..audition
with a band, Sounds Unlimited, who had lost their drummer to compulsory military
training and had been sent to Nelson from Wellington to reform. I played with
them till their drummer returned. After that, I returned to ChCh and joined
a group, Next Move. After Next Move broke up I gigged around in other local
bands and when Les Inwood had quit Chapta we started a trio named Libra. By
this time I had upgraded drum kit to 2 bass drums and was the 1st drummer in
NZ to play a dble kit. We went to Nelson to play at the newly opened hotel,
The Rutherford, for 2wks and ended up there for 3mths. It was good gig, as such
ppl that passed thru hotel on tours stayed there; Peddlers, Kenny Rogers and
the 1st edition, Glenn Campbell and his band. After Nelson, we toured thru the
Nth Island, When I left the band I returned to Nelson where I ended up helping
Promoter that ran the Nelson scene for a year. Packed up and moved to Auckland.
That was 1974. Got a job with a music shop, Lewis Eady, as truck driver moving
Grand Pianos round different venues such as TV studios and concert venues. I
started a group called Nodalfredon, which was the 1st name of band members and
played at the Railway Hotel. Good gig but no ppl. Band broke up and I started
another called Noddy’s Noodles and spent the next 4yrs travelling extensivly
round the country backing singers, Bunny Walters, Craig Scott, Yandell Sisters,
Brent Brodie, Ray Woolfe and whoever else needed backing. In 1979 I moved back
to ChCh and in a week I was playing in a group called Trinidad at the Blenheim
Rd. Was there till 84. After that the whole scene changed and drum machines
were dominant and I gave up drums and went back to keyboards. That was the start
of Midi and since 85 I have been sort of hidden away and stuck in front of a
computer. I’ve got about 1500 –2000 songs in my computer so far and don’t think
I’ll be using them now. Must be age?