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Speaker 1: Five Double A nights with Matthew Pantellas in the studio

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Speaker 1: with me. Now, now, I bet at some stage listening

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Speaker 1: at home year would have at some point over decades

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Speaker 1: have caught up been at a show somewhere, an event

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a New Year's Eve or whatever.

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Speaker 1: You know. I've got a couple of bands going, and

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Speaker 1: the Flaming sam Bookers. Now I remember the name, the

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Speaker 1: Flaming SAMD Bookers. I was saying at the start of

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Speaker 1: the show. It's got to be at least twenty years,

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Speaker 1: maybe even more. I'm shocked by how many it is.

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Speaker 1: Terry Nicholas founded the Flaming Sad Bookers and he is

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Speaker 1: here in the studio Terry. Good evening, very.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Matthew. And I'm shocked too.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five years. Wow, where's that time gone?

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Speaker 2: Home? Where's it going?

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Speaker 1: I know? So we're talking what ninety one?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 1: Ninety ninety one? Yeah, unreal, Okay, tell us about the

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Speaker 1: beginning before we talk about what's happening this Saturday night.

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Speaker 2: So the very beginning.

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Speaker 1: Oh, well, you know, well you wanted to get into music,

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Speaker 1: obviously you must have, right I did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as a little tack and my parents pushed me

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Speaker 2: into music, and I love playing the piano. Back in

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Speaker 2: those days, the early seventies, there was lots of great

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Speaker 2: music on the radio that was piano based.

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Speaker 1: Elton John.

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Speaker 2: Elton John was one of those, so I'd have to

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Speaker 2: say Elton John inspired me to play the piano. Really.

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Speaker 2: Liberaci was another one. You know. My parents loved to

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Speaker 2: go and see LIBERACEI perform, and all of those things

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Speaker 2: plas a tune, Plasta tune, and that was wonderful. So

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Speaker 2: then the in the eighties, I got into piano bars,

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Speaker 2: playing at the robin Hood Hotel down to West Lakes

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Speaker 2: for five years and that was a wonderful time there

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Speaker 2: in the piano bars. It got to nineteen eighty eight

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Speaker 2: and I met Evan Jones. Evan wrote the Pushbike song

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So Evan was down at West Lakes with two girls

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Speaker 2: and they asked me would I like to join them?

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Speaker 2: I said, yeah, why not, I've done the piano bar

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Speaker 2: for five years. So we became a four piece band,

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Speaker 2: two guys to girls. Ninety one, Evan gave it away

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Speaker 2: and we changed the name of The Flaming Sad Book

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Speaker 2: as those two girls stay with me. We've got another

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Speaker 2: guitarist and on from there it went right. So that's

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Speaker 2: the history of it, how about that. Yeah, And it's

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Speaker 2: a great journey.

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Speaker 1: Being the main stay in Adelaide. I mean, you think

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Speaker 2: We were very fortunate, you know. We had we our

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Speaker 2: niche was our audience. So we played the music that

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Speaker 2: audience liked as well. So we got involved in many

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Speaker 2: corporate shows around town. We were working the convention center

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Speaker 2: play for conference dinners. It was. It was a wonderful

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Speaker 2: the nineties and we had some wonderful people take us overseas,

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Speaker 2: really and so we've done all that. There's we've been

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Speaker 2: to every nook and cranny in Australia, I think goodness

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Speaker 2: and that became and that became us being popular with

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Speaker 2: our audience, and from there on we've just grown together,

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Speaker 2: you know, and that's the beauty of you get your

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Speaker 1: Have you stayed together it's at the same core group.

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Speaker 2: Well that's been impossible, isn't it. But look, we got

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Speaker 2: good ten years. Michael Potter was my guitarist. He stayed

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Speaker 2: twenty five years. But we've had some wonderful couples of

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Speaker 2: So they keep the flaming same Bookers brand alive.

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Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. All right, now, this Sunday, Saturday, it's.

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. You're out of Golden Grove and the Arts

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Speaker 1: Center there. Yeah, Saturday twenty ninth, at eight pm, here

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Speaker 1: we go. The show is Elton John meets Abbat, which

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Speaker 2: It absolutely is. I mean, we were talking earlier about

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Speaker 2: and the music that was played everywhere was Abba or

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Speaker 2: in the seventies. So it started there by us doing Abba.

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Speaker 2: We started the Abba Show thirty years ago and that

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Speaker 2: that was Beyond Again in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: So, and then the one of the agents around town said,

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Speaker 2: And I thought show, because there's thousands of ours evolved

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I guess we could do it Elton

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Speaker 2: John Show. Yeah, great, do that. So within it, within

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Speaker 2: a week, I think he had six bookings for us.

