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Robinson was born in Temagog, New South Wales. [1] He started playing piano at the age of 6, only because he was told his fingers were too small to play the guitar. Aged 10, he quit piano and began to play the guitar. He outgrew his guitar teacher in less than 12 months, and started to teach himself from the internet. [2]
According to Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane, Hole "is the most acclaimed blues guitarist Australia has ever produced... courtesy of his unorthodox slide guitar style, his rousing live shows and a series of hard-rocking, roadhouse blues albums... yet it took two decades of slogging around the Australian touring circuit before the ...
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
[1] [6] "Bitter Tears" reached the ARIA Singles Chart top 30 while Amazing World peaked in the top 50 on the related ARIA Albums Chart. [6] [10] In July 1988 the band called in Steve Bull on bass guitar and Lee Borkman on keyboards. . [1] [3] The band felt they could no longer continue with this line up and disbanded in the following year. [1]
In 1969 Tim Gaze (ex-Stonehenge), a "16-year-old guitar prodigy", replaced Zytnik on lead guitar and co-lead vocals. [1] [6] Zytnik had left to join Graham Lowndes' group, Bootleg. [1] [2] In January 1970 Tamam Shud performed at Australia's first outdoor rock festival, the Pilgrimage for Pop, held at Ourimbah, 78 km north of Sydney.
[1] [2] That band had formed in 1986 and included Russell Hall on bass guitar and Byron Smith on guitar, they had issued a single, "She Sells Sanctuary" (1986), and an album, Warring Tribes (1988) on Cleopatra Records. [1] [3] One of Things of Stone and Wood's earliest gigs was at the 21st birthday party for Helen Durham – Arnold's then ...
Jigsaw were an Australian country pop band, composed of Jon Calderwood on lead guitar, Eddie Chappell on drums, Ron Gilbee on rhythm guitar and Dennis Tucker on bass guitar. Over the course of their career, the band released Australian top ten singles, " Yellow River " (1970) and " How Do You Do " (1972).
Spencer was a founding member of the rock band Finch in 1973 [2] [3] [4] while attending Marist Brothers Pagewood, where he completed his Higher School Certificate in 1975. He left Finch in 1977 to replace Red Symons on guitar in Skyhooks. [2] [5] [6] He left that group in 1980. [6] In 1986 he joined the Angels on guitar to replace John ...