Above: Ross Hobbs and Dicko

SHOW #911

MONDAY MAY 14 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GREG ARMSTRONG, ROSS HOBBS)

Ross Hobbs has been listening to LIBB since 1992 and recently contacted us to see if he could guest on the show. Ross has recently seen Macca live in Zurich and had also met Macca back in the seventies when he toured Australia. The only thing that worried me about this visit was that we have another hard core McCartney fan on the show, which is putting those of us who can see a huge difference between Beatle material and Solo material in the minority. However Ross assimilated really well and brought in some good material including a brief interview he had conducted with Macca when they met. Greg continues to play segments of the Tony Macarthur Abbey Road interview with John Lennon. In From Me To You Go Slavia we play the very unusual cover of Hey Jude by Anita Harris. 

 SHOW #910

MONDAY MAY 7 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

 

ABOVE: Dicko and Cameron Grace

SHOW #909

MONDAY APRIL 30 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GAVIN MYERS, CAMERON GRACE)

After about 10 hours sleep in 3 days I should have been in bed rather than on the show but thank god Cam and Gav were there to hold the fort. I battled on and we played a mixture of early Beatles and solo stuff. Cam talks about the impression of the sixties through the film Billy Liar which stared Tom Courtney and was made in 1963. Something seems to be the song that people love to destroy and we play yet another bad cover version this time by Dutch Star: Jerry Rix.

 SHOW #908

MONDAY APRIL 23 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, DAVID WHITE)

We talk a little about the upcoming deluxe release of Ram which is about double the price of his previous deluxe releases. We mention the Death of Dick Clarke and Levon Helm playing a version of The Weight by The All Star Band when Helm and Rick Danko were members. We also play The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down from the Band's self titled album from 1969. I speak a little about the Band and this period of music which saw remarkable product coming from this Canadian outfit which was in some way making way for the Beatles deperture. Dave plays 3 versions of Lend Me Yoiur Comb including the Carl Perkins original.

Above: With a little luck review NME April 8 1978

Reviewed by Paul Rambali

 

 

Above: London Town review NME April 8 1978

Reviewed by Bob Edmands

Above: Wings tour article NME April 8 1978

  SHOW #907

MONDAY APRIL 16 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

While searching through some old boxes I found a copy of NME from April 8 1978. In it there was a review of London Town which sort of summed up the attitude to Paul McCartney's music at the peak of the Punk and New Wave music movement. 

SHOW #906

MONDAY APRIL 9 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, MATT ARMSTRONG)

Tonight we have Greg's son Matt in as a guest and he shares with us some of his experiences growing up with a Beatle mad father like Greg. Word magazine had recently had a lengthy article about What makes a good singer. I've spoken many times about this on the show because over the years several guests and listeners have stated thet Dylan can't sing. This may be technically correct but he can deliver a song. No one can do Like A Rolling Stone like Dylan. Tonight I speak again about this subject and focus on Randy Newman, one of music's finest songwriters and a man who can't be matched in delivering the message behind a song. 

 SHOW #905

MONDAY APRIL 2 2012

(GREG ARMSTRONG, GAVIN MYERS, JOANNA MacCARTHY)

 SHOW #904

MONDAY MARCH 26 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, DAVID WHITE)

I was reading the February copy of Mojo Magazine and there was a letter in the Ask Fred column (Page 133) regarding the "All This And World War II" soundtrack. It brought back memories of buying that album back in 1976. On the train home I studies the wonderful packaging and looked at all the big names who were covering Beatles tunes and thought to myself this is going to be great. However when I got home I discovered it was terrible. Looking back I remember the Sex Pistols were breaking and all the talk in the music press was criticizing over produced pompous pieces of music which isolated the audience. Right or Wrong I filed this record into that catagory and never played it again. When I played it prior to the show it didn't seem as bad as I thought back then but ultimately it's pretty under par for most of the acts involved. We play a few songs and chat about the album. We play a number of 1964 Beatles singles that made Number 1 on the Australian Charts to celebrate the anniversary of the Beatles holding the top 5 positions in March 1964.

I received a copy of the DVD of program 875 which was filmed by Dino Giacomin when he was on the show on September 5 2011. He had a camera on Gavin , Himself and me and has edited it together. It's a marvelous piece of work and I talk a little bit about it on the show.

