MIGHT BE BETTER WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED

I had something entirely different in mind, but then I ran into this. Sounds Incorporated, corny moves but hard as hell. I did not want to forget to post it. They share one thing with the Sonics, the Wailers and the Monks, at least in this song. Picking a simple song and just playing the shit out of it. Banging away. Whatever the volume, it sounds loud. Anyway, I hate those fucking suits.

WHEN PARTIES WERE THE INTERNET

I'm sure all of us have favorite records that we've had for years. Records that are so special that you remember the moment when they became significant to you personally. Sometimes it's the first time you ever heard them, and sometimes it might be an already familiar song but something significant happened while the song happened to be playing. If a record is special, it's likely you'll remember  more details than you'd expect.

I like Don and Dewey a lot. I remember where I was when I first heard them. It was at a party, a friend of a friend's party or something like that. There was good music being played, I'm sure. There was enough party action going on that I hadn't taken notice of where the records were. I'm not a snoop like that. If it were a friend's party I'd probably taken a gander, but I was there as a guest of a guest. Anyway, I remember hearing something that was so damn hot that I stopped the conversation and went looking for the host to ask who it was. It was Don and Dewey, and act I'd never heard of. This was well before the internet. The host showed me the LP and I saw that it was on Specialty, the same label that Little Richard's records were on (!) and that was all I needed to know. I had a copy of the LP within days and it's been a favorite ever since.

That was over thirty years ago and for the last three decades I tried to remember whose party it was so I could thank them.  I thought that there was some sort of connection with my brother, but he passed away in 1997 before I thought to ask him. Meanwhile, the years trickled by with the mystery of who turned me on to Don and Dewey still hanging.

Last week a woman who I'm friends with on Facebook posted a playlist of what was on her shuffle. She's not someone I really know, just one of those friends you pick up on Facebook because you have a lot of friends in common. She's posted playlists before, but the most recent one showed such varying music types that I knew she had good, and informed, taste. Something on the list, I'm not exactly sure what record it was, prompted me to wonder if this was the person who had that party years ago. I was actually pretty excited thinking that after all these years there was a possibility of solving the mystery, or at least eliminating someone from the long list of people it could have been.  

Via Facebook messaging, It went like this:
"Jackie, did you once have a party (late 70s early 80s) in which you played Don and Dewey?"
"Probably. With Steve [last name]?"
("Holy shit", I thought. I hadn't seen or heard from Steve in decades. He was a good friend of my brother's who, I think, used to live with Jackie.)
Then Steve piped in:
"I remember a party back then, that I think both Tom and Tim were at. This was before I knew either of them very well. Not surprised that Don and Dewey would have been played. Hey Tom!"

Wow, mystery finally solved after three decades. I thanked them and told them I'd been wanting to thank the person(s) responsible for years. That's why I keep posting Don and Dewey. Just paying it forward for Jackie and Steve, until now not knowing that it was Jackie and Steve.

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Listen:
Don and Dewey - Justine (streaming) at YouTube
Don and Dewey - Farmer John mp3 at Rock Town Hall Specialty 659 A-side
Don and Dewey - Jungle Hop mp3 at The Adios Lounge Specialty 599 A-side
Don and Dewey - A Little Love mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Specialty 599 B-side
Don and Dewey - Kill Me (streaming) at YouTube Specialty SPS 2131
Don and Dewey - I'm Leaving It All Up To You (streaming) at YouTube Specialty 610 A-side
Don and Dewey - Stretchin' Out (streaming) at YouTube Rush 1002
Little Richard (with Don and Dewey)- Bama Lama Loo mp3 at Jeub (?) Specialty 699
Visit:
Don & Dewey - Excellent bio at The Hound Blog Unfortunately the mp3 links are dead.

MY SOCIAL LIFE'S A DUD.

