Author |
Message |
Brook Crowley
Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:32 pm: | |
May, 1996. That was a date when the Go-Betweens performed together for the first time in seven years, as I just saw in the Gigography. When they performed the show in Paris, France, who was in this particular line-up? Also, in a UK tour in June, 1997, who was the line-up then? I think the Go-Betweens MUST reform as a five piece, and Robert Vickers should rejoin them if they come to the US! Will that ever happen at all? |
lindy morrison
Member Username: Lindymorrison
Post Number: 46 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 01:24 pm: | |
Ah Brook, Amanda and I are just hanging for that invite. |
Lloyd Cole Unregistered guest
| Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 02:13 pm: | |
The new drummer's better anyway. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 27 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 04:28 pm: | |
A girl needs a gun these days Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes... |
Pat Boland Unregistered guest
| Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 05:13 pm: | |
If memory serves, the lineup was Robert, Grant, Adele and Ross MacLennan. Pretty good they were too. |
Spring Rain
Unregistered guest
| Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 11:52 pm: | |
HOGWASH!!!! Lloyd, for your information, Lindy is the GREATEST drummer the Go-betweens ever had!! In fact, she's one of the fastest drummers on this planet!! I'm sure the Go-betweens will reform with both Lindy and Amanda, and guest bass players as well, including Robert Vickers. Besides, somwhere along the line, Forster and Grant will need them all! (Oh, by the way, is Lloyd your real name???) |
lindy morrison
Member Username: Lindymorrison
Post Number: 47 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 12:04 am: | |
Hey Lloyd what's the criteria you use to judge the quality of a drummer's work within the context of a group like The Go-Betweens? It's a question that's always interested me. There seems to be so many factors besides how fast you can play your mama dada's. Factors like how you support the song, how you enhance the best aspects of the song, how you drive, retreat, to create the best possible environment for the song to breathe, live and last forever. Then there are the other aspects that go towards making one the best drummer for the job like the ability to travel long distances in couped up conditions and still perform the song as if this was the most perfect gem. Another factor is the ability to withstand all the personalities you are couped up with and when you present the song forget those tensions and only work for the beauty of that moment, the ability to live in that one precious moment in the delivery of a song. Another criteria is the look of the drummer, to look at the drummer and understand from an audience perspective that the musician is enraptured by that moment of creativity and at one with the rest of the musicans who are presenting the song. Sometimes it takes many years playing with a group of musicians to get even close to that perfection. Some of the best drummers in the world have never left their bedroom. |
Pádraig Collins Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 12:13 am: | |
Well said Lindy! |
lindy morrison
Member Username: Lindymorrison
Post Number: 50 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 02:31 am: | |
Hey Pádraig, I haven't reviewed the Cohen night yet. I have been breathless by the beauty of that evening ever since and don't know where to start. |
Pádraig Collins Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 03:53 am: | |
I was thinking of you there and wondering if you were filled with a desire to rush on stage and play with them. I know I was filled with awe for those who play intruments (or sing) with such poise and beauty. |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 11 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 05:31 am: | |
The new drummer sucks in the sense that when you hear something like 'Spring Rain' in concert and you're hanging out for that lovely roll before the choruses, they're not there! It's quite annoying when you don't hear any Lindy Magic (tm) in the old songs throughout a whole set. It's a part of the song, so why would you cut it out (pardon the pun)? I think it's a little rude. I'm sure Glen's capable of playing these patterns, eventhough they can be a little tricky at times ;) |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 40 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 07:29 am: | |
It was interesting to hear Glenn playing drums to 'Cattle and Cane' at last years Barbrican show. He had no choice but to learn Lindy's part on that one, and he did it quite nicely. Glenn is a very different drummer to Lindy, in the same way that Adele is very different from Vickers: they have a real contemporary, shuffly and, dare I say, slightly funky style that works well for the Go-Bs mark II. Past readers of my posts know how I feel about the crucial drum roll in 'Spring Rain' though. |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 12 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 07:46 am: | |
