Jessii
11-26-2006, 11:53 AM
In the West Australian magazine there is a 4 page article on Perth rockabilly, then a article about tle. I wonder how long this is gonna take for me to type it up. There are 2 photos, which i will take a photo of later. One black and white one with Trav, which i've seen before and the recent one of them sitting at a bar.
The Living End no longer have the big quiffs to go with their brothel-creeper shoe. But the rockabilly music - and particulary the Stray Cats set australias premier live rock band on the road to stardom. The bands Chris Cheney and Scott Owen started out in 95 as The Runaway Boys in homage to the cats who spearheaded the rockabilly revival of the early 1980s.
Owens slap bass isn't the only surviving relic of that particular love affair. Some of the enduring stage theatrics including Cheney performing his scorching Gretsch guitar solos atop Owens bass - have The Stray Cats paw prints all over them.
The appreciation in 2006 is mutal. The Cats Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom have all been rich in compliments to the Melb based trio.
Phantom, the Stray Cats drummer, was introduced to TLEs music by his son and he was humbled when Cheney and the band hunted him down at his club in LA Sunset Boulevard.
"They came and found me and wanted pictures taken, they were really nice super cool guys." says Phantom. "I think TLE are awesome. They can really play. Their music is different, it's cool. They have been at is for a while and they can probably of all the rockabilly influenced bands that i know of - get the right songs and kind of crack it."
The Stray Cats cracked it on both sides of the Atlantic, conquering Europe before storming the charts in their native America and rekindling interest in their long forgotten genre.
Phantom, who performed in Perth this month with top English rockabilly guitarist Darrel Higham, says he is flattered by Cheney and Owens adulation.
TLEs music today draws influence from a deep well - as much influenced by The Clash, Green Day, and ACDC as by The Stray Cats. But Cheneys all-time favourite record remains the Cats original self-titled album which he bought as a 13 yr old.
"This was before cds when album covers really meant something, so the first thing that knocked me out was the photo on the front." Cheney told the ABC. "it was a simple photo of 3 quiffed up punks armed only with a guitar, a snare drum and double bass standing in what looked like a back alley. They looked menacing and ready to rock.
I was lucky enough to see them at The Palace in 1990 and i got the album signed by all 3 members and i count it as one of my most prized possesions."
TLE hold the record for the most consecutive entries in Triple Js Hottest 100. Their rockabilly chared Second Solution/Prisoner Of Society double A-side was the highest selling Aus single of the 1990s and earned them the first of several arias.
The Living End no longer have the big quiffs to go with their brothel-creeper shoe. But the rockabilly music - and particulary the Stray Cats set australias premier live rock band on the road to stardom. The bands Chris Cheney and Scott Owen started out in 95 as The Runaway Boys in homage to the cats who spearheaded the rockabilly revival of the early 1980s.
Owens slap bass isn't the only surviving relic of that particular love affair. Some of the enduring stage theatrics including Cheney performing his scorching Gretsch guitar solos atop Owens bass - have The Stray Cats paw prints all over them.
The appreciation in 2006 is mutal. The Cats Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom have all been rich in compliments to the Melb based trio.
Phantom, the Stray Cats drummer, was introduced to TLEs music by his son and he was humbled when Cheney and the band hunted him down at his club in LA Sunset Boulevard.
"They came and found me and wanted pictures taken, they were really nice super cool guys." says Phantom. "I think TLE are awesome. They can really play. Their music is different, it's cool. They have been at is for a while and they can probably of all the rockabilly influenced bands that i know of - get the right songs and kind of crack it."
The Stray Cats cracked it on both sides of the Atlantic, conquering Europe before storming the charts in their native America and rekindling interest in their long forgotten genre.
Phantom, who performed in Perth this month with top English rockabilly guitarist Darrel Higham, says he is flattered by Cheney and Owens adulation.
TLEs music today draws influence from a deep well - as much influenced by The Clash, Green Day, and ACDC as by The Stray Cats. But Cheneys all-time favourite record remains the Cats original self-titled album which he bought as a 13 yr old.
"This was before cds when album covers really meant something, so the first thing that knocked me out was the photo on the front." Cheney told the ABC. "it was a simple photo of 3 quiffed up punks armed only with a guitar, a snare drum and double bass standing in what looked like a back alley. They looked menacing and ready to rock.
I was lucky enough to see them at The Palace in 1990 and i got the album signed by all 3 members and i count it as one of my most prized possesions."
TLE hold the record for the most consecutive entries in Triple Js Hottest 100. Their rockabilly chared Second Solution/Prisoner Of Society double A-side was the highest selling Aus single of the 1990s and earned them the first of several arias.