Issue 46

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..but it couldn’t make up for the subsequent psychological scarring – it was an utterly humiliating night. To give you an example: there was a farcical minute or two when this guy tried to engage me in a meaningful conversation, blissfully unaware that I was actually playing at the time!…

..(as represented on the For Pete’s Sake compilation CD that was produced to help raise funds for the second of Pete’s major Parkinson’s operations), Dragon, Thorpie, Russell Morris, John Farnham, Slim Dusty, Air Supply, Matt Finish, Australian Crawl, Mi-Sex, Pseudo Echo and Glenn Shorrock. No mention of any of my bands you’ll notice. Jamaican Farewell…

..subject to the fashions of the day and it’s only the occasional performer who manages to transcend fashion. Dutch’s pithy advice to Geoff Achison to ‘play what you know’ is all you really need to know, but Dutch’s bigger-than-life personality surely played a part in his becoming the quintessential expression of Aussie blues. It’s a…

Dealer of the month Again we’re not talking about a CD retailer this month – they can wait until we eventually release some new product and we need to suck up. No, this month we’re talking about Music Junction, my handily located musical instrument dealer next to the Rivoli in Camberwell – well, East Hawthorn…

I hope he had a really good time in his three days. As a by-product of my reading I tend to collect oddities of history. Apparently I am much older than I thought – and probably dead. The story was also mentioned obliquely by my brother some time ago. However what he failed to note…

..and make the final report up. “Totally clear apart and medically sound apart from some wreckage from the Lusitania” Given that, prior to this procedure I have been taking peculiar and powerful drinks whose only role in life is to turn the one and a half metres of my colon into a pristine wasteland by…