Favourite Cover Versions

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a good roosters fan, daryl.

so do you pull chicks cos you're a commo, paddo, or are you a commo in order to pull chicks?

Hey this 'chick' ain't bein' pulled anywhere... I just like chatting about music..

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[QUOTE=Paddo Colt 61;n860913][QUOTE=redwhiteblue;In the spirit of the season, I've unblocked Paddo Colt 61 just to read his musical contributions to my thread as I was told on good authority that I would approve and I do so I have posted the clips he mentioned as he has excellent taste in music. PC, I hope you have a great Christmas and New Year and the same to your loved ones. Happy to chat music with you and anyone else anytime.

I can't say that I'm not touched but then it was just a matter of time really. You see I have the Kavorka, a gift that makes me quite irresistible to women (and men too if the way '08 is always on my case is anything to go by). You'd think that there'd be a lot more to occupy him in Coonabarabran at this time of year but no, I look around and there he is again rattling away about very little.
But I digress. In the spirit of your reaching out I forgive all RWB and I hope that 2021 is all that you would want it to be.
Sherbet looms large here on a thread dominated by Countdowners. Can't say I ever dug them but I do remember Daryl pre Sherbet at the Coogee Surf Club singing the Hollies' "Carousel", the high part. Think their best effort was "Silvery Moon". What do you think RWB?
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Thanks for your good wishes PC and yes things are going to be better for all of us in 2021. Yes I love "Silvery Moon" and it's a beautiful song. The one I've posted below that, "Free The People" was the first Sherbet song I remember when I was around 3 years old. I'll ask my hairdresser about Daryl at the CSC as he is in his 70's and played in bands around Bondi during the 60's and even worked a bit with the Bee Gees when they were living in Maroubra. Even though my hairdresser is a Roosters fan too, we seem to talk about music more than anything else as he opens up the salon early for me. Well that's it for me on here this year as we are flat out at work wrapping up projects and I need to get away from screens during the holidays and get some fresh air and exercise. A great man once said..."Good-bye everybody...I've got to go..gotta leave you all behind to face the truth"......See you all next season..Go EASTS

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I do find Marx's thesis/antithesis (the Dialectic) intellectually compelling - within every paradigm are the seeds of change, music included. You just need to look at who is anti- communist - the US, a nation built on slavery and, going by the wages at Walmart, keen on returning to it. Communist countries have never been aggressors and to our great credit the Australian people refused to ban the party at a referendum in the 50s. Didn't stop Menzies thereafter acting as though it had been banned. Eventually it will prevail, we can't go on exploiting the world's resources with wasteful individualism and competition, the planet is finite.
But this is a music thread Zac. Not in the business of derailing are we? RWB will not, justifiably, be pleased.

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[The Skeez]

Ripper cover by one of Oz’s best. Extra points for nailing Dave Rawlings guitar work not just Gillians song.

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I can't say that I'm not touched but then it was just a matter of time really. You see I have the Kavorka, a gift that makes me quite irresistible to women (and men too if the way '08 is always on my case is anything to go by). You'd think that there'd be a lot more to occupy him in Coonabarabran at this time of year but no, I look around and there he is again rattling away about very little.
But I digress. In the spirit of your reaching out I forgive all RWB and I hope that 2021 is all that you would want it to be.
Sherbet looms large here on a thread dominated by Countdowners. Can't say I ever dug them but I do remember Daryl pre Sherbet at the Coogee Surf Club singing the Hollies' "Carousel", the high part. Think their best effort was "Silvery Moon". What do you think RWB?

Well it looks like you bought me some good luck PC. I just got my work contract extended so I'll be employed up until nearly mid next year now and I can still work from home. One of the managers is a Roosters fan..LOL..he is SO happy he has someone to chat to now.

The great man did a whole album of cover versions. This should keep you all busy during the off season while I am away

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Well it looks like you bought me some good luck PC. I just got my work contract extended so I'll be employed up until nearly mid next year now and I can still work from home.
The great man did a whole album of cover versions.

Great to hear about a good fortune employment story in times such as these but you must be very good at what you do and rightly valued for that. The Kavorka has many aspects, one of them being the acknowledgement that accrues to anyone, even remotely connected to me, with forgiveness in their heart.

Though always an admirer of Mick Ronson's style (I think he plays lead on Lou Reed's White Heat White Light), I was never a Bowie fan. Never saw that Art school/ glam rock as being anything other than the marketing of unexceptional talents. The authenticity of Blues based R'n'R, Rockabilly and Blues is more to my liking though I do like brilliant pop too. In that category I would, for example, include stuff like Beatles pop in the 60s, in the Seventies, things like "Love Really Hurts" (Billy Ocean) and "Bring the Boys Home" (Freda Payne), from the 80s "Life in a Northern Town (Dream Academy). I haven't listened much since except to Country which is where R'n'Roll found refuge. I think that the best of pop is well behind us.

I has always amazed me that a suppressed and much put upon Black minority has been the well spring of most of American popular culture - music dance and literature. The working class is, indeed, the creative class.

Merry Xmas.

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Found this in a music shop in Canberra 20 years ago

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George and Mary covering Stevie Wonder

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Watched Strictly Ballroom today on iview as I wanted to watch some Australian movies and it was one of my Mum's favourites. This is from the soundtrack and a credible version of this much loved song:

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Police and Thieves - The Clash - Cover of a Junior Murvin song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJK2tD4fpMo

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Tina can sing anything:

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Tina can sing anything:

She most certainly can

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