1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: I can't believe it. But Australia to forty years old. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: The celebration, none of us can believe it. 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: September twenty four the Victoria Key precincton Fremantle, big celebratory 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: show being headlined of course by Hohodi Gurus along with 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 2: Baby Animals and Voyager and joining. 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: Us now Dave Folk. No, good morning, Dave. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 3: Hi, are we feeling old today? We are being. 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: Really old today? So where were you in September eighty three? 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: Were you in a studio singing about Tojo? Never making 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: it to Darwin? 11 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 4: Because that was the single I think at that time, 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 4: so the old one for us and still in our sets. 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: So we really. 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 3: Love that. 15 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 2: To come out to Lady Well the album, of course, 16 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: I'm forgetting how in those days we'd get a few 17 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: releases and pencil in the release. 18 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Date of the album and it could be eight months away. 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 3: That's right. 20 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 4: Nojo came out eighty three and we toured the person 21 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 4: that you know for that single, so, but we weren't 22 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 4: there for the during the Cup. 23 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 3: I remember that for sure. I would remember that energy. 24 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: It was pretty amazing. I mean most of us. I 25 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: was I was year eleven in high school. 26 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 2: Most of us hadn't heard of the America's Cup up 27 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 2: until that's right, to be honest, Well I. 28 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 4: Had because you know, as I grew up, I'm a 29 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 4: bit older than you, and I remember it as a kid. 30 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 4: It was a big deal all through all through you 31 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 4: my childhood. We could never win this damn trophy. It 32 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 4: was like everyone threw. 33 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,639 Speaker 3: Everything at it and just wouldn't you know, couldn't shift 34 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 3: it no matter what we did. 35 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 5: Well, I had to get a genius like Ben Lexon involved. 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 5: It was creating everyone. It was a bit different Ben, 37 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 5: you know, and he came up with that wing keel 38 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 5: and it got us over the line in that final 39 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 5: race because it was I think people that we were gone, 40 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 5: we were dead and buried and came back and won. 41 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was. 42 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 4: It was an amazing feat and you know, a great 43 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 4: austrained design excellence, and you know therese things we got 44 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 4: to recognize as being really important. 45 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all of that will be maybe Johnny Bob 46 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: Hawk's famous jacks on stage for the event. 47 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 3: And the yard glass backstay. 48 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: Yes, especially the cricket. He wasn't bad. 49 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 3: He's there's even a brewery over here that they had. 50 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 3: It's called Hawk's. 51 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 4: Beer really in the East Coast. Yeah, just a boutique brewery. 52 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 4: But yeah, he's been immortalized for his beer. 53 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 5: Love you funny because the Oval has now got the 54 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 5: Bob Hawk High School on it, which is quite incredible. 55 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 5: He's had an impact. Can put those two together? Will happen? 56 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: Now? 57 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: I mentioned Baby Animals and Voyager slim Gym and the 58 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: Fats is also on the bill to celebrate this right 59 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 2: I think they have their rightful place too to be there. 60 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: You'd go back, wouldn't you? With those with slim Gym. 61 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 4: I can't remember exactly if we played together, but it'll 62 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 4: be fun on the day. We'll you know, we'll knock 63 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 4: around backstage and I don't think we'll get up together, but. 64 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 3: You know, look to each other shows. 65 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, speak enjoying shows, Dave. I do follow you 66 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 5: guys on Instagram and I want to take you back 67 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 5: earlier this year to Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida and you were 68 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 5: doing Leilani. You had a very strange visit, a very 69 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 5: strange visitor on that stage with you. 70 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 3: Can you just tell us? Yeah, we had a t 71 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 3: rex come up. 72 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 4: Well, Ill thought of someone that had had an inflatable 73 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 4: suit or something. I guess it was inflatabletic. They were 74 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 4: so hot too, by the way, so I can't believe, 75 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 4: you know, I could see him in the back of 76 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 4: the crowd there, you know, so I just thought, you know, 77 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 4: come on up, buddy, you got to show it off. 78 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 2: Because it's such a it's such a great album cover 79 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: Romeias and had a bit of everything. It's sort of 80 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: had a little bit of a bit of Barberella, a 81 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 2: bit Fantastic Voyage, a little my favorite Land of the Giants. 