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We all enjoy a thundering power chord, played with attitude whilst wearing leather.
Warrigal Mirriyuula’s latest foray into your tubes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djj7jW6ny2M
George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers Bad To The Bone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03FzVEUxEPU&feature=fvst
Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild (Those early Leslie’s overloaded if you looked at them. All that wonderful harmonic distortion.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOQHuDLE-Dk
Deep Purple Highway Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvI4ll_59SQ&feature=related
Led Zeppilin Heartbreaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIP1okixlfE
AC/DC Jailbreak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ham6vFy8v2I&feature=related
Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUO_5EALZoM
Blue Oyster Cult Don’t Fear The Reaper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5GXbk58R0
Bad Company Bad Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pezx1PhaBoo&feature=fvst
The Tubes White Punks On Dope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2-jV189Zs&feature=related
The Cramps Garbageman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6s1x9j4QQ
Led Zeppelin Black Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3WZ_D18yFI&feature=related
Blue Oyster Cult The Last Days Of May
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0t0EW6z8a0
Neil Young The Needle and The Damage Done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcPvHkXfqoc
The Clash London’s Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qga5eONXU_4
Alice Cooper School’s Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JX5w7HgHI&feature=related
Rose Tattoo Bad Boy For Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6NOIeziQQ
Cold Chisel You Got Nothing I Want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79EN3z6IpU
Bloodrock Dead On Arrival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VqlKYN5gIw&feature=fvwrel
Golden Earring Radar Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wK1LBxZZQ
Tears For Fears Badman’s Song
Keywords: George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, ACDC, Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Bad Company, The Tubes, The Cramps, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, The Clash, Alice Cooper, Rose Tattoo, Cold Chisel, Bloodrock, Golden Earring, Tears For Fears
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Go hard Emmjay, ride like Thor and hit them with lightning bolts, strike them with all your might, hammer them good Emmj. Teach us a lesson.
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Does anyone remember Marius Webb and Jill? They were also part of not just the vegie co-op but also the baby-sitting club.He was connected to JJJ and I remember a wild night of revelry upstairs a large terrace in Darling street when there was a knock on the door.
The man, a solitary bachelor from downstairs said:” I don’t mind the music or noise so much, but there is wine coming down through the ceiling and onto my bed”.
A bottle had spilled, no one noticed it except the lone bachelor down stairs…
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During the mid seventies we belonged to a vegie co-op that would pool $ 10.- a week each between 12 couples or so. This was enough for a week’s vegies with sometimes a little luxury thrown in as well, strawberries or figs.
Anyway, I was pooled with a very cheerful and gregarious Irish bloke called Jimmy Steward. I had a VW wagon, perfect for the cases of vegies and fruit.
He lived in a street behind our abode and when it was our turn I would inevitably have to get him out of bed. He loved singing, good wine, cigarettes, writing songs and women.
After we finished our shopping at Flemington markets, we rewarded ourselves with bacon and eggs, smoke cigarettes and he would sound me out on some songs that he was forever writing.
One of those songs became very popular and I wonder if some of you know it. It was called “Winter in America is cold”.
I googled it, Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6_oaETVp8&feature=related
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I loved that song and so did many others, both here and overseas. It was the high point of Doug’s career. I seem to recall posting it as a selection back when I posted the songs on the Dot on Friday Morning.
In that song he managed to hit the right balance between pathos, bathos, eros and thanatos. The plaintive vocal performance, the strings and picked guitars and that fabulous deep reverb and delay on the vocal choruses, as if they keep receding back to a notional “home”.
I never knew Doug personally but met him one night at a place called the Lone Star Cafe that used to be on the corner of Goulbourn and Dixon Streets in Chinatown. Yes, I know, it doesn’t get much more post modern than a cowboy bar in Chinatown. Anyway he did “Winter”, just him and a borrowed acoustic, and stopped the joint dead, just silence when he’d finished, then a pause during which Doug got up and turned to exit the stage. By the time he rejoined his party at the bar the applause had erupted and continued quite passionately. I put the delay in response time down to simple gobsmackedness on the part of the audience. Beautiful love ballards weren’t exactly the stock trade of The Lone Star. The usual fare was truckin’ songs and redneck boogie.
Prattling on now just remembering. But yes I remember Doug and the song both very fondly. I’m slow to announce favourites, but that song moves me every time; and for professional musicians who have left Australia to try and break into the recording scene in America it is particularly poignant. Beautiful song!
