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Spectrum quiz answers
The Spectrum quiz is the 4th in the series of Sunday quizzes I have organised for staff at a local cafe. There will be one more in this series & that one will focus on Max Merritt and the Meteors, who formed in Christchurch in the late fifties. Max and his band were one of…
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Sunday quiz No.4: Spectrum
As noted in the last post, Spectrum aren’t a Kiwi band but they were formed by Mike Rudd who came to Melbourne with Christchurch group the Chants R&B late in 1966. When they folded he joined Party Machine. Once Party Machine split Mike knew he needed to form another band to perform original material as…
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La De Da’s quiz answers
As it’s Wednesday and as I indicated that the answers to the quiz would go up today I’d better keep to my word. In case you are wondering, there will be two more quizzes in this series then there will be a break. The next quiz will be about Spectrum who I know aren’t a…
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Sunday quiz No.3: La De Da’s
As any regular readers will know, currently I am posting quizzes to this site after they have been completed by local cafe staff & that this all started because one of them is a Kiwi but he doesn’t know much about NZ music. The La De Da’s … The band formed as the Mergers in…
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Dragon quiz answers
As promised here are the answers to the Dragon quiz. If any of you have enjoyed the last two quizzes (this one and the Split Enz one) the next one is about the La De Da’s who had a huge inpact on the music scene in Auckland in the mid 60s and in Australia later…
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