107- Gary Slater - Voodoo Lust & Dr Bombay

Welcome to Episode 107. Gary Slater joins us on this week’s episode. Gary fronted Voodoo Lust, The Viscounts, The Trilobytes, and now Dr Bombay.
What follows is a rollicking conversation that winds its way through the power pop success of Voodoo Lust, to work ethic, staying healthy and fit, guitars and the wasted guitar solo’s and the upcoming album from Dr Bombay and so much more.
Gary is a bundle of energy on stage, and the same can be said when chatting with him. A serious case of buckling up and enjoying the ride.
WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE AND AS ALWAYS WATCH TILL THE END.
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Links to Check Out
Shake, Shake, Hey Yeh! – https://youtu.be/4MddX2TSUqs
Dr Bombay YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@DrBombayRocknRoll
Dr Bombay Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DrBombayAU
Love and Bitterness EP – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMO2LZWwwY
She’s So Psychedelic Live – https://youtu.be/unX2Z_Z0mhc
Voodoo Lust EP – https://youtu.be/NkUbl3rEDZg
Final Song
Voodoo Lust – Gossip https://youtu.be/iJ3wPlmxhEw
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Curly:
Hey there everyone and welcome to episode 107 of the Unfiltered and Undiscovered podcast. A really special evening tonight. I’ve got, I’m being a bit of a fan boy. I’ve got one of my most favorite, the lead singer of one of my most favorite bands joining us tonight, which is absolutely awesome. First up, let’s welcome our co-host. We’ve got Braggy down there in Adelaide and we got Rossie in Sydney. How are you boys?

Rossy:
Fantastic, just looking forward to the end of the cricket hopefully.

Braggy:
Yeah, and there’s a big game tomorrow night as well Rossi.

Rossy:
It’s there. I don’t know what you’re talking

Curly:
Oh, that’s

Rossy:
about.

Curly:
right.

Braggy:
I’m

Curly:
That’s a

Braggy:
sorry.

Curly:
little game called State of Origin, isn’t it?

Rossy:
Wasn’t that game invented so Queenslanders could win occasionally?

Curly:
Hahaha!

Braggy:
I think we are favourites this time Rossy.

Rossy:
You are.

Curly:
which is always a bit of a concern when Queensland’s a favourite. So let’s…

Rossy:
Just quite like Gary Bragg, he loses in Adelaide, but he’s really a Queenslander.

Gary Slater:
Yes, I used to have it.

Curly:
Mm.

Braggy:
Yeah, well,

Curly:
So

Braggy:
I’m only

Curly:
very.

Braggy:
in Queensland for three games a year.

Curly:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Braggy:
I go for a South Australian or every other sport, except for obviously we don’t, they don’t play NRL

Curly:
Uhhh…

Braggy:
here. So.

Gary Slater:
Oh well, pretty cocky up here at the moment, but we’ll see how we go.

Rossy:
There

Curly:
Yeah, we’ll see how we

Rossy:
we go.

Curly:
go. Hey Rossy, I saw something interesting on I-94 about an interview with Richard Lawson, the ex-lime spider.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Curly:
And the release that a new long lost five track release by the Sydney band The Most was

Rossy:
The

Curly:
now

Rossy:
most,

Curly:
available

Rossy:
yeah.

Curly:
on streaming platforms.

Rossy:
Well, the most were in this final in the Southern Cross Band Comp, which was the Southern Cross slash Strawberry Hills. The Strawberry Hills changed its name from the Southern Cross Hotel and got sold to this big chain. And the most were in the band comp against the Lime Spiders in the final, right?

Curly:
Alright,

Rossy:
And

Curly:
this

Rossy:
the,

Curly:
is the legendary band, Battle of the

Rossy:
yeah,

Curly:
Bands.

Rossy:
yeah. And the most played, and the Spiders came on, it was Mick Blad, Richard Jackamycin. And they just looked at each other and said, we’re fucked. They’re too good. And they were right.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
But then, then the Chee, Tony Bamback, Richard Lawson, and Jed Corbin all ended up in the Lime Spiders anyway.

Curly:
Yeah, it’s a good story, isn’t it? A five-track

Rossy:
It is.

Curly:
release. It’s never been available as CD or on vinyl, and they’ve put it out on a streaming platform. And I had a bit

Rossy:
British.

Curly:
of a listen to it today. And I love listening to new music from the early 80s.

Braggy:
1986,

Rossy:
Oh, we’ve

Braggy:
Kelly?

Rossy:
got plenty of that. It

Curly:
No, it was 80. It was earlier than that, Braggie.

Rossy:
was about

Curly:
I think

Rossy:
82,

Curly:
it was

Rossy:
83, I

Curly:
82,

Rossy:
think.

Curly:

Yeah, absolutely.

Braggy:
Peace.

Rossy:
Richard Lawson on his night was a stellar drummer, man. Richard

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
was the man. Oh boy. The Lime Spiders swung with Richard in the band.

Curly:
Absolutely. So let’s introduce.

Gary Slater:
I’ve had a stage for those guys a few times and just poof.

Rossy:
Oh yeah, they were…

Curly:
Let’s introduce our

Gary Slater:
at

Curly:
special

Gary Slater:
their best.

Curly:
guest,

Gary Slater:
Well.

Curly:
shall we? We’ve got Gary Slater joining us. Now Gary’s…

Gary Slater:
Sorry, I’m gonna shut up there. Sorry.

Rossy:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Braggy:
It’s alright.

Curly:
No, that’s all right. Gary comes to us from a litany of bands, the Viscounts, Bootylust, Trialabytes, and now he plays in Dr. Bombay celebrating their 10th anniversary. Welcome to the show, Gary.

Gary Slater:
Thank you very much, thanks for having me. Yeah, I did a little bit, I had to make a few notes of how many bands I’ve been in, because I couldn’t quite remember, so I better write them down, but nine bands actually, they’ve

Curly:
Ha ha ha!

Gary Slater:
actually got to the point of playing, so God,

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
wow, scary, yeah.

Rossy:
Now, just

Braggy:
Rossi

Rossy:
for his-

Braggy:
did say Gary, Rossi did say that you were one of the hardest working men in rock. So.

Gary Slater:
This is

Rossy:
Yeah, we know it to be true,

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Rossy:
don’t we, Gaz?

Gary Slater:
well, you know, it was a pleasure, though, wasn’t it? You know, pleasure to work.

Rossy:
Oh, we spent many a night in either the back of a truck, a dressing

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Rossy:
room,

Curly:
I’m going to go ahead and turn it off.

Rossy:
or a

Gary Slater:
yeah,

Rossy:
hotel

Gary Slater:
yeah.

Rossy:
for many, many years, having too much fun doing that. What I will know, what I do know about Gaz is that how old were you when you first

Gary Slater:
I was about 12 or 13, you know, one of the, you know, maybe 13, 12. And then I was with my two cousins who bit older than me. And fortunately I was just a little kid and I just always wanted to be a singer in a band, you know. So my cousin’s a bit older and they could play a bit. So, and luckily for me, they liked like Chuck Berry and Status Quo and all that sort of stuff, which I just loved as a little kid growing up. And so I started singing with them really. And then, yeah. and just went from there and then

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
joined another band called the Dull Trio when I was 14 or

Curly:
Hahaha.

Gary Slater:

They kind of did more Led Zeppelin-y and Deep Purple and stuff but also that, actually I must say, originals early on too. Even in the first band when I was 12, 13, I still started writing melodies and lyrics and we tried, you know, doing our own songs even then. So yeah, Dull Trio 14, 15. About 16 years old is when I met Hound Dog Harper. He was 14.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Ha

Gary Slater:
And

Rossy:
ha!

Gary Slater:
there’s a guy getting around, John, who was actually just, he was funny. He was a bass player. He’s good. And going around lots of different bands and he was trying to just sort of get people that he liked from bands and form his own band. So he hooked up with Tony and I and said, come here my place. And we started a new band with him called This Week Special. And that’s how I met Tony. And that was, I started writing with Tony and

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
that was it. And then after This Week Special, 3B2, which was sort of,

Rossy:
Mm-hmm

Gary Slater:
you know, late seven, oh, probably 78, I think. early 80s and that was like, we did well

Braggy:
We did well

Gary Slater:
in 3B2,

Braggy:
in 3-2,

Gary Slater:
we played

Braggy:
we

Gary Slater:
with heaps

Braggy:
played

Gary Slater:
of

Braggy:
with

Gary Slater:
big bands,

Braggy:
the Inter-Defense,

Gary Slater:
lots

Braggy:
lots

Gary Slater:
of joint

Braggy:
of joint

Gary Slater:
efforts

Braggy:
efforts

Gary Slater:
at Triple

Braggy:
with Triple

Gary Slater:
Z,

Braggy:
Z,

Gary Slater:
Sonny

Braggy:
Sonny

Gary Slater:
Boyz,

Braggy:
Boys,

Gary Slater:
Sephors,

Braggy:
forwards.

Gary Slater:
did well with that band as well, that was good. And then the Vi counts after that, so yeah, I don’t know, where do you want

Curly:
Which

Gary Slater:
me to start?

Curly:
is, yeah,

Rossy:
Kicka!

Curly:
so this is where I can pick up because I remember I went, me and my mates, because I’m a punter, I’m not a muse, but I love music and I love live music. And we went to a cockroaches gig. So I’m sure it was a cockroaches gig and I’m sure it was the Calumvale hotel. And

Gary Slater:
It

Curly:
in,

Gary Slater:
was.

Curly:
and at that time in Brisbane, it was out of suburbia and the Viscounts

Gary Slater:
Yeah.

Curly:
were the support. So that was my first. sort of seeing Gary Slater and a band up there on stage. But the confusion, we started to get a little bit confused because maybe two weeks later we were somewhere, I don’t necessarily remember where, and Voodoo Lust came on stage and we all looked at each other and said, wasn’t that guy in the Viscounts? It didn’t tweak to us that you could be in two bands at once.

Gary Slater:
Well, it’s funny because the boy is too much with it, but the story with what happened there was the Viking, after 3B2 with Tony and I, for probably four years, just all our own songs, color covers, but pretty much all our own songs. And then in Brisbane at the time, we were playing like a lot of original bands, quite a lot, but I don’t know, say twice a month, three times a month. But our cover bands obviously were playing like three or four or five nights a week, you know? And that’s what Tony and I wanted to do. We just wanted to play, you know? We

Braggy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
just couldn’t

Rossy:
Oh yeah.

Gary Slater:
do an original. So… What can we do? So we came up with this concept of playing 60 songs, but basically in our own style. And that’s what the Viscounts were. And it worked a treat because we could play, like we did residencies at Twin Towns and all these big clubs and the Carlton Circus, which was all the suburban barns and stuff. And we could still play like inner city cool venues. So it was kind of, and we just

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
played like a lot. I’m talking

Curly:
game.

Gary Slater:
like three or four nights a week and we did three or four sets a night. So.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
We went from playing three sets a month to playing 10, 12 sets a week.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
So we just in the Viscounts for a few years that we just got so much experience. It was amazing, but it was also boring because it was covered. So at first

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
it was interesting and it’s great, you know, novelty wore off.

Braggy:
But I

Gary Slater:
That

Braggy:
guess,

Gary Slater:
was when video started.

Braggy:
I guess Gary, you really hone your skill there too, your chops don’t

Gary Slater:
That’s

Braggy:
you,

Gary Slater:
what

Braggy:
and you

Gary Slater:
I was

Braggy:
get

Gary Slater:
getting

Braggy:
tight.

Gary Slater:
at. You know, it was like, you know, Tony and I had already been in this

Rossy:
We’ve

Gary Slater:
week’s

Rossy:
been in

Gary Slater:
special

Rossy:
District Special

Gary Slater:
and

Rossy:
and

Gary Slater:
3B2

Rossy:
3P2

Gary Slater:
together for

Rossy:
together

Gary Slater:
five

Rossy:
for

Gary Slater:
or six

Rossy:
5

Gary Slater:
years. So

Rossy:
or 6

Gary Slater:
we’d already

Rossy:
years, so

Gary Slater:
played

Rossy:
we’ve already

Gary Slater:
at

Rossy:
played

Gary Slater:
least 100

Rossy:
at least

Gary Slater:
gigs

Rossy:
100

Gary Slater:
together

Rossy:
gigs

Gary Slater:
before

Rossy:
together before.

Gary Slater:
the Viscounts.

Rossy:
The

Gary Slater:
But

Rossy:
Viscounts

Gary Slater:
then

Rossy:
have been in the

Gary Slater:
in the Viscounts

Rossy:
Viscounts

Gary Slater:
within two

Rossy:
for

Gary Slater:
years

Rossy:
2

Gary Slater:
or so,

Rossy:
years

Gary Slater:
wow,

Rossy:
or

Gary Slater:
you

Rossy:
so.

Gary Slater:
know,

Rossy:
Wow,

Gary Slater:
we

Rossy:
we’ve

Gary Slater:
played

Rossy:
played

Gary Slater:
hundreds

Rossy:
100

Gary Slater:
of sets.

Rossy:
gigs.