And you and he used to go vegetable shopping in a VW microbus. Priceless G, just priceless.
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There must have been some uninvited people,( bad to the bone), at one of our Balmain parties, because that Ashdown record was stolen, also that very tall actor, whose name escapes me, broke one of my Japanese paper lampshades. The best part was that it was my birthday and a journalist called Edna? brought me a bottle of good French Champagne(to be drank another time)…
Too many gatecrashers at some of the parties to waste any good stuff…
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The tallest actor in the known universe of Balmain is a chap called Bruce Spence. When he and David Williamson used to have a chin wag on Darling Street, the rest of us looked like Lilliputians.
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It was Jimmy Stewart who wrote several songs or co-wrote some which were than sung by Doug Ashdown.
Here I ferreted some from Google. Don’t know what happened to both of them.
“I then travelled to Nashville where I lived and worked for three years. While there I met many great writers and singers, ate and drank lots of great “country breakfasts” and co-wrote many songs. One of these, “Just Thank Me”, became a #1 country hit for the late David Rogers. Another unforgettable experience while in Nashville was co-producing a single for, and touring with, the great Broadway star Carol Channing.”
Despite these succeses, Doug was unable to crack the US market, so Jimmy and Doug returned to Australia where they set up a new label, own Billingsgate. Stewart produced Doug’s next album entitled Leave Love Enough Alone (1974). The album produced two Singles, “They Always Seem To Look Like Marianne”, and the album’s evocative title track, co-written by Doug and Jimmy Stewart during a bitter winter in Nashville. “Leave Love Enough Alone” was released in September 1974 and received some airplay, but neither it nor its predecessor made the charts at the time.
“Leave Love Enough Alone”, however, proved to be a classic ‘sleeper’ and the breakthrough finally came more than a year later when it was retitled and reissued as “Winter In America”. The song was picked up by stations around the country and this time around it became a major hit through late 1976 and early 1977, reaching #14 in Melbourne and #30 in Sydney. It remains one of the most popular and enduring Australian songs of the ’70s; it has been featured on many anthologies, and it has been covered by artists around the world including our own Margret RoadKnight. In 1988, Dutch singing star Rene Froger’s version was a top five top hit in Holland, and Froger’s live version topped the charts there again in recent years.
The last I heard from Jimmy Stewart, he married (again) a Dutch girl and moved to Blue mountains. He was alway broke but always singing as well. Perhaps the two don’t go together.
He, ‘Jimmy’ looked like a juvenile Oscar Wilde and was Irish to boot.
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Wasn’t that Doug Ashdown’s hit ?
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Yes, it was.
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Was he a boxer?
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Disregard that..of course.
It’s just my way of saying that I have never heard of him.
However I did listen to his song and I found it appealing.I like clear lyrics and diction.
That’s why–as I have said before–I like The Everly brothers and some American country singers. And in fact most songs with two part harmony.
This song had some harmony (echo perhaps), in the chorus. Although it’s about 5 hours since I listened to it…..That’s eons for moi.
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Thanks Emm, of course it was Bruce Spence, he wasn’t one of our friends but he came with someone who was…
Gerard’s Labor mates ate the ham to the bone, and I had to feed my non political friends separately… 🙂
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Just think : God took a piece of Adams rib….and made a loudspeaker.:)
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We could be here for years reminiscing. I would have a long beard. The Doors, Yes, Van the man ect.
Actually I should shut up and wait for next week.
But I’ll just say that this is a great section for reminiscing; jolting even, since one is not choosing for on’s self. If that makes any sense. It’s one thing to browse on the web; one thing to flick through one’s collection, or browse through the racks of JB HiFi… But to suddenly have a bolt from the blue; a piece of music that one wasn’t likely to have thought of, well that’s exciting.
Music has the power to suddenly transform one, back to a time & place, or a person; circumstance or situation…
Oh oh, I’m sobbing now…ᴪ v ᴪ
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Just thinking; Blue Oyster Cult reminds, me of a couple of bands around that time. Maybe Lynard Skinnard and another on the tip of my tongue. Oh well I’ll have to dwell on it.
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Some have soul, sump and dip-stick.
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Sorry, that was meant for Warrigal down the bottom. It sound a bit silly now.
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Silliness is my department, if you don’t mind gerard!
Keep out !
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Some have limp-dick…. 😉
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Well it’s a semi-anagram.