 

SHOW #903

MONDAY MARCH 19 2012

(GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, GAVIN MYERS)

SHOW #902

MONDAY MARCH 12 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GREG ARMSTRONG,

DAVID WHITE)

 

I finally have a chance to watch The Last Testament of George Harrison and I absolutely loved it. In the film George Harrison claims Paul did in fact die and that it was a cover up conspired by MI5 who feared a wave of mass suicides if people found out Paul was really dead. I don't think many people will believe that the film makers are serious but there will be hard core Beatle fans out there who will think they are. The moment you hear the voice which is supposed to be George you realize they are having us on. But it's as the film moves on that it becomes real fun. A few highlights for me were: Linda Eastman had photos of Fake Paul (Faul) that would have exposed the scheme and she would only stay quiet if Faul Married her and made her a rock star. John had a backlog of original McCartney compositions which ran out in 1970 so the band had to split. Faul had a microphone positioned in front of his face during the cover shoot for Let It Be as his chin was falling off due to so much plastic surgery. There is so much of this in the film it's great fun and I love the fact that they keep it serious through the whole show. Unfortunately Dave and Greg hadn't seen it so I'm waiting for my next show with Gavin to really analyze it.

SHOW #901

MONDAY MARCH 5 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

As people are dying around us we learn of the passing of Monkee singer Davy Jones.I read an uninformed article in the an Aussie newspaper which called him a Cockney Geezer. Cockneys are from East London Jones was from Manchester. It also claimed He belted out all those cracking songs with the Monkeys. This made me think as I was sure Micky Dolenz had sang most of the Monkees cracking songs. The result was I think Davy Jones sang about 7 of their really well known songs with Dolenz singing a massive 16. We talk about this space filling, poorly researched newspaper article on the show as the journalist goes on to criticize George Harrison.

Greg brings in all the versions he can find of the Beatles performing One After 909 and we play them all and discuss their origins.

SHOW #900

MONDAY FEBRUARY 27 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GREG ARMSTRONG,

DAVID WHITE)

ABOVE: BRAD McRAE

This program was fairly much dedicated to the Memory Of Brad McRae Who had passed away a couple of days earlier on February 25. Brad ran a Beatles Radio show of his own first on Whitehorse Boroondara FM then on Apple FM Bacchus Marsh. Brad had been a guest on LIBB back on June 25th 1998. He was a good sport and he took his share of flack from his friends and took it with great spirit. On that 1998 show Steve Kernohan and I tease Brad about his own Beatles show "Beatles Et Al Tonight" and he was more that willing to make fun of himself. In essence that was the man Brad was.

Dave White who was close to Brad put's together a tribute to Brad on tonights show which includes snippets of his program and his visit to LIBB.

SHOW #899

MONDAY FEBRUARY 20 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, BRETT WOLFENDEN)

It had certainly been a rough time for members of LIBB and also for some of our best friends. Greg Swan lost his mother on the same day my mother passed and Ian Cuming had lost his mother a week earlier. And the losses weren't to end here. I speak a little about my mother and her tolerance with two kids growing up in the centre of Beatlemania.

Bret comes on the show for a special visit before he flys off to Europe. He always has something interesting to play and say so I was looking forward to this show. 

 

SHOW #898

MONDAY FEBRUARY 13 2012

(GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVID WHITE, GAVIN MYERS)

Gavin, Greg and Dave kindly ran the show after the death of my mother on February 10.

SHOW #897

MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, CAM GRACE)

It's always good having Cam on the show. Tonight he tells the story of how he met Aussie actor Ted Hamilton and told him about LIBB playing his version of Something over and over again. Cam plays the Brainpool version of My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine as we discuss why that subject was missing from the Scorsese documentary. We also discuss Ringo's treatment of Rock Island Line that would have Thousands of traditional blues veterans turning in their graves.

SHOW #896

MONDAY JANUARY 30 2012

(GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVID WHITE, GAVIN MYERS)

 

SHOW #895

MONDAY JANUARY 23 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, SIMON SMITH)

This show is a bit of a marathon talk session as it quite often is when Simon is on the show.

We talk about the Scorsese documentary, The new entry in the British Invasion DVD's this time it's The Hollies and who could be more appropriate to talk about that than Mr. Hollies Himself.

We talk about record buying in Melbourne during the 70's and talk about the value of the Import shops that sprung up at that time.

