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Woops, a little tougher that the other topic...
Would have to mention the Finns and Crowded House, if only for the number of years they stayed together and world-wide sales. But they're not everyone's cuppa.
Used to like Aussie Crawl, Daddy Cool, and even Skyhooks for a joke...
Black Sorrows (with the Bull sisters)
Midnight Oil
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls/Messengers
the saints, x, mark of cain, beasts of bourbon, the bad seeds, i spit on your gravy, the cosmic psychos, mass appeal, the fireballs....
very early nineties, these guys destroyed the oxford tavern in the gong.. me and my high school buddies were more scared of the cops outside than the berko crowd inside
used to ditch afternoon basket ball practice to smoke cones with guys from school who were from woonona (then catch the bus back home off chops) who used to rave on about this band they watched rehearse in a garage, years later as a cadet at bhp, used to listen to this metallurgist guy in central lab called paul tell stories about playing in a band called...
For aussie bands Powderfinger and INXS come to mind.
Haha and Kevin Bloody Wilson.
Yeah, KBW of course.
Gave up wanking for Xmas... Don't touch your sister she's mine.
Great PC stuff !
Here's one from the past - "Ayers Rock" which featured an excellent drummer named Mark Kennedy, who I believe is now playing with Leo Sayer.
Also think that Split Enz really did get their big break in OZ (so we could call them an Aussie band). Saw the original "Enz" when they first came to OZ at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney. Tim and the boys had white face make-up, black & white checkered suits and hair straight-up (included Noel Crombie percussion, Eddie Rayner keyboards). No Neil Fin yet.
Music and appearance certainly was unusual but what a great band!!
I can probably still play every Birdman song from muscle memory (all downstrokes, that yellow box set to 10), but I still think the greatest has to be:
The list has to include:-
Jeff St John and the Id
The Loved Ones
Chain
and of course the Great Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.
They were all producing as good if not better music than the English and American bands of the time.
They just did not get the international exposure they deserved.
Here is Billy at Boggo Road Gaol in 1993.
Ummm, that was Stamp who provided the historical details, not I.
BUT, while we are on the topic of Tumbleweed, this gem still sounds great. Appologies for the poor quality of the recording.
I've heard of Billy Thorpe, The Easybeats and INXS but the rest, where'd they come from?
