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Jewish people did a lot for Australia. So Australia should strive to eliminate anti- Semitism and that other group and terrorists which promote it. A Jewish lawyer worked on the Mabo case and won land rights for Indigenous. Therefore those hijacking the . Australian Indigenous cause for their benefit are hypocrites. Jewish people, such as Michael Gudinski contribute positively to Australia and it’s success and happiness.
What a great interview! Nick’s legacy particularly with Aussie bands is unparalleled, excepting the late and great Tony Cohen. I’m pretty sure Nick produced some early stuff from The Church. I guess you would need days to discuss every single record he worked on. Love his passion - what a great life!
Diese Band nimmt einen besonderen Platz ein. Weltweit. Sie haben ihren ganz eigenen Stil, den man mag oder eben nicht. Sie setzen sich für die Aborigenes ein, die jede Unterstützung verdient haben. Wie alle Indigenen, die uns überleben werden!!!!! Und auch dass haben sie verdient!!!! Ich bin jetzt überrascht, weil mir Peter Garrett immer sehr introvertiert vorkam. Sein Grinsen, lachen steht im gut. Ein hervorragender Musiker, die ganze Band, die vor lauter Energie Funken schlägt. Long live Midnight Oil!!!!!!
What is it about these music people that makes them so articulate and engrossing?! NL is no exception - great interview, great stories told with heart and humour. Glad to have Nick as an honoury Australian. What a CV! Thanks for sharing.
Loved this episode so much. Grace is so interesting & Eurogliders are still a phenomenal live act, with so many timeless classics. @Jane, great interview, loved your dancing ;-)
Love this, as a kid, I only realized she had an American accent. However, now as an adult, I can hear the Boston in her voice. Marcia was a staple of Australian music TV as a kid. She seemed to always be on Countdown or with Donnie Sutherland? Great talent and great Australian.
I just discovered the 1983 "Hugo Klang - The Final Akt" live tape. Ollie, if you have more such intense HK recordings (maybe the "studio" versions of those songs), release it. Cheers ..."Trans World Death Corporation"?
A great talent, and a lovely warm personality. ❤ As a teenager i immersed myself in her album 'Freefall through Featherless Flight'. An extraordinary listening experience and what an amazing voice!! Thankyou Jeannie! ✊
Re. favourite bands, and early influences... Yes! Taman Shud were definitely something very special. Also, Skyhooks were my favourite Australian band too! This was from around '74 (aged 6), to about '83. After that? Midnight Oil totally captured me. This was musically, socially, politically and more. 🙂
I owned a total of 5 Mayton guitars I think I was the one who played the Meiton guitar and showed it in Korea. I remember someone bought it in Australia... I bought my first guitar secondhand. Pickup is ap5... The main guitar I'm playing now is a Tommy Emanuel model made in 2012.. I currently have 2 guitars... I bought a Nashville Model 808 from an instrument company today.. The sound is better developed than the previous model, and the microphone system is more powerful.. My neck is so big, but it's hard for an Asian like me to play.. Please lower your neck.. For your information, pickup is the best in the world.. I think most people buy it because of the pickup rather than the sound of the guitar.. Of course, I think the guitar that comes out now is so good than the old one.. Good guitar good pick up.. especially pick up is really.. the best.. thank you..
This interview is _entirely_ carried by good Mr Hirst. Hutchison's questions are awkward, lacking any conversational craft, and staggering incoherently one way, then another. direcmmmm as per normal. Hirst suffers the clumsy dynamics, by sharing details and story aplenty. 6 out of 10.
My Maton EBG808TEC is 10,394 miles from Box Hill, Australia according to Google map. Great job to all at Maton. I absolutely love this guitar. No other guitar produces that Maton sound. Love it!
What an education, every time time I see you and hear you talk I learn, saw you at Port Fairy a couple of years back and I was in tears listening to you speak. I feel a connection always with you as my home town is Traralgon and I’m a Hawthorn supporter, you are awesome Kutcha, sending my love and best wishes to you.
Pleasure of your company was the greatest album.......I hear motion Is my Fav. I had the bass down pat....... But I gotta say Big on Love, King of Kings and Seing is Believing are noteworthy
I can imagine the stand-off between the sharpies and the glam rockers that Jane was talking about, two very different scenes. My dad was in a glam rock band back in the day and had the red satin flares and high heel boots, his band actually presented the award to Sherbet at the Rock Awards (I think in 1977?). Jane is a legit legend and Prisoner is still one of my all-time fave Aussie shows along with Mother & Son.
Just “happened” upon this … Glenn Shorrock, you were such a huge part of my teenage years … I lived up the road from the Burnside Town Hall where the Oxford Club held those dances. This is when I first heard “The Twilights” and had my world tipped on its head. The band had recently returned from London and were playing material by Jimi Henderix, the Beatles and other British bands. They were SO f*****g good! This is a great interview. Glenn starts tentatively and by the end is a lot more relaxed. I feel some empathy with him, having been fired from a couple of bands, but not quite at the same level! You can tell that the way he was “dumped” by LRB cut deep. It is a ruthless industry, and it IS an industry, a business, and where millions of $$$ are a part of it? Well, enough said. So, I was quite a close friend with Russell Johnson for a few years, who, in fact WAS an original founding member of Mississippi, the forerunner of LRB. I even played bass on “Day Job Song” … I WASN’T a great bass player and was intimidated totally by the recording studio environment, whereas Russell, Graham Goble and John Mower were veterans. Needless to say, I didn’t last. I had been a “ring in” via Russell. I consider him a friend and his passing saddened me, however, the two of us could sit and jam together on a couple of acoustic guitars for hours; it was telepathic. Quite something, and I’ve only ever had that connection with him, no one else. We brought out “something else” from each other. This was many years ago of course, but this interview has taken me right back there. So, apologies for the reminiscence … I’m in my mid-seventies now so, you know the saying, “old men fall into reminiscence”. Anywho, thanks for this interview.
I saw TIS with Sonic Youth in Sydney at the Kardomah, or Dark Coma as we used to call it. I’d gone to my Sunday midnight to dawn shift job and found I had no work to do. So off to the cross I drove and made it in time for TIS. Fantastic show. Thanks for this. Wonderful interview.
Glenn Wheatley is a legend and a visionary. He was an extremely hard worker who opened the world to Australian music with Little River Band, who had ten top 10 hits in America, gold and platinum albums too. He also introduced Australia to FM radio, with EON-FM, the first FM station. And that's just 2 of his achievements, both firsts that he accomplished. He was a great manager because he had been in good bands as a guitarist and bassist so knew what artists had to go through. That made him very different to most other managers and gave him a great loyalty to the artists he managed that was not always returned. To my mind, Glenn was under-appreciated by the wider public but he was an exceptional person, a good man. His resurrection of John Farnham's career by mortgaging his house to finance the Whispering Jack album, Australian biggest-ever selling record, is testimony to the person Glenn was.
