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Speaker 1: This was a warm, safe, fuzzy place.

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Speaker 2: I felt very at home with this one, very familiar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.

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Speaker 3: An envelope contains the music topic to discuss this.

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Speaker 4: Five minutes on the clock to film and this no

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Speaker 4: time to prep.

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Speaker 3: This is banter with Clezy and Lisa.

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Speaker 2: All Right, I'm making the selection.

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Speaker 1: We've got the timer ready to go. Once you've done

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Speaker 1: the reveal, I.

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Speaker 2: Just feel like I'm announcing best picture.

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Speaker 1: Well you are, in a way. The winner is best spenter.

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Speaker 1: You know what it is.

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Speaker 4: It is, hold up, hold it up, and the time

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Speaker 4: starts now. Five minutes on the Gurus.

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Speaker 2: Well let me start by saying one of Perth's finest bands.

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Speaker 1: Ah, we have to say that.

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Speaker 3: Well they are.

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Speaker 2: They are now absolutely up in Willison or something.

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Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, what an absolute legend he's been been

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Speaker 4: from his early days here in Perth, playing with the

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Speaker 4: Scientists and other bands.

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Speaker 2: Talent Love, the Hoodoo Gurus I always have and I

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Speaker 2: always will and Stone Age Romeos, which I think came

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Speaker 2: out in nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 3: Three or four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was their first album.

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Speaker 2: Yet it was their first album and it was and

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Speaker 2: I've told Dave this many times when we've interviewed him

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Speaker 2: over the years. It was the first album I ever

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Speaker 2: bought with my own money. Oh there you go, because

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Speaker 2: many of were every year was, you know, albums under

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Speaker 2: the Christmas tree for Christmas. But this was with my

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Speaker 2: own saved up money. I bought Stone Age Romeos.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and what a great album. Had that beautiful song

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Speaker 4: called My Girl on.

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Speaker 2: It, which of course was about a greyhound.

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Speaker 1: Well end the video was that him at the Great

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Speaker 1: Hoound walking.

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Speaker 2: Along with the A lot of people were singing that

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Speaker 2: to their girlfriend before they realized it was indeed about

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Speaker 2: a grayhound.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But of course I Want You Back that was my favorite,

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Speaker 2: me too, and Toto Samta never made it to Darwin.

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Speaker 1: So many good songs.

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Speaker 2: That was a good song with Lani early. Lani reminded

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Speaker 2: me of the old beach you know, movies with a natural.

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Speaker 4: It was a big, beaty sounding thing, wasn't it It was? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was so many great songs and.

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Speaker 2: It's very hawaii. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Evidence of how great a songwriter Dave Fork now was

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Speaker 4: and was to become.

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Speaker 2: Because that was just the beginning that album. It's one

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Speaker 2: of those albums where I used to play it and

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Speaker 2: every song on it was Good, which was always a

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Speaker 2: big ass pretty You know, I always remember the albums

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Speaker 2: that I love every song on.

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Speaker 3: There was no Fillery, but no Filler or Killer.

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Speaker 4: An album was a follow up was called Mars Needs Guitars,

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Speaker 4: which is an absolute beauty nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 2: It was Bittersweet on that or did that come later?

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Speaker 2: Sweet was a great track. Well they I don't think

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Speaker 2: there's a bad track left.

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Speaker 1: Defying was on that one. Actually, there were about four

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Speaker 1: or five hit singles on that album, Last Guitars, like

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Speaker 1: We'll Wipe Out.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 1: That was a huge album, it was, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Commercially Yeah, it was massive.

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Speaker 2: Stoney Droves is still my favorite, but commercially with all

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Speaker 2: those hits off it, that is amazing.

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Speaker 4: So many beauties are and you know, you can talk

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Speaker 4: about Dave and the band of course, but Brad Shepard,

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Speaker 4: the guitarist was you know, it's a mainstay still playing

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Speaker 4: the these days now.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't from Perth, was he?

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Speaker 1: He was?

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Speaker 2: In fact, the rest of the band probably wasn't from Perth.

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Speaker 2: Were any other members of the band from Perth? Maybe

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Speaker 2: they've taken some.

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Speaker 4: Idea you think about the early days in Perth. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: when the early drummer was from Perth other than that,

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Speaker 4: but it was.

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Speaker 1: Soon to change.

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Speaker 2: But in the eighties you you really had to move

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Speaker 2: to Sydney to make it, and you almost had to

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Speaker 2: say you were a Sydney band because no one else

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Speaker 2: knew about anything else in Australia. I mean, you think

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Speaker 2: people are stupid now you should have seen him. Then

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Speaker 2: they might have heard of Sydney. Oh that's the place

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Speaker 2: with the bridge, you know. But Perth, no idea, no clue.

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Speaker 2: So I had to say you were from Sydney even

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Speaker 2: if you weren't.

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Speaker 4: You think about the songwriting talents of a man like that,

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Speaker 4: like a song like a Thousand Miles Away. It's one

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Speaker 4: of the most beautiful songs ever written, beautiful and it

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Speaker 4: also is one of those songs that builds in momentum.

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Speaker 4: So it was about not just the songwriting but the production.

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Speaker 4: And the guy underestimates his voice. I reckon it's one

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Speaker 4: of the great singers of Australian well world rock.

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Speaker 2: And then there's miss Free Love, which is just one

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Speaker 2: of the hilarious tracks and a great film clip where

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Speaker 2: he wears a thousand different costumes, and then that's got

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Speaker 2: a real sixties vibe.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, you know, when you think about the

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Speaker 4: fact that they love that sixties kind of vibe thing

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Speaker 4: and they were big fans of they're huge fans of

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Speaker 4: pop culture. You know, they've got to meet you know,

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Speaker 4: the guy Don Adams. Wasn't they played get Smart? You know,

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Speaker 4: Max aw smart.

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Speaker 2: I know you don't have to explain to.

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Speaker 4: So many of the brain's working in beta mode, Adams

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Speaker 4: Adams and also you know they show ever big fans

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Speaker 4: of so many of those groovy kind of things, you know,

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Speaker 4: like the Batman TV series and stuff like that, and

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Speaker 4: so the popular cold the pop culture references.

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Speaker 2: Definitely that feel you're still churing. Of course, they've never

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Speaker 2: slided never slide down. Probably different incarnations of the band, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's been a few, but there's always Dave.

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Speaker 4: They've gone through a couple drummers. Well they didn't spontaneously combusting, pretty.

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Speaker 3: Sure, rubbers do that, pretty sure.

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Speaker 1: James Bakers.

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Speaker 3: James Baker was the drummers, aren't they really?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a King's mill Mark Kingsmill was in

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Speaker 4: the band for a while, so that's the name of

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Speaker 4: it over the years. But Dave one of the sweetest bikes,

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Speaker 4: done a lot of gigs over here, and we've been

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Speaker 4: at a few of his gigs in Perth.

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Speaker 2: Several of his gigs done the radio station. We have

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Speaker 2: both had the very good fortune of being able to

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Speaker 2: have chats with him on you know, in the studio

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Speaker 2: when he's been in town. And he is a lovely,

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Speaker 2: down to earth guy who has never really changed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's pretty humble, kind of a.

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Speaker 2: Bit of a late back kippie type of guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And if you think about the influence they've had, they've

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Speaker 4: been because they were big in the US college circuit. Yes,

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Speaker 4: for quite a long time. Oh, that'd be time.

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Speaker 3: Fans, The time is over.

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Speaker 4: Guruz Bloody six a FM, Clezie and Lisa