and shown him great respect.

  • @C_rawlyck7
    @C_rawlyck7 14 лет назад +6

    I got to watch Brain Macleod 3 nights in a row, back around 1990, at the Windsor hotel in Red Deer Alberta...I was 15 and underage...Brain was a monster guitarist with increadile tone and tasty licks..I was devasted when I heard he died a few years later!!!

  • @tsgallant
    @tsgallant 14 лет назад +8

    Had the opertunity to experiance Brian playing live a few times..Just amazing player! He is by far one of Canada's best guitar players..

  • @MichelJay
    @MichelJay Год назад +3

    Amazing musician.... love his work with Headpins. Gone too soon, RIP 😞

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      so you have no taste in music. he was horrible

  • @sergeparadis9944
    @sergeparadis9944 6 лет назад +12

    Awesome interview. What a talent he was

  • @duncandmcgrath6290
    @duncandmcgrath6290 Год назад +2

    Such a humble talent .

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      what? his ego wrecked every band he was in

  • @tanyakelly2319
    @tanyakelly2319 4 года назад +2

    Well Raymond...from the province of Nova Scotia,Canada...THANKS

  • @Bonkrr
    @Bonkrr 12 лет назад +6

    Thank you for uploading this. I was always a fan of Too Loud's work. The way he played was so distinctive with the Headpins, and many of Chilliwack's best songs featured that same gutteral kind of guitar work. Shame we lost him so soon.

  • @DeviatingVapors
    @DeviatingVapors 6 месяцев назад +1

    one of my guitar heros. awesome to see him speak [again]. was shocked to see a poster on the door of a beer & wine store advertising a Headpins gig .. maybe in the early 2000s. there was a small bar on the corner across the street from the boarder of South Surrey and WhiteRock, BC.
    I got the last ticket of a sold out show. so. stood next to the huge speakers by the stage to watch Tony Dellacroce .. take over for BTM.
    I honestly was expecting him to butcher those songs. but. no. he was nailing the feel of every tune.
    I got to lens them a couple of times since. the last time in March, 2023 Darby was replaced with another female Rosa L .. she was pretty decent from Trans-Siberian Orchestra fame, but. not Darby. didn’t get a chance to see Kat or Denise.
    the rest of the band is still there. so. they bring those tunes back to life. night after night.
    I got all of them to sign my hand painted Headpins jacket .. then retired it.
    not sure how I didn’t know they never stopped touring. ever. until that poster showed up.
    seemed like a sign. from the heavens. that my hero wasn’t really dead. [anymore].
    Anthony told me they had materials for another studio album. but. well. I am still waiting. and waiting.
    very tough to beat Turn it Loud ... but, Ab and Tony did an instrumental deal that was very cool on stage. the drummer .. Bernie Aubin is still there. tearing it up.
    so. well. yeah.
    Brian. ain’t dead. he lives. every single night The Headpins play ... buy a ticket. go see them.
    wherever that may be ...
    any album that has a credit on it. of his. I buy it. all the Chilliwack ones. the Chrissy Steele one. can’t believe I noticed that actually. brand new. at Sam the Record Man in Montréal. flipped it over. credit in the back. produced by. okay. mine.
    I still can’t really believe that Tony nails it. so damn close. + I have photographed live music professionally since 1990. and. never seen anyone else play like that. no one attacks the fretboard like he did ... tho .. another hero I finally got to see outside San Francisco, long after they broke up - Dave Meniketti (Y&T), I took an Amtrack train from LAX to see him, then back .. does knob tricks like him sometimes. both were born in 52/53 ... so. maybe they knew of each other.
    until I saw each of them play. I figured those sounds were done on a synth. nope. guitar. holy sh!t. mind. still blown.
    so glad I got a chance to see him play a few times. and. said hi to him on granville island where I was going to art school .. so. 1986-90 he was still healthy.
    I noticed him driving around in his corvette so. had to say hello. kinda felt like a dork. but. he seemed happy enough to met a fan.
    is this interviewer still around. used to be on Much Music I think it was ... don’t remember his name tho. knows his stuff.
    got to photography DOA once. and. talked to Joey. he was in the middle of recording an album in Vancouver, but flew out to YYC to play this tiny punk bar (Distillery) in YYC then went back.
    killer shots of that show. that. no one has seen. oh well. one day. drop by the studio. ask to see them.
    some people .. just pull out all the stops. for what they love.
    RIP Brian.

  • @stingkirk
    @stingkirk 11 лет назад +5

    Great clip, thanks. Brian was a great guy. "Only the good die young" RIP Brian.

  • @MonaMaguire
    @MonaMaguire 10 лет назад +11

    Awesome interview.. very informative and a big thanks to Brian.. May he RIP!

  • @ManXBearXPigX
    @ManXBearXPigX 9 лет назад +9

    Mills, Steele. God we miss you MacLeod.
    One of the only producers that knew how to back a powerful female singer with a good band.