From memory, Glenn couldn't (quite) nail 'Your Turn, My Turn' in Melbourne on their last tour. The times I have heard them play 'cattle and cane' live, it's been drummerless. Lindy's drum pattern made that song (as we are all well aware). It reminds me of an Ed Kuepper show I saw a few years back and they were going through the Laughing Clowns song 'mad flies, mad flies' and the drummer just had NO idea of how to play it. He just did this ridiculous shuffle. It was a truly painful experience to be in the audience. |
Lloyd Cole Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 10:45 am: | |
At what point do you think Tim Mustafa should dust down his sticks? |
lindy morrison
Member Username: Lindymorrison
Post Number: 52 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 12:13 pm: | |
right lloyd as GW keeps telling the press every time he comes to Sidders Lindy was just one of a cast of thousands.There were millions of us drummers, that's cool. Love a cliche. |
fsh Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 05:47 pm: | |
Cut and pasted from the weblog on Lloyd Cole's site: http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/?cat=10 publication date: 03/02/05 posted: 03/02/2005 by Robert Vickers category: Ask Lloyd Q - Hi Lloyd Was that really uou posting on Go-Betweens.net today? A - Hi Robert. No, not me, I was working. Is it a link I should post? If so please send it to me. |
Robert Vickers Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 08:39 pm: | |
I didn't think it could possibly be Lloyd but I wanted to make sure. Glenn's obviously a good drummer, I might hire him if I was looking for a drummer, but Lindy thought of things other drummers don't seem to come up with. She wrote original parts and could play them. Her obsession with coming up with an original part for every song could be hell in rehearsal but has ultimately paid off. Glenn and Adele's simpler style may suit how R&G want to present their songs now, it's their choice. The old GBs had an art rock edge to them, we were essentially a post punk band. The new GBs are a different kind of band. It's the kind of band where the rhythm section is expected to stay in background more and give the song a nice solid groove without risking getting in the way of the singer. It's definitely a skill and it does reduce the amount of rehearsal needed because you can often play virtually the same part on different songs. It's not the kind of music I like to play or necessarily listen to but to a lot of people it is the very definition of a good rhythm section. Glenn and Adele did a great job on the last album. I think they suit R&G quite nicely now. But listen to the two versions of the Clarke Sisters on the Tallulah reissue. The early version is straight but on the album version Lindy plays a big offbeat in the verses that really builds the dramatic tension through the song. However you feel about it you don't hear things like that on a new Go-Between's album. |
lindy morrison
Member Username: Lindymorrison
Post Number: 54 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 12:41 am: | |
Oh Robert, that was so kind of you, now you've bought a tear to my eye and no I'm not being sarcastic. |
Randy Adams Unregistered guest
| Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 07:06 pm: | |
The thing that brought a tear to MY eye, and I'm not being sarcastic either, is Lindy's comment "Some of the best drummers in the world have never left their bedroom." It touched me because I'm a songwriter who's never left his bedroom. I agree with Robert's observations about the earlier GoBees. Their records are full of details that obviously were not the player's first idea of how to do something. They continue to inspire me on my own stuff. I wonder though how everybody was able to decide "OK, that's it. That's enough tinkering. We'll stay with this version." Pete, you saw the Barbican show last year? Wow, you trump me for distance traveled. Apropos of comments on another thread, I didn't realize that Cleopatra Wong had done a couple of albums. I'll be trolling my local Amoeba (in Hollywood). |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 41 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 11:01 pm: | |
Randy, I would never in my wildest dreams be able to afford to leave the country, let alone make it as far as London for a single concert. I merely received the boot of the show that caused some controversy here in the chatroom a while back. Besides, if I was going I surely would have arranged to meet up with fellow contributors to this board such as yourself. BTW, Randy, I stumbled across a couple of reviews done by you on Amazon.com. Some of the better customer reviews I've read there. Also, Cleopatra Wong's "Egg" is an EP, not an album, and I'm pretty sure "Lament" is too. I'll have to check the excellent discography on this site to be sure though. |
110yd c0l3 Unregistered guest
| Posted on Monday, February 07, 2005 - 05:45 pm: | |
You can't really compare the work of a hired gun drummer to the work of a drummer in an artistic collaboration. |
fsh Unregistered guest
| Posted on Monday, February 07, 2005 - 06:24 pm: | |
Who hired an asshole like you to impersonate Lloyd Cole? |
110yd c0l3 Unregistered guest
