| Author | Message | ||
     Malcolm Webster Member Username: Malc Post Number: 3 Registered: 05-2005 |
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? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 105 Registered: 04-2005 |
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 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 37 Registered: 05-2005 |
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 | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 107 Registered: 11-2004 |
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. | ||
| kuba a Member Username: Kuba Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2005 |
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 | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 65 Registered: 05-2005 |
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. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 117 Registered: 08-2004 |
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". | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 41 Registered: 05-2005 |
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... | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 37 Registered: 11-2004 |
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 | ||
| Brook Crowley Member Username: 1_fan Post Number: 65 Registered: 02-2005 |
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. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 48 Registered: 05-2005 |
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!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 59 Registered: 05-2005 |
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) | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 66 Registered: 05-2005 |
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!! | ||
| david pestorius Member Username: David_pestorius Post Number: 30 Registered: 08-2005 |
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. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 112 Registered: 11-2004 |
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. |