S.A.S Band - Tie Your Mother Down (Belgrade 1994) (Cozy Powell, Neil Murray)

A TRUE DIAMOND !

I knew that there was somewhere a video footage of this show, and now i finally got it !!!
The S.A.S (Spike's All Stars) Band was consisted of Brian May's backing group: Cozy Powell, Neil Murray, Spike Edney, Jamie Moses & Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet as the singer. The Concert was held on 10th October in 1994. at Belgrade's Dom Sindikata in Serbia.

This were sad & hard times for my country Serbia (back then Yugoslavia)
All the horrible things that could happen to some country,
all of them happened to us.

Now this concert at the beginning was an attempt to make the people
of Yugoslavia feel better & happier. But behind the curtains it was completely different. The band didn't get a penny from the organizations (who apparently were also criminals). They couldn't get a hotel rooms in Yugoslavia (because of the UN Sanctions) so they stayed in Budapest (Hungary) and drove by car to Belgrade to do the concert. But they were hours late for the concert (also thanks to the organizations and to the driver who got lost ???), and many people from the audience left (thinking that the band isn't coming).One of my dear friends went to see them, and luckily enough he was patient to wait for them. After the concert they started their car journey back to Hungary about 3 in the morning. And the car in which
Neil Murray was, broke down, so all of them had to stay another day in Budapest because they missed their flight to London. Really not many happy memories from bought sides but still a unique piece of Purple's history and my countries !!!

I AM HUGELY THANKFUL & GRATEFUL TO NEIL MURRAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!