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Speaker 1: Wayne Green's a rock singer who's teetered on the brink

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Speaker 1: of fame not once, but three times. And as he

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Speaker 1: turns seventy, he's embarking on a project that represents the

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Speaker 1: pinnacle of his life's work and he's joining us now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wayne made.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Good morning mate.

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Speaker 3: How are Yeah, we're very well.

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Speaker 1: So tell us about the documentary, The Fight for Rock

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Speaker 1: and Roll?

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Speaker 2: Do you want to know what it's about.

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Speaker 1: Or tell us how it came about making it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to call out of the Blue from

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Speaker 2: Greg Gabaloni's name was yes and yeah, and he said

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Speaker 2: he had a really good friend who was a fan

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Speaker 2: of mine who wanted to make a doc gay and

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Speaker 2: I thought he was kidding. Yeah, so I checked it

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Speaker 2: all out. Ian Harley's name was from Halo Records, Halo

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Speaker 2: for Films, and he was thinking about it, right. So

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Speaker 2: it's come on from there, right out of the blue.

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Speaker 2: And we've spent about eighteen months to another think. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Ian loves a good story and he loves putting it

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Speaker 3: on the on the screen, especially there at the backlob Unreal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they're great people there. And the guy who

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Speaker 2: did it, Luk's a really lovely Blake turn put a

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Speaker 2: lot of time into it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we've just done a great series on our

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Speaker 1: show about the Perth you know, live music scene in

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Speaker 1: the pubs back in the eighties. You had some time

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Speaker 1: in the pubs back in the eighties. Tell us about

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Speaker 1: playing with the Boys for example.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was in the Boys. I was in

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Speaker 2: the Fantoms as well in his late seventies early eighties. Won.

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Speaker 2: There was just so much work. It was an incredible thing.

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Speaker 2: The series you've been doing beautiful bad thank you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a good to document all that stuff. Someone's got

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Speaker 2: to do. Yeah, really vibrant days. I was in the Boys.

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Speaker 2: I did an album with them, yep, threw it over

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Speaker 2: Earth with them, and that's about ninety percent. Let's work now,

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Speaker 2: I reckon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Is it true? You guys did over three hundred

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Speaker 3: gigs when I'm Green and the Phantom so gigs in

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Speaker 3: that first year and that's phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: It's outrageous, isn't it. There's three three hundred and eleven wow. Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that's that's four gigs nonber this two or three

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Speaker 2: bags front at a time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would have been places like Discarbagage Hotel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll discover was like on the Church on

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Speaker 2: a Sunday for a lot of people. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: really wilds the City Hotel, CEB, the White Scenes yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Thendo's nightclub. Yes, they were all the sort of

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Speaker 2: rock venues. Yeah, but I really miss it, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm not young, bl like getting into it now.

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Speaker 1: It's very different, totally different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a whole new saying.

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Speaker 1: Speaking but yeah, yeah, no, I was say speaking of touring, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you toured with the Kings.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.

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Speaker 1: It was part of my ideal of incredible.

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic. It was the first time I've ever

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Speaker 2: stayed in my four star hotels. Yeah. No, they were

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Speaker 2: really good to so gave just good accommodation and they

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Speaker 2: were one of my favorite bands ever and it was

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Speaker 2: part of the deal for me to join the Boys.

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Speaker 2: That was kind of the sweeteness.

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Speaker 3: Oh gotcha? Yeah you didn't, you know, like, let writ

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Speaker 3: Davies down throw any any TV's at the window in

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Speaker 3: the pool, did you, mate?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, we actually we behaved ourselves really well done.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I've never been at a check and a

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Speaker 2: record of bruins. I've done a lot of other nasty things.

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Speaker 3: You haven't been that, Joe Walsh.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, only by accident.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice one dives into swimming pools from the top

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Speaker 1: of a roof anywhere.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I don't value time. I yeah, you're

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Speaker 2: enough some smope as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I want to talk about the music business

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Speaker 3: and money. Unless you're making it bigger, you're not making

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Speaker 3: big money. Is it true? You've made more money from

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Speaker 3: gardening than than than rock and roll.

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Speaker 2: A lot more.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I haven't done gardening all that long. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it never made a millionaire of that, but the money

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Speaker 4: was awful. The other bands around the eighties and that

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Speaker 4: they actually opened it up to the bigger venues and

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Speaker 4: like the frames that could pull a thousand people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those yeah, they you pray. Yeah, And the rock

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Speaker 2: bands were on a bit of a lower scar. I'm afraid.

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Speaker 3: But it's a problem mate. You've got You've got people

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Speaker 3: who've been on stage and the roadies and the sound

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Speaker 3: and lights, people who haven't got much super You know,

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Speaker 3: it is an issue, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It really is. There's a I don't know who. There's

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Speaker 2: a really good mob that's looking after people, now about it.

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Speaker 3: There is in the music industry.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's the Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of sad

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Speaker 2: cases though. I've got mates now that you know, on

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Speaker 2: and with no back up. At least I've got mates

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Speaker 2: from the PASA, which is good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Blur for the Blur for the Doctor talks about,

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Speaker 1: you know, being on the brink of fame three times,

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Speaker 1: and all of that will be explained in the documentary.

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Speaker 1: But I'm curious about the nineties when you went to Nashville.

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Speaker 1: What is it true that in Nashville absolutely everybody you're

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Speaker 1: come into contact with, what's to play your song? Here's

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Speaker 1: your coffee, I've got something to play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. They the blood doing petrol for surving, almost every

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Speaker 2: every person. And I really loved Australians at the time,

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Speaker 2: which was great for mate.

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Speaker 3: All right, that's cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. They came out by accident. Again. I was

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Speaker 2: sick of music, so I went busking and King's Cross

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Speaker 2: with the Motormilee oh right, yeah, yeah, and I learned

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Speaker 2: to play guitar and did appear little recordings that over

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Speaker 2: there and send it over here, and my brother who

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Speaker 2: managed the frames, showed that the same one. It's a

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Speaker 2: long story, but anyway, and the Duffinancial over the movie again.

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Speaker 3: How incredible. Yeah, And like all movies, sometimes the funding

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Speaker 3: issue gets in the way and things can fall out.

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Speaker 2: That's what happened. Yeah, that's what happens to Easy Year exactly. Mate. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I wish I'm shortening my answers to.

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Speaker 1: Where people might be able to find out a bit more. Actually,

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Speaker 1: as you're doing a Q and A, I believe and

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Speaker 1: a special performance at the one of the screenings at

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Speaker 1: Luna this weekend brilliant both Okay, Friday and Saturday special

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Speaker 1: screenings of Green the Fight for Rock and Roll Luna.

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Speaker 1: Chance to have a chat there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah sure, yeah, Q and A with Luke Look the

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Speaker 2: director as well. Okay, and I get to play. Actually,

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Speaker 2: the Q and A is being run by Leaf is

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Speaker 2: my partner this time. I asked her because Bob Gordon

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Speaker 2: had to drop out, right, so she might get a

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Speaker 2: big date from me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll be right. That's what you do. Go to

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Speaker 3: answers you can there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that it's more

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Speaker 2: about me than anyway.

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Speaker 3: Really, Lottle forward to seeing him mate. Thanks for the

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Speaker 3: music ringing over the years.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you you guys. Thanks Wayne, keep up the

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Speaker 2: good work.

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Speaker 1: The Fight for Rock and Roll is on at Luna

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Speaker 1: this Friday and Saturday with a special performance and a

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Speaker 1: Q and a Wayne. Thanks for joining us, Thanks

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Speaker 2: Pay Thanks so yeah.