Glenn Wheatley (RIP) John Farnhams Manager was in this band ...base player with the long straight blonde hair. They had some classic hits back in the day.
Thanks for making me feel really old Rollen 😂 I was a teenager when that was released lol😏 I would have loved Jim Keays hair lol. Great old memories for us Aussies. Funny how you and most Americans are only hearing our music now. We in Aus grew up listening, watching and buying USA and Uk music. I still have all my old vinyls from the 60s to late 80s I think, when CDs took over. Gawd I am old, forever wandering down memory lane lol
I actually had a couple of beers with the singer in about 1997. My mate was running the City hotel in Collingwood an inner suburb of Melbourne and Jim Keays was performing that night. Would have been only 30 people in the bar and his performance was still great all those years later. Sad he didn't get the following in those days he deserved, being a 1960's legend.. Anyway I am at the bar talking to my mate and Jim had just finished his set and came up to the bar for a drink. I was a bit overawed as I knew who he was and he said to my mate, "John I would like to buy you a beer and you can get your mate here one as well". I shouted him one back a little later which is an Aussie tradition. No doubt I have trotted this story out plenty of times over the years.The only celebrity I think that I ever met. Rip Jim
You were talking about the sound which was very much Aussie early rock, the band Chain with Matt Taylor is another classic example with songs Black and Blue and I remember when I was young big hits.
Great Band The Masters, they recorded several song in Abbey Road Studios in London and Jim Keyes the lead singer once spoke about being there and wandering along the hall to see John Lennon at a piano in an adjoining studio writing parts of a song that later became "Imagine" TY.
Jim Keays was so pissed when he turned on the day of recording this, he needed two of the guys to hold him up while he screamed into the mic. Amazingly, he nailed it in the first take! Just as well, he was prettying drunk!
Heard this song on my 18th birthday in 1990 on a big projector in a local Aussie pub. The film clip was wild and I had fantastic time dancing to it drunk. Great memories. Throwing up down the hallway and all over the toilet later that night while our old church pastor was sleeping over wasn't a highlight 🤮
Further to Carolyn Hayes' comments, Glenn Wheatley became John Farnham's manager after being together in The Little River Band. Previously John's career was in musicals and cabaret, steered by his then manager. John's career was not going well. Glenn took over John's management in a new direction and his career soared. Sadly, Glenn died not long ago. He and John were great friends, too.
The Masters were a great band , check out choice cuts and a toast to Panama red, great Australian progressive rock, and before that they were a great sixties pop/ R&B band, their first LP is great too not to mention masterpieces their second more commercial album oh yeah and the really rare live album Nickelodeon. Take it easy mate. They have better songs than that though.