SHOW #894

MONDAY JANUARY 16 2012

(GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVEY LANE)

SHOW #893

MONDAY JANUARY 9 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GREG ARMSTRONG, GREG SWAN)

 

SHOW 892

MONDAY JANUARY 2 2012

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, ALFRED DANIEL)

GEORGE CHRISTOPOULOS

I took Program #891 off in respect for my partner Mary's Father; George died on Christmas Day at 8am. I speak a little about George and his funeral on this program. 

January is always the time to remember the Decca sessions and we play the entire session as well as some tracks from the up and coming McCartney Album; Kisses On The Bottom.

SHOW #891

MONDAY DECEMBER 26 2011

(GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, GAVIN MYERS)

SHOW #890

MONDAY DECEMBER 19 2012

(GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVID WHITE)

SHOW #889

MONDAY DECEMBER 12 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

This is the first show after David White turned 50 and the old bugger couldn't get in so I had to do my seventh show in a row. The panel all had a great time and Davy put a bit of a band together for the night and entertained the crowd. A pleasant time was guaranteed for all.

 

Tonight we spent a bit of time talking about the murder of John Lennon and it's effect on the world as well as talking a little about his feud with Todd Rundgren. We also touch on the release of a new album by Ringo Starr titled Ringo 2012. I speak a bit about the Phil Spector documentary which I had caught up with mid week. We also talk about Uncut Magazine's disappointing list of the top fifty Bootlegs of all time. Gary finds time to play some really awful Beatles covers by Sarah Vaughn and a version of Drive my Car by Australian Rock Legend: Billy Thorpe. Legend no longer once you hear this. We also play a few snippets of Macca live in Paris and Greg talks about some items of Australian Beatles Memorabilia auctioned recently.

SHOW #888

MONDAY DECEMBER 5 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GAVIN MYERS, ALFRED DANIEL)

Gav speaks at length about the Phil Spector documentary : The Agony And Ecstasy Of Phil Spector as well as playing dialogue of Spector talking about the Let It Be album and his work on The Long And Winding Road. This features the beautiful quote "I think McCartney is getting me confused with someone who gives a shit". Alf plays a song by Matt Monroe titled We're Gonna Change Your World which is claimed to be a Beatles influence parody of the Women's Liberation Movement. 

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SHOW #887

MONDAY NOVEMBER 28 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

The previous week we had decided to dedicate this entire show to the memory of George Harrison. This year is the tenth anniversary of his passing and no one can believe how quickly the time has passed. Nor can anyone believe how little unreleased material has managed to hit the market considering George had stated he hoped someone would release all his crap demos. We play the entire Andrew Probyn Let It Be Beatles interview which was from the Melbourne Grand Prix in 1998. We play a bizarre cover of Something done by Brazilian diva Evinha (OK, I thought she was french) The some is filled with misquoted lyrics including the magic line "You're asking me my love you growl". Classic stuff.

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SHOW #886

MONDAY NOVEMBER 21 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

A bit of a bits and pieces show we play some odd stuff from Saturday Night Live demos of Harrison and Paul Simon to Rock Band Mult-trax. We also play Lennons Hello Julian version of Stand By Me now officially released for the first time on the 40 Years Of The Old Grey Whistle Test CD.

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SHOW #885

MONDAY NOVEMBER 14 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, DAVID WHITE)

Gary continues his segment on songs about Ringo. We look at the Fourmost covers of Beatles songs (Very briefly), play some more multi-trax. Dave plays a couple of songs from Macca and Wings 1975 visit to Melbourne. Dave points out that back in 1997 I made a statement that people would still be listening to the Spice Girls in 2010. I'm wrong apparently But Alf and Davey jump to my rescue saying they still listen to "Stop".

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SHOW #884

MONDAY NOVEMBER 7 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GREG ARMSTRONG, GAVIN MYERS)

Gav plays another group of songs which reference the Beatles. We continue talking about the Stuart Sutcliffe version of Love Me Tender and how some people on the net are getting really angry that everyone does not believe it is a fake. The more I read about it the more I tend to sympathize with the It's real side of the argument. I think we would all love it if it turned out to be the real thing. No one has stepped forward to claim ownership of the original tape and therefor divulge it's origin so for the time being nobody knows for sure.

