My Brain could not cope. That’s what we liked, so it seemed like the right thing to do.B: ‘On My Street’. The people on Countdown were laughing at it. Or whatever…Pink Floyd.
That in itself is kind of a unique verified ether you get to experience that is something a kin to telepathy in some regards, it’s not, I don’t believe in that, but we can anticipate what each other is going to do and after 40 years we are a well oiled machine.Brad: I honestly have no idea. It seemed to come together pretty quickly.B: Good Lord! They didn’t want 5 people, so it ended up being four. All this stuff happening at the same time turned me in a new direction. From my perspective here and yeah, I’m kinda out of touch of what that may be like.
We would play outer suburban shows and at our earliest opportunity, regional shows. They lost a couple of members quickly. It was extraordinary.B: Yes we are still able to head over and play to lots of people and make a profit. I can be influenced in some ways, by contemporary artists. Too much perspective!B: I’ve fallen in love with ‘Bittersweet’ again. Nobody wants to leave the stage feeling like they’ve disgraced themselves, we all tend to bring our ‘A’ game and hopefully the act that is on after you will not be the conquering hero’s of the day {Laughs}.
I don’t know, if it were me I’d be lowering my expectations {laughs} and you know, that’s sad, that’s sad as a musician. A massive bank of amps behind them. Bless Warwick! He made a Strat sound tough.I: It’s been lovely to speak to you. There’s no evil genius theory going on in how we should approach shows that are not smack bang in the centre of the city; we just do our thing.”“I hope that we challenge our audience,” Shepherd furthers.
I was having difficulties with the Hitmen and I felt that my future lay with the Gurus.I: Ah, I know them … they did our first EP… at Broken Toys studios.B: Came up with a sitar version.
I feel it’s an under-appreciated record. Not just Dave … Rod Radalj, Kimble Rendle, James Baker, Darcy Condon, other friends living in their scene… sharing houses etc.B: ‘Place in the Sun’.I: So did you intend that to be the last gig ever?B: No, I could always fake it during lessons, coz I had a pretty good ear. As Shepherd says, the group is working just as hard to maintain that connection with audiences as they did when they were touring the world during the late 1980s.“I find that we are challenged most by ourselves these days.” he admits. I was astonished! I walked into my favourite record store the other day and saw Freddy King live in 1966 playing a 345, and thought ‘I got to get one!’ Just on a whim … I could immediately be out of pocket $5000. I am unqualified on some regards. But I am very proud that we embraced it early. When we toured, Rick had other things going on and he couldn’t participate.
It might be a 335. And then I went to London, and frankly it was a drag.
At the time we had to fight with the engineer, and record company about how we wanted it to sound. They were very much in tune with the very notion of live music performance. That’s in every night.I: So what are your favourite songs off each record to play live now?
Richard Grossmann Schlagzeug.
I guess there’s an argument that rock and roll is a purist medium these days but it certainly has its place and nothing can replicate it.
Nik Rieth Hoodoo Gurus ist eine australische Rockband, die 1981 in Sydney gegründet wurde. You have to be extraordinarily creative, that’s a whole other side to creativity is actually finding places to play and how you reach your audience.
The Junior was stolen in the US and the CG was stolen in Adelaide.
We’re not that protective of what we do, we just want people to enjoy what we do and we would want to turn people on to our perception of what good music is about.