Two minutes that never get old: the Music Machine's "Talk Talk". Man, what a piece of work that one is. The vocals, the guitar, the delivery, the lyrics, everything. When I think garage, this is the song I think of, and I hardly ever listen to it just once. I almost always play it twice back to back. And periodically that leads to an unashamed Music Machine refresher course, commencing right after I post this.

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Listen:
The Music Machine - Talk Talk mp3 at Sous les Paves, la Plage
The Music Machine - Trouble mp3 at Sous les Paves, la Plage
The Music Machine - Cherry Cherry mp3 at Sous les Paves, la Plage

LIKE FINDING A TWENTY

These are awesome. They were treading water on a ten year old post. I can't believe the links are still good, as are others on the old post at Mixtape Riot.

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Ebo Taylor - Victory mp3 at Mixtape Riot
Ebo Taylor - Mizin mp3 at Mixtape Riot
Mad Man Jaga - Hankuri mp3 at Mixtape Riot
Bongos Ikwue & The Groovies -Otachikpopo at Mixtape Riot
Mongo Santamaria - O Mi Shango mp3 at Mixtape Riot
Son Palenque - Paleque Palenque at Mixtape Riot
Los Silvertones -Carmen at Mixtape Riot
Further digging:
Mixtape Riot
Read:
I Hate World Music by David Byrne, NY Times 10.3.99

WHEN WING TIPS WALKED THE EARTH

It's been a while since I've posted what are usually referred to as "shakers" "titty shakers" and "tassel twirlers". I call them what they are, strip tease instrumentals. They're not just any strip tease instrumentals. This is the type of stuff they'd be playing in the late fifties to mid-sixties. Dynamic rhythms, honkin' sax, ba-boom-ba-ba-boom shit in all it's flat-topped Oly-tainted, black and white glory.

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Listen:
The Syd Dale Orchestra - The Hell Raisers mp3 at Boss Radio 66
Pancho Villa and the Bandits - Ain't That Bad mp3 at Boss Radio 66
Tassel Twirler Tuesdays at Boss Radio 66 More strip tease instrumentals. When you get to the bottom click on "Next post" for a whole lot more.

TOWER, POWER BURGER, AND THEN TURNER'S

I ran into some old Flipside vinyl compilations and things turned to quicksand. Flipside was a fanzine started in L.A. in 1977, running over twenty yearss. It was crudely laid out, some of it handwritten, and the photo reproductions were shitty. But it's heart was the street, the scene, and gossip. What it lacked in presentation it more than made up for in immediacy.

After Flipside had been going for a while, they put out three "vinyl fanzines", which were compilations with oddball line-ups. The three posted below have a combined 59 songs. Few of the band names will be recognizable to most of you, but they are good to kind of pick through.

I was just listening to a few cuts randomly while perusing some of the back issues of the print zine at Internet Archive. There's a dozen or so posted and I decided to start with the oldest, from 1979. A few pages in were short scene reports from different cities. I'd forgotten that I had written the scene report for San Diego. I don't even remember how many issues I submitted one to. One thing that's apparent, the San Diego scene was small. In the report (snippets above) I wrote that there were only twelve bands "in the scene". Small as the scene was, after the Dils and Zeros split for San Francisco, two of combos just beginning in 1979 were the Crawdaddys and Non, both known internationally all these years later and two bands that couldn't be more disparate. More on that contrast later. I can feel the wheels coming off so I'm cutting out. Memory Lane is a narrow road.

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Listen:
Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Volume 1 at Xtrmntr 19 songs
Full band credits here.
Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Volume 2 at Xtrmntr 21 songs
Full band credits here.
Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Volume 3 at Xtrmntr 19 songs
Full band credits here.
Visit:
Flipside 16, 1979 at Internet Archive
More Flipside issues at Internet Archive Scroll down the page, all of the Flipside podcast are unrelated.
10 of the Best fLiPSiDE Fanzine Interviews at LA Weekly Not the interviews themselves, just a top ten.

