Show 101
01-08-2025
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
Pacific Heights - Intro and exit by Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998 album.
Solid Rock - Goanna, off their 1982 album Spirit of Place.
Tender Like A Bruise - Billed as Snarski Vs. Snarski, bothers Mark and Rob Snarski, both veterans of several popular groups, released the album Waiting For the Bell in October 2024.
Such A Bore - Rebecca Barnard from her 2006 album Fortified.
Our first battle of the bands for 2025 features Marcus Hook Roll Band and AC/DC. Admittedly it's not much of a battle, seeing as how Marcus Hook Roll Band is Harry Vanda and George Young of the Easybeats, plus George's brothers Malcolm and Angus, who were in the process of launching their own band AC/DC, with Vanda and Young producing. I found this quote from George: "All of a sudden the kid brothers were still the kid brothers... but my God, they knew how to play. There was no sort of, 'Do they have it or don't they have it?' It was obvious that they had something."
Round 1
Moonshine Blues, from the only Marcus Hook album, Tales of Old Grand-Daddy, from 1973. Stick Around, off the AC/DC album High Voltage, the 1975 Australian release, not the US 1976 version.
Round 2
Goodbye Jane - Marcus Hook Roll Band
What's Next To the Moon - AC/DC from their 1976 album Powerage.
Skyhooks 70s
Living In the 1970s - the title track to their 1974 debut LP.
You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good In Bed - same album.
Love's Not Good Enough - From 1975, their second album, titled Ego Is Not A Dirty Word.
Work of Art - John Dowler's Vanity Project, from his 2020 album 12 Stitches.
Scotty Says - Courtney Barnett, from 2013, her album The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas.
Better Days - Guitarist, singer, producer, arranger Steve Connolly featured on many of Paul Kelly's best songs. He made his own album in 1999 but it wasn't quite finished before his life was tragically cut short; the songs were rescued and released as Steve Connolly and the Usual Suspects in 2018.
