Saw them before they were INXS- called the Fariss Brothers, I seem to recall. They used play at my local in Chatswood before they took off. You could tell they were going to be good. I remember thinking there is a bit of Jim Morrison in that singer.
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Thunderbird Club
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Saw them before they were INXS- called the Fariss Brothers, I seem to recall. They used play at my local in Chatswood before they took off. You could tell they were going to be good. I remember thinking there is a bit of Jim Morrison in that singer.
The guy who did the amputation on the lady doctor at the science station in Antarctica a number of years ago was a carpenter. It was discovered he could understand direction and make sense of their purpose, so had great focus while doing the work.
Funny how a disposition that comes with one job can be adapted to another very different one.
Spatial relationships, not my gig at all. Different world, because to me it doesn't exist until I do it.
Dunno if I mentioned this, but at saturday night's show, a friend mistook my Epi for a Gibson. It was amusing.
I have a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time and have seen surprisingly few 'big' international artists.
Lesser known ... saw TPOH a few times (Toronto band, tighter than a fish's arse in a power dive).
Lesser known ... saw TPOH a few times (Toronto band, tighter than a fish's arse in a power dive).
Most of the shows I go to are pretty small. The big artists are usually more expensive than I'm willing to pay for.
International bands stopped playing the South Island (most of which has a population of one or fewer people per square kilometre) because it became too expensive to haul PAs and lights across Cook Strait. Usually there'd be a single gig in Auckland.
NZ is a long thin country and 'Dorkland' is long long way away (1000 miles) - a long way to go for a gig.
Love the Hoodoo Gurus, The Angels, and Radio Birdman. Also Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, especially the "Let Love In" album.
TPOH was a fun band. I would have thought they would have been bigger than they were.
Nice. I'm a huge Nick Cave fan.
I don't actually like the Birthday Party/Bad Seeds/Cave at all, although I liked Roland S Howard ... yeah hate the Smiths and like Johnny Marr as well. Work that one out.
I don't get that excited about seeing Nick live anymore. Big theaters just don't have the same feel and intensity as when he used to play in clubs. I miss that.
Yeah they're acceptable.
Music could come with a warning on the wrapper - eg 'may contain traces of Nick Cave'.
Yeah. Funny thing, guys who actually do stuff where they have to gauge things by eye can do it...or they don't eat. Others can stay little boys and ask their mommies for help.
(Ouch!)
Outside of the biggies Skyhooks/Sherbert/ACDC/MidnightOil/ColdChisel/INXS
Other bands from the mid 70s on that I used to see and like.
Ted Mulry Gang, Hush, Ol' 55, The Angels (huge in the late70s pub rock), The Church, The Sunnyboys, The Saints (post UK), Kevin Borich Express, The Radiators, Vs Spy Vs Spy (first 'Vs' is silent, added after legal threat I think I remember), Flowers (became Icehouse), Australian Crawl, Cyril B Bunter Boogie Band, Rose Tattoo, Coloured Balls...
and I'm sure there are many more that now escape me.
Plus The ones mentioned by @kat888 earlier. Also The Laughing Clowns & The Aints which are the other side of the great The Saints split.
And afterwards, various people from various earlier mentioned bands became The Party Boys.
Let's play name the Aussie bands no one has ever heard of: Screaming Tribesmen, Tall Tales & True, Toys Went Beserk, Ups and Down, Huxton Creepers, Stems, the Scientists, Lime Spiders, RatCat, Ed Kuepper, the Johnnies, The Wreckery (aka the 'Smackery'), Blue Ruin, the Trilobites, the Hard Ons ... none of whom played a Thunderbird bass iirc.
Some great bands on this list. I also like one of the best story tellers in music, Paul Kelly.
Never cared a whole lot for The Smiths. Probably because I find Morrisey so whiny. I do like The Church tho.
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I don't think they really hit their stride until Shaboo Shabah, at which point they were discovered worldwide. The songs are infinitely better than what they'd done to that point.
Gruhen's Guitars in Nashville has a pair of Gary Gary Beers GnL's for sale. Wish I had the scratch for 'em, but they're well out of my reach right now.
Haji
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Anybody remember Kings of the Sun? Pretty sure they're from Oz. They're allegedly writing material for a new album...but I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed now that they're 30 years on from "Serpentine".
