1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: We would be singing a man at work, so said 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: twelve hundred people. The men at work would be down 3 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: the road. I only did the people party and the bands. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 2: It was a way of like Cozy and Lisa's to. 5 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 3: The pub draw, we are thrilled two bits to welcome 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 3: to our healthy and days pub crawl from the Stams. 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 3: Dom Marianni, Good morning. 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: Mine guys. 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 3: So the Stams talk about launching with a vengeance. Your 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 3: first live show was at the old Civic Theater in 11 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 3: support of the Saints and the Triffans. 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: Wow, what a len up. 13 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: Yeah that a long time ago, but yeah, we were 14 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: very fortunate to score that gigs through a mutual friend 15 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: actually who was putting that gig together. And I'd had 16 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: another band I guess six months previous to that that 17 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,919 Speaker 1: had split and then started to form a new one, 18 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: and our first gig happened to be that one, which 19 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: was fantastic for us, playing with such a good lineup. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: Credible lineup. But who are the bands that you loved? 21 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: Because you know, I said the least earlier, I said, 22 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 2: I love some very cool sixties inspired garage guitar sounds. 23 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: Who were you listening to? 24 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: Yeah? Look, I guess the group that I really connected 25 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: with back in I guess when I was learning guitar 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 1: it was Creden's clear Water Revival. That was the band 27 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: that really got me. But look the Beatles obviously, the 28 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: Beg's early Begs, you know, the Stones, the Easy Beats, 29 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: all the kind of classics sixties bands, and then into 30 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: the seventies, I guess there was bands like t Rex 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: and you know some of the heavier ones that were 32 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: around at the time I led Zeppelin and things like that. 33 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 3: At this time in the eighties, the Perth pub band 34 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 3: scene was awesome and a name I haven't heard thought 35 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 3: for a long time, the wiz Bar. I'd forgotten how 36 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 3: often I used to go there. But you guys had 37 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 3: a Saturday residency at the wiz Bar we did. 38 00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 39 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: It was a really cool venue actually at the Basement 40 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: venue there on Hay Street. And once we got that 41 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: sort of debut gig out the way, we played a 42 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: couple of other shows, I think the Subiaco Hotel and 43 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: then the whiz Bar was something that was firing, you know, 44 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: back in the day, and we loved playing there. It 45 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: was that's where I guess we started to get our following. 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 3: You played the Old Melbourne a bit, So this is 47 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 3: really talking my language. Do you remember mccano's bar up 48 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 3: above the Old Melbourne? 49 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: I do, yes, I do. 50 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: What a great venue that was too, upstairs downstairs all 51 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 3: the great places. 52 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: Will Melbourne had ended up with the Beat Room as well, 53 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 2: didn't That was a sweet, sweeting room. Us have played 54 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: a few rooms, played many times at the Newport down 55 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: in Frio as well, done every years, not during. 56 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: I guess what when when we were playing back in 57 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: the sort of mid to late eighties, I recall that 58 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: we did have a gig lined up there at the 59 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: time I got canceled. But when we came back in 60 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: so early two thousands we played there a bit. Yeah. 61 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 2: Absolutely. We certainly lost Richard Lane, who ended up going 62 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: to the Chevelle's and after you came back from Sydney 63 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 2: we lost him four years ago. But that original lineup, 64 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 2: that must have been very exciting for you boys, especially 65 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: when the album came out. 66 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it was a fantastic time. You know, we 67 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: kind of started off with not really many, you know, 68 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: we didn't think we were going to get that big, 69 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: but things just kept sort of rolling on and we 70 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: took a punt and went over Reached when we released 71 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: our first single, and people seem to like us over there. 72 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: We came well, no one really wanted to know us 73 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: before that, but when we came back from that tour, 74 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: we were kind of local heroes I suppose, yeah, and 75 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: it all started to happen from there. 76 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 3: Well, you were one of the more successful acts, having 77 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 3: played with some big name bands and gone on international tours. 78 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 3: Who have been your favorite bands to play with? 79 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: One specific festival really comes to mind, which was in 80 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: two thousand and four. We went to New York and 81 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: played this festival was set up by Little Stephen, the 82 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: guy who plays with Bruce Spring. Yeah, direct man. He 83 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: had this incredible lineup of bands and we were asked 84 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: to play that festival and it was headlined by The Strokes, 85 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: who were the more contemporary band I guess at the time, 86 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: and you had people like Nancy Sinatra of all people 87 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: playing Bo Diddley and some you know bands from back 88 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: in the sixties, of obscure bands that have sort of reformed, 89 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: like the Electric Prunes and the Pretty Things and people 90 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: like that. But you know, they had egg In the 91 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: Stooges and New York Dolls and all these amazing groups. 92 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: So that was sort of a gig that you know, 93 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: you could never dream of sort of being a part of. 94 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: But yeah, that was one of the that was one 95 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: of the best gigs that I'd say that I'd ever played. 