Re: music vids.. some of your favorites

HalfaDave Fri May 19, 2023 11:19 pm

Hi Oldenginerod,
First I have listened to Broderic and the Dingos...
Thanks. Sorry for our loss.
I bet you never heard Canadian music at that time.
Amazingly similar.
That 80s amazing tribute to Andrew Durant is increadable.
I hear the start of many great Aussie groups,
That dominated airwaves here, after that...

Someone said, "You can cage the singer, not the song".
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave

Oldenginerod Fri May 19, 2023 11:55 pm

HalfaDave wrote:Hi Oldenginerod,

I bet you never heard Canadian music at that time.
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave

Joni Mitchel, Neil Young, Heart. I remember them and more. Being a Commonwealth country we probably had similar tastes/roots. Trouble was that half the world thought that Canadian singers were American, Australians were English and Kiwis were Australian. They probably didn't try to correct the misconception because it was better for sales and popularity.
Actually, many of the Aussie bands in the 60s came from migrant detention centres. Lots of bands out here were formed by English, Scottish and Irish migrants. They didn't quite fit in to society so expressed themselves through music to gain local credibility. Broderick Smith himself was born in England.

HalfaDave Sat May 20, 2023 2:58 am

Hi Oldenginerod,
I have been close to AM/FM radio most my life,
Just west of Toronto, Canada. (can get almost everything, like it all)
But when,
Aussie/Kiwi hit here, it was big time.
Here is one of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4E_924b9SU

That is amazing music...
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave

Oldenginerod Sat May 20, 2023 4:15 am

HalfaDave wrote:
But when,
Aussie/Kiwi hit here, it was big time.
Dave

Happy to claim Mark Knopfler as one of ours, but sadly not so.

Oldenginerod Sat May 20, 2023 4:20 am

Ok, so I'm investing waaaay too much time in this music nostalgia, but I can't sign off without including this guy. Lachy Doley from South Australia.
Can you believe this. Damn!

Google him on YouTube. Well worth a look.

For Roddie's sake- Standard rig is 1957 Hammond C3 through a Leslie 122. Slight mods but nothing serious. What a sound!! affraid

HalfaDave Sat May 20, 2023 8:22 am

Hi Oldenginerod,

I will google Lachy Doley. Did he fly Cox .049 Control Line?

There was an awesome Aussie 'wave' of sound on FM radio here.
Picture this:
2L Toyota pickup. 4x9 speakers times four. 1000W amp.
Park on the 'hill' with a nice girl to listen to the radio.
This song comes up:
(no video back then, just FM radio)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=kylie+minogue#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7f08df2c,vid:c18441Eh_WE
Cranked it up. Beth loved the song, we danced all round the truck.
Turned it down, listened to more FM, then it was time to go.
Wrwww. did not start. Beth suggested to open the hood. I did.
She hops in the drivers side, puts it in reverse, pushing the clutch in.
I watch as my 'new!' truck rolls down hill, chasing it, engine fires...
By the time I got halfway down the hill,
It was revving it close to redline.
As I got close, the engine went to idle.
Beth said, "close the hood, and I'll give you a ride home"
As she revved the engine up and down...
Drove us home.
Best first date ever... Cool

Beth grew up in a scrapyard.
Together for awhile, we moved our other ways...
My Kylie Minogue story,
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave
P.S. Moral of the story is, I like copycat brittany spears music, Beth did not... Smile