| Posted on Monday, February 07, 2005 - 11:09 pm: | |
Uh, I'm actually impersonating the guy who is impersonating LLoyd Cole. |
Spring Rain
Unregistered guest
| Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 12:02 am: | |
Did the Go-betweens ever use an upright double bass in concert? I mean, Adele Pickvance is such a marvel on both electric and upright basses, and I just thought she might have used the big one once in a while. |
Randy Adams Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 02:57 am: | |
Thanks Pete. Obviously I need more things to do with my spare time. I would love to hear the boot of the Barbican show. I'm still hoping the band releases it officially. |
sandy Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 01:53 pm: | |
the new album´s initial pressing will feature a second disc with around 25 minutes of music recorded live last year at the Barbican |
Peter Collins Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 04:25 pm: | |
Lindy, it must be nice to have your friends and family come on here to extol your virtues! (not satiric exclamation mark) I'll have to start listening to drumming more, because, I'm ashamed to say, I've never really thought about it that much. I once bought a Cozy Powell single when I was a misguided teenager, though. |
Peter Collins Unregistered guest
| Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 04:13 pm: | |
oops, I meant 'note' satiric exclamation mark. Damn my typing skolls!!!! |
lindy morrison
Member Username: Lindymorrison
Post Number: 62 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 10:34 am: | |
Ok Peter C. you have to listen to the drums, you want to listen to great drumming, try Al Jackson Jnr who backed Otis Redding but my fave of all time is Gary Chester, Little Eva's Locomotion, backed Bobby Darin (my fave track is Forget Him), heaps of Neil Sedaka, Burt Baccarach I love this stuff. I was born in 51, different perspective to so called friends and family (who) come on here to extol (my) virtues! sic. I took lessons from Gary in New York, didn't really help my simple playing, I just wanted to meet a hero. Go to his website, he was a champion. I love Max Roach who backed someone you would have never heard of called Abbey Lincoln (and others) Finally everyone knows I have a passion for Jeffrey Wegener. Laughing Clowns. |
Spring Rain
Unregistered guest
| Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 11:16 pm: | |
Lindy, I can remember you and I talking about a reunion of Clepatra Wong, and also to release a new compilation CD, combining both EP's and live tracks. Is it ever happening at all? If so, let's see the other Go-betweens!!! |
Todd Slater
Member Username: Todd_slater
Post Number: 3 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 06:20 am: | |
Lindy, I saw The Dirty Three in Sydney in January and have to say that Jim White is now on par with Jeffrey. This obviously hasn't always been the case, but his playing (and the band) have reached a new intensity. Warren Ellis, Jim White, Martyn Casey (Bad Seeds bassist) and a lot of others revere Jeffrey but will he ever pick up sticks again ? or will he continue to slowly recede from memory like a sepia tainted photo ? I have been listening to 'When Giants Walked the Earth' (a great Clowns compilation that was released mid 90's on Hot records) and as much as I love that band (and secretly wish for some sort of reunion) I still think Jim White is in the upper part of the drumming tree. Thomas Wydler of the Bad Seeds is not bad either. |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 16 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 07:47 am: | |
Todd, Jeffrey Wegener plays occasionally in some local Brisbane bands (like the Pits, which I also play in) and has reunited with his old sparring partner Ed Kuepper, around six months ago, which culminated in a mini European tour behind ED KUEPPER'S MUSIC FOR LEN LYE. Check out www.kuepperfiles.com or www.davidpestorius.com In my humble opinion, Jeff's drumming is (as always) superior to any other Australian drummer currently alive. Like Jim White, he's always searching out new techniques and isn't simply living off his legend and relying on that to get him over the line performance-wise. They're two quite different stylists and I guess the link between them is that they both play in a way which grabs your attention away from the guitars. 16th notes on the snare drum seem to have an uncanny way of doing this. One reason why I love SMAL over the other Go-Betweens albums is that it makes you want to listen to the drums and that's exactly what Laughing Clowns, Dirty Three and Venom P Stinger albums do also. In my case, that record made me want to be a drummer as well as the first Laughing Clowns album. For years I used to read about the dynamic Ed and Jeff used to have in the Laughing Clowns and how it was regarded as the band's engine room. Having now been able to see this live, it's quite amazing how two heads can lock in like that. I won't give too much away, but keep your eyes and ears peeled at around the middle of this year. |
Nic Barnard Unregistered guest
| Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 11:11 am: | |
