What are you listening to, right now................
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage That is THE Deep Purple song, and why I rate In Rock so highly. Unfortunately it hasn't been played live in a long time (2002) because of the vocals required.
Yeahs 74 now. Means stopped singing it at 56.
Fair cop.
Saw them in 2006. Gillan hilariously completely missed the intro to Highway Star and cracked up while doing so.
They were cool but definitely a concert of two halves, second being better once they busted out that, "Space Truckin", "Speed King", "Black Night", "Strange Kind of Woman" etc after a few songs no one knew.
If you think about it Steve Morse has been the guitarist for Deep Purple longer than Richie but despite being brilliant he just doesn't have the same magic for me. Mind you it sounds like Richie has the dickhead personality to match the talent.
Roger Glover is a joy to watch live. He just looks like he loves it. Paice's chops had slowed down quite a bit but he still nailed it. Gotta be one of Rocks most underrated drummers of that era cos he's every bit as brilliant as Bonham/Moon/Baker were. ( Sabbaths Bill Ward is incredible too )
For evidence of this look no further than the California Jam.......( How different were they only 4 years later than @MajorRages initial vid ? )
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.My brother set up and ran the Reverb Room from its outset until the cops shut it down booked the bands as well. I was overseas at the time and every now an then I'd get a cassette of someone like Blam Blam Blam recorded live.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Snowy No More Heroes. If I remember I heard Rattus at a party and went out and bought it. Bugger me if a couple of days later No More Heroes was out. Back then there was no NZ music press, not even Rip It Up., so there was no way of knowing when records would be released. They just appeared.
Not true. There was Hot Licks - I know as I reviewed for them. I had to try and find something to write about Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.Hahah I remember all those bands , then a few ska bands emerged , and the skin heads
The Windsor Castle was another good venue,
In that late 70s period in NZ ,
it seemed like there were only two music scenes , punk or disco ,and they were polar opposites , and you had to pick onefunny looking back
I played a gig at te Windsor Castle once - well when I say played a gig to be more precise I was giving whoever it was shit and he said if I could do better I was welcome to try. So I played Lay Lady Lay for about an hour. I didn't know the words and I can't play guitar. So i gave it the good old punk thrash and fortunately everyone was at least as wasted as me so it all turned out OK
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I remember well how the staff at the Windsor used to turn on the fire alarm at 10 minutes to closing, usually while the band was trying to drown it out with their last songs and encores.
If you have a copy of the Netherworld Dancing Toys 'Song and Dance' EP you can here the alarm ringing away on the live version of Change to the Contrary
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Does anyone remember a music venue called The Island of Real , which used to be on one of the side streets near the steep part of Queen st
They didnt have an alcohol licence from memory , so there were plenty of under agers there , I remember going there frequently in 6th form , 78 I think ,
Can remember one night , smoking a joint out the front with a group of guys which included a young Dave Dobbyn who was not playing there , just hanging out
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Snowy No More Heroes. If I remember I heard Rattus at a party and went out and bought it. Bugger me if a couple of days later No More Heroes was out. Back then there was no NZ music press, not even Rip It Up., so there was no way of knowing when records would be released. They just appeared.
Not true. There was Hot Licks - I know as I reviewed for them. I had to try and find something to write about Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Wasn’t Hot Licks dead by then? My memory is hazy but I thought that’s where the RipItUp guys came from🤔
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@kiwiinmelb Island of Real was in Airedale Street. I saw a few bands there Sheerlux, basically a punk covers band, then Rooter a few weeks later. They were a laugh. Toy Love too, they were a different league altogether. It was a weird venue, I guess it was a cafe, but that was before anyone in NZ knew how to make decent coffee. So everybody seemed to be drinking water to wash down mandies or smuggled in vodka. Or Benadryl and morning glory seeds.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb Island of Real was in Airedale Street. I saw a few bands there Sheerlux, basically a punk covers band, then Rooter a few weeks later. They were a laugh. Toy Love too, they were a different league altogether. It was a weird venue, I guess it was a cafe, but that was before anyone in NZ knew how to make decent coffee. So everybody seemed to be drinking water to wash down mandies or smuggled in vodka. Or Benadryl and morning glory seeds.
I might be confusing my venues but did Island of Real evolve into the equally short lived XS Cafe?
Haven’t heard the name Sheerlux in decades
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb Island of Real was in Airedale Street. I saw a few bands there Sheerlux, basically a punk covers band, then Rooter a few weeks later. They were a laugh. Toy Love too, they were a different league altogether. It was a weird venue, I guess it was a cafe, but that was before anyone in NZ knew how to make decent coffee. So everybody seemed to be drinking water to wash down mandies or smuggled in vodka. Or Benadryl and morning glory seeds.
I might be confusing my venues but did Island of Real evolve into the equally short lived CS Cafe?
Haven’t heard the name Sheerlux in decades
I don’t know about the XS cafe thing sorry. When I could get away with drinking underage I started hitting the Windsor, Gluepot, Globe, Mainstreet, New Station etc. I was at O’Rorke Hall right beside the Globe so that was ideal.
Sheerlux were OK I guess, they could play well but they were pretend punks who took a lot of stick for not being real enough. I was never a punk but some of the music that came out of the NZ scene was awesome. Proud Scum were my favourite band for a while.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial No no no. You misspelled “Suicide 2“ by Proud Scum. Let me refresh your memory:
Even their names were awesome. Jonathan Jamrag. John Atrocity. Bruce Hulk. Alistair Rabbit. Skid Rowe, admittedly not so much.
Wasn’t that song about John Atrocity after he left the band?
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Lots of great memories , had forgotten so many of those names , I remember the singer of Sheelux was a mate of my mates older brother , saw him a few times at their house, distinctive feature , was losing his hair pretty young
I was in Australia permanently by 82 ,after a few trips back and forward , and immersed myself into the Aus music scene ,
there was an awesome live music scene here at the time
This was a bit of an aus punk classic
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@Crucial Yep. They said his leaving was about musical differences but apparently the real story was they had had an argument about how to make a cup of coffee. Imagine for a moment the producer was Mike Chunn. Because it was. At the same time as he was playing Julia on the circuit with Citizen Band he was recording that appalling noise. Top work.