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Malcolm Webster
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Username: Malc

Post Number: 3
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 07:33 pm:   

OK, Here are the rules! You're organising your birthday party and Grant and Robert have agreed to come along and play a set of your favourite Go-Betweens songs on acoustic guitar. Taking a normal live set of 14 songs, plus a 2 song encore (8 by each) here's my choice. I've gone for the quieter songs here because of the intimate surroundings I imagine having!

Finding You; Five Words; I'm Alright, Bachelor Kisses; Dusty In Here; You Can't Say No Forever; Dive For Your Memory; No Reason To Cry; When She Sang About Angels; What Goes On; Clouds; He Lives My Life; Baby, You Won't Find It Again; One Plus One. Encore Darlinghurst Nights; Unfinished Business

What goes on is the excellent Forster song available for download on the Baby You Know website. Anyone else fancy a bash?
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Kurt Stephan
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Username: Slothbert

Post Number: 105
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 11:32 pm:   

If they attended my birthday party, I'd rather talk to them the whole time and then ask for at most one or two songs afterward! But given your parameters, here it they are in an order I like:

The Clock
Part Company
Streets of Your Town
Love is a Sign
Bachelor Kisses (love the acoustic treatment on the DVD)
Darlinghurst Nights
The Statue (interesting to hear it stripped down)
The Clarke Sisters
Love Goes On!
Too Much of One Thing
As Long as That (neglected old fave)
Mountains Near Delray
Bye Bye Pride
Dive for Your Memory

Encore:
Cattle and Cane
People Say
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spence
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Username: Spence

Post Number: 37
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 10:23 am:   

Nice fantasy!
The girls have moved.
Stop before you say it.
Man O sand to girl O sea
To reach me
In the core of a flame
You tell me
Spirit of a vampire
Someone else's wife
Streets of your town
Going blind
Too much of one thing
Crooked Lines
Something for myself
Finding you
Born to a family
Encore:

Rock n roll friend
Baby Stones
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Donat
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Username: Donat

Post Number: 107
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 05:49 pm:   

In my dream party sequence, Lindy would be drumming and Grant would be playing bass. Any setlist from 1982 would do just fine. :-)



With that said, I like some of the setlists here.
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kuba a
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Username: Kuba

Post Number: 28
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 06:58 pm:   

They'd do 16LL in full and then
Bachelor Kisses
The House That Jack Kerouac Built
Bye Bye Pride
Head Full Of Steam

encore:
Cattle & Cane
Rock And Roll Friend
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fsh
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Username: Fsh

Post Number: 65
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 09:04 pm:   

This is a pointless exercise. I asked Robert and Grant to play at my birthday last year, and the year before and we waited and waited and waited on both occasions, but they never showed. I don't think I'll invite them to play this year, that will show them.
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Jerry Clark
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Username: Jerry

Post Number: 117
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 10:04 am:   

I'd stress, it's my party and you'll play covers of all my favourites, or your not coming at all, starting with the haunting duet "Easy Lover".
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spence
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Username: Spence

Post Number: 41
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 06:59 pm:   

I have noticed fsh throughout this msg board, creeps up on us fast with his/her non-snide comments, a bit like that nice chap, wahssis name, oh yeah, George Galloway...
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Matt Ellis
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Username: Matt_ellis

Post Number: 37
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 02:59 pm:   

As if they would ever play this! (as magnificent as it is) I even started imagining the in-between song banter...so I better type this and get some work done!

Love Is A Sign
Ask
Just A King In Mirrors
The Devils Eye
Something For Myself
Draining The Pool For You
Mexican Postcard
Crooked Lines
Rock & Roll Friend
Spirit
To Steps, Step Out
Rare Breed
The Wrong Road
Bye Bye Pride
Help Or Something
No Reason To Cry

Encores:
Twin Layers Of Lightening
Cattle And Cain
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Brook Crowley
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Username: 1_fan

Post Number: 65
Registered: 02-2005
Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 01:34 am:   

This is LIVING!!! The Go-Betweens would do great at my birthday party! I'd get the current line-up plus Amanda rejoining as a guest musician (I'd love to see her again)while Grant and Robert strum their one-time-trademark Rickenbackers! Anyway, here's what I'd chose for my set list:

The Clock
Part Company
Love Goes On!
Draining the Pool For You
Bachelor Kisses
German Farmhouse
Bye Bye Pride
Was there Anything I Could Do?
The Wrong Road
Streets of Your Town
Darlinghurst Nights
Cattle and Cane
Spring Rain
Surfing Magazines
Too Much of One Thing
Right Here

ENCORE:
Rock And Roll Friend (Robert solo acoustic)
Don't Call Me Gone (with Grant on banjo and Adele on upright bass)

Oh yeah, I have to invite Lindy as a guest and persuade her to sit in on drums for a song or two.
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spence
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Username: Spence

Post Number: 48
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 12:11 am:   

Brook, nice list, however I don't like being picky, but did they ever play Rickenbackers?? I can't recall them ever playing that make of guitar. I remember the Jags/Jazzmasters, Strats, weird Gretsch rip -offs but never the Ricky!!
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kevin
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Username: Kevin

Post Number: 59
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 04:47 am:   

psycho killer
oh you pretty things
what goes on
wild horses
tv eye
that joke isnt funny anymore
pretty vacant
bachelor kisses
marquee moon
love will tear us apart
at home he's a tourist
people are strange
i am the fly
shipbuilding
man o sand to girl o sea
another girl another planet

OK - its my party and I demand that its all cover versions (apart from 2 GOBs songs) :0)
Robert does 1st song, Grant 2nd, Robert 3rd and so on. Anybody who needs the name of the original artists for these songs should not be reading this board!! (just joking)
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fsh
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Username: Fsh

Post Number: 66
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 09:40 pm:   

There was an TV session in front of a live studio audience broadcast in Australia sometime between tallulah and 16 LL and robert forster is playing a small rickenbacker a la john lennon. willstead is playing what a mad looking arty DIY customised bass. that's the only time I've ever seen RF play a rickenbacker. And Lindy had a logo for some drum clinic or other on the front of her bass drum. Ahhh, such memories!!
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david pestorius
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Username: David_pestorius

Post Number: 30
Registered: 08-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 11:40 pm:   

RF played a Rickenbacker circa 1979. There are several photographs documenting this that have been published. For example, a number of Graham Aisthorpe's photos from this time appear in Clinton Walker's books ('Inner City Sound' and 'Stranded'). I also seem to recall a 1979 photo of RF playing a Rickenbacker in David Nichols' book.
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Donat
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Username: Donat

Post Number: 112
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 02:46 am:   

That bass of Willsteed's (if memory serves me right) which fsh speaks of has a Maton El Toro neck on a (Brisbane-made) Kinman body, which he also played in Zero.

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