dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS

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2023 book THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT (lyrics 1980-2023) 2023 reissue Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine. Double vinyl release. 2023 ROCK album with Clare Moore IN A MISTLY . WORKSHY - 2017 memoir out on Affirm Press. Available at shows or via website. Moodists - Coral Snakes - mistLY. I don’t know what I am and don’t want to know any more than I already know. I aspire, in my music , to 40s B Movie (voice and presence) and wish I could play guitar like Dickey Betts, John Cippolina or Grant Green - but not in this lifetime, I know.

Thursday, November 2, 2023

My record collection 1976. Last Year of High School

 I was looking through some archival stuff and found this school folder divider from my last year at High School in Mt Gambier. My mother kept it as she didn't like to throw things aways (much like me).



It's a list I made - probably while a teacher was talking at us about something important - of all the precious records I had been able to aquire. I devoured books and magazines writing on rock music and followed all kinds of leads. The Rolling Stones always talked about their influences so I looked into that. The London Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters albums had great covers and seemed extra special with all those limey players on it. (Though even I, as a hick kid, was embarassed to hear them telling Howlin Wolf how to play his own songs properly). Some were bargain bin buys , some I have totally forgotten. The next year I was totally fired up by the successive Sex Pistols singles which I had to order from a local shop which mainly sold sewing machines. I had lost interest in football at the end of 1975 after being caught buying a load of booze (On a country league football trip) while under age in a St Kilda pub (The George) and driven home in shame. 

 


It was probably my second visit to Melbourne and I had been to Adelaide perhaps three or four times. In September 1977 I drove my FC Holden from Mt Gambier to Townsville and back again, an epic journey by myself. All my friends were living in Adelaide and telling me on their return visits about seeing radio Birdman. I was working in a timber mill in Mount Gambier. I moved to Adelaide for a couple of years in 1978.

We lived in a three bedroom house in Werona st Mt Gambier. My older brothers Phillip and Steve and sister Marianne had all left home and it was me, my parents Noel and Philomena and my younger siblings Sean and Julie. Until I got my own room we all had to listen to music through a small portable record player in the lounge room, with the tv on as well. In 1975, my mother had gotten her drivers licence and bought a brand new Honda Civic. Our first ever car. There was no phone in the house but we didn't know you had to have one.



 

I never experienced live music very much, being still under 18 and also living in a  regional town that just didn't have any. I would still listen to most of this music. It was probably my first attempt to get into Bob Dylan and I appreciate a lot of his music but would not choose to listen to it as much as I would say, Steely Dan.
I would buy some records and try to find something good in them but eventually trade them. I tried Judas Priest (Rocka Rolla) Montrose (Paper Money) and maybe even Love (Da Capo). I tried hard to like Barclay James Harvest as records were expensive but nothing ever jumped out of that impressively stiff gatefold. My friend Steve Miller had a great record collection but his older brother Marty had an incredible stacked shelf of stuff too. He was in Adelaide studying for an endless Batchelor Of Arts. He had the longest hair in town and was  a totally cool character. Their father Charlie drove a Renault sports car (which Marty and his mates borrowed and duly left cigarette burns in the upholstery of) and favoured dixie jazz. They had a great hi fi system which included a reel to reel tape player. Marty would buy albums and tape them.

Amongst our group of stoner mates we all drove around in cars listening to tapes of the Blue Oyster Cult, Joe Walsh, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and JJ Cale. The reggae records were a new thing from about 1975. Natty Dread and Burning Spears Man In the Hills. Steve Miller was getting Dr Feelgood and Eddie And The Hot Rods, Graham Parker and the Rumour and Southside Johnny And The Asbury Dukes albums as they came out (though we all shamed him for buying Born To Run as it was obviously so commercial...) 

Rosalie Boylan, my cousin Jim, David Lee (Flea), myself, Steve Miller and Grant Belchev at Port Macdonnell 1976.

I still have most of the Steve Miller Bands catalogue but have more Jefferson Starship/Airplane than Hot Tuna. The Grateful Dead have gotten better for me but like many, I timidly dipped my toe in those waters through the acoustic albums like American Beauty. Blues For Allah is much more my taste now, as well as the Live Dead version of Dark Star. 

