i'm pretty sure they ended up in there somewhere. i wasn't really expecting so many posts lol .... i certainly wasn't expecting controversy over a music post hahaha, good lord, lucky i didn't start on politics or religion
Yes. Radio Birdman were heavily influenced by The Stooges & The MC5 New Race was a punk/proto-punk super-group based in Sydney, Australia formed in April 1981. New Race was a concept band featuring three members of Radio Birdman: Deniz Tek, Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, along with their inspirational mentors: Ron Asheton of The Stooges, and Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompsonof the MC5.
Okay, here's a more obscure Aussie band (and one of my faves). Baterz was a true original who sadly died young. I was lucky to see him play live in Adelaide.
i certainly meant no offence. i figured any rational person would understand my comment. i sure hope australia hasn't become the home of pc pansies since i left
when my band was playing the pubs down there, all the pubs were closing and turning into something else. live music was dying. irregardless of my band, that was heartbreaking as those pubs created some of the best live bands in the world
What/who was your band ? The thing that really pisses me off is when there is a venue that has been there for years. They build houses & units right next to the venue. The people who buy the properties then whinge about the venue. Venue gets closed down.
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Abso-bloody-lutely!!! it's a sad place for live music as a whole now, being an old picker and band player myself, it breaks my heart. You once had a bunch of corner pubs and each had great bands playing, and some of the best musicians, that were no name performers, but were wonderful players. It's all changed in the last 20 years particularly, and venues have disappeared and bands are no longer wanted. The cost of beer, drink-driving rules, nobody really wanting to go out to see bands and publicans that no longer want to pay. Everybody is too busy on there home entertainment phones and portable videos, that it makes some of us a dying breed. I miss the old days...
i doubt anyone had ever heard of us. maelstrom. we played in perth. we did the cover scene thing and i didn't want to. around '95 we self financed some studio time and cut a cd (i guess it would have been described as hard rock/metalish) we had spent 6 months playing the tunes in pubs to see what worked best and got responses etc. we recorded it in one day and mixed it the next. some dude at the local music rag reviewed it and said it was overproduced hahaha ... that's just what we sounded like, it was pretty full on for a three piece. he made some comment about being obvious we didn't believe in our songs (i wrote them, i'm pretty sure i knew what i believed in) i went down to the magazine to ask some questions about the review. they said get a gig and we'll review it. somehow, although we had had no trouble getting gigs for five years, nobody would give us a gig ... politics haha later on i put my own studio together and just recorded for my own pleasure
That was as wild as the labels & radio stations would let them be. Johnny O'Keefe was a bit wilder but in a more rock & roll (Jerry Lee Lewis) way. This stuff is a little before my time as I didn't get into it until @ 1968/69
without sounding like a turkey, don't come back for the live music will ya? ha. unless your a one man acoustic soloist or a DJ playing to drunk little tarts in short dresses.
They have similar national content laws in Canada and we would listen to Canadian stations when we could pick them up. I don't see how it could be any worse than US radio. There used to be a lot of good music on the charts. Now it's all the same watered-down hip-hop, dance pop, and blue-eyed soul.
That's the way! Some people just can't help themselves... "List true Aussie-born artists" - as if AC/DC or The Church weren't Australian bands - get outta here!
i am trying to scratch up the money to come and visit family and friends, but that may never happen sadly. i sometimes pull the acoustic out and play some tunes for friends and stuff. the industry stuff takes away the love for me, so i avoid it
I used to own & run Playback Records. I remember the band name maelstrom & I vaguely remember that it was regarded as a metal band. By 1995 I had sold the shop & had 3 young kids so I no longer went out to see bands so I never saw them & metal wasn't my thing.
yeap! bruddah, I know a bit about the industry/politics stuff myself. It's a great way to destroy your heart and passion. It's probably still the luckiest country in the world per say, but slowly, everything that stood for being Australian, is being stripped away almost on a daily basis. We just seem to love to 'sell out' now. Our beliefs, morals, language, way of life, Christmas values etc etc
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i am one of those folks that pretty much likes everything. we just gravitated towards that style. back in the cover days we were playing purple,zeppelin, floyd ... with bits and pieces of other stuff. we did a version of baker street before foo fighters, with a similar hard rock approach, boys light up (with the harp lol) all sorts of stuff ... we just seemed to gravitate towards that style (it wasn't the gargling mud vocals lol)