ONE DAY PACKED INTO TWENTY ONE MINUTES

File this one under "music to listen to when you're trying hard to think of something to write about" or "twenty one minutes of all over the place". Pharoah Saunders's "Healing Song". Listen to the whole thing. It's busy, beginning to end, and it builds and builds. When the freakout comes, it's a whopper. Then it comes down, way down. Something tells me I'll be trailing off after this one.

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Listen:

Pharoah Sanders - Healing Song mp3 at Melting Pot

NO SKIN IN THIS GAAME

How many of you are suffering from Johnny Thunders fatigue? I know I am, but this shit just keeps popping up. This is really just a heads up. Probe is Turning-On the People just posted four different versions of "Chinese Rocks", three with different writing credits. As per usual, he doesn't offer much comment. That's great, I often wish I could keep my mouth shut. Anyway, here's the four versions and what I know of them.



The first version is the earliest, when Richard Hell was in the band. He does the singing. It's either a demo or a practice tape. Being the earliest version, from 1975, this gives it provenance. The writing credits Colvin and Hell. Colvin is Dee Dee Ramone.  Then the Heartbreakers (Mark II) recorded it with Hell gone and Thunders and Walter Lure singing, what most people recognize as the version. Recorded in 1977, this time credited to Dee Dee Ramone, Thunders, [Heartbreaker Jerry] Nolan and Meyers [Hell]. There's actually at least a couple versions of this one with different mixes. There is another version from 1979, a live version from the Live at Max's Kansas City LP, with the same credits. The third version that the Probe posted is the Ramones' version, this one credits the Ramones as writers, The last version that the Probe posted is a live one from CBGBs in 1975 with Thunders and Hell singing. No writing credits on this one, but it you just can't get enough of this "Chinese Rocks" intrigue, I ran into a post on a blog that goes into real detail about the song, lyric changes, claims of ownership, the whole shooting match. Dude has more time than I do.

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Listen:
The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks mp3 at Killed By Death 1977

The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Live) (streaming) at YouTube 1979
The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks - Four versions at Probe Is Turning-On the People Note: As of today it is the post at the top of the page, labeled Session 644, If time has passed since this was posted, you may have to scroll down.

Visit:
Who Wrote "Chinese Rocks"? at Christopher Othen

NAME YOUR PRICE NIGHT

What the fuck. When you can't think of anything to post and feel like you've been pissing in the wind as of late, you just spin the damn wheel. There's a list of folks I want to write about at length, but instead I phone it in every night. Not enough time what with my allotted goofing off. Wah wah wah. Spin the fucking wheel.

The wheel landed on a pretty cool freebie at BandCamp. Technically not a freebie but a "name your price". It's The Confined 4. I'm not sure what they are, some sorta beatmaker collective. These two are soundtracks to movies that don't exist. Kind of a pandemic meets science fiction theme going on, but entirely listenable, actually pretty good considering this sort of thing isn't in my wheelhouse.

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Listen:
The Confined Four - The Final Hour! at Bandcamp
The Confined Four - The Day After at Bandcamp
Promo videos:
The Confined Four - The Final Hour! at YouTube
The Confined Four - The Day After at YouTube

FOURTEEN SECONDS, POOF, GONE

An obscure 1979 punk record. The Commited's "Crash Victim". Ooh, scary, right? Never mind that, or anything else about them. I direct your attention to the best fourteen seconds of music you'll hear today, the solo that starts at :46 seconds into it. It's either crude, barely holding it together, or genius. Maybe all three. Doesn't matter. If the measure of good music is how it makes you feel, that solo keeps me on edge. I dig that.

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Listen:
The Commited - Crash Victim mp3 at Killed By Death Solo is at :46
The Commited - Three more songs and short description at Killed By Death

FOUR MINUTES OF SCRATCHY GUITAR

Man, I really dig that kind of scratchy post-punk guitar style. Which is funny now that I think about it. I always thought of post-punk as a reaction to punk rock becoming formulaic. If that was the case, what's with the preponderance of scratchy guitar in post-punk? I don't really give a shit, that's for them to figure out.

