Aussie Rock - Who is Your favorite Band

Aussie Rock - Who is Your favorite Band

  • Cold Chisel

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Midnight Oil

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Daddy Cool

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • INXS

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • The Easybeats

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Men at Work

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • AC/DC

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Skyhooks

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Other - please list

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    6
AC/DC - Baby, Please Don't Go - On Countdown - old Aussie TV show

[video=youtube;Fmeiw1hiHZo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fmeiw1hiHZo#t=67 s[/video]
 

John Watt

Member
There seems to be a lot of soundtrack producers logging in here lately,
so I'd just like to mention that I almost bought a mint copy of "Ned Kelly" on DVD,
but it was $3 and there were some others I liked for 25 cents to $1,
so I didn't buy it.
I might, just to see the scenery and listen to the soundtrack.
The blurb says Ned Kelly was hunted as the most wanted man in the world.
Fortunately, no wombats were involved.
 
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Would have you brought it if Wombat were involved?

Yea Ned had a big bounty on his head- Killed quite a few police/ troopers before he was captured - some in Oz see him as a sort of Robin Hood type.

There have been many movies made about him including one with Mick Jagger playing the role

[video=youtube;jw_udmpxMeU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jw_udmpxMeU#t=0s[/video]

and even a song by Waylon Jennings!
 
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John Watt

Member
It was worth it, playing country in Niagara Falls bars,
back when American tourists would put a bill onstage to make a request.
You had to fan yourself off with the bills sometimes, cooling off those hot requests.
I'm not only surprised Waylon Jennings wrote a song about Ned Kelly,
the fact he used it as the title of his album makes me realize how manufactured his outlaw reputation is.
I wish I had a five dollar bill for every time I played "Amanda", the first few lines of this song sounding like that.

"Amanda, you light up my life, you could have been a gentleman's wife".

And yes, more than The Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock, Quantas koala bears or Crocodile Dundee reruns,
I need a little wombat action every once in a while.

Wombats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhi4zOkOQwY

The Wombats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRhUIJextp8
 
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wombats action- what more does anyone need!

Not so sure about the The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) thou, should change there names to the Wombles, much more suited for an English indie band from Liverpool!- Maybe they could be relocated to Wimbledon.
 

John Watt

Member
The Wombats video was a surprising word search, sounding like lame electronica with a lazy looking band.

Other than that, I really am at a loss for words.
I'm still looking through this large Australian photo book, amazing landscapes,
but everything Australian seems to have left me after I finished the boomerang sign.

You might not want me here any more, looking at me with distain.
The bingo hall I was doing volunteer work at for a local community organization,
said I can't do that any more, telling staff, saying a complaint was made about something I said.
I wasn't there, I don't know who complained, what the complaint is, or who barred me.
Bingo staff stressed they liked me and gave me a number to contact to resolve this.
This hurts, a little, losing the $7 stipend.
I'm becoming an end user no matter what I do.
 
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John Watt

Member
Guess what!
A drummer phoned to ask me to front a new band,
meeting up with him and the bassist for the first time today,
and they both suggested a Men at Work song.
Too bad I want to do my own originals instead, as far as foreign music goes,
and are they at least on par, uh, maybe, only the band can work that out.
 
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John Watt

Member
As long as I'm not being served Vegamite sandwiches, if I understand that properly.

EddieRUKiddingVare! If you are interested in my activities with Niagara Peninsula musicians and instruments,
please visit our Kijiji,

http://www.kijiji.ca/h-st-catharines/80016

to find my ad in "community", "artists and musicians", "musician wanted-update",
using this guitar and Hendrix avatar, and look around.
Please, let me explain.
When my inventive guitar was setting online forum records for replies and views,
when those records didn't exist, I decided to use Kijiji for a specific purpose, not buying or selling,
because I am a local boy and try here first.
A friend writing a university thesis using Kijiji as a social study got me thinking this way.
Yeah, look at huge American cities to find very little musician activity, for example.
Anyway, I made a very recognizable avatar and put up photos to promote my guitar,
and let everyone else see what was happening.
I asked about buying parts I was inventing and making myself, silly me, updating the ad,
deleting the previous one, describing the build as it advanced and the various online responses,
some international.
After two weeks I could put up an update and within 24 hours there would be over 300 views,
with very few replies, usually compliments, hearing about it in real life too.
That's what I'm now doing with the band, something I won't discuss much here,
until I have some music to share.
Maybe tomorrow, I'm going to make a video, without my face, playing an inventive song and singing,
saying I want other guitar players to have a chance to try and play along.
When I say inventive, that's playing steady bass riffs with all six strings being worked,
playing things you can only play with the bass string on the bottom and highs on top.
That's also half tripping over you, spacey rock talk behavior, now online tech talk, tech talk, tech talk,
online musical atmospherics for viewers, a uh, sideways view of self-promotion,
and just the start.
 
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Yes that is correct - Vegemite sandwiches are an acquired taste, marmite if you prefer something more english

and thanks update on what your up to and the spacey rock talk will check it out
 

John Watt

Member
I'm tired of seeing my name on the top for the same old thread,
so it's nice to have an Australian reason to bump you up, EddieRUKiddingVare.
I'm always looking for music concert DVD's, and this is a strange one.
diVinyls,
VHS transfer of TV recording, Mono Track, Playing time 10 minutes, 1991.
They do two songs, the second being "I touch myself",
even if she was touching herself during the first song.
When she crouched down on her haunches and held the mike between her knees,
singing into it, freeing up her arms for emotive movements,
I was thinking it was very original.
I'd have to describe her singing as languid.
 

John Watt

Member
The first song I did was "Ghosts Appear and Fade Away".

If there's one older band I could compare to Men at Work,
it's the original Jethro Tull, who weren't as dance-able.

Looking forward to almost anything Australian cultural,
I bought a used DVD copy of "Australia", with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.
A very corporate movie, for me, not worth a second viewing.

If there's one thing that has surprised me as an Australian movie watcher,
it's seeing Tony Collette go from being the very plain, older sister,
to a high fashion hottie in major Hollywood movies.
And seeing how skinny Russell Crowe was as a teenager was, uh,
less than gladiatorian.
 

bob32116

New member
Of the bands in the poll list, I selected Midnight Oil.

There are others I could name: Icehouse, Goanna, Sebastian Hardie, for example. There are also some you have probably never heard of, who I have only recently discovered via the medium of community radio.

If you are interested, check out:

Ned Collette and Wirewalker
Midnight Juggernauts
Absent Hearts
Knievel
 
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