Well after the Cemetery cct racing me & the lovely wiff went to the JB concert. Icon Aussie rocker, but prone to sounding like John Farnham in years past. I was hoping that bearing in mind the crowd he'd know what’s good for him & play predominantly Chisel stuff.
But no, he had to play a bunch of newer stuff, putting out a new album etc.
I liked Swingshift at the time (1st solo record as they were black & round in those days) but those songs have aged a bit (ironically the earlier Chisel stuff hasn’t).
Seems like when he left Chisel he lost some writing input from Ian Moss & now all his songs are so damn repetitive & I don’t care but you can’t save a boring song with interjections of “YEAH/WHOO” every ten seconds. Oh yeah & Tina Turner covers? Sheesh! Then "I am the lineman of the county". Bec goes "You've got to be kidding!"
He eventually played Flame Trees but it was like it was being sung with none of the original timing & while performers probably like to change things for variety -really that was the brilliance & it was stripped out.
We left early & as leaving the gates paused as he started to do Kai Shan. Errr, nah he was murdering that as well, rather remember it from the album. I’ve heard him in concert before & he was good, but sadly that was oh so many years ago.
Where’s that Chisel/Barking Spiders record hiding in the storage boxes?
Oh & to make it worse we camped at the Bignel st camp grounds & were woken at well past 1 by some Bigmouth ‘Expert on everything’ treating the place like it was a rally not a family campground & talking in a voice that could be heard above all others “Mate. I’ll tell you honestly blah blah:
We left & went back to wgtn as the prick was in full bull-babble.
If he’s reading: Mate. I’ll tell you honestly; You’re a current. If you still have a bike I bet you can’t ride. & GB400s? please. Tosser.
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