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Rudd & Bill Putt's videos It had to happen
- and it has. Here are all the video clips I can muster for
the moment on the one page. If you wanna check them out on
YouTube, go to www.youtube.com/elbide
I'll
Be Gone again - but wth a twist! 3.7.09 - This
was given to me by my mate Trevor Leedon, who bought it from
the Camberwell Market. Play it through and see if you notice
something odd..
Did you pick it? The reprise was supposed to be the second
verse, (and I actually mime the second verse), but what is
actually played is the first verse. I have the vaguest
memory that the backing might've been from a tape supplied
to Move by EMI, but I don't really know. Curious though..
Incidentally, a fashion note: Bill's wearing a wrist watch
(!) and it appears I'm wearing socks with my sandals
Spectrum
1972 - Everybody's Walking Sideways 27.6.09 - Another
contribution from the ABC's Simon Kain, although the more
I look at, the more I suspect it's not a GTK recording. I'll
have to check the original correspondence and see if there's
a hint as to what show it might be. Everybody's Walking
Sideways is from the Sideways Saga suite on
the Milesago album and it was a curious song to choose.
I'll get back on this..
I'm now thinking it was Dick Williams' Hit Scene
on ABC TV. More to come..
Chants
R&B Wild Things Spectacular 25.6.09 - I
had an e-mail from Al Parks in Christchurch the other day,
still waxing lyrical about the show we did there in 2007 and
wondering if we might repeat the effort at some stage. It
provoked me into having a look at the DVD that John Baker
(Velvet Tiger) produced of the show we were part of at the
Monte Christo Room in Auckland, along side such luminaries
as Ray Columbus, The Breakaways (who appeared with us in Christchurch),
Pete Nelson & The Castaways and others. It's raw and loud
- but there's something exciting about it..
Spectrum
plays the GTK theme 24.6.09 - I
was compelled to make an attempt to tidy up and to some extent
catalogue the CDs and DVDs cluttering up my living space.
I found this particular DVD that the ABC's Simon Kain had
sent me and which I'd intitially turned down because of synch.
issues.
It's not that substantial, and frankly, it's not that good
- the anarchic Fugs-type approach I had in my head doesn't
really come off. Still, it's a slice of history..
WHY
on Hey, Hey It's Saturday 17.6.09 - Even rarer than WHY playing on the Daryl
Somers Show, (below), is this clip of WHY on Hey,
Hey It's Saturday playing Percy Grainger, a
track from the unreleased (in Australia) album, Present
Tense. (It's a long, painful story,that will
probably never be told). In an all-too typical case of failure
of imagination, this song is uncomfortably shackled in its
'80s power-pop shoulder pads, whereas it should have been
given the vaudeville straw hat treatment. By the time we get
to the rather childish punchline, you just don't care. Daryl
and the ostrich have fun with it..
WHY
on the Daryl Somers Show! 15.6.09 - It
must be more than a year ago that I got a data disk from ex-Heaters/WHY
keyboardist Tony Fossey, but it wasn't till last week that
I got around to checking it out. We used to snigger at Tony
for religiously keeping a record of everything, but now I'm
grateful - there are some real treasures. The Daryl Somers
show didn't last long, but this clip probably demonstrates
better than anything else on record what WHY was attempting
to do. There's a bit of tape wow at the start and guitar hoemorrhaging
in John Moon's solo, but that just adds to the live-ness.
The
Heaters live at the Mushroom Evolution concert 18.5.09 - Thank goodness! A live clip to balance
the extraordinary silliness of the promotional videos. Thanks
to the indefatigable RettroDood
for digging up another Rock Arena clip.
More to say when I get my breath back..
The
Heaters - I'm An Animal 18.5.09 - RettroDood
strikes again! Incredibly, this is an even hammier experience
than the other clips he's unearthed. Our old friend Howard
Gable, who produced this single and The Heaters' The Unrealist
album, had persuaded us that we should get into putting eye-makeup
on (kajal) for our live performances - so we used it on the
clip as well! I seem to remember the live part was filmed
at the Bombay club. I'll think of something else interesting
to say about it eventually..