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SHOW #883

MONDAY OCTOBER 31 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, DAVID WHITE)

 A version of Love Me Tender has surfaced and believed by some to be recorded by Stuart Sutcliffe. The main person behind the track Is Sutcliffe's sister and the recently formed Sutcliffe Fan Club. The song is for sale from their web site and we play it tonight and talk about the in's and outs of its validity. Obviously we are in no position to come to any real conclusions as we didn't know Sutcliffe or ever hear him sing. But it's fascinating that this has come to light. We play a cover by Percy sledge recorded in the late sixties supposed to have the same arrangement. We play a few Beatles covers by The Allman Brothers, Wilson Pickett and Kami Thompson and an old Australian radio interview with Harry Nilsson.

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SHOW #882

MONDAY OCTOBER 24

(GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVID WHITE)

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SHOW #881

MONDAY OCTOBER 17 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

We have now all seen Living In The Material World so we give out a warning not to listen to this show if you haven't seen it yet. As we will be talking in depth about it on this show. Our reaction is fairly positive on what was a puzzling project for Martin Scorsese. Although his intentions were obviously very noble the first part of the special is pretty much a documentary on the Beatles. Obviously this is unavoidable because the major creative power of the band was in the hands of Lennon and McCartney. Some comments from friends and associates seem a little forced or enhanced to suit the purpose of the documentary. The real value is in Part 2 where Ringo and Eric Clapton have some really interesting things to add. I can't help but think that George would have been a little miffed that his post All Things Must Passed material was generally overlooked by this project. It brings back memories of his dismay at the Best Of George Harrison album containing Beatles tracks. Another mystery is the omission of the My Sweet Lord plagiarism case and it's subsequent recordings, The Pirate Song and This Song. Olivia's recollection of George's fight for life against a mentally handicapped intruder is terrifying and very Real. We feature all the tracks from the limited edition audio disc only available with the Blue-Ray edition of the documentary.

We also read an article on the history of the members of the Pablo Fanque Circus. kindly supplied to us by our British correspondent Tony Walkley. 

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SHOW #880

MONDAY OCTOBER 10 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GAVIN MYERS, DAVEY LANE)

Davey has had a chance to watch Living In A Material World and he shares with us his opinions on the production. To highlight the film we play a wonderful package of short edits of re-mixed Beatle songs used in the Television Production. I find that you just can't miss the freshness of re-mixed material and it really does highlight the lack of honest excitement that remasters failed to deliver. You can clearly  tell the difference with these tracks. Greg Swan had sent an email earlier in the day expressing his excitement and hailing a catch phrase that is gaining more credability by the day: Remix Forever Remaster Never. I spend a short while towards the end of the program speaking about Bert Jansch the man who recorded the song Twa Corbies from which this web-site takes it's name. I play "Moonshine"one of his greatest tracks.

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SHOW #879

MONDAY OCTOBER 3 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

Tonight we chat about the up and coming George Harrison documentary Living In A Material World. And now we have all had a chance to watch the McCartney Special "The Love You Make" we give our opinions on why it wasn't released ten years ago when it was made. To add to the fun Greg brings in a tape of his mother apparently confirming that she took him to see A Hard Days Night when he was four years old. (I'm not joking). We also talk about a recently uncovered version of the Joe Pope tape commonly known as No 3 Abbey Road and play the repaired version of Golden Slumbers.

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SHOW #878

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVID WHITE,

GAVIN MYERS, ALFRED DANIEL,DAVEY LANE)

19th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM.

Tonight we have all the panel on the program as we run over a few of the important Beatle developments that happened during the course of the last 19 years.

The release of Anthology and the making of Free As A Bird and Real Love. The death of George Harrison, and Libb contributors Ross McLean and Steve Waldon. And everybody gets to play their song of the moment.

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Hand drawn Birthday card from Charlie Kneale

SHOW #877

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19 2011

(GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG, DAVID WHITE,

MRS. ARMSTRONG))

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SHOW #876

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12 2011

(GRAEME DICKENSON, GARY LALLY, GREG ARMSTRONG)

Gary opens the show with some anthems of peace and love to commorate the tragedy of 9/11. 

We play a few thing recorded on this day in Beatles history and we catch up on a few listener contributions about their favourite Macca albums.

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SHOW #875

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5

(Graeme Dickenson, Gavin Myers, Dino Giacomin)

Dino is down from NSW and he has brought in some fantastic snippets of the Rock Band Multi tracks.

