POP GUN MEN at Hearts 20/6/79

POP GUN MEN at Hearts 20/6/79



Pop Gun Men were formed out of remnants of X-Ray-Z and the early version of Secret Police. John Ray (drums), Peter Rich (vocals, sax), and Maurie Bund (guitar, keyboards, vocals) have combined with Andrew Picouleau (bass, vocals) and Dys Nalon (guitar) in a merger that thrives on gut energy at the same time as it feels the need to experiment a little with arrangement ideas and not quite conventional song structures. ...

Doctor Pepper: The band’s…well…but the singer is SHARYN ROSENBERG



Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I suppose we can forgive Ms Rosenberg the manifest strains of the divine Joplin that permeate her voice. But there’s a lot more to singing the blues than copying the masters (or mistresses) as even saint Janis herself found out. The voice, being the greatest musical instrument there is, still needs some backup to shine at its best. It needs feel, love, de...

THE MODELS
By Al Webb





One cold, bleak Melbourne morning, lead vocalist guitarist Sean Kelly and keyboard player Ash Wednesday were contemplating the ins and out of Models forthcoming trip to Sydney and Brisbane. But we had no time for such trivia. I wanted a history of Models in ten words. A few ums and ahs later, Ash spoke. When we started we had a vague idea of playing and performing inventive pop songs I think pop songs was the phrase talked a...

The Alternative Gig Guide

Edition 1 Movie

TAGG FIRST EDITION

My Rough Diamond Child

Helmut Katterl finally convinced me to publish this little mag with him as a partner. It was a wild ride...
I thought this movie of the mag serves the purpose well as you can pause the pages if you choose to read the rock history of that era.

I want to add tracks that are pertinent to each issue of TAGG, so if you were in any of those bands

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THE CRYSTAL REVIEWED


^{_{The George Hotel, Fitzroy Street St Kilda, past home
of the Crystal ballroom.}}

By Patrick Miles - June 14th, 1979 A variety of senses motivate people to see a rock’n’roll band. It is impossible to cater to everybody’s whims and invariably someone is thoroughly peeved with the conditions in which they hear a band. Animal involvement, casual observance and uninterrupted study swirl together in differing levels of audienc...

The Sports live to air radio and television hook-up at Bombay Rock last Friday was both a success and a disappointment. Their 8pm performance for the 3XY/2SM/2NX/4IP network was great – the audience was in ta co-operative mood, cheering right on cue and the band’s performance was one of the tightest. But somehow, between 9p, when they left the stage, and 12.30am when they returned, the zap had gone and it was a pretty nervous group which appeared on the screen for Nightmoves. Lead singer, Steve ...

FRANK HOWSON

By Lisa Waters



At 26 Frank Howson is a familiar name in both theatre and recording circles. Frank has appeared in the stage productions that include Jesus Christ Superstar, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off and Death of a Salesman. He has written two stage shows for children in collaboration with Barry Ferrier, has just completed a musical on the life of Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor and has written songs for stacks of people e.g. Reg Live...

THINGS HAVE CHANGED...MUCH!




Ron Tudor (“I’m very old- 55”) is the managing director of Fable Records and the President of the Australian Music Maker’s Association. He has been in the music industry for 23 years and started at the now defunct W&G Records as a sales rep in 1956.

Here he discusses the AMMA in the first of a series of stories which will look at…

MUSICMAKERS




RON TUDOR

By Al Webb

...

When Jane Clifton talks about Stiletto, you can’t help but get the feeling that she looks back on her days in a rock’n’roll band not so much with regret as with a wisdom and a knowledge that she didn’t have when the band started.

Comfortably settled into a circuit of activities that includes acting, swingtime/jazz singing, and a late night spot at the Last laugh Theatre Restaurant, she can probably afford to feel that way.

But the Stiletto sag, starting...

ICEHOUSE

30 Years on...




LET ME TAKE YOU BACK TO THEIR LAST GIG AS FLOWERS with Dr. GREG
THE LAST FLOWERS CONCERT

GREG MANSON

Due to uncertainty about gaining entry, I made a very early appearance - so early in fact that only those concerned with the show were inside and I was able to observe the first few teenies hurtle to the front row like penguins fleeing a shark, and squeal and squabble for position. ...