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Speaker 2: I don't need to the people party in the venues,

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Speaker 2: but the bands. It was a wave of Clearzy and

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Speaker 3: Crawl ninety six a FM Claresy and Lisa and Lisa

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Speaker 3: have continued trek through the We're doing.

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Speaker 1: The Perth pub Crawl, aren't weah.

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Speaker 3: And when you throw in names like the Paddo, the

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Speaker 3: the Shenton Park Hotel and the Warrick Hotel. You're talking

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Speaker 3: about some great live music venues. And we're going this

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Speaker 3: who had a lot of those businesses. Neil Randall joins

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Speaker 3: as Neil, welcome mate.

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Speaker 2: How a thank's Clarzy, great to be.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming into reminiscent with us. Neil is such.

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Speaker 4: It was such an active live scene at this in

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Speaker 4: this period during the eighties, when you were at the

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Speaker 4: thick of it owning these clubs, well pubs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I look it was I wish to every deck

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Speaker 2: it could be like the eighties. Yeah, well he just

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Speaker 2: used to have so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In ICEX rock and roll, the beers flowed and everyone

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Speaker 2: just had fun. There's plenty of money around. I mean

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Speaker 2: Coast Eagles came in and Clearsy won two premiers that

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Speaker 2: the rock and roll scene was incredible.

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Speaker 1: I used to pour over that gig.

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Speaker 4: Guy that had come out on it came out on

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Speaker 4: Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, I'd pour over it like

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Speaker 1: With the tab guide it you would map.

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Speaker 4: Out your Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, there was so much choice. I remember in the

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Speaker 2: the fly was just starting at Scar. Yeah, incredible, and

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Speaker 2: we were lucky to have such a great room at

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Speaker 2: the Shens. It only feel it to be four or

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Speaker 2: five hundred, but Jesus, we used to stack them in there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we were part of it. We're in the

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Speaker 4: crowd that was usually of it. It was just the right

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Speaker 2: The acoustics there, sensation absolutely, and just a band that

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Speaker 4: Some of the bands that performed there Gurus of course

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Speaker 1: The jam Tarts.

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Speaker 4: We I mean, even back then in the eighties, we

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Speaker 2: It was not an ego touring bands. Yeah, as you said,

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you just a little added note to this.

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Speaker 2: My son Ben we lived at the Shed's, my wife

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Speaker 3: Okay, to escape work there.

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Speaker 3: But I remember when I was too young to get

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Speaker 2: Thursday nights was it was out of control and there

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Speaker 3: You could have come down and give the bounces a hand,

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Speaker 2: That great days.

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Speaker 4: What are some of the gigs that you really remember

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Speaker 2: Oh, Painters were huge and they had a real good act.

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Speaker 2: The fires were going and they jump off the stage

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some of those good, good stories, some of those

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Pa, did you have to deal with backstage riders

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Speaker 2: It was amazing and I used to every time you

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Speaker 2: they need champagne with four blocks of ice. They're not

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Speaker 2: nun I settled down boys. This is what you're getting,

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Speaker 3: must have seen it where you would get a band

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you must have said that a bit.

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Speaker 4: A lot of these places, the Shenks, for one, were

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Speaker 1: Did you have to deal with noise complaints?

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Speaker 2: That was just as bad as bad as the Riders.

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Speaker 3: My perstors had a really big blues fraternity. We love

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Speaker 2: Do you have some well, you had a lot of

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a time of course where it was

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Speaker 4: Band and and a lot of them just had to

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Speaker 1: Did you did it break your heart sometimes when some

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Speaker 2: That is so true. That is amazing. Our local bands

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Speaker 1: Times of change.

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Speaker 2: Sure. But I'll tell you what one thing we still

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Speaker 3: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: So I've never really lost contact with live music because

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolute, do you feel a bit like a proud

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Speaker 2: I said, you're always welcome back. Sorry, we're going in

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Speaker 3: Man. Well, I have to learn the crap because let's

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Speaker 1: What what happened? What changed it?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's just it's hard to put your finger on

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Speaker 4: Now, the way it's done, it's cut out that middle man,

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Speaker 2: I want to survive like Clezzie your age magic someday.

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Speaker 3: But you know, like you think about how diverse it got.

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Speaker 2: You get people like Boober and Swift and there there

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Speaker 3: Really yeah, and so many options online as well for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good now, just with my voice, sorry about this.

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Speaker 2: I do blame the eighties talking over beds, yeah, drinking

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Speaker 1: It certainly sounds pretty right, and I think you're a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sound good to me. Oh gosh, I missed

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Speaker 1: those times. Thank you, Neil.

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Speaker 2: Pleasure, absolute pleasure.

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Speaker 3: I miss it more than you kicking bloody goals for

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Speaker 2: You don't, Clare's your God. The seventy three grand for

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Speaker 1: Thanks mate,