R.I.P. 2020
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Max Merritt slips away
Max Merritt - who died overnight aged 79 - is best known for 'Slipping Away', a Kiwi anthem from the mid-1970s. But his career stretches all the way back to the very beginning of rock and roll in New Zealand.
I bet ‘journalists’ have been waiting years just to use this line.
Hopefully Jake the Muss is raising a quart bottle as a tribute....
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Staple band in NZ in the 60's - seemed on TV all the time.
Some NZ music royalty started their careers with Max Merritt over the years - Billy Christian & Bruno Laurence in particular. For that he deserves a big thumbs up.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
Staple band in NZ in the 60's - seemed on TV all the time.
Some NZ music royalty started their careers with Max Merritt over the years - Billy Christian & Bruno Laurence in particular. For that he deserves a big thumbs up.
I rang the old man and mentioned it. He said he wasn't much of a fan but then again he's pretty brutally honest when it comes to music.
This is a trait I'm glad I inherited.
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@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
Dave Halligan. The AB who wasn’t?
Good article below.
Mentions he was selected "After a strong showing for the South Island", but my memory was he dominated in the early game at the All Black Trial (they used to play two, and the main contenders played the later games, fringe players the curtain raiser) so much, scored all his team's points, that they couldn't leave him out. But memories from 40 years ago aren't always accurate.
Meant Hewie got a look in which kept whatever the equivalent of ranting on the internet in 1981 was fully active.
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@booboo said in R.I.P. 2020:
Meant Hewie got a look in which kept whatever the equivalent of ranting on the internet in 1981 was fully active.
We called them pubs at the time. Everybody was still on the booze but it was all in one room and ended in punching. Was Deans versing Hewson after that?
I remember Halligan though, deserved a go.
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@booboo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
Dave Halligan. The AB who wasn’t?
Meant Hewie got a look in which kept whatever the equivalent of ranting on the internet in 1981 was fully active.
Talkback?
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@booboo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
Dave Halligan. The AB who wasn’t?
Meant Hewie got a look in which kept whatever the equivalent of ranting on the internet in 1981 was fully active.
Talkback?
It's still a thing. I remember listening to Radio sport a few years back the morning after an AB loss. Some old bloke whinged that Richie McCaw had let him down personally and that he made much better decisions when he captained the ( insert generic bumfuck New Zealand town ) under 21s back in 1959.
Apparently that's the same amount of pressure as a test match in South Africa in front of 60,000 Afrikaaners. .
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@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Max Merritt slips away
Max Merritt - who died overnight aged 79 - is best known for 'Slipping Away', a Kiwi anthem from the mid-1970s. But his career stretches all the way back to the very beginning of rock and roll in New Zealand.
I bet ‘journalists’ have been waiting years just to use this line.
Hopefully Jake the Muss is raising a quart bottle as a tribute....
So I listened to this in the car just now for a bit of nostalgia. Still catchy as, just a lovely tune. But I'd never realised that its 5+ minute song that only has 1 verse, repeated 3 times.
3 fricken times!!!
Lazy ass muthas!
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@voodoo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Max Merritt slips away
Max Merritt - who died overnight aged 79 - is best known for 'Slipping Away', a Kiwi anthem from the mid-1970s. But his career stretches all the way back to the very beginning of rock and roll in New Zealand.
I bet ‘journalists’ have been waiting years just to use this line.
Hopefully Jake the Muss is raising a quart bottle as a tribute....
So I listened to this in the car just now for a bit of nostalgia. Still catchy as, just a lovely tune. But I'd never realised that its 5+ minute song that only has 1 verse, repeated 3 times.
3 fricken times!!!
Lazy ass muthas!
I like the tune as well. As for lazy - I used to play the drums and this guy has it nailed:
They were called The Meteors. I see a little irony in that.
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I think that is Johnny Dick as the drummer but they did swap a bit.
I have just discovered that Max shared "musos" with Ray Columbus, who sadly is also gone.
Ray was my ex bosses neighbour, and then my parents neighbour for years. NZ really is a small place.
The music was before my time but my parents forced it on me so brings back some memories.
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@voodoo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Max Merritt slips away
Max Merritt - who died overnight aged 79 - is best known for 'Slipping Away', a Kiwi anthem from the mid-1970s. But his career stretches all the way back to the very beginning of rock and roll in New Zealand.
I bet ‘journalists’ have been waiting years just to use this line.
Hopefully Jake the Muss is raising a quart bottle as a tribute....
So I listened to this in the car just now for a bit of nostalgia. Still catchy as, just a lovely tune. But I'd never realised that its 5+ minute song that only has 1 verse, repeated 3 times.
3 fricken times!!!
Lazy ass muthas!
The Romantics did that too, when they were singing about someone talking in their sleep they just repeated verse 2 and 3 completely the same. Perhaps they had a deadline ?
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@Snowy said in R.I.P. 2020:
@voodoo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Max Merritt slips away
Max Merritt - who died overnight aged 79 - is best known for 'Slipping Away', a Kiwi anthem from the mid-1970s. But his career stretches all the way back to the very beginning of rock and roll in New Zealand.
I bet ‘journalists’ have been waiting years just to use this line.
Hopefully Jake the Muss is raising a quart bottle as a tribute....
So I listened to this in the car just now for a bit of nostalgia. Still catchy as, just a lovely tune. But I'd never realised that its 5+ minute song that only has 1 verse, repeated 3 times.
3 fricken times!!!
Lazy ass muthas!
I like the tune as well. As for lazy - I used to play the drums and this guy has it nailed:
They were called The Meteors. I see a little irony in that.
More active than Brown Mark who was the Revolutions Bass player when they did "When Doves Cry"
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@Snowy said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 He didn't move at all? The lack of motion in that video suggests that they were already dead.
As for Brown Mark - that is a really unfortunate name. Cruel parents, just call him Shit Stain, Skid Mark, and be done with it.
I follow him on FB. Cool dude and a hell of a bass player. I guess he chose that name to make him appear a bit more mortal to those of us who didn't make it quite as big as he did in the music world.
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@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
@Snowy said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 He didn't move at all? The lack of motion in that video suggests that they were already dead.
As for Brown Mark - that is a really unfortunate name. Cruel parents, just call him Shit Stain, Skid Mark, and be done with it.
I follow him on FB. Cool dude and a hell of a bass player. I guess he chose that name to make him appear a bit more mortal to those of us who didn't make it quite as big as he did in the music world.
I would still say - not a good choice.
I didn't call myself yellow Snowy for example.
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@Virgil said in R.I.P. 2020:
R.I.P Eddie Van Halen
Big fan of Van Halen, both the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hager eras. Loved the sound, had their own style mostly due to his guitar work.
Only 65, too youngWow thats young. Circumstances? Google says throat cancer. Feels far too young
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@Virgil said in R.I.P. 2020:
R.I.P Eddie Van Halen
Big fan of Van Halen, both the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hager eras. Loved the sound, had their own style mostly due to his guitar work.
Only 65, too youngNooo! Well that's a man who leaves a legacy that's for sure.
RIP Eddie.
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