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Some have spotted dick. The backbone of British food.
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Nice to see The Clash and The Tubes on the list this week. “Don’t touch me there ” could have been a good alternative to White Punks.
Great as usual Waz.
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Well we all need a little escapism after last weekend and swinging out power chords on your air guitar is about as escapist as you can get.
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AHA ! Power cords. That’s probably why my air guitar has never worked. I just pick it up and start playing. I forgot to plug it in !
Memo to self: Purchase an air amp as well.
Hung / T2 – any recommendations about whether to go digital or analogue on the air amp ?
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Emm could I suggest digital. I find it gives my playing more penetration.
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Very bad…to the bone Algy 🙂
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Another great collection.
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Why thank you “Miss Vivienne”. You are not only a “Pretty Woman” but obviously a woman of delicate and refined tastes.
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Some goodies there. My Thin Lizzy is very worn, but I still have it.
I can see that the only way I can back up my oft repeated statement of vinyl ownership is to take a pic of them–or upload a Youube mini vid.
But I have to tell the truth.
I have golden earring, Bad Company, with Paul Rogers I think, and without, Alice Cooper, Led Zep, & Blue Oyster Cult. I lost the Steppenwolf 45, years ago……but still have N.Young, N.Young with Crazy Horse, CSN&Y and Tears for fears (I think I have greatest hits on CD, if I’m truthful.
Oh and Deep Purple.
Do you have a CCTV in my lock-up storage unit WM?
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He meant The Steppenwolf 45rpm, of course.
He’s gonna play them in the morning. BTW.
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Make sure he plays them all, and with the downloaded lyrics in another window. Otherwise he “won’t feel the benefit” as 10CC crooned.
Reminisce and speculation
You went out on the street without your shoes on
You didn’t listen what your momma said
She said you wont feel the benefit, wont feel the benefit
And if we all went out without our shoes on
Tell me where would we be, where would we be
If all the people in the world lost their reason
What would we see, where would we be
If all the entertainers in the world lost their music
What would they play, what could they say
To pacify the crowd, to justify themselves
Wont feel the benefit
You’re like a cloud behind the sun
Like the face behind the clown
You’re moving like the wrinkles in a frown
And you can never look back
A leaf that’s borne upon the wind
A cardboard suitcase in your hand
The wanderer soon returns
And finds the colour of the grass is just the same
On the other side of the tracks, oh no
Ooh when you smile its like a holiday
Ooh pack your bags and we can get away
Well float on a queen down to Rio
There’s no need to shave
Well be stinking like rum in a punch
You can walk on the water
You can dabble in the mumbo jumbo
You can smoke a little ganja
Float like a bird over Rio, Rio
You can ride with the gauchos
Swinging your bolas in a red bandanna
You can run with the devil
Takin’ your chances with senorita
You can drink a lot of coffee in Brazil
But the bill is gonna make you ill
Feel the benefit
So, you can go out on the street and take your chances
But if you do, you better do it right
Or you wont feel the benefit, wont feel the benefit
Spin the wheel and take your chances
And your number might come up
Though the odds may be in favor of the house
If all the people in the world would say together
Were all black and white, were all day and night
If all the people in the world could sing together
How would it sound, what would we feel
Wed all feel the benefit
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I’m Hadron…Fly me.
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You know the derivation of their name, presumably?
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Hadrons are fundamental particle made up of quarks in differing combinations and Vectis I’m presuming refers to your former island home.
Is there a prize? I do so love a quiz.
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Aah, I was, perhaps, too obtuse. I meant 10cc.
………
But in your vein, I had an exchange on The Drum part of Unleashed (you know where they cut off the comments after a few hours), where someone used the word Quark quark . Obviously because of my pseud.
I came back with elementary my dear particle, blah blah.
He/she came back with a response to our subject matter── and then said/ he was splitting.
It was short and sweet and just fitted perfectly.
I had thought that it may have been you Warrigal, since there was an ‘element’ of jocular, familiarity…but obviously I still don’t know.
……
Yes Vectis was the Latin word for The IOW. It is still used there; principally for business names, but there are derivations in small corners.
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Actually re-reading that I have just realised that I missed out the whole story.
They had posted as Higgs Boson.Which is why I came back with elementary my dear particle, blah blah.
.Mm, without that it wasn’t so amusing. Never mind. Move along please.
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As I recall from the marketing at the time, “10CC” is the mean quantum of ejaculate produced by a mature human male.
