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GREAT SCOTT?

NEW YORK—Mike Scott, the 25-year-old Scottish singer/ songwriter/guitarist/producer who leads the Waterboys, balks at the suggestion that his band has anything in common with such Celtic bootstompers as Big Country and the Alarm. “We’re definitely not another Big-Guitar band,” he disclaims.

May 1, 1985
Harold DeMuir

GREAT SCOTT?

NEW YORK—Mike Scott, the 25-year-old Scottish singer/ songwriter/guitarist/producer who leads the Waterboys, balks at the suggestion that his band has anything in common with such Celtic bootstompers as Big Country and the Alarm. “We’re definitely not another Big-Guitar band,” he disclaims.

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