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Gone but not forgotten …
At this time of the year, there is always reflection on the year just gone. And with that reflection is consideration of people of note who have died. Of the NZ musicians who have worked in Australia there are two names that spring to mind. Both died very late in 2016: Ray Columbus and Bunny…
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Til We Kissed: a spot of history
In an earlier post I commented that of all the songs released by Ray Columbus & the Invaders it was ‘Til We Kissed’ that always got me, right from that first time I heard on the family radiogram in New Zealand back in 1965. RAY COLUMBUS & THE INVADERS: from left WALLY SCOTT; DAVE RUSSELL;…
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Saturday night in Carlton: Double Shot of Blues plays at the Vodka Temple
As I was heading along Lygon St, not sure where the venue was, I heard the sounds of a blues band; the sounds I had come out to hear. With a different guy in the drummer’s seat, Double Shot played a mix of originals like ‘Highway 31’, their versions of the classics, songs like; ‘Hoochie…
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A 1969 – 1971 snapshot: Kiwi musicians in Oz (Part Two)
In 1969 Wellington band Simple Image (which had had Barry Leef as lead singer) and Retaliation swapped lead singers, allowing Barry a chance to move to Australia.That band didn’t last long but when Simple Image moved across the Tasman later in the year, Barry could re-join his old band. That year (1969) Max Merritt and…
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A 1969 – 1971 snapshot: Kiwi musicians in Oz (Part One)
At present, I have access to lots of newspaper cuttings plus some articles from the music press for the period from 1966. The window 1969 – 1971 is full of rich pickings. The Rebels (with Glyn Mason as lead singer, in the position vacated by Larry Morris) arrived in Australia late March 1969. Earlier that…
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