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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: And so Skyhooks is where it all started for Michael

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Speaker 2: Kadinsky with Mushroom Records. That was the band that he

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Speaker 2: put all his faith into, put all his money into,

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Speaker 2: and a pretty much bankrolled Mushroom Records as we know it,

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Speaker 2: and that begat. Bands like Split Ends, kylog.

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Speaker 1: Banzi, Uff choir Boys, models, fs and collectors don't make

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Speaker 1: me feel like I'm a woman anymore.

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Speaker 2: Than to Eskimo, Joe Tesky Brothers.

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Speaker 1: And more recently the Rubens and everything get back, never

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Speaker 1: get back too soon When you look.

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Speaker 3: At that, that is the links out relegus of the

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Speaker 3: Australian music industry, and people paid tribute to him. Yesterday,

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Speaker 3: Bruce Springsteen wrote, my friend Michael Gadinsky was first, last,

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Speaker 3: and always a music man. I've toured the world for

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Speaker 3: fifty years and never met a better promoter. He will

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Speaker 3: be remembered by artists, including this one, from all over

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Speaker 3: the world every time they stepped foot on Australian soil,

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Speaker 3: and even I saw Carrie Bickmore wrote yesterday she said

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Speaker 3: if it wasn't for Michael, I couldn't have launched my

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Speaker 3: foundation for Brain Beats concert with Ed Sheeron that raised

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Speaker 3: half a million dollars for brain cancer research. She said,

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Speaker 3: I sat in his living room with an eight week

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Speaker 3: old baby. His wife Sue, made me a cup of tea,

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Speaker 3: and I pitched this crazy idea about a concert with

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Speaker 3: Ed Sheeran. He was patient and listened and heard my

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Speaker 3: plea and threw himself into the challenge and pulled the

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Speaker 3: whole thing off. And in recent years this is the

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Speaker 3: thing too. Not only look how far back he was

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Speaker 3: when he started all this stuff for the music industry.

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Speaker 3: Just last year, when so many musicians were really struggling.

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Speaker 3: He started the whole music from the home front. So

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Speaker 3: he was very aware of how hard it was for

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Speaker 3: Australian music during the pandemic, and he worked really hard

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Speaker 3: to try and put them in our lounge rooms.

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Speaker 2: And musically he couldn't play an instrument. Yeah, had a

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Speaker 2: great ear. Although he did pass on menu at work twice.

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Speaker 2: He passed on cold Chisel. He would have said that

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Speaker 2: that was before Jimmy Barnes was in the band. But

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Speaker 2: the great story that I always take away from it

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Speaker 2: is when the Rolling Stones came to Australia in twenty

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Speaker 2: fourteen and Michael was a big Rolling Stones fan, so

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Speaker 2: it was a bit of a passion project. And anyone

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Speaker 2: in this business, the last thing you want to be

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Speaker 2: is the promoter for a band like the Rolling Stones,

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Speaker 2: because it's going to cost you a lot of money

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Speaker 2: and you're not really going to make much out of it.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of a it's almost an ego thing

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Speaker 2: in a way. It's a passion project. Rolling Stones get

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Speaker 2: into Perth, Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time commits suicide, Scott,

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, forty eight hours, Rolling Stones are

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Speaker 2: about to cancel, and Michael Godinski you would always say,

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Speaker 2: never let them cancel. Sure they can postpone, they can

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Speaker 2: put it off, but don't let them cancel because then

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Speaker 2: you've got to give money back.

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Speaker 3: Right, So that wording made all the difference.

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Speaker 2: Fifty two million dollar concert there, and a lot of

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Speaker 2: Michael's fortune was hanging over on this particular concept. But

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Speaker 2: he managed to get the band to reschedule. They came

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Speaker 2: back a year later, and he'd never really he had

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Speaker 2: never met the Rolling Stones before, and he bumps into

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Speaker 2: Keith Richards, and Keith Richard says, hey, mister, promote a

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Speaker 2: man you've saved us a bit of bacon. The Rolling

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Speaker 2: Stones would have lost a few million on that tour,

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Speaker 2: but a few million to the Rolling Stones is nothing.

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Speaker 2: And Mick Jagger in the way spoke to Michael in

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Speaker 2: a little ten minute session there about oh, thanks for

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Speaker 2: saving us. But it was almost like dismissive of Michael

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Speaker 2: Gadinski because he was a behind the scenes kind of

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Speaker 2: guy and he got a picture taken with the band,

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Speaker 2: like he's some sort of fan that's come along. He's

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Speaker 2: the guy that put his whole fortune and everything on

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Speaker 2: this And when you look at it, who you're bank

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Speaker 2: rolling a band that's well into their sixties and seventies.

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Speaker 3: And you're promoting a concept that's a year away. My

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Speaker 3: fingers crossed.

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Speaker 2: Imagine the insurance on that stress.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: What an incredible guy, and it's one of those things.

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Speaker 3: He died at the age of sixty eight and people

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Speaker 3: rightly so sad that he's gone so soon.

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Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Michael Godinski, Jonesy and Amanda's Jamnation.