On 25 February 2014, a bootleg-quality Wild Horses live album titled Live In Japan 1980 , recorded at the band’s Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo gig on 29 October 1980, was issued via Krescendo. The same recording had first surfaced in 2012 as a Japanese bootleg titled Heavy Ride .
Both Wild Horses and Stand Your Ground have seen repeated reissues over the years, the first coming in 1993 via EMI-Toshiba Japan as part of the ‘Legendary Masters’ series. European reissues, including various bonus tracks, followed in 1999 (Zoom Club), 2009 (Krescendo), and 2013 (Rock Candy).
Wild Horses members Laurence Archer and Clive Edwards were part of the UFO line-up that recorded the High Stakes & Dangerous Men and Lights Out in Tokyo albums in the early 1990s, before spending time in Medicine Head . After being involved with the reformed Stampede , Archer and Edwards…
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In June 1981, Robertson and Edwards both left Wild Horses following the band’s Paris Theatre show in London . Robertson teamed up with Motörhead a year later and recorded Another Perfect Day in 1983, before moving on to join fellow Scotsman Frankie Miller on the Dancing in the Rain album…
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Carter left the band in August 1980, after the band’s UK tour with Ted Nugent , to join UFO and later Gary Moore . His replacement was guitarist John Lockton (ex- Next Band , Red Alert) whose first appearance was on the band’s Japanese tour in the autumn of 1980…
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Wild Horses was formed in the summer of 1978 by ex- Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson and ex- Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain . At an early stage, the line-up featured former Stone the Crows and Wings guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and former Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones but eventually stabilized with…
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