 This 1993 Movie Dazed And Confused perfectly captured the pop culture of that era from an American perspective. 


Night Of The Wolverine 30th Anniversary Tour coming to Fremantle November 11th


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ONE MILLION YEARS DC

Starts with a Kinksy groover sketching a 21st century populist tyrant who coasts in power on waves of public resentment at those on the lowest rungs of the ladder (He Was A Sore Winner). Sweeps across a sci fi terrain with nods to songs in the sand at the end of the world (Pop Ruins) and nods to the ties that bind in the underground communities (Comrade Of Pop and Where Did All The Freaks Go?). Songs about intense, long relationships, defunct technology that didn’t answer back, severe social status definition (I’m Not Just Any Nobody), people wandering through your mind as if it was a garage sale, the anxiety of the long running showman (wide open to the elements again) and ends with a song that’s “a little bit Merle Haggard and a little bit Samuel Beckett”. " Edith Grove! Powis Square! 56 Hope Road! Petrie Terrace!.. The Roxy! The Odeon! Apollo! Palais! Olympia! The Whisky! Detroit Grande!” Pop Ruins!"

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ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? (The title comes from the chorus of “Song Of Life” ) is a classic rock’n’roll album. Classic if you lived through what has become known as ”the classic rock era” as it rolled out new and even broke onto the beachhead and morphed into punk. That’s the direction Dave Graney and Clare Moore have always been coming from. They have spent their lives schooled by and immersed in rock ‘n’ roll culture. Neither attended higher education and they dived in deep and kept swimming. From the Moodists through the Coral Snakes /White Buffaloes to the mistLY This is an album with their band, Dave Graney and the mistLY. Stuart Perera has played guitar with them since 1998 and Stu Thomas on bass since 2004. MARCH 2019 ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? 2019 album out on Compact Disc - available here via mail order...
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FEARFUL WIGGINGS

2014 solo album from Dave Graney. *****"If I've learnt anything in my years of writing about music it's that if you are going to do anything of worth in this tough game, you better have your own thing. Today's generic is easily replaced by tomorrow's. And yet you need to be flexible, to follow wherever the songs demand. In the case of this, only the second credited as a solo album among 30 or so Graney releases, it's a curious yet welcoming lane he walks you down, with acoustic guitars, not much percussion, vibes, smooth sounds. At the end of it you feel like you've awoken from a strange yet pleasant summer's dream. As shot by Luis Bunuel. It ranges from off-kilter reveries (A Woman Skinnies Up a Man, The Old Docklands Wheel) through to the softly seductive (How Can You Get Out of London) and the downright arch (Look Into My Shades, Everything Is Great In The Beginning.) This is music that is neither folk, nor blues, nor country, but it's all Graney, somewhere out to the left field beyond Lee Hazlewood's raised eyebrow. It's astringent on the tongue but sweetens in the telling." Noel Mengel Brisbane Courier Mail

you've been in my mind

June 2012 super high energy pop rock album - blazing electric 12 strings - total 70s rock drive. Greatest yet! available via paypal - $20 pp

rock'n'roll is where I hide/- 2011 "vintage classics/ re recordings" on LIBERATION

SUPERMODIFIED - August 2010 remixed/re-sung/re-strung//remastered/replayed comp via PAYPAL

also available as a digital album

Knock yourself (2009)-first ever dg solo set-filthy electro r&b-available via Paypal- $20

available as a digital album too

We Wuz Curious (2008)-blazing R&B jazz pop album available via paypal-$20


UNAVAILABLE-COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!!!
AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL album

Keepin' It Unreal-(2006)-minimalist/lyrical vibes, bass, 12 string set - CDs sold out - digital only

Hashish and Liquor (2005 double disc by Dave Graney and Clare Moore) available via Paypal $25


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Single album HASHISH available as a digital release

Heroic Blues- "folk soul" set from 2002-Availableas a digital album via BandCamp


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It is written,baby-book released 1997- available $10 via paypal