@@nharvey9425 John L Sayers passed away today - RIP John was a legend within the Australian music industry, having engineered and produced many Aussie albums and singles... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L_Sayers .
I saw them in 1971 in california and not knowing a thing about thing about them. One of the most fun bands ever!!! To this day one of my favorite shows.
I've just retired after 45 years of teaching. This song was on the charts in 1972, the year I began my teacher training. Wonderful to hear it again, it was always my favourite Daddy Cool number.
Very crowded international market during early 70’s meant only those with the right push right connections and military type strategy to touring & promotions would make it. Daddy cool, The Sports, Sherbet, Dragon should have all been world wide hitmakers. Imagine if this was recorded In US by an American band This performance - simply stunning.
@dean cooper yes sir! Led Zeppelin is my all time favorite English blues-rock band, but I have many other favorites. Of course the Masters Apprentices, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, The Easybeats, Lobby Lloyd, and not to forget Malcolm and Angus! So much good music from the Land Down Under! I visited there once, and I would love to go back, someday.
Amazing live recording. I thought there were two horns in the mix, but it’s the other lead guitar playing some of those horn lines. Good Lord. What a band.
One of my all time favourite songs of my youth.Love the rawness and honesty of this version and they are as tight as a drum.Like having a gig in your back yard! What a great little Blues band Daddy Cool were.RIP Ross Hanaford and Wayne Duncan.Priceless memories!
I heard these guys in the states in the early 70's. I can't find their vinyl records anywhere. I liked them the first time I heard them. Best OZ band ever. I don't care what anyone says. You guys rock!
Ross Hannaford a legend. I was just kid and they were my heroes living next to the bank at Middle Park. We lived down the street I was 8 and Im 58 now I still love them. long live 3xy.
At the start of this clip I thought "Wow - different version of this song! Solo at the start is different! Maybe this is the LP version or something?!" Then I saw it is Daddy Cool, actually playing LIVE! I'm incredibly impressed - they had such a great live sound.
A lot of Australian music of that era is rehashed power boogie and R & R/R & B. I think R & R basically never left the Aus scene in the 60s. Personally I think the most creative, original and groundbreaking era in Aussie independent music starts in the late 70's until the late 80's. I do like this album, but not as much as many other Aussies! I must say Ruben & The Jets did it better (though later!).
@@Micksteroony There was 2 main schools of R&R in Oz in the late 60's - early 70's and beyond; The Billy Thorpe school that became and was Pub Rock or the TFM Ballroom school of Art Rock/ Prog Rock. Oz music seems to have 10 year resurgent cycles and the Old School - New School thing. I beg to differ on Ruben and the Jets. DC had a distinct 70's attitude to 50's rock (listen to DC's Last Drive In Movie show LP ; hands down, their best recordings). Anyway, that's my 2 bobs worth.
@@mjcussen7458 Thanks mate! Not heard the "Last Drive in...." though a quick google shows its a live LP? Agreed that DC had a different - 70s - approach to R&R than say, Ruben & The Jets. I think I just personally prefer the tighter and more inventive (and maybe anti-hippy?) approach (IMO) to it from the latter! I think Oz music leapt ahead of the pack when the myriad of bands that exploded in the late 70s started doing their own thing or taking formats to a new level.....
@@Micksteroony Fair enough! Always great to hear from an enthusiast! Cheers. Oh, DC's "Last Drive In Movie Show" did make it to CD in a 3 CD set called "Totally Cool" put out by Mega around 1992, but with some significant omissions from the original LP. Their best, to me, was "Love in an FJ" on Side 4, but it is part of the missing sections on the CD. You can hear Side 4 on RU-vid. No... I just looked for it and can't find it any more!
RIP Ross Hannaford. He was a close friend of my music teacher, I hope those affected by his death will get through and keep him alive through memory. He was a great musician and I am certain that he will be missed.
