OT: Dead hard rockers week

[bad boy bubby]

Roky Erickson. A true hero of mine. Twisted as all f**k but wrote amazing songs. 71.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Roky's band from the 60's Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Radio Birdman fans will know this song. I played this song at our former coach the late Jack Gibson's house back in '91

 

[tom of poland]

I am amazed that Rokky made it to 71. I have loved both the Elevators stuff and Rokky's solo stuff since first hearing it in the late 70s. I am kicking myself for not seeing him live when he toured here in 2013 (?).

And what about the album Rokky made with Ovvervill River not that long ago ?

So how did Jack like "You're Gonna Miss Me" ? I was very happy it was inlcuded in the movie "High Fidelity", so Rokky could have a few more royalties.

 

[carcharias]

So... speaking of dead

My missus just surprised me with a ticket to U2
The surprise was the price.

FMFD

Anyway
I survived.

 

[SadShark]

So... speaking of dead

My missus just surprised me with a ticket to U2
The surprise was the price.

FMFD

Anyway
I survived.

Kidney donation coming up.

 

[carcharias]

Kidney donation coming up.

Well the liver went long ago

 

[tom of poland]

So... speaking of dead

My missus just surprised me with a ticket to U2
The surprise was the price.

FMFD

Anyway
I survived.

and I'm off to see the 2 survivng Monkees at the Opera House on Tuesday week. Tickets for that were expensive too, but then so is the cost of health care in the USA. Monkee Mike had a q

 

[tom of poland]

So... speaking of dead

My missus just surprised me with a ticket to U2
The surprise was the price.

FMFD

Anyway
I survived.

and I'm off to see the 2 surviving Monkees at the Opera House on Tuesday week. Tickets for that were also quite expensive, but so is the cost of health care in the USA. Monkee Mike had a quadruple by pass last year.

 

[tom of poland]

Dr John the Night Tripper. Geez him and Roky in one week !!!!!!!!

 

[bluefox68]

and I'm off to see the 2 surviving Monkees at the Opera House on Tuesday week. Tickets for that were also quite expensive, but so is the cost of health care in the USA. Monkee Mike had a quadruple by pass last year.

I thought you’d come to a sudden stop after your first unfinished post!

 

[tom of poland]

and a pivotal figure in the History of 2JJ / JJJ, Chris Winter passed away.
I remember listening to his pre 2JJ program Room To Move, which aired on Monday nights on 2BL (ABC local radio Sydney), which featured stuff that commercial radio wouldn't touch, like early Queen, ELO, Roxy Music,, King Crimson, Nick Drake, etc. Chris was one of the ioriginal 6 on air presenters on 2JJ, and later went into production and management. He also narrated the "Long Way to the Top" doco series.

Vale Chris Winter — ground-breaking 'music guru' behind Double J and triple j
By Dan Condon

Tuesday 11 June 2019 11:57am

Chris Winter at Double Jay

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A ground-breaking figure in youth radio and champion of Australian music has passed away

Chris Winter, one of the founding announcers at the original Double Jay and a fixture in the early days of triple j, has passed away.

Winter's approach to championing lesser-known music was a huge driver of what Double J and triple j's remit would become.

"What we really wanted to do was give attention to bands who might not have made a single, who might not be played by commercial radio, they weren't successful, but they were writing successful songs," Winter told Double J in 2015.

"It's hard to believe now but Mental As Anything and Midnight Oil were two such bands."

"Chris was a foundation presenter for Double Jay in 1975 and it is his free spirit and style that inspired the persona of the whole station," ABC Head of Music and Creative Development Chris Scaddan said today.

"His passion for music outside the mainstream survives now in triple j and also Double J again on digital radio."

The impetus for Double Jay/triple j
Winter was already an ABC employee prior to the beginning of Double Jay in 1975. When it came to hiring staff for the new youth-focused operation, enlisting Winter was a no-brainer.

