60 years and counting (the beat). My musical career so far.
I picked up my first bass guitar when I was 13... but that was only after I built the thing.
These days I tend to buy them, but after producing or playing on dozens of albums and hundreds of tracks, composing for films, TV series, ads and stage events and playing with some of music's legends, the thrill's never left me.
This section covers a selection of my live performances and recorded work from 1965 onwards. I'll add more clips as I find them, so keep coming back!
I hope you get as much joy from this peek into the archives as I have from dusting these bits and pieces off and putting them onto the virtual stage for you.
Photos from the music archive (click to enlarge)
Cooper talent quest
Peter Pan band
Brooklands '66
The Nite Lites
I wonder what note that is?
Bruce at work
My first Strat
Moody Bruce
The Hoff and Mandrill
Dick & Jim
7/7/77
Eardrum
They shoot cats don't they?
Halfmoon '79
Melrose
HGB '80s
7/7/77
Roussel
Bruce
Morin Heights
Brooker
My first Fender
BL Sandy E 2 July 66
RW Switz
RW Switz
basses 6/12/77
Various 65
UK & tour '74
Mattacks & Lynch
Xmas
Bruce
Bruce and Yusuf
Bruce and Yusuf
301 Sydney
Brian Smith Band
Bruce
Bruce
Bruce
Ye haw!
Sooz with Mary
Bruce
Georgie F
Brooker
Stage pass
Videos from music archive
VIDEO: Dave MacRae & Joy Yates "Masquerade"
VIDEO: Mike Nock presents 'Nock on Jazz', featuring Space Case. Recorded in Auckland by TVNZ in the early 1980s.
VIDEO: Billy Lang band. Live at 'Cheers'. Palmerston North, 1992.