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Speaker 2: But I only did the people party and the venue

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Speaker 3: It was a way of.

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Speaker 4: Lisa's pub draw.

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Speaker 5: We have a new feature that over the next couple

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Speaker 5: taking a look at the Perth pub and band scene

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Speaker 5: back in the day. Yeah, late seventies, through the eighties.

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Speaker 6: The eighties, even into the early nineties. But what a

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Speaker 6: also been a lot of great originals.

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Speaker 7: We's been a lot of great originals.

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Speaker 5: The city of ours music and our first guest is

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Speaker 5: going to be one of those, Alan Simpson from V Capri.

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Speaker 6: There any one bigger in the eighties than V Capri

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Speaker 6: with their sensational mullets and their fans, with maybe four

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Speaker 6: were on countdown more than once and they had multiple

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Speaker 6: number ones here in Perth. Good morning, on good morning,

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Speaker 6: good welcome. How good was it hearing that on the radio?

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Speaker 7: Last time we heard that on the radiot?

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Speaker 3: I don't play that song every day. It's been a while,

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Speaker 3: but it was at.

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Speaker 7: Number one hit there guy, absolutely not only one.

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Speaker 5: What was it like being one in one of the

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Speaker 3: It was hard. I'll tell you. You don't have to

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Speaker 3: and then off we went right day Saturdland Sunday.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and those crowds were they were just incredible. I

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Speaker 6: The crowds at the Overflow absolutely big.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well there was there was back then. There was

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Speaker 3: lots of big, big, big venues. In the morning. We

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Speaker 3: So they were they were big dayes, that's for sure.

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Speaker 5: What was your favorite venue to play, Ash.

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Speaker 3: I think the Pinnacle was the Overflow. Everyone thought that

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Speaker 3: was cash going everywhere. I can tell you there were

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my dog walked into one of those gigs one

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Speaker 6: You must have gotten used to seeing that you were

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Speaker 6: down the back, of course, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, yeah, well it was. I mean we

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Speaker 3: sort of modeled ourselves. Look, you do the history of music,

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Speaker 3: the best looking bands really get the most girls. And

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Speaker 3: there was five recently good looking blokes in the band,

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Speaker 3: and and you know, we did make ourselves available. Put

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Speaker 5: You know what else you're embraced from the time, the

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Speaker 5: We are responsible for that hole on the ozone lad

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it wasn't just as we used to hit

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Speaker 7: I reckon you might have done some shopping at renis.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they.

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Speaker 11: Well.

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Speaker 3: We were quite fashioned icons, absolutely.

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Speaker 6: Actually who had the best mode of mine? Was it

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Speaker 12: I agree?

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Speaker 3: The different stages. You know, I always had a limit

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Speaker 7: Okay, tell us about the nook and busters.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Nooking Busters was always a long weekend. It was

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Speaker 3: basically underwrite it. Uh so we you know, we did

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Speaker 3: as well, Raffles, Rippers and all those there was. That

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Speaker 3: a lot much as Vegan pre There's a lot big

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Speaker 3: we invested our money quite well back into the band,

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Speaker 6: Papers they've was it like because Molly couldn't resist getting

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Speaker 6: you had the number ones. What was it like going

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a bit of a disappointment really because

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Speaker 3: he wasn't even there. It was all pre takes. Nick

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Speaker 3: and they said, look, we'll get half of the film

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Speaker 3: I had to pretend to do harmonies. There is a

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Speaker 3: Top looking so interested in doing these harmonies with ramps,

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Speaker 5: You mentioned, of course there were some really great bands

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean Perfect Strangers was kind of opposition. They

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Speaker 3: They were always early. Fingerprints were early loaded, Dice were

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Speaker 6: Do whatever they wanted, didn't I just like Jack and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well they sort of style it around that, you know.

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Speaker 6: There, Well, we're going to be talking to a lot

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Speaker 3: Well, it was great, It was great times. It was

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Speaker 14: You know.

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Speaker 3: All we had to do back in those days was

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Speaker 3: so many bands. If you pulled two or three hundred

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Speaker 3: then to do that three nights a week. Well, every

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Speaker 7: Vakapri had their own merchandise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were pretty clever with the marketing I was

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Speaker 5: Speaking of Haunting Me, I love how It features in

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Speaker 5: one of the most famous scenes in Australians sobal history.

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Speaker 5: It plays over Kylie Minogue's final episode of Neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Well there is a Kyrie Minogue story.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, do you go down?

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Speaker 3: Well, we met Kylie about nineteen eighty four, late eighty FOURDS.

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Speaker 3: I had. I heard Michael Giddinsky in my laundry and stuff.

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Speaker 15: He flew over.

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Speaker 3: He saw we debut at number one and he's he's

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Speaker 5: Wow, Well on that note, memories mate, Alan great memories.

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Speaker 5: It's been really good reminiscing with you this morning about

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Speaker 3: Well, they're just the good stories I can tell.

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Speaker 12: You can't imagine.

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Speaker 7: Okay, my story is for another day. Alan, thank you

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Speaker 7: so much. Thanks all this. We would be singing a

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Speaker 14: Hundred people A menu at work began the road.

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Speaker 2: I don't think did the people party in the bands?

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Speaker 4: Was a way of like Cozy and Lisa's pub crawl.

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Speaker 7: Yes, back on the crawl this morning. Nothing like an

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Speaker 5: Pub crawl joining us from the frames it's marked on here.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, welcome, good morning, how are you?

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Speaker 17: Good news?

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Speaker 5: Thank you for being part of our reminisce about the

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Speaker 5: good old days. You wrote funny situation? Is there a

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Speaker 5: funny story we need to know behind that?

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Speaker 18: Oh?

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Speaker 15: God, I don't think so.

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Speaker 12: I was just just just thinking, then it's a long time,

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Speaker 15: That's funny.

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Speaker 12: I think I think we were a lot better than

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Speaker 3: It was a good time.

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Speaker 7: It was a good bit of pop.

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Speaker 6: Mark was that Ray Vine, the Perth first sex guy

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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right, we got him in. I think was

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Speaker 12: that single must have been about nine one two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very good.

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Speaker 5: There was never a healthier time than the eighties for

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Speaker 5: the Perth pub scene. You know you could go Friday

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Speaker 5: night through till the Sunday session, different band, different great venue.

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Speaker 5: Where are some of the places that you guys played, Oh,

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Speaker 12: Ones and I think you know, we could go from

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Speaker 12: and also you know we used to head to the country.

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Speaker 12: All the bands used to head to the country normally

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Speaker 12: Wednesday nights you'd go to Bumbley or Calgoolie or Geraldton.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys come up once. That was bizarre, Meriton.

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Speaker 7: As you say, exactly, Yeah, so it was.

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Speaker 12: It was such a vibrant time and probably never be repeated.

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Speaker 12: It was just the crowds of people that come out

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Speaker 5: So you guys were able to tour a bit and

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Speaker 5: you know, much wanted sponsorship support from an airline.

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Speaker 7: Was it TAA or Ancest Really it was.

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Speaker 12: We were sponsored by TIA and we were flown around

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Speaker 7: Wow, that's huge. It's a good marketing going on them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of that.

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Speaker 12: I mean it was obviously their management at the time

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Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, Mark, tell me mate. Clint Haarnold the Tarists.

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Speaker 6: Did he come from Vicapri or did he joined Vicapri later?

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Speaker 6: And how did that go down some of the rivals

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Speaker 12: Well, no, no, the frames were broken up when when

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Speaker 12: Vikapri grabbed him, so he was no he wass an

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Speaker 3: Yeah he vika Pri sort of.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, both got guitarist Damian Warden clint Anol good stuff.

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Speaker 15: That's it.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and he was I mean he was in two

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Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, very good.

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Speaker 5: I believe you auditioned for the Frames after seeing an

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Speaker 15: We did that.

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Speaker 12: That's how you got your gig, did Yeah, so the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, being honest, Mark, A few of the people

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Speaker 7: What was it like in heyday? The memories a bit blurry,

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Speaker 7: I know.

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Speaker 12: I think there was some members of some bands that

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Speaker 7: Of a lot of grouping, right, okay, very good? Yeah, Diplomatic.

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Speaker 12: I think Loaded Die Stayed Warner.

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Speaker 3: I think of.

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Speaker 12: Prints were amazing boys. I mean the boys and living

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Speaker 12: just so many, so many great bands. Innocent Bystanders were

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Speaker 12: I love them, and a load of Dice and Fingerprints

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Speaker 12: were was sort of trail blazers, and yeah, I really

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Speaker 7: He was incredible. Some of the rock he was writing unreal,

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Speaker 12: And he was using local he was writing about Farborough

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Speaker 12: and that's what set him apart. But also just a

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Speaker 12: But yeah, I love that the fact that he was

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well I worked with Paul Kelly and his days

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Speaker 12: Love it, Yeah, absolutely, And look, I think when the

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Speaker 19: Good work.

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Speaker 5: We thank you for your service on that. There was,

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Speaker 5: But did you feel any pressure to do the covers

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Speaker 12: Oh, look absolutely, yeah, I mean that was a hard thing.

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Speaker 12: That's right. Yeah, so it was tough in that respect.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're testing the memories, morning mate. They have a

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Speaker 6: think about excuse me, in your prime playing those gigs

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Speaker 6: were they big dancing kind of crowds at your gigs?

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Speaker 12: Look, the first the first ten row would sort of

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Speaker 18: The band a bit.

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Speaker 12: And and there was more girls at the front than

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Speaker 12: than than guys. But but but had more girls. I

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Speaker 12: think I think the frames were kind of, you know,

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Speaker 12: okay as well?

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Speaker 5: We were there dancing around our handbags.

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Speaker 18: That's the whole hand bag.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and put them on the stage next to the fall.

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Speaker 7: That was fun for you. God, the frames wrapped up

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Speaker 7: in nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 5: But you've had a long history with producing new young

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Speaker 5: working with Kevin Bloody Wilson.

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Speaker 12: I still work with ke you do, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Look,

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Speaker 12: And it's been Yeah, he's been a good run with keV.

444
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Speaker 12: And we've we've done lots of good stuff.

445
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Speaker 14: Yeah.

446
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Speaker 6: And that wonderful singer of yours, Dean Denton with his

447
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 6: musical family mate with Holly be so famous these days.

448
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Speaker 7: You must do your pretty proud because you're all good mates.

449
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Speaker 9: Yeah.

450
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Speaker 12: Well, well she's my god daughter you so there you

451
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Speaker 12: and and we are still more good mates.

452
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Speaker 14: Yeah.

453
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Speaker 12: And she's a wonderful girl. You know, work water dynamo.

454
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Speaker 12: You sit with there for five minutes ago, I need

455
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Speaker 12: a break only.

456
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Speaker 7: I just remember seeing on the stage, so we were

457
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Speaker 7: rocky And how good is this girl?

458
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Speaker 14: Unreal?

459
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Speaker 12: She's so good and she always has been. And yeah,

460
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Speaker 12: just such such a great energy and she works so hard.

461
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Speaker 12: You know.

462
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Speaker 7: Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Do

463
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Speaker 7: you ever? Do you ever still get together and have

464
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Speaker 7: a bit of a play.

465
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Speaker 12: Well, the frames have done reunions. In fact, we only

466
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Speaker 12: did one a year ago at the Choles Hotel.

467
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Speaker 9: So.

468
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Speaker 7: Sat stick.

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Speaker 3: It's still yeah, still little. The carpet is exactly never been.

470
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Speaker 7: But isn't that great. It feels like home, you know.

471
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 7: It feels like you're walking on the moon, trying to

472
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Speaker 7: walk quicksands.

473
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Speaker 12: I think I took my kids there last time and they.

474
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Speaker 3: Came back and go, oh my god, you know, yeah.

475
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Speaker 7: That's amazing.

476
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Speaker 6: The crowds go. When you guys get back together, that's great.

477
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Speaker 12: But they still do. And and they bring their kids, yeah,

478
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Speaker 12: you know who were between twenty and thirty, you know yeah,

479
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Speaker 12: and they say this is where mom and dad met,

480
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Speaker 12: you know, so, and this is what we used to experience.

481
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Speaker 12: So that's pretty amazing to look out of the crowd

482
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Speaker 12: and see half of them young. Then you realize who

483
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Speaker 12: they are, they're the children.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's amazing. Well, it's been amazing to reminisce with

485
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Speaker 5: you this morning.

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Speaker 7: Mark. Yeah, I appreciate you so much for coming on

487
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Speaker 7: our pub for all with us. It's like a for us.

488
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Speaker 7: Thank you Mark, talking about right then bye bye f Yeah,

489
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Speaker 7: it's fun.

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Speaker 5: You go to the Charles, you will see where you

491
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Speaker 5: spell to drink in nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Hey, if you have memories to share with us, feel

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497
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Speaker 5: you want to share with us, sent us a Facebook

498
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Speaker 7: We would love to see your pictures.

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Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute word song said twelve

502
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Speaker 1: hundred people.

503
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Speaker 14: The men at work would be down the road.

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Speaker 2: But only to the people party. In the venuspaper bands was.

505
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Speaker 4: A wave like Coleazy and Lisa's pubcrawl.

506
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Speaker 6: We are on our pub crawl going around talking about

507
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Speaker 6: these incredible bands we had in Perth in the day,

508
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Speaker 6: mostly in the eighties, but there are seventies and nineties

509
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Speaker 6: as well.

510
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Speaker 7: When you think about it, and.

511
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Speaker 5: I don't think I was the lone ranger in saying

512
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Speaker 5: that my favorite was Perfect Strangers.

513
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Speaker 7: Perfect Strangers.

514
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Speaker 6: I remember being at the Herdies one night and seeing

515
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Speaker 6: that charismatic frontman Andy Clayton Smith doing.

516
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Speaker 7: Flips because he was an acrobat. I remember didn't saying

517
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Speaker 7: anything mom about where I was going. Of course you did,

518
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Speaker 7: don't anyone tell her.

519
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Speaker 5: But yeah, the first couple of times I went, I

520
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 5: was maybe just slightly not yet of age?

521
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Speaker 6: Close, funny that very very close. A good band and

522
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 6: a great live act. Now I'm going to the bar.

523
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Speaker 6: Do you want a summer wind dollar sixty nine?

524
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Speaker 14: What are you having?

525
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 4: Just a water.

526
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 5: Singer and guitarists with Perfect Strangers, bass player with Jimmy

527
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 5: and the Boys and the riffs. Michael Parks is with

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Speaker 5: us this morning. Hello, old home week. Yeah, it is

529
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Speaker 5: a little untwo you just informed me.

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Speaker 14: Then.

531
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Speaker 5: I had never made the connection between the song No

532
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 5: Fear of Flying and Erica Jong's book No Fear of Flying,

533
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Speaker 5: even though back in the day, I, like many read

534
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Speaker 5: the book.

535
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Speaker 20: Yeah, well, I think Andy Clayton Smith, the a lead

536
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 20: singer Perfect Strangers, had read the book and like the title.

537
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Speaker 20: I don't think it was specifically about the book per se.

538
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Speaker 7: Book had no sort of.

539
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Speaker 14: Nerves, but he liked the title.

540
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Speaker 20: So he started writing some lyrics about the fear of

541
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Speaker 20: flying and life in general, and I came up with

542
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Speaker 20: some yet a nice little melody to go with it.

543
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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's how it started.

544
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Speaker 5: Okay, I said, the video video video red?

545
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Speaker 6: Was it the red parent was saying the list of

546
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Speaker 6: as a fan being in the cloud at a Sunday

547
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Speaker 6: session seeing Edie Clinton Smith doing those flips because he

548
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 6: was an acrobat, Right, what was it like being on

549
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 6: stage singinger?

550
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Speaker 14: Do do that? Just get out of the one stages?

551
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Speaker 14: That was basically Yeah.

552
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Speaker 20: When Barry and I first met Andy to audition him

553
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 20: for the for the band, he said, oh, yeah, by

554
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 20: the way, I can do backflips.

555
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Speaker 14: We went, yeah, what's that got to do with being

556
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Speaker 14: on stage and playing rock and roll?

557
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Speaker 20: And then he proceeded to do all these backflips in

558
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Speaker 20: his house very impressively.

559
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Speaker 5: That's pretty cool that somewhere. By the way, wasn't the

560
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Speaker 5: Red Parrot just the coolest club?

561
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Speaker 4: It was so good?

562
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Speaker 5: Now, what was it like part of this scene and

563
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Speaker 5: the you know at this time in the eighties when

564
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Speaker 5: you could go you go out Thursday night to Sunday

565
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Speaker 5: night and see someone different and a different.

566
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Speaker 14: Yeah, well that was our social network. You know, there's

567
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Speaker 14: no Internet.

568
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Speaker 20: When I arrived in Perth nineteen eighty, it was it

569
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 20: was just crazy. I mean the daily news, the newspaper

570
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 20: back then, or one of the newspapers back then, the

571
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Speaker 20: middle section I think on a Thursday had about four

572
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Speaker 20: or five pages and was just wall to wall.

573
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Speaker 7: Pub lot of gigs, nightclubs.

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Speaker 20: The Sunday session, yes, you know, I've never heard of

575
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Speaker 20: the Sunday session.

576
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Speaker 14: Oh was doing What the heck is that?

577
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 20: I said, from five point thirty to seven I think

578
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Speaker 20: it was, And you just go there and get blind.

579
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Speaker 5: Because there was going to be a cutoff time. You

580
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Speaker 5: had to drink as much as you could. What did

581
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Speaker 5: that make Sunday the HAIRYUS night of those? For yeah,

582
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Speaker 5: pretty much do a gig.

583
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Speaker 20: Yeah, because pretty much after the Sunday session everyone then

584
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Speaker 20: went to If there was possibly a nightclub, I think

585
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Speaker 20: it may have been a couple of pubs that stayed

586
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Speaker 20: open or had a later license.

587
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Speaker 14: It was crazy.

588
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Speaker 7: It was onto the underground.

589
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Speaker 6: They're getting later and later and being really time Monday

590
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 6: because you end up at fast eddies, people out. I

591
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 6: remember going to Sunday sessions, the great venues we had,

592
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Speaker 6: like the herd Is and seeing Dick and the Dames

593
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 6: or someone they do Rhythm of Life at the end

594
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 6: of the gig and you'd walk to your car or

595
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Speaker 6: we walked to the Stumble.

596
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Speaker 14: Yeah, the Cabbara.

597
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Speaker 7: Yeah, did you have a favorite venue to performing.

598
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Speaker 16: Oh that's good.

599
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Speaker 7: Well, I loved going to the Shenton Park, the Windsor.

600
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Speaker 20: Yeah, later the Windsor Daily Planet. I think it was cool. Yeah,

601
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Speaker 20: it was, yes, super hotel. When I first got here

602
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Speaker 20: in nineteen eighty we used to do the Sunday session.

603
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Speaker 20: Well that was in the Riffs. Oh, yes, there, yeah,

604
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Speaker 20: and that was that was pretty cool back in the day.

605
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Speaker 6: The parks came with a lot of experience. You've been

606
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Speaker 6: with Lost s Ignatius Jones recently, you will, Yeah, Jimmy

607
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 6: and the Boys you came to Perth. Yeah, he had

608
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Speaker 6: a lot of experience there for you and you make

609
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Speaker 6: Barry Berrylyn Yeah.

610
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Speaker 14: Well that was the reason we came here. Barry.

611
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Speaker 20: We were managed by a guy called Michael Chugg who's

612
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 20: previnced in the entertainment sy in Australia, and he sent

613
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Speaker 20: Barry to Perth to check out the scene and just

614
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Speaker 20: to scope out different venues for an upcoming Jimmy and

615
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 20: the Boys gig. I've left the band by then, so

616
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 20: I was just biding my time back in Sydney. I

617
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 20: was a roadie for Sherbs, remember that. Yeah, for me,

618
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 20: I was a roadie for those guys for six months

619
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 20: hanging out. Yeah, Captain Vague, they called him. I shouldn't

620
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 20: say that, should I. He's a lovely guy, a lovely,

621
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 20: lovely man. But yeah, So Barry came out, he had

622
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 20: checked out the different gigs and came back to Sydney

623
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Speaker 20: and said to me, he said, look, I'm leaving Jimy

624
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 20: and the boys now because I've discovered in Perth you

625
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 20: can go there. The pub will pay you a retainer

626
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 20: to play at the hotel. Plus you can put a

627
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Speaker 20: door charge on and take the whole door.

628
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Speaker 7: The only place you could do that, wasn't it.

629
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Speaker 20: Well I think so that it might have been a

630
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 20: similar thing in Adelaide maybe, but it certainly wasn't like that.

631
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Speaker 20: In Sydney and Melbourne. You basically had to pay to play.

632
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 20: It was not great, you know, they paid no money really, yeah,

633
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 20: sixty dollars maybe to play the gig if you were

634
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 20: starting a band that was just starting off. Whereas in

635
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 20: Perth you could come here and yeah, just put it,

636
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 20: put on a gig and the public pay of fifty

637
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 20: or one hundred dollars to play there and put a

638
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Speaker 20: two dollars door charge on or.

639
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 5: A dollar they made their money from the drinks absolutely, yeah, yeah,

640
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 5: and you could take the whole door a few three

641
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 5: beers as well.

642
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Speaker 14: Yeah.

643
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Speaker 5: We spoke to Alan Simpson from Baker Prix yesterday and

644
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 5: he well this is it. He singled out Perfect Strangers

645
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 5: as their biggest rivals of the time.

646
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but I thought you were very different.

647
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, yeah, Well we tried to play.

648
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 20: We did a fair amount of original material and we

649
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 20: did also a lot of covers, a lot of those

650
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 20: big haircut songs Duranne, Juranne and Rythniques and all that

651
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 20: sort of stuff that was going.

652
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 14: Plus we did a lot of original stuff.

653
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 20: So we were we kind of thought of ourselves as

654
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 20: a semi original that right, we were, And then at

655
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 20: that time I think VIK weren't that original.

656
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 14: But they then they.

657
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 20: Started writing along of their own stuff and they had

658
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 20: great success with the good marketers too.

659
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, very much so.

660
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 20: And they had some very good looking boys in the

661
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 20: bay did Alan was one of those.

662
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 14: It was the Emphasize was one of those.

663
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Speaker 7: And they really embraced the hair of the of the time.

664
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Speaker 14: Allan, you know, I don't man, Yeah great here.

665
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 20: Yeah on the keys and not forgetting Todd Johnson up front, tuntals.

666
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Speaker 6: And all that stuff. The thing, like I said, you

667
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 6: came with a lot of experience. You came into birth,

668
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 6: but you also ended up working in radio. We all

669
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 6: went on stage worked at the radio station called the Eagle.

670
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 14: Yes, I remember you.

671
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 20: Paul Redmond and myself would total in it very early

672
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 20: in the morning and you'd be just finishing the midnight

673
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 20: to dawn. I had very, very long hair and sort

674
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 20: of looking.

675
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 5: Very You also embraced the hair.

676
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 7: Do you remember me. I was in the newsroom and

677
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 7: I was nine, she was and I had a crush

678
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 7: on her.

679
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 14: I do.

680
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 7: Now you mentioned Andy.

681
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 5: Andy Clayton Smith so tragically passed away at just twenty six. Yeah,

682
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 5: he had cancer. He was an incredible frontman. People still,

683
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 5: you know, talk about Andy. It must have been a

684
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 5: very sad time too.

685
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, well.

686
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 20: I'd left the band, you know before I found out

687
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 20: that he had non Hodgkin slimphoma. And he went through

688
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 20: came out, and he went through a lot of pain

689
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 20: and eventually he went into remission. The band kicked on again.

690
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 20: They went to Sydney with a new guitar player and

691
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 20: I was playing up at Gobbles nightclub. And yeah, the

692
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 20: night after which I put together with Barry Litton and

693
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 20: Paul Redmond and then Gary Dunn and a cast of thousands,

694
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 20: and they came back to Perth and I remember this vividly.

695
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 20: We were playing up at Gobbles or we were rehearsing

696
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 20: up there one afternoon and Andy came up to see

697
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 20: this and he looked fine, and he said, oh, guys,

698
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 20: can you help me out and do a benefit concert

699
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 20: for me and to raise some money? And we're going

700
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 20: what's going on? They said, the cancers back and he'd

701
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 20: been in remission for five or six years at that stage,

702
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 20: and we went, oh, gee, you.

703
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 14: Is that's bad?

704
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 20: I said, what's what's the prognosis and he said, look

705
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 20: probably two months really, and you kidding.

706
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 14: Baron to say yeah. We were shattered.

707
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 20: And Barry, who was the kind of leader of the band,

708
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 20: he organized, he was the organizer. He went into overdrive

709
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 20: and put together that concert at the Herdes, which had

710
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 20: virtually every band in Perth, including bands like the Jets,

711
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 20: A very heavy bad. We didn't really have much to

712
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 20: do with them at all. But as soon as we

713
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 20: told them that Andy was the situation, yet, we'll be there. Yeah,

714
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 20: brilliant And yeah, we put on the benefit concert for

715
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 20: Andy at that stage, but unfortunately he didn't make it.

716
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 7: He didn't make it for the benefit.

717
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 20: No, no, he passed away only just about two weeks

718
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 20: before the concert.

719
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 14: Waste.

720
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, somebody venues that just aren't there anymore that you

721
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 6: mentioned to the Jets playing media generator. The Morley Park Hotel,

722
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 6: not the new Port is, but it's something else now

723
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 6: in a freeo. Ye, the Shepton Park is a oldies facility.

724
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 18: Now.

725
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going full circle. I'm going to end up

726
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 5: at the engine part shen Park. They're all retirement village,

727
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 5: that's right. Yeah, well we used to play.

728
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 20: I played in a band called the Essentials at one

729
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 20: stage there with Billy Rodgers and Gary Maisel and a

730
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 20: few other people, and we used to play at the

731
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 20: one down around Yeah, and that's a retirement film.

732
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, And there's one place to where the Innooknborough

733
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 6: was as well.

734
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 14: At least I've got somewhere to go.

735
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, returned to where the scene of the crime.

736
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 7: We have to let you go. Michael.

737
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 5: It's been silist to reminisce with you this morning on

738
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 5: our pub crawl.

739
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 7: Thanks for coming in.

740
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 14: Thanks for having me.

741
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute works six twelve hundred people.

742
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 1: The men at work began the road.

743
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 2: I don't need to the people party and the bands.

744
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 4: It was a way of Cleary and Lisa's Pub.

745
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 7: Crawl ninety six a FM.

746
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 6: Cleary and Lisa and Lisa have continued trek through the

747
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 6: We're doing the Perth pub Crawl, aren't we. And when

748
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 6: you throw in names like the Paddle, the Shens and

749
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 6: the Warrick, we speak of the padding to day House,

750
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 6: the Shendon Park Hotel and the Warrick Hotel. You're talking

751
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 6: about some great live music venues. And we're going this

752
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 6: time off stage into the other side of the bar,

753
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 6: or at least into the manager's office and the man

754
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 6: who had a lot of those those businesses.

755
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 7: Neil Randall joins as Neil welcome mate.

756
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 16: Thanks Clarzy, great to.

757
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 5: Be thanks for coming into reminiscent with us. Neil is

758
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 5: such it was such an active live scene at this

759
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 5: in this period during the eighties, when you were at

760
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,720
Speaker 5: the thick of it owning these clubs, pubs.

761
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 16: Yeah, I look, it was.

762
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 21: I wished every dec it could be like the eighties. Yeah, Well,

763
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 21: he just used to have so much fun. Yeah, in

764
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 21: Osex rock and roll, the beers flowed and everyone just

765
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 21: had fun. There's plenty of money around. I mean that

766
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 21: era that decade, we won the America's Camp West Coast

767
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 21: Eagles came in and Clarzy, So if you won two premiershus.

768
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 16: That the rock and roll scene was incredible.

769
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 7: I used to pour over that gig.

770
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 5: Guy that had come out on it came out on

771
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 5: Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, I'd pour over it like

772
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 5: a gambler.

773
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 7: With the tab guy. You would map.

774
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 5: Out your Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night.

775
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 16: Absolutely, there was so much choice.

776
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 21: I remember in the day there was a raffles going

777
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 21: off the windsor Yes, the other fly was just starting

778
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 21: at sc Yeah, incredible, and we were lucky to have

779
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 21: such a great room at the Shens and only fear

780
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 21: at about four or five hundred.

781
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 16: But we used to stack them in there.

782
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we were part of it. We're in the

783
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 5: crowd that was usually of it. It was just the

784
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 5: right size crowd hub gig.

785
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 16: The acoustics there, yeah, sensation absolute and it just abounded.

786
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 16: It was a great place to work.

787
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, some of the bands that performed there.

788
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 5: The Gurus of course in excess, Pages and Docors cruel

789
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 5: see Paul Kelly off, the Indye, the Stems, the Triffords,

790
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 5: the jam Tarts.

791
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 7: We I mean, even back then in.

792
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 5: The eighties we had such a healthy scene of local music.

793
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 16: It was not a touring bands.

794
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 21: Yeah, as you said, the locals, you know, Dave Warner

795
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 21: and the Suburbs comes to mind.

796
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 6: Absolutely fantastic, the suburban boy himself.

797
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 16: Yes, exactly.

798
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 21: And I'll tell you just a little added to this,

799
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 21: my son ben where we lived at the Shens, my

800
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 21: wife and.

801
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 16: Our two boys at the stage. Yeah, we went down

802
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 16: there one sad Diava.

803
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 21: I can hear this tingering and there was ben On

804
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 21: in excess as drums.

805
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 7: Fo you lived at the Sheds you mean literally? Okay,

806
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:44,479
Speaker 7: escape work there.

807
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 14: For the world.

808
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 6: I remember when I was too young to get into

809
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 6: the Warrick, so my mate and I would sit on

810
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 6: our bikes on the roof of the Warwick shops and

811
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 6: watch the fights after on a Sunday session getting the Warrick.

812
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 6: It wasn't all fights. There was a lot going on

813
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 6: there and so great bands drawing huge crowds.

814
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 21: Thursday Nights was it was out of control and there

815
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 21: was about seven or eight hundred room. People drew him

816
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 21: and Thursday Nights Dandium used to play there. Yeah, well

817
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 21: we'd have seven hundred inside. At twelve o'clock was fourteen

818
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 21: hundred in the.

819
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 7: Streets fighting casis.

820
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 16: You're on the road watching. You could have come in

821
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 16: and give the bounce as a.

822
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 6: Hand skinny kids, but we're watching the people spilling out

823
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 6: on the beach road.

824
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 16: Amazing, great days.

825
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 5: What are some of the gigs that you really remember

826
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 5: some of the memorable ones?

827
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 21: Well, painters were huge, you know, they had a real

828
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 21: good act. You know, the fires were going and they

829
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 21: jump off the stage into the crowd in excess was sort.

830
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 16: Of just breaking out.

831
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 21: The hoodoos were fantastic, and the locals Friday and seventeen

832
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 21: Nights mentioned the Farilies one day they're own little following,

833
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 21: and it was just the memories were so incredible. And

834
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 21: we even had done my biggest problem. We had the

835
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 21: Rodney Rude. It was fantastic and Austin Pacious one not

836
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 21: Austin Sacious. His crowd was really disappointing, so I gave

837
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 21: him the money from the door and He said, no, no, now,

838
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 21: you guarantee me two thousand. I said, yeah, but you

839
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 21: started forty minutes. The crowd is still coming and you're finished.

840
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 21: Well I walked upstairs and Austin he's about six weeks left.

841
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 16: Yeah, they followed me upstairs.

842
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 14: He's gonna row me down.

843
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 3: The success.

844
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 6: We sorted it out, all right, yeah, yeah, some of

845
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 6: those good stories, some of those great stories. But hey,

846
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 6: tell us from a business point of view, who drank more?

847
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 6: People would come into pubs like the Pad and watch

848
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 6: the footy or sport, or people who would come and see.

849
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 16: Bands, bends for sure, you know.

850
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 14: And bourbon ground okay.

851
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 21: You know, even more so than in those days Eject

852
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 21: you know that used to fly not our, a far

853
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 21: bigger drinking ground, Saxpa.

854
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 14: He needed bouncers, that's right. Please.

855
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 5: Did you have to deal with backstage riders for the

856
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 5: talk about that?

857
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 21: It was amazing and I used to every time you

858
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 21: saw some of the agents, you saw, Now, this is

859
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 21: what they need. They need two fellows to sit on

860
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 21: the champagne with four blocks of eyes.

861
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 16: They're not run down. I settled down, boys, this is

862
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 16: what you're getting. Take it or leave it?

863
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 6: How about that thing where we used to see that

864
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 6: the nook and busters are big gigs out of a

865
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 6: nook and borrow. But some of the pubs you had,

866
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 6: you must have seen it where you would get a

867
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 6: band like a vig Bria, right, so you'd have all girls,

868
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 6: like four hundred girls down the front and all the

869
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 6: jealous boyfriends up the back.

870
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you must have seen that a bit.

871
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 16: Sorted because you did a tractor the vik.

872
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 14: Leading and Lance a Ram.

873
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 16: But we didn't really go for that.

874
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 6: They sort of did, yes, yeah, yeah I did, and

875
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 6: you know Faddy Lumpkin.

876
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 21: There was some great beings, great local talent around those days.

877
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,479
Speaker 5: A lot of these places, the Shents, for one, were

878
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 5: very much in residential areas.

879
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 7: Did you have to deal with noise complaints?

880
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 16: That was just as bad as bad as the Riders.

881
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 16: It was horrendous.

882
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 21: We had to put out a lot of bush fires

883
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 21: there and in fact that's why after I left, I

884
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 21: went over to the Paddington and they actually closed the

885
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 21: pub down because the neighborhood just closed.

886
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 16: It was it was a shame.

887
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 21: But a lot of those good old rock and roll

888
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 21: pubs just went by the bye because you know, digital

889
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 21: music and all the local stuff now they have, and

890
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 21: they just made it impossible.

891
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 6: To run my posts. Had a really big blues fraternity.

892
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 6: We love the blues here in the West. Dave Hall

893
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 6: and Steve Tallis and John Mayer.

894
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 21: Well you had a lot of local blues music. Yeah,

895
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 21: breat Towns and he had a band they did blues

896
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 21: John Marry. As you mentioned, that was a great scene

897
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 21: for that.

898
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 14: Yeah.

899
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 5: It was a time of course where it was hard

900
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 5: to get a look in as a Perth band, and

901
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 5: a lot of them just had to leave and go

902
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 5: to the Eastern States to advance their you know, their careers.

903
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 7: Did you did it break your heart sometimes when some

904
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 7: of them had to.

905
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 21: That is so true. That is amazing. Our local bands

906
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 21: are going to melbne geeks. But that's how popular it

907
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 21: was in those days.

908
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 7: Times of change.

909
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 21: Sure, but I'll tell you what one thing we still

910
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 21: do down to the Sambar used to have live music

911
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 21: three nights a week, so awesome.

912
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 16: So I've never really lost contact.

913
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 21: With live music because it's just the heart and soul

914
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 21: and the heartbeat of my blood.

915
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 14: Phones.

916
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 5: Anyway, do you feel a bit like a proud papa

917
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 5: sending them off to I.

918
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 16: Said you're always welcome back. Sorry we're going in for

919
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 16: six months. But they learned as well.

920
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 14: Yes, they went and found a.

921
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 21: New scene, you know, educated themselves more and came back better.

922
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 14: Man.

923
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 6: Well, they hadn't learned the crap because, let's be honest,

924
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 6: Ossie pub fans over the years, the whole Lossie pub

925
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 6: rock thing, it was a tough ground and grounding for them,

926
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 6: and if they were crack they got booed off stage

927
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 6: or stuff. An angels that got so good, that's the dry.

928
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 21: They really learned their craft and to have one degree

929
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 21: where they became a worldwide Yes.

930
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 5: We were laughing before about the irony of the senses.

931
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 5: I may still end up there where I started because

932
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 5: it's a retirement revolution. Now why do you think there's

933
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 5: not many live venues around Perth anymore?

934
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 7: What what happened? What changed it?

935
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 21: Look, it's just it's hard to put your finger on

936
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 21: the policy. Even in the two thousand at the Paddington

937
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 21: had a big shorts Jeky Monkeys Jerky Monkeys played.

938
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 16: There for six years.

939
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 21: Yeah I said not and were mighty turn into crowd

940
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 21: until about two thousand and eight. Now, I don't know

941
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 21: if the GFC affected. Things like that just fell away

942
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 21: so quickly. And you know the modern music.

943
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 5: Situation now, the way it's to cut out that middle man,

944
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 5: you know where you pay.

945
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 7: Your your juice.

946
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 21: I want to survive like Lezzie, so sorry your eye

947
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 21: your magic.

948
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 6: Some but you know, like you think about how diverse

949
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 6: it got. But there's also a lot of choice for

950
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 6: people now, so that seemed to affect it as well.

951
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 6: So many choices for people to do with their entertainment time.

952
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 6: And would you change the world as well?

953
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 21: You get people like Boober and Swift and there there

954
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 21: one people bands, Yeah, got so much a coming around them. Yes,

955
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 21: it's just yeah, it's quite hearted, complete.

956
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 6: With really yeah, and so many options online as well.

957
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 6: The people are to get into music. Yeah, mate, this

958
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 6: is unreal to catch up.

959
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 16: Now just with my voice. Sorry about this. I do

960
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 16: blame the.

961
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 7: Talking over the yeah, drinking gold.

962
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 21: There and the cigarettes and the the passive smoke in

963
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 21: the air at the time.

964
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 7: It certainly sounds pretty right. I think you're a method actor.

965
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 14: Randomly. Yeah, that's so good to me.

966
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, I missed those times.

967
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 15: We all do.

968
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 7: Thank you, Neil pleasure, absolute pleasure. I miss it more

969
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,280
Speaker 7: than you can bloody goals for super.

970
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 16: Fancy Your God seventy three grand.

971
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 13: From Thanks Mate, More Crazy More Lisa More podcast.

972
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 4: Soon we would be singing a minute.

973
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: Website said five hundred people they met at Working Again

974
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: the Road.

975
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 2: I did the people, the bands.

