The late great Ross Hannaford, with Ross Wilson, captured sound checking for the Melbourne Music Festival in 1988. This clip features two great Daddy Cool tracks - Come Back Again & Eagle Rock.
I was learning to play guitar in 1971 and picked up quite a few licks from Daddy Cool's records. I had hair back then and it was virtually the same as Ross Wilson's.
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Ross Hannaford is a certified aussie rock guitar legend. RIP. Gonna miss your insanely brilliant guitar magic...i was hooked the moment i heard this song and your playing in 1971.
Was the first concert my friends and I ever went to. Caught the bus from Swansea to Newcastle show ground, must’ve been around 71 , even took girls with us. Remember being totally mesmerised by Ross W singing and dancing in a baggy white suit and being blown away by Ross H’s playing - he was wearing a cap with a propeller on it 🙏. Great days - “come back again”🌌🥳
Daddy Cool! They had a hit way back in 1970s when I was first in Australia, I remember those times with good vibes,very nice young ladies, sun, surf and a few cold ones, good days.
Jilly, your man hanging out here. Say, how is John Farnham's recovery going? Does he need mates to go fishing yet? Or not quite up to that? Let me know. Bruce, BUGS and I will come and sit quietly, whist John never shuts up with his telepathy. I'm afraid, we are too late for the old, smother his face with a pillow 🔱. Dang. His stuck on you, like glue that Golden 🦁. Anytime, if he needs sorting, I'll send TOP GUNNS... you are not alone with the Big Fella, no more... CJ x
Agree, Ross Hanna was such a big but subliminal part of our history, he was always politely in the back ground behind Ross Wilson, I am 66 and first saw the band at amoco hall in orange 1970, Hanna just hung in there supporting Ross Wilson!
Wow !!!!! Give me more if this music...classic....this is real music. Beats all the microphone crunchers of today's try hards who have no idea of writing songs or singing them.
For a rehearsal the band sounds amazing, wow! Hearing the awesome sounding snare of Derek Pellicci, the super talented and truly awesome Ross Hannaford on guitar and Ross Wilson belting out two great tunes was a pleasure listening to.
I was 11 in 1971 and at that time would have put SWEET CITY WOMAN by THE STAMPEDERS up against ANYTHING THEN...I didn't know of EAGLE ROCK by DADDY COOL at the time, and as CANADIAN as I am I must admit that EAGLE ROCK was an even better tune! No WONDER it was #1 on the Australia Charts for 10 weeks!
I walked into the Sarah Sands,Sydney Road, late 80’s and Ross Hannaford was playing Lafayette Rail Road! I couldn’t believe his broad appreciation and his artistry!
How I dig Daddy Cool. Wilson and Hannaford had this uncanny knack of sounding brilliant with the two guitars plus their voices complimented each other on the chorus lines. Hope you're doin' a boogie upstairs Ross Hannaford. The fantastic rubber man RIP.
@@DotsKangaroo I meant the laneway concert prob should have worded better, Would have been awesome seeing all these talented bands. However I do have a signed drumstick from Joe Camilleri 😀🎶😀
@@DotsKangaroo ah ha, so you arrived in the 50s. How was that transition, 50's to 60's did it feel as huge as it was.... Massive Cultural & 🍄 shift. Baby baby boomer here in Melbourne 61 yrs old, arrived 1961..... wowee speed of light shifts, as soon as I hit the dance floor via SIA & TOMMO GODDO.
Just discovered this . Music has devolved compared to these gems. Check out Renee Geyer with Ross Hannaford on SingingDog , a Hessie production ,Love don't live here anymore . Mind blowing .
Great sound on this vid. Derek Pellicci from LRB on drums too. And Ross Hannaford, I always loved his playing and Monday nights at the Espy front bar with Dianna Kiss was a Melbourne institution.
Priceless... Wow - them was the days. Hanna was alive and Wilson had hair. Great video! One of the best videos I've seen on RU-vid, and this was only a soundcheck!
@@blueycarlton Yeah i didn’t know that, i found this: “Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool was also released in the US on the Warner/Reprise label and the band toured in support of its release. Two singles were lifted from the album: "Eagle Rock" No. 1 on the Australian national singles chart and "Come Back Again" which reached No. 3.”
@@UAPch A lot of their stuff on YT. Daddy Rocks Off, Teenage Blues, Hi Honey Ho, Boogie Man, Don't Ever Leave Me, For You, Rock 'N' Roll Lady, Just As Long As We're Together, Please Please America, etc. Mostly written by singer/guitarist Ross Wilson. He went on to front Mondo Rock in the 80's, which had many hits. He has released many albums under his own name.
Ross.W and Ross.H both Aussie Legends .But folks also on guitar behind them is more Aussie rock royalty James Black from Rockwiz ,Black sorrows,men at work gangajang etc. I see him helping bands sound good almost every year at "one electric Day "at Werribee mansion .It would be easier to list who he hasn't played with, guitar or keyboard. We need to appreciate them during their careers in Australia not lament after we have lost 'em. Jame's we're not worthy..! Then..theres Eric Mccusker....wrote or co-wrote mondo rock's hits...'these guys can fill their own wikipedia page with their "family trees of oz rock"
