tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post3153804813749274718..comments2024-03-26T01:00:01.107+11:00Comments on Wallaby Beat: The Press - Fodder For The Critics LP Laser VXL14187, 1979Wallaby Beathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09981560179306474625noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-35137215407703099232014-12-07T21:07:04.251+11:002014-12-07T21:07:04.251+11:00Just great to hear stories from people who knew Ri...Just great to hear stories from people who knew Rick Doolan . He was a good friend of mine , and he was proud as punch when his record came out ! I ended up getting him a job with me at Mascot airport and we all used to shower and change at the depot and drive straight into Chequers , taking about 15 courier drivers with us for the night . Great , but deadly , days . lolPetanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-41495963356208485152013-09-23T16:28:54.976+10:002013-09-23T16:28:54.976+10:00Great Record!! I haven't heard it for 30 years...Great Record!! I haven't heard it for 30 years!!I loved that record...need to hear it again...What a great time in Oz rock...a pity so many of those pubs are gone!Fluffhttp://www.collisioncourserecords.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-38761184030797124542012-12-20T20:04:03.785+11:002012-12-20T20:04:03.785+11:00Yeah. That handbill looks/looked like crap. Michel...Yeah. That handbill looks/looked like crap. Michel's cover was excellent and stirred up just the right amount of shit. I recall Michel and I were invited to the home of then ultra cool music journo Stuart Coupe. He grilled us about the use of the word "Fodder" and said he believed it implied that critics like him were animals. Well, who gave a fuck what you inferred from our shit, dude? Why the fuck he even bothered with us when he could've spent those hours hangin' out with the clique idk.<br /><br />He was such a self important scenester like every other cunt who never understood that we were just four guys playing in a band and hoping to make it big for all the usual reasons.<br /><br />All these pussies who are 'legends' now - we played at the Kings Cross Rex with The Psycho Surgeons one night and while we were onstage these punk rock stars are throwing schooner glasses at us. In those days they were actually fuckin' glass. The Late Rick Doolan and one or two of his (also late) friends took that problem outside after we finished the set.<br /><br />I recall the night in Bondi that Michel refers to. That was at a place called Blondies. The entire block of buildings is gone now. Steve Kott goes apeshit. I got away with just one punch to the head outside on the road. Jesus. For a couple of months this is the cool place to be. There wasn't much cool happening that night. <br /><br />What a groovy couple of years that was. People in the suburbs kick us offstage coz we're 'punks'. People in the city throw shit at us coz we're not.<br /><br />I probably come across as bitter, but this is just me. I had a ball. What a thing to be doing when you're that age - how could I ever regret that I was playing in a loud, hard and fast rock band that actually pissed the right people off just by being what we were?<br /><br />Bruce Cummingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-29334432628461616752012-11-05T18:48:06.541+11:002012-11-05T18:48:06.541+11:00The so called gig poster was in fact just a handbi...The so called gig poster was in fact just a handbill, around A5 size, and I like the way the designer (who was never paid for it) made me and Bruce left handers. We quickly thought the design a bit twee.<br /><br />I gotta say you know a lot about us - were you there at the time? The reason I get put into Band Of Light was because I did in fact work with Phil Key for a very short while as part of a backing band for Mark Holden who was being managed by Kate Wentworth at the time. We did some out of town gigs as Band Of Light.<br /><br />Submarine X1 was formed by ex Buffalo guitarist John Baxter and vocalist Allan Milano; this band morphed into Southern Cross when Baxter left to later form Boy Racer. The song Harris Street, on Southern Cross's album, is about the rehearsal studio each of these bands used (as a matter of useless information).<br /><br />The Fodder For The Critics cover design was down to me. It was meant to be printed with a 65 line screen - as in newspaper reproduction of the time - but the knobs wouldn't do that so it looks wrong - to me, anyway. It's also a matte paper, which gets grubby really quickly.<br /><br />There was quite a bit of violence and drugs in and around the Press, and Kot was kicked out of the band after he beat me up on stage in an amphetamine rage at a gig in Bondi Junction. We got the singer from World War IV for a couple of gigs, but Doolan wanted Kot back, so we limped along for a while with Kot back again, but the fire had gone out and we moved on.Michel Brouetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-60133878668200971202012-08-14T18:01:43.547+10:002012-08-14T18:01:43.547+10:00The Press gig poster would have made a far superio...The Press gig poster would have made a far superior sleeve for the LP, or a great picture sleeve for the 7". <br />I love it.Clintonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-20226189792365612412011-05-27T10:41:21.388+10:002011-05-27T10:41:21.388+10:00Got the record yesterday and gave it a few spins. ...Got the record yesterday and gave it a few spins. I'd rate the first two tracks on side 1 as far better than Out Of View. There are a couple of tracks which are not very punk-like at all, but the whole album is quite enjoyable.<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948631353581176341.post-29938815921482644472011-05-19T09:54:00.275+10:002011-05-19T09:54:00.275+10:00I remember seeing a mint copy of this album in an ...I remember seeing a mint copy of this album in an op shop in Sydney not long after it came it. I didn't buy it. But now you've convinced me to buy a copy with a grubby cover. To be fair, if I had bought it back in the day, it probably would have had a grubby cover pretty soon after, considering the sorts of places I lived in at the time<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com