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
So that was great experience. And so quickly what happened then, but Tony left the Viscounts to form Vigri Lust with Brad Ferguson and Dean Muller, not with me at all. And I was

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
still playing in the Viscounts. And funny enough, I actually played a gig with the Viscounts and Voodoo Lust together. And

Rossy:
Hahaha!

Gary Slater:
it was,

Curly:
Ha ha

Braggy:
Oh! Ha

Gary Slater:
yeah.

Curly:
ha!

Braggy:
ha ha!

Gary Slater:
But I wasn’t in Voodoo Lust though. I was in the Viscounts still. So, and I actually mixed, mixed Voodoo Lust. It was, it was the Viscounts PA, because we had our own

Braggy:
Uh…

Gary Slater:
truck and crew and everything. So, and

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I mixed Voodoo Lust after the

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
Viscounts was played. And I’d seen them at a party once. And I just remember thinking, my God, these guys are so good. That night,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
they asked me if I wanted to join, and after the gig, if I wanted to join, because I needed a front man sort of thing. And so obviously I said yes, and then I went home and it was terrible really, but I woke my wife up. I had a one year old and a four year old, and I was just a sheet metal worker with a mortgage. I

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
just woke up

Rossy:
Hehehe

Gary Slater:
at two o’clock in the morning and said, going to Sydney in a band. And we were just there.

Curly:
And away you went.

Gary Slater:
So

Rossy:
Meh.

Gary Slater:
yeah.

Curly:
And that first single that you put out, Shake, Hey, yeah, went on to become number one on the Indie charts.

Gary Slater:
Did, yeah. I was

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
thinking about

Curly:
And

Gary Slater:
that

Curly:
I’ve,

Gary Slater:
today too.

Curly:
and

Gary Slater:
It was…

Curly:
I’ve just got to show that while you’re there. Yeah.

Braggy:
Oh, look at that, the vinyl.

Curly:
You got the, uh,

Rossy:
Ah,

Curly:
the

Gary Slater:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Brad’s

Curly:
boys

Rossy:
very

Curly:
on

Rossy:
attractive,

Curly:
the back

Rossy:
wasn’t

Curly:
there.

Rossy:
he? Brad was very attractive, wasn’t he?

Curly:
How young does Gary look in that?

Rossy:
Yeah

Gary Slater:
Oh, I have to say that too, because we thought we were so old, you know, because we’ve been in 3v2 and this week’s special with the other bands for years. By the time we got started, we’d already been gone for like 10 years in a head.

Rossy:
Yeah, yeah,

Gary Slater:
So, you know,

Rossy:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
it was like when we went to Sydney and I was 25 and Tony was 23, you know, and we remember having these conversations all the time. Don’t tell everyone how old we are. Just don’t tell everyone, you know, because we just… We just thought, well, you know, we’re veterans already. Yeah.

Rossy:
So you guys, when you’re doing that Queensland stuff, there was a little bit of that Hutchison thing up there in those days, wasn’t it?

Gary Slater:
That’s

Rossy:
The

Gary Slater:
what

Rossy:
Hutchos,

Gary Slater:
the vaccines

Braggy:
The

Rossy:
yeah,

Braggy:
circuit,

Rossy:
the Hutchos

Braggy:
yeah.

Rossy:
circuit,

Gary Slater:
did. Yeah.

Rossy:
where

Braggy:
Yep.

Rossy:
you just get, you get out there, like you do three sets a night, and

Gary Slater:
So

Rossy:
sometimes

Gary Slater:
it’s…

Rossy:
a headliner comes in and you play the support of the headliner too.

Gary Slater:
That’s right. And that’s what again we could just do all of that and we could still play all these little inner city cool indie gigs as well Because

Curly:
Mm-hmm.

Gary Slater:
literally

Rossy:
Eh.

Gary Slater:
play like who covers or whatever, you know,

Braggy:
Yeah.

Curly:
No.

Gary Slater:
that’s

Rossy:
Well,

Gary Slater:
quite interesting

Braggy:
And you

Rossy:
hasn’t

Braggy:
go all

Rossy:
Young

Braggy:
the way up

Rossy:
done well

Braggy:
all the

Rossy:
for

Braggy:
way up

Rossy:
himself?

Braggy:
the coast up to Cairns, wouldn’t you? And back again.

Rossy:
Yep.

Braggy:
Oh,

Gary Slater:
Not quite the Cairns, but close. Yeah,

Braggy:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
and

Rossy:
It

Braggy:
Okay.

Gary Slater:
that

Rossy:
hands

Gary Slater:
was it.

Rossy:
full.

Gary Slater:
It’s all out there, you know. Yeah, just

Rossy:
But

Gary Slater:
relentless here, two or two players.

Rossy:
your old mate Dean’s doing alright these days.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, Cosmix, yeah, I know, it’s funny, I was thinking about…

Rossy:
He’s playing in the Cosmic Psychos.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, I know

Curly:
Ah!

Gary Slater:
how he is, yeah. I’ve seen him a couple of times.

Rossy:
I watched the clip for Fuck Wit City and I’m like, really? No way!

Gary Slater:
They’re actually so good, aren’t they? It’s

Rossy:
They

Gary Slater:
funny,

Rossy:
really

Gary Slater:
I was like,

Rossy:
are.

Gary Slater:
I’m being today, because when we first went to Sydney, that’s funny thing, I joined the band in May or June, I reckon we did a first gig with me a week after I joined or something, two weeks maybe. Then we went to the recording studio six weeks, I reckon, after I joined and recorded Shake, Shake and No, No in six

Rossy:
Meh.

Gary Slater:
hours, and that’s including. setting

Rossy:
Big

Gary Slater:
up,

Rossy:
sing.

Gary Slater:
recording, mixing, mastered, finished. That was it, six hours. And none of us had ever seen a studio before.

Rossy:
Hehehe

Gary Slater:
And that was it, done. And then that sold bucket loads. You know,

Curly:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
crazy

Rossy:
But

Curly:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
man.

Rossy:
even at that early stage, the songs were there.

Curly:
Oh, absolutely.

Rossy:
Like, I’ve mixed the band a fair few times, and the songs were always what made me happy about listening to Voodoo last. And the harmony, the pop songs, the ear, the style, you

Braggy:
Well,

Rossy:
know?

Braggy:
I guess that comes down to playing a lot again, Gary, I guess. And you,

Rossy:
does.

Braggy:
the

Gary Slater:
playing

Braggy:
song,

Gary Slater:
a lot

Braggy:
the song evolves

Gary Slater:
and

Braggy:
and you, and you know what works and what doesn’t work and you go to the studio, bang, you

Gary Slater:
you

Braggy:
do it.

Gary Slater:
know Tony and I have very similar tastes in that you know we like tunes you know really

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
it’s funny you know Voodoo is obviously known for their energy and all that and get associated with the sort of punk era and that but we don’t look at ourselves as a punk band

Rossy:
No.

Gary Slater:
at all

Curly:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
in any way like we’re a pop band

Braggy:
Pop melodies,

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
yeah.

Rossy:
Be you, be you like, you-

Gary Slater:
and that’s you know same as Dr Bombay or pretty much every band I’ve ever been in it’s like pop songs it’s got energy but it’s pop songs.

Rossy:
You’re a bit of a lover of Elvis Costello, for example.

Gary Slater:
How long does this interview go?

Curly:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Rossy:
HAHAHAHA! Yeah!

Gary Slater:
Elvis just changed my life forever and a day.

Rossy:
Yeah

Gary Slater:
Prior to that, I was singing originals, but also I guess the main influence of status quo and Deep Purple and stuff like that.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
And I remember obviously the Sex Pistols came out and there was a little talk about Ramos and all this stuff. But then a good friend of mine, Philip, who was in a band with the Dull Trio, the second band I was ever in, great guitar player, Philip, anyway, he said, you gotta come and listen to this new album. And it was, my aim is true, Elvis’s first

Rossy:
Uh.

Gary Slater:
album. And like, we just sat there and just went one song after another. And it was like, there was no guitar solos. The songs

Braggy:
that.

Rossy:
No-

Gary Slater:
were like two minutes long, but great. And then they just finished. And there was another song where we just both on each other go, wow, wow. And the next one, I just, oh my God. And I’ve seen Elvis Costello every time he’s come to Australia, I’ve never missed him ever since 1978. First time he came, I’ve never missed a tour

Rossy:
Mm-hmm.

Gary Slater:
ever. And I’ve been to often Sydney and Brisbane shows, each tour as well. So

Braggy:
And

Gary Slater:
I’m not, you know, I’m not sure.

Braggy:
he still makes good records Elvis too, he’s still going.

Gary Slater:
My name

Rossy:
great

Gary Slater:
is, his

Rossy:
songs.

Gary Slater:
last album is just absolutely fantastic.

Braggy:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
And I’d say

Rossy:
quality.

Gary Slater:
the album, last few before that probably weren’t his best, but

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
he’s probably done 27 great albums. You know.

Braggy:
Oh man, punch the clock. I played that thing over, punch the clock over and over and over again. I could talk about Elvis

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
Costello for ages

Gary Slater:
I

Braggy:
too.

Gary Slater:
might have just come up.

Rossy:
I live with a 19 year old who reckons Welcome to the Working Week may be the best pop song ever written.

Braggy:
Oh,

Gary Slater:
This

Curly:
I don’t

Braggy:
that’s

Gary Slater:
year’s

Curly:
know.

Braggy:
a great

Gary Slater:
model,

Braggy:
album,

Gary Slater:
the

Braggy:
man.

Gary Slater:
second album, same thing. I must add

Rossy:
Eh.

Gary Slater:
in though, right at that same time, almost as much as Elvis Costello was the first two Joe Jackson albums.

Braggy:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Yeah,

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
I was gonna say that.

Braggy:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gary Slater:
Like those two albums and the first two Elvis Costello albums, I’ve

Rossy:
Looks

Gary Slater:
listened

Rossy:
sharp,

Gary Slater:
to

Rossy:
man. Looks

Gary Slater:
this.

Rossy:
sharp.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Those four albums I’ve probably listened to more than any other albums in my collection, I’d say.

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
Very similar with the keyboards on both those albums, that piano

Gary Slater:
just

Braggy:
on

Gary Slater:
baselines,

Curly:
you

Braggy:
both those

Gary Slater:
just

Braggy:
albums

Gary Slater:
where does

Braggy:
and

Gary Slater:
it

Braggy:
basslines,

Gary Slater:
end?

Braggy:
yeah.

Rossy:
It’s really prevalent in the way you guys write songs though.

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I think so

Rossy:
I

Gary Slater:
too.

Rossy:
can

Curly:
I know.

Rossy:
hear, I can hear it. I can hear it as a tone in your voice. I’ve always heard that.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, yeah, well,

Rossy:
We have had,

Gary Slater:
it’s a compliment, thank you.

Rossy:
we may, we may have had that conversation before on the odd occasion. No.

Gary Slater:
It’s certainly

Curly:
And

Gary Slater:
not a

Curly:
it’s.

Gary Slater:
conscious thing for me, but I

Rossy:
How

Gary Slater:
can’t believe

Rossy:
can.

Gary Slater:
that Elvis Costello has influence. Because I’ve listened to him

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
so much, you know. I certainly don’t think my songs sound like his, but

Rossy:
done.

Gary Slater:
I can hear that there’s definitely… There’s a new

Rossy:
Nuances.

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
album, which is pretty Elvis Costello-y, but anyway, we’ll get to that.

Curly:
Absolutely. So I’ve got to put a pause in the conversation because Braggie, have you got your who am I? Your famous…

Braggy:
Well, I’ve got it from last week.

Curly:
Yep. Throw

Braggy:
Was that

Curly:
it on.

Rossy:
Oh

Braggy:
okay?

Rossy:
good.

Curly:
Let’s go.

Braggy:
And

Curly:
Yep.

Braggy:
which

Curly:
So,

Braggy:
you told

Curly:
so

Braggy:
me

Curly:
Gary,

Braggy:
to…

Curly:
what we do is to do a who am I? And we give three,

Gary Slater:
Can I ask a question?

Curly:
three lots of guesses, three lots of hints.

Braggy:
No, normally

Rossy:
It’s the

Braggy:
I…

Rossy:
answer, Tony Hound Dog Harper.

Braggy:
No,

Braggy:
see normally

Gary Slater:
Well,

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
I’m

Braggy:
try

Gary Slater:
also expecting

Braggy:
it normally

Gary Slater:
this.

Braggy:
I try and fit it in with the scene where we’re whoever we’re interviewing So

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
I’m a week.

Gary Slater:
Okay.

Braggy:
So you remember last week was old mate from

Curly:
Yeah, from

Rossy:
Demon.

Braggy:
from, yeah, okay, so bear with me with that.

Curly:
British New Wave Heavy Metal. Yeah.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Curly:
Okay. So

Braggy:
It’s a bit of a long one.

Curly:
it’s an English band. So an English person.

Rossy:
Okay. Oh,

Curly:
Ha ha

Rossy:
Gary has an unfair advantage.

Curly:
ha.

Braggy:
I was born on the 7th of August, 1958 in Walkshop, Nottinghamshire. You got it, Gary? No?

