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Speaker 1: We've just been talking about the glorious career of one

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Speaker 1: Ross Wilson, Ross the Boss who's back in Perth. We

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Speaker 1: had to repeat what we just said would be here

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Speaker 1: for what we'd use up our time chatting with Ross.

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Speaker 1: It's been a wonderful career.

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Speaker 2: Ross joins us right now.

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Speaker 3: Hello rass Oh.

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Speaker 4: Hi there, Yeah, coming over tomorrow morning and going to

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Speaker 4: Rock Perth. But you know, I'm the Saints.

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Speaker 2: Were just played. We just played Eagle Rock. Eagle Rock

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Speaker 2: turned fifty last year. Does it feel like it was

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Speaker 2: just yesterday that you were sitting there Rashingess?

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Speaker 4: Well, I had lived with that song for a long time,

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Speaker 4: but every time I played it feels fresh. You know,

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Speaker 4: it feels there's something about about playing it. No matter

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Speaker 4: who I play it with, it's it still gets people

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Speaker 4: off the bums and out under the dance floor. So

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Speaker 4: mission accomplished.

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Speaker 1: Do you have to be a sick Kilber supporter? The

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Speaker 1: only time he's beating my docks this year?

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Speaker 4: You rub it than in we're finally winning, finally out

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Speaker 4: the years and years I got to brag about it,

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Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, Well I would barrack by the West

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Speaker 4: Coast Egles, but when I out of barracking for the

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Speaker 4: for the Saint. Iag on your kid in the West

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Speaker 4: Coast Sigules didn't didn't exist, Yeah, you and Molly loving

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Speaker 4: the Saints.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now we can see Ross playing at the Sterling Arms

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Speaker 2: in Guildford tomorrow night and the Charles Hotel on Friday

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Speaker 2: night before joining Mondo Rocket by the Sea on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: What what can we expect at the Charles and the

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Speaker 2: Girls and the Sterling Arms. Is there going to be

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Speaker 2: anyone else with you?

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Speaker 4: Well, of course I've got a band, you know, and

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Speaker 4: we're doing what we call the Eagle Rock fiftieth Anniversary

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Speaker 4: Tour show which is finally coming to Perth, in which

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Speaker 4: we show how Daddy Coole formed and now before Daddy Cole,

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Speaker 4: we all were part of a band, another band. I formed,

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Speaker 4: a bigger band called Sons of the Vegetable Mother and

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Speaker 4: the underground progressive rock band who sang songs about brown

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Speaker 4: rice and things like that. You know, Okay, aal Mother

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Speaker 4: where the actual first people to play the song Eagle Rock,

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Speaker 4: you know. So we had a couple of we had

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Speaker 4: a little bit of practice under our belt. We when

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Speaker 4: we went four piece and we had a splinter group.

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Speaker 4: You know, sometimes we played boat bands and the same

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Speaker 4: gig and you know, but Daddy Coole just took off

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Speaker 4: in Melbourne literally literally overnight. You know, we just just

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Speaker 4: rocketed it up, and so Mother kind of became a

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Speaker 4: thing that we didn't do anymore. But we're going to

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Speaker 4: play it, Sudgil Mother song, and we're going to play

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Speaker 4: a song from my earlier band of Party Machine, which

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Speaker 4: sort of shows how the Eagle Rock riff came about

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Speaker 4: because I was already writing songs sort of using that

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Speaker 4: fingerpick and tip technique. You know. Yeah, it's a bit

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Speaker 4: of interesting stuff and a couple more a couple of

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Speaker 4: Daddy cor songs I haven't played for about forty years,

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Speaker 4: so it's as well as Monda rock songs as well,

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Speaker 4: so we get the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if people realize that Elton John's Crocodile

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Speaker 2: Rock was directly inspired by Eagle Rock.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had that conversation with Elton Well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's actually saying it on stage in

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Speaker 4: his last tour. He reason, you know, so it was yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean he he's always been very nice to me,

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Speaker 4: and he loved Mondo rock. As well. He said nice

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Speaker 4: things about them. So he came out here and he

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Speaker 4: was touring around the very first time he toured in

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Speaker 4: Australia and he heard Daddy Cool on the radio and

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Speaker 4: when nuts and bought you know, copies of Comeback Again

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Speaker 4: and Eagle Rocket. He got his friend long John Boarder

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Speaker 4: to cover come Back Again and ye, and he and

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Speaker 4: Bernie Torbyn were inspired, you know, oh, let's write a

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Speaker 4: song about you know, an animal dance like you know,

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Speaker 4: just like Eagle Rock was about. Course, it's a completely

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Speaker 4: different song.