You still haven’t told me if there’s a prize.
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That’s apocryphal, Waz. 10 whole cc’s ! A veritable flood 🙂
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Warrigal, you’ve outdone yourself!
🙂
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Yeah, and you’ve got no idea what it takes to clean that up!
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“Days of Pearly Spencer”.
Just heard that on “Heartbeat” T2. You’d remember that one. A blast from the past.
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Seeing the title of the story, I thought it was going to be about Abbott…
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Nice comeback, H !
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I’ve given up on Australian Politics for the moment. I found it was bad for my mental health.
Though I did hear from a medical friend that researchers at the Department of Oncological Studies at The School of Medicine at Sydney University have placed Abbott on a watch list for organic substances that display a high teratogenic propensity. They stopped just short of saying that voting for Abbott will give you cancer, but I figure it’s only a matter of time before that cat’s out of the bag.
Sorry H but there’s not a lot for you on this list. It was really “just for the boys”, so we could all get out our air guitars and pretend, once again, that we’re Jimmy Page or Hendrix or Carlos Santana or Garry Moore or Angus, or, or, or…..
I’ll do another H specific list soon. How’s that?
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Does this puppy’s generosity know no bounds ?
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Yes, Warrigal, Aussie politics is bad for my mental health too, even Milo is concerned, he’s trying to tell me to leave all that unleashed rubbish and go for a long walk…
Another H (not HOO) specific sounds too good to be true!
Sorry Hung, only kidding, after all we both love The Autumn Leaves :), in any language…
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I love George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers.
Three million youtube views of these Terminator clips cannot be wrong ! Bad Bad Bad to the Bone.
Meanest guitar licks I reckon……
Thanks again for a blasting hit parade, Waz !
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Emmjay, you just like the bikes and the leather gear…or is this the sound of the bikie soul 🙂
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Bikies don’t have a soul H. They have a sump.
And yes this is, for the most part, music best heard over the throb of a happy Fat Boy.
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Waz, would it be fair to say that when your boy’s fat, ya gotta be happy ?
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I love thems all, Helvi. Of late, FM bought me a leather jacket that smells like it was too recently worn by its original owner. It’s a Bessie original, I reckon. But it looks cool once your nose gets used to it.
A step closer to getting the Duke back on the road. Serious discussions with Ducati legend bike shop Gowanloch. Dug Dugg, Dug Dugg.
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Emmjay, it might a good time to re-publish your Dukati 250 something story, to go with the music?
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Good idea, H. We get a couple of views of the Ducati story nearly every day – so far it’s racked up 881 views in total. A slow and steady following.
I’m quite excited about the prospect of getting the Duke back on the road. And a little bit apprehensive. Early estimate of cost is between $1,500 and anything up to $5k – depending on whether it needs a major or minor overhaul of the engine – and whether I want to have it repainted.
In fact – why not write a Lazarus Ducaticus story !
Also…. I need to re-learn riding. Sydney’s traffic has gotten far more hostile in the nearly 20 years since I was riding regularly, and I’m determined not to get killed having fun.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/01/3179370.htm?section=justin
You should look at this news item first and ponder these questions; “Can I trust myself to never behave like a lunatic teen, to keep my cool and avoid dangerous situations by “riding ahead”, and finally to never pose by idling down King Street hoping all the coffee shop honeys will think I’m Dennis Hopper”
Caution: A motorcycle can be most unbecoming for the middle aged man and the coffee shop honeys will think you’re an old poseur trying to replace that grizzled old pizzle with a hunk of shiny, distracting, throbbing mechanism between your legs.
I say these things for your own good, young man.
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I appreciate your quite natural and well-informed concern, Waz.
A few points:
1. I didn’t start motorcycling until I was 22. I rode for about 15 years in country and city riding. I was over the teenage years and hooning well before I started. 2. It’s not an everyday ride – fair weather wuss I am now. 3. I’m going to a remedial riding course – “Stay Upright” or some such first. 4. The reason the stats look bad for my age group is that retirement brings nfree time as well as slow reflexes – and young people just don’t – at least in the inner west at least.
I’ll do my best to not die until it’s my time – whereupon I shall aim to go out like a Viking more so than a dribbling husk of a man.
Cheers !
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Right. Good.
Just be sure you’re wearing clean underwear then, you desmotronic demon you.
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Thanks, Mum !
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