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Seen Saturday: some Spectrum vinyl
Yes! On Saturday I saw a number of second-hand Spectrum LPs & at least one Ariel LP at Muscle Shoals Record Store at the top end of Lygon St, up near where the street dog legs & becomes Holmes St as you travel north. (Muscle Shoals is at 504 Lygon St to be precise). It…
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A good start to 2017 …
Melbourne has had a number of great gigs already this year and it’s only February 9. In late January Field, See and Mason did the first of their Sunday afternoon gigs at the Royal Oak Hotel in North Fitzroy. Lindsay Field; Glyn Mason & Sam See Jan 2017 at the Royal Oak They are such…
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Johnny Dick’s death
This morning I heard that Johnny Dick died earlier this month. Kiwi’s will remember him as the drummer with Max Merritt & the Meteors in the mid-sixties. The first time I heard him play was with Max & the Meteors during the On-Stage ’64 show when it played in New Plymouth in October 1964. He…
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Down Under the Covers: CD recently released by Field, See & Mason
Down Under the Covers was released late 2016 by Field, See & Mason who are Lindsay Field, Sam See & Glyn Mason. Glyn had known Lindsay since their Wellington days. Glyn was in mid-sixties bands Road Runners, then Bitter End. Lindsay was in another Wellington band Original Sin. Glyn came to Australia in 1969 as…
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‘Sadie, the Cleaning Lady’ – a little known snippet of information
I don’t know how or when I first knew that in 1966 (a year a Kiwi should never be asked to articulate) this song was offered to Liverpool-born, New Zealand resident Tommy Adderley to record. Maybe he told me. Until very recently I thought that he had also recorded the demo when he, Alison Durbin…
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