Todd, you're spot on about Jim White. He is outstandanding. I remember the first time I went to see the Dirty Three here in London, having liked a couple of their records. Warren Ellis was throwing himself around as per and very good he was too, but me and my girlfriend just stood there gawping: "Check the drummer!!!" He was amazing and has been every time we see him. Flexible, inventive, intuitive and incredible sympathetic to whoever he's accompanying -- which is why he maybe gets a bit lost behind Warren's pyrotechnics. He's now playing with Nina Nastasia (who you should all really be checking out if you haven't already) and for some reason we always forget Jim's in the band. So we go along to hear some great songs and end up once again just gawping and going "Check the drummer!!!" Great stuff. |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 49 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 10:32 pm: | |
I like what Donat said about listening to the drums on SMAL. I'm not being a suck or anything, but I've said in the past that I basically taught myself how to play drums (well, co-ordinate a beat at least) by air drumming along with "Before Hollywood", my favourite drum record for sheer inventiveness (not neccessarily my favourite drum sound). Jim White is a hell of a drummer. It was interesting to read in Nichols' book that he was considered when the Go-bs toured Europe in support of Rachel Worth. I can't imagine what he'd do to the songs. So Donat, you live in Melbourne (?) and you're a member of the Pits. The mystery unravels. Are you perhaps one of the Wadley brothers? |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 51 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 10:43 pm: | |
OK, not one of the Wadley's (I just found the Pits website). |
Pádraig Collins
Unregistered guest
| Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 12:13 am: | |
Donat said Brisbane Pete. My favourite drummer ever is Rick Buckler from The Jam as they were the first band I loved. I know now that he's not brilliant, but I still love his style (Ringo Starr was no genius drummer either - I love the famous John Lennon quote: Reporter: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world? JL: He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles!). My second favourite drummer is the guy from Violent Femmes. His drum kit consists of three drums and one cymbal and he plays standing up. When I first saw them in Selena's in Coogee in 1992 he played didgereedoo for the encore, along with three members of Fishbone and the sound engineer who were also on stage playing various horns. One of the best shows I have ever seen. In fact, now that I think of it, it was exactly 13 years ago today, Feb 15 1992! The reason I remember the day is that the Femmes played a Valentine's song and apologised for it being a day late. It was about a guy killing himself because he did not get a Valentine's card! Hilarious song, really! Fishbone were awesome too, and Frente played a great, short, acousic set between the two headliners. There was some other Aussie band on before Fishbone but I can't remember who. |
Todd Slater
Member Username: Todd_slater
Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 02:35 am: | |
Donat, Thanks for the info. Wonderful to hear that Jeffrey is back playing with Ed. It sounds like a great show that they have been doing together. I checked out both sites and great news on the upcoming Clowns boxed set as well as Ed's. David Pestorius sounds very interesting. I have a postcard that has a portrait of Grant and Robert on it painted by Anne Wallace. I think it may have been an installation at Sweeney/ Pestorius house in Brisbane. I'm not sure if these are the same ones that have or are hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra though. |
John Unregistered guest
| Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 03:50 am: | |
The ones in the National Portait Gallery are the ones from the cover of Lullaby. |
capsicum spray Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 12:15 am: | |
my favrite drummer is that bloke uot of Quo. they are the first and last bamd i loved. i love his style and mostly his dress sense boooooooggie!! |
peter_d Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 09:03 am: | |
Remember when Rick Parfitt got RSI in his hand and the band had to cancel a tour a few years ago ? The gag was of course that it was from him just playing the 3 cords (or is it 2 ? ) all the time |
Jerry Clark
Member Username: Jerry
Post Number: 33 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 04:06 pm: | |
Did you know? If you play a Quo record backwards, it sounds exactly the same. |
Peter Collins Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 05:21 pm: | |
Come to think of it, I rather liked the Mo Tucker style of just banging a single drum while wearing a pair of dark glasses indoors, totally unnecesarily. |
capsicum spray Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 02:52 am: | |
dont diss the Quo. right thats enouf, you me cybercarpark NOW!!! |
gareth Unregistered guest
| Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 01:19 pm: | |
Leave the Quo alone. They were great at Live Aid and how can you not like a band who made a live album called 'Live Alive Quo'????? |
Paul B.
