Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Whatever happened to Gary?
and that club in Quay Street?I have a fond memory of taking up a collection at a party in Mt Eden and being driven with Gary to Quays -- by Hunters & Collectors' bass player -- to exchange the cash for a disproportionate amount of booze from the locked-up bar. You had to be enterprising in those days.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to DexterX,
The gift Punk Rock gave the world was that it killed Disco.
Ahem.
Disco wasn't the problem. At all.
What rock music had become was the problem.
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The Gordons clip was done in Wellington, I think, by the NZBC -- presumably at Avalon.
Love this comment on the YouTube page:
Brent rocks with or without hair. I married him because the only word he says is “drums.” -wife of Brent, Lizzy
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Greg Wood,
Can we have a “vote what you like” model, maybe with a rolling balance of say 30 votes, shared by percentage over the month?
You can vote once a day, every day …
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Greg Wood,
By all that's holy, that Watercolours stuff is GOOD.
I've pointed out to her that she can put 'Night Swimmer' up on Bandcamp without making herself ineligible for the funding grab, so hopefully that'll happen soon.
Meanwhile, you can take a moment to register and vote for her.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to frank stark,
Nice to remember Charlie Tumahai, but based on the extract posted, I think you might be mixing Be-Bop Deluxe with Ducks Deluxe - something I suspect neither of them would have liked much (at least at the time).
I was wondering about that. Meant to go back and check I had that right. Ta.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Since it's Friday and to drag up a topic from a few months ago, The A.V. Club has A guide to the best (and a bit of the worst) of prog rock.
There's a brilliant period interview in Punk Britannia where Wilko Johnson declares that rock 'n' roll isn't "songs about hobbits".
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Well, you can say that now...
Shall I raise you a
few Roxy Music covers
and an Electric Ladyland...But they were both ... cool.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sunburst Finish great album (as I recall)...
Highly embarrassing 70s sexist rock cover art though ...
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One of the pub rock acts that gets namechecked a lot in Punk Britannia is Be Bop Deluxe. Killer fact: their bass player from 1974 to 1978 was Charlie Tumahai, who returned to New Zealand in 1985 and joined Herbs. He’s well funky in this clip.
Also ‘Ships in the Night’ is a great song. I remember it from when I were a lad.
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