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Speaker 2: So that meant, okay, I've got to get some we've

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Speaker 2: let's put them together. One of the agents, Stephen Lee,

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Speaker 2: who's promoting this show at Golden Grove, he thought, let's

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Speaker 2: put them together. There's a crossover. Both these genres of

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Speaker 1: So you're doing a bit of Elton John, a few

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Speaker 1: belts from Elk and then some of our songs in between.

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Speaker 2: Look, the thing we love about our shows is we're

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Speaker 2: both of these stories are amazing because we call them

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Speaker 2: both love stories. Because Elton's story beautiful story from his

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Speaker 2: Bernie Torp and the lyricist, there's so much meaning, passion, love,

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Speaker 2: I think Elton handed the batona across to Abba. So

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Speaker 2: then Abba came into Vergue in nineteen seventy four when

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Speaker 2: they won the Eurovision, and they took their message of

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Speaker 1: He go.

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Speaker 2: Wow, So I love this music. It rings true with me.

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Speaker 2: It rings true that music is for sharing with people.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the I think it's the essence of

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Speaker 1: Were you playing their songs when you were a child

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Speaker 2: I was, yeah, oh look Abba, not so much because

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Speaker 2: But if you went out, you'd want to hear Deep

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Speaker 1: There's something about the music isn't there, And you particularly

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Speaker 1: has spoken about it. You know, it's sort of a

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Speaker 2: Modernized, and well, their inspiration is really folk, European folk

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Speaker 2: you put Aber in? Certainly you can put Dancing Queen

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Speaker 2: Bjorn is why the music is so beautifully crafted. But

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Speaker 2: the message of Abba and the sharing of their lives

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Speaker 2: and people still latch onto it for that very reason

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Speaker 2: because they it touches your heart and you think, well,

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Speaker 2: and that's where I saw that in Milton's early music,

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Speaker 2: particularly because Bernie's lyrics were as equally as compassionate.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking the song for guy. You aren't we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm going back further and further. Tiny Dance

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three. Is just a massive, massive repertoire. So

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Speaker 2: we our repertoire. We've we've probably got about forty Elton

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Speaker 2: so it's a difficult one to prune down. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: we do have to print it down to construct the story.

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Speaker 2: video up on the screen, it's a very colorful, watchable show.

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Speaker 1: Excellent.

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Speaker 1: Now there must be parts of it where you go

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Speaker 1: you got favorites I have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I always love doing Elton's a Tiny Dancing.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a beautiful piece of music, as well

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Speaker 2: as I love doing your song. The very first song

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Speaker 2: a Tita, I love, I love the piano, bassed balad,

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Speaker 2: but dancing queen and they're on their feet, right, that's

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Speaker 2: a wonderful scene. And you see the joy in people's face.

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Speaker 2: You see tears in people's face because the tears are

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Speaker 2: what brings back the memories and they're remembering I remember,

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Speaker 2: you know, my my friends were with us, my family.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a connector.

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Speaker 1: Now, Okay, this is as I said the Golden Grove

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Speaker 2: At trybookings all sorts of entertainment? All sorts of entertainment

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Speaker 1: So all the favorites, that says here, Waterloo ring, ring,

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Speaker 1: Fernando Sos. Thanks for the music. That's the Abba songs. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Mama Mia knowing me, knowing you yeah s o s yes,

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Speaker 1: Waterloo obviously does you rather know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you know them all. Well, we grew

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Speaker 2: Obviously there are I'm still standing. Yeah, very poignant and

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Speaker 2: and they roar, they roar. Of course we do. So,

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Speaker 2: And to me, that's that's why I do it.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. What's what's coming up for the planning, samdbookers.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got to reasonbly hectic Christmas period, but come

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Speaker 2: So that'll be at the Regal. Friday thirteenth is Elton

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Speaker 2: Good, Abbot no Elton on nineteen eighty six six, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was there and the big he had the big pink.

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Speaker 2: I was amazed. I looked at that in awe. Of course.

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Speaker 2: that boy sadly passed away. And Elton he dedicated every

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Speaker 2: and I think that's why we've continued doing it for

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Speaker 1: There we go, Terry Lovely meeting you tonight. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming in. Trybooking is where you can go

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Speaker 1: to get tickets to the Golden Grove Arts Center Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: eight pm The Flaming Sam Bookers Elton John, Meet Saba

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Speaker 1: and Terry Nicholas. My guest Terry, once again, thanks for

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Speaker 1: your Timeobe it goes well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. My pleasure