976
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 4: It was a way of like and Lisa's.

977
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 5: Club draw This morning, I guess the singer of Ice

978
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 5: Tiger Dave Crosby, Good.

979
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 14: Morning, Good morning guys.

980
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 4: How are we good?

981
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 14: Well?

982
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 5: The band had an interesting blend of musicians, Dave, you

983
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 5: had a rock metal background, you did? Graham and Steve

984
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,479
Speaker 5: had been in one of the city's more popular top

985
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 5: forty cover bands. Never the twain were meant to meet,

986
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 5: and yet you know, you found How did you find

987
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 5: each other and.

988
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 7: Go well, actually this is really going to work well,

989
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 7: but that's really quite a long story.

990
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 17: We got together by accident and possibly people that we knew.

991
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 17: And I went to see Flash Harry that who was

992
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 17: working with and I thought, oh, yeah, this.

993
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 14: Guy is dangerous, you know.

994
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 17: And he heard that my band True Colors was breaking up. Yeah,

995
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 17: so he asked me if I'd like to come down

996
00:47:55,040 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 17: and try out for the job. And once we'd got

997
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:05,720
Speaker 17: the rehearsal over, and done with, and we started work.

998
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 17: Graham and I we went to vic Park for a

999
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 17: ride to try and find another venue that was this

1000
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 17: side of the river. Yeah, and once we scored the venue,

1001
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 17: we came out, sat in his van and we started

1002
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 17: singing a song, an old Ronnie Dio song called Rainbow Eyes,

1003
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 17: and he harmonized all the way.

1004
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 14: Through it absolutely perfectly.

1005
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 17: I sang the main pup, he did the high harmony,

1006
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 17: and it just sounded amazing, you know. And then he

1007
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 17: just sort of folded his arms and he said, do

1008
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 17: you remember an annoying little kid that came up to

1009
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 17: you in the mid seventies and you gave him a

1010
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 17: lift home? And I looked at him and I said,

1011
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 17: you're not him. Nobody else could have known that story.

1012
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing.

1013
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 14: It is unreal.

1014
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 17: But yeah, we got really close for for many years,

1015
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 17: and we wrote some pretty good tunes together. Also, Don

1016
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 17: Benson was a really good part of the songwriting within

1017
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 17: the band.

1018
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 6: Yeah, Greenie was always my perth. Steve Vai or someone

1019
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 6: I was only such a great guitarist and standing down

1020
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 6: on the night that the album was launched in ninety one,

1021
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 6: right in front of him, down there that was some

1022
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 6: pretty special and the fans came out, didn't I that's right, yea.

1023
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 19: He is an amazing guitarist. He always has been.

1024
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 17: I was privileged to work with him, to be honest,

1025
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 17: and we did have a good partnership.

1026
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 15: You know.

1027
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 14: It was great until I got a little bored of

1028
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 14: Perth and I just wanted to go.

1029
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1030
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,439
Speaker 7: So it was like ninety two, Yes, that was ninety two.

1031
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 17: My parents were going back to England for one of

1032
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 17: their every two year visits and I said I might

1033
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 17: just come with you for a few months just to see.

1034
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 17: I did, and I got work straight away, and I

1035
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 17: was recognized straight away.

1036
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 19: You travel half a planet and somebody recognized.

1037
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 14: Oh yeah really.

1038
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 17: But I started working there with the duo, and I

1039
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 17: also started recording with a French guy called Sylvaan Governeur,

1040
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 17: and he was quite a talented boy. But eventually I

1041
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 17: just sort of run out of money and the boys

1042
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 17: rang back and said, look there some gigs if you

1043
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 17: want to come back, Okay, So I.

1044
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 7: Came back, came.

1045
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 5: We know you played at the Charles. A lot of

1046
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 5: good memories from the Charles. What are some of the

1047
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 5: other pubs that you played at? Back in the day,

1048
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 5: the Herdsman. Yeah, raffles, of course, the raffles. Yes, what

1049
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 5: was the old be called stage door? Right, and of

1050
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 5: course some country gigs. Your first show was in Management,

1051
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 5: wasn't it.

1052
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 7: Do you remember a New Year's Eve?

1053
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 11: Mad?

1054
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 14: Yeah? What do you got?

1055
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 17: Well, I just didn't expect to have as many people

1056
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,439
Speaker 17: as we did on our first opening night.

1057
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 14: But they must have built it really well for us.

1058
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 17: Like I said, we've got about five hundred people in

1059
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 17: a place that only holds about six. And then they

1060
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 17: as soon as they heard us, they were ringing their friends.

1061
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:32,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, they probably a start for you know, life, so yeah.

1062
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 17: So they would have gone to a phone phone real yeah,

1063
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 17: and they were they were lining up waiting to ring

1064
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 17: their mates to get on down.

1065
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 14: You know.

1066
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing, right.

1067
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 6: They have a common theme that over the last week

1068
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 6: we've done this and we're going to continue doing this.

1069
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 6: And you know, looking back, especially in the eighties and

1070
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 6: early nineties and the Perth pub scene, is those incredible

1071
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 6: venues were all sort of warning them a bit, but

1072
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 6: they were they were massive beer barnes, weren't they really

1073
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 6: they were.

1074
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 19: But they were very dangerous too, Dean, I mean the

1075
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 19: amount of.

1076
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:01,919
Speaker 14: Death.

1077
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 17: So I suppose on the road that was caused by

1078
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 17: a drink driving because alcohol was a lot.

1079
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 14: More potent in those days.

1080
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 17: Yeah, I remember just a normal can of beer was

1081
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 17: eight percent back then and now it's dropped to.

1082
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 19: What five or something around a lot of Yeah.

1083
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 17: Fortunately during Tiger I never drank, and whenever we got

1084
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 17: a drink rider, I thought, oh, well, do you want

1085
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 17: to order me something? Get me a bottle of champagne?

1086
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 14: That okay?

1087
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 19: So I did come on stage in a nice bucket

1088
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 19: and everything. I thought, oh right, a right live the Highlft.

1089
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 5: Like Ronnie James, your first perst show was at the Raffles,

1090
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 5: and at that time there were a lot of cover

1091
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 5: bands doing a lot of you know, mainstream top forty

1092
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 5: style stuff, and then you came out with that much

1093
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 5: more rockier show.

1094
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 7: Were people like oh at last?

1095
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 17: Well, I think it was. It just came naturally as

1096
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 17: a progression for me. I was in heavy metal bands

1097
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 17: before that, and then the progression to go to glam

1098
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 17: rock wasn't really that hard, except for putting on those

1099
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 17: silly outits, but it wasn't that hard to actually sing

1100
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 17: the songs and get to know them.

1101
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 14: And feel good with them and that, you know.

1102
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 17: I mean, we had some great bands to pick from,

1103
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 17: White Snake, bon Jovi, Motley Crue, all those sort of

1104
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 17: bands that were around Poison and the hair bands. But

1105
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 17: nonetheless we made the transition. I think it was harder

1106
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 17: maybe for Don because he had never played in a

1107
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 17: hard rock bambo.

1108
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 7: But as soon as he started.

1109
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 17: Listening to the the bon Jovi album Slippery went, he went,

1110
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 17: this is my favorite stuff everything.

1111
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 14: Yeah, he was up for it. Yeah, so it worked

1112
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 14: out great.

1113
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 6: What were the pants of choice for you? Were you

1114
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 6: leather or spandex? What did you go there?

1115
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 7: The leather jeans? Glamor not? Very rock and roll. Quite

1116
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 7: a few of the headbands are wearing it true.

1117
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 14: Would you believe I.

1118
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 19: Was asked to do an advert wearing Spandex?

1119
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 5: Pass you are Icetiger was very well known for its

1120
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 5: highly visual shows, but you also had a sound engineer,

1121
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 5: Ben glam Ben Glasser, and that was very important to

1122
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 5: you for.

1123
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 7: The quality of the quality of the live sound.

1124
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 14: And he was.

1125
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 17: Tuned into what we needed for effects because those sort

1126
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 17: of bands, they really required big effects. This thing called

1127
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 17: an AMS spatializer, which just makes a band so sound

1128
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 17: so open, yeah, but still loud and big. He knew

1129
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 17: how to get that out of other equipment. That very sound,

1130
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,760
Speaker 17: and so we thought we're.

1131
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:10,240
Speaker 6: On the rug stadium rock sound exactly exactly?

1132
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 7: What was it the wah wah pedal or something that's.

1133
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 14: For the guitar.

1134
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 6: Going one stomping pedals all night? How about going on

1135
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 6: Tellymote National TV hates Saturday. That must have been a

1136
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 6: really good experience country.

1137
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, massive show. It was nerve wracking? Was it for me?

1138
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 7: Were you live with that long? Yeah?

1139
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 17: It's the only thing I sort of objected to was

1140
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 17: it was a grease show?

1141
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 22: Oh no, really a hard rock yeah, fifties but there

1142
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 22: cast it's still fit heavier version of hopeless.

1143
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 7: Yeah. Actually your vocal you could do the falsetto and

1144
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 7: something that's good.

1145
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 5: Now you are a teacher these days and you are

1146
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 5: loving it, okay. Is it is it as easy to

1147
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 5: command a classroom full of kids as a pub audience?

1148
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 14: No, a million years.

1149
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 17: With a pub audience, you've got the luxury of knowing

1150
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 17: that they're under the influence, so you know, yeah, so

1151
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 17: you can get them in the palm of your hands.

1152
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 5: Pretty you're hoping to there.

1153
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 17: But children know, there's a totally different book because every

1154
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 17: single child is totally different, which I love. But no,

1155
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 17: to be able to command their attention is impossible.

1156
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 14: But if they respect you, yep, then you got their attention.

1157
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, see teaching music, You've got the same rock

1158
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 6: here as the last time I saw you. How about

1159
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 6: the kids when you walk into the class for the

1160
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,240
Speaker 6: first time, do they go, oh, he looks like a rockstar?

1161
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 19: They sometimes do. Some already know.

1162
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 17: Because I did one of those things for TV where

1163
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 17: they interviewed me and a lot of people saw me

1164
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 17: on that. Yes, but no, they respect me. But they

1165
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 17: know that I've got boundaries too. If they start to

1166
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 17: get annoying, they'll see the you know.

1167
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 14: The toughs.

1168
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1169
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 17: Yeah, they know not to reach that point. Once they've

1170
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 17: done it once, it's twice.

1171
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 19: Yeah.

1172
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 17: Yeah, they're pretty good. Most of the kids are fantastic,

1173
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 17: you know, they really are. And I love working with them.

1174
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 17: I love seeing the lights go on in their eyes

1175
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 17: when when you teach them something, they go, this is cool.

1176
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 14: This sound is really cool. How do you get it?

1177
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 17: And I'll just show them and they get it, and

1178
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 17: then all of a sudden, there's this look in their eyms.

1179
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 17: You've never seen it.

1180
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 15: Love.

1181
00:57:58,240 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 14: Yeah, that is why I go.

1182
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 5: And I guess some parent teachern you'd be in demand

1183
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 5: because that all their parents used to go.

1184
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 7: The Charles will be coming to an autograph. We have

1185
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 7: had a few.

1186
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 6: We must also identify talent, incredible talent in some of

1187
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 6: those kids as well.

1188
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 14: Yes.

1189
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 17: Absolutely. We recently just had two Russian girls and they'd

1190
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 17: only just come in from Russia and they're absolutely brilliant musicians, right,

1191
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 17: and of course you can imagine that discipline that happens

1192
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 17: in that area.

1193
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 14: But they came in and they brought a lot to

1194
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 14: the table.

1195
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 17: Yeah, but unfortunately for six months that's but had a

1196
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 17: little time that we had together. It was great fun

1197
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 17: and they helped to teach the kids as well.

1198
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 19: Yeah.

1199
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's very contagious in a room like that,

1200
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 5: I guess. And you're still playing in gigs.

1201
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 17: Not meaning maybe one or two per year. Ye, not

1202
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 17: a great deal because I mean I do gigs with

1203
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 17: the kids.

1204
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know.

1205
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 19: And there's fulfilling most of my life.

1206
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 7: You're pretty much Jack Black from the movie Thinking School.

1207
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 17: Absolutely love it absolutely or mister Holland, Yes, did that

1208
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 17: this week?

1209
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 7: What a great intersational movie.

1210
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 5: Well, Dave, it's been lovely to reminisce with you about

1211
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 5: the Ice Tiger Days as part of our Perth pub crawl.

1212
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 14: Thank you.

1213
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 7: It feels like yesterday. It does feel like yesterday.

1214
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 14: You look like yesterday. Yeah you did.

1215
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 7: It's longer than yours.

1216
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 17: Can I just show you a little hello for all

1217
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 17: of the kids at Belga High School and all of

1218
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:48,919
Speaker 17: the teachers supported me over the way.

1219
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 14: Yeah, thank you.

1220
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 5: We've heard we heard good things about your kids in

1221
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 5: the we're chatting before.

1222
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 7: Very passionate in both ways. It's good interesting.

1223
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 14: Thank you, d Thanks for listening.

1224
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a man at work side twelve

1225
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: hundred people. A menu at worked to me down the road.

1226
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 2: I don't need did the people and the bands.

1227
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 4: It was a way of cozy and Lisas to the pub.

1228
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 7: Draw, we are thrilled.

1229
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 5: Two bits to welcome to our Healthy and Days pub

1230
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 5: crawl from the Stams.

1231
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 7: Dom Marianni, good morning.

1232
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 3: Mate, mine guys.

1233
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 5: So the Stams talk about launching with a vengeance. Your

1234
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 5: first live show was at the Old Civic Theater in

1235
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 5: support of the Saints and the Triffans.

1236
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 7: Wow, what a lineup.

1237
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's a long time ago. But yeah, we were

1238
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 11: very fortunate to score that gig through a mutual friend

1239
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 11: actually who was putting that gig together. And I'd had

1240
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 11: another band, I guess six months previous to that that

1241
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 11: had split and then started to form a new one,

1242
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 11: and our first gig happened to be that one, which

1243
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 11: was fantastic for us, playing with such a good lineup.

1244
01:00:58,960 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 7: It's an incredible line up.

1245
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 6: But who are the bands that you loved, Because you know,

1246
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 6: I said to Less earlier, I said, I love some

1247
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 6: very cool sixties inspired garage guitar sounds.

1248
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 7: Who are you listening to?

1249
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 11: Yeah, look, I guess the g I really connected with

1250
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 11: back in I guess when I was learning guitar it

1251
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 11: was Cream's clear Water Revival. That was the band that

1252
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 11: really got me. But look, the Beatles, obviously, the Beg's

1253
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 11: early begs, you know, the Stones, the Easy Beats, all

1254
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 11: the kind of classics sixties bands, and then into the seventies,

1255
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 11: I guess there was bands like t Rex and you

1256
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 11: know some of the heavier ones that were around at

1257
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 11: the time that led Zeppelin and things like that.

1258
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 5: At this time in the eighties, the Perth pub band

1259
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 5: scene was awesome and a name I haven't heard of

1260
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 5: thought for a long time.

1261
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 7: The wiz Bar.

1262
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 5: I'd forgotten how often I used to go there. But

1263
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 5: you guys had a Saturday residency at the whiz Bar.

1264
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 7: We did.

1265
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1266
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 11: It was a really cool venue, actually the basement venue

1267
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 11: there on Hay Street. And once we got that sort

1268
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 11: of debut gig out the way, we played a couple

1269
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 11: of other shows I think the Subiaco Hotel, and then

1270
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 11: the Whiz Bar was something that was firing, you know,

1271
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 11: back in the day, and we.

1272
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 3: Loved playing there.

1273
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 11: It was that's where I guess we started to get

1274
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 11: our following.

1275
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 5: You played the Old Melbourne a bit, so this is

1276
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 5: really talking my language. Do you remember mccano's bar up

1277
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 5: above the Old Melbourne?

1278
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 3: I do, Yes, What a great.

1279
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 5: Venue that was too, upstairs downstairs all the great places.

1280
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 6: Will Melbourne had ended up with the Beat Room as well,

1281
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 6: didn't It was a sweet, sweet room of us. Have

1282
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 6: played a few sweating rooms, played many times at the

1283
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 6: Newport down in Frio as well.

1284
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 11: Done every years, not during I guess what when when

1285
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 11: we were playing back in the sort of mid to

1286
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 11: late eighties.

1287
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:51,479
Speaker 12: I recall that we did.

1288
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 11: Have a gig lined up there at the time I

1289
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 11: got canceled, but when we came back in so early

1290
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 11: two thousands, we played there a bit.

1291
01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1292
01:02:58,640 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Yeah.

1293
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 6: Richard Lane who ended up going to the Chevelle's and

1294
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 6: after you came back from Sydney we lost him four

1295
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 6: years ago. But that original lineup, that must have been

1296
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 6: very exciting for you boys, especially when the album came out.

1297
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it was a fantastic time.

1298
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 15: You know.

1299
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 11: We kind of started off with not really many you know,

1300
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 11: we didn't think we were going to get that big,

1301
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 11: but things just kept sort of rolling on and we

1302
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 11: took a punt and went over reached when we released

1303
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 11: our first single and people sent to like us over there.

1304
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 11: We came well, no one really wanted to know us

1305
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 11: before that, but when we came back from that tour,

1306
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 11: we were kind of local heros I suppose, yeah, and

1307
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 11: it all started to happen from there.

1308
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 5: Well, you were one of the more successful acts, having

1309
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 5: played with some big name bands and gone on international tours.

1310
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 7: Who have been your favorite bands to play with?

1311
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 11: One specific festival really comes to mind, which was in

1312
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 11: two thousand and four. We went to New York and

1313
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 11: played this festival was set up by Little Stephen, the

1314
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 11: guy he plays with Bruce Spring.

1315
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1316
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 14: Threat.

1317
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 11: He had this incredible lineup of bands and we were

1318
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 11: asked to play that festival and it was headlined by

1319
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 11: The Strokes, who were a more contemporary band I guess

1320
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 11: at the time, and you had people like Nancy Sinatra

1321
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 11: of all people playing Bo Diddley and some you know

1322
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:33,200
Speaker 11: bands from back in the sixties of obscure bands that

1323
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 11: have sort of reformed, like the Electric Prunes and the

1324
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 11: Pretty Things and people like that. But you know, they

1325
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 11: had Iggan, the Stooges and New York Dolls and all

1326
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 11: these are making groups. So that was sort of a

1327
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 11: gig that you know, you could never dream of sort

1328
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 11: of being a part of. But yeah, that was one

1329
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 11: of the that was one of the best gigs that

1330
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 11: I'd say that I'd ever played.

1331
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 6: Riggy pop any shirt off that is a great clinic,

1332
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 6: punked up line of I love it and Nancy. There's

1333
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 6: been a place in the world, particularly in Europe, where

1334
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 6: you were really surprised to have what the fandom for

1335
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 6: the band was like, Yeah.

1336
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 11: Look, I started touring Europe sort of started with a festival,

1337
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 11: but in Denmark back in the mid nineties, I guess

1338
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 11: from there, so of explored the rest of Europe and

1339
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 11: the Stems have become quite popular in places a lot

1340
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 11: of Spain, Italy and France. So we've we've been playing

1341
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 11: that sort of regularly.

1342
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 3: I suppose.

1343
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 11: When I say regularly, we haven't been there since just

1344
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 11: before the pandemic, but prior to that, you know, every

1345
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 11: couple of years I go back with some kind of incarnation.

1346
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 11: But the Stems definitely popular there, which is which has

1347
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 11: been great for us because it's kept the band sort

1348
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 11: of going and you know, we love playing there and

1349
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 11: you know they love us. So yeah, it's a it's

1350
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 11: a good thing to go into too and play other countries.

1351
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 14: Brilliant.

1352
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 5: The nineties were kind of quiet though, I mean, you

1353
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 5: were so big in the eighties and then sort of

1354
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 5: went quite through the nineties and came back in the

1355
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 5: early two thousands.

1356
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1357
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 11: Well, we split up in the late eighties and during

1358
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 11: the nineties I had another group called DM three, which

1359
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 11: that kind of broke me into Europe, and that kind

1360
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 11: of I released a couple of records that got released

1361
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 11: over there. So I got asked the tour and I thought, well,

1362
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 11: we'll see how it goes. And then found out that

1363
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 11: you know, there was an audience, and yeah, I thought, well, yeah,

1364
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 11: this is a great place to come back to have

1365
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 11: a bit of a holiday as well as play some shows.

1366
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 3: So yeah, I kept I kept doing it.

1367
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 6: And don that's some love stuff with Darren Maatha that

1368
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 6: was a mighty fine term testament to your songwriting.

1369
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 7: And you're performing.

1370
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 6: But this it feels like we've gone full circle because

1371
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 6: we think about the band and I think about growing

1372
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:00,919
Speaker 6: up listening to Steve Gordon on this radio station ninety

1373
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 6: six a m. This aussy show playing you guys and

1374
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 6: talking to you guys on the regular and all the

1375
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 6: Perth and Australian bands on a regular basis.

1376
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 11: Yes, Steve, Yeah, he's a legend, isn't And yeah, and

1377
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 11: occasionally I sort of hear from him, Yeah, esg with

1378
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 11: an email here and there.

1379
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 7: He's a good man, he loves his music.

1380
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 5: Well, here's good news. The Stems are playing at Frio

1381
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 5: Social and September the sixth. Tickets are through mosh tics.

1382
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 5: The show is to celebrate the band's fortieth anniversary.

1383
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 7: What can you tell us about that show.

1384
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 11: Tom, Well, yeah, forty years. It seems like a long time,

1385
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 11: doesn't it. Yeah, you know, it's we're looking forward to it.

1386
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 11: I guess it's sort of coincided because you know, we

1387
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 11: were sort of waiting for the pandemic to end at

1388
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 11: one point, and then it was all the case of

1389
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 11: everybody being available. And this year, you know, twenty twenty four,

1390
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 11: I guess wind up with the fortieth year when we

1391
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 11: when we formed. So we thought, well, we'll grab that

1392
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 11: idea and.

1393
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 6: Go with it, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, mate, proof

1394
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 6: that you're never too old to be a fan. I've

1395
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 6: just moved down recently to South Free to live, and

1396
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 6: we were getting fishing fish and chips over summer at

1397
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 6: Sea Lanes, and I turned to my wife, I said,

1398
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 6: I think all theer number fifty eight is don marry maman,

1399
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 6: and she goes it was it was a fairteat It.

1400
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 7: Was you right, because it looked like you she's going.

1401
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 11: Living chef.

1402
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 7: I reckon, you stop faving for fifty eight fish and chip.

1403
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 6: Well he was number fifty eight and I was fifty

1404
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 6: eight years of age.

1405
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 7: So you never too old to be a.

1406
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 14: Fan of the music.

1407
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 3: Lane.

1408
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, dom this I believe new music to coincide with

1409
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 5: that Freo social show as well.

1410
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, I'm glad you asked the question.

1411
01:08:55,479 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 11: We've actually recorded a new single which I think it's

1412
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 11: turned out really, really great because I just floated the

1413
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 11: idea of the guys. I said, hey, you know, we

1414
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 11: should do something new, and they were all into it.

1415
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 11: And I had this song sitting there and I thought, well,

1416
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:14,920
Speaker 11: let's try this one, and it happened pretty quickly and

1417
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 11: it's come out really great. So that's coming out hopefully

1418
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 11: it's been pressed right now and be ready for the tour.

1419
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 11: And we have a live album which was recorded back

1420
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 11: in twenty seventeen in Adelaide, And that sort of happened fortuitously.

1421
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 3: I guess was a guy.

1422
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 11: In a bat and a support band that had been

1423
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 11: recording his own band for that show, and then said

1424
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 11: that our band had been recorded as well. I came

1425
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 11: out and sent me an email and said, hey, I've

1426
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 11: got a recording of you guys from that show.

1427
01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 3: Would you like it?

1428
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 11: I said, yeah, yeah, send it over, but I hadn't

1429
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 11: listened to it basically, and sitting there for a while,

1430
01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 11: and I said, look, there's some live stuff that we've got.

1431
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 3: Let's have a listen to it.

1432
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 11: If it's any good. We should maybe put it onto

1433
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 11: a final and release it and we did that as well,

1434
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 11: so we mix that up and that's going to be

1435
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 11: ready for the tour.

1436
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 12: So we've got some new stuff.

1437
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's any good.

1438
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 5: I think forty years is a testament too, if it's

1439
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:17,719
Speaker 5: any good. Dom The Prio social show is September sixth.

1440
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 5: You want to get onto mosh tics pretty quickly to

1441
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 5: get tickets for that. It's been fantastic to reminisce with

1442
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 5: you this morning.

1443
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 7: Good to catch up man. Thanks guys, thank you. Well

1444
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 7: so you've down to Sea Lanes quick brings around the

1445
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 7: next time, thank you.

1446
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,679
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute works said twelve hundred

1447
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 1: people the men at work to begin the road.

1448
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 2: I don't need did the people party and the bands?

1449
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,839
Speaker 4: It was away Cozy and Lisa's to the pub.

1450
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 5: Draw from hook On and from the night after our

1451
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 5: guest This morning is Gary done?

1452
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 9: Hello Gary?

1453
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:49,719
Speaker 3: Hi Lisa?

1454
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 10: How are you going?

1455
01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 7: What pubs they were?

1456
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 14: Gary?

1457
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 6: So many famous names and the childs are still there.

1458
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 6: But the raffles, the overflows.

1459
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were at the Wings.

1460
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 10: We were at the Windsor Hotel on a Friday. I

1461
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 10: undred people packed and there was a three hundred outside,

1462
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 10: so we had to move to the Charles Hotel. Just

1463
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 10: think you so we get a thousand people in there

1464
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 10: or twelve hundred people, so.

1465
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 7: Going to need a bigger pub.

1466
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1467
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 7: Do you have a favorite of the pubs that you

1468
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 7: performed at.

1469
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 10: I think the Raffles on Saturday Night. Steve Les, she

1470
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 10: was the lead singer of the band who wrote that song,

1471
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 10: did a fire breathing act and yeah, we burned the

1472
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 10: roofs down in the fire station.

1473
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 6: Now the Raffles, Steve, you're doing the fire and you

1474
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 6: had Andy Clinton Smith with the strangers who he slips.

1475
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 10: It was all yeah, correct, It was just an amazing scene.

1476
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, well the band saved. Why did he go from

1477
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 7: hook A to p J Hooker.

1478
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 10: By the way that was going on there, it just

1479
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 10: changed it morphed into PJ Hooker. I think it was

1480
01:11:56,520 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 10: Joseph's idea at the time, and could we couldn't argue

1481
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:03,839
Speaker 10: with him because he was putting three dollars door charges

1482
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 10: one for us and we were cleaning up. So we

1483
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 10: take all that money and take off over recent support

1484
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 10: acts like Australian Crawl and Moving Pictures with our original music.

1485
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 10: Trying get that out there. And yeah, so Michael Klinski

1486
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 10: wanted to sign us, but that didn't work out and

1487
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 10: we missed the boat that.

1488
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:27,639
Speaker 6: You must have great stories from the road, Gary blogs

1489
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 6: in a car or did you have a minivan?

1490
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 11: What did you have?

1491
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 10: I can't tell the show.

1492
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 7: That's hilarious. Use imaginations.

1493
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 5: What about those big acts that you sort of went

1494
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 5: over and performed with like crawl and moving pictures were

1495
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 5: really happening?

1496
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 7: Were they? Were they welcoming, you know, to you as

1497
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 7: a support act?

1498
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:51,680
Speaker 9: No?

1499
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,639
Speaker 10: Massive, They have this massive light show and a huge

1500
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 10: pay give us. That's so you're only having a little

1501
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 10: part of this creo you only have before.

1502
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 7: They felt threatened the real guys.

1503
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right.

1504
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 7: I don't want to threatening James Ryan.

1505
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I met you when you were doing you know,

1506
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 6: the Night After became such a famous Perth institution at

1507
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 6: Gobbles mate days.

1508
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 7: Weren't they thirteen hundred gigs and a half years eighty days?

1509
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 9: Yeah?

1510
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 10: Look, it was formed by Paul Ridman who passed away

1511
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:24,679
Speaker 10: and they're no longer with us, and you know full

1512
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 10: started that. Michael Parks came in you're interviewing him last week.

1513
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 14: And I did we are very well.

1514
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:33,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely already I made airs.

1515
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 10: Paul, Yeah, me and I didn't count from the Franks

1516
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 10: and Carl Pantry came from over Easter. We're playing in

1517
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 10: a band called the Kind, Yes, and they came and

1518
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 10: grabbed us and we joined the Gobbles band. And the

1519
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 10: beauty of our gobbles is you know, after all the

1520
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 10: other musicians finished their gigs, like Lee Capri and all

1521
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 10: these guys, they would come up and all the girls

1522
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 10: would follow them, so we give them free drink cards

1523
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 10: and yeah, and then John Anderson, the owner of the

1524
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 10: club at the time. You know, I'm clearsy pretty well,

1525
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 10: but he would send the guys across the road with

1526
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,720
Speaker 10: one hundred dollars drink cards for the roadies of the

1527
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 10: entertainment center. Yes, so they would come over the road

1528
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 10: and the band's like simply read or Eurythmics, A C. D. C. Aerosmith,

1529
01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 10: Keanu Reeves, Charlie Sixman, Jimmy Vall my career was playing

1530
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 10: through the tighty minutes.

1531
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 7: He just didn't know where to stop. One more Wellington Street.

1532
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:37,640
Speaker 7: How good is that?

1533
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 3: And he actually smelled on State All looking at him.

1534
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:42,639
Speaker 3: What's that smell?

1535
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 7: I've heard that about tiny Bay. No, not a bathe

1536
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:47,720
Speaker 7: and there was a lot of hair.

1537
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:52,639
Speaker 5: But I guess you never knew who could show up, yeah,

1538
01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 5: or whether they would show up.

1539
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 7: He knew they were on but.

1540
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the motto is not it's not a nightclub,

1541
01:14:59,520 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 3: it's a part.

1542
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1543
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 3: And so because everyone.

1544
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 10: Would get stuck to the carpet so they couldn't go

1545
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 10: home anyway.

1546
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 7: True, I'm truebody.

1547
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:08,919
Speaker 12: To the places.

1548
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1549
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 5: It was a nine piece house band. How was it

1550
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,640
Speaker 5: working in such a large band because a lot of personalities.

1551
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:18,439
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just brilliant.

1552
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 3: We all got on really well.

1553
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 10: There's really good players from the Family Band and stif

1554
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 10: need to on a tour from Dicken the Games, Vin

1555
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 10: Korea from the Elks helping you know. It came over

1556
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:34,799
Speaker 10: from the kind did count from the Frames, Alan Leiford

1557
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 10: who was in Mantike he was e Leade singer with

1558
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 10: Mantig and many.

1559
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 3: Many years ago.

1560
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 10: And the world famous our Lets, Loraene Jones from Our

1561
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:45,719
Speaker 10: Gang and John Calabreeze who's now playing with Toddles Piece.

1562
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 6: Lower Yeahs totals Yeah, yeah, just world have been amazing

1563
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 6: to have so many people rock up after their gigs

1564
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 6: as well, mad and join in the fund because, like

1565
01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 6: you said, it was more more party than a club upstairs,

1566
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 6: it wasn't it.

1567
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:02,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he used to do a bit of comparing

1568
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 3: up there.

1569
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, my cookie cookies to get me up there. It

1570
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 6: was always get Fun and Redland.

1571
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 3: Good Fun.

1572
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 5: Of all the great bands that were playing at that time,

1573
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 5: did you have any personal favorites yourself.

1574
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 10: Michaels, all the Elks, well, Briant day Brewer. He was

1575
01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 10: always a prodigy, Like just watching him play. I always

1576
01:16:26,479 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 10: wanted to play as well as him, but never quite

1577
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 10: got there.

1578
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, just there was a lot of bands.

1579
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 10: The friends, ie Tiger bakerpri Loaded Dice. Loaded Dice are

1580
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 10: one of my favorites. Prints the Boys, frind Lycas was

1581
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 10: a very close friend of mine from school. He's another

1582
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 10: that's left up.

1583
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 6: You mentioned the world famous or let's say, had a

1584
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 6: hit called Dirty Weekend All Night Shuffles.

1585
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 14: It was a beauty correct.

1586
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 10: Jims was just a madman, was.

1587
01:16:59,200 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 15: So Gary.

1588
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 5: You're very passionate about w Way's music history. What inspired

1589
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 5: your YouTube series called The Profile, in which you've interviewed

1590
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 5: a lot of these people hundreds?

1591
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:12,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Look, it was a passion of Alan Simpson's

1592
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 10: frol Vika Pria. So we set up at Pro Copy

1593
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 10: Mark Whitehouse and Chill Strawn did the camera's very low budget. Yeah,

1594
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 10: so we looked around the room and said, who's going

1595
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 10: to interview all these people? So we essentially wanted to

1596
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:33,759
Speaker 10: just record and document the history of all these musicians.

1597
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 10: So I didn't get that heritage wouldn't be lost. So

1598
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 10: we went to the Minister at the time for Arts,

1599
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 10: David Templeton, and I think he still is and he

1600
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 10: wouldn't give us a cent. So we funded at ourselves

1601
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:51,600
Speaker 10: by borning the publiss which I think you might be

1602
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:56,560
Speaker 10: doing something with the CDs giving away, but yeah, so

1603
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 10: we essentially here one hundred and twenty six people. Some

1604
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:05,560
Speaker 10: of the stories are amazing. We'd asked some questions like

1605
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 10: where were you born, what made you pick up that

1606
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,759
Speaker 10: instrument to start your musical journey? So essentially we'd unpack

1607
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 10: their journey and you know, and we'd ask a question

1608
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 10: like if you were stranded on a deserted island that

1609
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 10: could only take one album, which album would it be.

1610
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 10: We'll just opened them up and to people like Jim Sheridan,

1611
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 10: he ended up with Ringos Ringo Stars Original UK with

1612
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 10: kids and Hawie Johnson from Dave Warner Fain. He played

1613
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 10: with Dave Warner. He told us stories about Bond Scott.

1614
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 10: He's to hang out with Bond Scott a lot. So

1615
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 10: if you go on and see Gary Dunn the profile

1616
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 10: on YouTube, you'll see one hundred and twenty six episodes.

1617
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 10: I immented on there will be lost.

1618
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,640
Speaker 5: You knew them all then and so you know them

1619
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 5: all now. Are there any that you've interviewed that have

1620
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 5: stood out to you as GM. I'm really surprised that

1621
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:53,799
Speaker 5: you've gone in this direction from.

1622
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 9: No.

1623
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,679
Speaker 10: Well, someone had to do the interviewing, and Alan Simpson

1624
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 10: put it, said, the suit on there's a there's a

1625
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 10: box of the back of pro copy with one hundred

1626
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 10: and twenty six tires I had to wear a different time.

1627
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 7: You can do Regardland favorites.

1628
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 10: On the album started a pushing for me to become

1629
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:15,719
Speaker 10: a Mayor of Earth.

1630
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 14: Yeah, you do it.

1631
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 10: I didn't want to stand on Battle's toes.

1632
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 7: That job might be vacant and I will ask the people, Hey,

1633
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:25,639
Speaker 7: Garry different directs.

1634
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 6: You talk about documenting the history, but also it's a

1635
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 6: lovely thing for families in that to have in music fans.

1636
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 6: Because some of these people have passed away that you

1637
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:33,839
Speaker 6: were spoken to about four.

1638
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 10: Fourteen or one hundred and twenty six have passed away.

1639
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,680
Speaker 10: Their family is very grateful that they've got something to

1640
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 10: listen to. And yeah, it was just a real feel

1641
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 10: good thing and we did. We raised about one hundred

1642
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 10: and twenty thousand from public egends. We put together a

1643
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 10: band of the Charles with Flash, Harry, the Frames, Ice Tiger,

1644
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 10: all those bands, Loaded Dice and yeah, we raised a

1645
01:19:56,320 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 10: lot of money for well, I remember Jermy mcanty with

1646
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 10: his cancer. Yeah, musicians that didn't have sleeper and didn't

1647
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 10: have anything most of.

1648
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 7: Them, isn't it? And sound people and that you know

1649
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 7: you I got.

1650
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 10: To tell you Alan Simpson, he's just so passionate about

1651
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:22,440
Speaker 10: helping people and uh and particularly musicians and the camaraderie

1652
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 10: of when we all get together.

1653
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 3: It was eleak trick.

1654
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 7: It was really supported.

1655
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't real to have the community.

1656
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 6: It's want to turn the tables on you mate. If

1657
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 6: you were on an island and no one else in

1658
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:36,640
Speaker 6: the vicinity, what's the one album you take with you?

1659
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 7: Be honest, I think I think the outside of the man, okay,

1660
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 7: bird choice.

1661
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 5: Now the Gobbles reunion is happening next night. What can

1662
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 5: you share with us about that?

1663
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:54,639
Speaker 10: Well, look, it's at the Hippie Club and John Anderson,

1664
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:59,679
Speaker 10: who owned Gobbles with is now with my son Denimar

1665
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 10: and A and his partner Film and the Hippie Club.

1666
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 10: They want to start having Hidie Live. And so you

1667
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 10: rang me and asked me if we could do a

1668
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:11,639
Speaker 10: Gobbles reunion. So we're flying people in from all over

1669
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:15,600
Speaker 10: the country. It's costing that twelve grand to put on.

1670
01:21:17,040 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 10: We need to sell four hundred tickets to cover that.

1671
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 3: We're doing really well.

1672
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 10: Every one of these shows we've done has sold out.

1673
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 10: Just back to the party, are you coming.

1674
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 9: Clearsy help me?

1675
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 5: There's cooking great down Yeah, yeah, telling to keep his

1676
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 5: clothes on. We know he likes to nude up that

1677
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 5: nude gardening and all that sort of thing.

1678
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:48,680
Speaker 6: So I don't want to go into the cars more

1679
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 6: than anyone I know.

1680
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:53,639
Speaker 5: I know every Gary we look forward to the reunion

1681
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 5: and it's been great reminiscing this morning.

