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     Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 15 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm reading the liner notes to 16LL Remasters and noticed the song Running the Risk of Losing You is taken from the "last Go-betweens concert of the 80s" When did Wilsteed get sacked? And how involved was the new bass player in the year preceding the demise of the band? | ||
| david nichols Member Username: David Post Number: 70 Registered: 09-2004 |
Armiger played in The GoBs for less than ten shows as I recall, as they were gearing up to record the album now generally known as Freakchild. He had previously been a member of the Johnnys just before they split up, and after the GoBs' demise he wrote a funny article for On the Street about how his involvement in bands he liked ended up with their destruction. One day I'll track that article down - presumably it came out in January 1990. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
What if ...? Not meaning to be disrespectful to Armiger but I wonder if the GB's would have recorded and toured Freakchild had Robert Vickers rejoined the band at that time (late 1989)instead of Michael Armiger. According to David Nichols book there was talk at the time of Vickers rejoining. After the Wilsteed debacle and the long tour supporting REM, my feeling is that Robert and Grant just weren't possessed of the energy to absorb another new member. Anyhow, the past is a foreign land, water under the bridge and all that... | ||
| david nichols Member Username: David Post Number: 71 Registered: 09-2004 |
Michael Armiger came from Ultimo to join the GoBs - i.e. he had to travel for 20 minutes. Robert V. would have had to entirely reorganise his life to relocate to Sydney from NY. With RF and GMcL's great respect for RV, and also with the above consideration, they might have thought a bit harder about breaking the GoBs up if he'd rejoined in the last few weeks of 1989. Then again, they might have reasoned if it wasn't working, it wasn't working. What if indeed. |