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Speaker 3: So of course, yeah, yeah, right story.

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Speaker 1: I mean that Tom Pety in the Heartbreakers, We're very

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Speaker 1: Tom was very influenced by the Birds, Roger McGuinn and

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Speaker 1: that jingle jingle guitar thing. But he was a fan

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Speaker 1: of Daddy Calte.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's interesting about Tom Petty mart Breaking. And I

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Speaker 4: didn't find this at about like five or six years ago.

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Speaker 4: Was that Mike Campbell the guitarist, yes, Ben montenche to

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Speaker 4: keyboard player, and Tom Penny. They were kind of circling

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Speaker 4: around each other, going gee, maybe we'll form a band together.

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Speaker 4: And they got together and said what kind of music

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Speaker 4: do you like? And they all liked they said, all,

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Speaker 4: I like to obscure Daddy you know Australian band Daddy Cool,

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Speaker 4: you know, and they got I like them too, you know,

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Speaker 4: so they bonded over their love for Daddy Cool and

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Speaker 4: formed the Heartbreaker so blowed me down. You know.

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Speaker 2: There's also a tradition that began in the nineteen seventies

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Speaker 2: apparently at a Queensland university where one drops one's pants

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Speaker 2: when Eagle Rock comes on? Have you ever partaken of us?

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Speaker 4: I haven't touch taken of it myself. I don't have to,

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Speaker 4: you knowing people do. I'm just merely the facilitator.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a bit like the Boys and the Angels. I

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Speaker 3: don't have to do.

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Speaker 4: That's just the funny thing is the Angel. The Angel

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Speaker 4: said when the very first time they were playing somewhere

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Speaker 4: and they heard the audience yelling that out going, they

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Speaker 4: came up stage and said, what did we do? I

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Speaker 4: like it, you know, And then that started in mound

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Speaker 4: Eer with all these things come out of Queensland.

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Speaker 3: Plenty of four x exactly.

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Speaker 1: I gotta love that, and being back out and about

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Speaker 1: maybe to have a big crowd there at Hillary's on

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Speaker 1: the weekend at Hillary's.

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Speaker 4: Think we're coming over and looking forward to seeing everybody.

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Speaker 4: Got a lot of fans over over your way, and

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Speaker 4: I know that they're coming along, so we're gonna have

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Speaker 4: a great time.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are hanging out for you know, a decent

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Speaker 2: show because we haven't been able to have capacity at

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Speaker 2: that I'll be canceled. So this is like one of

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Speaker 2: the first So let me warn you people are going

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Speaker 2: to cut loose.

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Speaker 4: Well they haven't been here too, going on lated gigs

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Speaker 4: that we're doing around Victoria and just going nuts. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: like yeah, we played a talkie you know, surf surf

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Speaker 4: side and on Sunday and it was just like crazy,

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Speaker 4: like you know, like people are just so glad to

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Speaker 4: be out and that you know, I go a live

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Speaker 4: music's back and they all cheer.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's an incredible sense of freedom out of

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Speaker 1: what we've been through ross it would be missing. I

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Speaker 1: not mentioned this question. We asked this of all of

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Speaker 1: our you know, because who came on. What was the

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Speaker 1: last band or artist T shirt you wore or you

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Speaker 1: may be wearing one.

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Speaker 4: I'm wearing one now it's not it's not sort of

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Speaker 4: a music related one, yeah, and it's it's from a

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Speaker 4: company or an organization called Green Music, which are about

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Speaker 4: greening the planet and all that and music and it

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Speaker 4: says no music on a dead planet, right, true, that's

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Speaker 4: what it says on it. So I'm wearing that and

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Speaker 4: you're leading forward reading it off. We've got to you know,

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Speaker 4: save the world and save music at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very good. Well sounds like a plan. You don't

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Speaker 3: want a quiet planet one.

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Speaker 2: You can see Ross Wilson playing at the Sterling Arms

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Speaker 2: in Guildford tomorrow night, the Child's Hotel on Friday night.

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Speaker 2: You can get tickets through oz ticks and Ticketmaster and

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Speaker 2: then it costs the big one on the weekend. Ross

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Speaker 2: Wilson thank.

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Speaker 3: You all the best. She's flying into Perth tomorrow and

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Speaker 3: people looking forward to seeing the manager.

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Speaker 1: It is, isn't it fifty years It's e got rock

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Speaker 1: incredibles that incredible