tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21676237214583252532012-01-27T15:55:20.019+11:00Apologies to friends who left the 72 comments which Blogger 'automatically' sent to a spam folder, which completely disappeared when I painstakingly rescued and reposted them. Blogger Help indicates that I am not the only blogger this has happened to.Marshall Stackshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06394268529143990889noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2167623721458325253.post-32890161160634671592011-12-30T22:37:00.000+11:002011-12-30T22:37:43.274+11:00

Bo Diddley was born on this day in 1928. He was a great influence on all the good Sixties Mod bands and this is the damn groovy album I bought in 1965 from Ultra TV & Stereo in Carlisle Street Balaclava. What a pleasure it was on every one of the hundreds of times I played it.

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You can have your silly little ipods, this is a music system.   The JBL Paragon = Wishlist. Apparently about 1000 were made, and if you can find one for sale, expect to pay about $20,000 to get it.          'The 1957 JBL Paragon  - a speaker system installed in a single cabinet. It is based on a diffusion principle developed by Richard Rangera consultant to JBL.  The midrange drivers fire

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The Exford Hotel, Melbourne 1980. band songlist.

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Pedro Henrique Ferreira aka Lambuja created this image. I discovered this Brazilian artist via the wonderful Catalan blog of Te La Ma Maria Reus. She compiles folios of various artists work, and when I say 'various' I mean it. She's worth a visit.

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I told Brian and Mick that it was okay for Ian Stewart to appear on records and do live radio but their ivory-thumper could not be seen in photos or on TV. , Andrew Loog Oldham, (quote from p 222, STONED, 2000, Secker & Warburg, London.) This blogger wonders how the band would have gone if ALO had never been involved. One of life's amusing synchronicities is that ALO's and Lips Jagger's mothers

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Too quiet here lately, so out of guilt I roll in a photo of three Stones. Pre 1965, and out of the scrapbook I kept then. 'Scrapbooks' definitely made redundant by the interwebz, that's for sure. Lewis Brian Jones born 28th February would be 68 this year. He would not have been Knighted as Sir Mick was, he would not still be with the mother of his first child, as Mr Charlie Watts is, and he

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I love Remo Giuffre's store. He says "For the rock star without a band, the Guitar Fly Swat gives everyone the chance to live out their dreams of smashing a guitar to bits on stage. You can take out your vengeance on would be pests, or if you are a devout animist this axe looks great resting in its stand on display. The Guitar Fly Swat is made from recycled plastic, and packaged neatly in a

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Brothers - the concept is such weird ju-ju for a female Only-Child who married an Only-Child - The Hansens in Slapshot, Cain & Abel, The Everlys, The BeeGees. If Brian Jones had also asked Chris Jagger to join The Stones, they would have crashed and burned decades ago. If Mike McCartney had also been a Beatle, the breakup would have preceded the Ono arrival. Way way back well-before the

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Two happy kids on the beach  - she is 19 and he is  ... oops - 30. Bryan Ferry is at least consistent, as TheDailyMail is currently sniping at him for using his current 37-years younger girlfriend as a butler.  Jerry Hall has finally given her manuscript to the publisher so we can read an account of her escape from becoming Jerry Ferry, and of her failure to escape the predatory charm of  the

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Here in front of the Marshall stack, we know Albert Collins from Albert King from B.B.King and you should too, so here's the Wiki (god bless them).This blogger was lucky enough to see the legendary Albert King play his Gibson Flying V at the legendary Troubador Lounge on Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, about 1980. In a room full of uber-cool people, I was cool enough to be uncool and take

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A fitting funeral.Let It RockToo Fast To Live, Too Young To Die SeditionariesWorld's End.It was all so wonderful, you wish you'd been there.Thank you Mr.McLaren.

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On the Saints Day for unrequited love, this wrencher given to us by David & Jimmy Ruffin.Rod Stewart did it, and Joe Cocker, but Chris Farlowe's is my favourite version.Play it over and over while drinking. That'll show 'em."As I walk this land with broken dreamsI have visions of many thingsLove's happiness is just an illusionFilled with sadness and confusion,What becomes of the broken

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We all read the papers and accept most of it as true or accurate.We also assume that a Queen's Counsel, engaged at a daily fee that could buy a car, would know what he was talking about. This is not always the case.This week the news subtitles imply that Colin Hay stole a tune.. From our reading of all the reports of the stoush over this charge, we give you quotes from published claims:"

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What a far cry it is from the early performing days of the revered Mr Nicholas Cave, (when his promoters pleaded unsuccessfully with the shocking but influential COUNTDOWN TV show, for a chart-enabling appearance)that now he just seems to be everywhere.At one stage, a Boys Next Door ligger had actually become the editor at the Australian Women’s Weekly, that bastion of median media-ness, and I

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The worst thing you can do to anybody is deprive them of your presence, and abandonment occurs in more than several forms. The last time I spoke with the late Mr Howard, we were walking up the Acland Street hill at the end of a weekday in 1996, a long amiable chat while I marvelled at his long spidery swift legs. For several years I was close to his work and (except for the very first two (

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1. In the beginning, Brian Jones asked Mick Jagger if he would like to join HIS band. 2. Brian was a masterful and innovative musician. 3. The dreadful behaviour which pissed-off the other Stones, was clearly an undiagnosed brain disease. 4. Resentful of Brian's hedonistic lifestyle which they witnessed while renovating his house, some low-class builders murdered him. There's a book by Terry

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Goodness Gracious! Great Balls Of FireThere's A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On as we wish a Happy Birthday toJerry "The Killer" Lee Lewis. He's A Real Wild Child and 74 today.He played Sydney's White City arena in 1970 and I was there (now wishing I could remember more than that it was just a rockin good time)This 1959 photo from his appearance in a Melbourne radio station studio.I guess their

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NINEDeep Space NINEThe Law Of NINESRevolution No: 9 and he was born on the 9th - dear Dr. Winston O'Boogie said of 'Revolution No. 9'"I think it was the best thing I've ever done".(I should have cropped the murderer out of that picture. dear John.)

