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The Blackeyed Susans
''For the American band with a similar name, see Blackeyed Susan.'' The Blackeyed Susans are an Australian rock band, which formed in Perth in 1989. Long serving members are Phil Kakulas on bass guitar, guitar and vocals; and Rob Snarski on vocals and guitar. They have released seven studio albums, ''Welcome Stranger'' (August 1992), '' All Souls Alive'' (December 1993), '' Mouth to Mouth'' (July 1995), ''Spin the Bottle'' (July 1997), ''Dedicated to the Ones We Love'' (23 April 2001), ''Shangri-La'' (21 July 2003) and ''Close Your Eyes and See'' (3 March 2017). Perth 1989–90 The original line-up of the Blackeyed Susans consisted of Ross Bolleter on organ and accordion, Phil Kakulas on bass guitar, guitar and vocals (from Martha's Vineyard and ex-the Triffids), Alsy MacDonald on drums, David McComb on vocals and guitar (both from the Triffids), and Rob Snarski (ex- Chad's Tree) on vocals and guitar. Initially they were formed as the Bottomless Schooners of Old in late 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackeyed Susan (band)
''For the Australian band, see The Blackeyed Susans.'' Blackeyed Susan was an American rock band from Philadelphia active between 1990 and 1992. The band was formed by singer and guitarist "Dizzy" Dean Davidson after he left Britny Fox. History Blackeyed Susan was formed in 1990 by ex- Britny Fox frontman Dean Davidson. Davidson brought in former Cinderella keyboardist Rick Criniti to play guitar. Bassist Erik Levy and drummer Chris Branco rounded out the line-up. Compared to Britny Fox, Blackeyed Susan showed a more blues rock influenced sound than the bawdy glam metal of the former. The band released their first album, ''Electric Rattlebone'', on Mercury Records in 1991. The album was a commercial failure, and Mercury pulled their support for the band while they were on tour. During the supporting tour, Rick Crintini was replaced by Jimmy Marchiano. Blackeyed Susan began working on a followup to ''Electric Rattlebone'' called ''Just A Taste'' in 1992, but the album ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Souls Alive
''All Souls Alive'' is the second studio album by Australian rock band The Blackeyed Susans. The album was released in December 1993 on the independent record label, Torn and Frayed, and was distributed by Shock Records. The album was released in the United States by Frontier Records on 29 April 1994. Two singles lifted off the album were released in Australia in July 1994, "Dirty Water" and " This One Eats Souls". Content and history The album features ten tracks, eight penned by Phil Kakulas and David McComb, as well as the Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector classic "Memories" and a version of the Johnny Paycheck song "Apartment No 9". ''All Souls Alive'' was released in America on Frontier Records in April 1994. The album was also released in the UK, Greece, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Sweden in July 1994. The album got great reviews in the UK press and airplay on Radio One. Reception Graham Lee said of the album, "You couldn't describe it as a sunny record, I d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Salmon
Kim Leith Salmon (born 24 January 1957) is an Australian rock musician and songwriter from Perth. He has worked in various groups including The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Kim Salmon and the Business, and Darling Downs. Australian rock musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Salmon as one of the first Australians to "embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s" with The Scientists. He declared that Beasts of Bourbon were "masters of uncompromising gutbucket blues and hard-edged rock'n'roll". In 2004 Salmon was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame and in 2007, into the Music Victoria Awards Hall of Fame. Early work Kim Leith Salmon was born in 1957 in the Western Australian port city of Bunbury. He later recalled wanting to be a nuclear physicist until, at the age of 13, he heard "heavy rock stuff" on the radio. He bought his first guitar, "an acoustic steel string thing", fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Some Births Are Worse Than Murders
''Some Births Are Worse Than Murders'' is the debut EP by The Blackeyed Susans, released in March 1989 on Waterfront Records. The Blackeyed Susans was formed in Perth in 1989 as a side project for Martha's Vineyard, Chad's Tree and the Triffids members, including David McComb. They played eight gigs and recorded four songs before their "day jobs" forced them to put the project on hold. The songs became ''Some Births are Worse than Murders''. The EP was acclaimed by music critics nationally and in the UK, the record spent several weeks at No. l on the independent charts in Australia. Track listing # "Don’t Call Yourself An Angel" ( David McComb, Phil Kakulas) – 3:14 # "Enemy Mine" (David McComb, Phil Kakulas) – 4:07 # "Viva Las Vegas" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 5:10 # "Cripple Creek" (Traditional/Phil Kakulas) – 4:47 Personnel Blackeyed Susans * David McComb – vocals, guitar, percussion * Rob Snarski – vocals, guitar * Phil Kakulas – double bass, electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Swan (The Triffids Album)