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Listen:
Au Pairs - Diet mp3 at 30 Milkshakes

DIG IT. A MESS OF FELA. (SLIGHT RETURN)

There's a reason for this repost. I was in a Fela mood and once I started grooving that outweighed hassling with doing something from scratch. Plus, Fela. Here's the original post:

Yesterday I was talking to a friend and the conversation turned to Fela Kuti. He'd never heard of him, so a thumbnail sketch was in order. I told him that Fela was the like the James Brown of Nigeria. He had spent some time in the U.S., back in the 1969, and while he was here he was exposed to the black power movement, the Black Panthers, activism and so forth. When he went back to Nigeria, he did so recharged. That's about as thumbnail as I could muster. (Check Wikipedia or elsewhere for a more detailed or accurate profile. I'm a little lazy tonight.)

I'd planned on just sending him links to some of the past posts about Fela here, but when I went back to check them, there were quite a few dead links. The cuts below are all the links that were still working. If you come here regularly, you've heard them, but the good news is that when I went looking for some that I hadn't posted I ran into a whole mess of 'em. Seriously, over seventy Fela cuts.

The songs below are the ones that have been posted before. The mother lode is at Internet Archive, available streaming and as downloads in multiple formats. These things don't stay around long, so if you dig Fela, don't blink.

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Listen:
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy mp3 at Miss Trade
Fela Kuti - Shakara mp3 at Essentially Eclectic
Fela Kuti - Mistake mp3 at Soul Donuts
Fela Kuti - Lady mp3 at Tumblr
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Organization - Colonial Mentality (1977) mp3 at Soul Safari
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Organization - Monkey Banana (1976) mp3 at Soul Safari
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Organization - Yellow Fever (1976) mp3 at Soul Safari
The big bag:
Fela Kuti - Saluting the Black President at Internet Archive 78 songs. NOTE: Once there, scroll down the page. In the right column, under "Download options" click on "VBR MP3 Files".

FOLKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Rocky 52 and the Hound are two of the first blogs that I first frequented when I was just starting to check out music blogs (roughly fifteen years ago). Both have been regular haunts over the years, Rocky 52 for his insane breadth of country and western, rockabilly, hillbilly, instrumental bands and early rockers, and the Hound for his detailed bios of key figures, many second and third tier of familiarity. His music of choice is early rock 'n' roll, blues, r&b, and so on. More city, less hick.

These two sites complement each other well. Although the Hound's music links have been disabled for years, there is a shitload of well written and informed profiles. When the two sites intersect it's like a trip to the main library. Today, for instance, I saw a few Tarheel Slim songs at Rocky 52 (that's Slim pictured above) and the most detailed bio of Tarheel Slim I could find was at the Hound's site. Yee haw.

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Listen:
Tarheel Slim - Number 9 Train mp3 at Rocky 52
Tarheel Slim - Wildcat Trainer mp3 at Rocky 52
Tarheel Slim and Little Ann - Three songs at Rocky 52
Visit:
Tarheel Slim - Profile at The Hound
Rocky 52 - Home page

LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 52

I saw the poster above a few days ago and immediately recognized it as a nod to the magazine Rock Scene, a magazine you're not likely to remember unless you were around when it was still being published. I do remember it, picking it up at the magazine stand along with Circus, Creem and Rolling Stone. Of those magazines, Rock Scene had their finger on the pulse of newer stuff. In those days there were hardly any fanzines that were widely distributed. (Paul William's Crawdaddy may have been around, and maybe Greg Shaw's Who Put the Bomp, but I never saw them.) Rock Scene was somewhere in the gap between "legitimate" glossy rock magazines and fanzines. Color cover, black and white newsprint on the inside, tailor made to yellow and fall apart in no time. It did cover national acts and had record company ads, but it was still like a fanzine. No substantial writing, tons of behind the scenes snapshots but low on art as it was, it was the first place I ever heard of Blondie, Television, Talking Heads, Richard Hell, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Clash and a bunch of others. And it was the first time I encountered the name Danny Fields.