Gary Slater:
What year was it again, sir?

Rossy:
1958.

Braggy:
58, 58 in Walkshop, Nottinghamshire.

Gary Slater:
58.

Braggy:
My mother worked part-time in a shoe shop.

Gary Slater:
Let’s go say no to it.

Braggy:
My father was a mechanic in the British Harmony. in the British army. Initially I was brought up by my grandparents. I started school at Manson Primary in Waxop while my parents moved away to Sheffield. Soon afterwards when I was six, so you’re not a guy,

Curly:
Hehehehe

Rossy:
Ugh.

Braggy:
I was also dispatched to Sheffield where I attended a primary school in Manitop. My first musical experience was dancing in my grandparents’ front room to The Twist by Chubby Checker. And the first record I recall owning was She Loves You by the Beatles. I tried to play an acoustic guitar blog, it’s in my father, but it blistered my fingers. At age 11, I was sent to boarding school in Northamptonshire, where I was picked on and routinely bullied by the older boys leading me to become an outsider. I joined the school’s cadet force, which gave me access to live ammunition,

Rossy:
Ha ha ha!

Braggy:
which I used to create explosions and booby traps. I also became

Rossy:
Ha ha.

Braggy:
attracted

Curly:
Uh-huh.

Braggy:
to progressive rock and early heavy metal after hearing Deep Purple’s being played in another student’s room. I soon discovered Black Sabbath Jethro Toll and Emerson Lake and Palmer. That’s part one.

Rossy:
Okay.

Braggy:
Any guesses?

Curly:
I’ve got no idea.

Rossy:
Look, I’m just doing my sums. We’ll keep going on that one. But I reckon,

Braggy:
Okay.

Rossy:
yeah, I reckon I reckon that once I know the answer, I know who it is, but I’ll work back from there.

Braggy:
Okay.

Curly:
All right. So I’m going to move off Elvis Costello for a little bit because I just

Gary Slater:
WONDER!

Curly:
want to share, I just want to share, you know, I read somewhere, Gary, with the Voodoo, with Voodoo last year did something like 1020 shows over six years or something, which just, you know,

Rossy:
I’ll be right.

Curly:
Rossi.

Gary Slater:
I would doubt it other than Hound Dog Harper, like,

Rossy:
has a book. Heheheheheheh.

Gary Slater:
logbooked the whole of

Curly:
So.

Gary Slater:
it. So talking, so I don’t doubt it, yeah. It’s crazy,

Curly:
So,

Gary Slater:
you know, cause we

Curly:
so

Gary Slater:
have… And he

Curly:
I

Gary Slater:
goes…

Curly:
reckon I’ve seen a minor percentage of them, but I used to love seeing Booty Lust and so did my mates Scott and Sack. And so when I made a touch base with them this week, I said, what was your favourite Booty Lust gig? And I just need to share this with you because hopefully you might remember them. The gigs, I don’t know, out of a thousand

Gary Slater:
Oh

Curly:
and twenty

Gary Slater:
yeah!

Curly:
and six years. All

Rossy:
I’m sorry.

Curly:
right. So.

Gary Slater:
Nothing to guess without reviewing.

Curly:
So Scotty shared a gig, apparently there was a pub on St. Paul’s Terrace that was closing down and being demolished and you were the fitting final gig for that particular pub, he remembers that one. And Sack talked about a gig at the Treasury, I think you played the Treasury just about every second week

Gary Slater:
It’s

Curly:
there

Gary Slater:
on.

Curly:
for a stage. And afterwards he shared a chat and a beer with yourself. So they’re two gigs that stand out.

Gary Slater:
Nice.

Curly:
for from Voodoo Lust, yeah.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, that’s brilliant.

Rossy:
My favorite Voodoo last moment, and I mentioned this to Gary, is the Voodoos were supporting the Tribesmen as they did on

Gary Slater:
56 points.

Rossy:
a couple of 56

Gary Slater:
Sorry, if not…

Rossy:
times.

Gary Slater:
..

Rossy:
And every time you supported the Tribesmen, I probably mixed you,

Gary Slater:
you.

Rossy:
just about. And at the Roxy in Brisbane, Voodoos are on, Gary carries a carton of VB from the rider to the front of the stage and says, all right. Who

Braggy:
I’m

Rossy:
wants a beer? And the crowd’s

Braggy:
gonna

Rossy:
just going, RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Braggy:
go to the bathroom.

Curly:
Hahaha!

Gary Slater:
This is my name.

Braggy:
Now that is stage management.

Rossy:
I cried

Curly:
Oh.

Rossy:
with laughter. I cried laughing.

Curly:
Oh, mate.

Rossy:
And you’re still bopping up and down like a big

Gary Slater:
Right.

Rossy:
box on your head. It was

Gary Slater:
Too

Rossy:
great.

Gary Slater:
many musicians take themselves too seriously. Yeah. You

Rossy:
That’s

Curly:
Yeah,

Rossy:
right.

Gary Slater:
know, I really

Curly:
absolutely.

Gary Slater:
believe in it. I mean, the music is serious as obviously.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
You put everything you’ve got, your heart and soul, everything into practicing and writing, whatever. When you’ve got to perform, you’ve got to perform. It’s not, you know, it’s not motor.

Curly:
How did you

Braggy:
Mmm.

Curly:
find the transition moving from Brisbane to Sydney?

Gary Slater:
full on full

Rossy:
People were nice

Gary Slater:
on full

Rossy:
down here

Gary Slater:
on.

Rossy:
though.

Gary Slater:
I mean for my life I had again as I said earlier one year old and a four-year-old and a wife obviously and a mortgage and a house so just logistically it was like what the hell you know everyone in the band like Dean we had to wait for him to finish grade 12 so he finished grade 12 and we basically boom went to Sydney and yeah I mean we all had partners we’d all split up within six months of getting to Sydney. all of us. Just insane. Sydney then was so different to Brisbane. My God,

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
we just couldn’t believe. I remember, I think one of our first gives at the Manzell room on a Wednesday night, we were on Thursday, and we were like 3.30 in the morning.

Curly:
Hahaha.

Gary Slater:
In Brisbane, everything finished at 12 o’clock back then. Just that sort of thing.

Braggy:
That

Gary Slater:
And just

Braggy:
sort

Gary Slater:
obviously

Braggy:
of thing. It’s

Gary Slater:
the logistics

Braggy:
obviously the logistics

Gary Slater:
of Sydney,

Braggy:
of Sydney,

Gary Slater:
just getting

Braggy:
getting

Gary Slater:
around.

Braggy:
around and getting

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Braggy:
focus

Gary Slater:
it freaked

Braggy:
out

Gary Slater:
us out a

Braggy:
of

Gary Slater:
bit,

Braggy:
it.

Gary Slater:
truly. But… we could play a lot.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
And we were really excited about that. I mean, that’s what we went there to do, play

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
a lot, and it was

Rossy:
But

Gary Slater:
great.

Rossy:
from the first time you guys hit the stage in Sydney, the first time I saw you guys, you could just tell you were so polished, the energy was high, and just, you knew what you were doing. Though you had structure that other people didn’t have about their show. Like

Gary Slater:
Again.

Rossy:
even at the start of the show, they’d come out and the drummer had drummed, right? You start with the Peter Gunn theme, right? The drummer had drummed, then the bass player had come in, then Tony had played, then Gary had started. And that was in lieu of a sound check, right? Gave the sound guy time to pull up a drum

Gary Slater:
Yeah.

Rossy:
sound, pull up a… dial the bass in, dial the guitar in, Gary sang, and it was just those little tricks

Gary Slater:
We were

Rossy:
that

Gary Slater:
conscious of everything. Like

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
the one centimeter

Rossy:
you knew.

Gary Slater:
angle that an amplifier was aimed at. It’s just, everything is so important when you’re on stage to make a difference and make it perfect. And again, the performance

Rossy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
is the icing on the cake, but you’ve got to be able to do all those other little things, which only comes from earlier, like we said, lucky enough to play literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of sets, really, before we even started Vodiloss. You know, so it’s really.

Curly:
Hmm.

Rossy:
But to be fair to Gary, it’s more than just that. Because what I can tell you about the Voodoo’s and why every headlining band in the world loved to have Voodoo Lust supporting them, is that Voodoo Lust would turn up en masse at load-in and bump in as a band.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Every one of them, all four band members, and even the lighting person they had would load. And we’d have a three-man crew and four Voodoo’s. And if you knew the Voodoo’s were your support band, you’d go, happy days. And they had a work ethic. and they understood what they were doing. And

Gary Slater:
Well,

Curly:
NEM

Gary Slater:
you

Rossy:
even when

Gary Slater:
know,

Rossy:
Gary wasn’t doing shows, all

Gary Slater:
I

Rossy:
right?

Gary Slater:
love crews, you know, you know that.

Rossy:
Yeah, yeah,

Gary Slater:
You know,

Rossy:
but Kerry.

Gary Slater:
I feel more like sort of almost more comfortable with roadies than I do with musicians.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
You know, kind of like, I don’t know, it’s just so I grew up in housing commission or something. I don’t know, but I’m just working,

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
played

Braggy:
More reliable.

Gary Slater:
lots of team sport,

Curly:
Thanks for watching!

Gary Slater:
just, I don’t know. Like it’s just, it just seems the right thing to do, you know, just help out, be fair, you know.

Rossy:
But the other blokes, their work ethic was incredible. When Gary wasn’t doing shows, he’d make money by going loading for other bands like Lime Spiders

Gary Slater:
is

Rossy:
or

Gary Slater:
go

Rossy:
Painters and Dockers

Gary Slater:
and take

Rossy:
or Joe

Gary Slater:
that,

Rossy:
Camilleri,

Gary Slater:
take that.

Rossy:
big bands, big bands, big PAs and Gary would be doing that.

Gary Slater:
And you

Rossy:
So

Gary Slater:
know what,

Rossy:
like.

Gary Slater:
even when Voodoo’s got to the point where we were getting like good money for supports, you know, obviously when you start, you’re getting under bucks or whatever, you know, we were

Rossy:
Nah.

Gary Slater:
obviously getting some pretty big money to do supports when we got a bit of a profile. And even then I would still do the load in and load out and like the Voodoo’s would, because otherwise we’d have to pay someone anyway. So they would just pay me. So I would basically load in, load out and do the gig and then drive to the next gig. Load in, load out, do the gig, drive next gig. So

Curly:
Hmm

Gary Slater:
yeah, always load it, always.

Rossy:
The omnipresent voodoo van.

Gary Slater:
Well, you know, we had the voodoo

Curly:
Ha ha

Gary Slater:
van

Curly:
ha.

Gary Slater:
today as well.

Braggy:
It’s,

Gary Slater:
Even that,

Braggy:
um,

Gary Slater:
you

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
know,

Braggy:
it’s,

Gary Slater:
at the time we just do it, but

Braggy:
it’s so

Gary Slater:
that

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
was

Braggy:
true,

Gary Slater:
not.

Braggy:
Gary, what you say about, um, you know, the, all that other stuff is, uh, is the hard work and you put the icing on the top. And if people are listening now, they’re not, they’re not musicians. I just want to say like, every room is so different. And so all that experience, you know, oh, this room’s a bigger room. So I’m going to have to have my amp set this way for this one. And that’s little traps you fall down early on. And the more and more

Rossy:
Hmm.

Braggy:
you do it, is there a Rossi? Yeah. The more and more you do it, the

Rossy:
Nah,

Braggy:
more, the more pro you get. And so I’d love getting

Rossy:
it’s

Braggy:
in

Rossy:
not.

Braggy:
and lugging out. You must learn shit as well. You

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Braggy:
know.

Gary Slater:
do.

Curly:
Hmm.

Rossy:
Oh, fuck yeah.

Gary Slater:
Try

Rossy:
But

Gary Slater:
not

Rossy:
there’s

Gary Slater:
to

Rossy:
nothing

Gary Slater:
get

Rossy:
wrong.

Gary Slater:
too drunk. That’s one of the things.

Rossy:
Yes. But yeah, we would, we would enjoy ourselves on

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
the odd occasion.

Gary Slater:
I don’t remember loading out a few times Rossie.

Braggy:
Ha ha!

Rossy:
You and me both mate, don’t you worry about that.

Gary Slater:
I couldn’t drop too much. I got to quickly tell you one

Curly:
Ahem.

Gary Slater:
quick story. Just the other day I shared this with someone. We were playing, I think it was a Central Leagues Club in,

Rossy:
Central

Gary Slater:
like

Rossy:
Cash Slates.

Gary Slater:
Central Coast Leagues, and I think it’s famous for a six staircase, concrete stair loading, only way, shit house. And we played there with the angels.

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
Couple of bloody big Sammy’s rocker, and we just kind

Rossy:
Yep,

Gary Slater:
of went, anyway,

Rossy:
that’s right.

Gary Slater:
so we loaded in, loaded out. Anyway, when it comes to load out, they had this guy in their crew, he was like, about my size, a little fella, but obviously a real speed head at the time, nuts, you know, crazy. And we’re getting

Rossy:
Was that

Gary Slater:
the W

Rossy:
Saucy?