1682
01:21:56,760 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 10: Well, thank you so much, thanks to your listeners. And

1683
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:01,799
Speaker 10: you've got are just doing a wonderful job.

1684
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 3: Just banging on about the local.

1685
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, we love to bang on and we're celebrating today.

1686
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 14: Mate.

1687
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 7: We've both got stamps on our left wrist to get

1688
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:12,800
Speaker 7: into a gobblin.

1689
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 10: You get the yellow arm dance and.

1690
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 7: That's funny. Thank you guys, thank you very much.

1691
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute work, so said twelve

1692
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: hundred people. A minute working began the road.

1693
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,280
Speaker 2: I don't need did the people party in the beanies,

1694
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 2: but the bands it was away.

1695
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:34,080
Speaker 4: Like Cozy and Lisa's pub draw.

1696
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 5: I was at an all girls high school in the

1697
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 5: early eighties and we all wanted to be the jam Tarts.

1698
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 7: We thought they were the.

1699
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:45,840
Speaker 5: Coolest thing the bees to ever come out of Frio,

1700
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,920
Speaker 5: that's for sure. Jody Bell is our guest this morning

1701
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 5: on our pop Crawl. Good morning, Jokie, Good morning over

1702
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:54,799
Speaker 5: there way yes.

1703
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 7: Yes, because you're in Melbourne misdays. Yeah, well, let's talk

1704
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 7: about the Tarts.

1705
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,680
Speaker 5: Jody Bell, Lucy Lehman and the gay girls Aga and

1706
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 5: Sophie Gare.

1707
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 7: How did you all meet?

1708
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:07,599
Speaker 14: Cool?

1709
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 15: Well, that's we all met at school because our brothers

1710
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 15: went to school together.

1711
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, that's a handy way to do it.

1712
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 15: Gosh, listening to that song, Gosh, we had high voices.

1713
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,719
Speaker 15: Things have changed now, it's all dropped a few notches down.

1714
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 6: We're going to get you recreate that vocal eft. They're

1715
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 6: live right now on many from Melbourne.

1716
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:35,920
Speaker 7: I had that sound because it was you know, it

1717
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 7: was chazzy, it was a bit you know, it was original.

1718
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:41,720
Speaker 15: You know, that was the big band. You know, the

1719
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 15: jam Tarts were just the four girl Yes, and when

1720
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 15: we we do a set with the girls, then the boys,

1721
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 15: our brothers would do a set that was the Nan

1722
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 15: sink or Yes, even though they weren't quartet, they were

1723
01:23:56,439 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 15: the quintet joined the band. Then we do the sets

1724
01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 15: at the end with all of us, which was the

1725
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 15: big band. Which is that song that you heard, which

1726
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:10,879
Speaker 15: is you know great. The musicians they're pretty incredible.

1727
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:14,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, you see like the Ocean's he's a local legend

1728
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:18,600
Speaker 6: joining in the quality musicianship was well and truly out there,

1729
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 6: wasn't it.

1730
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 15: Yes, he joined our band.

1731
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:24,880
Speaker 7: I'll just remind you, yes that he did on many

1732
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 7: awards ever years because he's a start.

1733
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 5: That was eighty six, But you guys were around earlier

1734
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,920
Speaker 5: than that. But were you underage when you were performing

1735
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 5: in some of the pubs you were performing in Yeah.

1736
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

1737
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:38,559
Speaker 15: We had to have Kate, which was Sophie and Anna

1738
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 15: and Adam's mum.

1739
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, would drive us to.

1740
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:44,680
Speaker 15: All the gigs because we didn't have our license. But

1741
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:46,680
Speaker 15: when we'd go busking, we'd have to catch the bus

1742
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 15: because no one wanted to give us a list to

1743
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:51,679
Speaker 15: that and catching a bus with a double bass.

1744
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 7: It's a little bit interesting, isn't it.

1745
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,719
Speaker 15: Well it was better catching the bus time because invariably

1746
01:24:58,760 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 15: it was Mike guitar case.

1747
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 6: All of money are talking, well, you know how the

1748
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:09,040
Speaker 6: straight what we're in a fall make as much as possible, Hey, juddy,

1749
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 6: was did it start off as really serious, serious young

1750
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:13,880
Speaker 6: things that were you're just going to go, let's go

1751
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 6: and have some fun.

1752
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:17,679
Speaker 15: No, we're still not very serious.

1753
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:20,639
Speaker 22: No, we were.

1754
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 15: Oh look, you know we all because our brothers played

1755
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 15: music and we you know, we've all played music since

1756
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 15: we were little, and we'd started singing, and harmonies were

1757
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 15: our thing, you know, we're just sing in the back

1758
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 15: of the car.

1759
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 3: And I was the lows.

1760
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 15: She had the low, the good range down low. Lucy

1761
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:42,679
Speaker 15: was like the harmony mistress. She could find the great

1762
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:45,800
Speaker 15: little harmonies in between the fifth if you know, what

1763
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 15: I'm talking about. And yeah, and it was just a

1764
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,000
Speaker 15: great combination and we had such a good time.

1765
01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 5: It was such a healthy scene for playing in pubs.

1766
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 5: They were all over, not just in in the the

1767
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,640
Speaker 5: city and in Fremantle, but all over the suburbs. Did

1768
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 5: you have any favorites that she used to perform at.

1769
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, there were were a lot of gigs there.

1770
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:10,800
Speaker 15: There was a a lot, yeah, you know, and we

1771
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 15: all had other bands as well, you know. There I

1772
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 15: had a little another band with my brother and with

1773
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 15: Sophie called Priscilla and the Pelvic Thrusters, and you know

1774
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 15: there was we went on tour with our brothers and

1775
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 15: they had a roadie band. They were the Roadies and

1776
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 15: they were called Brops on the shore Back. Yeah, we

1777
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 15: used to play four or five nights a week. It

1778
01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 15: was great. I don't know what it's like now. I

1779
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 15: know there were four It's not like there were four girls.

1780
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,040
Speaker 15: I hate to say it, but if I imagine if

1781
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,679
Speaker 15: there was a band that had four gorgeous young girls

1782
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 15: in it, they'd get five gigs and not a week

1783
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:47,839
Speaker 15: in a week as well, you know, yeah, quite possible.

1784
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 7: Instagram sensations, but they have to be good.

1785
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:52,840
Speaker 15: They have to be good.

1786
01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1787
01:26:55,280 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 15: Yeah, what was it like in the eighties It was

1788
01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:01,599
Speaker 15: great fun. Yeah, it was easy and free and yeah,

1789
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 15: now it's tough.

1790
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 5: What was it like being an all female band booking gigs?

1791
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 5: And did it make it easier? Did it make it harder?

1792
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 5: Did it have any effect at all?

1793
01:27:13,439 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 15: No, No, I think it did. Unfortunately it was We

1794
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:18,439
Speaker 15: were a bit of a novelty because of the girls.

1795
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 15: But I suppose because we were good.

1796
01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:21,679
Speaker 7: We're back to you had to tell.

1797
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, that's right. And we worked hard at what

1798
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:27,679
Speaker 15: we did. We we you know, we'd have we'd rehearse

1799
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 15: all the time, and we ended up getting great gigs

1800
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 15: with touring bands like we were whenever the Jonathan Jonathan

1801
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 15: Richmond or Hunderson Collectors or will the Wilson Pickets what

1802
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 15: were they called, Yeah, the Wilson Pickets.

1803
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:45,559
Speaker 7: Remember Wilson Pickett.

1804
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, there was a band called the Wilson Pickers. Maybe.

1805
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hunters would have been Jonathan Jonathan Richmond from Modern

1806
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 5: Lover as well.

1807
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 15: That's right, we've that like he'd come back to person,

1808
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 15: he requests us. That's good to do, is to do

1809
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 15: the support. But then we got the tour with Ben

1810
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 15: and Rick around and that kind of changed things as well.

1811
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:20,639
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you went to Edinburgh as well, the Fringe Festival.

1812
01:28:21,479 --> 01:28:23,680
Speaker 15: Yeah, can you believe it? We manished to get there

1813
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 15: without the internet or.

1814
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, real and I reckon that was peak Edinburgh. Just

1815
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 5: you know legendary time. Is that where Sophie met her

1816
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:36,400
Speaker 5: future hubby, Ben Elton.

1817
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 17: No, we met Ben.

1818
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 15: On tour okay Wi around Australia with them.

1819
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, gotcha.

1820
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,680
Speaker 6: Hey, Jody, my managers can be ruthless, but when it's

1821
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 6: Anna and Sophie's mum Kate being the manager. Did she

1822
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 6: favor the girls or were you all good? Was it

1823
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 6: all either?

1824
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 15: She wouldn't, she'd favor Lucy and.

1825
01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 7: I very good because the kids were trying to cry.

1826
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 15: Probably it was so fun. She was absolutely legendary. How

1827
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 15: the hell did she do that with our computer? I

1828
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,519
Speaker 15: mean we've got easy now, we've got internet, we've got

1829
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 15: mobile phones to track us down when we haven't come

1830
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 15: home from you know, the nightclub.

1831
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, she was probably using phone boxes and going to

1832
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:21,720
Speaker 7: the telics. Yeah, all that kind of stuffy hotel room.

1833
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 7: I do remember, exactly.

1834
01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:28,920
Speaker 5: You are still well and truly doing music in ninety four.

1835
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 5: You moved to Amsterdam, met Steve Purcell and created boof

1836
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:34,840
Speaker 5: which exists to this day and recently March.

1837
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,640
Speaker 7: I think it was you came back to town with

1838
01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:38,760
Speaker 7: book for the first time.

1839
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 14: What was it?

1840
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 7: A homecoming of sorts.

1841
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 3: It was so great.

1842
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 15: We had such a good time. We had great gigs

1843
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:50,720
Speaker 15: and I think we're you know, everyone really liked us.

1844
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:54,200
Speaker 15: We had a couple of gigs in Perth, one in three,

1845
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:56,760
Speaker 15: one in person. Then we went down south and we

1846
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 15: played at Anna's daughter's wedding.

1847
01:29:58,560 --> 01:30:05,760
Speaker 5: Which yeah, that's right, yes, Denmark, of course. Yeah, when

1848
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:07,320
Speaker 5: she lives with the tallest man in the world.

1849
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:12,080
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, Yeah. We had a great time and it

1850
01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 15: was such a shoot for the Victoria musicians come over

1851
01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:18,719
Speaker 15: to wet to the West and they just couldn't believe

1852
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:21,840
Speaker 15: it how beautiful it was. And we had great weather

1853
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 15: and yeah, it was a lot of fun. And hopefully

1854
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 15: we can do it again. Yeah, when we get that

1855
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 15: festival gig or something.

1856
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I've just heard that the Polics have said

1857
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 6: out now they're not reuniting, But what about a jam

1858
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 6: Tarts reunion?

1859
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 23: Is that?

1860
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:36,000
Speaker 7: Is that any chance in the future?

1861
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:40,160
Speaker 15: Oh geez, that'd be fun. We have to get paid,

1862
01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 15: we'd have to get lots and lots.

1863
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:47,200
Speaker 7: And lots of fun. Yeah, might be able to arrange that.

1864
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 15: You never know your taste the dollar down and strangle

1865
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:53,479
Speaker 15: it to death.

1866
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:56,680
Speaker 7: Absolutely, we know the value of a buck, that's right.

1867
01:30:56,840 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've been working since a young age, you get it.

1868
01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 5: I think you answered my question before with the wedding gig.

1869
01:31:04,200 --> 01:31:05,720
Speaker 5: I was going to say, they're still catch up with

1870
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:08,040
Speaker 5: the girls all the time.

1871
01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:13,600
Speaker 15: And it's Samilman, who's Lucy's brother. Yeah, it's a significant

1872
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 15: birthday next week, so there's quite a few West's coming

1873
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 15: over for the birthday.

1874
01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:20,120
Speaker 7: Okay, very good because yes, because I rules the boys

1875
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 7: as well.

1876
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 15: Yeah, and you know we're all really close. It's like family.

1877
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:25,599
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1878
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 6: And what age did we start saying significant birthday instead

1879
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 6: of saying the number, isn't it?

1880
01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 15: Well, let's face that night six.

1881
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:35,479
Speaker 14: Yeah, a long time ago.

1882
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, a couple of years.

1883
01:31:37,439 --> 01:31:39,080
Speaker 15: And we started in eighty two.

1884
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 7: Yeah if you add that, yeah, well we exactly. It

1885
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:51,559
Speaker 7: is life the jam tarts.

1886
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 5: Gosh, it has been lovely to reminisce with you this

1887
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 5: morning as we continue our Perth pub crawl back to

1888
01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:57,679
Speaker 5: the eighties.

1889
01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 7: Joanie, thank you so much your voice.

1890
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 15: J that's so nice to have me, and you didn't.

1891
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:06,559
Speaker 15: I didn't answer that question of which was the best

1892
01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:10,360
Speaker 15: gig in freo Oh yeah. In person, we used to

1893
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:12,120
Speaker 15: play out all the time and it would have to

1894
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 15: be the Sunday session at the Seed.

1895
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:16,439
Speaker 7: See you see now Sunday sessions.

1896
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:18,720
Speaker 5: You try to explain a Sunday session to the young

1897
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:23,959
Speaker 5: people these days, and they just they cannot grasp the enormousy,

1898
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:28,639
Speaker 5: the enormity of what was the Sunday session When things

1899
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 5: were things just cut off.

1900
01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:33,439
Speaker 7: At eight o'clock. You had to get in there and

1901
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 7: you had to kill the end of that weekend you had.

1902
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 7: It was like we're going to work tomorrow. I'm going

1903
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:41,519
Speaker 7: to do something school n y.

1904
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:46,559
Speaker 15: Yeah, thank you, okay, bye for having me by.

1905
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute work song to twelve

1906
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 1: hundred people. The men at working began the road.

1907
01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:55,120
Speaker 4: I don't the people the bands was a way of

1908
01:32:56,040 --> 01:33:00,679
Speaker 4: Lisa updraw continuing person of the crawl.

1909
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 5: Today, we've got Grace Knight from the Urugliders with us

1910
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:05,719
Speaker 5: other Grace Grace.

1911
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:09,320
Speaker 9: Welcome, Hi Clercy, Hi Lisa, how are you both very well?

1912
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:09,599
Speaker 10: Now?

1913
01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:12,320
Speaker 7: You were right there in the think of it, I

1914
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:13,599
Speaker 7: think arriving, am I right?

1915
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,080
Speaker 5: You arrived in Perth in the late seventies because you

1916
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 5: came here to visit your sister.

1917
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:20,040
Speaker 7: But you were doing a gig on a cruise ship

1918
01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:20,759
Speaker 7: to get here.

1919
01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 9: Correct, I was working my passage. That sounded funny, has

1920
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,759
Speaker 9: a whole new connotation, doesn't It doesn't.

1921
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:35,320
Speaker 6: Really what.

1922
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:41,360
Speaker 9: Those listeners that don't quite know what that means. There's

1923
01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:44,599
Speaker 9: a way of traveling when you didn't have any money,

1924
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 9: so you would work, you know, you would work on

1925
01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:51,600
Speaker 9: a cruise ship or you know, a fishing boat or

1926
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:54,599
Speaker 9: something like that, and you would work your passage.

1927
01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 7: So she quickly introduced you to Bernie Lynch.

1928
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:02,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, you found that you had a shared interest there

1929
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:04,759
Speaker 5: and formed a band called Living Single.

1930
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:08,240
Speaker 9: That's great. Well, Bernie had formed a band called Living

1931
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:13,280
Speaker 9: Single and then he asked me to join that band. Okay. Yeah,

1932
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:16,920
Speaker 9: And prior to that, Bernie was seeing a band.

1933
01:34:16,840 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 7: Called ripped On in the stockings.

1934
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 9: There was one before that. I don't know if it

1935
01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 9: was called Loose or something about.

1936
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:35,920
Speaker 7: Okay, it was something class feet, Yeah.

1937
01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 9: I know it's gone. Sorry, was all right? All of

1938
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 9: Minnestrone suits.

1939
01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:45,679
Speaker 5: Well, in nineteen eighty one, it officially became, we believe,

1940
01:34:45,840 --> 01:34:46,799
Speaker 5: the europe Gliders.

1941
01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:52,960
Speaker 7: Remember what work you're talking about that people? You want

1942
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 7: people on the dance flo when you're playing, Yeah, we go.

1943
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 5: So nineteen eighty one Perth it became the Eurogliders and

1944
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,439
Speaker 5: and you you would have been performing.

1945
01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 7: The pub circus.

1946
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, we were. And what a circuit it was.

1947
01:35:07,640 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a.

1948
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,639
Speaker 7: Circus, straight circus, so many venues.

1949
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:16,559
Speaker 9: Well, right, it was during a time when young people

1950
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:22,440
Speaker 9: went to watch live music. That's what we did for entertainment.

1951
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:26,439
Speaker 9: Maybe you might go to, you know, a local football

1952
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:30,280
Speaker 9: match on a Saturday or Sunday, but for the most part,

1953
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 9: young people went and saw live music, which meant musicians

1954
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 9: could work five nights a week, yes, and really really

1955
01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:46,200
Speaker 9: hone their skills. And you know, we became quite a

1956
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:50,000
Speaker 9: tight band working as much as we did. Of course,

1957
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:52,680
Speaker 9: that's almost unheard of nowadays.

1958
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:55,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, Grace, I remember hearing on this radio station ninety

1959
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 6: six a m most single called without You from an

1960
01:35:58,160 --> 01:36:00,400
Speaker 6: album called A Pink Soup Blue Day, which was the

1961
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:04,120
Speaker 6: first album, and I went, wow, who's that? That must

1962
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:05,480
Speaker 6: mean a very exciting.

1963
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:05,600
Speaker 14: Time for you.

1964
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 9: It was. It was, it was our first I think

1965
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:12,519
Speaker 9: It was our second recording. I think the one before

1966
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:16,840
Speaker 9: that was called Laughing Matter, but that was the one

1967
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,680
Speaker 9: that's kind of you know, got on to countdown and

1968
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:24,880
Speaker 9: we started heading. You know, we were heading over Eastern

1969
01:36:24,880 --> 01:36:29,120
Speaker 9: and working touring over in the Eastern States, and it

1970
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:33,200
Speaker 9: was the first time I think we heard our music

1971
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:36,759
Speaker 9: on national radio. So we felt very very special.

1972
01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet you did. Do you remember where you

1973
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:41,719
Speaker 5: were the first time you heard yourselves on the radio?

1974
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 9: Well, I think, look, I think it might have been

1975
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:48,240
Speaker 9: in a car, yes, on our radio on the way

1976
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:53,720
Speaker 9: to a gig and saying listen to us.

1977
01:36:55,120 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 7: In those early days in the eighties, did you feel

1978
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:01,760
Speaker 7: a pressure to have to moved to the Eastern States.

1979
01:37:01,479 --> 01:37:02,799
Speaker 9: To Oh definitely.

1980
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1981
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:04,040
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1982
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:10,360
Speaker 9: Look, we made an album called This Island, and this

1983
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:15,240
Speaker 9: Island was called that because Perth felt like an island

1984
01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:20,880
Speaker 9: separated by a desert, but everything was happening in the

1985
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:24,240
Speaker 9: Eastern States if you wanted to. Perth was a small

1986
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 9: a small town, you know, it was a small place

1987
01:37:27,439 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 9: at the time. We didn't have the internet, and you know,

1988
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:36,160
Speaker 9: we couldn't get out to the world from Perth. We

1989
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:37,879
Speaker 9: had to be in the Eastern States.

1990
01:37:38,160 --> 01:37:39,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, there and make some noise grace.

1991
01:37:39,920 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 6: So last time we caught up, you did mention something

1992
01:37:42,560 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 6: to do with via gloves, fans being very excitable and

1993
01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:47,680
Speaker 6: sometimes it got dangerous, especially if there were stacks of

1994
01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 6: speakers or amplifiers around.

1995
01:37:49,560 --> 01:37:50,679
Speaker 7: Do you recall that story.

1996
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 9: I do recall that story, but what I can't recall

1997
01:37:55,360 --> 01:37:59,040
Speaker 9: is driving me crazy. And I know that some of

1998
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:02,840
Speaker 9: your listeners will know the place I'm talking about. There

1999
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:06,800
Speaker 9: was a wine bar in Perth, in the city that

2000
01:38:06,920 --> 01:38:10,880
Speaker 9: we used to play out every Sunday. Yeah, you had

2001
01:38:10,920 --> 01:38:14,000
Speaker 9: to go down a really skinny set of stairs to

2002
01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:15,919
Speaker 9: get down into this basement.

2003
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:19,680
Speaker 5: And for the life I think I know what you're

2004
01:38:19,720 --> 01:38:21,360
Speaker 5: talking about, but I can't think of what it's called.

2005
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,840
Speaker 9: And I want to call it the basement, but I

2006
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:28,720
Speaker 9: think I'm getting confused with the basement in Sydney. But

2007
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:32,479
Speaker 9: it was just the most incredible venue and we had.

2008
01:38:33,520 --> 01:38:36,160
Speaker 9: It was kind of like we were playing in our

2009
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 9: living room to our friends, albeit our poor friends were

2010
01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 9: packed like sardines, and of course time everyone was smoking

2011
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:49,280
Speaker 9: and it was I mean, you could imagine how how

2012
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:54,360
Speaker 9: uncomfortable it was. And I remember, you know, we wanted

2013
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,080
Speaker 9: a big sound so we would have a wall of

2014
01:38:57,320 --> 01:39:01,439
Speaker 9: speakers in this tiny little venue and they were just

2015
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 9: stacked on top of each other. And one day, you

2016
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:08,280
Speaker 9: know that the whole wall just kind of fell down

2017
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 9: and the audience. I mean, could you imagine we have

2018
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:16,960
Speaker 9: been food from millions? Now that's that same venue, am

2019
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:30,120
Speaker 9: I ad? We used to get paid in marijuana, say yeah, yeah,

2020
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 9: I'm hoping, I'm hoping. I'm too old to be a risk.

2021
01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:37,320
Speaker 7: I think limations, okay, yeah, And that was.

2022
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 9: Just trade, so we would get paid, you know, a

2023
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:45,679
Speaker 9: little bag of marijuana. But I remember this one time

2024
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 9: in particular, that the owner or that the manager of

2025
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 9: the venue didn't have a bag of marijuanas. So he

2026
01:39:55,600 --> 01:39:57,960
Speaker 9: gave us. Now, you've got to let me finish this joy,

2027
01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:01,439
Speaker 9: So he gave us a plant and it was in

2028
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 9: a pot with sir in the pot. Now, this venue,

2029
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:09,800
Speaker 9: when we'd finished our set, also the venue where the

2030
01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 9: local detectives used to like come and hang. And so

2031
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:20,880
Speaker 9: I remember this if so clearly. I had this pot

2032
01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:26,760
Speaker 9: of marijuana, marijuana plant in a pot, and I used

2033
01:40:26,760 --> 01:40:30,439
Speaker 9: to drive in a little not June buggy what are

2034
01:40:30,479 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 9: the little buggies called little mini a little mini moke

2035
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:42,000
Speaker 9: bark upstairs, and I just needed to get to the

2036
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 9: top of the stairs so that I could hide this

2037
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:49,799
Speaker 9: marijuana plant. And so I had draped my stage clothes

2038
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:52,960
Speaker 9: over it. And as I'm walking up the stairs to

2039
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 9: come out to my little mini moke, two detectives are

2040
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:01,959
Speaker 9: coming down, and I'm absolutely re shitting myself.

2041
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:03,400
Speaker 15: Oh my god.

2042
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:07,280
Speaker 9: And this was it wasn't just my marijuana plant. It

2043
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:15,799
Speaker 9: was the band's waging upstairs. And I have to gidle

2044
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:19,760
Speaker 9: my way past these detectives and I and of course

2045
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,280
Speaker 9: Bernie just walked off and left me. It's like, you know,

2046
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 9: on your own head be it anyway. I don't know.

2047
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:31,920
Speaker 9: It must have stunk, but I think, you know, maybe

2048
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:37,760
Speaker 9: these detectives had more important thing was it was very

2049
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:39,200
Speaker 9: very early eighties.

2050
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 7: That's funny. That is a great story.

2051
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 5: You talked about, you know, being able to perform for

2052
01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 5: five nights because there were so many great venues. I mean,

2053
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:51,160
Speaker 5: with the exception of the Old Charles, there's not too

2054
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,640
Speaker 5: many of them left. Did you have I know, I

2055
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:57,759
Speaker 5: personally loved going to the Shenton Park Hotel.

2056
01:41:58,240 --> 01:42:00,840
Speaker 7: Did you did you have a favorite that you liked

2057
01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 7: to perform?

2058
01:42:02,160 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 9: Well, that one that name that I've just forgotten. Of course,

2059
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:13,280
Speaker 9: that was fantastic because we built up this following. They

2060
01:42:13,360 --> 01:42:16,800
Speaker 9: were so into the music and they packed in and

2061
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:21,479
Speaker 9: it really was like performing to our friends in our

2062
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:22,400
Speaker 9: own house.

2063
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, one of those buzz under the hotels that

2064
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:27,599
Speaker 7: they often had with their live music.

2065
01:42:28,479 --> 01:42:32,080
Speaker 9: It was, it was, It was so much fun. The

2066
01:42:32,240 --> 01:42:38,640
Speaker 9: sound was terrible, you know, screaming in areas, but it

2067
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 9: was the good old, bad old days.

2068
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:42,200
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely.

2069
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:45,960
Speaker 9: There were plenty of venues you know. Oh my gosh

2070
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:49,040
Speaker 9: that the Subiaco is that called.

2071
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 7: Hotels still serving? Not far from the Shens.

2072
01:42:56,760 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 9: Oh my god, here we go.

2073
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:04,600
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I remember the name from the from the

2074
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 6: band and gig lists that we used to get the

2075
01:43:06,640 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 6: daily news.

2076
01:43:07,400 --> 01:43:11,040
Speaker 9: Yep, the Ruffles of course.

2077
01:43:11,160 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 15: Oh my god.

2078
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:15,960
Speaker 5: They're apartments now, very expensive apartments. And you know the

2079
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:17,839
Speaker 5: Ston Park is an aged care.

2080
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:19,559
Speaker 11: Race.

2081
01:43:20,160 --> 01:43:23,519
Speaker 7: We could go from partying there in the eighties now

2082
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:25,479
Speaker 7: living out our days there.

2083
01:43:28,280 --> 01:43:30,080
Speaker 6: Did you ever play one of the nook and Busters

2084
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 6: at the Nook and Borough there, which is I think

2085
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:33,080
Speaker 6: Spotlight now.

2086
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 7: Age facility as well?

2087
01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:35,559
Speaker 14: They're in.

2088
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:44,559
Speaker 9: Goodness, we're all still alive to aged care.

2089
01:43:45,120 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 14: Yes?

2090
01:43:45,920 --> 01:43:48,320
Speaker 5: What about the other bands that were you know, doing

2091
01:43:48,400 --> 01:43:51,600
Speaker 5: on the circuit. Who were your favorites? We like you

2092
01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:53,679
Speaker 5: were perfect Rangers fan.

2093
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:56,840
Speaker 9: Or who else did you This is not going to

2094
01:43:56,880 --> 01:44:01,679
Speaker 9: be a good answer, Okay, no, no, I worked five

2095
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:04,720
Speaker 9: nights a week and the last thing I wanted to

2096
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:10,160
Speaker 9: do nights off was to go into a loud venue

2097
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:11,920
Speaker 9: and listen to other bands.

2098
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 15: Enough.

2099
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:17,280
Speaker 9: Absolutely, it was still ringing, you know, and we were

2100
01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:21,280
Speaker 9: doing like, you know, three one hour sets. Yeah, yeah,

2101
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:25,760
Speaker 9: my ears would be ringing for days. And that was

2102
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:26,920
Speaker 9: the last thing I wanted.

2103
01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:30,719
Speaker 7: No home to tange your plant. I think in the planet,

2104
01:44:30,720 --> 01:44:31,400
Speaker 7: avoid the cops.

2105
01:44:31,560 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 14: I love it.

2106
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:35,360
Speaker 6: Grace When This Island came out and Heaven Must Be

2107
01:44:35,439 --> 01:44:37,960
Speaker 6: There just became this huge hit and absolutely was the

2108
01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:40,559
Speaker 6: album that followed. But when that happened, the things really

2109
01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:42,640
Speaker 6: that must have really changed for you. How did you

2110
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 6: handle that?

2111
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 13: Oh?

2112
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 9: Does it really change.

2113
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:48,559
Speaker 7: A lot more people knew who you were.

2114
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:52,479
Speaker 9: That's for sure, That's absolutely right. And we felt like

2115
01:44:52,640 --> 01:44:57,360
Speaker 9: we were on the way somewhere because you were always

2116
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:01,280
Speaker 9: planning ahead, you know, you never sort of stopped to

2117
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:05,479
Speaker 9: look behind and you know, see what had gone on before.

2118
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:08,000
Speaker 9: You were always heading for the next goal.

2119
01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:09,640
Speaker 15: Yeah, and preparing for.

2120
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:13,559
Speaker 9: The next level that you wanted to reach, and for us,

2121
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:16,559
Speaker 9: you know, that would have meant touring in the States

2122
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:20,160
Speaker 9: or in Europe something like that, So you never really

2123
01:45:20,960 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 9: it was fast and furious and you were always always

2124
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:28,840
Speaker 9: moving forward, moving forward. So yes, I remember, you know,

2125
01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:31,400
Speaker 9: it was like, oh, this is exciting. You know, we've

2126
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 9: got x amount of people coming to our gigs. That's fantastic.

2127
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:39,679
Speaker 9: But we were always aiming for the next goal.

2128
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:42,560
Speaker 5: Of all those great bands that we used to go

2129
01:45:42,640 --> 01:45:46,160
Speaker 5: and see in the eighties, very precious few went on

2130
01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:50,759
Speaker 5: to have you know, national and of course particularly international success.

2131
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:51,760
Speaker 7: You were one.

2132
01:45:52,520 --> 01:45:56,040
Speaker 5: Do you think it was having those very definite goals

2133
01:45:56,080 --> 01:45:57,400
Speaker 5: in your head that set you apart?

2134
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:01,920
Speaker 9: Oh, look, who knows who would not. I don't know

2135
01:46:02,040 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 9: the answer to that. We certainly did have goals, and

2136
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:11,080
Speaker 9: we certainly you know, Bernie was a prolific and very

2137
01:46:11,200 --> 01:46:15,800
Speaker 9: good pop song right. Yeah, we were all of us,

2138
01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 9: you know, focused on the plan, on what we were doing.

2139
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 9: So I think it would be a combination. I don't

2140
01:46:22,880 --> 01:46:26,040
Speaker 9: know what the answer is to that. Even even with

2141
01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:30,320
Speaker 9: the benefit of hindsight, anything could have happened, you know,

2142
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:34,040
Speaker 9: it could be a combination of all manner of things

2143
01:46:34,840 --> 01:46:36,720
Speaker 9: and luck could have had something a little bit.

2144
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:38,800
Speaker 7: Of a little bit, A little bit of that comes

2145
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:40,560
Speaker 7: into everything, doesn't it.

2146
01:46:41,600 --> 01:46:46,560
Speaker 9: The hard r I worked like I got yea, So

2147
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:50,559
Speaker 9: it was very very hard work. But no one minds

2148
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:53,680
Speaker 9: that when you're doing something that you absolutely love.

2149
01:46:53,920 --> 01:46:56,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've seen in recent times some thingers through various things,

2150
01:46:57,280 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 6: just we can't hear their wonderful voices anymore. But still singing,

2151
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:01,400
Speaker 6: still out there, Grace.

2152
01:47:01,320 --> 01:47:03,719
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yep, still still going.

2153
01:47:04,400 --> 01:47:07,479
Speaker 5: I'm still loving it, still loving that live connection that

2154
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:08,599
Speaker 5: you get with an audience.

2155
01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:13,320
Speaker 9: I absolutely love that, and that's that's the thing that

2156
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:18,280
Speaker 9: keeps me going. The traveling to and from gigs, I

2157
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 9: could really do without that. That's so painful, you know,

2158
01:47:22,720 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 9: sitting you know, traveling for five and six hours, get

2159
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:30,479
Speaker 9: to a venue where you're going to perform for an

2160
01:47:30,520 --> 01:47:33,479
Speaker 9: hour and a half of the magic, and then you know,

2161
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:35,560
Speaker 9: you do it all again the next day. It's like,

2162
01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:37,600
Speaker 9: oh my god, I can't need to.

2163
01:47:39,240 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 7: Rock and roll, paid for the travel and enjoy it. Yeah,

2164
01:47:44,640 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 7: well we are.

2165
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:48,920
Speaker 5: We're glad that you're still doing it, and it's been

2166
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 5: lovely to reminisce about those early days with you today.

2167
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:52,679
Speaker 7: Grace, brilliantly.

2168
01:47:52,800 --> 01:47:54,760
Speaker 9: Don't tell anyone what I said about We.

2169
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:58,640
Speaker 7: Know we won't tell work. Your secret is safe with us.

2170
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 7: We don't know who office I Grace night, Thank you

2171
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 7: so much, Thanks Grayce so much. We won't tell the text.

2172
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 14: People leave it.

2173
01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:12,680
Speaker 7: We're good bye. That's right.

2174
01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:13,519
Speaker 14: A couple of ardes.

2175
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 13: Bye, more Cley, more Lisa, more podcasts. Soon we will

2176
01:48:22,439 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 13: be seeing a minute work, so said twelve hundred people.

2177
01:48:25,280 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 14: The men at working began the road.

2178
01:48:26,680 --> 01:48:29,599
Speaker 4: I don't need to the people, the bands, Who's away

2179
01:48:30,439 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 4: and Lisa's to the pub crawl.

2180
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 5: Yes, continuing the pub crawl today by popular demand. The

2181
01:48:36,439 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 5: suburban boy from the suburb of Bictim. I think Dave Warner. Hello, Dave, welcome.

2182
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, hi guys.

2183
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:48,160
Speaker 7: Yes, you're quite right from Victim currently.

2184
01:48:47,920 --> 01:48:53,080
Speaker 18: In Sydney from and fine suburban is too.

2185
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:57,599
Speaker 23: Yes, absolutely worth a lot more David than the day,

2186
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:03,760
Speaker 23: you know, when the quarantine station was down there.

2187
01:49:04,720 --> 01:49:07,919
Speaker 5: We've been doing this for a couple of weeks, reminiscing

2188
01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 5: about that incredibly vibrant pub scene in the eighties, and

2189
01:49:11,479 --> 01:49:15,960
Speaker 5: we have had so many requests from our listeners saying

2190
01:49:16,320 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 5: you've got to get Dave Warner from the suburbs.

2191
01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:21,519
Speaker 7: Is it nice, nice to be wanted, nice to be loved?

2192
01:49:22,120 --> 01:49:24,479
Speaker 7: Yeah it is, yeah, yeah, yeah it is.

2193
01:49:24,840 --> 01:49:26,479
Speaker 18: And so thank you, thank you all the people who

2194
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:29,679
Speaker 18: requested and I had great feedback even over here in Sydney,

2195
01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:32,400
Speaker 18: people have been telling me that they're really enjoying it

2196
01:49:32,439 --> 01:49:33,679
Speaker 18: and looking forward to the segment.

2197
01:49:33,800 --> 01:49:36,560
Speaker 7: So it was, well, it was.

2198
01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 5: It was an incredible scene. Did you have a favorite

2199
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 5: venue that you used to perform at?

2200
01:49:42,680 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 18: Look, I think for us probably the Shenton Park as

2201
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:48,360
Speaker 18: we kind of kicked we kind of kicked that venue

2202
01:49:48,439 --> 01:49:49,400
Speaker 18: off really and.

2203
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:55,120
Speaker 7: In the room as it was nice, very fancy.

2204
01:49:59,280 --> 01:50:01,720
Speaker 18: But look, many of them were great, but that that

2205
01:50:01,880 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 18: worked for us very well. But yeah, look there were

2206
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:13,280
Speaker 18: so many great venues, the Herdsman, the Raffles that you know, overflow, yeah,

2207
01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:16,640
Speaker 18: all of them, and so many places and it's just

2208
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:17,639
Speaker 18: so dynamic.

2209
01:50:18,479 --> 01:50:22,160
Speaker 12: Every six nights a week there exactly focus.

2210
01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 14: That's right.

2211
01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, we could go nights a wet and some did. Yeah,

2212
01:50:25,520 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 7: and some fans came to every gig.

2213
01:50:27,320 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, Dave, we've just said Suburban Boy and I played

2214
01:50:29,479 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 6: it a few times at home yesterday and there was

2215
01:50:30,960 --> 01:50:33,240
Speaker 6: nothing like it on Australian radio at the time with

2216
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:36,160
Speaker 6: that swirling keyboard, that organ sound and the punk kind

2217
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 6: of attitude. Did you have an inkling you'd written an

2218
01:50:38,280 --> 01:50:39,960
Speaker 6: Aussie classic and nausie anthem at the time.

2219
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:43,559
Speaker 18: I did look and honestly I wrote it in nineteen

2220
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:47,560
Speaker 18: seventy two. I was driving along Quanana Freeway and you know,

2221
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 18: watching the It was kind of a drizzly, wet day

2222
01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:53,639
Speaker 18: and the windscreen wipers were going and I was really

2223
01:50:53,720 --> 01:50:56,680
Speaker 18: convinced that that I had written a hit song. That

2224
01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:58,960
Speaker 18: it took six years for it to become a hit,

2225
01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,560
Speaker 18: so there was no easy path to it. But I

2226
01:51:01,720 --> 01:51:04,040
Speaker 18: was really convinced in that song from the start, and

2227
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:07,759
Speaker 18: it was kind of a bit of an annunciation about

2228
01:51:08,040 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 18: what my whole attitude to music was about.