  • @briandemas2548
    @briandemas2548 8 лет назад +7

    We all miss you Brian! R.I.P.

  • @samuelcole7736
    @samuelcole7736 8 лет назад +12

    Brian " TOO LOUD" McLoud.......one of the best guitarists that the East Coast ever spawned. I actually rented a room that was in his former house on Garrison Hill in St.Johns Nfld.

  • @cindylivingston3127
    @cindylivingston3127 12 лет назад +5

    Brian Macleod was really a great musician

  • @cornerboynl
    @cornerboynl 12 лет назад +6

    I saw him playing drums, guitar, horn, keyboard in the early 70s

  • @jefftaylor844
    @jefftaylor844 11 дней назад

    The location shoot of this interview is so Vancouver / West Coast. Miss the 80s so much. RIP Brian.

  • @guitarz99
    @guitarz99 3 года назад +3

    one of the greatest guitar players, producers, song writers ever

    • @paullangdon9575
      @paullangdon9575 2 года назад +4

      Yes for sure. All that and so intelligent & creative. He equals the greatest guitarists and musicians (playing other instruments) on this planet.

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @zeus014
    @zeus014 2 года назад +3

    Last saw this guy shred on New Year's Eve, 1985/'86 at the Metro in downtown Vancouver. That I believe was the Headpins' swan song as they broke up pretty much immediately thereafter. Phenomenal axe-man...

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      his playing was childish

  • @mrgreenelander4952
    @mrgreenelander4952 10 месяцев назад

    Its incredible how similar Brian and Gary Resharth from REO Speed Wagon look so similar. Brian could have easily played in some major Yankee bands back in the day. One of the best guitarists in Canadian rock history. RIP Brian, you are missed

  • @primepainting
    @primepainting 13 лет назад +4

    In "91 I produced a contest called Drummer's Showdown. Other talent contests had failed due to poor admin. I needed to be sure I had the best judges. I enlisted both Brian McLeod who was a fine drummer and his drummer Bernie Aubin (the backbeat of the Headpins) among the many judges. 3 episodes are up on UTube. Brian was very humble and gracious. He was in the treatment stage so he asked me not to represent him on camera. His support for Drummer's Showdown was a thrill. He's missed by Vancouver.

  • @hotdjdwray
    @hotdjdwray 11 лет назад +5

    Pretty cool dude!
    Wish I knew more about him back in the day/Headpins 1st release was near-perfect!
    Just wanna play!!!

  • @jackelineshearer5129
    @jackelineshearer5129 3 года назад +2

    I love you 😘❤️💕 BM a kiss to heaven.

  • @JMSsssssss
    @JMSsssssss 4 года назад +5

    i went down a Canadian classic music rabbit hole and found Brian MacLeod. Insanely talented, intense, sexy, a musical legend. It's so weird that I just found him and he's been gone for almost 30 years. I'm somewhat obsessed.

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @paulvonk1421
    @paulvonk1421 4 года назад +2

    flyin Bryan was an amazing cool awesome guitarist yeah Brian

  • @revertinotse8582
    @revertinotse8582 6 лет назад +5

    Cancer claimed Brian way too Soon. R.I.P. YOU ROCK!!!!🤘🤘

  • @lovingpeace9715
    @lovingpeace9715 4 года назад +3

    Brian " hello fax " - " on our obesity back then" gotta love closed captioning lol
    I only had the chance to see the Headpins live once. The band was so tight and sounded better then anything they put on record. When does that ever happen? Brian aka "Too Loud" you were taken to young. One of the most under rated bands and certainly under rated guitarist

  • @cornerboynl
    @cornerboynl 12 лет назад +2

    Garrison Hill at the Circle Lounge, Churchill Square in the early 1970s .... amazing.

  • @rmarsyoutube
    @rmarsyoutube 7 месяцев назад +1

    Brian "Too Loud" Macleod amazing guitarist up there with Eddie Van Halen ❤

  • @tangerinerose3724
    @tangerinerose3724 6 лет назад +3

    Rip Brian We'll always have the Whistler weekend. ❤

  • @mariaanderson9952
    @mariaanderson9952 7 лет назад +2

    loved you and always , my friend

  • @metalheadneji
    @metalheadneji 11 лет назад +5

    Rest In Peace Brian.

  • @skwid12
    @skwid12 11 лет назад +5

    glad i got to know the man

  • @deanmccaskill5495
    @deanmccaskill5495 4 года назад +4

    Guitar players after a few years experience begin to develop our own style. ( captain obvious I know). Our influences usually bleed through. I got a lot of stuff from Brian. Not that I could ever touch him as a player. Hes one of my Mt Rushmore players. I’d put him up there with any of the big guns. Imagine him now with a few more decades of playing, learning, and meeting other players. RIP man. RIP.

    • @psiico24
      @psiico24 2 года назад +3

      Took me decades to notice but me too. Him and Angus are my biggest influences but I don't sound like either of them lol and no where near the talent.