Gary Slater:
bins, it might have been,

Curly:
Mm-hmm.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I reckon, we knew him, you’d know

Rossy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
him. But

Rossy:
yeah, yeah.

Gary Slater:
anyway, the W bins, you remember then they were like double Ws, the size of a bloody truck, these

Rossy:
Boats.

Gary Slater:
things.

Braggy:
Four people,

Rossy:
Yeah, yeah,

Braggy:
yeah.

Rossy:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
Anyway, we get to the stairs outside there, end of the night, he says, oh, get on the front, two ears on the back.

Rossy:
Hahaha!

Gary Slater:
And he goes, yeah, it was me and Brad on the back.

Rossy:
Yayay

Gary Slater:
going up halfway down the stairs, it goes. And it’s

Rossy:
Yep.

Gary Slater:
down the stairs, you know, oh my God, this guy’s gonna be dead, you know? And we’re like, where am I? We just fainted, and he was like stuck inside the W bin.

Rossy:
Ha ha!

Braggy:
Ha ha!

Gary Slater:
Skin off him everywhere,

Braggy:
Thanks for watching!

Gary Slater:
just, oh my God, anyway. You get that.

Braggy:
Uh…

Rossy:
Oh

Curly:
We

Rossy:
man,

Curly:
do.

Rossy:
but those guys

Curly:
We do.

Rossy:
work so hard. Those guys, like those angels shows, the semi

Gary Slater:
I’m a

Rossy:
trailer, the amount of gear they had, it was

Braggy:
Well, it must be

Rossy:
like

Braggy:
an amp. The amp

Rossy:
mind

Braggy:
racks

Rossy:
boggling.

Braggy:
must have been.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Braggy:
That was

Rossy:
Oh

Braggy:
that.

Rossy:
yeah.

Braggy:
That was the worst. That were the worst things to the freaking lift in, weren’t they?

Gary Slater:
Sometimes we’d load out after like a gig and then drive to the next city.

Rossy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
It’s

Curly:
Damn.

Gary Slater:
just

Rossy:
that’s

Gary Slater:
crazy

Rossy:
right.

Gary Slater:
these days. Think about the Voodoo van. I got a quick look at that today. It was a 1600 CC Mazda van. So not a big van. And we used to get, we used to take crew with us, like, you know, whatever lighting and sound Kenny or Jackie and,

Rossy:
Uh.

Gary Slater:
you know, Adrian Carroll would come with us. The band and Tony would have two marshals, bass rig, drum kit, all our gear. And I only had like two seats in the front, someone would sit on the motor between the seats.

Braggy:
Oh yeah.

Gary Slater:
And then

Rossy:
Hehehe

Braggy:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Gary Slater:
all the gear would be like a two foot corridor where three people would have to sit across the van with this wall of amps next to them. And that was it.

Curly:
hahahaha

Gary Slater:
That’s how we toured everywhere from Townsville to Adelaide, probably 600 gigs, I reckon, driving,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
parking everything into that van. Never flew.

Rossy:
We’re always happy to see it. Always happy to see the Voodoo Van pull up.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, it’s hilarious. And so many

Curly:
Hahaha.

Gary Slater:
breakdowns and so many. We used the bass string once for an accelerator cable through the window.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
We just got this bass

Curly:
Hahaha.

Gary Slater:
string.

Rossy:
Tony wasn’t bad with motors though.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, it wasn’t too bad. I was probably more into that than him then. He’s more into it

Rossy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
now.

Rossy:
yeah.

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
He’s always got like a bunch of cars, Tony, and a bunch of guitars, obviously.

Rossy:
Yeah, Tony’s collect. We did a show with the last play at the factory floor in Sydney. Five years back, guys, maybe five, six years back.

Gary Slater:
Thank

Rossy:
And and

Gary Slater:
you.

Rossy:
Tony, Tony said he’d only do the gig if he could do his gear. So Gary’s driven down from Brisbane with all the stage gear. Yeah. And

Gary Slater:
Just

Rossy:
and

Gary Slater:
time is

Rossy:
one

Gary Slater:
given.

Rossy:
of the

Gary Slater:
It filled

Rossy:
and

Gary Slater:
my

Rossy:
one of

Gary Slater:
head.

Rossy:
the and one of the guitars Tony sent down was a double neck Gibson like Jimmy Page played. Right.

Curly:
All right.

Rossy:
And I was at I was

Curly:
Okay.

Rossy:
at the back tuning guitars. And Tony’s called for that song, that guitar. I poked it through the window. I heard a gasp from people go, oh my God, he’s got a double neck guitar. And

Gary Slater:
He’s got

Rossy:
that

Gary Slater:
everything.

Rossy:
was Tony. He has.

Gary Slater:
He’s probably got about, he’s a bit coy about it, but you know, about 70, I think.

Rossy:
Yeah,

Curly:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Rossy:
yeah,

Gary Slater:
about

Rossy:
it’s meant

Gary Slater:
the same

Rossy:
right.

Gary Slater:
with the Lambs too. So yeah,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
ridiculous. He’s a habit collector.

Rossy:
Collect

Gary Slater:
He

Rossy:
is

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
still

Rossy:
a

Gary Slater:
plays

Rossy:
collector.

Gary Slater:
every day. He’s a, yeah, he’s just born to play, you know. When I met him when he was like, you know, 14 years old or whatever, he could already play like exactly the same as he can play now. It doesn’t make, he’s not any better. Like at

Braggy:
I’m

Gary Slater:
14,

Braggy:
gonna

Gary Slater:
he could play.

Braggy:
go play.

Gary Slater:
Hendrix like it was just nothing.

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
Just an amazing player.

Curly:
So one of the highlights, Gary, with, you know, Verdi, Lastin, as we were talking before the show, Dr. Bombay, any band that you’re in gets the pleasure, I guess, of Gary Slater upfront and the energy and the frantic and the, and I cannot understand how you’re still doing what you’re doing as a front man for a band as we all get unfortunately older and time does

Gary Slater:
Well,

Curly:
its

Gary Slater:
thank

Curly:
trick

Gary Slater:
you.

Curly:
on

Gary Slater:
A lot

Curly:
us.

Gary Slater:
of exercise. I have

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
to be honest.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I exercise all the time. Always played sport. I played sport until I was 40. I always played sport as well. Maybe a few years in the real nitty gritty of voodoo’s where I didn’t play sport, but I pretty much played so many seasons of different sports. I

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
just love running, still run most

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
days. Good 5K run most days. I guess I’ve been a tyler for like 30 years. That kind of helps. Do

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
a few hundred leg squats a day and carry tiles upstairs and mix cement by hand, just this stuff, you know? But

Rossy:
Gaz

Gary Slater:
yeah, I mean,

Rossy:
and

Gary Slater:
it’s

Rossy:
I

Gary Slater:
just.

Rossy:
both… We’ve both had the shoulder, Gaz, haven’t we?

Gary Slater:
Yeah, I’m still

Braggy:
I’m still

Gary Slater:
not

Braggy:
not

Gary Slater:
up and

Braggy:
off

Gary Slater:
back.

Braggy:
the back. I’ve

Gary Slater:
I’ve

Braggy:
got

Gary Slater:
got about

Braggy:
about

Gary Slater:
three

Braggy:
three

Gary Slater:
months

Braggy:
months

Gary Slater:
to go

Braggy:
to go

Gary Slater:
till

Braggy:
if

Gary Slater:
I’m

Braggy:
I’m

Gary Slater:
back

Braggy:
back

Gary Slater:
at work

Braggy:
at work

Gary Slater:
officially.

Braggy:
officially.

Gary Slater:
So

Braggy:
So

Gary Slater:
yeah, I’m

Braggy:
yeah,

Gary Slater:
just

Braggy:
I’m just

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
still

Braggy:
still

Gary Slater:
hanging

Braggy:
putting

Gary Slater:
in there,

Braggy:
in there,

Gary Slater:
but it’s

Braggy:
but

Gary Slater:
a

Braggy:
it’s

Gary Slater:
lot

Braggy:
a lot

Gary Slater:
better

Braggy:
better

Gary Slater:
than it was.

Braggy:
than it

Gary Slater:
But

Braggy:
was.

Rossy:
But

Gary Slater:
yeah,

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
I’m still running a lot though, thank God. I couldn’t play guitar for about six months. That killed me.

Rossy:
big part of you use healthy diet too though.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, healthy diet,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
yeah. I still

Rossy:
Yeah, no, it really is.

Curly:
Living,

Gary Slater:
want

Curly:
living,

Gary Slater:
to ask

Curly:
living well.

Rossy:
Huh?

Gary Slater:
the vegan

Rossy:
No, it’s

Gary Slater:
question.

Rossy:
a good

Braggy:
I’ve

Gary Slater:
The

Rossy:
thing.

Braggy:
been

Gary Slater:
vegan, yeah,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
well, you know,

Braggy:
vegan

Gary Slater:
I’ve been

Braggy:
for about

Gary Slater:
vegan for about 15

Braggy:
15

Gary Slater:
years,

Braggy:
years

Gary Slater:
I was

Braggy:
on

Gary Slater:
vegetarian

Braggy:
vegetarian

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
for about

Braggy:
bread

Gary Slater:
17

Braggy:
17

Gary Slater:
before

Braggy:
before

Gary Slater:
that,

Braggy:
that,

Gary Slater:
so

Braggy:
so

Gary Slater:
yeah,

Braggy:
yeah,

Gary Slater:
32

Braggy:
32

Curly:
Okay.

Rossy:
It’s right.

Gary Slater:
years,

Braggy:
years.

Gary Slater:
and that’s

Braggy:
That’s

Gary Slater:
no

Braggy:
no

Gary Slater:
eggs

Braggy:
age limit,

Gary Slater:
or anything

Braggy:
it’s only

Gary Slater:
for like

Braggy:
32

Gary Slater:
32

Braggy:
years, so

Gary Slater:
years,

Braggy:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
so

Braggy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
yeah.

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, that’s a

Braggy:
it’s

Gary Slater:
very,

Rossy:
It’s a.

Gary Slater:
very

Braggy:
very

Gary Slater:
important

Braggy:
important

Gary Slater:
thing

Braggy:
thing

Gary Slater:
to me,

Braggy:
to me

Gary Slater:
obviously.

Braggy:
obviously,

Gary Slater:
But you know,

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
I’m

Rossy:
It obviously

Gary Slater:
happy to

Braggy:
but

Gary Slater:
talk

Braggy:
you

Rossy:
works

Gary Slater:
about

Braggy:
know,

Gary Slater:
music

Rossy:
for you.

Braggy:
I’m

Gary Slater:
or

Braggy:
happy

Gary Slater:
whatever,

Braggy:
with my life.

Gary Slater:
but

Braggy:
But

Gary Slater:
veganism

Braggy:
whatever, veganism

Gary Slater:
is obviously

Braggy:
is obviously

Gary Slater:
massive

Braggy:
massive

Gary Slater:
to me,

Braggy:
to me.

Gary Slater:
big

Braggy:
Veganism

Rossy:
It

Gary Slater:
thing.

Rossy:
is,

Braggy:
is

Rossy:
but

Braggy:
the

Rossy:
it works

Braggy:
first

Rossy:
for you guys, doesn’t

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
it?

Braggy:
for

Gary Slater:
Well,

Braggy:
you guys.

Gary Slater:
you know, hey, you know, I’ve never met a vegan that didn’t say they felt better

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
when

Braggy:
didn’t

Gary Slater:
they went vegan

Curly:
Hmm.

Braggy:
say that it felt

Gary Slater:
in

Braggy:
better

Gary Slater:
30

Braggy:
when I was in

Gary Slater:
years.

Braggy:
school. Exactly,

Gary Slater:
So what

Braggy:
yeah, good

Gary Slater:
do

Braggy:
point.

Gary Slater:
you say? You

Rossy:
No,

Gary Slater:
know,

Rossy:
that’s

Gary Slater:
that’s

Rossy:
a…

Gary Slater:
good evidence. Yeah, it works. You know, you just got to be a little bit smarter about what you eat, you know, you can’t just eat, you know, because literally could eat potato chips and Coca-Cola and be a vegan, couldn’t you? You know, you

Rossy:
Hahaha!

Gary Slater:
need to, you know, you find most vegans actually

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
seem to be more, much more conscious of food groups because they need to be, I suppose.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Most vegans get knowledge as you go and you never stop learning, I guess. It’s about food and

Rossy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
stuff. But yeah, I’m very

Braggy:
Well,

Gary Slater:
passionate about it.

Braggy:
it would be a lot easier nowadays too, Gary, wouldn’t it? Then

Gary Slater:
Well,

Braggy:
when you were 30 years ago, that would have been tough, especially

Gary Slater:
totally.

Braggy:
in Australia.

