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IN THE AGE BEFORE SCISSORS

Australian popular music was once dominated by hairy outdoorsmen.

Posted by Tim B. on 11/03/2007 at 11:04 PM

  1. Australian popular music was once dominated by hairy outdoorsmen.

    HA! American popular music was once dominated by hairy indoorsmen…with make up.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 11 03 at 11:17 PM • permalink

  2. Ross Wilson’s had a great career, w/ the ensuing Mondo Rock et al

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 11 03 at 11:20 PM • permalink

  3. Does anyone remember the outrage over their album “Sex, Drugs, & Rock n Roll”?  “Baby Let Me Bang Your Box” was banned from radio airplay IIRC.

    Great band.  I wish I still had that LP.

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 11 04 at 12:18 AM • permalink

  4. Honey, in the 70’s, everybody looked like a hairy outdoorsman.  Even the women.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 11 04 at 12:27 AM • permalink

  5. #1 El Cid :)
    Looks like a cue for a music veejio thread

    50 cent at SEMA proudly showing off his signature 550hp Pontiac [GM/Holden Commodore]

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 11 04 at 12:44 AM • permalink

  6. My personal favourite, Eagle Rock. Memories of being 14.

    (#4 I must be getting old. Looking at that film I reckon there must have been an accute shortage of combs then!)

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 04 at 12:46 AM • permalink

  7. *sigh*

    I had some really cool hippie chick girlfriends in the 70’s.  Yeah, they were clueless, but so was I.  Ignorance is bliss.

    There’s still nothing like a young babe in hiphugger bellbottoms with long, long hair… laughing while riding an innertube down a river… holding a can of Budweiser.

    Shit, what am I saying?!... Weren’t those the Carter administration years?! LOL!

    Posted by Hucbald on 2007 11 04 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  8. The Sacred Cows (fresh from Hyderabad?) had a good guitar sound.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 11 04 at 01:10 AM • permalink

  9. What no banjo or red bandana on the dog?  Posers!

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2007 11 04 at 01:45 AM • permalink

  10. No red bandana on the banjo player either!

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2007 11 04 at 01:45 AM • permalink

  11. I remember the era. Revolting, even if I did have long hair. I suppose this is supposed to be Nimbin. Songs and performers best forgotten.  These people, men and women, still have long hair in pony-tails but it’s now grey. They spend their days attending hoWARd and anti-Bush festivals and voting for the Greens. Tossers then, tossers now.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2007 11 04 at 01:20 AM • permalink

  12. 11 walter

    Hey, I evolved.  Some of us made it out.  Just like some of today’s tossers will.

    Life is a journey.

    Posted by Hucbald on 2007 11 04 at 01:26 AM • permalink

  13. #11 Walter, it makes me laugh inside to see aging hippies, balding with the grey ponytail - they really have been left behind! I think they really never grew up. Tossers? Yeah, that too.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 04 at 01:31 AM • permalink

  14. Yeah, and Huc, you don’t have the grey pony tail.
    Or the grecian comb-over….
    Noone’d ever know you were a hippy.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 04 at 01:33 AM • permalink

  15. Was Daddy Cool a top Aussie band? Does anyone know if that’s from a TV show? I hope not, because the camera work is atrocious. Not that American TV directors knew how to shoot rock and roll bands then either, but you wouldn’t have seen all the pans and zooms. The sound was excellent for a live shot.

    Posted by CraigC on 2007 11 04 at 01:34 AM • permalink

  16. Far out. A better song than Eagle Rock. Still got the vinyl, kids. Still listen to Gary Young’s show “Chicken Mary” every week on RRR, and I once jammed with Ross Hannaford at a club in Brunswick. Wilson was a genius but Mondo Rock were crap.
    Anything else you need to know?

    Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 11 04 at 01:39 AM • permalink

  17. Well, yeah! I mean, it was after all the Dawning of The Age of A Hairy Arse.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 11 04 at 02:27 AM • permalink

  18. Needs more dog - pictures.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 11 04 at 03:23 AM • permalink

  19. the only really clear musical memory I have of the seventies are the KISS icipoles they sold at the school tuckshop.


    mmmmm artificial flavourings.

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 04 at 03:23 AM • permalink

  20. #13
    balding with the grey ponytail

    Aging rockers with that look is really sad

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 11 04 at 03:56 AM • permalink

  21. #12 - Hey, I evolved.  Some of us made it out.  Just like some of today’s tossers will.

    Quite so Hucbald.  I will even confess to frequenting Silvers in Toorak Rd and grooving away to Barry White, and Barry Manilow singing ‘Copacabana’, and drinking Mateus.  Before anyone laughs this was the height of sophistication in Melbourne in the 70s.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2007 11 04 at 05:08 AM • permalink

  22. #20
    Walterplinge
    er, was that a wine bar? they were all the rage.
    The one I frequented was Bacchus at Bankstown, underage, of course!
    There was a bar called “The Stoned Crow” at Crows Nest, too. It was pretty good. Went there to meet people and met blokes from our home suburb! Silly really.
    Stage Door Tavern was good, too.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 04 at 05:15 AM • permalink

  23. #3—What’s an LP, Daddy?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 11 04 at 12:43 PM • permalink

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