Long-time readers are aware of my enthusiasm for the Easys (and Harry Vanda and George Young, the auteurs of the band and much else); when people talk about them as being simultaneously both the Beatles AND the Stones of Australia, it isn't hypberole,
In any case, I was unaware of Marshall's cover until Friend of PowerPop© Sal Nunziato mentioned it in the Weekend Listomania just passed, and herewith a hearty "Thanks, buddy!"
Hmmm...I think tomorrow an interesting Vanda & Young related story might be appropriate.
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You're welcome, except, it wasn't me.
ChrisE suggested it after I suggeted MC cover The Easys "Heaven & Hell."
Check your in box.
Simels regrets the error.
Chris E's ego is bruised but he forgives Simels (and thanks Sal).
my acquaintance with the easybeats went only as far as having heard 'friday on my mind' on american radio
youtube shows me "lost footage" of the band at the bbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjnBFi-I28
and also stevie wright soundcheck 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsomkbNgFYQ
wright had an eventful life, wikipedia tells me - but with triumphs as well as tragedies - ending up with an apparently natural death at a relatively appropriate age (68) after a 6 year retirement
may his memory be a blessing
I roadied for a band in the 60s. Jennifer's Friends - they recorded " Land of Make Believe" on Buddah Records-'signed by the
infamous Lew Merenstein.
Anyway, this might have elicited a reunion of sorts with J/F on Burning Wood,as it caught their attention
rob
PS - "Land of. " was an Easy Beats song
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