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What is it about Elizabeth
Song list by Algernon
Take a long Line – The Angels
No secret – The Angels
Shadow Boxer – The Angels
Am I ever gonna see your face again – The Angels
Face to Face – The Angels
On the road again – Moonshine Jug and String Band
Because I love you – The Masters Apprentices
Turn Up your Radio – The Masters Apprentices
Elevator Driver – The Masters Apprentices
Think about tomorrow today – The Masters Apprentices
Cheap Wine – Cold Chisel
Khe Sahn – Cold Chisel
Breakfast at Sweethearts – Cold Chisel
Forever Now – Cold chisel
Saturday Night – Cold Chisel
Marseilles – The Angels
Walking in the Rain -Doc Neeson
Well within a week Jim Keays from the Masters Apprentices has also died. Lets hope Jimmy Barnes doesn’t follow suit next week
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I didn’t really get my Angels’ wings until I started radio. They had not long published ‘Red Back Fever’. That came out in 1991. I recall advertising Doc was touring schools or they all were in regard to the consequences of using alcohol without restraint. That fitted with where I was at regards looking back on sad experiences in which alcohol without restraint figured. I was not much of an alcohol user or abuser, but grieving for relationships with friends including family past and gone who were. I had not been able to come to terms with the grief and loss. A once friend a few years before broke open my lip demonstrating to me in a drunken rage he was equal to his brother who was a Commonwealth boxer who was raised in the Gorbals of Glawgow. A now long-time ex- fueled by nothing, but rage on the face of it tore in half with his bare hands in front of me a pair of normally double stitched denim jeans hollering ‘SEE! SEE HOW ANGRY I AM’, I realise in retrospect there was more to it regard of substance abuse, but watched him then go on a bender of absences and alcohol.
‘Tear me Apart’ screamed for me a sense of rebellion and the mellifluous voice that did it painted a picture of everything I had experienced and lay dormant needing creative outlet. Interpretation. I had made some shocking and radical choices that placed me apart in many ways from mainstream engagement. In the retrospect of further experience the frequency I played it on air was important to me on a personal level. It illustrated as well the schools’ tour and government message of restraint that utilised the popularity of The Angels, but spoke to me in ways I had not properly been to the depths of and again. I was a survivor of my experience but finding a career and my feet through the work of artists like The Angels and the other members of the music fraternity-David Byrne’s The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Look at Me Now) ranks highly. I discovered the symphonic totality (very early and promoted it) of The Dream Machine driven really looking for something as big as Doc Neeson. Doc still did it for me better and I had as well written and submitted for publication a poem titled Paper Doll, some years before that held the meaning I found in ‘Tear Me Apart’. Unfortunately I took the grounds hard my ‘Paper Doll’ was rejected by a feminist publisher because “it was too sad”.
Nothing can be too sad that communicates a common or uncommon experience so that it is understood or creates a benchmark. Poetry provides us a place of interpretation and potential rejuvenation. The great opera singers communicate the highs and lows of human experience…and the likes of Doc Neeson.
Tear Me Apart – lyric and music by Rick Brewster. Angels lead guitar, Bob Spencer rhythm guitar and backing vocals and Brent Eccles, drummer (thanks to wikipedia)
Lead Vocals -Doc Neeson
I’ve been down the impossible
I’ve been back to bar rule
I’ve been thrown like a paper doll
Blowin’ out of control
I’ve been picked out
I’ve been tested
Had my big blood rush rejected
You can tear me apart
Tear me apart in slow motion
Tear out my heart, that’s devotion
So young and primitive
Set the blanket on fire
So unpredictable
She’s so beautiful
I’ve been victim
In a vacuum
Been the poison in the perfume
You can tear me apart
Tear me apart in slow motion
Tear out my heart, that’s devotion.
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Regrets he had a few, the booze and the drugs were certainly two. Thanks Shoe
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Top show, Algernon, finally managed to open Elizabeth, took a bit of time….Just popped up to show my appreciation, friends are calling….
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Thank You Helvi
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Excellent playlist, Algy. Simply great ! I am warmed a lot by “Forever Now”. Thanks.
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Some good pub rock here Therese
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Is the answer to the question – lot of pommy, scots and dutch migrants got off the ship in Adelaide and lived in Elizabeth. And quite a few went on to be our best rock and rollers.
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Got it Vivienne, all these bands started in Elizabeth, hence the list and a bit of a tribute to Doc Neeson. I haven’t done an Australian list for a while either. Cold chisel and The Angels had the same manager apparently.
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ACDC would be the classic example of the mix of migrants. Vanda & Young tribute done by Rockwiz was terrific and a reminder of all the songs they wrote for other bands and individuals. Wrote JPY’s signature song. I’ve an old, now unused, cassette called Australian Made. Yothu Yindi would be the best original Australian Made but don’t feature on it. Must dig it out and remind me of who’s who.
I’m dancing here and head is bobbing a lot. I remember when the Angels first appeared on tele and loved them straight away.
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Well I got that wrong – I meant the EASYBEATS – Vanda and Young etc. Good grief.
I’ve found that cassette – Billy Thorpe, Skyhooks, Russell Morris- the rest is the Masters, Dragon, Split Enz, Spectrum, and others already mentioned here.
The list needs updating obviously because it misses about three decades of music.
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AC/DC were a band from Sydney’s inner west and went to I think it was Homebush or Ashfield High. Bon Scott didn’t of course he was from Perth but British born. Vanda and Young wrote so much and set so many bands on their way.
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Well Split Enz is interesting on an Australian Made given they’re from New Zealand. Gee there’s some good Australian stuff there though for the rest. The Easybeats start isn’t any different from those fro Elizabeth. They started in a migrant hostel at Villawood.
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Yes, not many Australian born but the music was made in Australia !
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Marseilles is my favourite.
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I actually first saw Doc Neeson perform at a Scout Jamboree in Adelaide in 1973. Then they were either the Keystone Angels or the Moonshine Jug & String Band, anyhow they were awful. They changed a bit when they became The Angels.
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Yeah they had to do something to get away. Anyway who ever wrote the guitar riffs for the Angels was a genius
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Great sound though HOO. Not as hard as some bands.
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OOOOOH. Yum.
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Thought you’d like it.
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