  • @scotmaclean3733
    @scotmaclean3733 4 года назад +4

    This man was a guitar genius.....Eddie learned a lot from him but nobody knows it...........sad but true

  • @cindylivingston3127
    @cindylivingston3127 12 лет назад +4

    it would be nice to see the interview when he was diagnosed with cancer. I remember seeing it on TV. I dont remember what station or who interviewed him.

  • @Davy.J.Y
    @Davy.J.Y 12 лет назад +3

    i never knew he died..RIP brian..

  • @alisalverson7321
    @alisalverson7321 Год назад +2

    Ingo Schwichtenberg's doppelganger

  • @bgrigg07
    @bgrigg07 Год назад +2

    Too Loud MacLeod. So many songs. So many hits. His 40 years were far too short.

  • @batphink2655
    @batphink2655 2 года назад +3

    Awesome player and writer who never quite appreciated Darby as much as he could have according to Darby's last interview! RIP Brian!

    • @danielpacholuk9566
      @danielpacholuk9566 6 месяцев назад

      uhh Brian had more talent on his right pinky finger then she does in every bone of her body!!! "In other words "If it weren't for Brian nobody would'nt of ever heard of Darby Mills!! Does that say anything!??

    • @danielpacholuk9566
      @danielpacholuk9566 6 месяцев назад

      "If She was any kind of a singer" why does she need a binder with all the songs in front of her while she is singing?? 'Is'nt it a singers job to know the songs after 4 decades!!!??? too bad she can't sing any more R.I.P.Darby Mills... your career is over...

    • @danielpacholuk9566
      @danielpacholuk9566 6 месяцев назад

      "Or Better yet your career died when he did! and that was so long ago!....." I Know."..mayby you could make jewellery!!!

  • @tonytanti8138
    @tonytanti8138 12 лет назад +4

    Whatcha goin to do when I'm gone

  • @Rocker5593
    @Rocker5593 10 лет назад +3

    Vancouver is 1 Rockin City!!! lol seen 54-40 at English bay before the fireworks this past summer probably 1 of the best free concerts of all time unfortunately for me tho they didn't play "miss you" that guitar solo is unreal and then Foreigner at the PNE was another good 1 but i wouldn't deem it free cuz of the friggen gate admission ahaha

  • @OpinionsAnimationStudios
    @OpinionsAnimationStudios 14 лет назад +2

    Note to therry1956 & tsgallant:
    AGRRED! By the way therry, YOU heard Headpins on Swedish radio, too? So did *I*, m8! Small world, eh? ("Mine All Mine") from "Line Of Fire" (Back in 1986)
    Too Loud MacLeod, R.I.P.

  • @C_rawlyck7
    @C_rawlyck7 14 лет назад +2

    I got to watch Brain Macleod 3 nights in a row, back around 1990, at the Windsor hotel in Red Deer Alberta...I was 15 and underage...Brain was a monster guitarist with increadile tone and tasty licks..I was devasted when I heard he died a few years later!!! I playrd guitar in the opening band..Electric Gypsy's hahahah

  • @mippim8765
    @mippim8765 3 года назад +2

    .....I thought he was Spicoli at first?

  • @toddrlyons
    @toddrlyons 6 лет назад +3

    Christopher Ward was mic'd really well for this interview. It's too bad Brian wasn't.

  • @kellyjackson7889
    @kellyjackson7889 9 лет назад +4

    his face and how he speaks remind me a bit of Jack Black

  • @hotdjdwray
    @hotdjdwray 11 лет назад +2

    Who owns that boat now?!

  • @jackiepayne9166
    @jackiepayne9166 3 года назад +1

    Ups cuz

  • @averagejoe7333
    @averagejoe7333 3 года назад +1

    Stanley Park.

  • @kevinbennett5637
    @kevinbennett5637 3 года назад +1

    Nadine collins

  • @misterslats
    @misterslats Год назад +2

    Man he ruined that DOA record something terrible. Their worst record.

  • @bfmolnar
    @bfmolnar 13 лет назад +1

    man was he every high in coke in this interview

  • @Love6653
    @Love6653 2 года назад +1

    yes This transgender could play that guitar Me Thinks

  • @greenhornet1387
    @greenhornet1387 4 года назад +2

    Hey it is To Transgender Brianna McCloud not so Loud

  • @donnie8917
    @donnie8917 9 месяцев назад +1

    His playing was garbage. His riffs, solos, and sound in general were atrocious.

    • @danielpacholuk9566
      @danielpacholuk9566 6 месяцев назад +1

      "And You play what?????

    • @donnie8917
      @donnie8917 6 месяцев назад

      @@danielpacholuk9566 Your mother's fart box.

    • @pinpointism
      @pinpointism 2 месяца назад

      @@danielpacholuk9566 he sucked. his solos were childish and boring. egomaniac that wrecked his own bands. idiot