''The Black Swan'' is the fifth and final studio album by The Triffids, released in April 1989 and peaking at No. 59 on the Australian Album Charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The album was originally conceived as a double album. In the recording sessions the Triffids were joined by producer Stephen Street (the Smiths' - ''Strangeways, Here We Come'' and Morrissey's ''Viva Hate''). ''The Black Swan'' used a greater variety of musical instruments than their previous albums with bouzouki, güiro and accordion and a more obvious use of synths and programming. The title of the album was originally going to be ''Disappointment Resort Complex'' but was renamed to ''The Black Swan'', which according to a 1989 interview by Stephen Phillips (''NME'') with David McComb is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Thomas Mann. Background The chosen single from the album, " Goodbye Little Boy", fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Snarski (musician)
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David McComb
David Richard McComb (17 February 19622 February 1999) was an Australian musician. He was the singer-songwriter and guitarist of the Australian bands, The Triffids (1976–89) and The Blackeyed Susans (1989–93). He also had a solo career including leading David McComb and The Red Ponies. Over his career McComb had bouts of alcoholism, and amphetamine and heroin abuse. He developed cardiomyopathy and in 1996 underwent a heart transplant. David McComb died on 2 February 1999 "due to heroin toxicity and mild acute rejection of his 1996 heart transplant", according to the coroner. In May 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Wide Open Road" by The Triffids – written by McComb – as one of the APRA Top 30 Australian songs, Top 30 Australian songs of all time. On 1 July 2008 The Triffids were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with McComb's contribution acknowledged by a tribute performance. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alsy MacDonald
Alan MacDonald (born 14 August 1961) is an Australian musician and lawyer, best known as the drummer of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he performed under his nickname 'Alsy'. He was born on 14 August 1961 to Prof. Bill MacDonald, a professor of child health at University of Western Australia, and Dr Judy Henzell ( AM), a well-known paediatrician. He was the youngest of the four children, with two older brothers and a sister. As a child he couldn't say 'Alan' properly so called himself 'Alsy'. He went to Hollywood Senior High School in Perth, Western Australia and was close friends with David McComb. In 1976, partly in response to the emergence of punk rock, MacDonald and McComb formed Dalsy, later known as Blök Music and then The Triffids (from the post-apocalyptic John Wyndham novel, ''The Day of the Triffids''). McComb and MacDonald wrote and performed songs with Phil Kakulas (later in Blackeyed Susans), Andrew McGowan, Julian Douglas-Smith, and later Byron Sinclair, Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Triffids
The Triffids were an Australian alternative rock and pop band, formed in Perth in Western Australia in May 1978 with David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry fo"The Triffids" Retrieved 19 December 2009.Spencer et al, (2007) 'Triffids, The' entry.Australian Rock Database entries: * The Triffids: * The Blackeyed Susans: * Four Hours Sleep: * John Kennedy * Lawson Square Infirmary: * Graham Lee: * David McComb: They achieved some success in Australia, but greater success in the UK and Scandinavia in the 1980s before disbanding in 1989. Their best-known songs include " Wide Open Road" (February 1986) and " Bury Me Deep in Love" (October 1987). SBS television featured their 1986 album, '' Born Sandy Devotional'', on the ''Great Australian Albums'' series in 2007, and in 2010 it ranked 5th in the book '' The 100 Best Australian Albums'' by Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Bolleter
Ross Bolleter (born 1946, Subiaco, Western Australia) is a composer and musician whose work is focused on ruined pianos. His recordings are available on Emanem (London), Pogus (New York), New Albion (San Francisco) and Tall Poppies (Sydney), as well as on his WARPS (World Association for Ruined Piano Studies) label. https://bolleter.wixsite.com/warpsmusic Career Music Bolleter studied the music theory as well as its history and composition at the University of Western Australia between 1964 and 1967. This fired his interest in the music of composers such as Webern, Boulez and Cage. After playing the piano for six years at the Parmelia Hilton, he explored non-conventional timbral and rhythmic possibilities of the prepared piano and released a cassette, ''The Temple of Joyous Bones'', which featured the piano. Bolleter found inspiration in the eighties playing and recording improvised music with flautist Tos Mahoney and double bassist, Ryszard Ratajczak. Over the past thirty years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shangri-La (The Blackeyed Susans Album)
''Shangri-La'' is the sixth studio album by The Blackeyed Susans, released in July 2003. After initial writing sessions in mid-1999, recording of the album was scheduled for 2000. It was postponed when the band’s then record company, Mds, was bought by Festival Records. The band eventually returned to the project in 2002, after their covers album Dedicated to the Ones We Love. It was released on their own label, Teardrop, the following year. The title of the album Shangri-La, refers to an illusory island paradise, a lost utopia that exists only in imagination and metaphor an apt name considering it was almost abandoned as an impossible project. In an interview Phil Kakulas commented ''"It was named before, back when I still had all faith that it would be released," Kakulas begins, "but it seems almost prophetic in that we did almost lose it. The name 'Shangri-La' seems to sum up a lot of what the album is about. The songs seem to deal with what happiness might be and where you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