I saw a Danny Fields doc on YouTube, and that was it. A movie I'd watch myself. Danny Says is a bio pic about a New York scene fixture from early on, pre-punk. He was in the orbit of Andy Warhol's crowd way back in the mid-sixties, involved with the Stooges, the MC5, the Ramones and many others. So, I went looking. I wanted to include an image of Rock Scene due to the similarity of the poster above. I did not expect to find an archive. This is good stuff. I swear I've looked for this very thing before, but it must have been a while ago. This archive seems to have started in 2018. I recommend starting with the 1976 issues.

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Watch:
Danny Says at YouTube
Visit:
Rock Scene archive at Rock Scene Magazine Click on the covers to view whole magazine.
Rock Scene Magazine home page

THE STEALTH SAD SACK

Ray "Curly" Sanders. Never heard of him. But I've heard exactly one song, "Walking Blues", Though not really blues at all, it has all the cheeriness of a walk to the gallows. Up there with Jody Reynolds's "Endless Sleep" in the de-acceleration music category. There's two other gloom and doomers on the post at Office Naps.

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Listen:
Ray "Curly" Sanders - Walking Blues mp3 at Office Naps
The Lonesome Drifter's Tale at Office Naps Two other songs and text!
Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep (streaming) at YouTube

MUSIC TO PUTZ AROUND TO

Mid-tempo grooves are excellent to have playing while you're wandering from room to room with the intent to clean, or at least de-clutter, but getting distracted by this book, this CD booklet, or this stupid little knickknack. (Where did I get that again?) Do not open a dresser drawer with old photos. Don't even think about it. Stay out of the top shelf of anything.  Just go back in the living room and focus. The groove is in charge, don't interrupt.

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Listen:
Sugarman 3 - Half Chicken mp3 at Rubber City Review
Booker T and the MGs - Hip Hug Her mp3 at Self Starter Foundation (?)
Darondo - Get Up Off Your Butt mp3 at Rubber City Review

LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 51

Here's one I haven't watched but I'm gonna bow out early to do just that. It's about the first all-Black variety show that aired nationally on PBS. The hook: "merging artists from the margins with post-Civil Rights Black radical thought". Sounds good to me. I don't even know where I heard about it, but I had it bookmarked. Note that it's only available to view online until 3/24.

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Watch:
Mr. Soul - Trailer at PBS
Mr. Soul - Full length documentary at PBS 85 min.

ERGO, STONER JAZZ

I was checking links on old posts and ended up revisiting one with the Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass. She's the one who did "Rescue Me" back in the sixties, primarily a soul singer. The Art Ensemble of Chicago at the time (1970) was based in Paris, and Bass was married to Lester Bowie, the trumpet player. I know little of the Art Ensemble of Chicago so I'm not going to bullshit around. I do know that the song has so much shit going on in it that you stay glued. At one moment you'll be thinking "Wow, that drummer is hot shit" and a half minute later the whole thing goes on attack, where once was a groove is now an in your face full-on jazz freakout. Bass's vocals are only used sparingly, but if you think "Rescue Me", you'll hear her that voice doing wonderful things. So, as things go around here, I'm sidelined adding someone to my list and schooling myself. Dig the live videos. That drummer is hot shit.

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Listen:
Art Ensemble of Chicago w/Fontella Bass - Theme de Yoyo mp3 at Monkey.org
Fontella Bass - Rescue Me (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Art Ensemble of Chicago in Warsaw 1982 - Pt 1 at YouTube
Art Ensemble of Chicago in Warsaw 1982 - Pt 2 at YouTube
Art Ensemble of Chicago in Warsaw 1982 - Pt 3 at YouTube