This was 1972! Same year as Glam Rock in the UK, David Bowie Ziggy Stardust, serious art, prog-rock, Exile on Main Street, GodFather 1, Labor get elected to federal parliament in Australia for the first time since water and air were invented. I was too young to know....but ‘72 was a sunny time but by ‘74 the air was and vibe was dirty and nasty ...sharpies, AC/DC, Ted Mulry, bogans had fully replaced hippies...
Watching this clip again ! Daddy Cool is the best & Ross Williams is the best ! So many hits . Crocodile rock was Elton John's answer . Piss poor answer .
Listen to that sound! The clip must be about as old as me , and I am really old. Genius mix considering the technology that was available back then. ;-)
Eagle Rock is an all time classic song and I must have listened to it, with headphones, a 1000 times while I was learning to play it. But my favourite song(s), and only slightly ahead of their other songs, is their Teenage Extravaganza: Teen Love / Drive In Movie / Love in an FJ and (Boy I think You're) Paranoid, on their "Last Drive In Movie" Live album with Ian Winter. Forget about the early version on their Sex Dope Rock and Roll Album. Listen to it Live, if you can find the LP. And remember that these were the days when they plugged their guitars straight into the amps; none of the fancy effects pedals that we have today! Thanks Rick and Superyob!
They were extraordinary live!! Saw them at a Festival and they came on second last. Skyhooks had arrived. Billy Thorpe and Madder Lake were also amazing - . AC/DC showed skills but we didn't reallize just how much , Capt Matchbox were incrdible . See Clips From Rage youtube account and type in Eagle Rock .
Kind of looks like a rest home my granny stayed in. But I’m sure the old folks may not appreciate rock music , especially in the middle of the day at nap time! Love this excellent rock music.
Great, Everything. Guitars, drums. The Lot! Heard this on country radio today. First time lyrics have appeared to me & there is loads of 'suggestion'. Googled, Wilson wrote. Lyrics one thing, to nails a tune is another. Excellent. Interesting natural hair on helicopter guy.
They should have been an international band nobody comes close now real polished musicians no special effects there straight in an amp volume full and Ross Hanaford what a guitarist and of course Ross Wilson and a Southwark t shirt
Every once in a while, RU-vid blows my f'n mind. This is one of those. Daddy Cool live... playing behind the barn. "Hi Honey Ho'... fantastic. Thank you thank you thank you, uplaoder!
So lucky to be a teenager when this great music was around. Everything about this song is great, how good is that sax, never noticed that overly when I was 13
Ross Hannaford's solo is a lot of fun (I had to listen to it twice) as it doesn't go quite where you think it might and his licks throughout the song are inspired. I got to see him once with Billy T in 1977, gone too soon.
I was 13 , thought they were fantastic, I have a memory, of seeing them at a concert somewhere, I was 17 at the time, I know I was stoned off my head at the time, and woke up in the bushes half naked without my pants on, and 2 birds with no tops on. Have no memory of that night much.
I have a Daddy Cool documentary on DVD at some point they talk about the fact they were so stoned for so long they can't remember driving too and performing gigs, what a life :)
As a kid my hippy parents used to take me to parties around Adelaide. This reminds me of a time at Bill Kay's winery in the Adelaide hills. Not saying this is it, just saying it brings back so many memories. Everyone looked like that and read The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
Love this song, it inspired La Femme's song 'Boys Next Door' & Ross's filling riffs became the aussie sound for the rest of the 70's, didn't realise how important the sax was to the sound, very underrated sax playing, (anyone know who it was?)
I remember seeing Daddy Cool live at the Dandenong Ice-skating Rink. Was a great band then and still is now> I wonder if ever they will ever do another concert.
Possibly the best Australian guitarist, more coverage from the media was deserved? Jon English was okay but Ross Hannaford shaped and helped define Australian music.
Mark Reeder Well thanks for clearing that up, ! A lot of Famous people have come from this town. ;) I'm in Newcastle as we speak (30 years) but originally from Melbourne.
