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Reply #75 - May 28^th, 2025 at 9:30am

Oh dear, maybe you’re forgiven for a closed mind.
I was taking to hubby about the groups in our heyday, and how they wore suits… he said we never even got to see them on tv.
It wasn’t until the 80s rage that we get to see music clips of groups from past.
I think all we used to get was a show called Go Set or Go Show and Molly Meldrum miming the popular radio songs. That was the best we as Aussies saw on tv at the time. Maybe Australian TV couldn’t afford the actual video clips.
Only reason I knew what the band members looked like was because of magazines and centrefold posters which I would stick with tape up on bedroom walls.

I knew more about Australian musicians than overseas musicians.
Now it seems reversed.

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SerialBrain9 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3119	Re: Childhood Celebrity Crush……… Reply #78 - May 28^th, 2025 at 11:51am Another big name about when younger - not an actor as such but a “Celebrity” of types.. Samantha Fox 🦊 https://samfox.com/vintage-page-3/?product-page=3
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Reply #79 - May 28^th, 2025 at 12:51pm

Sophia wrote on May 26^th, 2025 at 3:34pm:

Wasn’t my cup of tea as a young teen.
I also played musical instruments and had music lessons and exams, from age 9.
One of my absolute faves at age 12/13 was Johnny Farnham’s Sadie….
I couldn’t afford modern music sheets so I wrote my own music of the song by ear. I still have that music somewhere.
It’s just the way my soul ticked.
By the time I was 17 I quit music, was more into fashion and dolly magazines.

Would have been the music not the bloke.

Your choices were more all the "POP" singers. Grin

Where as mine were - heavy rock

Jim Morrison - Doors
Mick Jagger - Stones
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Sabbath
Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin
John Kay - Steppenwolf
Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
Rod Evans - Deep Purple
David Byron - Uriah Heep

Get this inta ya Grin

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Reply #81 - May 28^th, 2025 at 12:55pm

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:15am:

Dear Bobbie…. What have you got against sportsmen if that’s what some like?
My family here are very sporty….
Now I’ve mentioned musicians I liked when younger. Normie Rowe, Johnny Farnham, Peter Tolk of The Monkees etc.
Are you saying they not good enough to be the league you mentioned above?
Tsk tsk tsk

Here’s a u tube clip of the fantastic musicianship of the Monkees members… great guitar playing!

That's Peter TORK - Sophia - some fan Roll Eyes

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Reply #82 - May 28^th, 2025 at 1:07pm

Marla wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:38am:

As for MY crush?

Why none other than Phineas Gage

https://assets.medlink.com/content/article-media/PhineasGage.jpg

Something so sexy about man with a railroad spike through his skull.

He died 160 years ago - I doubt you'd have ever heard of him until recently.

It was not a railroad spike - it was a crowbar that went through his skull.

A railroad spike or dog spike is metal spike/nail driven into wooden railway sleeps to secure the rail to the sleepers.

These are rail dog spikes. 6.2 inches long.

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Reply #84 - May 28^th, 2025 at 1:34pm

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:15am:

Dear Bobbie…. What have you got against sportsmen if that’s what some like?
My family here are very sporty….
Now I’ve mentioned musicians I liked when younger. Normie Rowe, Johnny Farnham, Peter Tolk of The Monkees etc.
Are you saying they not good enough to be the league you mentioned above?
Tsk tsk tsk

Here’s a u tube clip of the fantastic musicianship of the Monkees members… great guitar playing!

Well, the great guitar playing is actually coming from the guy standing behind Micky Dolenz, with the green guitar - Wayne Avers.

Many years ago I was friends with Neil Brooks, the Olympic swimmer, before he started getting into dodgy stuff.

He formed a pub band here in Perth.

They were called Aussie Express, or Oz Express - something like that.

He played guitar and sang, and wrote the music and lyrics for all the songs.

The band flopped, as nobody wanted to hear original songs back then - Perth was the 'Cover Band' capital of Australia.

So, I taught Neil some covers and the very first one he learnt was that song - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone.

Which, by the way, is also a cover - it was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, not The Monkees.

Having said that, I was still a Monkees fan when I was a kid.

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Reply #85 - May 28^th, 2025 at 3:54pm

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 9:30am:

Oh dear, maybe you’re forgiven for a closed mind.
I was taking to hubby about the groups in our heyday, and how they wore suits… he said we never even got to see them on tv.
It wasn’t until the 80s rage that we get to see music clips of groups from past.
I think all we used to get was a show called Go Set or Go Show and Molly Meldrum miming the popular radio songs. That was the best we as Aussies saw on tv at the time. Maybe Australian TV couldn’t afford the actual video clips.
Only reason I knew what the band members looked like was because of magazines and centrefold posters which I would stick with tape up on bedroom walls.

I knew more about Australian musicians than overseas musicians.
Now it seems reversed.

My sister used to watch "Happening 68/69" and Bandstand.

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Reply #86 - May 28^th, 2025 at 3:57pm

greggerypeccary wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 1:34pm:

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:15am:

Dear Bobbie…. What have you got against sportsmen if that’s what some like?
My family here are very sporty….
Now I’ve mentioned musicians I liked when younger. Normie Rowe, Johnny Farnham, Peter Tolk of The Monkees etc.
Are you saying they not good enough to be the league you mentioned above?
Tsk tsk tsk

Here’s a u tube clip of the fantastic musicianship of the Monkees members… great guitar playing!

