OT: Dead hard rockers week

[tom of poland]

I remember Helen Reddy hosting an American music show that Channel 7 used to show, The Midnight Special, which had interesting bands performing that you wouldn't see elsewhere like the J Geils Band and Uriah Heep. AC-DC also appeared on the show on one of their early visits. Helen would put on a thick American accent when making her announcements.

 

[Quigs]

Crikey and the poor thing missed the debate.

 

[taipan]

Crikey and the poor thing missed the debate.

The debate ,the verbal brawl. What a choice the Yanks have.
I've heard better debates at midnight on the p*ss.

 

[tom of poland]

also gone,
Mac Davis Dies At Age 78
Singer songwriter Mac Davis has died at age 78 after suffering a heart attack in Nashville yesterday.

Davis had his own hits with ‘Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me’ and ‘Its Hard To Be Humble’.

He also wrote the Elvis Presley hits ‘In The Ghetto’, ‘Don’t Cry Daddy’ and ‘A Little Less Conversation’.
Nick Cave also did a neat cover of In the Ghetto back in the 80s.

 

[tom of poland]

Crikey and the poor thing missed the debate.

Mate she would have missed it anyway she had dementia.

 

[BatteredFlake]

Mate she would have missed it anyway she had dementia.

I think that was one of the requirements for the participants.

 

[Wozza]

I remember Helen Reddy hosting an American music show that Channel 7 used to show, The Midnight Special, which had interesting bands performing that you wouldn't see elsewhere like the J Geils Band and Uriah Heep. AC-DC also appeared on the show on one of their early visits. Helen would put on a thick American accent when making her announcements.

I actually met her once overseas and chatted to her for 10 mins or so, she was nice

 

[Eion]

Eddie Van Halen.

5150 was.my first proper rock album. RIP

 

[sharkman73]

Very, very sad. One of the bands of my youth.

 

[Generalzod]

My ring tone is this song

 

[BatteredFlake]

I never saw that video clip before! I used to like that song. Is there any way to "UNsee" that clip ?

 

[bad boy bubby]

Eruption into You Really Got Me

 

[taipan]

Interesting sidelight to Eddie Van-halen. I notice he contributed the signature guitar solo to Michael Jackson's "Beat It". That guitar work gets my Jimmies going.

 

[Generalzod]

Interesting sidelight to Eddie Van-halen. I notice he contributed the signature guitar solo to Michael Jackson's "Beat It". That guitar work gets my Jimmies going.

David lee Roth used to call him fingers lol

 

[tom of poland]

And Johnny Nash, born John Lester Nash Jr. in Houston Texas, (August 19, 1940 - October 6,2020) was an American reggae and pop music singer-songwriter, best known for his hits, "Hold Me Tight", "You've got soul" and "I Can See Clearly Now". He was one of the first non-Jamaican singers to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica.

 

[coolumsharkie]

Eruption into You Really Got Me

Yeah that was my youth in music right there.. f**ken sad day. I might try and learn that properly this time before the arthritis sets in..lol

 

[tom of poland]

Paul Murphy, rock star TV journo and current affairs presenter, just died aged 77.
He was originally on the ABC's This Day Tonight, then hosted the radio show PM on Radio National and Dateline on SBS TV.

More significantly he read the South Coast News on Roy and HGs This Sporting Life for many years, about the exploits of retired entertainment and sports celebrities living in Ulladulla. I saw him reading the South Coast News at a This Sporting Life live to air show at Sydney Uni back in 89.

 

[sharknows]

Spencer Davis of Spencer Davis Group dead at 81.... a good innings for a product of the psychedelic era.

 

[Quigs]

Loved the old SDG.

Keep on running, keep on hiding.

Spencer Davis Group featuring a young Stevie Windwood I believe. (testing me old memory here) (checked and confirmed.)

 

[sharknows]

100% correct Quigs