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Main Forums => The Bass Zone => Topic started by: Chris P. on December 10, 2008, 07:58:10 AM
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Hi guys,
I have a new, second band, besides Boilersuit. It's called The La La Lies and we want to make some more sixties, garage kinda music. Of course I play bass. Can't do anything else...;)
We don't have music yet, but we will record some original songs and covers early next year.
Please befriend us at:
www.myspace.com/thelalalies
If we record, of course I'll use the Bird:)
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As long as you do "Lies" by The Knickerbockers, I'm there. :mrgreen:
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We have an original song called La La Lies (nothing to do with La La La Lies by The Who, though I called the band after that song) and we do One Track Mind by The Knickerbockers:)
We also do:
Almost Grown - The Small Faces
So Come On - Les Fleur De Lys
Night Time - The Strangeloves
I'll Make You Sorry - The Shadows of Knight
Shaking Street - ???
I Can Only Give You Everything - Them
And some originals we are writing.
I have Lies on CD though...
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Well, since I know Jimmy Sohns, I'll let it slide. I came *this close* to being the bass player for The Shadows of Knight in a reunion band line-up in the '80s.
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That's cool! Of course I'll keep ya posted abour future recordings!
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"Shakin street"-MC5? ???
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I think it are the MC5 indeed. Thanks!
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Friend request from TigerShark sent. 8)
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Those are some really interesting choices as covers. Best wishes for success.
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The idea is to have enough original songs soon, but doing those coers is nice to get your sound right and it are song normal people don't know. Only freaks like you guys:)
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Cool - looking forward to hearing you
(hopefully) friend request going out soon from the Silver Brazilians
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If you wanna do some 60's garage stuff that people might not have heard in the vein of Small Faces early Who etc what about some of this stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiY0siZY3Y
or Some Black Monks or Atlantics?
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Great vid! Great song! I swear I hear Steve Marriott in the chorusses. These are The Easybeats? I only know Friday On my Mind.
Actually the Easybeats consist of a brother of Angus and the other Young of AC/DC and two Dutch guys who moved to Australia.
We're busy for a couple of months now and the band is getting more 70s now. We'll see. At the end of this month we'll record two or three songs, so I'll have them up at the end of February:)
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True Chris, Without George Young having blazed a trail in the fledgling Australian music industry of the 60's I can't see how Angas and Malcolm would have had the contacts to get ACDC to the heights it reached.
The 2 main songwriters for the Easybeats were Harry Vanda and George Young. Dutchman and a Scott. The band I'm with plays 2 of their songs which were hits here but I'm not aware of that being the case anywhere else. "I'll make you happy" and "Sorry".
Great band, they wrote a lot of songs and most of them were good ones IMHO.
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There was a documentary about AC/DC on tv recently Angus Young told the interviewer their parents asked them not to tell anybody on school their brother was in the Easybeats. He had long hair, it was pop music, so they were ashamed:)
Harry Vanda is Harry van den Berg and Dick Diamonde is Dick van der Sluys. Both Dutch guys.
Nice: Sultans of Swing of the Dire Straits has some links to The Easybeats.
Guitar George knows all the chords, Harry doesn't mind.... and: 'Saving it up to friday night.'
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The AC/DC albums produced by Vanda and Young are my favorites!
On a semi related sidenote, Easybeats contemporaries Valentines:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-45XG7n4k
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LOL, yep not a band that Back up singer Bon Scott was happy to recall ;) Shortly after he joined local legendary Adelaide band Fraternity.
Now that we seem to have completely hijacked Chris's thread it might interest a few of you to know that Angry Anderson (Rose Tattoo singer) was in a band with Phil Rudd (drummer for ACDC) called Buster Brown before Acca Dacca and Tatts.
Tatts first four albums were also produced by Harry Vanda and George Young.
Interestingly Chris the first drummer with the Tatts was Michael Van der sluys. So there would have to be an Easybeats connection there as well.
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One of my favorite bands from around here, The Ugly Beats (http://www.myspace.com/theuglybeats), do a cover of the Easybeats' "I'll Make You Happy." And speaking of Dutch connections, they also cover the Outsiders' "Filthy Rich". Both are on their first CD.
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I love threads getting hijacked in this interesting way!
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For the guys who don´t check the Gibson section here:
www.myspace.com/thelalalies (mp3, vid and links to .WAV-files)
www.youtube.com/thelalalies (vid only)
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One of my favorite bands from around here, The Ugly Beats (http://www.myspace.com/theuglybeats), do a cover of the Easybeats' "I'll Make You Happy." And speaking of Dutch connections, they also cover the Outsiders' "Filthy Rich". Both are on their first CD.
We played "I'll Make You Happy" at the Crocs gig Sat night. We usually do it back to back with Stepping Stone by the Monkees. Both get rocked up a bit and work really well. ;D
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If you wanna do some 60's garage stuff that people might not have heard in the vein of Small Faces early Who etc what about some of this stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiY0siZY3Y
or Some Black Monks or Atlantics?
The riffing in that song is AC/DC'ish alright! :o But there are worse things than to steal from your big brothers.
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The AC/DC albums produced by Vanda and Young are my favorites!
On a semi related sidenote, Easybeats contemporaries Valentines:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-45XG7n4k
I laffed & cried myself to sleep after watching this vid last night.
This may be why Bon Scot drank himself to death...trying to erase the memory of this band.
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OMG, I only realize this now, that background singer is Bon Scott!
Catchier than most of his tunes with that other band though ...
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Today the new OOR came in. That's the most important Dutch music magazine. On page 8 there's a hotlist. I'll translate it roughly:
The La La Lies - Turn Up The Music (And Dance)
Since band Di-rect made a version of Tommy, we are a bit frightened by Dutch bands with a Who-link. But The La La Lies proofs it can be awesome! Yep, they have a La less than the British band. This quartet from North-Holland is one of the best new Dutch bands. Listen to the fenomenal Turn Up The Music (And Dance). You won't hear any better songs this year.
Nice isn't it?
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Good for you.
All publicity is good (unless you're Kanye West), a positive mention is great.
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We played "I'll Make You Happy" at the Crocs gig Sat night. We usually do it back to back with Stepping Stone by the Monkees. Both get rocked up a bit and work really well. ;D
Easybeats = great band.
Here's a recording of "I'll Make You Happy" I did with a band a few years ago when I was living in Adelaide ....
http://www.deayton.com/band/illmakeyouhappy.mp3
AND, if you need a real laugh, here's the promotional video that went with the demo CD ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ7ei9PERQ0
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mark, you always have been and still are THE KING OF SHIRTS. ;)