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1)
Bill and Mike and two Bobs - Bob
Starkie and Bob Spencer 2) Bill
and my new FaceBook pal, Rosemary |
3)
Mike Brady was in good form, early
on at least.. |
Bob
Starkie's 60th bash
29.7.12 - My
mistake was arriving on time.
Mind you, Bill and Rosemary were
already there, but it took the
next ninety minutes for the rest
of the crowd to arrive and the
band to get going, by which time
I'd networked more than I'd anticipated
and was starting to feel party-pooped.
The event was Bob 'Bongo' Starkie's
60th and the venue was the St
Kilda Bowling Club. The canned
music playing as I arrived was
promising - Rolling Stones, (first
album), Chuck Berry etc. and there
was the odd person I could attach
a name to and converse with -
Mick Hamilton and Bob Spencer
(pic 1) for starters,
and later Mike Brady. (pic
3) If the contact I made
in Kerry from the Sam Knott Hotel
pays off, it was all good, despite
leaving early. |
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John
Williamson decked out in true
blue clobber.. |
It's
true, blue - I'll Be Gone was
on RocKwiz
23.7.12
- It's nice to get good news
in a slow month. I didn't see
it go to air, but it was my neighbours
who first alerted me to the fact
that the song had been aired on
RocKwiz, then I had some prompts
from some happy, some alarmed
Spectrumites per e-mail that it
had been rendered by none other
than John Williamson (pic)
and the McClymont Sisters.
John did a fine version for the
Salvos some years ago and allowed
us to re-publish it for the Gonz
compilation, sadly out of print
now. I checked this latest peformance
out on the RocKwiz
site. Crikey! It's an adaptable
song ain't it? John has a commendable
crack at the harmonica line too.
I find it impossible to play the
harp and guitar simultaneously. |
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Little
Robbo was born today in the Jessie
McPherson |
The
Robbos have a baby boy!
20.7.12 - I
visited the Robbos at home yesterday
evening to wish them good luck
for today - and I got a text
at 11.02 this morning to say
that their little boy was born
at 8.39am and weighed 3.49kg.
I just spoke to a very tired
Robbo a few minutes ago and
he couldn't confirm what name
they're giving him, but he gave
me permission to let you all
know that Lisa and the baby
are both happy and that the
baby was sleeping..
'Enjoy it while you can,' I
hear you cynics cry. All jokes
aside though, it's close to
a miracle birth and I'm sure
you'll all join with us congratulating
the Robbos. See
big
pic of Robbo and Keaton |
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1)
Bill and Eric McCusker catch up
2) Mae Parker and band rock out
an electric version of Little
Tin Soldier
3) Wilbur Wilde arrives at the
Rah Bar 4) Mike and Bill with
the evening's host, Alex Formosa
on drums (Alana
Galea)
gig
report
Wed.
4.7.12 Mad
Max Back on Track benefit Rah
Bar Sth Yarra
Mike
and Bill play Ariel - for a moment
5.7.12 - Bill
arrived at my place half an hour
earlier than I was expecting,
replete with pizzas. We
ran through Rock & Roll
Scars, which we haven't played
for a while and drove down to
where we thought the Rah Bar might
be. We met Eric McCusker (pic
1) in the car park and he
showed us the back way into the
venue, which turns out to be quite
an atmospheric room, quite reminiscent
of Berties and Sebastians back
in the '60s. I had an interesting
conversation with Eric about a
musical he's written about Ava
Gardner's visit to Melbourne in
the late '50s and I told him the
cautionary tale of The Jellabad
Mutant, Ariel's rock opera
that's just gone up on CD Baby.
The room was always going to be
'difficult' response-wise with
the number of musos there to perform,
but by the time Bill and I got
the call, (over an hour later
than Alex had suggested), the
audience was well ready to sing
along with I'll Be Gone. Alex
knows the Rock & Roll
Scars album backwards, (which
was just as well, 'cause I started
to play that song backwards),
and he even wore his Harvey James
T-shirt as a tribute. It was a
fun set, but it was over in a
flash.
Bill has a long way to go home
so we fled almost immediately,
but it looked like the evening
was a success and we can only
hope that it had the desired result
and helps Max get back on his
feet. |
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