1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: Hello, Murray Cook, how I What I was hoping to 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 2: do was to start with have a listen to this. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 3: Ah. 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 4: This is the band with Soul Movers and this has 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 4: done what that's right. 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 2: Soul Movers is the brainchild of Murray Cook and Murray 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 2: This sounds amazing. You're about to take this band on 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: the road. 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we've already started done. We've done a few 11 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 3: shows already and we're in Newcastle next week and yeah, 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: it's been great new album out on the road again. 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: You know, can't keep me away. How many guitars do 14 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: you have now? Fifty fifty? 15 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think something like that. 16 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: Do you know them all? Like you said today, I 17 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: feel like stroking that one. 18 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, I have a lot of them out 19 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 3: on stands so that you know, I can just pick 20 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 3: one up and give you a go, because. 21 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: You've got it. You've got to have them out if 22 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: you have got them stashed away, yeah they're not. 23 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no point having them. 24 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's quite satisfying to see a collection of guitars 25 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 4: just all together. 26 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: Do you have bass guitars? 27 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've got bass guitars and mandolins and lap 28 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 3: steels and pedal steels. 29 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: Also, what about the double neck guitar. 30 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 3: I'm not really into that now. 31 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: I think I just think it's too much. 32 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's too much for me, but I just. 33 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: Feel that it's just come on, dude. 34 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 4: And there was a point I think like led Zeppelin 35 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 4: went a bit crazy with then they had the triple 36 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 4: next oh. 37 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I think Rick Nelson from chead Trick 38 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,839 Speaker 3: had one with seven necks that was just a gimmick. 39 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: Swan too much, it's too much. 40 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: So with Movers and shape the Soul Movers. Tell us 41 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: about how the Soul Movers came about. 42 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, originally, Lizzie Mack, who's the singer, actually formed 43 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 3: it many years ago with Dennis Tech who was in 44 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 3: Radio bird Man, who some of your listeners might remember. 45 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 3: There were a couple and they did one album and 46 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: then they broke up. And and then I came across 47 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 3: the album and I'd seen Lizzie in venues and just 48 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 3: seen bands and stuff. She's really tall and so am I, 49 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: so you know, you could see each other across the room, 50 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: and but I didn't know she's saying, and I got 51 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 3: hold of this album and she's like a really great singer. 52 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 3: So so I just got in contact and said, let's 53 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 3: put the soul movers back together, and and we've done. 54 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 3: This is our fourth album together. Yeah, and it's been great. 55 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 3: It's a really great experience, and this one we're kind 56 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 3: of the most happy with it. As musicians always say 57 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 3: about their most recent album. 58 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: It's it kind of country bluesy. How do you describe it? 59 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, people sometimes think it's the soul mover, 60 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: so it must be all soul. But it's more about 61 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 3: moving the soul than than actual soul music. But there's 62 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 3: there's a lot of souls here. There's some country tinges, 63 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 3: there's dumb Luck is kind of a bit stonesy. So 64 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: we've preempted their new their new. 65 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: Didn't she just? I don't mind that. Do you like 66 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: their new song? 67 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 3: I don't mind her technically. 68 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: Shade it's a little cliche, but I think it's good. 69 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 3: I think the I just I think I like the 70 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: idea of it more than anything. That they're still doing stuff, 71 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 3: and you know, like that's pretty inspiring for older musicians 72 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: that Nick Jagger is at eighty or eighty one or something. 73 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: You know, it's still doing it. 74 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: I know you're a giant music fan and people report 75 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: seeing you at all kinds of music at all venues 76 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: all over the place. 77 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: Do you still get. 78 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 2: Recognized as Mario? I know, if you're not wearing the red, 79 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 2: people still know who you are. 80 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if it's older people and young people. You know, 81 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 3: over the last few years, the twenty somethings who grew 82 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 3: up with us recognized me everywhere. People call out in 83 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,839 Speaker 3: the street. But mostly they're really nice, and they really are, 84 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 3: and you know it's because it's a positive thing. You 85 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 3: know that the interactions is usually pretty positive. 