Hearing these things for the first time is an amazing experience. I really want to encourage Dino to keep doing this as everyone else seems to have stopped playing with them and there is so much more in these mixes to be discovered. Dino also brought in a couple of snippets of Johnny Depp reading Beatle related sections from Keith Richards autobiography: Life. We also play Baby Can It Be True by Graham Bond Organization which is believed to be the first song to feature the mellotron.

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SHOW #874

MONDAY AUGUST 29

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong, Alfred Daniel)

We spend a bit of time going through a list of McCartney albums sent in by Mark McKay. It was a really entertaining list as mark also supplied lists from a couple of his work colleagues. I make a point of not making fun of these lists they are a genuine opinion of people who purchased Macca's product. Mark made a comment on Driving Rain that it was all sounding very old fashioned compared to the current music scene. I have now decided that is the title of the segment. Gary plays a list of songs composed by Leiber and Stroller due to the death of Jerry Leiber on August 22. Greg plays a cover of "I Saw Her Standing There" specially recorded for LIBB by Jess McAvoy. Thanks Jess that's pretty cool. Plus we play a couple of tracks from The Hollywood Bowl and Candlestick Park which were both on this day several years ago.

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SHOW #873

 MONDAY AUGUST 22

(Greg Armstrong, Gavin Myers, Alfred Daniel)

 

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SHOW #872

MONDAY AUGUST 15 

(Graeme Dickenson, Greg Armstrong, David White)

There are not a lot of lists coming in in the McCartney Segment. But we do have a few so I speak about those lists. It's too early to get an indication of where McCartney 2 would end up. It apparent though that  a lot of people think very highly of "Ram". Greg and Dave speak a little about their recent trip to the UK and they play It Don't Come Easy recorded live at the Empire. Greg also plays two versions of Besame Mucho. He feels the Beatles version is superior to the Coasters version. I'm leaving that one well alone.

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SHOW #871

 MONDAY AUGUST 8

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Mark Hayes)

Bayesey (Mark Hayes) returns to the show for the first time since 1999. This was a fairly nostalgic 2 hours where we touch on the early days of LIBB. Alfred and I had a stall at the record fair in Camberwell where we ran into several of the listeners to the program so I spend a little time speaking about those we met up with. 

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SHOW #870

MONDAY AUGUST 1 

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, David White) 

We've now had time to watch both the DVDs from the 2 McCartney releases and although I don't think they'll set the world on fire they are probably a nice little addition to what really are packaging masterpieces. Content will forever be debated though. I particularly like the rather confrontational interview with McCartney and Tim Rice. Rice seemed a bit puzzled by Macca's solo career and McCartney was quite defensive at times, even admitting he doesn't think he is good with words. You have to give McCartney credit for including this rather unflattering but very interesting interview in the DVD package.

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SHOW #869

MONDAY JULY 25

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong)

Greg is back with a vengeance doing two shows on the trot. After Weeks of discussion on the merits of McCartney 2, I thought it would be a good idea to ask those listeners who liked his solo material to place his albums in order of preference. I thought this would be a good indicator of what people honestly thought of the album. Of course we are not including experimental stuff under the Fireman tag, live albums or best of albums. We just want albums of new material he released under his own name or under Wings. I won't be taking part because I didn't buy several of his albums on release and I've only been given them in the last few years. 

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SHOW #868

MONDAY JULY 18 2011

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong)

There are different types of people who like the Beatles.

There are those who are basically a one band person. They buy little if anything other than Beatles or Beatles solo material.

There are those who the think the Beatles are just one part of the music experience.

There are those who discovered the Beatles after they had broken up.

and there are those who were listening to the Beatles in the Sixties.

I find the opinions of all these types of people differ greatly. All these people enjoy Beatles music, so it doesn't matter which group you belong to. In fact you may not have a choice especially if you were born after 1970. 

We touch on this subject as the Macca 2 debate still goes on. And Greg is back from the UK and he reads a few tales from his diary.

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SHOW #867

MONDAY JULY 11 2011 

(David White, Gavin Myers, Greg Swan)

 

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SHOW #866

MONDAY JULY 4 2011

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, David White)

David White is back from the UK and is full of tales of old Liverpool. He and Greg have had a wonderful time and he was determined to play Ringo tracks after twice seeing the Beatle drummer in concert with his All Star Band.

We chat about the re-release of McCartney. I quote a review from The Age and also read a review of the album written by Penny Valentine for Sounds magazine in 1970.