2229
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:13,160
Speaker 5: So it worked well, but it did take its time

2230
01:51:13,280 --> 01:51:16,000
Speaker 5: to come to fruition quick drive too. I reckon in

2231
01:51:16,080 --> 01:51:18,120
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy two. The Quanana Freeway only wed as far

2232
01:51:18,120 --> 01:51:22,960
Speaker 5: as Leach Highway later, and guess what as still being

2233
01:51:23,400 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 5: roadworks are still on it. Before the Suburbs, you were

2234
01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:32,240
Speaker 5: in a band that was considered Australia's first punk band.

2235
01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:37,240
Speaker 5: Probably that's why it was called Pus. That was kind

2236
01:51:37,280 --> 01:51:41,360
Speaker 5: of prime punk era. What what were the audiences like

2237
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:42,080
Speaker 5: here for that?

2238
01:51:43,360 --> 01:51:46,800
Speaker 18: Yeah, well it was a small but very dedicated, what

2239
01:51:46,880 --> 01:51:49,680
Speaker 18: you would call a cult audience. And we played our

2240
01:51:49,720 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 18: first gigs were at the Governor Broom Hotel, which is

2241
01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:55,960
Speaker 18: now where the Berthy Edicenter sits in north Bridge there. Yeah,

2242
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 18: and then we graduated to the Red Lion Hotel run

2243
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:00,479
Speaker 18: by margin donald.

2244
01:52:00,640 --> 01:52:02,280
Speaker 7: Oh Wownde.

2245
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:07,840
Speaker 18: Some might remember Marty from World of Football here Michael

2246
01:52:07,920 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 18: McDonald Marty was his.

2247
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:10,720
Speaker 12: Dad, and we said, oh Marty, can we have a

2248
01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:12,160
Speaker 12: can we have a gig?

2249
01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 18: So he gave us a gig in this back room

2250
01:52:14,240 --> 01:52:17,759
Speaker 18: and it was fantastic and the audiences, look, we probably

2251
01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:20,599
Speaker 18: really got over one hundred to one hundred and twenty

2252
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:24,040
Speaker 18: people there, but they were highly committed and the gigs

2253
01:52:24,080 --> 01:52:25,040
Speaker 18: were fully charged.

2254
01:52:25,560 --> 01:52:26,360
Speaker 9: As you say, it was.

2255
01:52:26,439 --> 01:52:30,040
Speaker 18: Kind of punk before punk. And a few of the

2256
01:52:30,120 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 18: songs that later became songs that I played with Dave

2257
01:52:34,120 --> 01:52:37,040
Speaker 18: wannas from the suburbs, but we would do other songs

2258
01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:41,759
Speaker 18: Frank Zappa and Stug songs, and we read songs and stuff.

2259
01:52:41,880 --> 01:52:43,519
Speaker 15: It was a really good time.

2260
01:52:43,720 --> 01:52:44,280
Speaker 7: I got to love it.

2261
01:52:44,400 --> 01:52:46,439
Speaker 6: What about that following man? Was it that got to

2262
01:52:46,560 --> 01:52:48,839
Speaker 6: Michael Gdinski's attention to get your signed on the mushroom.

2263
01:52:50,080 --> 01:52:50,760
Speaker 15: Look it was.

2264
01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:54,320
Speaker 18: It was quite interesting. What happened was there was a

2265
01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:57,560
Speaker 18: couple of people at I think Peter Grace.

2266
01:52:57,640 --> 01:53:02,720
Speaker 24: Sydney Djo Yeah, yeah, well he was the sixth r

2267
01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:04,600
Speaker 24: at the time and he was the name of Gidinski

2268
01:53:04,960 --> 01:53:08,479
Speaker 24: and also another couple of people, one of me and

2269
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:11,320
Speaker 24: smith could be Smithy, the lady Ian Smith who was

2270
01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:13,600
Speaker 24: road manager for sid Rumpo.

2271
01:53:13,439 --> 01:53:17,599
Speaker 18: Originally when they went east, and Smithy another history mettle

2272
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:24,160
Speaker 18: Boy and he both he and Gracie were telling Gitinski

2273
01:53:24,240 --> 01:53:25,680
Speaker 18: that they had to sign me and that I had

2274
01:53:25,680 --> 01:53:26,320
Speaker 18: this little.

2275
01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:28,639
Speaker 12: Eight track live.

2276
01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:30,760
Speaker 18: Recording that we did at the Centen Park Hotel and

2277
01:53:30,840 --> 01:53:33,639
Speaker 18: the Victoria Hotel in about nineteen seventy seven, and these

2278
01:53:33,880 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 18: just did blank cassettes and saw them off to the

2279
01:53:36,360 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 18: audience and they found their way east. And that was

2280
01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:42,840
Speaker 18: great for us because it meant that places in the

2281
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:45,360
Speaker 18: East a lot of the bands in those days, the

2282
01:53:45,479 --> 01:53:47,680
Speaker 18: roadies would hear tapes that they liked and they'd play

2283
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:50,080
Speaker 18: them through the po system before the main bands came on.

2284
01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:53,320
Speaker 18: So people were hearing our music over there, not via

2285
01:53:53,479 --> 01:53:58,080
Speaker 18: radio station, but had the live gigs that created a

2286
01:53:58,120 --> 01:54:00,680
Speaker 18: kind of demand, so it was really good arming for us.

2287
01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 5: With the exception of the Charles with its original carpet,

2288
01:54:04,240 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's not many of those places left, Dave.

2289
01:54:08,240 --> 01:54:10,360
Speaker 5: You know, do you know the Shenton Park is now

2290
01:54:10,640 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 5: a retirement Yeah, I'm aiming to go full circle to end.

2291
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:16,280
Speaker 14: Up in.

2292
01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:18,439
Speaker 9: Yeah.

2293
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:22,880
Speaker 18: It's quite sad, I suppose, but then again, most of

2294
01:54:22,880 --> 01:54:25,280
Speaker 18: the people of my generation now probably prefer to sit

2295
01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:26,120
Speaker 18: down in a theater.

2296
01:54:27,080 --> 01:54:27,320
Speaker 4: True.

2297
01:54:29,240 --> 01:54:31,600
Speaker 7: Sorry, go on, I was just going to say, but

2298
01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:33,040
Speaker 7: we did last two.

2299
01:54:33,040 --> 01:54:37,480
Speaker 18: Of Perth we played the Port Beach Brewery, which was

2300
01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 18: a fantastic venue. Okay, yes, so that was That was

2301
01:54:41,200 --> 01:54:44,120
Speaker 18: a great venue, and there's some fabulous the smaller venues

2302
01:54:44,400 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 18: around the place, like the Duke of George and East

2303
01:54:47,480 --> 01:54:49,600
Speaker 18: from ant is a great smaller venue for people. So

2304
01:54:49,880 --> 01:54:51,880
Speaker 18: there's still some venues there. But yeah, it's not like

2305
01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:55,520
Speaker 18: there's not other days before where people could decide to

2306
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:58,280
Speaker 18: go to three different venues and I don't like that, bend,

2307
01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:02,280
Speaker 18: Let's go to the next one, fussy, yeah, yeah, or

2308
01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:04,000
Speaker 18: can't get in to see Dick and the Dames And

2309
01:55:04,080 --> 01:55:06,960
Speaker 18: starting over, we'll go and see water at.

2310
01:55:06,920 --> 01:55:10,800
Speaker 7: The Dames doing the rhythm of life at the end

2311
01:55:10,800 --> 01:55:11,160
Speaker 7: of the game.

2312
01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:12,960
Speaker 14: Unreal, unreal.

2313
01:55:13,240 --> 01:55:15,880
Speaker 5: You've played with the likes of Men at Work, Midnight,

2314
01:55:15,960 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 5: Oil in Excess, Dragon and Skyhooks. Who was the most

2315
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:21,880
Speaker 5: fun to play with? My money's on sky Skyhooks for

2316
01:55:21,960 --> 01:55:22,360
Speaker 5: some reason.

2317
01:55:23,320 --> 01:55:25,520
Speaker 12: They were surely was great mates.

2318
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:29,000
Speaker 18: And I became really really good friends with Greg Greg

2319
01:55:29,120 --> 01:55:32,760
Speaker 18: McCain from Skyhooks and we've worked on stuff and worked together,

2320
01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:34,080
Speaker 18: so they were terrific.

2321
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:35,280
Speaker 7: But look, the Dragon.

2322
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:37,840
Speaker 18: Boys were fun too, and all all of those people

2323
01:55:38,320 --> 01:55:41,160
Speaker 18: were terrific. I didn't have I don't think I've had

2324
01:55:41,200 --> 01:55:44,120
Speaker 18: any bad experiences I can think of with any of

2325
01:55:44,200 --> 01:55:46,400
Speaker 18: those great bands that we played with. At the time,

2326
01:55:46,440 --> 01:55:49,400
Speaker 18: I played soccer with Men at Work. We were playing

2327
01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:53,520
Speaker 18: soccer in Adelaide the day that down Under was released.

2328
01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:54,760
Speaker 7: Really awesome.

2329
01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:58,280
Speaker 18: Yeah, and we're staying at the same motel and kicking

2330
01:55:58,280 --> 01:56:01,840
Speaker 18: the ball around with Colin Hayes him. I said, I reckon,

2331
01:56:01,920 --> 01:56:05,200
Speaker 18: this is going to be the best buzzy singles since

2332
01:56:05,800 --> 01:56:07,919
Speaker 18: Friday on my mind, and I hope.

2333
01:56:07,680 --> 01:56:11,160
Speaker 7: So, I hope so going to and he was at

2334
01:56:11,160 --> 01:56:11,600
Speaker 7: the Grammys.

2335
01:56:12,640 --> 01:56:16,000
Speaker 6: I just took off from Hey, David, your career made music. Laman,

2336
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:18,320
Speaker 6: You've done so much with your writing and the rest

2337
01:56:18,360 --> 01:56:20,400
Speaker 6: of it with TV and movies, but in your career,

2338
01:56:20,480 --> 01:56:22,920
Speaker 6: it was there one time that you were starstruck because

2339
01:56:22,920 --> 01:56:25,280
Speaker 6: I know Dylan had some kind words to say about you.

2340
01:56:27,040 --> 01:56:29,160
Speaker 18: Yeah, well I did got to meet Bob Dylan, but

2341
01:56:29,240 --> 01:56:32,560
Speaker 18: I did meet his I met his band, Yes, and

2342
01:56:33,120 --> 01:56:36,080
Speaker 18: they all came and saw us and gave us tickets

2343
01:56:36,120 --> 01:56:38,880
Speaker 18: to the concert, and you know, they were really great.

2344
01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:43,320
Speaker 12: But yes, look, in nineteen to seventy two in Perth,

2345
01:56:43,680 --> 01:56:44,760
Speaker 12: I got to meet.

2346
01:56:44,600 --> 01:56:48,120
Speaker 18: Phil Oaks, the great songwriter co temporary of Bob Dylan, and.

2347
01:56:49,720 --> 01:56:51,440
Speaker 3: He was such a lovely guy.

2348
01:56:51,840 --> 01:56:54,520
Speaker 18: And when I saw him off at the airport, and

2349
01:56:54,720 --> 01:56:58,040
Speaker 18: I was definitely starstruck in and I found him very

2350
01:56:58,080 --> 01:57:01,240
Speaker 18: inspirational with his new I think, and you know, very

2351
01:57:01,280 --> 01:57:04,320
Speaker 18: sadly he took his life about you know, not too

2352
01:57:04,400 --> 01:57:05,520
Speaker 18: many years after that, but.

2353
01:57:05,640 --> 01:57:09,920
Speaker 12: A great, great singer, songwriter and performer. So yeah, I

2354
01:57:10,040 --> 01:57:11,160
Speaker 12: certainly start struck with him.

2355
01:57:12,520 --> 01:57:13,800
Speaker 7: Gone way too soon. Players.

2356
01:57:13,840 --> 01:57:16,280
Speaker 5: He just touched on the writing. You are an author,

2357
01:57:16,440 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 5: a screenwriter and a playwright. That's pretty impressive writing writing

2358
01:57:23,120 --> 01:57:23,680
Speaker 5: skills there.

2359
01:57:24,920 --> 01:57:27,720
Speaker 18: Well, I listen to you as anybody in the in

2360
01:57:27,800 --> 01:57:30,880
Speaker 18: the kind of pop cultural art scene in Australia. Knows

2361
01:57:30,920 --> 01:57:32,800
Speaker 18: you've got to do lots of things to survive, and

2362
01:57:33,360 --> 01:57:36,560
Speaker 18: you know so, but look, I have enjoyed it all.

2363
01:57:36,680 --> 01:57:40,440
Speaker 18: I always liked writing and writing books and plays and things,

2364
01:57:40,520 --> 01:57:43,200
Speaker 18: so it was kind of a natural fit for me

2365
01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:47,120
Speaker 18: to do that. And just I love being creative. I

2366
01:57:47,200 --> 01:57:51,480
Speaker 18: love keeping my you know, just sort of brain going

2367
01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:53,960
Speaker 18: on all those things, and still love playing.

2368
01:57:54,360 --> 01:57:56,400
Speaker 5: It's kind of a one stop shot really because if

2369
01:57:56,400 --> 01:57:59,360
Speaker 5: you're writing novels and then you can you can then

2370
01:57:59,480 --> 01:58:01,960
Speaker 5: develop the for screen or stage, if you're a screen

2371
01:58:02,040 --> 01:58:03,040
Speaker 5: writer and playwright.

2372
01:58:04,240 --> 01:58:05,920
Speaker 12: I have done that on a couple of times for

2373
01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:08,800
Speaker 12: that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's so hard.

2374
01:58:08,840 --> 01:58:11,040
Speaker 18: You know, you're right a screenplay and you think this

2375
01:58:11,160 --> 01:58:14,880
Speaker 18: is a great idea, but it costs thirty million dollars

2376
01:58:14,920 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 18: to make, and very people in Australia ever make those.

2377
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:20,200
Speaker 18: So you can turn it into a book, and that's

2378
01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:21,120
Speaker 18: a lot cheaper to make.

2379
01:58:22,240 --> 01:58:23,920
Speaker 7: You're a triple threat. It's just a different kind of

2380
01:58:23,920 --> 01:58:25,720
Speaker 7: triple threat. You don't need to dance, you real good.

2381
01:58:27,120 --> 01:58:29,040
Speaker 6: We talked about it earlier about the demand for people

2382
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 6: wanting to hear you and in this three weeks we're

2383
01:58:31,080 --> 01:58:33,680
Speaker 6: doing here. But the fans. You can't ever knock the fans.

2384
01:58:33,720 --> 01:58:36,120
Speaker 6: Their loyalty has been amazing, hasn't it throughout the years?

2385
01:58:37,400 --> 01:58:37,560
Speaker 15: Oh?

2386
01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:38,760
Speaker 12: Absolutely.

2387
01:58:39,080 --> 01:58:43,480
Speaker 18: I think the Suburbs fans many of them have become

2388
01:58:43,600 --> 01:58:45,720
Speaker 18: personal friends over the time, and you know, I've seen

2389
01:58:45,720 --> 01:58:47,880
Speaker 18: their kids grow up and that sort of thing.

2390
01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:49,440
Speaker 12: But they have been.

2391
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:52,240
Speaker 18: Incredibly loyal to me, and I just appreciate it so

2392
01:58:52,360 --> 01:58:55,080
Speaker 18: much because it means I can keep doing whatever the

2393
01:58:55,200 --> 01:58:58,840
Speaker 18: next thing is. You know, people buy a T shirt

2394
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,760
Speaker 18: or a boy of course something you can go and

2395
01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:04,040
Speaker 18: do it, and it just there are times you think

2396
01:59:04,600 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 18: there is there any point in doing this, and just

2397
01:59:06,280 --> 01:59:09,000
Speaker 18: somebody writes you a note or sends you and drop

2398
01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:10,840
Speaker 18: you a line and says, you know, that song changed

2399
01:59:10,880 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 18: my life. I love that book and it.

2400
01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:17,080
Speaker 12: Makes a really big difference to you. I can say,

2401
01:59:17,080 --> 01:59:18,400
Speaker 12: I'm sure I speak for everyone.

2402
01:59:18,200 --> 01:59:20,800
Speaker 18: But you know, I've been on stage playing at the

2403
01:59:20,920 --> 01:59:23,720
Speaker 18: Troll and some guys rang me and their mate was

2404
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:26,160
Speaker 18: dying in Darwin and they just wanted to hear Convict Street.

2405
01:59:26,280 --> 01:59:27,960
Speaker 18: So I played it for him, you know, and on

2406
01:59:28,080 --> 01:59:32,440
Speaker 18: his last day. And I've had songs played at people's funerals,

2407
01:59:32,440 --> 01:59:35,320
Speaker 18: so probably say they're really emotional. You know, I think

2408
01:59:35,360 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 18: you've sort of traveled through.

2409
01:59:36,880 --> 01:59:39,720
Speaker 6: Life with someone impact. I want to get one of

2410
01:59:39,720 --> 01:59:41,400
Speaker 6: those Suburban and Soldiers T shirts. I'm going to buy

2411
01:59:41,440 --> 01:59:42,000
Speaker 6: one of those online.

2412
01:59:42,000 --> 01:59:42,240
Speaker 19: I like that.

2413
01:59:42,280 --> 01:59:42,800
Speaker 14: Look at those.

2414
01:59:44,280 --> 01:59:48,800
Speaker 5: Very nice and you know, performing at shows now performing

2415
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:51,360
Speaker 5: to the people that came to see you originally and

2416
01:59:51,400 --> 01:59:53,440
Speaker 5: the new generation, and I reckon, we're just about getting

2417
01:59:53,440 --> 01:59:56,320
Speaker 5: into a third generation of people.

2418
01:59:56,720 --> 01:59:58,280
Speaker 7: Did it coming to some of those shows?

2419
01:59:59,560 --> 02:00:02,360
Speaker 18: Yeah, well I'd love to get more and more younger

2420
02:00:02,440 --> 02:00:04,560
Speaker 18: people are still predominantly older, and I get a few

2421
02:00:04,640 --> 02:00:07,040
Speaker 18: who you know, who tumble down.

2422
02:00:07,080 --> 02:00:07,640
Speaker 12: But it's great.

2423
02:00:07,720 --> 02:00:08,720
Speaker 18: Sometimes you're playing in.

2424
02:00:08,760 --> 02:00:11,520
Speaker 3: A place and people have no idea who you are.

2425
02:00:11,560 --> 02:00:13,000
Speaker 12: They've got no idea of the backstory.

2426
02:00:13,240 --> 02:00:15,600
Speaker 18: Yeah, just some young backpackers or something while you're in

2427
02:00:16,560 --> 02:00:18,840
Speaker 18: and hear it and they go, oh wow, you know,

2428
02:00:18,880 --> 02:00:24,000
Speaker 18: I really enjoyed it. So I think for us older people, yes,

2429
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:24,960
Speaker 18: it's terrific.

2430
02:00:25,160 --> 02:00:27,400
Speaker 12: Amuse those. It's great when you're playing to strike.

2431
02:00:27,200 --> 02:00:30,000
Speaker 6: A chord with young people generations. And that's the other thing, mate.

2432
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:32,320
Speaker 6: Do a lot of people leave Perth and go make

2433
02:00:32,360 --> 02:00:34,360
Speaker 6: a name for themselves. You've never been forgotten in Perth.

2434
02:00:34,400 --> 02:00:37,120
Speaker 6: It's that's what I think. And testament to the last

2435
02:00:37,160 --> 02:00:38,440
Speaker 6: three weeks with people contacting us.

2436
02:00:39,400 --> 02:00:42,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, well look it's still it is really still home,

2437
02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:42,480
Speaker 12: you know.

2438
02:00:42,760 --> 02:00:46,200
Speaker 18: And I think most of the people of my time,

2439
02:00:46,280 --> 02:00:49,640
Speaker 18: you didn't really have any alternative.

2440
02:00:49,080 --> 02:00:52,600
Speaker 12: But to leave Earth if you wanted to pursue something, yeah, you.

2441
02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:59,360
Speaker 5: Know, or music, Yeah, different, different kettlefish now, of course

2442
02:00:59,640 --> 02:01:01,440
Speaker 5: a lot to do with the way music is produced,

2443
02:01:01,480 --> 02:01:05,000
Speaker 5: but you just had no choice. Another thing that people,

2444
02:01:05,680 --> 02:01:07,920
Speaker 5: a lot of the bands we've talked to about this time,

2445
02:01:08,160 --> 02:01:12,200
Speaker 5: they felt pressured to do covers. How did you feel

2446
02:01:12,760 --> 02:01:15,160
Speaker 5: about the whole covers versus original stuff?

2447
02:01:16,520 --> 02:01:19,800
Speaker 18: Look, I always felt that what I wanted to do

2448
02:01:20,600 --> 02:01:23,920
Speaker 18: was original music, and if I did covers, I did

2449
02:01:24,000 --> 02:01:26,040
Speaker 18: do a few covers, and I did that, but I

2450
02:01:26,160 --> 02:01:29,080
Speaker 18: always tried to pick something that was different or do

2451
02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:30,040
Speaker 18: a different way.

2452
02:01:30,760 --> 02:01:31,480
Speaker 15: But I didn't.

2453
02:01:32,080 --> 02:01:34,840
Speaker 18: I wasn't one of the people, you know, became quite

2454
02:01:34,960 --> 02:01:37,919
Speaker 18: vituperative to use that word. Some people in the original

2455
02:01:38,040 --> 02:01:41,120
Speaker 18: scene really dislike cover band people.

2456
02:01:41,440 --> 02:01:42,200
Speaker 12: I never found that.

2457
02:01:42,320 --> 02:01:44,240
Speaker 18: I mean, I just thought we're all musicians, and you

2458
02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:47,200
Speaker 18: do you do what you do and what suits you,

2459
02:01:47,320 --> 02:01:50,600
Speaker 18: and you know, I saw bands like Well Loaded Dice

2460
02:01:50,680 --> 02:01:53,320
Speaker 18: that I mentioned an de Kaynes, who were a cover

2461
02:01:53,520 --> 02:01:55,160
Speaker 18: band essentially for a long long time.

2462
02:01:55,240 --> 02:01:58,680
Speaker 12: They didn't help them, but the energy that they brought

2463
02:01:59,040 --> 02:02:01,480
Speaker 12: to a show was to me.

2464
02:02:02,520 --> 02:02:05,200
Speaker 18: I took it to another level and it was exciting

2465
02:02:05,280 --> 02:02:06,880
Speaker 18: as if I had walked down to the cabin and

2466
02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:07,879
Speaker 18: was seeing the Beatles.

2467
02:02:07,920 --> 02:02:11,160
Speaker 12: You know, So how do you quantify those things?

2468
02:02:11,200 --> 02:02:14,560
Speaker 3: I mean, it's good, yeah, yeah, exactly.

2469
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:15,560
Speaker 12: If it makes you feel good.

2470
02:02:15,760 --> 02:02:19,800
Speaker 18: So but but you know, played your strengths and for me,

2471
02:02:19,960 --> 02:02:22,200
Speaker 18: that was doing I wasn't good enough musician to do

2472
02:02:22,240 --> 02:02:23,360
Speaker 18: all those tricky.

2473
02:02:24,760 --> 02:02:26,320
Speaker 12: Own stuff to make it simple.

2474
02:02:26,440 --> 02:02:26,560
Speaker 9: You know.

2475
02:02:26,680 --> 02:02:27,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're right about Decaines.

2476
02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:30,640
Speaker 6: But you know, yes, a Sunday session at the Heardies,

2477
02:02:30,800 --> 02:02:32,520
Speaker 6: he'd dicking the Dames in the day on a Sunday

2478
02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:34,200
Speaker 6: and he was hilarious on stage.

2479
02:02:34,240 --> 02:02:35,760
Speaker 7: He may not get away with it in.

2480
02:02:35,760 --> 02:02:39,000
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty four, but you must say he's a funny bugger,

2481
02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:41,080
Speaker 6: but he is a funny member. You you must have

2482
02:02:41,120 --> 02:02:43,120
Speaker 6: seen some funny things on stage with a lot of

2483
02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:44,280
Speaker 6: Americans rolling up the gigs.

2484
02:02:45,360 --> 02:02:48,680
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I played with the funniest

2485
02:02:49,160 --> 02:02:53,560
Speaker 18: of them all. My right hand man, Johnny Leopard. It

2486
02:02:53,960 --> 02:02:57,280
Speaker 18: was probably Look, I don't think he was peerless in

2487
02:02:57,440 --> 02:03:01,760
Speaker 18: terms of Australian rock harrists, just that he had this

2488
02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:07,240
Speaker 18: incredible animated face. He was really really quick, witty and funny,

2489
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:11,960
Speaker 18: and we could just riff off something verbally on stage

2490
02:03:12,160 --> 02:03:13,640
Speaker 18: and he'd pick up where.

2491
02:03:13,520 --> 02:03:14,120
Speaker 3: I was going.

2492
02:03:14,240 --> 02:03:18,600
Speaker 18: And he was really unique. And anybody who saw him

2493
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:21,240
Speaker 18: from overseas like we'd play, we'd support bands like the

2494
02:03:21,280 --> 02:03:24,360
Speaker 18: Stranglers or somebody just couldn't believe Leopard. And a great

2495
02:03:24,400 --> 02:03:26,120
Speaker 18: regret of mine is that we didn't get a chance

2496
02:03:26,200 --> 02:03:28,920
Speaker 18: to play overseas with that band at that Hikers.

2497
02:03:29,040 --> 02:03:31,600
Speaker 12: I think places like Los Angeles the Viper Room would.

2498
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:39,240
Speaker 7: Have loved left absolutely yeah and dangerous Dave Warner from

2499
02:03:39,320 --> 02:03:40,000
Speaker 7: the Suburbs.

2500
02:03:40,400 --> 02:03:43,400
Speaker 5: It has been an absolute treat for all of us

2501
02:03:43,440 --> 02:03:45,000
Speaker 5: this morning to reminisce with you.

2502
02:03:45,680 --> 02:03:47,800
Speaker 7: Thanks, thanks for being part of it. Does it catch up?

2503
02:03:47,880 --> 02:03:48,040
Speaker 14: Mate?

2504
02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:49,320
Speaker 7: Oh my pleasure?

2505
02:03:49,360 --> 02:03:50,840
Speaker 18: Thanks for keeping the vibe alive.

2506
02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:51,160
Speaker 9: Well.

2507
02:03:51,200 --> 02:03:53,560
Speaker 18: I know it means a lot to musicians of my

2508
02:03:53,760 --> 02:03:56,320
Speaker 18: era and hopefully to the fans, but it was a

2509
02:03:56,360 --> 02:03:59,680
Speaker 18: great time and I was so fortunate to be part.

2510
02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:02,040
Speaker 7: Of its day. You have a great week.

2511
02:04:02,240 --> 02:04:02,480
Speaker 9: Bye.

2512
02:04:04,840 --> 02:04:08,000
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute works twelve hundred people,

2513
02:04:08,120 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: a man at working again their own, the.

2514
02:04:10,120 --> 02:04:15,000
Speaker 4: People and the bands was a way of Lisa's draw.

2515
02:04:15,760 --> 02:04:19,360
Speaker 5: Today, Slim drew himself Jamie mccanty, good morning.

2516
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:21,920
Speaker 14: Believe it.

2517
02:04:22,320 --> 02:04:23,120
Speaker 7: This is ob scene.

2518
02:04:23,120 --> 02:04:25,400
Speaker 25: Getting up this hour of morning is like tortune for

2519
02:04:25,440 --> 02:04:28,600
Speaker 25: a rock and roll mate, What are you talking about?

2520
02:04:28,640 --> 02:04:31,560
Speaker 25: What are you talking about? It is the defibrillator outside

2521
02:04:31,600 --> 02:04:33,480
Speaker 25: for ready to go? Yeah, yeah, we didn't know you

2522
02:04:33,600 --> 02:04:34,240
Speaker 25: needed a rider.

2523
02:04:34,640 --> 02:04:37,440
Speaker 6: Yeahs at least is practically a doctor maker.

2524
02:04:38,000 --> 02:04:40,800
Speaker 7: I'll give it. Google having about the.

2525
02:04:40,800 --> 02:04:45,040
Speaker 26: Mouse, every condition, Google for sussitation time doctor.

2526
02:04:45,080 --> 02:04:49,160
Speaker 7: Google that cassette. The quality sounded also, it was unreal.

2527
02:04:49,280 --> 02:04:51,400
Speaker 26: You know, I had a transferred to see a few

2528
02:04:51,520 --> 02:04:55,040
Speaker 26: years back because I've got one cassette left right on

2529
02:04:55,160 --> 02:04:57,680
Speaker 26: my shelf. And the interesting thing about it is on

2530
02:04:57,720 --> 02:04:59,560
Speaker 26: the back of it, we had this sticker that we

2531
02:04:59,640 --> 02:05:01,880
Speaker 26: had to put on manually. So we all came to

2532
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:04,200
Speaker 26: the office one day and sat down with it. You know,

2533
02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:05,880
Speaker 26: I think there was about two and a half thousand

2534
02:05:05,920 --> 02:05:08,320
Speaker 26: cassettes and a couple of boxes, and then we had

2535
02:05:08,360 --> 02:05:10,320
Speaker 26: all these stickers and we had to apply the sticket

2536
02:05:10,360 --> 02:05:14,320
Speaker 26: to the back, which was warning this cassette contains hidden

2537
02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:19,600
Speaker 26: Christian messages. Oh like the opening ceremony like that. Yeah,

2538
02:05:20,280 --> 02:05:25,520
Speaker 26: that's been controversial, hasn't they? Yeah, but it sold really well.

2539
02:05:25,640 --> 02:05:26,080
Speaker 14: Yeah. Good.

2540
02:05:26,280 --> 02:05:29,720
Speaker 5: You recorded that live at the OBA back then play

2541
02:05:29,760 --> 02:05:31,880
Speaker 5: the full version because it went for about twenty five hours.

2542
02:05:32,040 --> 02:05:34,160
Speaker 26: But the reason why I sent it through is because

2543
02:05:34,200 --> 02:05:36,560
Speaker 26: it's really indicative how that the crowd used to go

2544
02:05:36,640 --> 02:05:39,360
Speaker 26: off at the ABA. It was an absolute unique in

2545
02:05:39,400 --> 02:05:41,800
Speaker 26: its own way because it was licensed for the remy

2546
02:05:41,840 --> 02:05:43,680
Speaker 26: were playing. It was licensed for two hundred and twenty

2547
02:05:43,760 --> 02:05:46,200
Speaker 26: five people, and I know because we had the door

2548
02:05:46,320 --> 02:05:49,280
Speaker 26: charge on, so we had a head count and there

2549
02:05:49,360 --> 02:05:52,400
Speaker 26: was an excess of six hundred and six hundred and

2550
02:05:52,440 --> 02:05:54,960
Speaker 26: fifty average every single Saturday night.

2551
02:05:55,640 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 14: So that was extraordinary.

2552
02:05:56,720 --> 02:05:58,880
Speaker 26: But it just wasn't shaped or made for it, but

2553
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:01,720
Speaker 26: for some odd reason just had this atmosphere like no other,

2554
02:06:02,120 --> 02:06:06,080
Speaker 26: Like for example, it was the beat it was and

2555
02:06:06,240 --> 02:06:09,480
Speaker 26: all that facade of the OBH was covered in glass, yes,

2556
02:06:09,880 --> 02:06:14,200
Speaker 26: in the studio, and while we were playing, especially in summer,

2557
02:06:14,360 --> 02:06:17,080
Speaker 26: the condensation with all the people being sort of sort

2558
02:06:17,080 --> 02:06:20,160
Speaker 26: of so tightly packed in there, he used to rain

2559
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:21,640
Speaker 26: on the inside of the windows.

2560
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:24,360
Speaker 7: It was out of control, but that was your fault

2561
02:06:24,360 --> 02:06:25,280
Speaker 7: because you guys are so good.

2562
02:06:25,480 --> 02:06:26,800
Speaker 14: Well, yeah good.

2563
02:06:27,280 --> 02:06:30,400
Speaker 26: It's a weird thing, though, cleary because the FATS Band's

2564
02:06:30,640 --> 02:06:33,520
Speaker 26: history was one where none of us had any experience

2565
02:06:33,600 --> 02:06:36,280
Speaker 26: playing in a band prior to join starting the FATS Band,

2566
02:06:36,760 --> 02:06:40,040
Speaker 26: and we all came from very like bizarre sort of backgrounds,

2567
02:06:40,040 --> 02:06:41,640
Speaker 26: like a Drummond was from a punk bank called the

2568
02:06:41,680 --> 02:06:45,480
Speaker 26: Tarantulas and the Kansas City Killers KKK it was spelled,

2569
02:06:46,520 --> 02:06:47,960
Speaker 26: and they used to play at the places like the

2570
02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:50,040
Speaker 26: Wiz Bar, which you keep talking about in the last

2571
02:06:50,080 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 26: couple of weeks, which is great. Our bass player never

2572
02:06:53,240 --> 02:06:55,520
Speaker 26: played bass before, but his brother owned a bass it

2573
02:06:55,640 --> 02:06:58,520
Speaker 26: was close enough. The lead guitarist was actually a bass

2574
02:06:58,600 --> 02:07:01,640
Speaker 26: player whose mother had left handed leg guitar because he

2575
02:07:01,680 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 26: was handed, so he was in and this is how

2576
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:06,920
Speaker 26: the story went. So none of us really had an experience,

2577
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:09,600
Speaker 26: but we had this absolute drive to actually start a

2578
02:07:09,680 --> 02:07:12,040
Speaker 26: band because I was working on a project called Godspell

2579
02:07:12,440 --> 02:07:15,400
Speaker 26: because I came out of weight with the theater, Arts

2580
02:07:15,440 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 26: and journalism degree. And the band that we put together

2581
02:07:19,480 --> 02:07:23,560
Speaker 26: for the orchestra for Godspell was basically the embryo of

2582
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:26,360
Speaker 26: what the Fatspan became. And none of us. As I said,

2583
02:07:26,360 --> 02:07:27,880
Speaker 26: I had an experience in the rock and roll game.

2584
02:07:27,920 --> 02:07:29,880
Speaker 26: But we thought, well, you know, this sounds pretty interesting.

2585
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:32,360
Speaker 26: And at that time, that was coming into the recession

2586
02:07:32,800 --> 02:07:35,200
Speaker 26: and there was no money being spent in theater or beings.

2587
02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:38,680
Speaker 26: You know, there was no funding. There was no funding

2588
02:07:38,760 --> 02:07:40,880
Speaker 26: it yet nothing was going on, and all the theater

2589
02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:44,320
Speaker 26: companies were really alarmed. I could see that my future

2590
02:07:44,320 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 26: as an actor was pretty limited in Perth, so I thought,

2591
02:07:46,880 --> 02:07:49,920
Speaker 26: let's try something else, and wanting to keep performing, we

2592
02:07:50,080 --> 02:07:52,200
Speaker 26: decided maybe the fat Span might be a good forum

2593
02:07:52,680 --> 02:07:53,520
Speaker 26: and it just worked.

2594
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:54,000
Speaker 14: It clicked.

2595
02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:57,640
Speaker 26: But in those days, though, to be fair, I mean,

2596
02:07:57,800 --> 02:07:59,920
Speaker 26: people gave us a lot of chances to get out

2597
02:08:00,360 --> 02:08:03,280
Speaker 26: to learn our craft and get it right. And there

2598
02:08:03,360 --> 02:08:05,760
Speaker 26: was great examples playing at the time, like the Frames,

2599
02:08:05,840 --> 02:08:10,160
Speaker 26: the Jets, Flash, Harry Flying Fontsa Rallies. I mean, the

2600
02:08:10,280 --> 02:08:13,280
Speaker 26: bands were just epic. So you just go and see

2601
02:08:13,360 --> 02:08:14,800
Speaker 26: some of these bands. It was like a you know,

2602
02:08:15,920 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 26: a bridging course of how to play rock and roll

2603
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:21,320
Speaker 26: on Perth. So we learned our lessons pretty quickly, and

2604
02:08:21,560 --> 02:08:24,840
Speaker 26: for some reason, we went from zero gigs from I

2605
02:08:24,920 --> 02:08:27,560
Speaker 26: think June when we sort of launched them by July,

2606
02:08:27,760 --> 02:08:31,080
Speaker 26: we were playing the Albion on a Thursday, the Silver

2607
02:08:31,160 --> 02:08:34,280
Speaker 26: Slipper and Netlins downstairs, the Broadway Fair shopping Center on

2608
02:08:34,360 --> 02:08:37,320
Speaker 26: the Friday, and the Saturdays then became the ABH and

2609
02:08:37,440 --> 02:08:41,520
Speaker 26: that was just it just blew out of proportion and

2610
02:08:41,640 --> 02:08:43,480
Speaker 26: it stayed that way for several years.

2611
02:08:43,720 --> 02:08:45,560
Speaker 7: With so many great venues. It was like a Smalls board,

2612
02:08:45,600 --> 02:08:45,840
Speaker 7: wasn't it.

2613
02:08:45,960 --> 02:08:46,240
Speaker 14: It was?

2614
02:08:47,320 --> 02:08:49,640
Speaker 26: And hearing in these interviews this week has been incredible.

2615
02:08:49,640 --> 02:08:52,440
Speaker 26: The ship and park was amazing, you know, and now

2616
02:08:52,480 --> 02:08:54,240
Speaker 26: it's not there. I mean I used to go to

2617
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:57,160
Speaker 26: the overflow like I'm sure you guys, and now it's

2618
02:08:57,360 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 26: not there, you know. And seeing the jet raid has gone,

2619
02:09:01,240 --> 02:09:04,839
Speaker 26: the Florida Florida it went, you know, the Herdsman got changed.

2620
02:09:05,320 --> 02:09:08,120
Speaker 26: It's quite sad because those rooms, albeit the fact there

2621
02:09:08,160 --> 02:09:10,320
Speaker 26: were large scar rooms and could carry it at least

2622
02:09:10,360 --> 02:09:13,800
Speaker 26: one thousand plus people. We became famous for sort of

2623
02:09:13,920 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 26: like pulling big numbers into moderate sized venues and continually

2624
02:09:17,760 --> 02:09:20,400
Speaker 26: packing them out for a few decades. So that was

2625
02:09:20,520 --> 02:09:23,560
Speaker 26: probably what our Forte was and the essence of the band.