"Chris Winter's huge afro and "cool" style ensured maximum identification as ABC radio's music guru for the new venture," original Double Jay manager Marius Webb wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2015.

 

[Quigs]

Room to move, did that name for the original show come from the Old John Mayall tune of the same name.

 

[tom of poland]

Room to move, did that name for the original show come from the Old John Mayall tune of the same name.

It sure did Quigs.

I saw old John Mayall play that tune about 10 years ago in Launceston. The guy is over 80 and still touring.

 

[Quigs]

I saw him live a few times tom. Saw him at that old Capitol Theatre when doing the Jazz Blues fusion tour. Still got the old LP of that one. I remember it well. I had done my kneecap in playing footy, and was from ankle to thigh in a plaster cast. Had to ask the good people sitting infront of me if it was okay if i plopped the leg between their seats.

Think it was Freddie Robbison on guitar ????

Great show. Mayal doing the big harp solo on room to move. You gotta give me cause I can't help myself .... I got room to move.

Pharrkkkk just realised that was about 47 years ago.

 

[tom of poland]

Bill Collins: film critic and TV presenter known as 'Mr Movies' dies at 84


Collins worked as a film presenter on Channel Nine, Seven, Ten and Foxtel

Australian Associated Press

Fri 21 Jun 2019 13.14 AESTLast modified on Fri 21 Jun 2019 13.26 AEST


Bill Collins, also known as ‘Mr Movies’, has died, age 84. Photograph: Andrew Jacob/FOXTEL
Australian film critic and television presenter Bill Collins has died, age 84.

Collins, who was also known as “Mr Movies”, died in his sleep on Thursday, his family said.

“Our hearts are broken by the loss of our dear Bill – he will never be forgotten,” his wife of 36 years, Joan, said on Friday. “How fortunate we were to have him in our lives.”

Collins began his 55-years-long television career talking about film appreciation on the ABC’s Roundabout program in 1963. He went on to work as a movie presenter at the Nine, Seven and Ten networks before signing with Foxtel for its launch in 1995, where he continued to work until 2018.

 

[carcharias]

Wow
I thought he was 84 40 years ago

 

[bad boy bubby]

I remember going to Kogarah Mecca a couple of times as a youngan and he was always doing the advertising. He had something to do with that picture theatre methinks.

 

[coolumsharkie]

Bill Collins: film critic and TV presenter known as 'Mr Movies' dies at 84


Collins worked as a film presenter on Channel Nine, Seven, Ten and Foxtel

Australian Associated Press

Fri 21 Jun 2019 13.14 AESTLast modified on Fri 21 Jun 2019 13.26 AEST


Bill Collins, also known as ‘Mr Movies’, has died, age 84. Photograph: Andrew Jacob/FOXTEL
Australian film critic and television presenter Bill Collins has died, age 84.

Collins, who was also known as “Mr Movies”, died in his sleep on Thursday, his family said.

“Our hearts are broken by the loss of our dear Bill – he will never be forgotten,” his wife of 36 years, Joan, said on Friday. “How fortunate we were to have him in our lives.”

Collins began his 55-years-long television career talking about film appreciation on the ABC’s Roundabout program in 1963. He went on to work as a movie presenter at the Nine, Seven and Ten networks before signing with Foxtel for its launch in 1995, where he continued to work until 2018.

Gayest person ever not gay.. Good old Bill Collins and our chuckles of his late night movie reviews of the Golden Era of filllum.. I agree with Carch the dude was a dinosaur back in the 80's thought he was long departed. May he eternally watch Cary Grant films in heaven.

 

[carcharias]

I remember going to Kogarah Mecca a couple of times as a youngan and he was always doing the advertising. He had something to do with that picture theatre methinks.

I saw the kiss move - attack of the phantoms there
There was me and my mate and about 10 kids who had been to every screening
They had the makeup on

 

[tom of poland]

I used Bill Collins as a negative movie barometer. If he hated a movie it was a sure fire guarantee that I'd like it.