Gary Slater:
Totally. Well, very hard. Very hard. Like, Carol, my wife and I, we were just starting to hook up around a bit. We already knew each other. She was my girlfriend Jackie. You remember Jackie? You remember Carol from back then. She was like Jackie’s best friend. We were actually playing with the Uncanny X-Men at Newcastle. And the sound guy, John, I think his name was… his partner was outside getting a hot dog and Carol went out and they had a hot dog and they actually served vegetarian hot dogs and she said to Carol, you know, you should try one of them. And she explained a little bit to her. And that was the catalyst for Carol. And around about the same time for me, the catalyst was just being on tour, relentlessly and eating shit takeaway

Braggy:
Mmm.

Rossy:
TIT

Gary Slater:
food, which was essentially mostly meat, isn’t it? Because if you go to a

Curly:
Hmm

Gary Slater:
hot box at a server, you get sausages or pies, you know, and I was just had every gut issue imaginable eating

Curly:
hahahaha

Gary Slater:
this shit, you know. And I just said, right, that’s it. And I stopped eating that. So selfish, it wasn’t for the animals, it was for me.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
But Carol,

Braggy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
you know, it was for the animals and we hooked up pretty much together around about that same time. So we very quickly evolved into understanding all the other benefits of it. And we both just went down that path together. And veganism was just the minute someone explained the dairy industry to me, we were vegan that night. So, you

Curly:
Wow.

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
know,

Curly:
That quick.

Rossy:
dude

Gary Slater:
I was ignorant. And there

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
was a moment I wasn’t ignorant, I was vegan. So

Rossy:
That’s

Gary Slater:
that’s

Rossy:
right.

Gary Slater:
it.

Braggy:
Excellent.

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
Thank you.

Curly:
When you look at the recorded works out of Voodoo Lust, there was a range of singles, you know, Stop Breaking My Heart went to number one on the indie charts as well, and there were two EPs. Is there any regrets around

Gary Slater:
Yeah.

Curly:
what happened with Voodoo Lust and how the

Gary Slater:
I’m

Curly:
record?

Gary Slater:
so glad you asked me that question, because obviously there is this massive regrets and recording is the biggest one.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
world.

Gary Slater:
To my opinion, and I didn’t write the songs particularly in video last, I helped finish them off a bit and stuff like that, but Tony wrote most of the songs and Brad initially.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
And to me, we probably had at least three albums at least worth of good material that

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
we didn’t record. And that

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
as a songwriter, I’ve written more songs as I’ve gotten older. That’s sacrilegious to me. You know, those, those best songs that Tony and Brad wrote

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
aren’t recorded. And if you’ve got to regret as a musician, that’s got to be it. It’s like, wow, I didn’t document that, that good song

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
I wrote. And Brad, you know, wow, you know, Brad was a, Brad was a complicated man, but he was a genius in my opinion. And he

Rossy:
Now beyond belief, you remember that one?

Gary Slater:
There’s some honestly, there’s eight or 10 songs that Brad wrote

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
early on in the band that are masterpieces that never ever, once he left the band, we stopped sort of playing them live and obviously we were never gonna record them. Although, you know, we did do, what was a couple of his songs, you know, like she’s a psychedelic,

Rossy:
Yep.

Gary Slater:
Brad, but he just had that thing about him, you know, Tony and I are very similar in we’re kind of like, I don’t know, I guess more classic sort of rock and roll pop writers, whereas

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Brad. was it you know anything could come out of that man he was more

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
artistic Tony and I were tradesmen like

Rossy:
But because you could all sing, it added another layer to it as well,

Curly:
I did.

Rossy:
right?

Curly:
It did.

Gary Slater:
Well,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
incredible. You know, like before I joined again, they were already so impressive. You

Rossy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
know, before I joined, I had Brad and Tony and Dean who could all sing well.

Curly:
Hehehehehehe

Braggy:
Mm.

Rossy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
So I’d watch them think, my God, you know, and then they asked me to join. So of course I was like, wow.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, so we could do four-part harmonies. And again, you know,

Rossy:
And we’re

Gary Slater:
so,

Rossy:
all big fans.

Gary Slater:
yeah, you know, I remember, I remember Matt and Matt at times in the two of our after gigs or whatever, and it’s complimentary. People would say, oh, you know, because we do silly things on stage, and that’s what they’d remember. And it was almost a little bit, it was our own fault, I get it, but sometimes you think, I wish someone had come up to us and said, what about when you did that three and four by harmony, you know?

Rossy:
Hehehehe

Gary Slater:
That

Braggy:
Hmm

Gary Slater:
was amazing. And that arrangement where you did that was really good, you know, because so much work goes into all that,

Curly:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
as you know, it’s not

Curly:
yeah,

Gary Slater:
just

Braggy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
jumping around being silly.

Curly:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
It’s, anyway, it is what it’s rock and roll,

Braggy:
So

Gary Slater:
you know.

Braggy:
is there any way to bring these songs back from the dead? Is there live recordings of them?

Gary Slater:
No. No, yeah, there is some, they vary

Braggy:
Yeah?

Gary Slater:
in quality. And, oh, you know, there’s actually like, there’s a demo of, I think, six or eight songs that I only came into my hands, like about a year or two ago as well, which I forgot we even did. So,

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
and

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
it’s actually pretty good, but nah, look, you know, we’re fussy, and Tony is incredibly fussy

Braggy:
Okay.

Gary Slater:
about everything, and I take

Rossy:
Mm-hmm.

Gary Slater:
my hat off to him. He’s not

Braggy:
He’s

Gary Slater:
gonna

Braggy:
not gonna

Gary Slater:
release

Braggy:
release

Gary Slater:
anything

Braggy:
anything

Gary Slater:
that’s

Braggy:
that’s

Gary Slater:
not

Braggy:
not

Gary Slater:
spot

Braggy:
spot

Gary Slater:
on.

Braggy:
on. Yeah.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Unfortunately, no. We wish we could, we can’t even make a compilation album because we don’t know where everything is. What we’ve got

Rossy:
Mm-hmm

Gary Slater:
sort of mask, it’s all two inch tape and all this stuff, you know? There’s literally things like Tony says, well, oh, I think that’s in the cupboard at my mum’s.

Gary Slater:
So we just don’t even know where even

Curly:
Uhhhh…

Gary Slater:
all our microtapes are, so we can’t even put it. Because we thought about if we did another gig or two, you know, it’s

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
not out of the question. You know, but it’d be nice to have something because we

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
could do a compilation album. We go, here we go. We just, it makes

Braggy:
Yeah!

Gary Slater:
it, we can’t.

Curly:
Yeah, it’d be nice to bring your music because it’s, you know, into the streaming world because I was

Rossy:
Yeah.

Curly:
just thinking before, Gary, with the energy on stage and the dynamics between the band, that it’s a shame in a way you were powered by that generation. But today, with the advent of, you know, iPhone phone coverage and videos on stage and all of this, I could just imagine how awesome the Voodoo’s would have been in respect of, you know, all the content that potentially could have been created through social media and driven the band. So it just…

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
it’s ironic isn’t it? I mean you can’t take it back but

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
you know absolutely. A lot of people say that similar thing to us you know like what happened, what happened you know.

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
We got offered a major record deal as well.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
If not two, one I know of absolutely

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
and another one sniffed and asked and stuff so definitely one absolute offer that we knocked back

Rossy:
Mm.

Curly:
game.

Gary Slater:
because we just felt as though being independent was more important. We were very

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
much from that sort of era of like,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
you know, the old Midnight All thing, right? So, you know, you can’t sign to a major, you know, da da. And at that similar time, Trial of Bites and a few other bands signed two majors. And it was the same

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
time that we were offered and we decided not to. So, in hindsight, do I regret that? Maybe, yeah, you know,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
sometimes no, I mean, but that, so we, I guess we had ourselves to blame. We had the chance to go to the next level, really. And

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
we said no, so.

Curly:
Well, I’m very grateful you got Taste of Bitterness on recording.

Rossy:
Yeah,

Curly:
So that’s

Rossy:
what

Curly:
one of

Rossy:
a

Curly:
my

Rossy:
song,

Curly:
favorite songs.

Rossy:
what

Gary Slater:
Graced him.

Rossy:
a song.

Gary Slater:
Graced him. Yeah, you

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
know, well, what can I say? You know, my dog’s written a few beauties. That’s for sure. I was lucky enough

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
to get to sing them.

Curly:
Yeah, yeah. So then Voodoo’s, when did Voodoo’s break up?

Gary Slater:
I think about 92,

Curly:
Okay, and then

Gary Slater:
91, 92,

Curly:
what

Gary Slater:
you

Curly:
was

Gary Slater:
know,

Curly:
the next step for you in your

Gary Slater:
trial

Curly:
journey?

Gary Slater:
or bite straight away. I was, I left Voodoo Lust and I was in, well, I didn’t leave Voodoo Lust, Voodoo Lust left me. So

Curly:
I’m going to go

Gary Slater:
that’s

Curly:
to bed.

Gary Slater:
the story. Like I, you know, I mean, it is what it is now, but at the time I was like, what the fuck, you know,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I didn’t see

Braggy:
I was

Gary Slater:
it

Braggy:
like,

Gary Slater:
come.

Braggy:
I’m

Gary Slater:
And

Braggy:
sick.

Gary Slater:
I was

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
like

Braggy:
was like,

Gary Slater:
flabbergasted.

Braggy:
I’m a lousy person.

Gary Slater:
So,

Braggy:
The

Gary Slater:
you know, hey, the world

Braggy:
world

Gary Slater:
fell

Braggy:
fell

Gary Slater:
out for

Braggy:
out

Gary Slater:
me.

Braggy:
for me.

Gary Slater:
I was

Braggy:
I was

Gary Slater:
like the

Braggy:
off

Gary Slater:
hell.

Braggy:
to hell.

Gary Slater:
And then

Braggy:
And

Gary Slater:
I

Braggy:
then I

Gary Slater:
literally got

Braggy:
looked and

Gary Slater:
asked

Braggy:
got

Gary Slater:
to join

Braggy:
asked

Gary Slater:
the trial

Braggy:
to join

Gary Slater:
or

Braggy:
the

Gary Slater:
bites

Braggy:
trial

Gary Slater:
a week

Braggy:
bikes

Gary Slater:
or

Braggy:
a

Gary Slater:
two

Braggy:
week

Gary Slater:
later.

Braggy:
or two later.

Gary Slater:
So

Braggy:
So

Gary Slater:
Dolly left

Braggy:
Dolly

Gary Slater:
the

Braggy:
left

Gary Slater:
trial

Braggy:
the

Gary Slater:
about

Braggy:
trial

Gary Slater:
pretty

Braggy:
bikes

Gary Slater:
much

Braggy:
and went

Gary Slater:
at the

Braggy:
to

Gary Slater:
same

Braggy:
the same

Gary Slater:
time

Braggy:
time

Gary Slater:
that Tony

Braggy:
that

Gary Slater:
disbanded

Braggy:
Tony disbanded

Gary Slater:
the Voodoo’s.

Braggy:
the Boogoo’s.

Gary Slater:
And in the

Braggy:
And then

Gary Slater:
end,

Braggy:
the

Gary Slater:
Tony,

Braggy:
end of the day, the

Gary Slater:
Brad

Braggy:
rat

Gary Slater:
came back

Braggy:
came back

Gary Slater:
on the

Braggy:
on

Gary Slater:
scene

Braggy:
the scene

Gary Slater:
and Tony

Braggy:
and Tony

Gary Slater:
went to

Braggy:
went

Gary Slater:
England

Braggy:
to England.

Gary Slater:
with Brad

Braggy:
And

Rossy:
The upsets.

Gary Slater:
and Phil. Yeah,

Braggy:
you

Curly:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
and you know,

Braggy:
know,

Gary Slater:
so,

Braggy:
so,

Gary Slater:
you know,

Braggy:
you

Gary Slater:
hey,

Braggy:
know,

Gary Slater:
it’s

Braggy:
I had

Gary Slater:
interesting. You

Braggy:
to

Gary Slater:
know,

Braggy:
get

Gary Slater:
again, at

Braggy:
back.

Gary Slater:
the time it was like, what the hell have you been in? Tony and I gave each other a hug at the airport, still best mates, and off he went. So, you know, that’s what he needed to do, I get it.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
But obviously

Rossy:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
at the time for me it was like, whoa, you know. I was still heads down, ass up into the Voodoo’s. Even though at the time I was managing the Voodoo’s, booking the Voodoo’s and tour managing the Voodoo’s and singing. So it was hectic, my life was mental. So it’s kind

Rossy:
Hmm

Gary Slater:
of a relief in a way, I guess. But then yeah, when Trialobytes, who I just obviously loved,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
asked

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
me to join them, it was like, beauty, well, sweet, all right, next step, I’ll join the Trialobytes. And off I did. That was interesting. I mean, I wanted to change the name. That’s another story.

Curly:
of the trailer bites.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, you

Curly:
Okay.

Gary Slater:
know, Glenn Abbott, different drummer at the time as well, because Stano lived as well.

