Colin Hay is a real forgotten talent. His live shows are great fun too as he has lots of fantastic and amusing stories from his life in music and out on the road.
Men at work were a fantastic unique band, they had great music and lyrics, and the inspiring and beautiful voice of Colin Hay. I wished, this band would have lasted longer, bands like this is what we need.
Saw men in 83. Awesome tight band.bought both albums.genius.colin is a genius.so unique.talk about backlash.never understood how that many fans can turn on a great band like men at work.every song a hit.ill never forget the night I saw the men. I took a lot of flack from idiots who just didn't get it,or were denying that loved the music.
That song at the end was fucking awesome! Jonesy, instead of doing a competition to win $500 why not have the chance to win a jam session with the right honourable Steve Jones Esquire?
this dude played 3 months before he played with the pistols. OBVIOUSLY he was made to play guitar and music. What a great little ditty... made my hair stand up.. pure, raw and wonderful.
indy 103 used to be the best radio in LA and Josey's jukebox was the best program on Indy 103. Every time I was in LA I would tune the rental car radio to 103. It's great that the jukebox has found a new home!
It's funny , The Bee Gees, The Young Brothers (Easybeats, and the younger guys of course AC DC) and Colin coming To Australia.. Also Denis Tek from the states in the Birdmen.. seems to be a success formula lol.. Guess Acca Dacca needed a thicker accent in the group when they roped in Brian lol
Scottish born, his family emigrated to Australia as a teen, he mentions it here.. Though he had an Aussie accent in the Men At Work days; not sure how an accent can go back to Scottish?! LOL.
@@markdp1983 In interviews back then, he had an Australian accent. He was most likely putting on the Aussie accent for the interviews, since it was a little known fact back then that he was originally from Scotland.
Colin and Steve would be an interesting musical collaboration. Sounds great here. Men At Work had such catchy hits. Didn’t Didn’t know Colin was in the US for 28 years. Didn’t know he was Glaswegian, but I thought he might’ve been. Not really a trace of Australian accent, it doesn’t seem like or is there? I don’t understand how Steve stole these giant pieces of gear.
He was functionally illiterate until his forties (according to himself)--crap parents, abuse/neglect, in and out of incarceration as a youth, not in school, has ADD; not really the best foundation for learning.
What about the lawcase against down under for allegedly ripping off Kookaburra Sits on the old Gum tree? fuck em.. just money grubbing lawyers who buy up the copyrights to old songs that have gone out of the public vernacular in the hope they can one day land a windfall by suing some band for allegedly infringing on that copyright , however small the passage of music in question.. bottom feeders.
Anyone know why he now speaks with a fake scottish accent. He lived longer in Aus than Scotland. He had a broad aussie accent. Why dis associate from his real accent.? Just to distance himself from Aus as much as possible....sad.
He's said in old interviews that his australian accent was fake. He just used it to fit in when he was at school because people couldn;t understand him. He didn't move here until he was 14 so his accent was pretty much cemented in by that point. My grandfather moved to australia from scotland when he was 17 and kept his accent until his death
You forget his parents and entire family all speak with Scottish accents. He said he developed an Aussie accent for school but would always revert to his Scottish accent when at home. The Aussie accent was always the "pretend" one which he finally decided to ditch when moving to the USA.
When his family emigrated from Scotland to Australia, Colin had to learn to develop an Aus accent quickly because the local kids didn't like his Scots accent.