Well, the great guitar playing is actually coming from the guy standing behind Micky Dolenz, with the green guitar - Wayne Avers.

Many years ago I was friends with Neil Brooks, the Olympic swimmer, before he started getting into dodgy stuff.

He formed a pub band here in Perth.

They were called Aussie Express, or Oz Express - something like that.

He played guitar and sang, and wrote the music and lyrics for all the songs.

The band flopped, as nobody wanted to hear original songs back then - Perth was the 'Cover Band' capital of Australia.

So, I taught Neil some covers and the very first one he learnt was that song - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone.

Which, by the way, is also a cover - it was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, not The Monkees.

Having said that, I was still a Monkees fan when I was a kid.

I just remembered something else about Neil.

He played an unusual guitar - an Ovation Breadwinner.

While most people in pub bands were playing Fender Stratocasters back then, Neil was strumming on this:

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Reply #87 - May 28^th, 2025 at 3:59pm

Gnads wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 12:55pm:

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:15am:

Dear Bobbie…. What have you got against sportsmen if that’s what some like?
My family here are very sporty….
Now I’ve mentioned musicians I liked when younger. Normie Rowe, Johnny Farnham, Peter Tolk of The Monkees etc.
Are you saying they not good enough to be the league you mentioned above?
Tsk tsk tsk

Here’s a u tube clip of the fantastic musicianship of the Monkees members… great guitar playing!

That's Peter TORK - Sophia - some fan Roll Eyes

Whaddaya on about?
There’s 3 original Monkees members in the front there, not just Peter, but Davey and Micky too Cool

As it stands now, there’s only one still alive, Micky. He’s in his 80s now.
Oh and I did like Deep Purple too…(we were asked which idol we liked … not groups) and DP was the first vinyl album I ever bought back then. I still have it in my collection of hundreds of vinyl albums I’ve collected over the last 30 years… when cd made vinyl unpopular. Got them all for a song (pun intended) and now worth more.

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Reply #88 - May 28^th, 2025 at 4:04pm

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 3:59pm:

Gnads wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 12:55pm:

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:15am:

Dear Bobbie…. What have you got against sportsmen if that’s what some like?
My family here are very sporty….
Now I’ve mentioned musicians I liked when younger. Normie Rowe, Johnny Farnham, Peter Tolk of The Monkees etc.
Are you saying they not good enough to be the league you mentioned above?
Tsk tsk tsk

Here’s a u tube clip of the fantastic musicianship of the Monkees members… great guitar playing!

That's Peter TORK - Sophia - some fan Roll Eyes

Whaddaya on about?
There’s 3 original Monkees members in the front there, not just Peter, but Davey and Micky too Cool

As it stands now, there’s only one still alive, Micky. He’s in his 80s now.
Oh and I did like Deep Purple too…(we were asked which idol we liked … not groups) and DP was the first vinyl album I ever bought back then. I still have it in my collection of hundreds of vinyl albums I’ve collected over the last 30 years… when cd made vinyl unpopular. Got them all for a song (pun intended) and now worth more.

He's talking about your spelling.

You said: "Peter Tolk".

It's Tork Wink

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Reply #89 - May 28^th, 2025 at 4:08pm

greggerypeccary wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 1:34pm:

Sophia wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 2:15am:

Dear Bobbie…. What have you got against sportsmen if that’s what some like?
My family here are very sporty….
Now I’ve mentioned musicians I liked when younger. Normie Rowe, Johnny Farnham, Peter Tolk of The Monkees etc.
Are you saying they not good enough to be the league you mentioned above?
Tsk tsk tsk

Here’s a u tube clip of the fantastic musicianship of the Monkees members… great guitar playing!

Well, the great guitar playing is actually coming from the guy standing behind Micky Dolenz, with the green guitar - Wayne Avers.

Many years ago I was friends with Neil Brooks, the Olympic swimmer, before he started getting into dodgy stuff.

He formed a pub band here in Perth.

They were called Aussie Express, or Oz Express - something like that.

He played guitar and sang, and wrote the music and lyrics for all the songs.

The band flopped, as nobody wanted to hear original songs back then - Perth was the 'Cover Band' capital of Australia.

So, I taught Neil some covers and the very first one he learnt was that song - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone.

Which, by the way, is also a cover - it was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, not The Monkees.

Having said that, I was still a Monkees fan when I was a kid.

Cool story. Your involvement with music. I too was into it all but when Brian Naylor wanted me to go on the juniors musical talent tv show… I just couldn’t! I would’ve froze in front of all those tv cameras in stage!
I’ve got more stories about connections with the late Brian Naylor, he retired in king lake. He and his wife perished in the black Saterday fires Embarrassed

Hubby met him before all that… was doing a lot of work in kinglake area.
We nearly shifted there when kids were little, while looking at properties… hubby suddenly says “But Sophie, what if there’s a fire, there’s only one road in or out”
Hmmm …. Needless to say we didn’t shift there. And so many people he knew and did work for had lost everything and some even their lives.

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