Member Username: Paul_b
Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 01:57 am: | |
"I have a postcard that has a portrait of Grant and Robert on it painted by Anne Wallace. I think it may have been an installation at Sweeney/ Pestorius house in Brisbane. " Todd -Yes it was in Sweeney/ Pestorius house in Brisbane. These paintings will be on display in Melbourne sometime in April/May..more details as I get them. |
Todd Slater
Member Username: Todd_slater
Post Number: 6 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 11:36 am: | |
Paul that's great if you live in Melbourne but unfotunately for me I live in Sydney. I saw the paintings a couple of years ago now I think at a Anne Wallace exhibition at Darren Knight Galleries, Waterloo. Very good they were too. |
Spring Rain
Unregistered guest
| Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:14 am: | |
Out of ALL the Go-betweens (no matter past, present or future), which ONE member had the most successful post-Go-betweens career, and what made it famous for him or her? This is one of my most interesting mails in the chatroom. |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 17 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:33 pm: | |
Peter Milton Walsh was mobbed by fans in Paris when the Apartments played there in 1995. Not sure if that answers your question though. |
Todd Slater
Member Username: Todd_slater
Post Number: 8 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 04:47 am: | |
Possibly Peter Milton Walsh ? Although I'm not sure if surviving at the ABC throughout all their travails over the years made him famous or an incredible survivor. Robert Vickers had some succeses in Yo La Tengo early on, before working at a record company. Lindy's had two go's at politics in Australia, at both state & federal levels. Who knows, it's a good question though, one you certainly won't hear being asked on the new 'Rockwiz' or 'Spicks & Specks' music quiz shows that's for sure. |
Lasse Carlestam
Member Username: Drummer
Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 01:52 pm: | |
> Check out www.kuepperfiles.com or www.davidpestorius.com Just a small correction, the first url should be <http://www.thekuepperfiles.com> L |
Michael D Unregistered guest
| Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 09:38 pm: | |
For what it is worth the best drummer I have seen live by a loooong way is Jim White from The Dirty Three. Also Ringo detractors listen to the B-Side Rain that's gotta be worth something. Grants a great drummer and a not a bad song writer either, but Lindy he aint. |
Donna M Unregistered guest
| Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 03:06 am: | |
Todd, that rumour started because there IS a Peter Walsh who works at the ABC but it is not Peter Milton Walsh. I know because I finally summoned up the courage to ring the ABC. I spoke to the Peter Walsh who works there, nervously mentioned the Apartments, the Go Betweens etc. and got nothing but denials, no, no, no, no etc. Then he said "These names mean nothing to me. You've got the wrong man" and hung up. I first read on this site in fact that Peter Milton Walsh had just turned his back on it all. The Apartments final album called "Apart" (note no "Oceans") was around 10 years ago now. This time he never came back and after what happened I can't imagine how hard it might be to just put his life back together let alone pay attention to his music career. Not that he seemed to pay it much attention in the first place. He does not seem the "reunion" type as he obvisouly can't be talked into an Apartments reunion let alone doing anything with the Go Betweens. By coincidence, my French copy of "The Evening Visits" (New Rose) has a thank you to Lindy Morrison on it. I always thought of Lindy as the most famous one in the Go Betweens. The funny thing was without being a front person she always had the highest profile on stage anyway. |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 27 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 11:48 am: | |
Hot records are reissuing the Apartments back catalogue this year. Walsh does have a rather large abundance of unreleased songs, so perhaps the releases of 'Evening Visits...', 'Drift', 'A Life Full of Farewells', 'Fęte Foraine' and 'Apart' will have extra tracks. At least Hot are keeping up with appearances as far as Apartments material goes... Yes, there's a sports announcer for the ABC whose name is also Peter Walsh. |
Brook Crowley
Member Username: 1_fan
Post Number: 11 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 02:45 am: | |
If Robert and Grant shoot their next film clip in Australia, I would love to see Lindy and Amanda, and also John popping up in cameo roles. If they go to the USA to film it, Robert Vickers should do well in a cameo, as well as Amanda and Lindy. Viewers will sure be jealous, not to mention the Go-Betweens can make a successful comeback! |
peter macpherson
Member Username: Peterpit
Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 04:03 am: | |