WHY's
Woman of Steel 12.5.09 - It was Daz (again) who alerted me to this
track on the illustrious RettroDood's
YouTube site. I'm not sure that Tony Fossey actually played
any live gigs with WHY - maybe the short-lived Hey Hey
It's Saturday Night. WHY enjoyed an equally asteroid-like
career, plummeting through the thin Australian atmosphere
before plinking harmlessly onto a Melbourne pavement.
This was the only one John Kapek managed to salvage from the
Present Tense album. Itwas recorded on
analogue, converted to digital and then released on 12"
vinyl - go figure..
Rosewood 2.5.09 - This
is a very touching musical and visual tribute by Bill to his
partner Rosemary and her property Rosewood in the fire-ravaged
hills and valleys of Strathewen, an hour or so north east
of Melbourne. The first half shows Rosewood as it was before
the fires - then, bookended with Rose's prescient painting
of the hill that overlooks the property, the mood becomes
more sombre as Bill's photos show the same scenes a week or
so after the fires (20.2.09). You get an inkling of how brave
Bill was in saving Rosemary's house, and how lucky
he was to have simply survived when so many in the vicinity
perished.
Australian
Girl 21.4.09 - I
just rang Daz to get a phone number and he was foaming at
the mouth about The Heaters' Australian Girl clip
up on YouTube. Well, I've got the Countdown 'live' version
at home, but I'm obliged not to share it with you, which is
a shame, because I have to say it's a fraction less embarrassing
than this version. It gets one wondering what happened to
all those girls - if any of you are out there from the day
we recorded the clip down in Oakleigh in 1980, get in touch.
Incidentally, that's Ariel's Tony Slavich on keys, Paul Grant
on guitar, (respect), and the ever-affable Manny Paterakis
on drums
Make
Your Stash 14.3.09 - Daz
tipped me off about this other Rettrodood
discovery - the second lineup of Spectrum on GTK with
Ray Arnott on drums, and quite a (subtly) different version
to the orginal on the Part One album.
Disco
Dilemma 9.3.09 - I
got told about this clip being on YouTube last week and I
got pretty excited. I don't have a copy of the single or the
video and I've been thinking we should incorporate the song
in our set list - Disco Dilemma was our third biggest
seller aftrer IBG and Jamaican Farewell. I put in an unintentionally camp performance, (in my
white pan makeup), as the rest of the band tries to look enthusiastic.
I've forgotten who directed the clip, but Angie Keith, a friend
of ours did the classy dance sequence. The dancing mightn't
be very disco, but neither is the song.
Thanks to RettroDood
for finding this and putting it up
Pedro
the goat 4.2.09
- There's really nothing sinister about Bill's relationship
with Pedro the goat, despite Bill being trapped for days at
a time at Rosewood, his partner Rosemary's property at Strathewen
miles away from anywhere. (Scroll down to see Bill's The
Valley of Ewen video below). This is a charming little
song written by Bill and realised on video with Bill's usual
efficiency - not to mention with the essential complicity
of Real Guitar's all-round nice guy, Brenden Mason
I'll
Be Gone - at last! 13.1.09
- I could say the original and the best, but actually
this is even better than the original! Some of you children
wouldn't even know what 'mono' (monaural) is, but the original
I'll Be Gone's release in 1971 pre-dated stereo in Australia.at
least, so a couple of years ago I had the notion of re-striping
the stereo edit of I'll Be Gone onto the original
and much-loved black & white film clip, directed by Chris
Lofven all those years ago. Which is where the National Film
& Sound Archives came in, and they painstakingly interpolated
extra frames to bring it back to a realistic pitch. After
nearly two years of perseverance, I'm sure you'll be happy
with the result.
Funky
Road interview 11.12.08
- I'd
forgotten entirely about this interview and the programme
(Funky Road) for which it was recorded for that matter. My
sibilant 's' (that would have to be rectified if I wanted
to pursue a career as a teacher I was told) is prominent,
as is Glyn's discomfort at being asked about our writing together
(we never did that really). I wonder what happened to Stephen
MacLean?
Launching
Place 11.12.08
- I mentioned this a while back but have just got round
to adding it to the assortment of clips on this page. Simon
Kain from ABC Archives mentioned he'd like to use this clip
to introduce their website page of Music Collections and has
given us permission to use it and a couple of others here.
