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     David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 92 Registered: 02-2007 |
Anyone catch SBS Sat night Classic Australian Albums. They featured the Triffids "Born Sandy Devotional" Great early footage of adolescent years in Perth and early gigs. Interesting interview/comments from Amanda Brown and Robert F about hanging out with Triffids in London in about 83 I think(?) Robert said they opened for the GBs on the occasion of their (the Triffids) first gig in London and how they were better than the Gbs on that night (in Robert's opinion). The show gave an insight into David McCombs songwriting and his recording methods and his ability to capture the landscape (physical and emotional) in his songs. Did anyone else see this program? This Saturday they do the Saints Stranded. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1660 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw it and thought it was brilliant David. It is being released on DVD very soon ("sources close to the producers" have told me!). | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 258 Registered: 07-2006 |
no i friggin missed it! it's a lovely record though. unrequited love makes for inspiriation like nothing else. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1327 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, I look forward to that DVD. For that matter I'm still hoping for a CD release of the Triffids' early (pre-Treeless Plain) recordings. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yep - it was a great doco. The RF appearance was an unexpected bonus. Pádraig, re the DVD.. is it going to be one DVD for the whole series (4 albums) or one DVD per album? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2005 |
That was a great doco. It was great to see the album being authoritatively examined by Steve Kilbey, Paul Kelly, our Robert, Alsy McDonald, Jill Birt and "Evil" Graham Lee. I remember where I was when I was listening to the J's and heard of David McCombs death and thinking instantly that it MUST have been heroin. A mate of mine, who has become a David McComb tragic after I introduced him to the Triffids, has trolled many Triffids chatrooms for rare mp3s and never found any evidence for a chemical demise. I felt somewhat vindicated when after all this time - 8 years - it finally was admitted that David McComb's death was due to heroin at the very end of the doco. F***CKING wretched stuff!!!!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 146 Registered: 01-2007 |
Randy, there are some more planned releases of Triffid LPs.I was looking on the website last night and it seems Treeless Plain and some of the early EPs are up for remastering, also Black Swan I think and some talk of a live LP ( Stockholm). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1661 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mark, one for each program AFAIK. Frank, that live album isn't very good. Well, it's far more than a decade since I played it, but I didn't used to like it anyway. I only have it on (bought) cassette. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 147 Registered: 01-2007 |
It passed me by I must say, I was not so keen on Black Swan at the time and kind of veered away from the Triffids,but if they could get a live recording from around BSD/Calenture that would be something.I saw them in London at the Euston Theatre (I think) and they were really on top form. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 747 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff wrote this about heroin: >F***CKING wretched stuff!!!!! Amen. It caused a lot of premature deaths in the jazz world, then later the rock world. I just finished reading Skydog: The Duane Allman Story. Duane used to snort H like it was going out of style, and got Clapton hooked on it while they were recording Layla. Duane was adament about not shooting it up, and not allowing others in the ABBB to do so. He and a couple other members of the ABB and a couple of roadies went to a clinic in upstate New York and kicked the habbit in October of 1971. Duane had less than a month to live in the straight world before his motorcycle accident. The book did not id the other band members or roadies. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 250 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just saw an ad for all of the videos in the series - Woodface, I'm Stranded, Neon Ballroom (BAAAARRFFFFF!!!!!) and Born Sandy Devotional, for $21.99 each at JB Hi Fi after having just walked out of the place spending too much money as it was! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1675 Registered: 05-2005 |
I recorded BSD and Stranded onto one DVD Geoff, but if they have decent extras I'll buy the proper DVDs. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Was that pre-order or are they available now, Geoff? I really must google this Neon Ballroom, to see what warranted such an understated response!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 268 Registered: 07-2006 |
i don't care for silverchair at all, but i quite liked neon ballroom when it came out. certainly made the singles chart a bit more interesting for a few months. emotion sickness is rather epic, for the 'chair anyway. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 252 Registered: 05-2005 |
Catherine, the ad I saw said they were available now...I think - it's been recycled! JB Hi Fi have a website (try googling) with an ordering system if the UK hasn't released them yet. Neon Ballroom was I think when Nirvana in Pajamas..sorry, silverchair's (lowercase "s") Daniel Johns discovered Brian Wilson and hired Van Dyke Parks to score some of the strings. Good intentions, but he's got NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tunes!!!! It's really SAD!!! While I'm on it, the new silverchair album was released to much fanfare here with him sprouting on about how he thinks bits of it sound like the Jam or Revolver period Beatles. GET OFF THE DISSOCIATIVES!!!!! Sadly, too, it is crap....ALRIGHT I'LL STOP NOW!!! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, I've already tried JBHifi and Redeye but nothing's coming up as yet. Love the Nirvana in Pajamas crack - somehow I don't think I'll be bothering adding silverchair to my "must get their music" file! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 51 Registered: 03-2007 |
Catherine, the release date is apparently 22 August, 2007, and are up for pre-order at Chaos. http://chaos.com/search.asp?LOC=4001&q=b orn+sandy+devotional&l=4001&f=&x=10&y=2 | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for that Hugh. I wasted no time, and have put in my order. While there, I came across this. Now we know how Robert's been keeping fit and trim all this time!! http://chaos.com/product/complete_waterp ower_workout_book_800557_376876.html Maybe that's how they do it in surfing magazines?? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1332 Registered: 03-2005 |
Shit. I can't play PAL DVDs on machines here in the States, can I? What about my MacBook? | ||
| Georgina Sheils Member Username: Georgina Post Number: 12 Registered: 10-2007 |
just bought it...only know wide open road so far, wanting to learn more about the them though | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 88 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've ordered mine. Thanks for the tip! Not easy to find out about these things here in England. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 289 Registered: 05-2005 |
...did you know the Triffids are reforming with guest vocalists (including Steve Kilbey) for the Sydney festival in January????? | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 89 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a long way from the West Midlands. |