2626
02:09:23,600 --> 02:09:25,360
Speaker 26: Because of the way we didn't have any experience in

2627
02:09:25,480 --> 02:09:27,280
Speaker 26: rock and roll. We always felt it needed to be

2628
02:09:27,320 --> 02:09:29,720
Speaker 26: a variety show. So it was an eight piece band

2629
02:09:29,760 --> 02:09:31,960
Speaker 26: when we started, with two girls and six guys playing

2630
02:09:32,040 --> 02:09:35,560
Speaker 26: multiple instruments, singing all forms of stuff.

2631
02:09:35,600 --> 02:09:36,360
Speaker 14: And when we started, we.

2632
02:09:36,360 --> 02:09:39,000
Speaker 26: Were basically a fifty five to sixty five era band,

2633
02:09:39,480 --> 02:09:41,200
Speaker 26: So it was a bit like Fingerprints, but like a

2634
02:09:41,240 --> 02:09:43,200
Speaker 26: big version of the Fingerprints in a way.

2635
02:09:43,120 --> 02:09:44,280
Speaker 14: Because that's what they were famous for.

2636
02:09:45,000 --> 02:09:47,200
Speaker 26: And we sort of kept that energy going and as

2637
02:09:47,560 --> 02:09:51,240
Speaker 26: music morph, like the Commitments came on board, Tour of

2638
02:09:51,360 --> 02:09:54,200
Speaker 26: Duty was out with huge soundtracks coming out, so that

2639
02:09:54,320 --> 02:09:58,200
Speaker 26: really fed our sixties vibe and also the rhythm blues vibe,

2640
02:09:58,320 --> 02:09:59,920
Speaker 26: which I became a massive fan of.

2641
02:10:00,400 --> 02:10:02,640
Speaker 14: So that's how the band sort of developed.

2642
02:10:02,720 --> 02:10:06,200
Speaker 26: But the variety aspect then and now is the most

2643
02:10:07,200 --> 02:10:10,280
Speaker 26: the greatest asset of the in my opinion anyway.

2644
02:10:10,040 --> 02:10:14,040
Speaker 5: Those Duty soundtracks that they were my research for the

2645
02:10:14,120 --> 02:10:15,560
Speaker 5: bands that I've missed, you know, just.

2646
02:10:15,600 --> 02:10:17,240
Speaker 7: Ahead of my time, and I don't think a lot

2647
02:10:17,280 --> 02:10:17,960
Speaker 7: of people did.

2648
02:10:18,960 --> 02:10:20,040
Speaker 14: I'm sure of it.

2649
02:10:20,640 --> 02:10:23,080
Speaker 7: By the way, it's off topic, but I love God's Spell.

2650
02:10:23,720 --> 02:10:25,680
Speaker 5: Who was that gorgeous woman that did day by day

2651
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:27,440
Speaker 5: in pre per year telethon back in the way.

2652
02:10:29,160 --> 02:10:37,040
Speaker 7: We'll never forget it. Forgot Queen and Poppa once was.

2653
02:10:37,680 --> 02:10:39,520
Speaker 7: I will never forget that performance as long.

2654
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:46,200
Speaker 5: But anyway, back on track, lovely collage, guys, the longevity

2655
02:10:46,480 --> 02:10:50,320
Speaker 5: of your band, what what do you think has led

2656
02:10:50,400 --> 02:10:52,760
Speaker 5: you guys to still be doing it around town that time?

2657
02:10:53,000 --> 02:10:57,480
Speaker 26: The energy of the team collectively, always putting their cards

2658
02:10:57,520 --> 02:10:59,640
Speaker 26: on the table every time they go to work. That's

2659
02:10:59,640 --> 02:11:01,440
Speaker 26: the only way you can survive. I mean, I think

2660
02:11:01,480 --> 02:11:03,760
Speaker 26: people will be pretty sick of me after thirty eight years.

2661
02:11:04,440 --> 02:11:06,280
Speaker 26: So you know they're either going to get you know

2662
02:11:06,320 --> 02:11:10,120
Speaker 26: what I mean. The hare is their hairstyle what never,

2663
02:11:10,160 --> 02:11:12,840
Speaker 26: It's not going to saw some good hair photos of you. Yeah,

2664
02:11:14,440 --> 02:11:17,960
Speaker 26: but that's that's the reason why I'm happy to be bored.

2665
02:11:18,560 --> 02:11:21,480
Speaker 26: I had no conscious hairstyle whatsoever. And my mother was

2666
02:11:21,520 --> 02:11:23,560
Speaker 26: a hairdresser and the day I walked in board, she

2667
02:11:23,600 --> 02:11:27,200
Speaker 26: just shook her head and just went, what's going on here?

2668
02:11:27,920 --> 02:11:28,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2669
02:11:28,400 --> 02:11:31,560
Speaker 26: It's really the energy collectively of the team that put

2670
02:11:31,640 --> 02:11:33,760
Speaker 26: it out on stage, and it's just a joy to

2671
02:11:33,840 --> 02:11:36,520
Speaker 26: be with. And we've had some reunions in recent years.

2672
02:11:36,600 --> 02:11:39,080
Speaker 26: We went back to the ABH last year at least

2673
02:11:39,080 --> 02:11:41,840
Speaker 26: from pleasant and it was it was really nice to

2674
02:11:41,920 --> 02:11:45,880
Speaker 26: see not only the fans come back and and sort

2675
02:11:45,920 --> 02:11:49,000
Speaker 26: of like misbehavior as they used to do back in

2676
02:11:49,040 --> 02:11:50,360
Speaker 26: the day, because that was the thing about it.

2677
02:11:50,600 --> 02:11:52,600
Speaker 14: There was nothing like the OBH. It was just a

2678
02:11:52,760 --> 02:11:53,840
Speaker 14: different level of energy.

2679
02:11:53,920 --> 02:11:56,040
Speaker 26: And I'd been to the frames, I'd been to Flying

2680
02:11:56,080 --> 02:11:59,360
Speaker 26: Funds for years at the u w A refectory and

2681
02:11:59,800 --> 02:12:03,000
Speaker 26: you know, and it was just pandemonium when the Fonds

2682
02:12:03,000 --> 02:12:05,400
Speaker 26: of Willings were playing. But the OBH, do, I say,

2683
02:12:05,680 --> 02:12:08,600
Speaker 26: went to another level. I've never seen misbehavior in an

2684
02:12:08,600 --> 02:12:09,400
Speaker 26: audience like it.

2685
02:12:09,800 --> 02:12:11,720
Speaker 7: Did you ever need the net in front of you?

2686
02:12:11,800 --> 02:12:12,200
Speaker 14: The cage?

2687
02:12:12,240 --> 02:12:12,360
Speaker 18: You know?

2688
02:12:12,840 --> 02:12:16,720
Speaker 26: Blues Brothers for all days we went to the country areas.

2689
02:12:17,320 --> 02:12:19,040
Speaker 26: There were some places in the country we used to

2690
02:12:19,080 --> 02:12:21,720
Speaker 26: think that maybe a fence up the front might be

2691
02:12:21,720 --> 02:12:24,120
Speaker 26: a bit handed. We used to keep barriers at the

2692
02:12:24,160 --> 02:12:26,280
Speaker 26: front of the stage to have you stop people trying

2693
02:12:26,320 --> 02:12:27,880
Speaker 26: to jump on stage, but that never worked.

2694
02:12:29,160 --> 02:12:29,200
Speaker 19: It.

2695
02:12:29,920 --> 02:12:31,840
Speaker 7: Oh, well, you don't want to stuby your head. What

2696
02:12:31,920 --> 02:12:32,480
Speaker 7: you're trying to say.

2697
02:12:32,600 --> 02:12:33,280
Speaker 16: No, it's not good.

2698
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:36,120
Speaker 26: But yeah, we've been really lucky for thirty ages playing

2699
02:12:36,160 --> 02:12:38,160
Speaker 26: the OBH gig was fantastic, So a lot of the

2700
02:12:38,280 --> 02:12:41,400
Speaker 26: original members came back to perform with the band and

2701
02:12:41,640 --> 02:12:43,320
Speaker 26: on The other aspect of it too, which I thought

2702
02:12:43,400 --> 02:12:47,720
Speaker 26: was lovely, was that some of the other members that

2703
02:12:47,800 --> 02:12:50,480
Speaker 26: created a great foundation back in the nineties and so forth,

2704
02:12:50,520 --> 02:12:53,400
Speaker 26: when we're doing that the Aberdeen every Friday night.

2705
02:12:53,440 --> 02:12:54,680
Speaker 14: I think for twelve and a half.

2706
02:12:54,600 --> 02:12:59,360
Speaker 26: Years we had long standing residencies at the Breakwater's having yeah,

2707
02:13:00,320 --> 02:13:03,320
Speaker 26: with four hundred and fifty one shows there before the

2708
02:13:03,400 --> 02:13:05,800
Speaker 26: original lineup when the break Horder was in the other location.

2709
02:13:05,960 --> 02:13:08,840
Speaker 26: Wasn't it a real Breakwater with Ken and Anne Reid.

2710
02:13:09,400 --> 02:13:11,920
Speaker 26: Keen got to love him his past now, but Ken

2711
02:13:12,040 --> 02:13:15,160
Speaker 26: showed his great support. In fact, Ken was actually I've

2712
02:13:15,200 --> 02:13:18,200
Speaker 26: got to give Ken a lot of credit because nobody

2713
02:13:18,240 --> 02:13:19,920
Speaker 26: wanted to book the Fats Band. There was a time

2714
02:13:20,000 --> 02:13:22,600
Speaker 26: after about ten or twelve years that the phone just

2715
02:13:22,600 --> 02:13:26,120
Speaker 26: stopped ringing, and then Ken gave us an opportunity of

2716
02:13:26,200 --> 02:13:29,600
Speaker 26: playing on a Wednesday Wednesday night at the Breakwater and

2717
02:13:29,680 --> 02:13:32,760
Speaker 26: it went from whatever it was, a couple hundred people

2718
02:13:32,800 --> 02:13:35,920
Speaker 26: to about seven hundred and fifty people every single Wednesday night.

2719
02:13:36,720 --> 02:13:38,960
Speaker 26: And really for all of us back in that generation,

2720
02:13:39,120 --> 02:13:41,920
Speaker 26: that's probably when the Fats Band was working from Wednesday

2721
02:13:42,000 --> 02:13:44,760
Speaker 26: to Sunday. On a Tuesday night, I'd always go and

2722
02:13:44,840 --> 02:13:46,800
Speaker 26: see never Never Acagney's.

2723
02:13:46,400 --> 02:13:49,040
Speaker 16: Right, and that was just that was just the bomb.

2724
02:13:50,360 --> 02:13:52,080
Speaker 26: It was our chance to see a band because we're

2725
02:13:52,080 --> 02:13:54,760
Speaker 26: always working. We couldn't see anymore unless they were multi

2726
02:13:54,840 --> 02:13:57,360
Speaker 26: band lineups, and you get to see everybody else's band,

2727
02:13:58,040 --> 02:14:02,280
Speaker 26: you know, you know playing in the day, those looking

2728
02:14:02,320 --> 02:14:05,360
Speaker 26: bus looking Busters and Yeah Refels, Rippers and there was

2729
02:14:05,400 --> 02:14:08,680
Speaker 26: the plothon rock shows and and they were just incredible.

2730
02:14:08,680 --> 02:14:11,480
Speaker 26: So you catched up with all these other bands literally

2731
02:14:11,520 --> 02:14:14,520
Speaker 26: for months or twice a year in our own environment,

2732
02:14:15,120 --> 02:14:17,600
Speaker 26: which is you know, good and dangerous at the same time.

2733
02:14:17,720 --> 02:14:19,680
Speaker 5: Well, Tuesday night was a big night if you worked

2734
02:14:19,880 --> 02:14:22,000
Speaker 5: in the industry because that was the night that was

2735
02:14:22,080 --> 02:14:22,920
Speaker 5: considered the night off.

2736
02:14:22,920 --> 02:14:25,320
Speaker 7: I remember we used to go to the Underground on

2737
02:14:25,400 --> 02:14:28,680
Speaker 7: the on a Tuesday night round so good. But what

2738
02:14:28,800 --> 02:14:34,040
Speaker 7: a fire trap it was at the Underground.

2739
02:14:34,240 --> 02:14:37,000
Speaker 26: At the Underground when I was working as an actor

2740
02:14:37,000 --> 02:14:39,120
Speaker 26: before I got involved with the Fats band, I was

2741
02:14:39,160 --> 02:14:42,560
Speaker 26: actually a statue in the really in the front cabinet.

2742
02:14:42,560 --> 02:14:43,360
Speaker 14: When he used to walk in.

2743
02:14:44,280 --> 02:14:46,360
Speaker 6: Like you're doing a bit of mine with you a bit,

2744
02:14:46,960 --> 02:14:48,800
Speaker 6: but I'm just doing the statue thing, and then people

2745
02:14:48,840 --> 02:14:52,040
Speaker 6: would walk up and bag the window the windows becomes

2746
02:14:52,520 --> 02:14:55,080
Speaker 6: face like this and I'm going to die in situation.

2747
02:14:55,840 --> 02:14:59,160
Speaker 26: You know, you're sweating profusely because there was no it

2748
02:14:59,280 --> 02:15:00,840
Speaker 26: was held and safety unite me.

2749
02:15:01,480 --> 02:15:04,880
Speaker 6: Absolutely, you can have been a Queen's guard mate. You're

2750
02:15:04,960 --> 02:15:07,720
Speaker 6: very stoic. How about the faces you see in the

2751
02:15:07,800 --> 02:15:10,680
Speaker 6: crowds over the years. You must see the multi generations show.

2752
02:15:10,760 --> 02:15:11,360
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, you do.

2753
02:15:11,880 --> 02:15:14,840
Speaker 26: And I've got to say, like again, it's just the

2754
02:15:14,960 --> 02:15:18,440
Speaker 26: loyalty and the friendships that we've forged over the years,

2755
02:15:18,960 --> 02:15:20,880
Speaker 26: not just in the band, but with the fans. It's

2756
02:15:20,920 --> 02:15:23,800
Speaker 26: been incredible and like you know that they come up

2757
02:15:23,840 --> 02:15:27,000
Speaker 26: and they remind you of things that you've have forgotten about.

2758
02:15:27,440 --> 02:15:28,760
Speaker 14: Do you remember this gig and you sort of go,

2759
02:15:28,840 --> 02:15:30,400
Speaker 14: oh my god, I can remember that, you know.

2760
02:15:30,560 --> 02:15:32,760
Speaker 26: So they've obviously had a great time, and there's people

2761
02:15:32,800 --> 02:15:34,520
Speaker 26: coming back now that probably haven't seen the band, Like

2762
02:15:34,560 --> 02:15:37,760
Speaker 26: they've gone away, they've had their kids, you know, divorced,

2763
02:15:38,240 --> 02:15:40,800
Speaker 26: you know or whatever, ye oh whatever it is. These

2764
02:15:40,920 --> 02:15:45,320
Speaker 26: days you know chase sexualities absolutely, you know, they come

2765
02:15:45,400 --> 02:15:48,160
Speaker 26: back and they go you know, I remember these days,

2766
02:15:48,200 --> 02:15:49,800
Speaker 26: and they tell you stories and stuff and it's just

2767
02:15:49,880 --> 02:15:55,440
Speaker 26: really lovely. Really, you know, I'm in a blessed situation really,

2768
02:15:55,480 --> 02:15:56,760
Speaker 26: and a lot of the other people that you've had

2769
02:15:56,800 --> 02:15:58,680
Speaker 26: on air, we'll tell you the same thing. I mean,

2770
02:15:59,160 --> 02:16:00,800
Speaker 26: you know, it's a rich treat to be able to

2771
02:16:01,000 --> 02:16:04,160
Speaker 26: do what you loved to do for your entire career.

2772
02:16:04,880 --> 02:16:07,200
Speaker 26: And albeit you know, I do have other bits and

2773
02:16:07,280 --> 02:16:09,200
Speaker 26: pieces like theater and so forth they go and do.

2774
02:16:09,360 --> 02:16:10,960
Speaker 14: But the energy of the Fats band.

2775
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:13,360
Speaker 26: What I love about the fatspan more than anything being

2776
02:16:13,400 --> 02:16:15,480
Speaker 26: a front man with that band since I started, is

2777
02:16:16,120 --> 02:16:19,320
Speaker 26: is you walk into chaos. It's pandemic, like you don't

2778
02:16:19,320 --> 02:16:22,440
Speaker 26: know what it's just. Look, you don't know what you're

2779
02:16:22,480 --> 02:16:24,000
Speaker 26: going to get each night, and you're just going to

2780
02:16:24,080 --> 02:16:26,240
Speaker 26: deal with it. And you're sure the band's got the

2781
02:16:26,320 --> 02:16:28,360
Speaker 26: songs to play, But it's how you approach the audience

2782
02:16:28,400 --> 02:16:29,640
Speaker 26: and what are you going to try and to vote

2783
02:16:29,640 --> 02:16:32,160
Speaker 26: from the audience, and that sort of game really keeps

2784
02:16:32,160 --> 02:16:34,560
Speaker 26: you on your ties, and that keeps you mentally sharp,

2785
02:16:34,840 --> 02:16:36,600
Speaker 26: and it keeps you pretty physically fit as well.

2786
02:16:36,800 --> 02:16:38,320
Speaker 7: You went to wait, did you ever do any shows

2787
02:16:38,320 --> 02:16:39,080
Speaker 7: at the weight Tavern?

2788
02:16:39,400 --> 02:16:39,720
Speaker 14: I did?

2789
02:16:41,200 --> 02:16:44,039
Speaker 26: I might have been there t having one away, ye,

2790
02:16:45,000 --> 02:16:47,040
Speaker 26: So you know, is it a funny when I was

2791
02:16:47,080 --> 02:16:51,279
Speaker 26: at Uni. I was seeing bands like the Riffs, innocent bystanders.

2792
02:16:52,680 --> 02:16:54,280
Speaker 26: As I said, you know, when I started UNI, I

2793
02:16:54,360 --> 02:16:56,800
Speaker 26: was also going over to u w WA because most

2794
02:16:56,800 --> 02:16:59,879
Speaker 26: of my mates from Trinity went to u w AA

2795
02:17:00,520 --> 02:17:04,000
Speaker 26: and we'd see bands like that. Itchy Feet, flying fonds

2796
02:17:04,040 --> 02:17:06,680
Speaker 26: of Relis was just like if you went and saw

2797
02:17:06,680 --> 02:17:08,400
Speaker 26: the fonds all his back, it was like an epiphany.

2798
02:17:08,879 --> 02:17:09,040
Speaker 22: It was.

2799
02:17:09,320 --> 02:17:11,160
Speaker 14: It was like a religious yeather, right.

2800
02:17:11,640 --> 02:17:11,800
Speaker 25: You know.

2801
02:17:11,959 --> 02:17:14,240
Speaker 26: I mean, Elf would call out dead ads and then

2802
02:17:14,320 --> 02:17:17,360
Speaker 26: you've got eleven hundred people on their backs doing good

2803
02:17:17,400 --> 02:17:20,160
Speaker 26: as it was the most ludicrous thing you'd ever seen

2804
02:17:20,200 --> 02:17:22,560
Speaker 26: in your life. But it was hilarious. But I've never

2805
02:17:22,600 --> 02:17:25,520
Speaker 26: seen a band motivated crowd like it. But in those days,

2806
02:17:25,560 --> 02:17:29,680
Speaker 26: I mean the frames, the jets, I mean, you know,

2807
02:17:30,400 --> 02:17:34,600
Speaker 26: I'm going to embarrass myself with that. And they were

2808
02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:37,720
Speaker 26: frost amazing band, you know what I mean. And they

2809
02:17:37,760 --> 02:17:40,040
Speaker 26: were really good at their craft. They were great musicians.

2810
02:17:40,440 --> 02:17:43,080
Speaker 26: And isn't it funny that you know, even I should

2811
02:17:43,120 --> 02:17:47,840
Speaker 26: mention absolutely they put a number they did and look

2812
02:17:47,879 --> 02:17:52,160
Speaker 26: at most of our industry currently the leading band so

2813
02:17:52,320 --> 02:17:55,440
Speaker 26: like ian Fork Dave Thomas. Ian Fork was in tour

2814
02:17:55,600 --> 02:17:58,360
Speaker 26: Tourer back in the Day and Dave Thomas. Yeah, Dave

2815
02:17:58,440 --> 02:18:01,200
Speaker 26: Thomas is with the jab Babies when they first formed

2816
02:18:01,560 --> 02:18:06,640
Speaker 26: Jess Law in eighties. Underground is from you know, Jay Babies.

2817
02:18:07,160 --> 02:18:10,640
Speaker 26: Todd's still working, Mark donod Hue from that, The Frames

2818
02:18:10,800 --> 02:18:14,680
Speaker 26: is playing with Todd. Now Billy Jermaine that was playing

2819
02:18:14,760 --> 02:18:17,480
Speaker 26: drums at me for several years, he's playing with Todd Steel.

2820
02:18:17,800 --> 02:18:20,160
Speaker 26: John Calabresi played in The Fast Man. He's also playing

2821
02:18:20,200 --> 02:18:23,640
Speaker 26: with Todd. I mean that generation of musicians, they just

2822
02:18:23,800 --> 02:18:27,120
Speaker 26: know how to apply their craft to an audience and

2823
02:18:27,240 --> 02:18:31,160
Speaker 26: it's still evident today. And I'm sixty. I'm sure some

2824
02:18:31,280 --> 02:18:33,560
Speaker 26: of these guys are older and they're still dishing it

2825
02:18:33,680 --> 02:18:35,439
Speaker 26: up and it's just marvelous.

2826
02:18:35,520 --> 02:18:35,680
Speaker 14: You know.

2827
02:18:35,760 --> 02:18:37,760
Speaker 6: I took about those big venues, big beer barns. I

2828
02:18:37,840 --> 02:18:40,920
Speaker 6: do remember one one Sunday walking into the overflow with

2829
02:18:41,160 --> 02:18:43,560
Speaker 6: my mate and down there in Italou and be Capri

2830
02:18:43,640 --> 02:18:45,040
Speaker 6: were on stage. And I've said this to Lesa a

2831
02:18:45,040 --> 02:18:47,560
Speaker 6: few times, it's fortnite. There were I reckon, six hundred

2832
02:18:47,600 --> 02:18:49,959
Speaker 6: girls down the front and the jealous boyfriends are all

2833
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:52,080
Speaker 6: at the bat the back. But the atmosphere, in the

2834
02:18:52,200 --> 02:18:55,680
Speaker 6: atmosphere was just electric because the great big beer barn.

2835
02:18:55,720 --> 02:18:57,720
Speaker 6: But it was it was he he was so full

2836
02:18:57,920 --> 02:19:00,960
Speaker 6: was yeah, a look at those guys were like a

2837
02:19:01,080 --> 02:19:02,279
Speaker 6: class models.

2838
02:19:01,959 --> 02:19:05,280
Speaker 14: On you know what I mean?

2839
02:19:05,959 --> 02:19:08,200
Speaker 26: Like me, I was Adeen Stone and didn't give us

2840
02:19:08,200 --> 02:19:10,480
Speaker 26: stuff looking great for an audience. It was just like

2841
02:19:10,879 --> 02:19:13,040
Speaker 26: slim gym and I just looked the complete opposite. But

2842
02:19:13,120 --> 02:19:16,440
Speaker 26: that was my nickname at the school. That's where it

2843
02:19:16,480 --> 02:19:19,160
Speaker 26: came from. So slim Fats you know Bill Hadley in

2844
02:19:19,200 --> 02:19:21,720
Speaker 26: the comments. There was other bands around that time that

2845
02:19:21,800 --> 02:19:25,280
Speaker 26: were doing really funny things with their names, like Jimmynastics

2846
02:19:25,320 --> 02:19:27,160
Speaker 26: and the crash Matsyah.

2847
02:19:27,200 --> 02:19:28,760
Speaker 14: I mean I thought that. I thought that was genius.

2848
02:19:29,000 --> 02:19:31,080
Speaker 26: And I shared a house with a guy that was

2849
02:19:31,120 --> 02:19:34,480
Speaker 26: a drummer for Elroy Flicker and the Fits, and I

2850
02:19:34,600 --> 02:19:37,760
Speaker 26: was just an incredible band. They recorded their album in

2851
02:19:37,879 --> 02:19:41,680
Speaker 26: our flat in Kings Park Road was Perth, just incredible.

2852
02:19:41,680 --> 02:19:43,240
Speaker 6: I thought I Spit on your Gravy was a good one.

2853
02:19:43,280 --> 02:19:44,960
Speaker 6: I think it was an helping put on your gravy.

2854
02:19:49,400 --> 02:19:49,560
Speaker 19: Thanks.

2855
02:19:49,600 --> 02:19:51,040
Speaker 14: We used to get away with me.

2856
02:19:51,120 --> 02:19:53,680
Speaker 26: I was doing a version of Gloria where I changed

2857
02:19:53,680 --> 02:19:56,960
Speaker 26: all the lyrics and made it Maria. But it was

2858
02:19:57,120 --> 02:19:59,680
Speaker 26: it was sung by like a very pissed off Italian husband.

2859
02:20:00,760 --> 02:20:01,680
Speaker 2: The name was em.

2860
02:20:04,560 --> 02:20:09,320
Speaker 5: Remember a band called Snake People. They used to do

2861
02:20:09,760 --> 02:20:11,760
Speaker 5: Sunday session at the Queens when I worked at the Queen.

2862
02:20:11,840 --> 02:20:16,359
Speaker 26: They also played the Brewerial House right shilling highways.

2863
02:20:17,280 --> 02:20:20,280
Speaker 7: The keyboarders used to do a great recorder solo in

2864
02:20:20,400 --> 02:20:22,840
Speaker 7: wild Thing You're kidding It was always.

2865
02:20:24,360 --> 02:20:26,160
Speaker 26: But we used to see them as well because they

2866
02:20:26,200 --> 02:20:29,200
Speaker 26: were great guys. John Roberts was in that band as well,

2867
02:20:29,240 --> 02:20:32,640
Speaker 26: and John ended up starting R and R Music, which

2868
02:20:32,680 --> 02:20:34,680
Speaker 26: has now become a hen House rehearsals.

2869
02:20:34,879 --> 02:20:39,360
Speaker 7: Oh yes, scope.

2870
02:20:39,440 --> 02:20:40,360
Speaker 14: So it was originally built.

2871
02:20:40,360 --> 02:20:42,240
Speaker 26: In fact, I actually laid some ricks there and actually

2872
02:20:42,480 --> 02:20:44,880
Speaker 26: for a couple of days to help out building the

2873
02:20:44,920 --> 02:20:45,600
Speaker 26: place first.

2874
02:20:48,600 --> 02:20:50,720
Speaker 6: A couple of days laboring was good, good for the soul.

2875
02:20:50,800 --> 02:20:52,879
Speaker 6: I've for many years I've bumped into you them boast

2876
02:20:52,959 --> 02:20:56,320
Speaker 6: in the Telethon green room. Oh yeah, and so many,

2877
02:20:56,640 --> 02:20:57,600
Speaker 6: so many gigs for Telethon.

2878
02:20:58,720 --> 02:20:58,840
Speaker 14: Well.

2879
02:20:58,879 --> 02:21:01,880
Speaker 26: I started the YEA fast band first appeared just after

2880
02:21:01,959 --> 02:21:05,440
Speaker 26: we started, I think in October nineteen eighty six, and

2881
02:21:06,400 --> 02:21:08,080
Speaker 26: something like coup Us three or four in the morning,

2882
02:21:08,320 --> 02:21:10,800
Speaker 26: one of those special time slots, And then a couple

2883
02:21:10,840 --> 02:21:13,800
Speaker 26: of years went on. I think Peter Dean approached me

2884
02:21:14,240 --> 02:21:16,960
Speaker 26: at the end of one of the shifts that I

2885
02:21:17,080 --> 02:21:18,920
Speaker 26: was working on, and I think I was doing the

2886
02:21:18,959 --> 02:21:20,560
Speaker 26: phone room obviously because nobody else.

2887
02:21:20,400 --> 02:21:20,960
Speaker 14: Wanted the job.

2888
02:21:21,440 --> 02:21:23,560
Speaker 26: And Peter said, look, you know, I'm getting too old.

2889
02:21:23,600 --> 02:21:25,760
Speaker 26: I think I want to move on stick with the

2890
02:21:25,840 --> 02:21:28,840
Speaker 26: Dave routine. I'm too old to the late nights. That

2891
02:21:28,959 --> 02:21:30,840
Speaker 26: you consider coming in and doing the late nights And

2892
02:21:30,879 --> 02:21:33,080
Speaker 26: I said sure, And then I sort of got involved

2893
02:21:33,080 --> 02:21:37,119
Speaker 26: with John Crilly and Gloria Fryer and I started producing

2894
02:21:37,959 --> 02:21:41,200
Speaker 26: and hosting the midnight to dawn thing for I think

2895
02:21:41,240 --> 02:21:42,879
Speaker 26: it was twenty plus twenty two to.

2896
02:21:42,879 --> 02:21:43,720
Speaker 14: Twenty four years.

2897
02:21:44,240 --> 02:21:46,760
Speaker 26: But I was also the musical coordinator for telethhone for

2898
02:21:46,800 --> 02:21:49,320
Speaker 26: a number of years as well, especially in that transition

2899
02:21:49,440 --> 02:21:53,840
Speaker 26: from the studio to PCC. Yeah, go from the Hill base,

2900
02:21:54,000 --> 02:21:57,200
Speaker 26: coming from that two hundred strong audience to two thousand,

2901
02:21:57,840 --> 02:21:59,640
Speaker 26: and then having this sort of structure of the show

2902
02:21:59,680 --> 02:22:02,720
Speaker 26: a coly So that was an interesting way of doing

2903
02:22:02,760 --> 02:22:07,280
Speaker 26: it and taking your live music knowledge to telephone and

2904
02:22:07,320 --> 02:22:08,400
Speaker 26: making it work for the PC.

2905
02:22:08,920 --> 02:22:10,160
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was a good time.

2906
02:22:10,640 --> 02:22:12,080
Speaker 7: Are you coming up to the Big four to Oh

2907
02:22:12,840 --> 02:22:14,480
Speaker 7: really it was eighty six.

2908
02:22:14,720 --> 02:22:19,040
Speaker 14: Yeah, we've already booked at the ABHH. Yeah, get absolutely.

2909
02:22:19,280 --> 02:22:21,040
Speaker 7: They were instilling windscreen on the inside.

2910
02:22:22,360 --> 02:22:24,480
Speaker 26: Thes is that we're playing out the back now, because

2911
02:22:24,600 --> 02:22:27,240
Speaker 26: even though that we're playing in now has been so renovated,

2912
02:22:27,280 --> 02:22:30,240
Speaker 26: we would go in there and harm there floring.

2913
02:22:30,360 --> 02:22:31,440
Speaker 7: It's quite a fit out, isn't it.

2914
02:22:31,520 --> 02:22:31,680
Speaker 14: Yeah.

2915
02:22:31,720 --> 02:22:33,440
Speaker 26: So we're in the Big Garden, which is where we

2916
02:22:33,480 --> 02:22:36,000
Speaker 26: did the Readingion shows last year. So we are booked

2917
02:22:36,240 --> 02:22:39,480
Speaker 26: to play at the ABH that everybody is going to be.

2918
02:22:39,720 --> 02:22:41,080
Speaker 7: Oh my god, you keep us posted.

2919
02:22:41,560 --> 02:22:44,440
Speaker 26: Yeah, but forty anything, you know, just to be able

2920
02:22:44,480 --> 02:22:47,320
Speaker 26: to achieve forty and then stage with people that honestly,

2921
02:22:47,760 --> 02:22:50,959
Speaker 26: I mean I walked on stage last year, looked across

2922
02:22:51,000 --> 02:22:53,000
Speaker 26: to my left to see the girls doing their their

2923
02:22:53,120 --> 02:22:55,480
Speaker 26: routines on the right, see the guys doing what that

2924
02:22:55,600 --> 02:22:59,360
Speaker 26: we're doing, and I'm tearing up because it's just wonderful

2925
02:22:59,440 --> 02:23:01,480
Speaker 26: to think that after all these years, we're still able

2926
02:23:01,560 --> 02:23:05,080
Speaker 26: to do it and the energy is apparent, like you know,

2927
02:23:05,480 --> 02:23:08,440
Speaker 26: the band gets counted in and the energy is like bang. Yeah,

2928
02:23:09,000 --> 02:23:13,440
Speaker 26: So all the lessons that we've learned, all the the yeah,

2929
02:23:13,520 --> 02:23:15,920
Speaker 26: the driver is still there for all the spirits there.

2930
02:23:15,959 --> 02:23:17,760
Speaker 26: That's probably the best thing about it, and that means

2931
02:23:18,120 --> 02:23:20,200
Speaker 26: that the fortieth will be very very special.

2932
02:23:20,280 --> 02:23:22,000
Speaker 7: We can tell the spirits still there and the drive

2933
02:23:22,080 --> 02:23:23,840
Speaker 7: still there, and we don't want to, but we have

2934
02:23:24,000 --> 02:23:26,760
Speaker 7: to let you go. Yeah, we could probably come from

2935
02:23:26,760 --> 02:23:29,760
Speaker 7: about four weeks and I didn't need at all.

2936
02:23:29,920 --> 02:23:33,280
Speaker 26: I know that might be, but it's certainly going to

2937
02:23:33,280 --> 02:23:37,520
Speaker 26: be intravenous. Strip cast work coffee literally, doctor gurgle. It's

2938
02:23:37,520 --> 02:23:37,800
Speaker 26: all good.

2939
02:23:37,959 --> 02:23:39,959
Speaker 7: I love you guys, doing this so.

2940
02:23:40,120 --> 02:23:43,760
Speaker 5: Lovely to reminisce about those days with you and for you.

2941
02:23:43,959 --> 02:23:46,880
Speaker 5: Those days have not stopped, so we're happy about that.

2942
02:23:47,240 --> 02:23:51,320
Speaker 7: Just a baby mate, good to see. That's so cool

2943
02:23:51,520 --> 02:23:52,160
Speaker 7: you in trouble.

2944
02:23:53,360 --> 02:23:55,879
Speaker 14: We would be seeing a minute work song to twelve

2945
02:23:55,920 --> 02:23:57,879
Speaker 14: hundred people, the men at work to begin on the road.

2946
02:23:57,959 --> 02:23:58,840
Speaker 2: I don't need the people.

2947
02:23:59,200 --> 02:24:03,520
Speaker 6: And this was a wave of Li and Lisa's pub drawl,

2948
02:24:04,160 --> 02:24:06,120
Speaker 6: so much fun, the Perf pub crawl. At least we've

2949
02:24:06,160 --> 02:24:09,200
Speaker 6: been promising something a little bit special today. We have

2950
02:24:09,320 --> 02:24:11,400
Speaker 6: because a lot of people have been asking the artists.

2951
02:24:11,400 --> 02:24:13,680
Speaker 6: People have been asking the most for Dave Warner from

2952
02:24:13,680 --> 02:24:16,280
Speaker 6: the Suburbs. We spoke to Dave and loaded Dice are

2953
02:24:16,360 --> 02:24:18,760
Speaker 6: Lettend from band Not only do we have the man

2954
02:24:18,879 --> 02:24:22,400
Speaker 6: with the backbeat, Dave. Dave is the mighty drummer, but

2955
02:24:22,520 --> 02:24:25,040
Speaker 6: he's brought in the rock star himself right up front,

2956
02:24:25,080 --> 02:24:25,560
Speaker 6: Dick Haynes.

2957
02:24:25,800 --> 02:24:29,199
Speaker 7: Welcome boys for Reloaded Dice. Goodness yo, hi guys.

2958
02:24:29,440 --> 02:24:30,000
Speaker 14: For joining him.

2959
02:24:30,400 --> 02:24:32,360
Speaker 5: Have you to come and yes, exactly join our pub

2960
02:24:32,400 --> 02:24:35,920
Speaker 5: crawl now Loaded Dice formed in nineteen seventy four.

2961
02:24:36,440 --> 02:24:38,800
Speaker 7: You'd be one of the earliest that we've spoken to.

2962
02:24:39,120 --> 02:24:40,359
Speaker 7: How did you guys meet.

2963
02:24:41,360 --> 02:24:47,840
Speaker 19: Well, Dave answered an interview. Sorry, man answered nad and

2964
02:24:48,280 --> 02:24:51,160
Speaker 19: for a drummer, and as I recall, we had a

2965
02:24:51,200 --> 02:24:53,400
Speaker 19: few good drummers to come up. Dave wasn't the best

2966
02:24:54,959 --> 02:24:59,440
Speaker 19: right here, too late, so but Dave wasn't the best.

2967
02:24:59,480 --> 02:25:02,400
Speaker 19: But we we had a manager the band to be

2968
02:25:02,480 --> 02:25:04,959
Speaker 19: game for about two months and we had the benefit

2969
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:06,600
Speaker 19: of having a manager, and he said, we'll be able

2970
02:25:06,600 --> 02:25:10,240
Speaker 19: to control this guy. And they just told me yesterday

2971
02:25:10,360 --> 02:25:12,080
Speaker 19: the only new one beat, and that happened to be

2972
02:25:12,120 --> 02:25:14,800
Speaker 19: the beat which agreed with all of all of our songs.

