Posts by Grant McDougall
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What made the gig a must was the fact that the first act up was a Mr David Saunders, who is remembered best as a member of the 3Ds; the one who sang 'Outer Space' and 'Hey Seuss'. No one could remember how long it was since Dave had got up on a stage and played music, but a decade is probably a good guess.
He's been writing songs again, and doing a little recording. And when someone asked him if he'd like to do the gig, he said yes. Seated at the front of the stage with his guitar, he was palpably nervous at first, but there was no artifice about it. It all began to fall into place, as he played 'I See A Darkness' ("this song is by my friend Will -- when I first met him I'd been awake for 48 hours"), 'Outer Space' and new songs.
Indeed, it clicked so well that he just kept on playing, and eventually finished with Neil Young's 'Powderfinger', with a mate of his on keyboards and Callum from The Checks volunteering himself mid-song on drums. The addition of the rhythm was nice, and I think Dave would go well with a restrained band around him. But only for half a set, mind: you still want him up there and vulnerable on his own.
I think Dave's got something going here.
Very, very, very, very interesting. I'm pleasantly surprised that David is giving music another go.
Is he actually living in Auckland now, or was he just up there visiting? He's kept a very low profile around Dunedin since the 3Ds split, that's all. He was working flat-out for Vidmark for ages, but other than that, he pretty much laid low.
The only time he's been on-stage, to the best of my knowledge in the past 10 years was when he played bass for a reformed Plagal Grind at the Dunedin Sound festival gig at Sammy's back in October, 2000. (Plagal Grind was Alastair Galbraith's amazing late '80s band. He was singer-guitarist, David Mitchell on guitar, Peter Jefferies on drums, Robbie Muir on bass, who moved to Wellington and was replaced by David S. Yes, they really were as astonishing as what that line-up suggests).
I remember seeing the 3Ds play 'Powderfinger' in their early days.
Hopefully he'll do a gig here soonish, plus, I live in hope of a solo album, I reckon it'd be mighty.
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Martin Phillips
Phillipps with three ps for the 13, 373rd time...
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I was astonished at the man's ignorance. He clearly failed to realise that the reason the gov'ts splitting T/com up is because T/com has been far too monopolistic and have sat on its arse.
As a result, the public's had to suffer a mediocre IT system, despite it having the ability to upgrade. It's only when the govt's waved the big stick has Telecom pulled finger. It wouldn't have otherwise.
That's the reason why, not to take a pop at Telecom's profits or whatever, as Brucey seemed to reckon.
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A mate of mine in LA works in the music biz and has two boys, aged 3 and 5.
They like watching Sponge Bob on dvd. One of their favourite episodes has Bob saying that "...there are three ways to show that you're not 'Grandma's little boy' any more: pushing out your chest, asking for a tax deduction and appreciating free jazz."Recently, after watching said episode, he asked them if they wanted to hear anything. "Free jazz!" they chorused. So he put on Coltrane's Giant Steps figuring it'd be more their speed. "Too boring!" they reckoned. So he got out the motherlode of the genre, Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz. They immediately loved it and happily played right next to the speaker for the hour or so it played.
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Noel Lemmings customer service is utterly mediocre, in my experience. I don't expect shop assistants to tell me their life story, but I do at least expect them to acknowledge my presence - I may, after all, be willing to splash out some money in their shop.
So poor is their reputation that I've mentioned the experience, without naming them, in other electronics chain shops and the staff there have always gone "Noel Lemmings, I presume?".
When I've gone to buy a computer and a digital camera in recent times, I've shopped at another big name electronics chain and the service has been really good, so sometimes the staff at chain shop can get it right.
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I can't wait for that American bloke to turn up with his deluded reasoning why the war has been such a raging success.
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Why not? I don't get it. Could you be more specific please, Craig?
I just thought it was a rather peculiar sneer, considering that Public Address readers sure seem to be a pack of shameless elitists who aren't averse to setting the world to rights over a faine whine or six. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld used to say.
You've got the wrong end of the stick, Craig. My comment was a reference to that local Hawkes Bay oddity, the Havelock North accent, not "shameless elitists" at large and that the denizens of that locale being exactly the sort of "big fish in a small pond" toffs that would indulge in petty, provincial politics, as refered to in Tom S's originalk post.
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Oh how the chattering snobs of Havelock North will be busy dissecting the fall-out over their "wain" tonight.
*cough* Might not be the best place to hoist that particular chip onto one's shoulder. :)
Why not? I don't get it. Could you be more specific please, Craig?
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Tom S's comments about the petty sniping among the local big cheeses hold a lot of water and sound very familiar to me. I grew up in Gisborne and exactly the same sort of crap happens there: big fish in small ponds don't like their waters being disturbed.
He's also pretty much right about Hawkes Bay Today. It's editor, Louis Pierrard, has, by his own admission, a bee up his jaxy about Labour; so much for even any pretense of objective journalism.
The Check Point interview with (I think) one of the former board members alluded to the petty bickering: "Easties" vs "Westies" were the terms used.
Oh how the chattering snobs of Havelock North will be busy dissecting the fall-out over their "wain" tonight.
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if you are in Wellington, you will be going to see the L.E.D.s at Mighty Mighty tonight, won't you? There are people in Auckland who would love to see the L.E.D.s play on a Friday night, but it's only you people in Wellington who can do this. Just go. Don't even think about us.
Plus you should all buy their bassist, Marcus, a celebratory drink, as he and the lovely Linda became parents a month or so ago.