86 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: You're not going to get a crazy fan though, really 87 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: not really nice. 88 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: There's not much of that. 89 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: And are you looking forward to going back on the 90 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: road because there was so much trouble with the Wiggles, 91 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: so much travel involved. I know that probably was quite overwhelming. 92 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, and that's part of the reason why 93 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,119 Speaker 3: I retired from performing with them. But this is much 94 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 3: more manageable. We usually do weekends, you know, and then 95 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 3: we're home for most of the week, and. 96 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: Old people it's kindless. 97 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 3: It's kind of the way most people too of these days. 98 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 3: There's not you know, in the eighties, when I was 99 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 3: growing up, it was, you know, six nights a week, people, 100 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 3: we're playing. But that doesn't happen very much anymore, excepted 101 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: for here in the Wiggles exactly. 102 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 4: I think of O G Wiggles songs because I remember 103 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 4: seeing you guys in Woollongong in nineteen ninety three. 104 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: This is the early days of it. 105 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 4: It's a trestle table and my son, who's now thirty one, 106 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 4: going along, look at these blakes and to see how 107 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 4: far you've come. But a man and I were just 108 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 4: talking about our favorite Wiggles song, Amanda You've gone Oh. 109 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: This is my favorite one. This one Hot Potato, Yeah, 110 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: Potato Potato, which I think is a bit of it. 111 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: It's a bit of a single. Really, it's a single. Well, 112 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: it's not an album trainer. I feel like the Wiggles stuff. 113 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 3: It's not a deep cut Potato. 114 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: I love this. Didn't Greg forget the lyrics to Hot Potato? 115 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 3: Yeah he did once. Yeah, there's like eight words in it. 116 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: He must be a terrible cook. 117 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 4: My my favorite one is an album track. It's Wags 118 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 4: the Dog. 119 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 2: I think this song is still in your DNA Murray 120 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 2: because when my kids grew up and we'd say to them, 121 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: remember this, remember this, because they've been so deep into it, 122 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 2: and it's like puff the magic, drag drag, and it 123 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: had started to go a little and I was horrified. 124 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 2: Is it still in you so richly? 125 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: Yeah it is. 126 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 3: It's It's funny because a lot of the people who 127 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 3: interact with us people on the autismic spectrum, and they're 128 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 3: still really into the Whiggels as adults, but they know everything. 129 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 3: And I sometimes get messages from one guy in particular, 130 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 3: and he says, do you remember in that video blah 131 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 3: blah blah you did this? Why did you do that? 132 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't. 133 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 3: Even remember them well because we did so much, and 134 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 3: we did so many songs. There are some songs if 135 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: we didn't play them live very much, I don't even 136 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 3: remember them. 137 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: I remember I used to write for a magazine, Live 138 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: to Ride magazine. I still actually have just recently started 139 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: writing for them. And we go on this big bike. 140 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 4: Ride taking all these bikes out of this with all 141 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 4: these bikey guys, and I was riding along and in 142 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 4: my headould swim like a fish from about. 143 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 2: Great to see the vision from the outside and then 144 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 2: to go in to your brain and what was happening. Yeah, 145 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 2: but it is such an amazing legacy, and you're so 146 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 2: loved and you're such a great musician, which is why 147 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: I'm sure people want to check out the Soul Movers. 148 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: The Sole Movers and dumb Luck check it out. 149 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 4: And also you'll see Murray Cook performing there with one 150 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 4: of his fifty guitars. 151 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, Yeah, and it is. It's interesting with 152 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 3: the Wiggles legacy. As you say, we get a lot 153 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: of young people come along to the shows who are 154 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 3: just interested in what I'm what I'm doing, but they 155 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 3: stick around because and you know, I'm older. But we 156 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 3: have a real multi generational band. We've got some of 157 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 3: them members born in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. 158 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: Sounds like a radio station sixty seventies. 159 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: Quite the demo. I go to Soule Movers band dot com. Murray, 160 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. The rest of the chapter 161 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: there it is. I love it.