2973
02:25:15,600 --> 02:25:18,800
Speaker 8: I just learned to count to twelve bar so long

2974
02:25:18,840 --> 02:25:21,240
Speaker 8: as I didn't lose count, I could do it. And

2975
02:25:21,360 --> 02:25:23,560
Speaker 8: we did a Beatles song, and we did some little

2976
02:25:23,680 --> 02:25:25,720
Speaker 8: Richard and I'm going God, I actually play three songs

2977
02:25:26,120 --> 02:25:29,480
Speaker 8: Chuck Berry all. So we went along. I answered the

2978
02:25:29,520 --> 02:25:32,520
Speaker 8: ad out of the Sunday Times, and I just bought

2979
02:25:32,560 --> 02:25:35,520
Speaker 8: this monster drum kit. Couldn't play it. Got there late

2980
02:25:35,560 --> 02:25:37,800
Speaker 8: because it was south of the river, didn't know where

2981
02:25:37,840 --> 02:25:40,280
Speaker 8: I was going. Found the place seven o'clock at night.

2982
02:25:41,840 --> 02:25:44,840
Speaker 8: I was the first one off set it up, started playing,

2983
02:25:44,920 --> 02:25:47,040
Speaker 8: and then I said, can I just stick around and

2984
02:25:47,440 --> 02:25:49,440
Speaker 8: see what the competition's likely?

2985
02:25:49,560 --> 02:25:50,320
Speaker 14: Just got my license.

2986
02:25:50,440 --> 02:25:54,560
Speaker 7: I sat around and I watched all these drummers and dicken, one.

2987
02:25:54,440 --> 02:25:57,600
Speaker 19: Of who was James Baker, who ended up in the

2988
02:26:00,680 --> 02:26:04,520
Speaker 19: Unluckily for him, or maybe luckily for his drum kid

2989
02:26:04,600 --> 02:26:07,120
Speaker 19: fell apart while he was doing these. He got up

2990
02:26:07,120 --> 02:26:11,039
Speaker 19: in one lot. He came in looking like Brian Jones. Yeah, yes, yeah,

2991
02:26:11,080 --> 02:26:14,240
Speaker 19: he had a look that. Yeah, his face was all

2992
02:26:14,360 --> 02:26:17,240
Speaker 19: in place. Yeah way back then, oh wow. Only ever

2993
02:26:17,320 --> 02:26:18,360
Speaker 19: found out later on.

2994
02:26:19,080 --> 02:26:22,040
Speaker 8: That they got me to join the band, and then

2995
02:26:22,200 --> 02:26:25,879
Speaker 8: because they wanted to mold me into playing more twelve.

2996
02:26:25,640 --> 02:26:26,600
Speaker 7: Bars as we went on.

2997
02:26:27,080 --> 02:26:28,959
Speaker 19: So we never got there day, No, we.

2998
02:26:29,040 --> 02:26:31,280
Speaker 8: Never got there, just kept we kept just playing twelve

2999
02:26:31,320 --> 02:26:32,280
Speaker 8: bars most of our lives.

3000
02:26:32,600 --> 02:26:34,320
Speaker 7: So they saw you someone that could influence and you

3001
02:26:34,400 --> 02:26:35,039
Speaker 7: were malleable.

3002
02:26:35,240 --> 02:26:35,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

3003
02:26:35,480 --> 02:26:37,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was just sitting there and I watched the

3004
02:26:37,879 --> 02:26:41,800
Speaker 8: other drummers, and then Tony Fitzgiven and Dick came up

3005
02:26:41,800 --> 02:26:43,720
Speaker 8: to me and said what do you think? And I said, well,

3006
02:26:43,760 --> 02:26:46,000
Speaker 8: these are the three guys I reckon. And then they

3007
02:26:46,040 --> 02:26:47,600
Speaker 8: walked away and they came back and said do you

3008
02:26:47,680 --> 02:26:49,600
Speaker 8: want the gig? And I went okay, great. You know,

3009
02:26:49,680 --> 02:26:53,880
Speaker 8: because I'd started a band when I was about fifteen

3010
02:26:53,920 --> 02:26:56,000
Speaker 8: and got my dad to drive me around the hotels

3011
02:26:56,040 --> 02:26:59,959
Speaker 8: and started whipping Wow. So yeah, so that was good fun.

3012
02:27:00,080 --> 02:27:02,600
Speaker 8: It was some and the rest is history. As they say,

3013
02:27:03,200 --> 02:27:03,840
Speaker 8: I survived.

3014
02:27:04,480 --> 02:27:06,800
Speaker 5: Like most of the bands at that time, he started

3015
02:27:06,840 --> 02:27:09,160
Speaker 5: out doing covers because it was for better it was

3016
02:27:09,240 --> 02:27:11,880
Speaker 5: it was what people wanted, and you guys did a

3017
02:27:11,920 --> 02:27:15,440
Speaker 5: lot of Beatles were well known for the Beatles.

3018
02:27:15,640 --> 02:27:19,760
Speaker 19: The story behind that was that we always had another

3019
02:27:19,840 --> 02:27:23,280
Speaker 19: person in the band who was better than us, and

3020
02:27:23,640 --> 02:27:26,800
Speaker 19: from the light through we got a guy. First of all,

3021
02:27:26,920 --> 02:27:31,280
Speaker 19: we had this Vietnamese guy playing with us Min Tran him,

3022
02:27:32,000 --> 02:27:35,880
Speaker 19: and he was replaced by a guy called Mark Weeks,

3023
02:27:35,920 --> 02:27:38,600
Speaker 19: who was a sort of concert pianis ended up playing

3024
02:27:38,680 --> 02:27:42,760
Speaker 19: for the ABC doing comedy stuff. But for us he

3025
02:27:42,920 --> 02:27:45,600
Speaker 19: was fantastic because he could play every Beatles song and

3026
02:27:45,800 --> 02:27:48,720
Speaker 19: he knew the harmonies to them all. We knew nothing

3027
02:27:48,760 --> 02:27:53,119
Speaker 19: about anything, and so as a result of him being

3028
02:27:53,120 --> 02:27:55,120
Speaker 19: in the band, we sort of learned very quickly and.

3029
02:27:55,120 --> 02:27:59,040
Speaker 8: We were able to do Beatles songs and you know, complicated, stuffy.

3030
02:27:59,480 --> 02:28:01,600
Speaker 8: When Dick put the ad in the paper, did you

3031
02:28:01,680 --> 02:28:05,640
Speaker 8: have Phil? Then yeah, Phil was yeah, filling things sort

3032
02:28:05,640 --> 02:28:10,600
Speaker 8: of started. Yeah, Phil will fill the Wolfman unfortunately is

3033
02:28:10,640 --> 02:28:13,920
Speaker 8: no longer with us. You know, they started the band

3034
02:28:14,000 --> 02:28:16,800
Speaker 8: and then I think Phil said Dick, we'll look. You know,

3035
02:28:17,000 --> 02:28:19,560
Speaker 8: Dick was just singing and Phil said, look, I'll join

3036
02:28:19,600 --> 02:28:21,240
Speaker 8: the band if we get a bass player. So Dick

3037
02:28:21,320 --> 02:28:23,920
Speaker 8: went out and bought a base, and looking himself, had

3038
02:28:23,959 --> 02:28:26,400
Speaker 8: a play base. Work on those four strings or yeah,

3039
02:28:26,600 --> 02:28:32,320
Speaker 8: well still can't play. I just reckon it's fat fingers. Okay, butays,

3040
02:28:32,320 --> 02:28:33,800
Speaker 8: what about the venues? I mean a lot of them

3041
02:28:33,800 --> 02:28:37,960
Speaker 8: don't exist anymore, but were the venues? We started off

3042
02:28:38,040 --> 02:28:42,360
Speaker 8: at Steve's the next ready made crowd, Thank god for that.

3043
02:28:43,240 --> 02:28:47,320
Speaker 8: Steve was huge shoes, that's what we want to drink. Yeah,

3044
02:28:47,320 --> 02:28:49,440
Speaker 8: we were you know, we tried to get him to

3045
02:28:49,480 --> 02:28:51,000
Speaker 8: help us load the giving, but they wouldn't have it.

3046
02:28:51,040 --> 02:28:55,039
Speaker 8: But busy drinking, looking at the river, looking at the river.

3047
02:28:55,160 --> 02:28:58,960
Speaker 8: So after that we went to venues like the Hotel Orient.

3048
02:28:59,120 --> 02:29:01,800
Speaker 8: You know that was a bit rough around there because

3049
02:29:01,840 --> 02:29:02,920
Speaker 8: that was in Freeman.

3050
02:29:04,720 --> 02:29:08,760
Speaker 5: Became a Japanese restaurant, did it I recall having there's

3051
02:29:08,959 --> 02:29:09,720
Speaker 5: Japanese there?

3052
02:29:10,080 --> 02:29:10,280
Speaker 3: Yeah?

3053
02:29:10,560 --> 02:29:12,640
Speaker 7: Of course you had coles across the riding and you

3054
02:29:12,680 --> 02:29:13,560
Speaker 7: didn't want to go in there.

3055
02:29:13,959 --> 02:29:14,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

3056
02:29:14,160 --> 02:29:16,040
Speaker 8: And then if you were really game, you'd go to

3057
02:29:16,160 --> 02:29:19,920
Speaker 8: Tarantower's around as long as you took security with you,

3058
02:29:20,440 --> 02:29:21,959
Speaker 8: just in case, just in case.

3059
02:29:22,440 --> 02:29:25,039
Speaker 7: So there was a great venue of thea.

3060
02:29:25,840 --> 02:29:30,520
Speaker 19: You mentioned the covers. There was a period there. You're

3061
02:29:30,600 --> 02:29:32,760
Speaker 19: right about the covers that just that all the bands

3062
02:29:32,800 --> 02:29:38,240
Speaker 19: were encoverasab and the period, which was really very productive

3063
02:29:38,280 --> 02:29:42,120
Speaker 19: in a way, was still doing covers. Notwithstanding was down

3064
02:29:42,120 --> 02:29:45,560
Speaker 19: to Alberts Tavern, which was a downstairs and you had

3065
02:29:45,600 --> 02:29:49,320
Speaker 19: to go down down flight of stairs. And then with

3066
02:29:49,520 --> 02:29:53,040
Speaker 19: albert Tavern, the bands were really coversed. But there was

3067
02:29:53,080 --> 02:29:59,000
Speaker 19: one duck suit was a band sheriff the Elks, but

3068
02:29:59,160 --> 02:30:01,160
Speaker 19: they were but the covers they were doing were really

3069
02:30:01,200 --> 02:30:02,960
Speaker 19: interesting so you go and watch a band and you

3070
02:30:03,160 --> 02:30:05,760
Speaker 19: think to yourself, like, I've never heard this stuff, and

3071
02:30:05,800 --> 02:30:08,960
Speaker 19: then switch you on to something. So Sheriff had Bernie

3072
02:30:09,040 --> 02:30:15,920
Speaker 19: Lynch in them, and dust Soup had a Manda Vincent, yes,

3073
02:30:16,040 --> 02:30:19,520
Speaker 19: and she ended up in the So there's a number

3074
02:30:19,520 --> 02:30:21,920
Speaker 19: of things in the Elks obviously, Dave Brewer, you're just

3075
02:30:21,959 --> 02:30:25,200
Speaker 19: trying to give us a bit of credibility. No, no, no,

3076
02:30:25,560 --> 02:30:28,120
Speaker 19: just trying to say that it was a rich tapestry

3077
02:30:28,800 --> 02:30:32,800
Speaker 19: of music there where we're all coming down and watching

3078
02:30:32,879 --> 02:30:36,400
Speaker 19: bands like last Chant's Cafe and we're watching the bands

3079
02:30:36,440 --> 02:30:38,640
Speaker 19: and we go, oh god, that's fantastic, and then we

3080
02:30:38,800 --> 02:30:41,280
Speaker 19: go off and buy the albums and get a whole

3081
02:30:41,360 --> 02:30:43,520
Speaker 19: lot of influencers. So it was really really good.

3082
02:30:43,600 --> 02:30:46,480
Speaker 7: Everybody inspired each other to in a way.

3083
02:30:46,640 --> 02:30:47,200
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was.

3084
02:30:47,240 --> 02:30:50,640
Speaker 8: Of course the industry was growing then. Yeah, we sort

3085
02:30:50,640 --> 02:30:52,840
Speaker 8: of started off doing our sort of rock and roll stuff.

3086
02:30:52,879 --> 02:30:57,240
Speaker 8: You had your bands like Clockwork, Clockwork Strawberry playing at

3087
02:30:57,240 --> 02:30:58,480
Speaker 8: the Buragoon.

3088
02:30:58,040 --> 02:30:59,400
Speaker 7: And sounds like a psychedelic band.

3089
02:30:59,520 --> 02:31:00,200
Speaker 19: Yeah, was.

3090
02:31:00,240 --> 02:31:02,959
Speaker 8: They did Dooby Bruthers stuff. I love that Hamond organ

3091
02:31:03,040 --> 02:31:05,760
Speaker 8: sound on. So when I was underage, because I was

3092
02:31:05,840 --> 02:31:07,400
Speaker 8: quite tall, I used to be able to get in.

3093
02:31:07,840 --> 02:31:09,760
Speaker 8: But in those days it was you know, you were

3094
02:31:10,040 --> 02:31:13,080
Speaker 8: what do you call them platforms? Yeah, bel bottom pants

3095
02:31:13,120 --> 02:31:14,720
Speaker 8: and I looked about seven foot.

3096
02:31:15,520 --> 02:31:16,440
Speaker 7: Could have worn those today.

3097
02:31:16,720 --> 02:31:16,920
Speaker 15: Yeah.

3098
02:31:17,080 --> 02:31:17,280
Speaker 9: Yeah.

3099
02:31:17,440 --> 02:31:18,440
Speaker 7: So we'd go in.

3100
02:31:18,520 --> 02:31:22,120
Speaker 8: Into the Buragoon Hotel and I watched clockwork Strawby I

3101
02:31:22,160 --> 02:31:23,800
Speaker 8: think it was called Mayby doing all this doobie stuff.

3102
02:31:23,879 --> 02:31:25,119
Speaker 7: Love that hamm and sound.

3103
02:31:25,280 --> 02:31:25,400
Speaker 14: You know.

3104
02:31:25,520 --> 02:31:29,000
Speaker 8: So there's lots of venues that are unfortunately gone. Yes,

3105
02:31:29,879 --> 02:31:32,440
Speaker 8: most of them are gone, but I'm sure our listeners

3106
02:31:32,480 --> 02:31:37,119
Speaker 8: will remember one of those places we've met going on, hasn't, Yeah.

3107
02:31:37,000 --> 02:31:41,320
Speaker 7: Which is why we're here. Yeah, tell us about the Dicets.

3108
02:31:42,080 --> 02:31:43,360
Speaker 7: The Dicets we had.

3109
02:31:43,720 --> 02:31:47,320
Speaker 8: We had a lot of hardcore followers, but the Dicets

3110
02:31:47,520 --> 02:31:51,879
Speaker 8: and Julie Linda better mention than Michelle a few others there.

3111
02:31:52,200 --> 02:31:55,360
Speaker 8: They came to every gig and we were working six

3112
02:31:55,480 --> 02:31:57,920
Speaker 8: days a week and then we went we started a

3113
02:31:58,040 --> 02:32:02,320
Speaker 8: Monday at the Civic there's another event. And even if

3114
02:32:02,360 --> 02:32:04,280
Speaker 8: we had private shows, the girls just say can we

3115
02:32:04,360 --> 02:32:05,879
Speaker 8: come along and we get them in the back door

3116
02:32:05,959 --> 02:32:07,800
Speaker 8: and they were just very supportive.

3117
02:32:08,280 --> 02:32:10,199
Speaker 19: One of the things, yeah, one of the things about

3118
02:32:11,520 --> 02:32:15,240
Speaker 19: which was amazing. On reflection was that I reckon the

3119
02:32:15,320 --> 02:32:18,160
Speaker 19: girls used to have a half life of about two

3120
02:32:18,320 --> 02:32:20,280
Speaker 19: years in a way, so they just go all out.

3121
02:32:20,400 --> 02:32:23,400
Speaker 19: So you'd get a fan, say, and they would turn

3122
02:32:23,520 --> 02:32:27,879
Speaker 19: up every day every night, and you know sometimes it's

3123
02:32:27,959 --> 02:32:30,840
Speaker 19: like six six nights, seven nights and they turn up.

3124
02:32:30,879 --> 02:32:32,880
Speaker 19: But events did they sort of wear out. But the

3125
02:32:32,959 --> 02:32:36,360
Speaker 19: reason why they wear out, it's not because the band

3126
02:32:36,400 --> 02:32:37,480
Speaker 19: had been through them at all.

3127
02:32:37,640 --> 02:32:41,560
Speaker 7: It was because we know, let me do that.

3128
02:32:42,160 --> 02:32:47,480
Speaker 19: Because because of the style of their life up till

3129
02:32:47,640 --> 02:32:49,160
Speaker 19: three in the morning and then they.

3130
02:32:49,080 --> 02:32:50,720
Speaker 7: Were five or six nights away.

3131
02:32:52,000 --> 02:32:54,520
Speaker 8: And then getting up and going to work. Yeah, yeah,

3132
02:32:56,120 --> 02:32:58,160
Speaker 8: I remember. I've been listening to a lot of the

3133
02:32:58,240 --> 02:33:02,160
Speaker 8: interviews because I quite fascinating. And I heard Alan Simpson

3134
02:33:02,240 --> 02:33:04,760
Speaker 8: the other day mentioned that there was a lot of

3135
02:33:04,879 --> 02:33:08,119
Speaker 8: fun and ferrality playing onto the car park well as

3136
02:33:08,320 --> 02:33:11,840
Speaker 8: far as Loaded Dice guys, particularly Dick and myself, we

3137
02:33:11,959 --> 02:33:12,879
Speaker 8: went to the car park.

3138
02:33:13,160 --> 02:33:14,800
Speaker 7: When we went to the car park, we just put

3139
02:33:14,840 --> 02:33:15,240
Speaker 7: the keys in.

3140
02:33:15,240 --> 02:33:21,640
Speaker 8: The car and went to Bernie's Tonie's Stamburger Hill and

3141
02:33:21,720 --> 02:33:23,920
Speaker 8: then we had the band house down in Lighton and

3142
02:33:23,959 --> 02:33:26,240
Speaker 8: there was a neat each caravan and then they ought

3143
02:33:26,280 --> 02:33:28,320
Speaker 8: his big blue Nail and sign on the top, and

3144
02:33:28,920 --> 02:33:30,680
Speaker 8: we used to know the ladies quite well. And in

3145
02:33:30,720 --> 02:33:32,480
Speaker 8: the end they used to let me make my own milkshakes,

3146
02:33:32,520 --> 02:33:35,880
Speaker 8: which was great. So while some other bands were having fundsies,

3147
02:33:36,040 --> 02:33:39,080
Speaker 8: the rest of us were, yeah, having burgers saving Ernie.

3148
02:33:39,480 --> 02:33:44,400
Speaker 6: I love the dice out so forty five years before Swifties. Yeah, David, Yeah,

3149
02:33:44,400 --> 02:33:46,360
Speaker 6: I want to know because I used to when I

3150
02:33:46,400 --> 02:33:48,680
Speaker 6: was living in Merriton. I love seeing Dick and the Dames.

3151
02:33:48,680 --> 02:33:51,120
Speaker 6: So this gentleman here on a Sunday night down at

3152
02:33:51,280 --> 02:33:54,080
Speaker 6: the Herdies and I walked to the car afterwards singing

3153
02:33:54,160 --> 02:33:56,760
Speaker 6: Rhythm of Life. Was Dick Haynes, always a rat bag

3154
02:33:56,959 --> 02:33:59,480
Speaker 6: that didn't start really early because some of the things he'd.

3155
02:33:59,360 --> 02:34:01,160
Speaker 7: Say on stage would be cracking up for the rest

3156
02:34:01,160 --> 02:34:01,520
Speaker 7: of their week.

3157
02:34:01,600 --> 02:34:04,000
Speaker 8: Well, the great thing about our stage stuff was that

3158
02:34:04,160 --> 02:34:06,640
Speaker 8: Dick would set up a situation and then this voice

3159
02:34:06,680 --> 02:34:08,880
Speaker 8: from the back. Normally me would finish it off with

3160
02:34:08,920 --> 02:34:12,600
Speaker 8: a one liner and people just say, oh, you know,

3161
02:34:12,720 --> 02:34:14,600
Speaker 8: do you rehearse that stuff? And I said, I don't

3162
02:34:14,640 --> 02:34:17,000
Speaker 8: even know what song I'm playing next until I get

3163
02:34:17,040 --> 02:34:19,680
Speaker 8: to the ge. So we were playing so much and

3164
02:34:19,800 --> 02:34:24,360
Speaker 8: Dick was so you know ex accountant so organized and

3165
02:34:24,560 --> 02:34:26,760
Speaker 8: settlists were done. We never did the same things in

3166
02:34:26,840 --> 02:34:29,680
Speaker 8: the same order. We were rehearsing from ten o'clock in

3167
02:34:29,720 --> 02:34:33,000
Speaker 8: the morning, doing either originals or carvers, and then we'd

3168
02:34:33,040 --> 02:34:34,520
Speaker 8: go out that night and we'd play them.

3169
02:34:34,920 --> 02:34:38,000
Speaker 7: But this man is one of the best entertainers in

3170
02:34:38,120 --> 02:34:39,520
Speaker 7: the city to this day.

3171
02:34:39,720 --> 02:34:42,640
Speaker 8: And I'm sure as Dave Warner and a few others

3172
02:34:42,680 --> 02:34:45,960
Speaker 8: have mentioned that, you know, without having this man on

3173
02:34:46,040 --> 02:34:49,920
Speaker 8: stage was a pure delight to go and see. And

3174
02:34:50,040 --> 02:34:52,080
Speaker 8: you know, people used to come up to me and say, hey, Dave,

3175
02:34:52,320 --> 02:34:56,360
Speaker 8: you know what's on? Can you get me a half?

3176
02:34:56,760 --> 02:34:59,400
Speaker 8: And I go no, And it was, you know, just

3177
02:34:59,560 --> 02:35:02,680
Speaker 8: like we went, just believe we went. We were doing

3178
02:35:02,720 --> 02:35:04,600
Speaker 8: a gig in the East with the Angels, and I

3179
02:35:04,680 --> 02:35:06,600
Speaker 8: see docums and out the back and we were just

3180
02:35:06,680 --> 02:35:07,560
Speaker 8: we did a lot of supports.

3181
02:35:07,600 --> 02:35:08,560
Speaker 7: And he's reading a book.

3182
02:35:09,040 --> 02:35:10,280
Speaker 8: So he's just out there reading a book and he

3183
02:35:10,360 --> 02:35:12,640
Speaker 8: gets on stage and he's a different persons.

3184
02:35:13,080 --> 02:35:13,920
Speaker 7: The same thing with Dick.

3185
02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:16,440
Speaker 8: He gets up on stage and things starts shaking and

3186
02:35:16,520 --> 02:35:18,760
Speaker 8: rattling and rolling, and the jugs of water and beer

3187
02:35:18,920 --> 02:35:20,520
Speaker 8: just to get poured all over Dar.

3188
02:35:21,480 --> 02:35:23,960
Speaker 19: I think I think the thing was. I think the

3189
02:35:24,040 --> 02:35:27,080
Speaker 19: thing was with the stage presence and all that that

3190
02:35:27,200 --> 02:35:29,200
Speaker 19: A lot of the bands in Perth sort of got it,

3191
02:35:29,320 --> 02:35:32,640
Speaker 19: but you got it from a from us, from partly

3192
02:35:32,680 --> 02:35:35,040
Speaker 19: from isolation, because you knew nothing else, he said the

3193
02:35:35,080 --> 02:35:38,080
Speaker 19: other band. Yes, and that's sort of working your favor.

3194
02:35:38,200 --> 02:35:41,600
Speaker 19: So when we saw Dave Warner, for instance, we first

3195
02:35:41,640 --> 02:35:45,240
Speaker 19: we were watching him he returned from England after pass

3196
02:35:45,520 --> 02:35:48,800
Speaker 19: and he'd gone to England and returned from him and

3197
02:35:48,840 --> 02:35:53,320
Speaker 19: we're watching him and Dave Dave got up and his

3198
02:35:53,480 --> 02:35:55,840
Speaker 19: first ten songs I said, I've said to him many

3199
02:35:55,920 --> 02:35:59,760
Speaker 19: times since they were so bloody boring. But what he

3200
02:35:59,879 --> 02:36:02,160
Speaker 19: was doing was setting up and it wasn't really but

3201
02:36:02,240 --> 02:36:05,200
Speaker 19: he was setting it up for the bigger picture, the

3202
02:36:05,240 --> 02:36:08,080
Speaker 19: bigger picture, and the bigger picture was he just went

3203
02:36:08,680 --> 02:36:13,440
Speaker 19: turned around with a mouthful of spit and skunk. Yeah yeah,

3204
02:36:14,760 --> 02:36:17,279
Speaker 19: regurgitated a way up in the air and the landed

3205
02:36:17,320 --> 02:36:21,040
Speaker 19: between one of our guys legs. So it was just

3206
02:36:21,160 --> 02:36:24,640
Speaker 19: a fantastic So to that extent, I reckon that we

3207
02:36:24,720 --> 02:36:28,640
Speaker 19: were shaped. For instance, we saw Billy Rodgers, great Sexpot

3208
02:36:28,640 --> 02:36:32,480
Speaker 19: who was great sast Last Chance Cafe, Lasts Cafe, and

3209
02:36:33,080 --> 02:36:37,080
Speaker 19: De zider Cats later on, and the Essentials and Dragon.

3210
02:36:37,200 --> 02:36:41,000
Speaker 19: He was big to go into Dragon. So we saw

3211
02:36:41,160 --> 02:36:43,080
Speaker 19: just like that, and they like heroes to us, you know,

3212
02:36:43,600 --> 02:36:46,680
Speaker 19: and you you in the sense of competition, I think,

3213
02:36:46,800 --> 02:36:47,440
Speaker 19: you know, I think the.

3214
02:36:47,480 --> 02:36:49,840
Speaker 8: Great thing about that era as well, in that time

3215
02:36:50,000 --> 02:36:51,720
Speaker 8: is that you know that the daily news was the

3216
02:36:51,760 --> 02:36:53,840
Speaker 8: only way you found out where all your bands were playing.

3217
02:36:54,240 --> 02:36:57,080
Speaker 8: There was no phones in your landlines. So all of

3218
02:36:57,160 --> 02:36:59,200
Speaker 8: your mates that used to come and watch us would

3219
02:36:59,280 --> 02:37:03,520
Speaker 8: just go, Okay, we're going to say the Overflow. They

3220
02:37:03,640 --> 02:37:06,040
Speaker 8: go there every Friday. They won't even talk to talk

3221
02:37:06,120 --> 02:37:08,440
Speaker 8: to anyone during the week. They just go the Overflow,

3222
02:37:08,520 --> 02:37:11,440
Speaker 8: and that's what they did because that's where everybody met.

3223
02:37:11,720 --> 02:37:13,840
Speaker 8: But it was such a healthy industry, and half the

3224
02:37:13,920 --> 02:37:16,360
Speaker 8: time we never really had time to see any other bands,

3225
02:37:16,440 --> 02:37:18,360
Speaker 8: except when you did the Nook and Busses or the

3226
02:37:18,400 --> 02:37:21,560
Speaker 8: Belmont Balls working. Yeah, and on a Monday night, so

3227
02:37:21,680 --> 02:37:23,480
Speaker 8: we'd go a bit early and watch a couple of bands.

3228
02:37:23,879 --> 02:37:25,560
Speaker 8: We see all these names in the fad, go who

3229
02:37:25,600 --> 02:37:25,840
Speaker 8: are they?

3230
02:37:26,200 --> 02:37:28,920
Speaker 7: You pore over that thing like a horse tragic with

3231
02:37:29,000 --> 02:37:32,360
Speaker 7: a TV to work out. You know, what are you

3232
02:37:32,440 --> 02:37:33,000
Speaker 7: going to do now?

3233
02:37:33,280 --> 02:37:37,120
Speaker 5: Any incidents of particular, nota perhaps involving the Scarborough Hotel.

3234
02:37:39,080 --> 02:37:43,480
Speaker 19: Well you know Scarborough Hotel. Actually, he's a little bit

3235
02:37:43,480 --> 02:37:46,199
Speaker 19: of reflection. Scarborough Hotel was actually on a different circuit

3236
02:37:46,280 --> 02:37:50,720
Speaker 19: to us. Our circuit sort of became the No Sweat

3237
02:37:50,840 --> 02:37:55,879
Speaker 19: circuit ultimately, which was run by Peter Hayes and Neil

3238
02:37:56,120 --> 02:38:00,760
Speaker 19: Neil Scott, our manager. And that was how the borough started.

3239
02:38:00,760 --> 02:38:03,520
Speaker 19: And I heard you mentioned them any times. I mean,

3240
02:38:03,560 --> 02:38:06,280
Speaker 19: everybody was sort of the holy Grail of a like.

3241
02:38:06,640 --> 02:38:10,400
Speaker 19: But the way that started was the guy Michael Hodgson. Hodgson.

3242
02:38:10,879 --> 02:38:16,279
Speaker 19: Hodgson was starting off the pub, had this dream about

3243
02:38:16,600 --> 02:38:19,640
Speaker 19: having thousands of people in there, which did eventuate, but

3244
02:38:19,720 --> 02:38:23,360
Speaker 19: he had that place set up really badly. Peter Hayes

3245
02:38:23,480 --> 02:38:26,360
Speaker 19: was driving by and told him. He said, mate, you've

3246
02:38:26,440 --> 02:38:30,720
Speaker 19: got this place completely wrong. And Peter Hayes ultimately his

3247
02:38:30,879 --> 02:38:34,160
Speaker 19: fingerprints manager actually, but he ended up being our manager

3248
02:38:34,200 --> 02:38:36,920
Speaker 19: as well, and he had told him how to lay

3249
02:38:37,000 --> 02:38:38,520
Speaker 19: it out. And then the guy said, well, you know

3250
02:38:38,680 --> 02:38:39,080
Speaker 19: so much.

3251
02:38:39,120 --> 02:38:39,880
Speaker 14: You run the room.

3252
02:38:40,280 --> 02:38:42,920
Speaker 19: And the way they ran that room, which is quite revolutionary,

3253
02:38:42,959 --> 02:38:46,800
Speaker 19: they carried on in the Dave Warner loaded dice tradition,

3254
02:38:46,959 --> 02:38:51,000
Speaker 19: of which had already become we get the door. So

3255
02:38:51,160 --> 02:38:54,200
Speaker 19: the bands like Strangers and stuff like that. You know,

3256
02:38:54,560 --> 02:38:56,080
Speaker 19: they went to the look and borrough and they just

3257
02:38:56,120 --> 02:38:58,600
Speaker 19: couldn't believe it because they were getting the door the

3258
02:38:58,640 --> 02:38:59,400
Speaker 19: first time ever.

3259
02:39:00,000 --> 02:39:03,080
Speaker 7: And place you need to pursu was.

3260
02:39:03,400 --> 02:39:06,560
Speaker 19: It was so in a way it was fantastic because

3261
02:39:06,600 --> 02:39:10,400
Speaker 19: the bands in a way would love to stay in Perth.

3262
02:39:10,480 --> 02:39:12,160
Speaker 19: But of course it's almost to your detriment.

3263
02:39:12,520 --> 02:39:18,160
Speaker 7: There was such a thrash to make that trip. Yeah,

3264
02:39:18,800 --> 02:39:20,119
Speaker 7: we got great stories about that one.

3265
02:39:20,160 --> 02:39:22,880
Speaker 8: But getting back to your question about the scar, we

3266
02:39:23,000 --> 02:39:25,000
Speaker 8: were we were doing a Sunday session there. It wasn't

3267
02:39:25,040 --> 02:39:27,280
Speaker 8: really our circuit and and all of a sudden the

3268
02:39:27,640 --> 02:39:29,840
Speaker 8: police turned up and there was saying apparently there was

3269
02:39:29,840 --> 02:39:33,760
Speaker 8: a bomb scare. So everyone cleared out the pub and

3270
02:39:33,840 --> 02:39:35,680
Speaker 8: in those days, I'm taking my beer.

3271
02:39:37,640 --> 02:39:38,600
Speaker 7: They took all the drenks.

3272
02:39:38,680 --> 02:39:41,200
Speaker 8: So everyone's out on the road in the cart drinking

3273
02:39:41,440 --> 02:39:43,040
Speaker 8: and I'm doing a bit of a headcount of the

3274
02:39:43,120 --> 02:39:44,840
Speaker 8: band and one of my roadies is missing.

3275
02:39:44,959 --> 02:39:47,360
Speaker 7: So where's Mitch. You know, where's Mitch.

3276
02:39:47,440 --> 02:39:50,840
Speaker 8: I'll go back inside and there's Mitch underneath the stage

3277
02:39:51,400 --> 02:39:53,920
Speaker 8: in the lounge. I said, what are you doing? Is

3278
02:39:54,000 --> 02:39:57,360
Speaker 8: that I'm looking for the bomb, and I said, and

3279
02:39:57,520 --> 02:40:02,600
Speaker 8: then what yeah, get out. I got his gobout here

3280
02:40:02,840 --> 02:40:07,760
Speaker 8: and then and then it was alarm. It wasn't so

3281
02:40:07,760 --> 02:40:09,160
Speaker 8: I think we just we all went back in and

3282
02:40:09,200 --> 02:40:10,920
Speaker 8: picked up where we left off on the last part

3283
02:40:10,959 --> 02:40:12,000
Speaker 8: of the set and finished.

3284
02:40:13,800 --> 02:40:16,360
Speaker 7: We ended back in and when Yeah, that was a

3285
02:40:16,400 --> 02:40:18,119
Speaker 7: good different.

3286
02:40:19,360 --> 02:40:23,120
Speaker 19: Mitch is still alive. Yeah, we saw him last week.

3287
02:40:23,840 --> 02:40:25,160
Speaker 7: He's not working for a bomb disposal.

3288
02:40:27,520 --> 02:40:27,640
Speaker 9: You know.

3289
02:40:27,760 --> 02:40:31,360
Speaker 7: He called it in Alan Simpson. Probably they started to

3290
02:40:31,360 --> 02:40:32,000
Speaker 7: disturb the peace.

3291
02:40:33,720 --> 02:40:35,880
Speaker 6: It's funny because somebody you said earlier about all the

3292
02:40:35,959 --> 02:40:38,240
Speaker 6: spit flying at a Day Warner show. If you googled

3293
02:40:38,280 --> 02:40:42,120
Speaker 6: the video for Suburban Yeah, yeah, if you if you like,

3294
02:40:42,240 --> 02:40:43,960
Speaker 6: he's got the spit all over his facing the video

3295
02:40:44,320 --> 02:40:47,280
Speaker 6: which is a classic video where st jugs of beer

3296
02:40:47,400 --> 02:40:47,840
Speaker 6: over him.

3297
02:40:47,920 --> 02:40:49,119
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah.

3298
02:40:49,720 --> 02:40:52,200
Speaker 5: Something else you don't see these days. Jugs are beer? No, no,

3299
02:40:53,400 --> 02:40:53,880
Speaker 5: those days?

3300
02:40:53,879 --> 02:40:54,840
Speaker 9: What is that? Yeah?

3301
02:40:55,080 --> 02:40:55,520
Speaker 14: None real?

3302
02:40:55,720 --> 02:40:57,880
Speaker 6: But was there was time when you were in the

3303
02:40:57,959 --> 02:41:00,600
Speaker 6: career with loaded dice and you went, actually we're going

3304
02:41:00,640 --> 02:41:02,440
Speaker 6: and gone to the next level. Here was it one

3305
02:41:02,520 --> 02:41:04,240
Speaker 6: moment there was one gig was there?

3306
02:41:04,400 --> 02:41:06,040
Speaker 7: Well it was actually like can I come?

3307
02:41:06,360 --> 02:41:10,440
Speaker 19: Yeah, Well there was one time, and there was a

3308
02:41:10,480 --> 02:41:13,920
Speaker 19: few times, but you're always sort of thinking about tomorrow

3309
02:41:14,080 --> 02:41:16,120
Speaker 19: and thinking you're can I have my.

3310
02:41:17,959 --> 02:41:18,480
Speaker 14: Going better?

3311
02:41:18,520 --> 02:41:21,720
Speaker 19: But we did play with Split Ends of Australa shortly

3312
02:41:21,800 --> 02:41:25,600
Speaker 19: be going on countdown and the countdown song was Mamselle

3313
02:41:25,720 --> 02:41:32,199
Speaker 19: Not Not Telephone, and so we're going on, we're playing

3314
02:41:32,240 --> 02:41:34,320
Speaker 19: with them, and there was a big thing for us,

3315
02:41:34,360 --> 02:41:36,640
Speaker 19: a big thing for Split Ends because the Splitans were

3316
02:41:36,680 --> 02:41:43,720
Speaker 19: coming back from with a rebirth with Neil Finn and

3317
02:41:44,120 --> 02:41:47,160
Speaker 19: they got up after us, and we had been really

3318
02:41:47,200 --> 02:41:49,560
Speaker 19: successful in the gig, that particular gig. We'd sort of

3319
02:41:49,720 --> 02:41:53,360
Speaker 19: like their fans, who are most of the crowd, seem

3320
02:41:53,440 --> 02:41:55,560
Speaker 19: to love us, and then they got up and they

3321
02:41:55,640 --> 02:41:59,520
Speaker 19: disappointed their own fans because because if you think about

3322
02:42:01,280 --> 02:42:04,720
Speaker 19: sometimes doesn't really have a huge pub vibe. And there

3323
02:42:04,800 --> 02:42:07,520
Speaker 19: was a number of songs like that. But then we

3324
02:42:07,720 --> 02:42:11,080
Speaker 19: went on to countdown and it's a completely different thing

3325
02:42:11,200 --> 02:42:15,280
Speaker 19: because it's a pop song and Marty, we even hadn't

3326
02:42:15,320 --> 02:42:17,800
Speaker 19: even noticed that that song I Got You, We hadn't

3327
02:42:17,800 --> 02:42:19,959
Speaker 19: even noticed them do it in their bracket, but when

3328
02:42:20,000 --> 02:42:22,520
Speaker 19: they were doing a countdown, we were watching them and going, hey,

3329
02:42:23,120 --> 02:42:28,200
Speaker 19: this is like number one radio. So then yeah, or

3330
02:42:28,480 --> 02:42:32,920
Speaker 19: to that story is we then went to number thirty

3331
02:42:33,000 --> 02:42:35,440
Speaker 19: four in Tasmania and they went to number one.