Grant and Robert did a little live in-store performance at rocking horse records in brisbane on sunday may 1. it was very packed and hot! the "boys" both played acoustic guitars through an adequate PA, and it sounded mighty fine to me. some songs off oceans away, and some older material. "surfing magazines was beautiful. oh, the whole thing was! I loved seeing Robert getting into the live performance aspect, very animated and sparkling! |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 33 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 07:59 am: | |
Brook, I admire your optimism. I personally would love to see the 80-82 line-up of Forster/McLennan/Morrison play again, but I am happy just to listen to the recordings. Some things were just meant to happen once. |
Irony Unregistered guest
| Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 03:20 pm: | |
When Robert and Grant move on to record their next LP in Australia, they will surely hook up with old cohorts Tim Mustafa and/or Dennis Cantwell along with David Tyrer one again plucking the lead guitar. Obviously the current line-up will be fired and the new team can carry on where they left off in 1979. |
Brook Crowley
Member Username: 1_fan
Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 02:20 am: | |
Oh, Irony, by the way, what are Tim and Dennis, as well as another one of their first drummers, Bruce Anton, up to these days? |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 35 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 07:48 am: | |
If Dave Tyrer's playing lead guitar, then Clare McKenna would be drumming in order for it to be historically correct. It would be more like July, 1980. This Go-Betweens line-up (Forster/Tyrer/McKenna) supported Zero at Baroona Hall, for an Independence Day show, without Grant. |
Elwood P Dowd Unregistered guest
| Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 03:04 pm: | |
I think I can probably settle any arguments about the quality of Lindy's drumming or her rightful place in the pantheon on GBs drummers. Go right now and listen to "Head Full of Steam". I rest my case. |
Chris Chandler
Member Username: Weezer3
Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 03:28 pm: | |
Hung out with Mr. Vickers in Austin durinug SXSW this year while the rest of the table downed their margaritas!! Funny I can't remember what he said about playing with the boys. Though it was cool to hear about the music of down under back in the day... |
Brook Crowley
Member Username: 1_fan
Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 01:04 am: | |
In 1998, when Mushroom Records celebrated their twenty-fifth birthday, the who's who of Mushroom records gathered round for a sell-out concert in Melbourne (don't know the venue, unfortunately). Now, I heard a rumour the Go-Betweens were invited to get back together (they released "Sixteen Lovers Lane" on Mushroom) for the concert, but of course, they never showed up. Did this invite ever exist? |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 114 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 02:21 am: | |
Don't know Brook, but I heard this rumour too. Somebody also told me the Triffids were reforming for it. Of course, the big "surprise" at the end of the day was the leftovers of INXS accompanied by Barnsey on vocals (I think--I was bored beyond consciousness by then). I was 17 and gullible at the time. A friend and I went, the tickets being free except for the mandatory $2 booking fee. It was at the MCG, by the way. A very shitty event all round (especially if you were up in the grandstand like me). |
david nichols
Member Username: David
Post Number: 67 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 04:29 am: | |
It wasn't all shit. The Sunnyboys were good. Christie Allen is always good value. Dave Warner. Come to think of it there was heaps of good stuff. |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 115 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 08:31 am: | |
Okay, let me revise: I had a shitty time. Good artists (and there were plenty at the Mushroom concert) do not make a good concert. I think my main objection was the whole scale of it, and the way it was staged, with the great distance between the grass and grandstand seating, revolving platforms, sound, etcetra. Call me a fusspot. |
Brook Crowley
Member Username: 1_fan
Post Number: 59 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 01:03 am: | |
Sometime in December, the Hoodoo Gurus will showcase their first two albums at the Manning bar, University of Sydney, as they play all the tracks from both albums, "Stone Age Romeos" and "Mars Needs Guitars", back-to-back, live. I found that out an an advertisement in the Drum Media a couple of weeks ago. Well, the Go-Betweens, I suggest, should do the exact same thing, as they perform their first two LPs, "Send me a Lullaby" and "Before Hollywood", back-to-back, live. All Robert and Grant need to do, though, is get Lindy back to the drum stool and they have it made. After all, the Go-Betweens were a trio when they made those two albums and I'm sure this show will go down a smash!!!!! |