Apparently when Neil Young inducted  McCartney into the Hall Of Fame in 1999 he recalled why this album was such a revelation in 1970. Well Neil might remember it that way but in fact the album was kicked from Liverpool to Launceston with no one having much good to say about it. I can understand that the culture that McCartney had created probably led the way to today's style of making albums in your lounge room. If you read the interview with Ringo Starr in the June 2011 copy of Uncut he admits even he is doing the home studio thing now. Rightly so McCartney should be given this credit here.

It's a shame we get so few out-takes with this new release but I am happy with anything. The version of Suicide is in it's early stages but anyone could see it had the makings of a great song. Hearing it begin with the exact section used in the McCartney track Glasses allows the listener to finally hear what was cut out so many years ago. 

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McCartney reviews The Age July 1 2011 and Melody Maker April 18 1970

Above: Penny Valentine review for Sounds April 1970

Above: Go Set Review June 27 1970

Above: Go Set unleashes another attack with the release of Another Day

SHOW #865

MONDAY JUNE 27 2011

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Gavin Myers)

Well the controversy goes on, for an album I consider so average we've really given McCartney 2 some coverage. We also chat about a list of the 12 most memorable McCartney tracks from a website called popmatters.com, Which for some reason lists two cover versions. Really, this is no place for me.

We play two of the bonus tracks from the McCartney re-release a great instrumental version of Ooh You titled Don't Cry Baby and the full version of Suicide from which a 15 second snippet was used under the title Glasses on McCartney. Gav plays a few excerpts from bands that have ripped off Beatle riffs.

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SHOW #864

MONDAY JUNE 20 2011

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally and Cameron Grace)

I spent most of the day Monday reading old NME magazines from 1980 just to get the feel of what really went on that year. The conclusion is a fairly obvious one if you were raving about McCartney 2 that year you obviously had no idea what was going on in the music scene. In many ways 1980 was the year of Joy Division, well it was if you were serious about your music. Ian Curtis committed suicide 2 days after the release of McCartney 2 and Malcolm Owen died of an overdose a couple of months later. Magazine's finest moment The Correct Use Of Soap was released the same day as McCartney 2 and The Undertones were in top form for creating great pop music. Coming Up, Waterfalls and Temporary Secretary all failed to make NME's top 50 singles for the year and McCartney 2 failed to make the top 50 albums When Stevie Wonder, Dianna Ross and Bob Marley all did.

McCartney 2 did however make number one in the UK album charts in June so it's not all bad. This of course is no fault of McCartney he was probably having a well earned rest from the pressure of producing top notch sugary pop.

Our special guest was Cameron Grace. It was Cams first visit to LIBB but we've been friends for decades. Cam and myself used to do a thing called Beatles Day back in the seventies. I'd just dig out all my Beatles stuff and we'd read, play and watch Beatles all day. It was at one of these days that I first met Greg Armstrong.

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NME ALBUM REVIEW 21-06-1980

COMING UP NME REVIEW 19-04-1980

TEMPORARY SECRETARY REVIEW NME 20-09-1980

 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR  NME 20-12-1980

SINGLES OF THE YEAR NME 20-12-1980

 

THURSDAY JUNE 16, 2011

How ironic the Herald Sun would publish a small article about McCartney releasing these albums and quote Waterfalls as Macca's most under-rated song. Obviously the subject will be raised again this week.

Above the waterfalls single review NME 21st June 1980.

 SHOW #863

MONDAY JUNE 13, 2011

(Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally and John Dawson)

Our special guest this week was John Dawson. John is a local from Altona who is a huge Beatles fan. John came to our attention when he appeared in our local paper doing a series of lectures/work shops on the Beatles during his lunch break in a hall in  Altona. I contacted him and asked if he'd like to be on the show to advertise his venture. That show was on October 9, 2006. John recently ran into a friend of mine and expressed interest in coming back for a second round. 

John brought in a few tracks by fellow travelers including Badfinger, Peter Sellers, Jackie Lomax and the Fourmost. We also played a couple of tracks by local Altona band Patchwork including one song penned by John himself.

The hot topic of the moment for LIBB is the release of McCartney and McCartney II. I've expressed some disappointment with the track selection for McCartney and have always been very critical of McCartney II which I feel was one of Macca's poorest efforts. I have never been able to stomach Waterfalls and have been having some conversations with Gavin about this song over the last couple of weeks.

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