Comments on: Contributors Wanted

By: Mark Gaffey (AUS)

Mark Gaffey (AUS) — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:20:29 +0000

Hey Gaff .. are you a Gaffey??

By: Recko

Recko — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:32:03 +0000

G’day Brick,
Good to see you on here. Hope you are well…..Reckless.

By: Gaff

Gaff — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:28:18 +0000

Man I used to rehearse at Kings Lane, once had to rescue a mr Duff from a beating as he tumbled down the stairs outside. It was a great place to play if I remember right the studios were in previous times ovens for bread baking or something like that?

By: Niel Edgley

Niel Edgley — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:47:00 +0000

yeh thats right, just behind Smithy’s original warehse.lol

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:40:20 +0000

Thanks Sue, really appreciate your help.

By: gary kurzer

gary kurzer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:04:33 +0000

I am pretty old, so I have a bit of history in Oz Rock.

My first school boy band was The Shapes InBetween, which featured Mary Jane Boyd on vocals. Few know it (because of her watered down performances on crap Oz Tv shows) but she was one of Australia’s greatest blues + rock + soul singers. I have a few recordings to prove it. Perhaps I could put these up on the site. Had her manager permitted, she would have equalled any world class vocalist in these areas. We lost her at 40 years old through suicide. Music biz, eh?

I later help set up King’s Lane Studios with Geoff Stapleton (GangGajang) and many Oz legends started there; Gyan, and Peter Blakely to name but two. I later had my gear go to the seminal Charing Cross Studios where bands like Electric Hippies generated.

My later band, ” …ish” released a single “The Armpit Samba” which featured on JJ
and oddly, in the US (Doctor Demento) and featured two members who moved onto the Rockmelons (Bryon Jones and Vince Dale). I later worked with an amazing pianist/singer/songwriter, Grant Arnold, who should have been a star (where have we heard that before) and I still have a catalogue of great songs he has written.

Lately, I have a band called “The Mighty Quim” which plans on being The Next Big Thing (zimmer frame material) and I play in another band, plus I am involved with a very exciting new international media initiative … Smartphone Radio (and beyond).

I also have a dabble with guitars/amps/fx and a lot of songwriting as well as a level of song production.

By: Bob Yates

Bob Yates — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:37:02 +0000

Hi, just read the note you left last January…you’ve probably been told a zillion times that Ward 13′s drummer (your hairdresser) was Steve Walls. He now has a salon in Leura in Blue Mtns and doing well and fit and healthy (off booze and drugs for years!). I used to (try) manage them…impossible! Fortunately I was also managing Mi-Sex at the time and they kept the wolf from the door…
No need for an answer, just wrote to you for fun.

By: Mark Gibson

Mark Gibson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:37:39 +0000

I replied to John by email but for the rest of you the song was “When You’re Lonely” by “The Boys” from Perth.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:25:13 +0000

Hi Jill, here you go http://shotgunsolution.blogspot.com/2010/08/singles-love-of-loves-singles.html

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:36:45 +0000

Hi John

Sorry can’t help you with the name of the band but the lyrics do ring a small bell! The below link doesn’t answer your question but you might find it interesting all the same.

http://newswithnipples.com/2011/01/05/discos-discos-when-you-love-me/

Cheers Jill