THE CAL RIPKEN OF GUITAR FACE

Oh man, I hadn't heard this one in ages. Before you click, here's the context. When I was in high school, it was guitar, guitar, guitar. Everyone was listening to guitarists, debating about guitarists, and trying to discover hot shit guitarists before their friends did. And it was all heavy on the Hendrix. My brothers and I were Johnny Winter boosters. We kind of scoffed at people who stuck to their Hendrix guns, not even considering any other guitarist. We were doing some serious digging. Besides Johnny Winter there was Ritchie Blackmore, Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush) Rhino (from Captain Beyond), Roy Buchannan, Randy California, Peter Kaukoken, Rory Gallagher, Werner Fritzschings (Cactus) and a slew of others. The important thing is we went looking. We didn't look to our peers to decide what guitarist was hot shit.

One guitarist that I always forget about when I think back about those days is Robin Trower. He was someone my brothers and I and the Hendrix freaks could agree on. Mostly because there was a detectable Hendrix influence. But still, to us, Johnny Winter had it over the whole lot.

Trower's Bridge of Sighs LP was the one. I haven't heard it in ages but a chance encounter with “Little Bit Of Sympathy”, the last cut on the album, made me realize how ingrained it is in my memory. I'll have to remember that at the next Air Guitar competition.

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Listen:
Robin Trower - Little Bit Of Sympathy mp3 at 30 Milkshakes

ELECTRIC BOOGIE? NEVER HEARD OF IT.

You may have heard that Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailers, passed away. His health had been deteriorating since a stroke in 2020. I hadn't heard about the stroke and hadn't really been paying attention to his music in recent years. My loss. He was still recording and performing until just a few years ago. There's a full set down there from 2015, and it's really good. Wailer is obviously past his prime but still a commanding presence, backed by a super tight band. (The horns in the opening instrumental, particularly the solos, were the hook.) Along with that show a few other videos and a link to Compartilhando Reggae which has a shitload of full LPs, via download site Mega. (NOTE!: You do not have to have an account there. It might save you two minutes of download time but how much is your privacy worth?). There's an article down there from GQ of all places, from 2011. Haven't read it so you're own your own there. You'll notice that most of this paragraph is not even about Bunny Wailer. I'm lame like that.

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Listen:
Bunny Wailer - Multiple LPs and 12"s at Compartilhando Reggae All zips hosted at Mega (despite the looks you do not have to join).
Video:
Bunny Wailer Live in Spain at Rototom Sunsplash at YouTube 2015, Full set 63 minutes.
Bunny Wailer feat. Ruffi-Ann - Baddest at YouTube 2017
Bunny Wailer and Manu Chao w/Playing For Change - Soul Rebel at YouTube 2019
Bunny Wailer -Electric Boogie at YouTube 1989
Visit:
The Last Wailer by John Jeremiah Sullivan at GQ 2011
Bunny Wailer, last surviving founder member of the Wailers, dies aged 73 at The Guardian

NON-HIT WONDERS

About a year and a half ago I posted a link from this blog, raved about it, bookmarked it, and then proceeded to forget about it. I ran across it again today, and while the site rarely updates so there is a finite amount of selections there, I'd forgotten the lengths the host, del Piero, goes to for the backstories.

The records posted are all obscure. My guess is that you may never hear them anywhere else, which wouldn't matter much if the music sucked, But it doesn't. There's some informed taste going on here, and research by someone who clearly know what he's doing. As far as the type of music, from the About page, "I’ll be posting R&B, doo wop, popcorn, soul, funk, Latin, exotica, ska, mod jazz, soundtracks, rockabilly country and some nice dirty garage beats, from all around the world, and even some local Aussie stuff." I'm aboard as long as "local Aussie stuff" doesn't mean "Men at Work stuff".

Here's just three to give you an idea, all three from the early sixties. You know what? You should really go there and poke around. G'wan, GTFO.

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Listen:
Baby Earl and The Trini-dads – Back Slop mp3 at Seven45rpm
Hannah Dean – Strange Man mp3 at Seven45rpm
Albert Collins ‎– Defrost mp3 at Seven45rpm