OT: Dead hard rockers week

[sharkman73]

Aretha

 

[tom of poland]

RIP Aretha, first song of her's I heard was "See Saw" which was a hit during the school holidays of January 1969, then Cry Like a Baby which was on a "20 Power Hits" compilation album I got for being a good kiddie in 5th class. The gradually discovered her golden Atlantic period over the 70s, Here's a shot of Aretha recording with Duanne Allman, quite possibly doing "The Weight".

 

[Leigh Howlett]

Aretha steps up to the Pearly gates and is met by George Michael, Aretha says 'I knew you were waiting for me'..............

 

[bad boy bubby]

Spencer P Jones.
A kiwi truly wrapped up as a legend in Australian rock n roll.
From The Johnnys through to the Beasts of Bourbon plus many in between and after.
An A-class songwriter and friend of mine. He had his demons and his demons would show but he also had the softest side of all. I'm good friends with both his wife and ex wife and all my heart goes to them and his kid.
Many songs to choose from but this has always been THE one. I asked Spence a couple of months ago if he'd mind me doing a version of it and he was all up for it.

 

[bad boy bubby]

 

[bad boy bubby]

 

[bad boy bubby]

 

[carcharias]

I’d been reading about him.
The drones and TFS were posting stuff on Facebook.
Terrible news.

 

[bad boy bubby]

I’d been reading about him.
The drones and TFS were posting stuff on Facebook.
Terrible news.

Gaz and Fi from both those bands played with Spence in the Nothing Butts. Another wonderful collaboration he was involved with. Awesome album

 

[sharkman73]

In 1996

California dreaming

I'm sure you've heard it but Creeque Alley is their best song imo. Cracker.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Good write up for Spence in the Herald.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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Spencer P. Jones, guitarist and songwriter, has died
By Martin Boulton
21 August 2018 — 11:37pm


Guitarist, songwriter and storyteller Spencer P. Jones, who forged his name in Australia and overseas with rock ‘n’ roll bands the Johnnys and Beasts of Bourbon, has died.

Jones was born in 1956 on the North Island town of Te Awamutu in New Zealand and moved to Australia in his late teens - pursuing a life in music from which he never wavered over the next four decades. He died on August 21.

Spencer P. Jones

Photo: supplied
The laconic, self-taught musician was diagnosed with liver cancer in June after fighting poor health since 2015. In March, Jones and longtime friend and collaborator Brian Henry Hooper performed on stage together in Melbourne with their band Beasts of Bourbon, just a week before Hooper died from lung cancer.

“Spencer was very ill at Brian’s benefit gig,’’ said Jones’ wife, Angie Jones, in June. ‘‘So to watch them both get up and smash out some Beasts Of Bourbon songs was a miracle in itself.’’

Jones left New Zealand in the mid ’70s and played guitar in numerous bands, including Cuban Heels and North 2 Alaskans before joining the Johnnys, who released debut album Highlights of a Dangerous Life in 1986.

By the late ’80s when the Johnnys broke up, Jones had turned his attention more fully to the ‘‘swamp rock’’ of Beasts of Bourbon, who by that stage were on the cusp of releasing third album Black Milk. The band would release half-a-dozen albums over a tumultuous 35 years and carve out a reputation as one of the most ferocious live bands of theirs, or any other generation.


Combining elements of jazz, country, blues and on later records a tougher, punchier hard rock sound, Beasts of Bourbon endured with original members Jones and Tex Perkins putting differences aside to play numerous times since the band was originally shelved in 2008.

In between Beasts Of Bourbon albums The Low Road (1991) and Gone (1997), Jones released his first solo album Rumour of Death in 1994. He would follow it with another 10 albums over the next two decades and throughout his career worked with an enormous array of Australian musicians, including Paul Kelly, Warren Ellis, Rowland S. Howard, Renee Geyer and Gareth Liddiard.

Spencer P. Jones (left) and Charlie Owen.

Photo: Carbie Warbie
Other bands to feature Jones’ distincive guitar sound included Hell To Pay (with the late Ian Rilen), Cow Penalty, Olympic Sideburns, the Butcher Shop, Maurice Frawley and the Working Class Ringos, Sacred Cowboys and the Escape Committee.

When he wasn’t performing with a band, Jones would regularly play solo shows and regale audiences with stories in between his songs. He recorded, played alongside and inspired countless musicians over a long career and leaves behind a large body of work.


Five years ago when Beasts of Bourbon came together for some shows, Jones told Fairfax Media he’d been particularly passionate about his old group for the ‘‘simple reason’’ it was ‘‘the sort of band I’d always wanted to be in.’’

‘‘When you’ve been together 10 years it’s like, ‘Wow, we’ve been together 10 years; that’s a long time’,’’ he said, flashing a grin that was rarely far away . ‘‘But I’ll tell you what, when it’s been 30 years, you realise how the first 10 years was f--- all.’’

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[tom of poland]

Loved his work in the Beasts, Johnnys, Hell to Pay, Paul Kelly and the list goes on.

I had the pleasure of meeting Spencer in mid 1995, in Melbourne when the band I was in at the time ,The Deep End did a long weekend of gigs in Melbourne. Spencer was friends with the other guys in the band, and was kind enough not only to lend us a Vox AC 30 amp for the weekend, but also played support for us at our final Sunday afternoon gig at the Public Bar in Nth Melbourne, in the hope that we'd draw a few more people.

 

[carcharias]

Robbie Rotten
Lazy town

 

[Feej]

Robbie Rotten
Lazy town

Became one of the greatest memes of all time...

 

[SadShark]

Ed King 68 - Lynyrd Skynrd

 

[coolumsharkie]

Robbie Rotten
Lazy town

Don't even know who that is

 

[carcharias]

Don't even know who that is

The villain in a kids tv show

Some trippy tv show where sporticus an ex Olympic gold gymnast ( in real life ) teaches kids to eat healthy.
Robbie tried to get them to eats candy.
Every episode he dresses in a disguise that only an idiot couldn’t see thru.
Sporticus saves the day

The dude who played Sporticus directed it
Wrote it
Designed the puppets
And wrote all the music
Ha slight control freak

 

[tom of poland]

Ed King 68 - Lynyrd Skynrd

Ed King's musical career started in the mid 60s, he was initially in a garage band Thee Sixpence who did a cracking version of Love's "My Fasah on You", and Thee Sixpence morphed into the Strawberry Alarm Clock whose claim to fame was "Insense and Peppermints" and appearances in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Psych Out.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Just a remembrance
My mate Jay Curley died this day 4 years ago. He wrote this song.

 

[Quigs]

Not an old Rocker but apparently a good bloke and a real good judge of character.
John McCain the Rep Congressman that once ran for Pres of the USA. He was due to pass sometime earlier. His family has reported that he has halted treatment for brain cancer.

McCain absolutely hates Trump and has left instructions that the grub is not to attend his funeral which will be a big show. All the other living Pressies will no doubt attend and his McCains final message to Trump will be "f**k Off"