Comments on: The Wombat Switch – Mad Gorilla

By: dave owens

dave owens — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:27 +0000

Spot on Steve, . . . . some fond old memories even from that ol’ place, . . .
It was run down but it was a huge double-fronted Edwardian plce with high ceilings and huge rooms, . . . I’m pretty sure I was living at the time MG was doing the Adelaide tour. I also seem to recall that I held a day-job at EMI’s Homebush facility 5 minutes walk down the road on Parramatta road as well . . got to see 8 track cartridges phased out and cassettes phased in, . .saw the dismantling of The World Record Club and the HMV record played assembly line, ( remember them? ) and got to work on australia’s first computer run record warehouse! Still. I suppose that’s nothing compared to The Rise of home computing etc which was only just around the corner . . . . . .

By: Recko

Recko — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:24:53 +0000

Yeah a great old place, it was huge. It was knocked down when the western motorway M4(I think) came through.

By: dave owens

dave owens — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:16:12 +0000

yeah, . . . . . .years ago, . . .another lifetime, . . . . the place had it’s own “jamming room” set up, walkin and plug in any time you wanted to, . . . . a great facility to inside a house looking back on it, . . . . . . . .

By: Recko

Recko — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:50:04 +0000

There was some funny stories from that trip and other trips that could be told but haven’t because I still love you guys. Like having a punch up with a certain band member in a motel room in front of a traumatised country girl in our underwear. Or same band member selling his room mates food & greens for jugs of beer. Good times & great people.

By: Recko

Recko — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:35:39 +0000

I thought it was Maxwell too, but i’ve lost a lot of brain cells over the years. Had a beautiful old Rogers kit solid as a rock and sounded great. He lived in the place in Concord rd you lived in didn’t he Dave?

By: dave owens

dave owens — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:48:41 +0000

. . . original road crew member Steve ” Recko ” Reckly has a wonderful recollection of the band’s week long tour to and from Cobar NSW in mid 1980 or so, and the subsequent birth of his Mad Gorilla Nick-name . . . . . . .

More here…

By: dave owens

dave owens — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:46:51 +0000

I think the ( Mad Gorilla band member )Peter Kellier guy everyone is referring to is actually Peter Maxwell, but I could be wrong, . . . . . . . .some-one lemme know, . . ..

By: dave owens

dave owens — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:39:54 +0000

More here…

By: dave owens

dave owens — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:23:52 +0000

Steve, one of the original road crew for the band has some observations of the band when we went over to adelaide for a 2 week tour, most of the drove to adelaide from Sydney while a couple flew over, and by the time I landed in town everything was happening, . . . . . . I'll let Steve (Recko) take over from here . . .

By: dave owens

dave owens — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:15:06 +0000

Now Steve, one of the band's first original road crew members, has a few memories from the formative years of the band he would like to share . . . . this one explains the origins of the band's song "Highway Robbery"...