Rossy:
stop where I was going, yeah.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, so Glenn Abbott, who ended up joining Machine Gun Felatio and myself joined and I was straight away sort of was starting to contribute melodies and stuff and lyrics. And obviously Dolly is just an incredible lyricist and nothing like me. Now,

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
I write pop

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
songs. Dolly writes poetry. It’s just incredible what he writes. He has a totally different technique.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
to writing and the whole trial about a different technique to video last different, you know, it’s like not as poppy as video last, you know, so I could still sing like in a rock voice. I can do all the trial about songs and hit the notes and all the rest of it. To me, I thought, and I remember early on suggesting, well, I’m starting to write songs for the band. It’s sounding really different. You know, let’s change the name and just start again. You bad.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
No, I understand. Also, you know, the trial about its legacy and you know, it’s hard to let go. You know, like they had all

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
these great songs and albums under their belt, you know. So we did

Braggy:
We did

Gary Slater:
one

Braggy:
one

Gary Slater:
album

Braggy:
album

Gary Slater:
together,

Braggy:
together,

Gary Slater:
and Rob

Braggy:
we

Gary Slater:
Younger

Rossy:
Mm.

Braggy:
did

Gary Slater:
did it with

Braggy:
it with

Gary Slater:
us,

Braggy:
a

Gary Slater:
and a single

Braggy:
single

Gary Slater:
as well.

Braggy:
as well.

Gary Slater:
And I think it was

Braggy:
About

Gary Slater:
about three

Braggy:
three

Gary Slater:
years, it

Braggy:
years

Gary Slater:
was

Braggy:
it

Gary Slater:
great.

Braggy:
was great,

Gary Slater:
Like, you know,

Braggy:
wonderful

Gary Slater:
wonderful

Braggy:
band,

Gary Slater:
band,

Braggy:
fantastic

Gary Slater:
fantastic musicians

Braggy:
musicians,

Gary Slater:
and great guys. Love

Braggy:
I love

Gary Slater:
them all,

Braggy:
them

Gary Slater:
like

Braggy:
all, but

Gary Slater:
great

Braggy:
this

Gary Slater:
times.

Braggy:
is

Gary Slater:
But just,

Braggy:
a dad!

Gary Slater:
it’s just,

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
yeah, you can quite have

Braggy:
can’t

Gary Slater:
the magic,

Braggy:
imagine,

Gary Slater:
I think. I

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
think we

Braggy:
don’t

Gary Slater:
needed

Braggy:
think

Gary Slater:
to,

Braggy:
we would

Gary Slater:
yeah, I

Braggy:
be

Gary Slater:
think

Braggy:
on

Gary Slater:
we

Braggy:
the

Gary Slater:
should

Braggy:
same

Gary Slater:
have just started

Braggy:
stage

Gary Slater:
again.

Braggy:
again.

Gary Slater:
But you know, hey, that’s

Braggy:
That’s

Gary Slater:
my

Braggy:
my

Gary Slater:
opinion.

Braggy:
feeling.

Gary Slater:
And totally.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Marty Martins is a pretty special player too, isn’t

Gary Slater:
Well, you

Braggy:
and

Gary Slater:
really

Rossy:
he?

Braggy:
really

Gary Slater:
are. So straight

Rossy:
He’s

Gary Slater:
up. So

Rossy:
the

Braggy:
it’s

Gary Slater:
straight

Rossy:
secret

Braggy:
the most

Gary Slater:
up.

Rossy:
source. Scale

Braggy:
important

Rossy:
is good, yeah.

Braggy:
source. And

Rossy:
And

Braggy:
of

Rossy:
of course,

Braggy:
course

Rossy:
Scotty.

Braggy:
Scotty’s

Rossy:
Scotty’s

Braggy:
on

Rossy:
hilarious.

Braggy:
air.

Gary Slater:
Scott

Gary Slater:
is

Braggy:
Scotty’s

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
really

Braggy:
really

Gary Slater:
good

Braggy:
good,

Gary Slater:
too.

Braggy:
he’s

Gary Slater:
He’s an

Braggy:
an

Gary Slater:
absolute

Braggy:
absolute

Gary Slater:
Wally

Braggy:
warrior,

Gary Slater:
head, but he’s

Braggy:
but

Gary Slater:
amazing.

Braggy:
he’s

Gary Slater:
I

Braggy:
really

Gary Slater:
love

Braggy:
a lot

Gary Slater:
Scottie

Braggy:
of

Gary Slater:
to death.

Braggy:
fun.

Gary Slater:
I

Braggy:
He’s

Gary Slater:
played cricket

Braggy:
a great

Gary Slater:
with Scottie

Braggy:
together.

Curly:
All right.

Gary Slater:
as

Braggy:
He’s

Rossy:
Ehh

Gary Slater:
well.

Braggy:
um…

Gary Slater:
He’s a great bass player too.

Rossy:
Eh?

Curly:
Hmm.

Gary Slater:
Probably the most energetic bass player I’ve ever been on stage with. He had to be careful

Rossy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
on stage

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
with

Rossy:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
him. He was dangerous.

Rossy:
Up and down, up and down like

Gary Slater:
Six

Rossy:
Scotty.

Gary Slater:
foot five, whatever he is, and swinging that bass around, it was scary. I love my time in the Trial of Ice. It was fantastic, but again, I just got to be honest, I just always felt… How many great bands have replaced singers? Two

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
or

Braggy:
to

Gary Slater:
three

Braggy:
a

Gary Slater:
in

Braggy:
three-foot

Gary Slater:
history?

Braggy:
trip,

Gary Slater:
It’s

Braggy:
it’s

Gary Slater:
a

Braggy:
a

Gary Slater:
really

Braggy:
really

Gary Slater:
hard

Braggy:
hard

Gary Slater:
thing

Braggy:
thing

Gary Slater:
to do.

Braggy:
to do.

Gary Slater:
And I’m,

Braggy:
And I’m

Curly:
It

Gary Slater:
you know,

Curly:
is.

Braggy:
not used

Gary Slater:
I’m not,

Braggy:
to it.

Gary Slater:
I’m not unusually,

Braggy:
And unusually,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I try

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
to

Braggy:
try

Gary Slater:
join

Braggy:
to join

Gary Slater:
the band,

Braggy:
the band. Well,

Gary Slater:
sing

Braggy:
I sang

Gary Slater:
the songs,

Braggy:
the song,

Gary Slater:
but

Braggy:
but

Gary Slater:
Dolly’s

Braggy:
Dolly’s

Gary Slater:
irreplaceable.

Braggy:
irreplaceable.

Gary Slater:
Like

Braggy:
Like, the

Gary Slater:
in

Braggy:
thing

Gary Slater:
hindsight,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Braggy:
I started, it’s

Gary Slater:
it’s just irreplaceable.

Curly:
Hmm.

Braggy:
irreplaceable.

Gary Slater:
Just

Braggy:
It

Gary Slater:
have to

Braggy:
has

Gary Slater:
be

Braggy:
to

Gary Slater:
a different

Braggy:
be a different

Gary Slater:
band,

Braggy:
band.

Gary Slater:
you know?

Braggy:
I

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
You know,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Braggy:
mean,

Gary Slater:
that’s

Braggy:
that’s

Gary Slater:
life.

Braggy:
life.

Gary Slater:
I’m

Braggy:
I’m

Gary Slater:
not complaining,

Braggy:
not complaining

Gary Slater:
great

Braggy:
about

Gary Slater:
friends,

Braggy:
friends,

Gary Slater:
great

Braggy:
but

Gary Slater:
mates.

Braggy:
don’t make

Gary Slater:
And

Braggy:
them

Gary Slater:
to be

Braggy:
to

Gary Slater:
on

Braggy:
be

Gary Slater:
stage

Braggy:
on stage.

Gary Slater:
with

Braggy:
The

Gary Slater:
them

Braggy:
band

Gary Slater:
was

Braggy:
was

Gary Slater:
like,

Braggy:
like,

Gary Slater:
you know,

Braggy:
you know,

Gary Slater:
wow.

Braggy:
wow.

Gary Slater:
I mean, I’m privileged, you know, wow.

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
Be on stage with these bands like, second to none drummer brilliant you

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
know we are on stage with these musicians like it’s you don’t ever complain about that that’s for sure yeah

Curly:
Okay,

Rossy:
Those

Curly:
braggy.

Rossy:
machine gun flyshare guys did good too.

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Braggy:
Yes.

Gary Slater:
I

Braggy:
Oh,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
was so

Braggy:
oh.

Gary Slater:
happy

Rossy:
Eh.

Gary Slater:
for Glenn. I was so happy for Glenn. Glenn’s a lovely guy, you know, and again,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
wonderful drummer, you know. I was so happy for him when that happened for him, yeah.

Curly:
All right, Braggie,

Braggy:
Yeah,

Curly:
it’s

Braggy:
I forgot

Curly:
time

Braggy:
about

Curly:
for part

Braggy:
it, Curly.

Curly:
two. Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Now,

Rossy:
Ha ha

Gary Slater:
back

Braggy:
I

Gary Slater:
to

Braggy:
was

Gary Slater:
the

Rossy:
ha!

Gary Slater:
video.

Curly:
I was

Braggy:
so

Curly:
enjoying

Braggy:
interested

Curly:
the

Braggy:
in the

Curly:
conversation

Braggy:
conversation.

Curly:
as well. And then I’m going, oh, that’s right. Part two. All right.

Braggy:
Okay,

Curly:
Part two

Braggy:
Pate,

Curly:
of who am I?

Braggy:
when we left, this guy just discovered metal and explosives. Uh,

Rossy:
Ha ha ha!

Curly:
Ha ha.

Braggy:
I try and make it interesting Rossi. Initially I wanted to play the drums, but then I discovered I had a singing voice. And after being expelled from boarding school for participating in a prank in which I allegedly urinated in the headmaster’s dinner, I returned home to Sheffield in 1976 and enrolled at King Edward the seventh high school. where I joined my first band Paradox. We rehearsed in the garage of the drummer’s father and place and made local newspaper headlines when a steel worker was awoken by their performance and tried to smash the band’s drum kit. Soon afterwards,

Rossy:
Ha ha ha!

Braggy:
the band split up. After leaving school with A levels in English, history and economics, I applied for a place at Queen Mary College in London and immediately began playing in bands. I got involved in the entertainment committee. One day you’d be a roadie for the jam. The next you’d be putting up a Stonehenge backdrop for Hawkwind. In 1977, I met Paul, Noddy White, a multi-instrumentalist who owned a PA and drummer Steve Jones to form a band called Speed because of the way we played, not of the drug.

Gary Slater:
Not Jai Stroman,

Braggy:
Sure.

Gary Slater:
so… Not

Braggy:
Go who?

Gary Slater:
Jai Stroman.

Braggy:
No, it’s not Jace drummer. Um, uh, I began writing my own material after white taught me how to play three chords on the guitar. Although speed played several gigs at the green man pub in Plumstead, the band did not last long, but encouraged me to continue to work towards being a musician. I spotted an ad in a melody maker in melody maker singer wanted for a recording project and applied immediately. Huh?

Gary Slater:
Johnny Rock. Johnny Lord.

Braggy:
No, no,

Gary Slater:
I’m giving

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
up. I’m out

Curly:
Hahahaha

Gary Slater:
of here.

Braggy:
you got, you’re getting the

Gary Slater:
Shut

Braggy:
wrong,

Gary Slater:
up, man.

Braggy:
you’re getting in the wrong style of music. Uh, we played it. We played pubs on a regular basis to small audiences. And I began to develop my stage craft as a front man. Whilst at a gig at the Prince of Wales in Gravesend, guitarist Paul Sampson paid a visit and I was impressed by, and he was impressed by my stage act. And he invited me to be the new singer for his band Sampson. That’s where I’m going to leave the second part.

Curly:
Okay,

Rossy:
Okay.

Curly:
Samson.

Braggy:
You remember

Gary Slater:
out of

Braggy:
them?

Gary Slater:
here.

Rossy:
Hmm. Eh.

Braggy:
Nah.

Curly:
Rossy,

Braggy:
See?

Curly:
you close to it?

Rossy:
I got a few ideas.

Curly:
Waaah! Okay. All right. So interesting, trial of bites. The album that you did with them is noticeably, well, in my mind, in my mind, different from some of their, you know, some of their that

Gary Slater:
Are we?

Curly:
you play

Gary Slater:
Yeah.

Curly:
that say a legacy of morons piece and then you put on the album.

Gary Slater:
from them.

Curly:
And, and it is a different band. So yeah, it’s interesting that you were thinking we should have a new name because

Braggy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, well

Curly:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
I suggested it, I didn’t just think it, I suggested it right from the start.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
But you know, hey, I’m into democracy and you know, ban vote and then I’ll give everything I got when it’s decided. So it was, I think Glenn and I, you know, the new boys wanted to change the name and the others didn’t. So it was kind of understandable, totally get it, but that’s the way it was. So we just tried our best, you know, but yeah,

Curly:
Hmm

Gary Slater:
I agree, you

Rossy:
I

Gary Slater:
know, it’s totally different.

Rossy:
believe we call that party unity.

Gary Slater:
Well,

Curly:
Ha

Gary Slater:
that’s

Curly:
ha

Gary Slater:
right. It’s a

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
rarity Rossi. Dying up.

Rossy:
It is.

Gary Slater:
Also,

Curly:
Ha

Gary Slater:
when

Curly:
ha.

