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A newsy letter from America to my wife
Helen in 1979 |
| Mike's
Pith & Wind - Some Good Advice
One
of my forgotten bands of the late ‘70s was
a happy band of mercenaries - well, two bands
actually - called Mike Rudd’s Instant Replay,
which were interestingly enough the most successful
live bands Bill and I were involved with, financially
speaking that is.
The premise was simple – put a band together
with me and Bill as the core members, a band that
played covers exclusively, including a bunch of
Aussie covers from the Easybeats and The Loved
Ones etc. (never forgetting to cover
our own I’ll Be Gone of course),
a band that would be on the road for no longer
than three months before disappearing, possibly
to regroup at some later stage, but then again,
maybe not.
It was exactly the kind of disposable, no-brainer
concept that any agency could get their heads
around and use their much-vaunted leverage to
good effect, so naturally after we’d done
it the first time we just couldn’t help
ourselves and had to do it again – an instant
replay equivalent of déjà vu all
over again.
The second version of Instant Replay actually
morphed into Mike Rudd & The Heaters whose
first single was Australian Girls (b/w
Talking to the Television) and although
I can’t remember the session for that single,
I’m sure it came about after we returned
from our holiday in the States in ’79.
That’s right – an actual holiday in
the USA financed by our astonishingly successful
(in our terms anyway) three month stint bashing
out covers in three.. read
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| Dick's
Toolbox - The father's speech
Our daughter and only child,
Elizabeth, is getting married later this month.
As Father of the Bride (FotB) it will be incumbent
on me to deliver a short and, hopefully, memorable
speech. Also, at some stage of the proceedings,
my beautiful daughter would like me to cry - or
at least sniffle. I have been allotted five minutes
for the speech, but I presume that I can cry as
long as I like.
The crying has been stipulated as Elizabeth claims
that the only time she has seen me moist-eyed
in thirty plus years was whilst watching an All
Blacks game where I uttered – possible simultaneously
with ‘tearing-up’ - the immortal lines
about Richie McCaw “God, he’s inspirational!”
All New Zealanders would understand this and were
probably in the same state at the same time.
Anyway, it is a calumny, as I sure that I sobbed
at the end of Fast and Furious 7. For
me The Dirty Dozen was a three hanky
movie.
The Best Man (BM) and the Matron of Honour (MoH)
are also in the firing line to.. read
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