3332
02:42:35,360 --> 02:42:38,040
Speaker 7: All around for weeks or something.

3333
02:42:38,320 --> 02:42:38,480
Speaker 14: Yeah.

3334
02:42:38,520 --> 02:42:41,160
Speaker 19: But the thing was, we really felt a lot of times,

3335
02:42:41,280 --> 02:42:43,240
Speaker 19: we really felt, you know, we all signed up to

3336
02:42:43,480 --> 02:42:46,080
Speaker 19: w EA and we all signed up under with Cultures

3337
02:42:46,160 --> 02:42:49,680
Speaker 19: or the same same lur guy and that. So in

3338
02:42:49,760 --> 02:42:53,199
Speaker 19: a way we thought, and you know, it's all based

3339
02:42:53,240 --> 02:42:54,200
Speaker 19: upon our own music.

3340
02:42:54,320 --> 02:42:54,600
Speaker 4: All of that.

3341
02:42:55,400 --> 02:42:59,480
Speaker 19: We thought, you know, we're away, but it's a big journey.

3342
02:42:59,520 --> 02:43:01,360
Speaker 19: And a lot of the bands were bloody good.

3343
02:43:01,560 --> 02:43:01,800
Speaker 4: Yeah.

3344
02:43:01,959 --> 02:43:05,120
Speaker 19: Oh yeah, I didn't realize until you were in good company.

3345
02:43:05,480 --> 02:43:07,920
Speaker 8: Got I've got a story for your Adelaide. The only

3346
02:43:08,000 --> 02:43:10,280
Speaker 8: time I ever felt like we got treated like rock stars.

3347
02:43:10,879 --> 02:43:14,840
Speaker 8: The A and R guy from WA Records picked us

3348
02:43:14,920 --> 02:43:17,320
Speaker 8: up in a limousine from the hotel and we were

3349
02:43:17,400 --> 02:43:21,560
Speaker 8: doing the Adelaide Rock Show at the time in the afternoon,

3350
02:43:21,760 --> 02:43:24,279
Speaker 8: and in the morning we went to a record store

3351
02:43:24,360 --> 02:43:26,440
Speaker 8: and we go there, we all rock star.

3352
02:43:26,720 --> 02:43:26,920
Speaker 11: Yeah.

3353
02:43:27,640 --> 02:43:30,440
Speaker 8: So they had the whole Loaded Dice No Sweat album,

3354
02:43:30,840 --> 02:43:33,000
Speaker 8: the whole thing done, and we walk in there going,

3355
02:43:33,120 --> 02:43:35,720
Speaker 8: this is going to be fantastic, you know, ready to

3356
02:43:35,760 --> 02:43:37,240
Speaker 8: sign autographs and do everything.

3357
02:43:38,080 --> 02:43:42,840
Speaker 14: Not a soul. Not a soul. So what we did

3358
02:43:43,000 --> 02:43:43,200
Speaker 14: is we.

3359
02:43:43,200 --> 02:43:50,760
Speaker 7: Flipped through some albums and bought a couple of That

3360
02:43:50,920 --> 02:43:51,720
Speaker 7: was the only time.

3361
02:43:52,080 --> 02:43:54,280
Speaker 5: It's been a total double treat to have you in

3362
02:43:54,360 --> 02:43:57,560
Speaker 5: this morning, reminiscing about these great days that.

3363
02:43:57,640 --> 02:44:03,000
Speaker 19: We miss and thanks for this special guest, Glad, thanks

3364
02:44:03,000 --> 02:44:05,920
Speaker 19: for having us, guys, wonderful thing you're doing.

3365
02:44:06,200 --> 02:44:07,760
Speaker 7: Thank you very much. I've spent a lot of fun

3366
02:44:07,840 --> 02:44:08,800
Speaker 7: and great to see you both.

3367
02:44:08,800 --> 02:44:10,120
Speaker 19: Thank you, thanks for having thank you.

3368
02:44:11,520 --> 02:44:13,760
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a men at work side said

3369
02:44:13,800 --> 02:44:15,440
Speaker 1: twelve hundred people, the men at work and.

3370
02:44:15,480 --> 02:44:16,000
Speaker 14: Began the road.

3371
02:44:16,120 --> 02:44:18,480
Speaker 2: I don't need did the people and the bands?

3372
02:44:18,520 --> 02:44:21,680
Speaker 4: It was away like Coy and Lisa's pub crawl.

3373
02:44:22,000 --> 02:44:24,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's keep on going. Least the Perth pub Crawl

3374
02:44:24,480 --> 02:44:26,800
Speaker 6: continues with a band of brothers. Three of the six

3375
02:44:26,920 --> 02:44:29,879
Speaker 6: were about to take on the world and win. Let's speak,

3376
02:44:29,920 --> 02:44:31,840
Speaker 6: of course a bit excess. But when the Faris Brothers

3377
02:44:31,879 --> 02:44:34,240
Speaker 6: were in Perth and their early manager and lead guitarist

3378
02:44:34,520 --> 02:44:35,480
Speaker 6: was Tim Farris.

3379
02:44:36,240 --> 02:44:38,560
Speaker 7: Good morning, guys, I'm not too bad.

3380
02:44:38,720 --> 02:44:39,840
Speaker 3: It's been a long time.

3381
02:44:41,280 --> 02:44:42,040
Speaker 7: To take on the world.

3382
02:44:42,080 --> 02:44:45,039
Speaker 5: As an understatement, now, what's interesting is at a time

3383
02:44:45,120 --> 02:44:48,760
Speaker 5: when so many bands in Perth relocated from Perth to Sydney.

3384
02:44:49,280 --> 02:44:52,640
Speaker 5: You originally relocated from Sydney to Perth.

3385
02:44:53,000 --> 02:44:54,840
Speaker 7: Talk us how through how that happened.

3386
02:44:55,320 --> 02:45:00,080
Speaker 3: Well, I had this idea about forming the band in

3387
02:45:00,240 --> 02:45:03,600
Speaker 3: the first place, but Johnny and Andrew were still in

3388
02:45:03,720 --> 02:45:08,480
Speaker 3: school and they and my mum and dad were moving

3389
02:45:08,600 --> 02:45:12,320
Speaker 3: back to Perth, and I really wanted us to be

3390
02:45:12,440 --> 02:45:15,200
Speaker 3: a band and stay together. So I thought, well, one

3391
02:45:15,240 --> 02:45:17,920
Speaker 3: of the best ways we could possibly do this is

3392
02:45:18,000 --> 02:45:21,320
Speaker 3: to all rely on music and the band for a living.

3393
02:45:21,920 --> 02:45:25,760
Speaker 3: So I said to Kirk and Michael and Gary, Look,

3394
02:45:27,000 --> 02:45:30,680
Speaker 3: I've got this wild idea that the Pharises are moving

3395
02:45:30,760 --> 02:45:34,199
Speaker 3: back to Perth. Why don't I fly over as well.

3396
02:45:35,120 --> 02:45:37,160
Speaker 3: I can stay with them and Dad, and I'll get

3397
02:45:37,240 --> 02:45:40,200
Speaker 3: us a whole bunch of gigs and residencies there, and

3398
02:45:40,280 --> 02:45:42,280
Speaker 3: then the whole bank there, and we just lived there

3399
02:45:42,320 --> 02:45:46,360
Speaker 3: and be a band and live off the gigs I get,

3400
02:45:47,720 --> 02:45:53,840
Speaker 3: which is a very bold and somehow Kirtle was the

3401
02:45:53,920 --> 02:45:57,880
Speaker 3: last to agree, but we did. We all left our

3402
02:45:57,959 --> 02:46:02,120
Speaker 3: girlfriends and jobs and whatnot, packed up our bags and

3403
02:46:02,640 --> 02:46:12,000
Speaker 3: moved to Beverly. But it was but it was, it

3404
02:46:12,120 --> 02:46:15,920
Speaker 3: was real. It really was a great experience. And when

3405
02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:18,800
Speaker 3: we all lived, well, well, Andrew and John didn't, but

3406
02:46:19,000 --> 02:46:20,840
Speaker 3: the rest of us all live in this one house

3407
02:46:22,160 --> 02:46:27,360
Speaker 3: in Subiaco and uh and we rehearsed every day, you know.

3408
02:46:27,800 --> 02:46:30,440
Speaker 3: And and then I was busy.

3409
02:46:30,800 --> 02:46:34,040
Speaker 27: I met the slow called Desert Joe's yes, was the

3410
02:46:34,160 --> 02:46:36,960
Speaker 27: agent ran the agency there, and he got us a

3411
02:46:37,000 --> 02:46:39,160
Speaker 27: lot of gigs and he said he was very that

3412
02:46:39,360 --> 02:46:42,800
Speaker 27: we we played covers, you know, yeah.

3413
02:46:43,600 --> 02:46:48,280
Speaker 3: Not too many of your own songs. Okay, sure, whatever

3414
02:46:48,360 --> 02:46:54,680
Speaker 3: you say has come up a few times, yeah, exactly.

3415
02:46:54,959 --> 02:46:58,840
Speaker 3: And it was brilliant place to We just wanted to

3416
02:46:58,879 --> 02:47:02,000
Speaker 3: get away out of Sydney, focus on being a band

3417
02:47:02,320 --> 02:47:07,000
Speaker 3: and improving our skills and whatnot, and and that's what

3418
02:47:07,080 --> 02:47:09,400
Speaker 3: we did. And it was it was a great deal

3419
02:47:09,480 --> 02:47:11,119
Speaker 3: of fun. And it was a bit like you remember

3420
02:47:11,200 --> 02:47:15,520
Speaker 3: that show from Yadi School, the Young One. Yeah, well

3421
02:47:15,560 --> 02:47:16,160
Speaker 3: the house is.

3422
02:47:16,680 --> 02:47:20,440
Speaker 7: Kind of a good law were you Neil, Laura?

3423
02:47:27,280 --> 02:47:27,520
Speaker 19: Hello?

3424
02:47:27,680 --> 02:47:29,480
Speaker 7: John got that guy.

3425
02:47:31,480 --> 02:47:33,880
Speaker 3: It was very it was very very funny actually, and

3426
02:47:34,640 --> 02:47:37,200
Speaker 3: and then you know, everything just sort of progressed from

3427
02:47:37,280 --> 02:47:39,920
Speaker 3: there and it was it was it was amazing, really,

3428
02:47:41,040 --> 02:47:45,000
Speaker 3: you know. The residencies had were really fun and they

3429
02:47:45,040 --> 02:47:47,920
Speaker 3: are all good chance to build an audience, which is

3430
02:47:48,000 --> 02:47:48,480
Speaker 3: what we did.

3431
02:47:48,800 --> 02:47:49,039
Speaker 15: Yeah.

3432
02:47:49,680 --> 02:47:53,800
Speaker 5: I've always thought tim that some of the best bands

3433
02:47:53,840 --> 02:47:58,640
Speaker 5: through history based around you know, it starts with siblings.

3434
02:47:58,800 --> 02:48:02,280
Speaker 5: I mean, I've just watched the Bloody Beach Boys movie.

3435
02:48:02,520 --> 02:48:05,400
Speaker 5: That's a great example. But you you know, we've got

3436
02:48:05,440 --> 02:48:08,920
Speaker 5: the Faris brothers. Is it is it just a convenience thing.

3437
02:48:09,000 --> 02:48:11,520
Speaker 5: You're all there together. You'll get a musical instrument for Christmas,

3438
02:48:11,560 --> 02:48:13,520
Speaker 5: so you all play together or or does it?

3439
02:48:13,879 --> 02:48:14,760
Speaker 7: Is it hereditary?

3440
02:48:15,680 --> 02:48:19,039
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I don't know about the hereditary thing,

3441
02:48:21,240 --> 02:48:26,080
Speaker 3: except that you know, we all seem to understand each

3442
02:48:26,120 --> 02:48:29,480
Speaker 3: other and in the musical sense, you know, we were

3443
02:48:29,560 --> 02:48:32,880
Speaker 3: kind of in some ways. When you're young, you know,

3444
02:48:32,959 --> 02:48:35,720
Speaker 3: a couple of years apart is a lot more than

3445
02:48:35,800 --> 02:48:36,640
Speaker 3: it is when you're older.

3446
02:48:36,879 --> 02:48:41,039
Speaker 7: Of course, yes, yes, so you know, I think.

3447
02:48:41,000 --> 02:48:43,480
Speaker 3: The boys looked up to me being the older brother. Yeah,

3448
02:48:44,440 --> 02:48:47,080
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing where they don't now, you know,

3449
02:48:49,800 --> 02:48:53,800
Speaker 3: respect back then, get more respect.

3450
02:48:55,000 --> 02:48:56,320
Speaker 14: But we you know, we.

3451
02:48:57,920 --> 02:49:00,480
Speaker 3: Were sort of felt a bond. But but to sort

3452
02:49:00,520 --> 02:49:03,440
Speaker 3: of catching with the other guy's kirt was my best mate,

3453
02:49:04,280 --> 02:49:07,480
Speaker 3: so uh, you know, and we all just looked after

3454
02:49:07,600 --> 02:49:09,600
Speaker 3: each other, and it was we were like one big

3455
02:49:09,680 --> 02:49:12,440
Speaker 3: family really in the sts, but it was like a

3456
02:49:13,280 --> 02:49:17,440
Speaker 3: rebonded that's shall I say. Yeah, And we were sitting

3457
02:49:17,480 --> 02:49:20,760
Speaker 3: in Perth one night after a show and the guys

3458
02:49:20,800 --> 02:49:24,640
Speaker 3: that all complained to me about Michael because we always

3459
02:49:25,360 --> 02:49:29,200
Speaker 3: lug our own gear in and out, and Michael never

3460
02:49:29,600 --> 02:49:30,320
Speaker 3: lugged any here.

3461
02:49:30,400 --> 02:49:31,560
Speaker 14: Because you didn't have any.

3462
02:49:33,640 --> 02:49:35,360
Speaker 3: To carry. We had to carryge his.

3463
02:49:35,440 --> 02:49:39,519
Speaker 7: Microphone, which is probably they were already.

3464
02:49:40,879 --> 02:49:43,160
Speaker 3: To set Michael down one night and have a chat

3465
02:49:43,240 --> 02:49:46,400
Speaker 3: with him and say, listen, mate, let's let's pull your

3466
02:49:46,440 --> 02:49:49,680
Speaker 3: socks up. I have to do something about that.

3467
02:49:51,520 --> 02:49:53,119
Speaker 14: And so he did.

3468
02:49:53,160 --> 02:49:57,040
Speaker 3: He helped for a little while off the girls.

3469
02:49:58,360 --> 02:50:03,520
Speaker 6: It was Michael. Yeah, we did mention in Yeah exactly.

3470
02:50:03,640 --> 02:50:05,520
Speaker 6: It was pretty good at it. We mentioned in the

3471
02:50:06,280 --> 02:50:08,680
Speaker 6: manager maybe a named manager of the bandit.

3472
02:50:08,840 --> 02:50:09,520
Speaker 14: So it was happening.

3473
02:50:09,600 --> 02:50:11,800
Speaker 6: But this is a long time before you met and

3474
02:50:12,120 --> 02:50:14,160
Speaker 6: started working with Chris Murphy. But did you have to

3475
02:50:14,200 --> 02:50:15,440
Speaker 6: pull rank with your boys quite a bit?

3476
02:50:16,560 --> 02:50:16,760
Speaker 9: Oh?

3477
02:50:17,080 --> 02:50:20,039
Speaker 3: Yes, to know they sort of looked at me as

3478
02:50:20,200 --> 02:50:21,840
Speaker 3: one responsible for everything.

3479
02:50:22,000 --> 02:50:23,440
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was.

3480
02:50:23,640 --> 02:50:27,600
Speaker 3: It was more just a sense of responsibility that if

3481
02:50:27,640 --> 02:50:32,000
Speaker 3: I didn't pull through, what would we do? So I

3482
02:50:32,200 --> 02:50:35,720
Speaker 3: was very busy ring venues and whatnot. And you know,

3483
02:50:35,800 --> 02:50:39,840
Speaker 3: I was just remembering this morning how we did this show.

3484
02:50:39,879 --> 02:50:42,160
Speaker 3: I think it was one of the shows we did,

3485
02:50:42,680 --> 02:50:47,480
Speaker 3: The Herdsman from memory, and there was this big fella

3486
02:50:47,600 --> 02:50:50,560
Speaker 3: came up and so I said to us afterwards, you

3487
02:50:50,600 --> 02:50:53,520
Speaker 3: know who's in charge of the band, And I said,

3488
02:50:53,600 --> 02:50:56,760
Speaker 3: I am, you know, And he said, well, well, I'm

3489
02:50:56,800 --> 02:51:01,000
Speaker 3: the entertainment officer or whatever for the mining company up

3490
02:51:01,080 --> 02:51:05,840
Speaker 3: and Shay Gap and Goldsworthy and we'd like to you

3491
02:51:05,920 --> 02:51:08,520
Speaker 3: guys to come on up. So he said, you know,

3492
02:51:08,640 --> 02:51:11,040
Speaker 3: we'll pay for your air fairs and your gear and

3493
02:51:11,800 --> 02:51:16,520
Speaker 3: to get up there and the whole bit. You'll stay

3494
02:51:16,560 --> 02:51:20,440
Speaker 3: there for the Christmas in the period. And we still thought, oh,

3495
02:51:20,760 --> 02:51:24,320
Speaker 3: there's a bit of money in this, and so I

3496
02:51:24,400 --> 02:51:26,640
Speaker 3: put it to him that you give us the money

3497
02:51:26,720 --> 02:51:31,720
Speaker 3: for the air fares and we'll drive up. So we

3498
02:51:32,400 --> 02:51:36,200
Speaker 3: hide this. We hide the two vans and packed them

3499
02:51:36,320 --> 02:51:41,080
Speaker 3: full of our gear, and off we set. And we

3500
02:51:41,200 --> 02:51:44,200
Speaker 3: thought we'd be smart. And there was two ways. There

3501
02:51:44,320 --> 02:51:46,040
Speaker 3: was we could see it on a map. There was

3502
02:51:46,440 --> 02:51:48,760
Speaker 3: this kind of short way but it was all off road.

3503
02:51:50,360 --> 02:51:52,960
Speaker 3: And then there was the tarred road that went too

3504
02:51:53,120 --> 02:51:55,360
Speaker 3: like it was a lot longer, so we took we

3505
02:51:55,480 --> 02:52:01,880
Speaker 3: took the off and of course we did. It was

3506
02:52:02,480 --> 02:52:04,959
Speaker 3: I'm still to this day amazing we ever got.

3507
02:52:04,840 --> 02:52:06,520
Speaker 14: There, you know.

3508
02:52:07,200 --> 02:52:12,359
Speaker 3: And at one point recovery, which it was really was hilarious.

3509
02:52:12,480 --> 02:52:14,879
Speaker 3: And at one point because there was three of us

3510
02:52:14,959 --> 02:52:19,120
Speaker 3: in each van in the front, and I remember there

3511
02:52:19,240 --> 02:52:24,160
Speaker 3: was John Kirk and I were in one van and Michael,

3512
02:52:24,520 --> 02:52:28,800
Speaker 3: Andrew and Gary were in another. And this particular day

3513
02:52:29,120 --> 02:52:31,480
Speaker 3: because we had to pull over and just slip it

3514
02:52:31,600 --> 02:52:33,840
Speaker 3: rough on the side of the road one night because

3515
02:52:33,840 --> 02:52:36,240
Speaker 3: we were about to run out of fuel and we

3516
02:52:36,400 --> 02:52:39,200
Speaker 3: had no there was no idea of knowing where the

3517
02:52:39,320 --> 02:52:42,080
Speaker 3: next garage was or whatever, so we just pulled over

3518
02:52:42,120 --> 02:52:44,840
Speaker 3: and slept on the side of the road and woke

3519
02:52:44,920 --> 02:52:47,040
Speaker 3: up in the morning next to road killed, you know.

3520
02:52:49,400 --> 02:52:52,320
Speaker 3: But anyway, we set off on our way and John

3521
02:52:52,600 --> 02:52:55,680
Speaker 3: pointed out that the back door on the van in

3522
02:52:55,760 --> 02:52:58,680
Speaker 3: front was starting to open. We were all in our

3523
02:52:58,760 --> 02:53:01,760
Speaker 3: gear in it. Oh no, and yeah, and we couldn't

3524
02:53:01,879 --> 02:53:03,840
Speaker 3: and it was so much dust and stuff. We couldn't

3525
02:53:03,879 --> 02:53:09,320
Speaker 3: catch up to Michael, Gary and you know, Andrew, and

3526
02:53:09,440 --> 02:53:11,920
Speaker 3: the door was opening further down. Finally it was opened

3527
02:53:11,920 --> 02:53:14,080
Speaker 3: all the way and they were just driving along merrily.

3528
02:53:15,800 --> 02:53:21,320
Speaker 3: It was a microphone standard fall out, you know, and

3529
02:53:21,440 --> 02:53:23,880
Speaker 3: we were like, oh no, we couldn't, there's nothing we

3530
02:53:23,920 --> 02:53:26,280
Speaker 3: could do. We were honking and waving and they waved back.

3531
02:53:26,400 --> 02:53:31,600
Speaker 3: You know, we thought we were going to get there.

3532
02:53:31,680 --> 02:53:35,119
Speaker 3: Was only half our year, but it was a happy ending.

3533
02:53:35,760 --> 02:53:38,480
Speaker 3: We got there. We got there and the fellow gave

3534
02:53:38,560 --> 02:53:43,320
Speaker 3: us gave us a bag hot beer each five times

3535
02:53:43,560 --> 02:53:48,240
Speaker 3: and it was and we used that money to fund

3536
02:53:48,400 --> 02:53:51,880
Speaker 3: a lot of our existence over there, and then and

3537
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:54,960
Speaker 3: then we did it again and that funded our whole

3538
02:53:55,040 --> 02:53:59,360
Speaker 3: trip back to Sydney where we became an excess.

3539
02:54:00,200 --> 02:54:01,240
Speaker 7: Cast your mind back to that.

3540
02:54:02,760 --> 02:54:08,280
Speaker 5: Rental in Subiaco and you're playing the Perth pub scene there.

3541
02:54:08,520 --> 02:54:10,360
Speaker 7: Did you do the Shanton Park Hotel because you could

3542
02:54:10,360 --> 02:54:11,360
Speaker 7: have staggered up to that one.

3543
02:54:11,720 --> 02:54:14,360
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, Yeah, we did. The one that I have

3544
02:54:14,680 --> 02:54:22,600
Speaker 3: the most memory of though, was the Broadway Tavern. Yeah,

3545
02:54:22,959 --> 02:54:26,360
Speaker 3: and that was that we had a real sort of

3546
02:54:26,560 --> 02:54:30,920
Speaker 3: solid following there. Yeah, and it was it was just great.

3547
02:54:31,160 --> 02:54:33,800
Speaker 3: And I remember the very last night before we came

3548
02:54:33,879 --> 02:54:37,200
Speaker 3: back to Sydney, we had a goodbye show and we

3549
02:54:37,360 --> 02:54:41,960
Speaker 3: caught ourselves the vegetables for the night and yeah, and

3550
02:54:42,520 --> 02:54:44,760
Speaker 3: I kind of wrote the song We Are the Vegetable,

3551
02:54:45,280 --> 02:54:52,080
Speaker 3: set it up as the B side on Silent and

3552
02:54:52,760 --> 02:54:58,560
Speaker 3: it was fancy dress and for Andrew dressed up as

3553
02:54:58,600 --> 02:55:03,280
Speaker 3: a chicken and and he got up on stage and

3554
02:55:03,480 --> 02:55:14,200
Speaker 3: started Long Train Running by the Chickens playing Long Train Running.

3555
02:55:16,080 --> 02:55:17,080
Speaker 14: Yeah, house.

3556
02:55:18,920 --> 02:55:20,240
Speaker 7: You mentioned by the young Ones. Was it a bit

3557
02:55:20,320 --> 02:55:21,920
Speaker 7: like animal House. It must have been a mess.

3558
02:55:22,320 --> 02:55:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, a lot of house as well.

3559
02:55:24,959 --> 02:55:28,119
Speaker 7: Yeah, inside the house at one Stay.

3560
02:55:28,440 --> 02:55:28,640
Speaker 12: Yeah.

3561
02:55:29,920 --> 02:55:35,520
Speaker 3: Well, yes, Michael always loved his brother bike not so much,

3562
02:55:35,800 --> 02:55:38,880
Speaker 3: not so much then because we didn't he couldn't afford it,

3563
02:55:39,920 --> 02:55:43,280
Speaker 3: but he would write ride his Harley Davidson into rehearsals

3564
02:55:43,320 --> 02:55:48,080
Speaker 3: back here in Sydney and yeah, which is makes it

3565
02:55:48,080 --> 02:55:53,160
Speaker 3: a bit sad thing that actually, But I remember after

3566
02:55:54,360 --> 02:55:57,320
Speaker 3: one of our last rehearsals with Michael, he had ridden

3567
02:55:57,360 --> 02:56:02,000
Speaker 3: the Harley Davidson into the ABC studio where we were rehearsing, right,

3568
02:56:02,320 --> 02:56:04,680
Speaker 3: and and he said to see fellows and did this

3569
02:56:04,800 --> 02:56:09,960
Speaker 3: big willy and let us speak black Mark floor. And

3570
02:56:10,200 --> 02:56:13,400
Speaker 3: then not that well, you know, within the year or

3571
02:56:13,520 --> 02:56:16,600
Speaker 3: whatever it was, when we were rehearsing Terence Trent Derby

3572
02:56:16,959 --> 02:56:19,800
Speaker 3: there when Chance sang with us. We were in the

3573
02:56:19,840 --> 02:56:23,400
Speaker 3: same steat. The big Black Mark was still around hitting.

3574
02:56:24,560 --> 02:56:28,400
Speaker 7: Wow as a moment boys, Yeah, exactly, there was.

3575
02:56:28,920 --> 02:56:31,520
Speaker 5: There were so many venues to perform in and you'd

3576
02:56:31,560 --> 02:56:33,920
Speaker 5: get that, you'd get whatever it was, the daily News

3577
02:56:33,959 --> 02:56:36,080
Speaker 5: or whatever. The gig guide came in and you could

3578
02:56:36,160 --> 02:56:39,160
Speaker 5: go every single night. And of course we were talking

3579
02:56:39,760 --> 02:56:43,120
Speaker 5: before about how the Sunday Session at that time was

3580
02:56:43,240 --> 02:56:44,680
Speaker 5: such an institution.

3581
02:56:45,440 --> 02:56:47,880
Speaker 7: Do you remember any of those Sunday Session shows?

3582
02:56:48,280 --> 02:56:51,400
Speaker 3: Oh, very very well. I mean the Sunday Sessions were

3583
02:56:51,520 --> 02:56:54,480
Speaker 3: they were like that didn't happen anywhere else. No, No,

3584
02:56:54,840 --> 02:56:58,560
Speaker 3: it was a perthing and it was really great, you know.

3585
02:56:58,920 --> 02:57:01,960
Speaker 3: I mean it was just a relaxing thing to do

3586
02:57:02,040 --> 02:57:06,440
Speaker 3: on a Sunday afternoon. Yeah, yeah, well I remember one particularly,

3587
02:57:06,520 --> 02:57:08,680
Speaker 3: I think that was at the Great Ocean Hotel and

3588
02:57:11,040 --> 02:57:13,879
Speaker 3: and it was just such a magic place to play,

3589
02:57:14,160 --> 02:57:19,959
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

3590
02:57:20,000 --> 02:57:20,480
Speaker 14: That's the one.

3591
02:57:21,040 --> 02:57:22,680
Speaker 6: You've got to play those gigs in Perth as the

3592
02:57:22,720 --> 02:57:25,320
Speaker 6: Fairest Brothers, I know that. You know, the in excess

3593
02:57:25,360 --> 02:57:26,720
Speaker 6: thing was to come when you head back to Sydney.

3594
02:57:26,760 --> 02:57:28,800
Speaker 6: But you got to hone your craft and yeah, maybe

3595
02:57:28,879 --> 02:57:30,959
Speaker 6: make some mistakes and all that stuff, and that paid

3596
02:57:31,000 --> 02:57:33,160
Speaker 6: off for the Wembley's and they're touring the States in

3597
02:57:33,240 --> 02:57:34,160
Speaker 6: Europe later on.

3598
02:57:34,280 --> 02:57:38,039
Speaker 3: Didn't It absolutely did. Yeah, I mean that was the thing.

3599
02:57:38,120 --> 02:57:41,760
Speaker 3: We didn't have anything else to do, so we literally

3600
02:57:41,879 --> 02:57:46,720
Speaker 3: put mattresses up against the wall and turned one room

3601
02:57:46,760 --> 02:57:49,920
Speaker 3: in the house into a rehearsal space, and that's where

3602
02:57:49,959 --> 02:57:56,160
Speaker 3: we really really practiced and rehearsed, and I remember Michael

3603
02:57:56,440 --> 02:58:01,879
Speaker 3: going to Fiorucci and buying his red pants. Then warred

3604
02:58:02,400 --> 02:58:03,680
Speaker 3: every next year.

3605
02:58:06,760 --> 02:58:10,040
Speaker 5: Everyone we've spoken to Tim talks about the great camaraderie

3606
02:58:10,200 --> 02:58:12,160
Speaker 5: of everyone that was sort of on the scene at

3607
02:58:12,160 --> 02:58:12,480
Speaker 5: the time.

3608
02:58:13,000 --> 02:58:15,600
Speaker 7: Did you did other bands and so on?

3609
02:58:15,680 --> 02:58:18,280
Speaker 5: Did you get the feeling from them that they just

3610
02:58:18,600 --> 02:58:23,040
Speaker 5: knew with you guys, there was something in the future

3611
02:58:23,120 --> 02:58:25,760
Speaker 5: for you guys, it was just even extra special.

3612
02:58:26,440 --> 02:58:30,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, because we didn't get that feeling.

3613
02:58:30,200 --> 02:58:32,520
Speaker 3: We could see the camaraderie between other bands, but.

3614
02:58:32,600 --> 02:58:33,200
Speaker 14: Yeah, a little bit.

3615
02:58:34,440 --> 02:58:36,800
Speaker 7: Really, we never never really.

3616
02:58:36,720 --> 02:58:40,720
Speaker 3: Understood why, I think in retrospect now I do. But

3617
02:58:41,800 --> 02:58:46,960
Speaker 3: and also we weren't really from Perth. Yeah, as far

3618
02:58:47,040 --> 02:58:48,320
Speaker 3: as that was concerned.

3619
02:58:47,959 --> 02:58:58,000
Speaker 7: You know, Infiltrat exactly from Sydney. I was ye I

3620
02:58:58,120 --> 02:58:59,560
Speaker 7: tell everyone in excess as a per.

3621
02:59:02,440 --> 02:59:03,119
Speaker 9: We thought we were.

3622
02:59:03,920 --> 02:59:05,880
Speaker 6: Hey, Timmy, if someone had told you back then, you know,

3623
02:59:05,959 --> 02:59:08,040
Speaker 6: you're a few years away from that second album. But

3624
02:59:08,160 --> 02:59:10,119
Speaker 6: if someone had told you in the late seventies in PERTHCT,

3625
02:59:10,160 --> 02:59:12,440
Speaker 6: you guys would move to city and they'd be working

3626
02:59:12,480 --> 02:59:14,720
Speaker 6: with a great Richard Clapton on an album as producer

3627
02:59:14,760 --> 02:59:15,560
Speaker 6: for Underneath the Calais.

3628
02:59:15,560 --> 02:59:16,280
Speaker 7: Would you believe it?

3629
02:59:16,680 --> 02:59:16,880
Speaker 12: Yeah?

3630
02:59:17,320 --> 02:59:21,080
Speaker 3: No, probably not. Yeah, you know, I mean there was

3631
02:59:21,280 --> 02:59:25,440
Speaker 3: a little alone what we do after that, but yeah,

3632
02:59:25,560 --> 02:59:28,120
Speaker 3: but you know Richard, Richard was a lovely fellow and

3633
02:59:28,280 --> 02:59:32,440
Speaker 3: we opened for him for quite a while and that

3634
02:59:32,600 --> 02:59:35,400
Speaker 3: sort of was a very organic sort of thing to

3635
02:59:35,480 --> 02:59:37,800
Speaker 3: happen that we'd end up using him as a producer.

3636
02:59:38,360 --> 02:59:41,720
Speaker 3: You know, he was a big fan more than so.

3637
02:59:42,080 --> 02:59:45,320
Speaker 3: You know, it was musa but it was it was.

3638
02:59:45,600 --> 02:59:48,560
Speaker 3: There were all great times and all part of the

3639
02:59:48,640 --> 02:59:49,160
Speaker 3: learning curve.

3640
02:59:49,879 --> 02:59:52,640
Speaker 5: Well, it's a big year this year, big birthday, big anniversary,

3641
02:59:52,720 --> 02:59:53,840
Speaker 5: the swing for.

3642
02:59:54,480 --> 02:59:56,720
Speaker 7: The Big four h We spoke to Andrew in the

3643
02:59:56,760 --> 02:59:58,840
Speaker 7: year about it. Can you believe it?

3644
03:00:00,320 --> 03:00:04,800
Speaker 3: Yes? I can? Well, yeah exactly. Well it's the big

3645
03:00:04,879 --> 03:00:07,640
Speaker 3: five zero for the band coming out right, Yes, yeah,

3646
03:00:07,920 --> 03:00:10,879
Speaker 3: twenty seven so yeah, that's a very big one.

3647
03:00:11,160 --> 03:00:13,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, because the Angels are going through that right now

3648
03:00:13,680 --> 03:00:15,760
Speaker 6: without fifty, so just behind the boys.

3649
03:00:15,800 --> 03:00:18,959
Speaker 7: But Gradyre of Bussie pub Rock, Yeah, that's right.

3650
03:00:19,040 --> 03:00:21,280
Speaker 3: And then I mean when we do come back to Sydney,

3651
03:00:21,760 --> 03:00:25,640
Speaker 3: the pub's thing here was just as big, but there

3652
03:00:25,760 --> 03:00:28,600
Speaker 3: was like ten times as many people in pubs the

3653
03:00:28,680 --> 03:00:32,439
Speaker 3: same size, you know, Yeah, which is kind of ludicrous

3654
03:00:33,360 --> 03:00:35,880
Speaker 3: and there's no way you can do it today. Yeah,

3655
03:00:36,040 --> 03:00:37,959
Speaker 3: it's just too illegal.

3656
03:00:38,760 --> 03:00:40,720
Speaker 6: And what was to go back to Sydney. Was there

3657
03:00:40,760 --> 03:00:42,240
Speaker 6: a date that you said we're going back then or

3658
03:00:42,280 --> 03:00:43,760
Speaker 6: did you just feel it was right at the right time.

3659
03:00:44,520 --> 03:00:48,120
Speaker 28: Yeah, there was a date because he said would be

3660
03:00:48,200 --> 03:00:51,280
Speaker 28: in Percy years, so I spoke to and we just

3661
03:00:51,320 --> 03:00:54,320
Speaker 28: sort of felt like we played everywhere, there was nothing

3662
03:00:54,800 --> 03:00:55,280
Speaker 28: left to do.

3663
03:00:56,080 --> 03:00:58,720
Speaker 3: We needed to go back to Sydney to get signed

3664
03:00:58,760 --> 03:01:03,080
Speaker 3: to a record company, and as well, we got sick

3665
03:01:03,160 --> 03:01:07,040
Speaker 3: of playing so many covers. You know, Joseph was pretty

3666
03:01:07,200 --> 03:01:11,520
Speaker 3: pretty adamant that we were playing enough covers. We started

3667
03:01:11,560 --> 03:01:14,160
Speaker 3: playing so many of our own songs and we were like, well,

3668
03:01:14,480 --> 03:01:16,080
Speaker 3: well let's aware of that. For us, you know, we

3669
03:01:16,240 --> 03:01:19,440
Speaker 3: want to play our own music. So it was right,

3670
03:01:20,240 --> 03:01:21,240
Speaker 3: we will run out of town.

3671
03:01:23,000 --> 03:01:26,840
Speaker 5: Well without giving anything away. With the Big five oh

3672
03:01:27,000 --> 03:01:29,240
Speaker 5: coming up and everything, can we expect some kind of

3673
03:01:29,800 --> 03:01:31,279
Speaker 5: celebration Maybe.

3674
03:01:33,240 --> 03:01:36,640
Speaker 3: It would be some kind of celebration. Also, I can't

3675
03:01:36,800 --> 03:01:43,039
Speaker 3: really give the work just enough to know that, yeah, it's.

3676
03:01:42,959 --> 03:01:45,040
Speaker 7: Going to be a big party in the works.

3677
03:01:45,160 --> 03:01:47,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, it includes playing you get a good cowboy head

3678
03:01:47,760 --> 03:01:49,000
Speaker 6: off you your brother.

3679
03:01:50,760 --> 03:01:52,080
Speaker 7: Just for a little while, because he's.

3680
03:01:54,400 --> 03:01:55,640
Speaker 3: I don't know where I put that thing.

3681
03:01:57,320 --> 03:01:59,800
Speaker 7: We spoke to him about this spring celebrations a few

3682
03:01:59,800 --> 03:02:00,200
Speaker 7: weeks go.

3683
03:02:00,480 --> 03:02:04,280
Speaker 5: Girl, Tim Farriss, we are glad that you didn't listen

3684
03:02:04,360 --> 03:02:07,400
Speaker 5: to the insistence that you only play covers. And it's

3685
03:02:07,440 --> 03:02:11,039
Speaker 5: been fantastic to reminisce with you today on our pub

3686
03:02:11,120 --> 03:02:13,959
Speaker 5: crawl and we look forward to hearing what the big party.

3687
03:02:13,800 --> 03:02:14,520
Speaker 7: Is going to be all about it.