96 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 2: Don't tell me his shirt off. That is a great clinic, 97 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 2: punked up line of I love it, And Nancy, there's 98 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 2: been a place in the world, particularly in Europe, where 99 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 2: you were really surprised to have what the fandom for 100 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 2: the band. 101 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: Was, like, Yeah, look, I started touring Europe sort of 102 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: started with a festival but in Denmark back in the 103 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: mid nineties, I guess from there sort of explored the 104 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: rest of Europe and the Stems have become quite popular 105 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: in places like Spain, Italy and France. So we've we've 106 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: been playing that sort of regularly, I suppose. When I 107 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: say regularly, we haven't been there since just before the pandemic, 108 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: but prior to that, you know, every couple of years 109 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: I go back with some kind of incarnation, but the 110 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: Stems definitely popular there, which is which has been great 111 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: for us because it's kept the band sort of going 112 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: and you know, we love playing and the fans. You know, 113 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: they love us, so yeah, it's good. It's a good 114 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: thing to go on tour and play other countries. Brilliant. 115 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 3: The nineties were kind of quiet though, I mean, you 116 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 3: were so big in the eighties and then sort of 117 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 3: went quiet through the nineties and came back in the 118 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 3: early two thousands. 119 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we split up in the late eighties and 120 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: during the nineties I had another group called DM three, 121 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: which that kind of broke me into Europe, and that 122 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: kind of I'd released a couple of records that got 123 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: released over there, so I got to ask the tour 124 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, see how it goes, and then 125 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: found out that, you know, there was an audience, and yeah, 126 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: I thought, well, yeah, this is a great place to 127 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: come back to have a bit of a holiday as 128 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: well as play some shows. So yeah, I kept I 129 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: kept doing it. 130 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 2: And don that's some love stuff with Darren Matha. That 131 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 2: was a mighty fine term testament to your songwriting and 132 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: you're performing. But this it feels like we've gone full 133 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: circle because we think about the band and I think 134 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 2: about growing up listening to Steve Gordon on this radio 135 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 2: station ninety six a FM, his Izzy show, playing you 136 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 2: guys and talking to you guys on the regular and 137 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 2: all the Perth and Australian bands on a regular basis. 138 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: Yes, Steve, Yeah, he's a legend, isn't And yeah, and 139 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: occasionally I sort of hear from em Yeah, SG with 140 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: an email here and there. 141 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,559 Speaker 2: He's a good man, he loves his music. 142 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 3: Well, here's good news. They Stems are playing at Frio 143 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 3: Social and September the sixth. Tickets are through mosh Teks. 144 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 3: The show is to celebrate the band's fortieth anniversary. What 145 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 3: can you tell us about that show. 146 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: Dom, Well, yeah, forty years. It seems like a long time, 147 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: doesn't it. That's playing by Yeah, you know, it's we're 148 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: looking forward to it. I guess it's sort of coincided 149 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: because you know, we were sort of waiting for the 150 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: pandemic to end at one point and then it was 151 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: all the case of everybody being available. And this year, 152 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty four, I guess lines up with 153 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: the fortieth year when we when we when we formed, 154 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: so we thought, well we'll grab that idea and go 155 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: with it, you know. 156 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, mate, proof that you're never too old 157 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 2: to be a fan. I've just moved down recently to 158 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: South Forrieo to live and we will get a fishing 159 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 2: fish and chips over summer at Sea Lanes. And I 160 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: turned to my wife, I said, I think order number 161 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: fifty eight is don Marry Nan and she goes it 162 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 2: was It was a fair chance it was you, right, 163 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 2: because it looked like you she's going living chef. I 164 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 2: reckon you stop fan for fifty eight fish and chip. 165 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: Well he was. 166 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 2: He was number fifty eight and I was fifty eight 167 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: years of age, so you never too old to be 168 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 2: a fan of the music. 169 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: Lanes dom this. 170 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 3: I believe new music to coincide with that Freo Social 171 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 3: show as well. 172 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, I'm glad you asked the question. We've actually 173 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: recorded a new single which I think it's turned out really, 174 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: really great because I just floated the idea with the guys. 175 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: I said, hey, you know, we should do something new, 176 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: and they were all into it, and I had this 177 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: song sitting there and I thought, well, let's try this one. 178 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: And yeah, it happened pretty quickly and it's come out 179 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: really great. So that's coming out well, hopefully it's been 180 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: pressed right now and be ready for the tour. And 181 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: we have a live album which was recorded back in 182 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen in Adelaide, and that sort of happened fortuitously. 183 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: I guess was a guy in a bat and a 184 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: support band that had been recording his own band for 185 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: that show, and then said that our band had been 186 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: recorded as well. I just came out and sent me 187 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: an email and said, hey, I've got a recording of 188 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: you guys from that show. Would you like it? I said, yeah, yeah, 189 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: send it either. But I hadn't listened to it basically, 190 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: and sitting there for a while, and I said, look, 191 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: there's some live stuff that we've got. Let's have a 192 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: listen to it. If it's any good, we should maybe 193 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: put it onto a you know, a vinyl and release it. 194 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: And we did that as well, so we mix that 195 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: up and that's going to be ready for the tour. 196 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: So we've got some new stuff. 197 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's any good. I think forty years is 198 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 3: a testament too. If it's any good. Dom The Frio 199 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 3: Social Show is September sixth. You want to get onto 200 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 3: mosh tics pretty quickly to get tickets for that. It's 201 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 3: been fantastic to reminisce with you this morning. 202 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 2: Good to catch up man. 203 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: Thanks guys, thank you all. 204 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 2: So you're down to sea lanes. This quid brings around 205 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 2: the next time, but thank you.