Gary Slater:
we did that album Lost Generation, which I actually, it’s funny enough, it’s on YouTube. Like someone just put it up recently.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
So I hadn’t heard it for yokes. It was

Rossy:
Probably

Gary Slater:
not

Rossy:
Shaun

Gary Slater:
too

Rossy:
Thompson.

Gary Slater:
bad. Pretty good songs on there. But it’s like, you know, it was good time and doing it with Rob was fun. But I have to say my darling wife, Carol, sang backing vocals on there, which is another weird thing. Like, you know, that was

Curly:
Ha

Gary Slater:
another

Curly:
ha

Gary Slater:
thing. They said,

Curly:
ha.

Gary Slater:
let’s have some female backing vocals. Look, the Trollabies never had female

Braggy:
What?

Gary Slater:
backing vocals.

Rossy:
Hahaha.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I’m just going, oh whatever, my wife can sing, or she wasn’t my wife then, but can I sing? Yeah, you know, she can, she’s great. So

Curly:
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Gary Slater:
she comes down and she sings on the album and it’s just like, yeah, you know, I always start listening to it now, it’s just like, how is that the trauma? Well, it’s just

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
totally not the trauma. But she didn’t

Curly:
Oh.

Gary Slater:
get credited on the album too.

Rossy:
Look.

Gary Slater:
So,

Braggy:
Ohhhhhhh

Rossy:
Ah, woo, I got a couple, I heard a couple of those stories myself, but.

Gary Slater:
anyway, but you know, yeah, I mean, I, you know, it’s not my proudest piece of work, but. I listen to that album now and think, yeah, that’s pretty bloody good. And the single, you know, that was really good. So,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
you know, it’s just, yeah. You know, anyway.

Rossy:
They emerged out of my local area when I was a young fella, they’re called the psychotics.

Gary Slater:
Right.

Rossy:
Yeah, and they used to rehearse at the rhythm workshop in Hurstville.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
And we’d be in the rehearsal room next door and my band was like this rehashed ACDC stuff. We’d see these weedy little punk kids next door. We’d want to bash them, you know?

Gary Slater:
Right. I remember not long after we’d been in Sydney, but we’d played quite a few gigs already, and we’d seen a couple of bands like X and stuff that we’d played with and the hard-ons, and they were, yeah, pretty good, pretty good, yeah, pretty good. And then Tony came home one night and said, guys, man, I saw this band tonight, fuck me, and it was the Trial of Bites.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Never forget,

Rossy:
Melody.

Gary Slater:
it was the first time ever that Tony was really animated about a band that we’d played with or we’d seen.

Curly:
Hmm.

Rossy:
Marty’s melody, you know, there was harmony, there was all that stuff, you know. I

Gary Slater:
Yeah, it’s wonderful.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
You know,

Rossy:
had it going on.

Gary Slater:
I

Curly:
And

Gary Slater:
love

Rossy:
I really

Curly:
yeah,

Gary Slater:
this.

Rossy:
did.

Curly:
a

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Curly:
little

Gary Slater:
I love

Curly:
bit of

Gary Slater:
this.

Curly:
social

Gary Slater:
I haven’t sat

Curly:
angst

Gary Slater:
in for

Curly:
in

Gary Slater:
a

Curly:
there

Gary Slater:
while.

Curly:
as well. It was, yeah, Trial of Bites were awesome. American TV,

Gary Slater:
Brilliant.

Curly:
great song. Legacy

Gary Slater:
Absolutely

Curly:
of Morons,

Gary Slater:
brilliant.

Curly:
great

Gary Slater:
Unique.

Curly:
song.

Gary Slater:
Brilliant.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
You know, yeah.

Curly:
Venus in

Rossy:
Maz

Curly:
Leather.

Rossy:
helped Maz mix their early stuff, didn’t he? Maz did their early

Gary Slater:
Yeah,

Rossy:
stuff.

Gary Slater:
yeah, yeah.

Rossy:
Eh.

Curly:
Yeah. Mads, did Mads mix one of yours

Gary Slater:
Oh,

Curly:
for

Gary Slater:
he

Curly:
the 30

Gary Slater:
did!

Rossy:
Not.

Curly:
last?

Gary Slater:
He did! God

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
almighty, a

Braggy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
single!

Curly:
Wasn’t

Braggy:
yeah, I

Curly:
it,

Braggy:
read

Curly:
wasn’t

Braggy:
that today.

Curly:
it this

Gary Slater:
Oh,

Curly:
one?

Gary Slater:
I- that-

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Jesus

Curly:
This

Gary Slater:
Christ!

Rossy:
Cathy’s on 8! Oh dear! I remember that! Ha ha

Curly:
produced by Chris Mazowak. Now,

Braggy:
I’m sorry.

Curly:
that is the hardest song to find anywhere. I might just throw him because

Gary Slater:
caught us in some of its trouble.

Curly:
it’s been scrubbed.

Braggy:
It’s

Curly:
It

Braggy:
going

Curly:
seems

Braggy:
to be

Curly:
to

Braggy:
hard

Curly:
have been,

Braggy:
to,

Curly:
yeah.

Braggy:
it’s going to be hard

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
to get that one past the census these days.

Gary Slater:
Oh, that’s what the actor here would be able to tell you. Really did, hey?

Rossy:
Really,

Gary Slater:
It

Rossy:
really

Gary Slater:
had a big impact.

Rossy:
good.

Gary Slater:
It’s funny, it’s a laugh now, but radio stations that had always played us before. Nah,

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
eh, we didn’t play a quarter sexist and all this stuff.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
It was like, oh my God.

Rossy:
There’s nothing wrong with being sexy, Gary.

Curly:
Hahaha!

Gary Slater:
It’s a joke. Yeah, you know, I get it.

Rossy:
AI

Gary Slater:
And obviously,

Rossy:
DT.

Gary Slater:
that’s not gonna pass no guidelines, but you know, Tony

Curly:
Mm. Different,

Gary Slater:
just

Curly:
different.

Gary Slater:
thought it was funny. Like, you know, we

Braggy:
It

Gary Slater:
always

Braggy:
is funny.

Gary Slater:
had our tongues in our cheeks, Voodoo’s, we thought we were hilarious. Not everyone else did every time. So.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
We all did!

Braggy:
The funniest

Gary Slater:
Oh,

Braggy:
part

Gary Slater:
I’m not…

Braggy:
about the funniest part about the name of that song though, is not the in heat part. It’s just Cathy, just that name is the funniest

Gary Slater:
Yeah.

Braggy:
part because

Rossy:
Ha

Braggy:
it’s such

Rossy:
ha

Curly:
hahahaha

Braggy:
a, you know, you speak maybe scarlet and heat or, you know, someone

Curly:
Well,

Gary Slater:
Yeah

Braggy:
like that, but.

Curly:
the interesting thing around that is that you cannot find that particular song, Cathy’s on Heat, anywhere. It seems to have been scrubbed from YouTube.

Gary Slater:
That’s funny. Well, there you go. God,

Curly:
But

Gary Slater:
I want.

Curly:
how do you sleep at night? The B-side is on YouTube. So yeah.

Gary Slater:
Rob Younger, sorry, Chris Maswick does some backing vocals on How Do You Sleep

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
as well.

Rossy:
Hehehehe

Curly:
Okay.

Gary Slater:
So he produced it and does some backing vocals. Hi Chris.

Rossy:
Heh heh.

Curly:
Hey, tell us about Dr Bombay, you’ve been going there for 10 years.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, we’ve had two albums so far and the third one sort of 90% finished. So we’re excited about that. As some people might have seen, our bass player did his last gig with us on the weekends. That’s kind of thrown a little spanner in the works, but he’s finishing the record with us. So that’s great. It’s nice of him. And then, yeah, we replaced him. We already have. We’ve already got a guy that we’re sort of working in at the moment. And then, yeah, released the record and yeah, like… We’ll be back out there. I’m very, very excited about the new album. That’s for sure. Stu DeLacy is a guitar player. He’s been with the band for the whole time, 10

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
years.

Rossy:
Mm-hmm.

Gary Slater:
A few different bass players along the way. We had Greg Baxter first from Presidency 11. I don’t remember who it was, though, who’s

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
got it. Let me play on the first two albums.

Curly:
Presidents 11

Gary Slater:
Presidency

Curly:
my god

Gary Slater:
11,

Curly:
summer

Gary Slater:
yeah.

Curly:
vacation. What a classic

Gary Slater:
Yeah, well, that was Greg. He’s a wonderful bass player. And, you know,

Curly:
Yeah

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
for the last five years, we’ve had… Terry and Chris Dixon brothers who

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
are drum and bass player. And they were in Sentinel back in the

Curly:
Okay.

Gary Slater:
eighties. So

Rossy:
Chris is ex-tribesman as well.

Gary Slater:
he was in the Screaming Tries when that’s right. And

Rossy:
Like everybody else we

Gary Slater:
Charles

Rossy:
know.

Gary Slater:
Foster Kane, yeah that’s right. He was their best drummer though.

Curly:
Yeah.

Rossy:
He’s a good bloke Chris.

Gary Slater:
They were also in Charles Foster Kane did pretty well for himself. So wonderful rhythm section like, wow, you know, fantastic. So very

Rossy:
I remember

Gary Slater:
lucky.

Rossy:
mixing him in a band called Lemongrass.

Gary Slater:
Okay, yeah,

Rossy:
Yeah,

Braggy:
Lemongrass.

Rossy:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
just great players. So just

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
really lucky, you know, obviously, just write the songs and everything and then to have a great band who are happy to offer their time and skills to play them is always an honour, you know. I always feel

Rossy:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
like that. I certainly just think, wow, these great musicians are happy to put up their time and come and play. So ecstatic.

Rossy:
It’s not for the money.

Gary Slater:
Well, you know, the only band I’ve ever made any money out of is the Viscounts. You know,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
the only cover band I’ve ever been in is the Viscounts. And I was only in the Viscounts for about 18 months, maybe two years at the most. And yeah, made more money in that 18 months than the other 48 years,

Curly:
Wow!

Gary Slater:
you know, put

Braggy:
Wow,

Gary Slater:
together.

Braggy:
there you go.

Gary Slater:
Yeah. And we played covers and just, yeah, we got good money. It was crazy, actually. Yeah, good money.

Curly:
Unbelievable. So what’s next? So you’ve got an album coming out, any other projects in the works Gary?

Gary Slater:
Um, you know, I’m always thinking of other things to do. We were ringing someone ringing. I’m

Braggy:
Not me.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
always got so many sort of songs that I just kind of write bits of, and then I’ll just put them aside because I don’t like to finish them if I haven’t got an outlet, so

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I’ve got hundreds

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
literally of ideas and songs, hundreds,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
every different feel imaginable. So, you know, I love to do like a soul thing, you know, I’d love to do a country

Curly:
No.

Gary Slater:
thing. I don’t know. I’ve just got all, I’m always thinking of. For the last three or four months I’ve been going nuts learning to play piano. So I have to stop myself from writing because I’m not good enough yet. So as soon as I start going, I can think of a song around that. So

Curly:
Hahaha

Gary Slater:
even a piano album, I don’t know. I’ll just keep going until I

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
just don’t feel like doing it. But I feel like I can do a few more songs yet and a few more records yet for sure.

Curly:
Yeah, Bragi, it feels like we’ve got to hold an unfinished song weekend, get all these musicians that have got little snippets of songs, get them all into a room and sort of maybe force them.

Braggy:
I think every songwriter everywhere has got those things stashed away.

Gary Slater:
They do. And with the advent of phones, it’s just made it even crazy.

Braggy:
Yeah.

Rossy:
worse.

Gary Slater:
Like I purposely, I won’t pick up the guitar because like if I pick up the guitar, I’ll think of something. So

Curly:
I

Gary Slater:
then

Curly:
know.

Gary Slater:
if you think of something, you can’t not record it. And then you’ve just got another one to add to the hundreds and

Braggy:
That’s

Gary Slater:
hundreds

Braggy:
right.

Gary Slater:
and hundreds. And at some point you’ve got to filter through, which getting back to earlier about the COVID thing, that was a kind of a blessing because that gave me that moment where I went right, you know. I literally went through hundreds and hundreds of ideas and now I got down to like 18 songs that I totally finished and demoed and completed totally before I gave to the band. You know,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
so, you know, I think as a writer, that’s what you need. You need a reason and an outlet. You know, so

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
I just need another reason, which for me will be the next album. I’ve already got enough songs for the next album for sure. It’s just a matter of going right. Well, you know, knuckle down and finish off these songs, you know, which with the next album will give me the incentive. You know, but at the moment it’s this album, you know, for sure.

Braggy:
Yeah.

Curly:
Mm, excellent.

Braggy:
And that name Dr Bombay, is that from Bewitched? Is

Gary Slater:
It

Braggy:
that?

Rossy:
Yes

Gary Slater:
is.

Braggy:
Oh,

Rossy:
it is.

Gary Slater:
That’s how we

Braggy:
there

Gary Slater:
got

Braggy:
you

Gary Slater:
it.

Braggy:
go.