3688
03:02:14,600 --> 03:02:17,560
Speaker 3: Thanks for time, Tony, any excuse to come the person?

3689
03:02:17,760 --> 03:02:22,119
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would love to see it, right, Thanks brother Tim,

3690
03:02:22,680 --> 03:02:23,320
Speaker 7: Thank you guys.

3691
03:02:24,920 --> 03:02:27,760
Speaker 1: We would be seeing a minute works said, twelve hundred

3692
03:02:27,800 --> 03:02:29,880
Speaker 1: people a men at work to be on their owning?

3693
03:02:29,920 --> 03:02:31,920
Speaker 2: Did the people play in the the bands?

3694
03:02:31,959 --> 03:02:35,120
Speaker 4: It was Away and Lisa's pub crawl.

3695
03:02:35,959 --> 03:02:38,600
Speaker 5: Before there was the injectors, there was innocent Vistanders and

3696
03:02:38,680 --> 03:02:41,120
Speaker 5: before he was Diesel, he was Michael Zotti is all

3697
03:02:41,200 --> 03:02:43,600
Speaker 5: those things and he's joining us this morning on.

3698
03:02:43,640 --> 03:02:44,280
Speaker 7: The pub crawl.

3699
03:02:44,440 --> 03:02:45,840
Speaker 14: Hello mate, welcome.

3700
03:02:48,720 --> 03:02:51,400
Speaker 5: We are having the most wonderful time reminiscing with all

3701
03:02:51,440 --> 03:02:55,200
Speaker 5: your mates from back in the day. Innocent Vierstanders were

3702
03:02:55,240 --> 03:02:57,480
Speaker 5: one of the few original acts in Perth in the eighties.

3703
03:02:57,560 --> 03:02:59,320
Speaker 5: We are smarked on a hue from the Frames the

3704
03:02:59,400 --> 03:03:02,440
Speaker 5: other day about the pressure to perform covers at that time,

3705
03:03:02,920 --> 03:03:05,320
Speaker 5: and he said, there was did you feel that pressure

3706
03:03:05,360 --> 03:03:05,680
Speaker 5: as well?

3707
03:03:06,320 --> 03:03:07,920
Speaker 29: Look, you know there was definitely in sort of a

3708
03:03:08,040 --> 03:03:11,800
Speaker 29: hierarchy with the venues. I remember just you know, our agent,

3709
03:03:11,920 --> 03:03:14,120
Speaker 29: our managers kind of like, I can't explain to us

3710
03:03:14,160 --> 03:03:17,120
Speaker 29: that those types of those particular venues were reserved for

3711
03:03:17,280 --> 03:03:19,280
Speaker 29: the couple of bands on the old those nights and

3712
03:03:20,000 --> 03:03:23,920
Speaker 29: we're talking Finders on Saturdays, the biggest of the week,

3713
03:03:24,320 --> 03:03:26,200
Speaker 29: and you know, it was kind of just we just

3714
03:03:26,320 --> 03:03:27,880
Speaker 29: kind of had to accept it that we weren't going

3715
03:03:27,959 --> 03:03:31,000
Speaker 29: to get into those sort of venues. But you know,

3716
03:03:31,080 --> 03:03:33,280
Speaker 29: we gave, we gave everything a good shake. As far

3717
03:03:33,320 --> 03:03:35,920
Speaker 29: as being a band of play our own songs. We

3718
03:03:36,040 --> 03:03:38,240
Speaker 29: came very close to like nudging the band that were

3719
03:03:38,280 --> 03:03:41,240
Speaker 29: playing the top forty or I think I've seen a

3720
03:03:41,320 --> 03:03:44,440
Speaker 29: songwriter mentioned I think you mentioned in the song I

3721
03:03:44,480 --> 03:03:49,120
Speaker 29: think you called them radio the bands. Yeah, in one

3722
03:03:49,120 --> 03:03:51,520
Speaker 29: of the songs. You know, it's like this was this

3723
03:03:51,680 --> 03:03:54,880
Speaker 29: is not happening exclusively, but it was happening in other

3724
03:03:54,959 --> 03:03:56,640
Speaker 29: parts of the country and other parts of the world,

3725
03:03:56,760 --> 03:04:00,480
Speaker 29: you know, whether it's whether it's has been all the

3726
03:04:00,520 --> 03:04:03,640
Speaker 29: Philippines or whatever in the band that I'm really good

3727
03:04:03,680 --> 03:04:05,720
Speaker 29: at playing other people songs that I've always in the

3728
03:04:05,800 --> 03:04:09,960
Speaker 29: band still are today. Yeah, it's an incredible thing. I

3729
03:04:10,000 --> 03:04:13,959
Speaker 29: remember walking into a place in Thailand actually where I'm

3730
03:04:14,160 --> 03:04:17,240
Speaker 29: calling from today and thinking that I was listening to

3731
03:04:17,320 --> 03:04:19,600
Speaker 29: recording music when I walked into his nion and I

3732
03:04:19,680 --> 03:04:21,800
Speaker 29: looked and I saw people playing, and I still in

3733
03:04:21,920 --> 03:04:24,240
Speaker 29: the quates in my head. They were so tight and

3734
03:04:24,440 --> 03:04:28,400
Speaker 29: so good at reproducing every nuance of a record, down

3735
03:04:28,440 --> 03:04:30,920
Speaker 29: to the delays and make the affects the voices of

3736
03:04:30,920 --> 03:04:31,400
Speaker 29: them and which is.

3737
03:04:31,400 --> 03:04:32,359
Speaker 12: They were doing redically?

3738
03:04:33,800 --> 03:04:36,280
Speaker 29: You know, it was it was really like it just

3739
03:04:36,400 --> 03:04:38,200
Speaker 29: walked my head and I thought, you know, this is

3740
03:04:38,600 --> 03:04:41,440
Speaker 29: these are people who have really spent time and really

3741
03:04:41,720 --> 03:04:44,520
Speaker 29: really taking a lot of pride in their crafts. So

3742
03:04:45,080 --> 03:04:46,800
Speaker 29: you know, like it's it's one thing going, yeah, we're

3743
03:04:46,800 --> 03:04:48,320
Speaker 29: going to learn that song to play the next time.

3744
03:04:48,480 --> 03:04:50,840
Speaker 29: It sort of a half hours sel of it to

3745
03:04:50,959 --> 03:04:53,440
Speaker 29: do it. Really, I mean, for me when I played

3746
03:04:53,480 --> 03:04:56,440
Speaker 29: it in the band called The Kind, which was just

3747
03:04:56,520 --> 03:04:59,880
Speaker 29: before I left Perfect Contant and we were doing the

3748
03:05:00,080 --> 03:05:02,480
Speaker 29: to see like one night a week, it's really fortant

3749
03:05:02,520 --> 03:05:04,880
Speaker 29: me to have to learn other people's stuff. And I

3750
03:05:05,040 --> 03:05:07,600
Speaker 29: realized even though I was classically brought up in it

3751
03:05:07,680 --> 03:05:09,480
Speaker 29: and in playing cello, and then I went to guitar

3752
03:05:10,200 --> 03:05:13,000
Speaker 29: late life around fourteen, it really was. It was an

3753
03:05:13,040 --> 03:05:15,200
Speaker 29: eye opener and it kind of humbling in for me

3754
03:05:15,200 --> 03:05:17,480
Speaker 29: because I realized that I've been like a three range

3755
03:05:17,560 --> 03:05:20,920
Speaker 29: chicken just running around a mark running a monkey. And

3756
03:05:21,360 --> 03:05:22,920
Speaker 29: I thought I knew a lot about guitar, but it

3757
03:05:22,959 --> 03:05:25,640
Speaker 29: made me realize how little that I actually knew about

3758
03:05:25,720 --> 03:05:28,040
Speaker 29: not just the carp on music and arrangements and called

3759
03:05:28,320 --> 03:05:30,840
Speaker 29: progressions and stuff, and learning other people's songs was like

3760
03:05:30,920 --> 03:05:33,040
Speaker 29: boot camp for me, and it really humbled me. And

3761
03:05:33,320 --> 03:05:35,200
Speaker 29: I thought, you know what, I don't really actually know

3762
03:05:35,440 --> 03:05:39,000
Speaker 29: that much at all. You know, I had to really

3763
03:05:39,320 --> 03:05:42,200
Speaker 29: bunk it down because I'm a perfectionist. I don't if

3764
03:05:42,240 --> 03:05:44,920
Speaker 29: I hear something in my ear, I want to get

3765
03:05:44,959 --> 03:05:46,840
Speaker 29: it completely right. I don't want to just do a

3766
03:05:46,959 --> 03:05:49,560
Speaker 29: fac simile that. I want it to be really accurate,

3767
03:05:49,600 --> 03:05:50,920
Speaker 29: and I really want to copy the.

3768
03:05:51,000 --> 03:05:53,200
Speaker 12: Feel of it as well, not just the technicalities of

3769
03:05:53,320 --> 03:05:55,720
Speaker 12: like yeah, that's a gene seven whatever, blah blah. I

3770
03:05:55,800 --> 03:05:57,600
Speaker 12: want to I want to get every nuance of what

3771
03:05:57,720 --> 03:05:59,800
Speaker 12: someone else has done, and then I can get inside

3772
03:05:59,840 --> 03:06:02,040
Speaker 12: it and then I can make it. If that makes sense.

3773
03:06:02,160 --> 03:06:04,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mark, you're talking about that thing with cover bands.

3774
03:06:04,560 --> 03:06:05,680
Speaker 6: I mean it's a classic example.

3775
03:06:05,760 --> 03:06:06,360
Speaker 7: That was Journey.

3776
03:06:06,400 --> 03:06:08,520
Speaker 6: Neil Sean from Journey went to the Philippines and found

3777
03:06:08,600 --> 03:06:11,680
Speaker 6: Unnil their new singer playing, you know, to replace Steve Perry.

3778
03:06:11,720 --> 03:06:13,400
Speaker 7: I mean it was a classic example, wasn't it.

3779
03:06:13,760 --> 03:06:17,320
Speaker 29: Yeah, the Philippines almost like it's actually make a text

3780
03:06:17,360 --> 03:06:20,000
Speaker 29: pride in being like one two three on them track

3781
03:06:20,080 --> 03:06:25,040
Speaker 29: and Field, they which give one to create replacement in

3782
03:06:25,160 --> 03:06:27,680
Speaker 29: any hundred of rage. Yeah, you know, it's the sick

3783
03:06:27,720 --> 03:06:30,960
Speaker 29: part being like making it like the best cover like

3784
03:06:31,200 --> 03:06:33,400
Speaker 29: musicians in the world. Yeah, as far as like being

3785
03:06:33,400 --> 03:06:36,200
Speaker 29: able to replicate and deal it with absolutely all that.

3786
03:06:36,240 --> 03:06:37,840
Speaker 5: You want I didn't know you played the cello, by

3787
03:06:37,879 --> 03:06:41,800
Speaker 5: the way, that's my favorite instrument in the whole world. Now,

3788
03:06:42,480 --> 03:06:44,840
Speaker 5: you were only a teenager when you started out. Were

3789
03:06:44,840 --> 03:06:47,320
Speaker 5: you ever technically still underage when you were playing in

3790
03:06:47,400 --> 03:06:47,640
Speaker 5: the park?

3791
03:06:47,879 --> 03:06:51,920
Speaker 29: Must have been, Oh yeah, yeah, technically underage. It was

3792
03:06:51,959 --> 03:06:54,320
Speaker 29: pretty relaxed back then, and I did get to know

3793
03:06:54,680 --> 03:06:57,160
Speaker 29: the venues and the people I worked on the stuff.

3794
03:06:57,280 --> 03:06:57,400
Speaker 19: You know.

3795
03:06:57,480 --> 03:07:00,400
Speaker 29: I always venture out on Mondays and days, and that

3796
03:07:00,520 --> 03:07:02,560
Speaker 29: was an amazing thing about the scene back then, in

3797
03:07:02,920 --> 03:07:05,760
Speaker 29: you know, eighty five, eighty six, at eighty seven, there

3798
03:07:05,800 --> 03:07:08,960
Speaker 29: were bands playing on Monday nights and amazing band some

3799
03:07:09,080 --> 03:07:11,520
Speaker 29: of the some of the more interesting bands to me

3800
03:07:11,760 --> 03:07:13,720
Speaker 29: as the expand that were playing well, you know, kind

3801
03:07:13,720 --> 03:07:16,640
Speaker 29: of blues bass and soul bats they called the Zeros,

3802
03:07:16,640 --> 03:07:18,879
Speaker 29: which were an incredible band, played a lot of their

3803
03:07:18,920 --> 03:07:21,080
Speaker 29: own songs as well. Going and seeing them with an

3804
03:07:21,200 --> 03:07:23,120
Speaker 29: education for me. And I feel like a lot of

3805
03:07:23,200 --> 03:07:25,680
Speaker 29: what I learned was just from coming off the stage

3806
03:07:25,760 --> 03:07:27,720
Speaker 29: and then going and watching other people on nights that

3807
03:07:27,800 --> 03:07:30,600
Speaker 29: I had off, and so I was on look out

3808
03:07:30,680 --> 03:07:32,840
Speaker 29: every night of the week, and you would back then

3809
03:07:32,920 --> 03:07:35,600
Speaker 29: you can actually go out on a Wednesday homp game

3810
03:07:35,720 --> 03:07:37,680
Speaker 29: to go out on home days and have a choice

3811
03:07:37,720 --> 03:07:40,400
Speaker 29: of not just one band, but got many bands. You know,

3812
03:07:40,520 --> 03:07:43,600
Speaker 29: this is also a time when every suburb in a

3813
03:07:43,680 --> 03:07:47,240
Speaker 29: tribe in theater as well got turned into real estate

3814
03:07:48,240 --> 03:07:52,240
Speaker 29: and every every suburb had a pub that opened the

3815
03:07:52,320 --> 03:07:56,520
Speaker 29: toards to music before pokeys and pistros and kind of

3816
03:07:56,560 --> 03:07:59,440
Speaker 29: critique beers. All of those turns now that are so

3817
03:07:59,600 --> 03:08:03,600
Speaker 29: familiar and so it's kind of secondhand. How do we

3818
03:08:03,680 --> 03:08:06,400
Speaker 29: draw people into our establishment? That was a question, and

3819
03:08:06,480 --> 03:08:07,960
Speaker 29: it was like, how do we get people in here

3820
03:08:08,000 --> 03:08:08,560
Speaker 29: to spend money?

3821
03:08:08,720 --> 03:08:08,879
Speaker 9: Oh?

3822
03:08:09,200 --> 03:08:11,960
Speaker 12: Music, that's that's how we get people in. It was

3823
03:08:12,000 --> 03:08:13,600
Speaker 12: a really simple question back then.

3824
03:08:13,840 --> 03:08:16,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right about your head bands playing places like

3825
03:08:16,160 --> 03:08:17,560
Speaker 6: the Generator at Moly is not there?

3826
03:08:17,680 --> 03:08:20,600
Speaker 7: The Warrik Hotel place the.

3827
03:08:20,640 --> 03:08:23,280
Speaker 29: Best aspect of that and which is the status? And

3828
03:08:24,040 --> 03:08:25,920
Speaker 29: I think when when we lose it is that it's

3829
03:08:25,959 --> 03:08:29,039
Speaker 29: actually the element of communities that that brings to as well. Yes,

3830
03:08:29,640 --> 03:08:32,040
Speaker 29: people together that if you want things to do that

3831
03:08:32,280 --> 03:08:35,480
Speaker 29: want you know the region of course football or any

3832
03:08:35,879 --> 03:08:39,360
Speaker 29: sports in general, school and needs. You know, it's very

3833
03:08:39,400 --> 03:08:42,200
Speaker 29: comple that bring people together that are total standards and

3834
03:08:42,560 --> 03:08:46,280
Speaker 29: they become fans and it's community and it's healthy And yeah,

3835
03:08:46,360 --> 03:08:49,680
Speaker 29: I call it a healthy escapism, but that's kind of

3836
03:08:49,720 --> 03:08:50,120
Speaker 29: what it is.

3837
03:08:50,280 --> 03:08:52,320
Speaker 5: You know, if you're at home and you find yourself

3838
03:08:52,400 --> 03:08:55,800
Speaker 5: driving past the Herdsman where you had a Monday night residency,

3839
03:08:56,120 --> 03:08:58,680
Speaker 5: does it bring back the memories completely?

3840
03:08:58,760 --> 03:09:01,200
Speaker 29: I mean, I'm stuggling to It's like I drive to

3841
03:09:01,360 --> 03:09:03,840
Speaker 29: an area now and persons like having slash backs and

3842
03:09:05,440 --> 03:09:11,199
Speaker 29: familiar it's like and then it's like, that's really different.

3843
03:09:11,240 --> 03:09:14,640
Speaker 29: It's been renovated, and I have to question and I'll

3844
03:09:14,680 --> 03:09:17,640
Speaker 29: see something It's like, oh no, now I recognize. It

3845
03:09:18,080 --> 03:09:20,360
Speaker 29: is like something that's left that you can recognize. But

3846
03:09:20,400 --> 03:09:22,720
Speaker 29: a lot of them have had complete faceless.

3847
03:09:22,720 --> 03:09:28,760
Speaker 7: They're out there at all. Nice cahig, that's scary.

3848
03:09:28,920 --> 03:09:31,120
Speaker 29: Well there you go. Yeah that makes sense.

3849
03:09:31,720 --> 03:09:34,040
Speaker 6: Can't telling Mack to the childs, the beloved childs? I

3850
03:09:34,120 --> 03:09:36,600
Speaker 6: tell us still doing gigs and they still still got

3851
03:09:36,640 --> 03:09:39,760
Speaker 6: the Viking block over the road. Think that tree is

3852
03:09:39,840 --> 03:09:41,360
Speaker 6: still having there? Mind you tell me a story about

3853
03:09:41,360 --> 03:09:43,200
Speaker 6: a tree over there. Once there's some something to do

3854
03:09:43,320 --> 03:09:44,720
Speaker 6: with you having a big night.

3855
03:09:45,720 --> 03:09:47,560
Speaker 29: You remember, well there was, yeah, there was, there's a

3856
03:09:47,640 --> 03:09:49,600
Speaker 29: park across the road there and I was like, my

3857
03:09:49,760 --> 03:09:51,959
Speaker 29: band actually the first when we pull up there, they

3858
03:09:52,000 --> 03:09:54,120
Speaker 29: always qicked and remind me because I told them at

3859
03:09:54,160 --> 03:09:56,480
Speaker 29: one point and I thought it was pretty funny. And

3860
03:09:56,800 --> 03:09:58,400
Speaker 29: I don't have a lot of stories, and you know,

3861
03:09:58,560 --> 03:10:00,840
Speaker 29: vice versa. They always tell each other stories. But for

3862
03:10:00,959 --> 03:10:02,920
Speaker 29: some reason that one, it's like they'd like to rub

3863
03:10:03,000 --> 03:10:06,000
Speaker 29: it in. They should be parking in your favorite and

3864
03:10:07,840 --> 03:10:10,280
Speaker 29: that's you know, it's like the old classic thing is

3865
03:10:10,400 --> 03:10:12,640
Speaker 29: like you've had how many drinks and then someone offers

3866
03:10:12,680 --> 03:10:15,600
Speaker 29: you something to maybe have a pop and get worse

3867
03:10:20,360 --> 03:10:23,240
Speaker 29: happened to the world. It's just gone off as.

3868
03:10:23,280 --> 03:10:28,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, now your songs. Sud I said that your songs

3869
03:10:28,240 --> 03:10:31,320
Speaker 5: were very localized. You did songs about Scarborough and down

3870
03:10:31,440 --> 03:10:32,800
Speaker 5: South and beaches and hot summers.

3871
03:10:32,840 --> 03:10:34,440
Speaker 7: No one else was really doing it at the time.

3872
03:10:35,160 --> 03:10:35,680
Speaker 7: Was good, wasn't he?

3873
03:10:36,000 --> 03:10:36,160
Speaker 14: Look?

3874
03:10:36,280 --> 03:10:39,000
Speaker 29: You know, I was really in a very comfortable bosom

3875
03:10:39,160 --> 03:10:42,320
Speaker 29: of an amazing song that he was. He came out

3876
03:10:42,360 --> 03:10:44,680
Speaker 29: of his bedroom like I met him through the Sunday

3877
03:10:44,760 --> 03:10:47,440
Speaker 29: Times in news paper. That was like how I was

3878
03:10:47,520 --> 03:10:49,120
Speaker 29: meeting a lot of people back then, when I was

3879
03:10:49,240 --> 03:10:51,520
Speaker 29: thirteen and fourteen, I would getting Sunday paper on a

3880
03:10:51,520 --> 03:10:56,680
Speaker 29: Saturday night, bringing and annoying like parents and housemates and

3881
03:10:56,720 --> 03:10:59,440
Speaker 29: stuff like, look they're not hard, just go away all

3882
03:10:59,480 --> 03:11:03,000
Speaker 29: back tomorrow. I'll be that king. I met Bret to

3883
03:11:03,160 --> 03:11:05,240
Speaker 29: this Sunday. But when we started hanging out, I was

3884
03:11:05,440 --> 03:11:07,680
Speaker 29: like fourteen, he was study twenty one, so he was

3885
03:11:07,760 --> 03:11:08,640
Speaker 29: like a mentor for me.

3886
03:11:09,360 --> 03:11:11,720
Speaker 12: And yeah, and he had inclinible knack of just like

3887
03:11:11,840 --> 03:11:16,160
Speaker 12: folding in what was around. He had really great song writer.

3888
03:11:16,120 --> 03:11:19,320
Speaker 29: Influences too, of course, you know, you know he kind

3889
03:11:19,360 --> 03:11:21,760
Speaker 29: of really carried that Australian tradition of kind of like

3890
03:11:21,800 --> 03:11:24,040
Speaker 29: a Paul Kelly or Don Walker sort of writing the

3891
03:11:24,120 --> 03:11:27,920
Speaker 29: song about what was happening around and also things that

3892
03:11:27,959 --> 03:11:30,640
Speaker 29: were happening that, you know, like the gentrification of Scarborough

3893
03:11:30,640 --> 03:11:33,920
Speaker 29: for instance, discuff a hotel and you know, he was

3894
03:11:33,959 --> 03:11:36,120
Speaker 29: the first one to tell me about the Sunday morning

3895
03:11:36,200 --> 03:11:39,440
Speaker 29: session down at Discovery Beach Hotel. Was like, what a

3896
03:11:39,560 --> 03:11:44,000
Speaker 29: Sunday morning What That's like the most hardcore thing I

3897
03:11:44,040 --> 03:11:47,000
Speaker 29: can imagine. And his band that he had a band before,

3898
03:11:47,560 --> 03:11:50,119
Speaker 29: in Fanta, used to play that Sunday morning session. That's

3899
03:11:50,120 --> 03:11:52,680
Speaker 29: how he put his teeth and it was it was

3900
03:11:52,800 --> 03:11:54,959
Speaker 29: like it was a different time. I mean, where else

3901
03:11:55,000 --> 03:11:57,040
Speaker 29: could you go in the world and go and be

3902
03:11:57,200 --> 03:12:00,720
Speaker 29: on on Sunday morning listen tool Band amongst like a

3903
03:12:00,800 --> 03:12:05,080
Speaker 29: bunch of bikers and Hippi. Yeah, basically hipps was actually

3904
03:12:05,080 --> 03:12:08,240
Speaker 29: a thing all getting on together, you know, until someone

3905
03:12:08,800 --> 03:12:15,080
Speaker 29: people over someone's head. Morning until Sunday mornings were pretty

3906
03:12:15,120 --> 03:12:18,640
Speaker 29: mellow and it was just like the tradition thing, you know,

3907
03:12:19,640 --> 03:12:21,680
Speaker 29: morning session and then you go and have a big

3908
03:12:21,720 --> 03:12:23,800
Speaker 29: breakfast after that maybe versa.

3909
03:12:24,879 --> 03:12:26,320
Speaker 17: What was it was like?

3910
03:12:26,760 --> 03:12:31,200
Speaker 3: That was how that's what that other thing makes my

3911
03:12:31,320 --> 03:12:33,840
Speaker 3: knees to think about drinking a beer any morning.

3912
03:12:33,920 --> 03:12:34,080
Speaker 13: Now.

3913
03:12:34,520 --> 03:12:37,920
Speaker 5: The Sunday session, you know, Sunday afternoon session, I mean,

3914
03:12:38,000 --> 03:12:40,280
Speaker 5: that was a thing of that time too, and that

3915
03:12:40,560 --> 03:12:42,480
Speaker 5: was you know, but I'm pretty sure that people just

3916
03:12:42,520 --> 03:12:44,320
Speaker 5: saw it as a the pub is going to close

3917
03:12:44,360 --> 03:12:45,920
Speaker 5: it eight, I've got to drink as much as I.

3918
03:12:46,040 --> 03:12:48,360
Speaker 7: Had, and you've got to do milk the rest of

3919
03:12:48,360 --> 03:12:51,400
Speaker 7: the weekend because to work. Were they the maddest of

3920
03:12:51,480 --> 03:12:52,480
Speaker 7: the shows to do?

3921
03:12:52,680 --> 03:12:56,280
Speaker 29: That Sunday session, Absolutely, you know something about the Sunday

3922
03:12:56,280 --> 03:12:59,640
Speaker 29: afternoon session that was a gateway to kicking on. Basically

3923
03:13:00,480 --> 03:13:03,480
Speaker 29: you'd come out in the summer com especially like a

3924
03:13:03,560 --> 03:13:06,119
Speaker 29: bit of daylight left. Yes, so you'd be like, hey,

3925
03:13:06,320 --> 03:13:08,360
Speaker 29: let's let's go and grab a burger, and then just

3926
03:13:08,600 --> 03:13:09,640
Speaker 29: whose places were going to?

3927
03:13:09,760 --> 03:13:10,480
Speaker 3: What are we doing now?

3928
03:13:10,600 --> 03:13:13,160
Speaker 29: Kind of and of course being Sunday, but the night

3929
03:13:13,200 --> 03:13:15,400
Speaker 29: would kind of cap off because it's a Sunday night.

3930
03:13:15,440 --> 03:13:18,240
Speaker 29: But it was always the biggest party night, always the

3931
03:13:18,280 --> 03:13:21,960
Speaker 29: biggest party night. Yeah, without a doubt, it was the

3932
03:13:22,080 --> 03:13:24,160
Speaker 29: night that all we ended up going into Monday morning.

3933
03:13:24,400 --> 03:13:27,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, who was the first person who called you Diesel?

3934
03:13:27,320 --> 03:13:28,840
Speaker 6: And did that name come from your bass player? From

3935
03:13:28,879 --> 03:13:32,440
Speaker 6: Johnny Delzel or that was that when that initiates.

3936
03:13:33,480 --> 03:13:36,040
Speaker 29: It was from john It was, well, that was one

3937
03:13:36,080 --> 03:13:40,960
Speaker 29: before that learning clear up that I did work in

3938
03:13:41,040 --> 03:13:41,880
Speaker 29: a convenience Dog.

3939
03:13:42,360 --> 03:13:44,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, the name, the name did come from.

3940
03:13:44,720 --> 03:13:46,600
Speaker 29: We were actually band that didn't have a name. And

3941
03:13:47,080 --> 03:13:49,360
Speaker 29: I started writing songs because, like I said before, I

3942
03:13:49,480 --> 03:13:51,560
Speaker 29: was I was in a really kind of you know,

3943
03:13:51,720 --> 03:13:54,600
Speaker 29: comfortable situation where I have someone in the band writing

3944
03:13:54,640 --> 03:13:57,160
Speaker 29: all of the songs and I was just putting my

3945
03:13:57,280 --> 03:13:59,959
Speaker 29: skin on him as a guitar and a few backing dog.

3946
03:14:00,120 --> 03:14:01,760
Speaker 29: Was that after that I had to actually stand on

3947
03:14:01,879 --> 03:14:04,520
Speaker 29: my one two feet and start riding and having you know,

3948
03:14:04,800 --> 03:14:06,920
Speaker 29: fronting my own band. Was was you know at the

3949
03:14:07,000 --> 03:14:10,200
Speaker 29: age eighteen was you know, challenge for me. But I

3950
03:14:10,840 --> 03:14:13,320
Speaker 29: was definitely up for the challenge. I wanted something to

3951
03:14:13,400 --> 03:14:16,040
Speaker 29: happen in that direction. But you know it was it

3952
03:14:16,080 --> 03:14:18,400
Speaker 29: was like Spaby steps and so we started doing these

3953
03:14:18,920 --> 03:14:20,680
Speaker 29: one gig of week. That's the kind of you called it,

3954
03:14:20,800 --> 03:14:23,320
Speaker 29: like a hobby bad you know, surious to see what

3955
03:14:23,400 --> 03:14:25,240
Speaker 29: happened to And you know, I make a chalk about

3956
03:14:25,280 --> 03:14:29,280
Speaker 29: saying that at eighteen dollars, washed up and jaded for

3957
03:14:29,400 --> 03:14:33,240
Speaker 29: like four years, Yeah, and actually broke, you know, complaining that.

3958
03:14:33,640 --> 03:14:36,360
Speaker 29: You know, I was discoggling to like just everything I

3959
03:14:36,400 --> 03:14:39,440
Speaker 29: could move was two garbage bags and I had like

3960
03:14:39,680 --> 03:14:41,880
Speaker 29: one guitar and lamp and a couple of pedals in

3961
03:14:42,240 --> 03:14:46,360
Speaker 29: me and chilling to go a holding target that used

3962
03:14:46,360 --> 03:14:49,480
Speaker 29: to blow chunks out the back and I will be

3963
03:14:49,520 --> 03:14:52,040
Speaker 29: strung that with a miracle I didn't die driving it

3964
03:14:52,280 --> 03:14:52,880
Speaker 29: and things like that.

3965
03:14:53,160 --> 03:14:54,120
Speaker 7: So good time.

3966
03:14:54,440 --> 03:14:54,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

3967
03:14:55,000 --> 03:14:57,600
Speaker 29: It was one of those cases that like got a

3968
03:14:57,720 --> 03:15:00,200
Speaker 29: call from the Lovely maybe that book the and you,

3969
03:15:00,400 --> 03:15:02,200
Speaker 29: and she was just trying to help us, and she

3970
03:15:02,280 --> 03:15:04,879
Speaker 29: said he get her name. I said, well, not really, Well,

3971
03:15:04,879 --> 03:15:06,200
Speaker 29: I want to put an ad in the paper because

3972
03:15:06,200 --> 03:15:08,480
Speaker 29: you're drawing that to two people on a cockroads and

3973
03:15:09,959 --> 03:15:12,080
Speaker 29: you know you could do a bit of help, you know.

3974
03:15:12,720 --> 03:15:14,880
Speaker 29: And I just heard this found about speed and come

3975
03:15:14,959 --> 03:15:18,840
Speaker 29: over and Col's house car sharing with Johnny and his bend.

3976
03:15:19,000 --> 03:15:21,160
Speaker 29: I can and I had a couple of kids already,

3977
03:15:21,200 --> 03:15:23,039
Speaker 29: and Jane found out that he was she was pregnant

3978
03:15:23,080 --> 03:15:26,640
Speaker 29: again and he'd heard the news Speed and he oh,

3979
03:15:26,760 --> 03:15:29,400
Speaker 29: that's pretty cool, you know, little Johnny dee, I need

3980
03:15:29,440 --> 03:15:33,400
Speaker 29: to injectly and saying to his kids, you know, and

3981
03:15:34,120 --> 03:15:36,680
Speaker 29: the projective is an integral part of the truck engine.

3982
03:15:36,720 --> 03:15:37,360
Speaker 29: Of course, any.

3983
03:15:38,959 --> 03:15:39,800
Speaker 11: Let's done.

3984
03:15:39,920 --> 03:15:42,040
Speaker 29: I was actually sitting on the floor changing strings on

3985
03:15:42,160 --> 03:15:42,920
Speaker 29: my guitar and I'm.

3986
03:15:42,959 --> 03:15:43,800
Speaker 12: Ah, yeah, funny.

3987
03:15:44,480 --> 03:15:46,560
Speaker 29: And then she called back and I could actually I

3988
03:15:46,600 --> 03:15:48,040
Speaker 29: do have a name, and I gave that name to

3989
03:15:48,080 --> 03:15:52,120
Speaker 29: support in the papers to humor. That's great, based John

3990
03:15:52,320 --> 03:15:55,560
Speaker 29: and he saw and what you idiot, you know, you

3991
03:15:55,640 --> 03:15:57,880
Speaker 29: know he's embarrassing whatever, I think a little bit. And

3992
03:15:57,920 --> 03:15:59,680
Speaker 29: then and then the next week came and it didn't

3993
03:15:59,680 --> 03:16:02,040
Speaker 29: get instruments on and on and on, and I think

3994
03:16:02,080 --> 03:16:05,480
Speaker 29: a few months later we met our first manager, you know,

3995
03:16:05,680 --> 03:16:08,840
Speaker 29: branch Echoes, and he was the one that navigated us

3996
03:16:08,840 --> 03:16:10,760
Speaker 29: across the noboley. He's like, well, what are you guys

3997
03:16:10,800 --> 03:16:12,840
Speaker 29: are going to add your name and we're like, yeah,

3998
03:16:13,080 --> 03:16:15,080
Speaker 29: I get so it's like and then he said to me,

3999
03:16:15,360 --> 03:16:16,680
Speaker 29: it's like, well, you know, you're going to have to

4000
03:16:16,760 --> 03:16:19,120
Speaker 29: go along with this because everyone thinks that is you

4001
03:16:19,280 --> 03:16:21,280
Speaker 29: because you're in the middle of the stage singing the song.

4002
03:16:21,760 --> 03:16:22,600
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay whatever.

4003
03:16:24,440 --> 03:16:27,480
Speaker 29: At that point, it's hard to imagine. But this sex

4004
03:16:27,600 --> 03:16:30,680
Speaker 29: is so low I was. I was just completely blade

4005
03:16:30,800 --> 03:16:33,560
Speaker 29: about it. And then of course things sug escalated in

4006
03:16:33,640 --> 03:16:37,040
Speaker 29: the space of like eighteen months and then and you know,

4007
03:16:37,120 --> 03:16:39,760
Speaker 29: I'm trying to like explain to everybody ever since it's

4008
03:16:39,800 --> 03:16:40,560
Speaker 29: actually wasn't me.

4009
03:16:44,240 --> 03:16:45,640
Speaker 12: Good luck with that, right, good.

4010
03:16:45,560 --> 03:16:45,920
Speaker 14: Luck with that?

4011
03:16:46,400 --> 03:16:47,400
Speaker 29: It was named after him.

4012
03:16:47,800 --> 03:16:49,520
Speaker 5: Coming back to Perth in November with the show at

4013
03:16:49,560 --> 03:16:51,520
Speaker 5: the heat ledg Of Theater as part of a new tour.

4014
03:16:51,959 --> 03:16:54,240
Speaker 29: Yeah, It's taken me like a year to get around

4015
03:16:54,320 --> 03:16:56,080
Speaker 29: the country. I've been doing a lot of regional which

4016
03:16:56,080 --> 03:16:59,080
Speaker 29: is fantastic. I love these regional theaters and I'm being

4017
03:16:59,160 --> 03:17:04,240
Speaker 29: an incredible things about they're all right, you know, looking

4018
03:17:04,320 --> 03:17:04,959
Speaker 29: in because it's a.

4019
03:17:05,200 --> 03:17:06,080
Speaker 12: Book so solid.

4020
03:17:06,600 --> 03:17:09,320
Speaker 29: I'm really really excited to be finding such a beautiful.

4021
03:17:09,360 --> 03:17:11,879
Speaker 7: That's a beautiful room is standing there. It's just incredible.

4022
03:17:11,959 --> 03:17:15,360
Speaker 5: Yes, you can catch Diesel at the Ledger Theater November eight.

4023
03:17:15,440 --> 03:17:18,920
Speaker 5: Tickets are available through Artsculture Trust dot w A, dot

4024
03:17:19,000 --> 03:17:22,960
Speaker 5: gov dot au. Mark has been an absolute treat to

4025
03:17:23,080 --> 03:17:25,840
Speaker 5: reminisce with you this morning. Wonderful, wonderful.

4026
03:17:26,480 --> 03:17:26,680
Speaker 14: Yeah.

4027
03:17:27,040 --> 03:17:29,960
Speaker 6: Last time I saw you was at French Friends restaurant,

4028
03:17:30,040 --> 03:17:32,000
Speaker 6: playing a gig to about fifty people.

4029
03:17:33,080 --> 03:17:34,920
Speaker 7: It was one of those nights of world class rock.

4030
03:17:35,000 --> 03:17:35,120
Speaker 14: Rand.

4031
03:17:35,120 --> 03:17:36,320
Speaker 6: I just got to say that because you left the

4032
03:17:36,360 --> 03:17:38,440
Speaker 6: gig you would thank you good night, and you walked out,

4033
03:17:38,920 --> 03:17:40,720
Speaker 6: didn't get to shake your hand. Bit of was sensational.

4034
03:17:41,040 --> 03:17:42,240
Speaker 6: So looking forward to see you this time.

4035
03:17:43,040 --> 03:17:43,240
Speaker 13: Mark.

4036
03:17:43,320 --> 03:17:46,360
Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Thanks bad, thank thank you, bye

4037
03:17:46,400 --> 03:17:49,360
Speaker 7: bye all Thanks time, don't forget.

4038
03:17:49,400 --> 03:17:51,840
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4039
03:17:51,920 --> 03:17:54,280
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4041
03:17:56,920 --> 03:17:58,760
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4042
03:17:58,840 --> 03:18:01,879
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4043
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4044
03:18:03,520 --> 03:18:04,160
Speaker 14: I love it story.

4045
03:18:04,360 --> 03:18:07,240
Speaker 7: Look at little Johnny Diesel, these objectives and it's little injectors.

4046
03:18:07,320 --> 03:18:11,640
Speaker 4: So Good Crazy and Lisa ninety six AFM