First radio appearance!

[wazkelly]

Cheers mate. Country has come a long way and I quite some Keith Urban as that has a harder Rock edge to it.

[Zandit75]

Yeah, I'm a big fan of Keith Urban, and I'll be seeing him live in December in Melbourne. This will be about the 6th time we have seen him live!
I haven't been a fan of his last few albums. There is only about 5-6 songs I like on his latest album, where I would be lucky to find only one or two songs I didn't like on his earlier ones.

[wazkelly]

OK. I don't have any of his albums, just heard a few songs here and there and really enjoyed his performance at the NRL Grand Final which made Ritchie Sambora look a right proper goose singing out of tune and relying on his girlfriend Orianthi to play his Bon Jovi lead solos. Extremely poor effort, nearly as bad as Meatloaf at the AFL Grand Final a few years back.

[dave.king1]

I hope you got to listen in Daniel, I gave Whiskey & You a run on the show today and it's now up on Bob's FB page.

The station footprint only covers the south western Sydney area but has streaming listeners all over the world.


Edited to add, the show streaming is working but the On Demand is still not right

[Zandit75]

Thanks Dave, so appreciated!
Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to listen in, but I understand some family were looking to tune in.
I hope it was well received!

[dave.king1]

Thanks Dave, so appreciated!
Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to listen in, but I understand some family were looking to tune in.
I hope it was well received!

I'll see if I can get copy of the segment for you, we actually spent a fair bit of time talking about Indies and wondering why the mainstream media continues to ignore this huge well of talent that lies not beneath but in plain sight particularly those who have won new talent awards at Tamworth.

[Zandit75]

That would be awesome Dave, would love to have a listen to the show.
As I mentioned, I have only been getting back into the shows and stuff over the last year or so, and I find myself in a bit of a unique position. At 99% of the gigs I play at, I'm the youngest one singing there, and I'm not talking by a small margin, the nearest one in age to me would have about 16yrs on me. This puts me in a different generation I guess, and a different mind set in the music I choose.
Apart from a couple of songs, I mostly sing songs that have some meaning to me, and not necessarily popular. More often than not, they are the last songs on an album(The B side I guess you could say) and are rarely released hits.
Whether that classes me as Indie, I don't know, but I'm certainly left of center!
Growing up playing the trombone, doing solos and group/band music, I had a different feeling for the music I started playing on the guitar. Whenever I got up to sing at a gig, I would ask the "house band" to take a break, and get up there by myself. I never played the old country songs that were "3 chords & the truth" so most of the time, I would lose the guys by throwing in different chords that they weren't used to, and heaven forbid if I pulled out the capo!!
Drummers especially would have trouble when I was playing ballads, as I would change up the tempo occasionally and they would stumble.
Getting together with the guys I have been playing with over the last year has been awesome. They understand how the industry has changed, and they have a broader idea of the different eras of country music, and adapt extremely quickly.
It's been a great 12-18mths!

[dave.king1]

To Bob and I in those we select to play, the music must be interesting and we both lean heavily towards the lyrics ( Bob has a masters in English and is a published playwrite)

Country music is many things to many people, I was talking to my band mates about what we are recording at the moment and it doesn't fit any current genre we call ourselves country & rockabilly but the current stuff sits more in the vein of early 60s pop ballard along the lines of Ricky Nelson and Dion.

It's not a country sound from any era so maybe there is a spot in the market for a trio of old farts

I can't share anything because we haven't got it protected through APRA yet