82 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: It was. 83 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: It was such a cover. 84 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 4: When we released in America, they didn't like the cover. 85 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 4: It's a bit too loud and ugly for them. Yeah, 86 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 4: they didn't like a pastel drawing of dinosaurs. There was 87 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: much more eighties and much more cooler, but it was. 88 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: It was terrible. 89 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: America called someone else loud and. 90 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: I know, yeah, they were doing. 91 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 4: For our brand of you know, kind of a cartoonish 92 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 4: kind of craziness that we were. 93 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 3: You know, that cover was showing. 94 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 5: That was pop culture and the cartoonish. So when you 95 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 5: saw that American did you all just like laugh or 96 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 5: you really said, we. 97 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 4: Were puzzled, you know, we just didn't understand what they 98 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 4: were coming out because it was it was really boring 99 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 4: what they'd done. And of course when we toured America 100 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 4: at that with that album, all the fans were buying 101 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 4: the import from Australia because they. 102 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 3: Liked better, and they just said that was kind of 103 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 3: like became the thing. 104 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 4: And then at the end of the tour that the 105 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 4: record company said it was well, we don't think the 106 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 4: changing the cover affected sales, and so we thought, well, 107 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 4: then why the hell did you do it. 108 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it wasn't it. Isn't that why you 109 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 3: did it to make it sell more? 110 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,239 Speaker 1: I would say that it didn't. 111 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 3: You know, they sold more imports instead. 112 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, those album covers from back in the day, it 113 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,119 Speaker 2: could be like you know, when you choose a bottle 114 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: of wine and you go by the cover, it's it's 115 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: you know. 116 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:05,679 Speaker 1: I don't think. 117 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: People might have sometimes said I'll give this a go 118 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: based on the cover or. 119 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 3: By the alcohol content. I do like a good wine. 120 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 3: People do worry about it being too strong and alcohol. 121 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 3: That's one thing that wine lovers do. 122 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 5: Hey, Dave, what do you like on stage? I'm leading 123 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 5: to something. Of course, what are you like on stage? 124 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 5: When you can see the weather clouds rolling in because 125 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 5: I know you're blown away. 126 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 3: Recently, it's crazy. 127 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 4: We were playing out in the desert in the Broken 128 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 4: Hills for this thing called the Mondy Monday Bash and 129 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 4: it was a kind of a pleasant night by the way, 130 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 4: you know. It was this, you know, the small breeze 131 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 4: but nothing much and it was temperature was okay, and 132 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 4: suddenly out of nowhere, all hell broke loose. 133 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 3: It was wow, Dale. 134 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 4: We had like horizontal rain coming right on us and 135 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 4: benching our amplifiers were very dangerous and yes, and we 136 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 4: literally got blown off stage for the first time in 137 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 4: our career. 138 00:05:58,760 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 3: Wow. 139 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: Wow, it looks like an interest that we actually were. 140 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 4: That did happen once before we played a Dubin racecourse 141 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 4: in Brisbane and that kind of range squall happened. But yeah, 142 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 4: it's been a long time since that happened to us. 143 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 4: And this is you know, we play outdoor a lot 144 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 4: and we may not shine. Usually it's fine, but this 145 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 4: one was impossible. 146 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 2: It was mad all right, Well, we hope it's some 147 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 2: shine not rain. September twenty four the Victoria Key Precinct 148 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 2: in Fremantle. It is going to be a huge celebration 149 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 2: of a huge occasion that we all remember so well. 150 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: Dave, we'll see you when you're in town. 151 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 3: So your home thanks a lot, look forward to it.