This is a classic performance from a 1970 edition od GTK featuring
a very young Mark Kennedy and the unique Hammond organ stylings
of Lee Neale.
Another
I'll Be Gone.. 10.11.08
- I almost forgot - Peter Laffy got in touch to remind
me that we'd been filmed at the New Capers' lauinch of Breathing
Space back in buggered if I can remember earlier this
year. This is a particularly pedestrian version of the B version
of IBG, notable for the inclusion of Nic Lyon on bass and
Tim gaze on guitar, but also a dud reed on my E harp, which
only ever gets a workout on this song. Laff said he was sending
me some DVDs of the whole show, but in the meantime you can
go and check out some more footage on the webite when I remember
whatever the address is..
I
Just Wanna Make Love To You 8.10.08 - 3D
Radio's Michael Hunter chose anorther murky venue to shoot
off some film, (see San Andreas at the 'Sheaf below),
when he shot Spectrum manfully trying to overcome a squishy
bottom end at Adelaide's Rob Roy Hotel recently. (See September's
Stop Press for a gig report).
I think by the time we got to this number we'd revved up a
bit, having seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
Michael has got some more footage from the same show on his
YouTube possie. If you want to see this clip in slightly better
fidelity, go to YouTube
Jamaican
Farewell 8.10.08
- Same story with this boomy version of Jamaican
Farewell, but interesting enough I suppose. The night
at the Rob Roy Hotel was organised by David Minear in aid
of Support Act Ltd, which you can find out more about on their
website.
David would dearly have loved to have had some more people
turn up on the night, but was a really good sport
about it and showed up at the Wordleys on the Sunday arvo.
Again, slightly better fidelity might be obtained by going
to Michael Hunter's YouTube
site.
The
Valley of Ewen 18.6.08 - Brenden
Mason popped up on my doorstep this morning, thrust a disc
into my hand and fled back to Real Guitars. So, here it is
at last for your viewing pleasure, featuring quite a bit of
me as it turns out, as well as the fiddle-playing Lance O'Reilly.
If you want to see this clip, and any of the others on this
page for that matter, in its pristine condition, go to our
site on YouTube
Rocket
Girl - the sequel 3.4.08 - For
whatever reason, this never got shown at the Capers' launch.
Which is a shame, 'cause I think it's funny. Well done Mazz!
For better quality, go to Mazz's YouTube
site
Mike
on Wrokdown 14.2.08 - Wendy
Stapleton does her best with Rambling Mike Rudd, but he just
rambles on and on till the collective snoring almost drowns
out the interview. Anita Monk's worthy agenda with Wrokdown
is to track the latter-day careers of active musicians and
artists from the sixties and seventies and apprise the great
unwashed of the same. This particular episode has been shown
twice on Channel 31 and may even have helped our crowds (Wendy
played the previous Sunday) at the Mordialloc Sporting Club.
Or not..
Chants
R&B on TV3 9.12.07 - Miranda
Worthington read my bit in the Chants R&B diaries where
I said I'd not seen the TV3 interview with Trev and me and
didn't know whether it actually had seen the light of day.
Mazz saw it first by accident when it was initially re-broadcast
on Foxtel, and then discovered it on YouTube. So, here it
is, complete with their mistakenly identifiying me as Mike
Judd. (They love a musical dynasty in NZ). Thanks Mazz!
ICANS
- Mike and Dick's entrant in the Pigdon Five-minute Film Festival It didn't
win the Oscar, but I believe that it won a lot of friends
in the audience on the night. Unfortunately, owing to a prior
commitment at the Wild Thyme Café I couldn't be there,
but Dick said his daughter Elizabeth wasn't actually embarrassed
by it, so he's deliriously happy. Incidentally, we owe a debt
of thanks to Bill Dettmer, who added to the
reality and drama of the crucial opening scene by loaning
us his ambulance - and himself.
Bill's
Zippo
Blues Everytbody loves Bill, and
everybody seems to love this clip! This is Bill's unique contribution
to the world of advertising - the Zippo people actually like
this a lot. Our mate Brenden Mason deserves
a gong for producing the clip, and putting the finishing touches
on the recording - not to mention putting up with Bill.