| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 112 Registered: 05-2005 |
does anyone know who the people Robert dedicates this track o on the DVD? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2005 |
They are all Australian pro-surfers Spence. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers Padraig, Robert's into this I wonder? Or is it a lovely Robert(ism) | ||
| Hugo Member Username: Hugo Post Number: 9 Registered: 06-2005 |
I somehow doubt Robert was ever too much into surfing, but surfing culture permeated seventies Australia. There were surfing movies at the cinema, the streets always seemed to be filled with tanned shirtless longhaired blond guys driving combi vans decorated in the style of a prog rock album cover. Surfing slang disseminated way beyond surfing culture and, yes, there were plenty of surfing magazines. I never surfed and yet that whole scene is still what springs to mind when I think about my 70s Aussie childhood. | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 142 Registered: 09-2004 |
As a child who grew up in the 80s-90s in Victoria, surfing culture was a huge part of my youth as well, although, like Hugo, I never surfed myself. Part of that was living in Geelong, a mere half hour from coastal spots like Ocean Grove and Torquay, the latter of which has the largest surf industry in Australia being home to the Rip Curl and Quicksilver brands...Bells Beach too. I'll never forget driving along the Great Ocean road for the first time with "Surfing Magazines" blasting out of the car stereo in 2001. It was a coming of age moment of sorts: a summation of the life I never really lead. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 121 Registered: 05-2005 |
How exotic! I grew up in the 70's hanging off football pitch goal posts, up to me neck in mud! LOL! | ||
| Todd Slater Member Username: Todd_slater Post Number: 27 Registered: 01-2005 |
All the guys mentioned Nat Young, Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholemew, Michael 'M.P' Peterson, Wayne Lynch, Midget Farrelly amongst others were all cultish surfers in the 70's in Australia. Surfing was still a heavy sub-culture then and those guys epitiomised the era. Michael Peterson was a Queenslander from the Coolangatta end of the Gold Coast, who was regarded as the greatest surfer of his time and a real Jmaes Dean like figure. A great book called 'MP' was released a couple of years ago. It's a rollicking tale from a great era. He actually won the Bells Beach contest three times during the early seventies. I think Robert was probabaly right into surfing in the seventies. It was regarded as very alternative in Australia at the time and was a total trip. You only have to check out the classic surf film 'Morning of the Earth' | ||
| Todd Slater Member Username: Todd_slater Post Number: 28 Registered: 01-2005 |
All the guys mentioned Nat Young, Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholemew, Michael 'M.P' Peterson, Wayne Lynch, Midget Farrelly amongst others were all cultish surfers in the 70's in Australia. Surfing was still a heavy sub-culture then and those guys epitiomised the era. Michael Peterson was a Queenslander from the Coolangatta end of the Gold Coast, who was regarded as the greatest surfer of his time and a real Jmaes Dean like figure. A great book called 'MP' was released a couple of years ago. It's a rollicking tale from a great era. He actually won the Bells Beach contest three times during the early seventies. I think Robert was probabaly right into surfing in the seventies. It was regarded as very alternative in Australia at the time and was a total trip. You only have to check out the classic surf film 'Morning of the Earth' to understand why. | ||
| Rob Robinson Member Username: Rsub8 Post Number: 26 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was a bit taken aback to see "how to surf" instructions on the back of a cereal box, while (this Yankee) was living in Melbourne: http://www.pbase.com/rsub8/image/42861119 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 176 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have an antho in my collection called "Board Boogie" focusing on surf instrumentals from Oz in the early 60s. The Bee Gees' guitarist Vince Melouney was in one of those groups (the Aztecs). So, at the least, the Oz surf thing was going as early as the California scene that spawned Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 48 Registered: 12-2004 |
The Riptides were a great band out of Brisbane that I always associated with surfing. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 14 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, me too. Not much Surf at Southport but me Mam kept a big box of Surf under the sink for the footy togs !! | ||
| david pestorius Member Username: David_pestorius Post Number: 39 Registered: 08-2005 |
The reference to the iconic '70s surf film 'Morning of the Earth' is spot on and reminds me of the band's first real come-back tour towards the end of 2000. I'm not sure whether too many people attending those shows, especially people outside Australia, would have recognised it at the time, but they played the title-track from 'Morning of the Earth' soundtrack through the PA, quite loudly, just prior to coming on stage. I saw the show they did in Berlin in early November of 2000, and remember thinking at the time what an obscure and amusing gesture this was. |