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Speaker 2: The men at Work began on the road, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't need did the people party in the beaniser bands?

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Speaker 4: Who was Away?

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Speaker 2: And Lisa's to the pub drawl?

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Speaker 1: Yes, continuing the pub crawl today by popular demand under

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Speaker 1: the Suburban Boy from the suburb of Bicton. I think

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Speaker 1: Dave Warner.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, Dave, welcome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hi guys.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you're quite right from Victim currently in Sydney from.

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Speaker 3: And a fine suburban is too.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely worth a lot more David than the day,

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Speaker 3: The quarantine station was down there.

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Speaker 1: We've been doing this for a couple of weeks, reminiscing

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Speaker 1: about that incredibly vibrant pub scene in the eighties, and

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Speaker 1: we have had so many requests from our listeners saying

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Speaker 1: you've got to get Dave Warner from the suburbs.

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Speaker 2: Is it nice?

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Speaker 1: Nice to be wanted?

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is, yeah, yeah, yeah it is.

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Speaker 4: And so thank you, thank you all the people who requested,

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Speaker 4: and I had great feedback even over here in Sydney.

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Speaker 4: People have been telling me that they're really enjoying it

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Speaker 4: and looking forward to the segments.

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Speaker 2: So well.

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Speaker 1: It was it was an incredible scene. Did you have

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Speaker 4: Think for us probably the Shenton Park as we kind

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Speaker 3: Off really and in the cohesion room as it was.

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Speaker 1: No very fancy.

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Speaker 3: But look, so many of them were great.

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Speaker 4: But that that worked for us very well.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, look there were so many great venues. The Herdsman,

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Speaker 4: Overflow, yeah, all of them, and so many places, and

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Speaker 3: Every six nights a week there exactly focus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could go nights aware and some did, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And some fans came to every gig. Yeah, Dave, we've

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Speaker 2: just heard Suburban Boy and I played it a few

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Speaker 4: I did, Look, and honestly I wrote it in nineteen

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Speaker 3: But it took six years for it to become a hit,

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Speaker 1: Quick drive too. I reckon in nineteen seventy two the

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Speaker 1: Later, and guess what it's still being roadworks are still

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Speaker 4: Small but very dedicated, what you would call a cult audience.

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Speaker 4: In this back room and it was fantastic and the audiences. Look,

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Speaker 2: I got to love it. What about that following mate,

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Speaker 2: Was it that that got to Michael Gitinski's attention to

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Speaker 4: Our music over there, not via radio station, but had

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Speaker 1: With the exception of the Charles with its original carpet,

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Speaker 3: Prefer to sit down in a theater.

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Speaker 3: So there's still some venues there.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's not like it's not other days before

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Speaker 2: The shelves of the back, Dick and the Dames doing

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Speaker 1: Unreal. You've played with the likes of Men at Work, Midnight,

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Speaker 4: But look, the Dragon Boys were fun too, and all

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Speaker 4: I didn't have I don't think I've had any bad

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Speaker 3: That we played with.

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Speaker 4: At the time, I played soccer with men at work.

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Speaker 4: Colin Hayen. I said to him, I said, look, I reckon,

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Speaker 2: Hope, So I hope, And he was at the Grammy.

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Speaker 2: It just took off from here. Hey, Dave, in your

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I did got to meet Bob Dylan, but

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Speaker 1: He just touched on the writing. You are an author,

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Speaker 4: Well, listen to you, as anybody in the in the

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Speaker 2: We talked about it earlier about the demand for people

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Speaker 4: I'm sure I speak for everyone, but you know, I've

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Speaker 3: They just wanted to hear Convict Street. So I played

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Speaker 4: And I've had songs play that people's funerals to me,

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Speaker 2: Absolute an impact. I want to get one of those

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Speaker 1: Very nice and you know, performing at shows now performing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'd love to get more and more younger people.

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Speaker 3: But it's great. Sometimes you're playing in a place and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just some young backpackers or something more. We're in

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Speaker 4: It's great when you're playing you strike a chord with

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Speaker 2: And that's the other thing, mate. Do a lot of

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Speaker 2: You've never been forgotten in Perth. That's sort of think

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Speaker 4: But I didn't. I wasn't one of the people. You know,

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Speaker 4: it became quite vituperative to use that word. Some people

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Speaker 3: Cover band people. I never found that. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: And you do you do what you do and what

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Speaker 3: They didn't know them, but the energy that they brought

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Speaker 4: Another level and it was exciting as if I had

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Speaker 4: You know, So how do you quantify those things?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly if it makes you feel good.

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Speaker 4: So but but you know, played your strengths and for

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Speaker 2: But you know, yes, ago Sunday session at the Heard,

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Speaker 2: but you must. He's a funny bugger, but he's a

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I played with the funniest

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Speaker 4: and we could just riff off something verbally on stage

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Speaker 4: I think places like Los Angeles the Viper Room would

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah and dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Well, Dave Warner from the Suburbs, it has been an

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Speaker 1: absolute treat for all of us this morning to reminisce

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Speaker 1: with you. Thanks, thanks for being part of it.

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Speaker 2: Did you catch up mate?

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Speaker 3: Oh my pleasure. Thanks for keeping the vibe alive. Well.

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Speaker 4: I know it means a lot to musicians of my

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Speaker 3: Great time and I was so fortunate to be part

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Speaker 3: of it.

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Speaker 2: You have a great week.

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Speaker 3: Bye, see you a game.