Posts by Simon Grigg
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Kind of excited by the new bluegrass-influenced album, though. :)
The single, a remake of Complicated Shadows, is on iTunes, is ok. I loved Momofuku in the end. Noisy.
I'm never disappointed in him as a man, because I'm not expecting too much. A little like James Brown was.
But I still buy the rekkids.
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Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me
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The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material.
Sounds like a Paul McCartney gig...every time he says "here's a song off my new album" the queues get very long at the loos and hot dog stands
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Good. The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material. Just need someone left who's creative enough to synchronise the skanking.
Sadly that's exactly what they're doing at the moment..writing a new Dammers free album, as Russell pointed out:
On 4th May 2009, Lynval Golding and John Bradbury expressed their intentions to release further original Specials material at a later date.
These two are the guys who didn't have the talent. Mostly the Specials was a Damners project from beginning to end, with everything after the first few singles being essentially Dammers and guests, hence the disintegration around the second album.
If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe.
I really don't like this sort of rather desperate stuff.
I am so annoyed with EC
He always had the personality issues, it's just he had the tunes to cover them.
I like some of his recent tunes too, but I know what you mean.
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Some of us, Mr Grigg, were four years old when the first Specials album came out, so we're taking what we can get. :)
Now, I know you'll get this one..it's like The Attractions without EC.
Really, what's touring is more like a an extended Fun Boy Three, since the main creative ain't there.
I know I'm being grumpy and sour but I thought that the Specials of 1979 might've looked at that Jules video with some dismay. I thought the 50 year olds still in pork pie hats a bit sad.
But since I'm in the midst of my own revival gig, I'd better shut up.
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I am all over The Specials show too. Yay. I don't think I can carry off a pork pie hat, though...
Yeah, just to be a spoilsport, The Specials without Jerry Dammers is like The Clash without Joe Strummer.
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I think SN were in Hobson Street during the RnR era in Fort. It may have been Mosquito or that other one that used to be upstairs in Vulcan Lane. There were a lot of young, quite cutting edge designers working around Auckland at the time, especially around Lorne, High and His Majesty's Arcade.
For me, Rock'n'Roll's golden age, back when second hand record stores were your only way to get anything older than a year or two, was in Queen Street, next to where Real Groovy was, from about 1978 through to the late 1980s. I spent many hours in there, and, to my eternal regret, sold large parts of my record collection there when I went to the Uk in '83.
Gerhard and Karl Pierard
We've got Gertie playing at Take Me Back. He's been in Port Douglas for a few years now. Gerhard was close to PU and when ACB opened he did a similar thing in PN.
At the end of 1985 he came to Auckland and moved, a little unexpectedly, into my living room for what was a glorious summer. I was DJing, running a record label releasing dance records I'd found in the UK, and early Def Jam etc and we had a ball. Every Tuesday Karl would send Gertie a courier pack with half the week's profits from Fez.
We've now also got Mark Phillips now flying back from Sydney so we've got a huge part of NZ's formative club scene. I'm excited.
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Dunno. I never went to Zanzibar and only twice to Quays as I was on a plane to London just after it opened
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I think Parnell's vibrancy was partially the result of the fact that in those far off days it was the only place in Auckland open on a Saturday.
We did 70% of our weeks business in the three hours we were allowed to open on Saturday morn. I know other Parnell retailers had the same experience.
It's always been at best a rather odd shopping precinct though to my mind, a little soulless. And much of what soul it had left was demolished in the 1980s
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Les Harvey xxxxx
In 1978 I worked in a record shop in Parnell called Professor Longhair's, owned by the enthusiasticl Nadine Huru. The name of the shop aside we were by then the punk outlet....Nadine had a connection at Richmond Records in Melbourne and we could, if we had the order, get most things we wanted.
I basically ran it as Nadine spent lots of time spending the profits next door at The Alex (now Iguacu) or getting over spending the profits. So I'd sit in there playing my Clash and Ramones rekkids and Les would wander in daily. We'd sit and talk and we became quite friends as Gabba Gabba Hey played in the background, and various bands milled around. It must've looked very odd...the punks and the old fella.
He was a wonderful old gent, with countless stories, although I've never been that sure about his creation in Parnell village.