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Rhythm and Blues was the music of Sixties MODS, and the soulful Farlowe got as close to the black heart of R&B as any white-boy could. The Art of Chris Farlowe was released December 1966.on Andrew Loog Oldham's incestuous IMMEDIATE Records label.When we weren't at our typing jobs in the Melbourne CBD, or dancing in our Prue Acton mini-dresses at The Catcher* and The Thumpin' Tum*, we were

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Willie Nelson is God.5 wives, 2000 songs, one hell of a legend.I was saddened to read that his longtime stage manager died recently.Poodie Locke led most of the audience and The Highwaymen on foot back to the Melbourne Hilton after their show at the Laver Arena and treated us like old friends. A big guy. This big: both of the Nelson crew buses had signs that said “Poodie’s on the other bus.”If

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This magnificent photo of poet, writer, composer, artist, actor and singer, Sam Sejavkaout in front of The Earsandrevelling in the packed room at The Corner Hotel,Richmond, on 16th August, 2009. was taken by Andrew McDougall.(Click the name - it links to his other great pictures of the gig.)The Gig ExplainedMemory LaneSam's blog

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A US Country-music blogger I fell over via a profile at Norm Geras(Emeritus Professor, cricket tragic, and Country music-maven) isSetting The Woods On Fire.STWOF asks his: "highly intelligent readers: Tell me, in your opinion,what rock band (not artist)suffers the injustice of having the widest gap between Factor A (Actual Quality & Influence) and Factor B (Level Of Recognition & Acclaim)? "I

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The artist is Paul Karslake, brother of Mrs. Jo Wood.The Daily Mail writes the story best, and the photos there, are really worth the click-through.Those mediocre paintings of Ronnie's that we have all seen, are clearly just poor copies of Karslakes entire oeuvre. This is his vengeance for Wood "sucking the life out of my sister for 31 years".The painting was a commission by the makers of TV

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Dan Cairns, The Times writes a great review setting out the reasons not to bother with this -"book by James 'Tappy' Wright, a former road manager for Hendrix, (which) suggests he was killed on the orders of his penniless manager Mike Jeffrey, who wanted to cash in his £1.2million life insurance."(Wright claims in this book, Rock Roadie, that Jeffrey admitted, a month before he was killed in a

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I bought this record when I was a teenager. The right age for hearing it in 1965. I LOVED it. I saw The WHO at Festival Hall in the mid-1970's. They were still smashing stuff. And everything about Keith Moon was so very special. God Bless his soul, he probably smashed up Rock'n'Roll Heaven.There is a DVD titled WHO's Next which will tell you why and how The WHO were so damn good. Mod boys.

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The Glimmer Twins react to news that Allen Klein, accountant, died 4 July 2009His first client was the soul music star Sam Cooke, who was unable to get royalty payments from his record company, RCA. Klein succeeded in releasing the monies owed to Cooke and soon established a corporation to own the rights to Cooke's future recordings.By the mid-1960s, he had set up ABKCO (Allen and Betty Klein

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You will be glad after you click through to my pal Pants and her view of Cops v. Teen Girls in the matter of Biebermania -""Did the misguided exuberance of a few girls really have the potential to spark a citywide outbreak of civil chaos circa Paris 1968? I don't think the students had brought their parents with them to that! Do these kids not know anything? Adults panic. Never let them near

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It has been a week of amazing and ridiculous media and public behaviour and reaction. At first it was just the very sad destruction of a clever all singing all dancing boy-man, but now it is all just a sad indictment of an entire world society floating on the opiate of entertainment-culture(Paris Hilton, Britney Brangelina Elvis Madonna Diana).1. That every Michael Jackson item offered for sale

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Marshall in England first developed amps for Pete Townshend and John Entwistle in the mid 1960's.Melbourne's Adderley-Smith Blues Band's Stan Rogers recalls Marshall amps first appearing at Melbourne gigs c.1966 -"WE WERE approached, by a new amplifier company to test their amplifiers in actual performances. Our mandate wasto try as hard as we could to blow them up.Every Monday I would take

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Buy this book. It's newly published, About A Melbourne Boy, Carlton, rock promoters, and he calls it how it is. You'll laugh, or weep, identify, and be amazed ... and I'm in it. Worth the money.

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1971: The Station Hotel in Greville Street Prahranused to be run by Frank, and his black labrador.Blackie used to carry the nightsafe purse with the days takings in it, up to the ANZ bank in Chapel Street.There was a little Ladies Lounge at The Station, patterned lino on the floor, prams, women named Beryl, Valerie, Lynette; and, not unusually,the Front Bar clientele was mostly 'hard' men, and

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