AMEN T/O Elizabeth ,sth Australia the birth place of oz Rock, check it out ............ MM

Mrs Dagboy

Howzat! You are obviously old enough, have a heart of gold, come from a land down under, have got friday on your mind and most people you know think that you're crazy! You probably take your holidays in the april sun in cuba too! Unfortunately Mark Hunter is 'out of the blue and into the black' as Neil would say. I didn't get a JPY in there but take a look at me I'm yesterday's hero.

TennisOz

Yep, yep yep, love it!! But I have to admit, not quite old enough for Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs & the EasyBeats, I was only about 4 or 5 when they were around (late 60s I think?). But all the rest, know em all.

We bought a 5CD set of 70s hits a couple of months ago, one whole cd of aussie artists, like the ones I just mentioned - pure gold!

~Hey Hey, My My, Rock & roll will never die~

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs - Silly Twerp and the Spastics we used to call them (no offence intended to anyone that wouldn't be regarded as PC these days!).

I had a big collection of singles from 60's and 70's which I put onto tape and latterly onto CD. I will occasionally play them and relive the innocent days (?) of my youth. Each time I'm back in Oz I usually manage to buy compilation CD's as well as more recent things such as Paul Kelly - Leaps and Bounds brilliantly evokes aspects of Melbourne which 'I remember'; To her Door (did they ever get back together?) etc, etc

The Easybeats were good and they gave rise to lots of other acts - JPY was produced by Vanda and Young; they had a group called Flash and the Pan (down among the deadmen about the Titanic - great).

I can also remember seeing a lot of great groups and acts in my days at Melbourne University - Max Merritt and the Meteors, Wild Cherries, Masters Apprentices, Twilights etc, etc.

I'd better stop, I'm getting 'a tear in my glass eye' with all this nostalgia

TennisOz

There's more to the picture than meets the eye .....

The 'Weld' video and tape of mine have both nearly worn out!

TennisOz

tennisoz-thank you. you just reminded me of a song whose lyrics i remembered but couldnt remember the singer -reckless (paul kelly)was bugging me months ago -did google search and all but couldnt find it.

~Baby, Ive been watching you (Baby, Ive been watching you),
Watching everything you do (watching everything you do),
But I just cant help but feeling,
Someone else is stealing,
You away from me~

Dont remember Twilights, but play that funky music white boy I sure do remember all the rest. The Easybeats music I remember from when I was a child, heard it on the radio etc, even though my parents were big C&W fans rather than rock & roll. But far too young to be a groupie LOL, born in 64.

Watched Slims funeral a couple of weeks back & shed a tear or three, not something that most people would admit to, but Slim & Tex Morton & Buddy Williams were all a big part of my childhood.

Sorry, not rock & roll, I digress!

~Hmm hmmm jump in my car, I wanna take you home,
Jump in my car, it's too far to walk on your own~

~And the coloured girls go
Dooo dedoo dedoo doo dedoop
Dooo dedoo dedoo doo dedoop~

Im gonna be humming in my sleep now LOL

Ah Ted Mulry - how well I remember those cold days in September (right month?) Great ending to Jump in My Car - the 'bird' lives such a long way away its 'get outta my car' etc
Sadly Ted died recently, along with others such as Graham 'Shirley' Strachan - I'm livin' in the 70's etc.

We haven't mentioned Daddy Cool either. Eagle Rock was voted the most popular Aussie song of all time in 2000. Saw them at Melbourne University as well. Ross Wilson has been in other groups (Mondo Rock) and soloed and produced and written eg for John Farnham and others.

Gotta go, I'll return to my youth on Monday

Lou Reed 'Walk on the Wildside' or Paul Kelly and the coloured girls?

TennisOz