Aussie Rock - Who is Your favorite Band

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

The Easybeats Australian. I don't think so.

The Easybeats occupy a unique place in the pantheon of 1960s British rock acts. For starters, they were Australian, except that they really weren't -- they met in Sydney alright, and being based in Australia with the talent they had gave them a leg-up over any of the local competition. But lead singer Stevie Wright originally came from England (although he'd been in Australia for some years), and bassist Dick Diamonde hailed from the Netherlands, as did guitarist Harry Vanda, while the others, guitarists George Young and drummer Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, were recent arrivals from Scotland and England -- most significantly, Fleet was Liverpool born and raised, and had been a member of the Mojos, one of that city's more promising bands of 1963 and 1964. They all had talent, but he had a sense of style and an idea of what worked in rock & roll; it was Snowy Fleet who came up with the name "The Easybeats," and the sharp image for the early group, which made them a piece of authentic Brit-beat right in the heart of Sydney, 13,000 miles from Liverpool and as precious there as water on a desert.

teddy

Your just Jealous Teddy, The Easybeats first made it in Aussie and they were mostly very young when they came here - and they stayed particularly Harry and George, they have been and continue to be involved here in Oz producing Aussie rock talent and have done so since the early 70's, this list goes on and on here from John Paul Young (love is in the Air etc), AC/DC of course, their own Band Flash and the Pan and many more.

Proud to claim them as Aussie through and through.........

 

[John Watt]

Yeah, I'm catching the smell of personal desperation when Australians try to sell a national identity,
trying to get away from that Quantas koala thing.
I thought the Beegees were English, coming from there and sounding British Invasion.
Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds get written up so much in Toronto papers I think he's Canadian,
even if he's probably from B.C., another disturbing stab through national identity.
The lead singer-song-writer from Men at Work has been touring America solo for so long he's become American,
and you don't want to argue with Americans when they become American for the first time.

It's hard to accept cultural talk from Australians when they insist on singing English, not Australian.

 

[teddy]

My goodness John. That was an impassioned speech. Scots Rule OK

teddy

 

[John Watt]

Thanks for feeling my passion, teddy, but it's not about me, even if I appreciate you saying Scots Rule.
Personally, I don't feel the world is ready for another Average White Band,
even as I watch the teddy-boy revival.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Yeah, I'm catching the smell of personal desperation when Australians try to sell a national identity,
trying to get away from that Quantas koala thing.
I thought the Beegees were English, coming from there and sounding British Invasion.
Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds get written up so much in Toronto papers I think he's Canadian,
even if he's probably from B.C., another disturbing stab through national identity.
The lead singer-song-writer from Men at Work has been touring America solo for so long he's become American,
and you don't want to argue with Americans when they become American for the first time.

It's hard to accept cultural talk from Australians when they insist on singing English, not Australian.

Happy to let you live in your deluded world, if you like :crazy: where do I start ..............

Spelling Qantas correctly is a good start. The Bee Gees are from Oz (true they were born in the UK), but came to Oz very young and grew up in Redcliffe a northern Subburb in Brisbane- and came to fame initially at the same time as Billy Thorpe here in Oz on early 60's TV shows here.

NIck Cave mmmm - he is so melbournite it hurts, you can try and claim him but good luck! If you have every heard Colin Hay talk (lead singer from Men at Work), you would know he is a Scott anyway- although Aussie national has been since he was 14. Hay was born in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland, but moved to Australia at the age of 14 with his family.

Remind me what langage Candians sing in Kanac? I don't know but I do know Australia wont be claiming Nickelback any time soon:grin:

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

^ PS Singing in Australian is reserved only for those living in Oz, but I will give you a little sample as per below:

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

^ Found this clip of very early Bee Gees in Australia- amoung other early acts, didn't realise they were that young when they started - almost child slave labour!

 

[teddy]

Anyone heard anything of that grand old Irish lad Ned Kelly lately?

teddy

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

LOL, they actually found poor old Ned bones not so long ago and burried him (the bones) at Euroa, where he was from.

Reminds me of my favourite Midnight Oil song too............

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

You got me on a run of gold now.......... You do realise that Oz land was a british colonial settlement still at the time of Ned and it was Her Mag Queens Vic's men chasing after the rebel Irishman!

 

[John Watt]

A modern day bank machine wouldn't stand a chance.
However, today, Ned Kelly would get scooped up by a progressive heavy metal band,
and he would have been found outside a bank lobby after a show,
after failing to make a heavy deposit.
He should have known it wasn't just fans trying to surf his cash with him.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Heavy metal Ned, yea well he had the clothes for it.

 

[John Watt]

Aussies are rockin'it out all over.
An Australian winning the Masters,
with a controversy about a 14 year old being penalized,
when Tiger Woods got away with a worse infraction,
just makes it better.

I saw a movie about Ned Kelly or I wouldn't have known he wore his own armour.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Yep Aussie doing good at least in the golf and Ned- there has been a few movies over the years the strangest and funniest as per below:

Reckless Kelly

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Just found this - some more old Aussie rock produced by Vanda and Young (Albert productions- same as producers AC/DC), by John Paul Young Albert Studio Label singer and Piano rocker Warren "Pig" Morgan from Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.......

 

[John Watt]

Typing about old Aussie rock, and this isn't, it's about Rolf.
Too bad I can't remember his first name from one of your other threads.
But as far as singing "Tie me kangaroo down, sport", and some other songs by
"The Singing Swagman", is that who he is?
I've been trying to remember that as soon as I saw Australia.
And everybody likes to get a little down under.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Ah John, you mean Rolf Harris- he is in a spot of bother at present- Jimmy Saville trouble so it would seem!

A video from better days below of Rolf

 

[teddy]

I am not saying it is right to just forget about serious crimes but arresting some old man who may not even be sure what day of the week it is, and questioning him about events of forty years ago does seem a bit pointless. Sexism as we know it today did not exist at that time and where as I fully believer that anyone who abuses children should be shot I know from my own experiences that things were very different in those days.

teddy

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Good point teddy, let see what some out - If he was involved then the legal system do its thing. Was the last person i would have thought of, don't think anyone would want to be thought of as an associate of Jimmy Saville anymore............

 

[John Watt]

teddy! I'm glad that's the old days for you. In Welland, Ontario, Canada,
my first fiancee had sex with her father first,
my next girlfriend was drug overdosed and gang-raped by our local crime family when she was fifteen,
and my third girlfriend was done the same as a Rose Festival Queen after an event.
Her parents laid of their employees, shut down the bakery and moved out west,
when police wouldn't help. Boys will be boys, they said.