Howdy Kevq I'm off the stock market,children have gone for the week(share parenting),I've finished brushcutting for today and some time to kill.
Lol...I'll give you all the QLD experience that I can recall,all post '75(memorabilia is boxed up).
I'm not sure your mate(razor band) would know the 7 hills band,it had one of those esoteric names 'mother do you know your attic has....etc',but he might know some of the other bands/musos I had worked in/with.
Had a band at the Miami hotel(Gold coast)for a year.It was the first time they had tried live music.First 4 nights then fell back to Fri/Sat.Just fanatastic.Full of the surfing/uni crowd.First band was called 'dicky Doo and the Dont's'(pinched). Revival rock n roll band. Drummer had been a roady/drummer for thunderclap newman,guitarist was a guy called mick liber (ex ashton,gardner n dyke)and bass player was 'yuk' out of max merritt and meteors.The lineup and style eventually changed.
Hacienda,Fortitude Valley,was also fun(top bar,lol),had a gig there for 12 months,6 nights a week.Occasionally did spots at 'jet club' after Hacienda. Good band this one Kevq,yr mate might know some of the musos who were brisbane boys(I'm a Vic mallee boy).
Bass-barry sullivan(ex chain,renee geyer,etc) guitar-keith'stretch'kerwin. drums-'geronimo'(frank from cairns). Me- Dr Sax.
Next was(i think) 'Blues Express'.We played on the Carlton pub circuit(covers),6 weeks here ,6 weeks there.Spent a year at 'Caesars Palace' Toowoomba,as residence band.Also used to work 'penthouse club'(gc).Blinkers club night in city.This band also did backing/travelling with acts that came to QLD.Platters,Drifters and Inkspots.
Last group I joined in Brisbane was a NZ band called 'Collision'-played lots of 'Commodores','Tower of Power' etc,had a residency at the 'top of the state' night club.
Toured all over QLD,from the 'Playroom'(gc) to the 'Oriental' at mackay.The band truck crashed at Mt Larkin (out of Rocky) and I decided time to get a *real* job!
Best singer in any band I was in up north was a guy called Larry Cozier(close spelling!).Sang Al Jarreau and George Benson almost better than they did!