Gary Slater:
You know, we were going to call ourselves Calling Dr Bombay. Original drummer

Rossy:
Hahaha

Gary Slater:
Max, actually, he came up with it. And then so hard these days, I don’t know, like the last time we tried to get a band name. I know you’ve just got a bit of fibrosis, but to try to find an original band name now is nearly impossible because,

Braggy:
Oh yeah.

Gary Slater:
you know, because of the web. It’s like back in

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
our day, you only knew bands that were like, you knew. And now

Curly:
Mmm.

Gary Slater:
it’s like,

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
you know, every band in the world’s name is on file somewhere. So it’s like

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
we went through thousands of names. I can’t get a name, as it is. Dr. Bombay is this parody artist from America. And to try to find us, you have to try and get through his 100 parodies. It’s painful

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
sometimes, but what can you do?

Rossy:
The way we count

Braggy:
I

Rossy:
to

Braggy:
was

Rossy:
be

Braggy:
actually

Rossy:
in

Braggy:
in

Rossy:
a

Braggy:
a

Rossy:
five

Braggy:
cover band

Rossy:
is we’re

Braggy:
called

Rossy:
in a

Braggy:
Dr

Rossy:
room.

Braggy:
Bombay

Rossy:
Ha

Braggy:
in

Rossy:
ha ha!

Braggy:
Townsville.

Gary Slater:
Well, there you go. Well, there’s a cover band also in America called Dr. Bombay.

Rossy:
Barman booked us a gig,

Curly:
Thanks for watching!

Rossy:
me, Vince and Jay, we’d been rehearsing and he booked us a gig and said, look, I’m sick of it, you guys playing a gig. And then we’re, fuck, we better come up with a name. So we’re in the rehearsal room, we threw out 15 minutes, that came up, done, that’s

Gary Slater:
Well,

Rossy:
it,

Gary Slater:
thank

Rossy:
we’re

Rossy:
out.

Gary Slater:
you.

Rossy:
It’s like, what’s cold chisel me? What’s venture might mean? After

Braggy:
That’s

Rossy:
a while

Braggy:
right,

Rossy:
it becomes

Braggy:
yeah.

Rossy:
it, you know?

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
Yeah, that’s right, yeah.

Gary Slater:
That’s true. Music talks tonight, doesn’t matter, does it really?

Braggy:
That’s right.

Curly:
Yeah,

Rossy:
That’s right.

Curly:
absolutely. Hey Braggie, part three of Who Am I? Let’s

Braggy:
Oh.

Curly:
see if Rossi’s gonna be right.

Braggy:
Okay, so he’s just joined Samson. The band had already released their debut album, Survivors, in 1979, two months before I joined. And although the tracks didn’t suit my vocal style, the band soon wrote the majority of the following album in their earliest rehearsal sessions, some of which were immediately incorporated into the live set. The band was fun for a while, but I soon learned that not all performers were great artists. And some, like Samson, were only interested in women, drugs, and alcohol. which I was unable to relate to. During this period,

Rossy:
Hahaha

Braggy:
the band, it was period the band I would eventually front supported us at the music machine in 1980. I was watching them and they were good, really fucking good. And at that moment, I remember thinking, I wanna fucking sing for that band. In fact, I’m going to sing for that

Rossy:
I think

Braggy:
band.

Rossy:
you’ll find their base player is a West Ham supporter.

Braggy:
I know I’m going to sing for that band. I just thought this is really me, not Samson. My last gig with Samson was at the Reading Festival after which I was approached by the manager of the aforementioned band. I can’t say cause you’ll get it and

Curly:
Ha ha

Braggy:
asked to

Rossy:
Mm-hmm.

Braggy:
audition as their new lead vocalist at the rehearsal room in Hackney in September, 81, I immediately discovered that this was a much more professional operation than I was used to with Samson. In the practice rooms, the band was the band played through four of their songs before asking me to sing the same songs again in the recording studio. and I was immediately inducted into the group. After a few gigs, they began writing new material for their third album, Number of the Beast, released in 1982.

Rossy:
Yep.

Braggy:
The album was a major success,

Rossy:
Bruce.

Braggy:
topping the British charts and earning platinum status in the UK. Known primarily for my high range vocals, I have also been described as a true polymath, due to non-musical activities, such as writing, broadcasting, fencing, placing seventh in Great Britain, beer brewing and aviation. I am the lead singer for Iron Maiden and my name is…

Rossy:
Bruce Dickinson.

Braggy:
Yo!

Curly:
Wow. Yeah.

Gary Slater:
2.9

Braggy:
Ha

Rossy:
Bruce

Braggy:
ha ha!

Rossy:
Dickinson. Oh, you wouldn’t know, would you, Gaz?

Gary Slater:
Yeah. Yeah, so…

Curly:
Ah.

Rossy:
Gaz

Braggy:
I

Rossy:
would

Braggy:
had

Rossy:
know

Braggy:
to do

Rossy:
that

Braggy:
a

Rossy:
deep

Braggy:
metal

Rossy:
down

Braggy:
one.

Rossy:
I’ve been a metalhead.

Braggy:
I had to

Rossy:
Yeah,

Braggy:
do a

Rossy:
yeah,

Braggy:
metal

Rossy:
yeah.

Braggy:
one for last week. So.

Gary Slater:
Now again, like Deep Purple, one of my favorite bands ever, and they get associated with metal, but to

Rossy:
They’re

Gary Slater:
me, they’re

Rossy:
not metal.

Gary Slater:
a rock and roll band. Like

Braggy:
Yeah,

Curly:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
they’re

Braggy:
they’re rock and roll, yeah.

Gary Slater:
a

Curly:
yeah,

Gary Slater:
rock and roll band, you know.

Braggy:
Ian

Gary Slater:
So,

Curly:
yeah.

Braggy:
Pace, man, Ian Pace.

Gary Slater:
they’re a wonderful

Braggy:
If it what?

Gary Slater:
bouncy drum. He’s got the bounce that you die for. And you know,

Braggy:
Ugh.

Gary Slater:
Richie Blackmore, like Tony and I were talking about this the other day, he has the cleanest tone going. You know, metal

Braggy:
Yeah!

Gary Slater:
bands don’t. He’s like, you hear every single note clear as a whistle

Rossy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
that he’s playing, you know. And

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
it’s like a

Rossy:
What

Gary Slater:
different technique.

Rossy:
we discussed Richie Blackmore at work and he plays like he plays strats as we know he plays strats and maple necks are for breaking says Richie. Yep.

Braggy:
Right.

Curly:
Hehehehehehe

Gary Slater:
Oh yeah. That’s

Rossy:
And

Braggy:
But,

Gary Slater:
not my

Rossy:
so

Gary Slater:
idea

Rossy:
every

Gary Slater:
of a deep herbal.

Braggy:
I mean.

Rossy:
Every time I get a maple neck I go maple necks are for breaking

Gary Slater:
Wonderful guitar player and one of Tony Harper’s

Braggy:
One

Gary Slater:
absolute

Braggy:
of those

Rossy:
Oh,

Braggy:
tones,

Gary Slater:
cleanest

Rossy:
mine too.

Braggy:
one of those tones

Gary Slater:
app.

Braggy:
that is so instantly recognizable, as soon as you hear that tone, you go, that’s gotta be Tony

Gary Slater:
And again,

Braggy:
O.

Gary Slater:
for Tony

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Arbor, Rossi would appreciate, like he, early

Rossy:
Eh.

Gary Slater:
on he could play every note Blackmore could play. That was the kind of stuff he grew up just emulating.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
He could play it perfectly.

Rossy:
I saw Blackmore

Gary Slater:
He writes

Rossy:
in

Gary Slater:
solos.

Rossy:
76

Gary Slater:
Yeah, that’s

Rossy:
in

Gary Slater:
right.

Rossy:
Sydney. Blackmore is phenomenal,

Gary Slater:
Listen

Rossy:
phenomenal.

Gary Slater:
to, hold on, hold on off Stormbringer.

Curly:
Hmm.

Rossy:
Nah.

Gary Slater:
You listen to the solo on that. It’s just this, it’s a written piece of music in itself. It’s beautiful. I mean, it’s just, you know,

Braggy:
Mm.

Gary Slater:
so impressive.

Rossy:
Yeah,

Gary Slater:
Like to

Rossy:
he’s

Gary Slater:
me that’s,

Rossy:
not

Gary Slater:
it’s

Rossy:
a metal

Braggy:
Yeah.

Rossy:
player. He’s too

Gary Slater:
hard.

Rossy:
smart to

Gary Slater:
To

Rossy:
be

Gary Slater:
me,

Rossy:
a metal player.

Gary Slater:
I guess I come from, again, after the Elvis Costello thing as well. Like, it’s like if you’re a guitar solo to me, if it’s not a piece of music, I don’t want to hear

Braggy:
Exactly, it’s got to be a composition.

Gary Slater:
it. Not

Braggy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
interested in some guitar playing a little bit of a… fuck off. Not interested.

Curly:
Thank you.

Rossy:
Ha

Gary Slater:
It’s

Rossy:
ha!

Gary Slater:
got to be a written piece of music. Otherwise it’s just a waste

Rossy:
Eh.

Gary Slater:
of space. Don’t play for 30 seconds and write another song and go on to the next song. And I guess gets back to that, I guess punk, but Elvis and Joe Jackson, that early, you know… Power, Pop, Arrow, which is like, don’t waffle on, just do another song, you know? Yeah,

Rossy:
Get to the point.

Gary Slater:
yeah,

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
it’s just, you know.

Curly:
Well, gents,

Gary Slater:
Sorry

Curly:
we’re.

Gary Slater:
for all the guitar people out there. Even Tony’s probably a little bit offended. Sorry, mate.

Rossy:
Taney plays all right though.

Gary Slater:
Like I don’t respect their skill and all that, totally. It’s just, again, I get back. I just like pop songs. You know, you don’t

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
put metal solos in the middle of pop songs.

Braggy:
What was

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
the guy from the cars? Man, he was one of, he’s one of my favorite solo

Rossy:
Rick

Braggy:
solos.

Rossy:
Ocasick. Well.

Braggy:
Oh, no, the guitar player,

Gary Slater:
Well,

Braggy:
the lead

Gary Slater:
on

Braggy:
guitarist.

Gary Slater:
an archon,

Braggy:
Some of

Gary Slater:
you

Braggy:
those

Gary Slater:
can say

Braggy:
solos

Gary Slater:
it.

Braggy:
on the car songs are just spot,

Gary Slater:
Well,

Braggy:
spot

Gary Slater:
that’s what

Braggy:
on.

Gary Slater:
we’re talking about, aren’t we? I mean, they weren’t, you know, a million notes. They were just

Braggy:
No.

Gary Slater:
beautifully written melodies.

Braggy:
You

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
go away

Rossy:
Well

Braggy:
and

Rossy:
that’s

Braggy:
you remember

Rossy:
re-

Braggy:
them.

Gary Slater:
And there’s no alternative melody. That’s the other thing I don’t found out either is when it comes to solo and they just play the melody of the song, it’s like, man, just leave

Curly:
hahahaha

Gary Slater:
it out. Just make the song a bit shorter. It just doesn’t really, doesn’t serve any purpose to me.

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
The solo should be that, should be a written piece. And again, Tony Harper, just…

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
Every guitar solo of his is a written piece and he plays it exactly the same every time. It’s wonderful. Because

Rossy:
That’s correct,

Gary Slater:
he’s

Rossy:
absolutely.

Gary Slater:
a

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
songwriter. I think that’s probably a bit of a difference between guitar players who are songwriters and guitar players who are bedroom guitar players.

Rossy:
There was that time when he did buy the Charville Jackson Model 6 guitar though.

Gary Slater:
It didn’t look the best to show, but

Curly:
Ha

Gary Slater:
I

Curly:
ha

Gary Slater:
did it.

Curly:
ha.

Rossy:
That

Gary Slater:
I mean,

Rossy:
didn’t,

Gary Slater:
I

Rossy:
uh,

Gary Slater:
didn’t fit the verve.

Rossy:
no, no. The no tone zone.

Curly:
Um, yeah.

Braggy:
Too many point- too pointy!

Gary Slater:
You know what? I’m gonna play that.

Braggy:
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Rossy:
Yeah, disgraceful!

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
When we did the last reunion gig, he bought three different guitars to every rehearsal. He bought a flying V that was reversed.

Rossy:
Yeah, I remember that.

Gary Slater:
I was just like, what the

Rossy:
The

Rossy:
fuck

Gary Slater:
f***? He’s

Rossy:
is

Gary Slater:
got a

Rossy:
that?

Gary Slater:
guitar

Braggy:
What?

Gary Slater:
in the world and he’s got a reversed flying V.

Braggy:
Wow.

Rossy:
The V’s are back up there and the net comes out of where the V’s are, right?

Braggy:
That’s crazy!

Rossy:
Carina.

Gary Slater:
It’s just unbelievable.

Rossy:
No, no, no. Very desirable, very collectible.

Gary Slater:
I’m with the fortune, I’m sure.

Rossy:
Yeah, yeah, it is.

Curly:
All right, gents, we’ve been going for two minutes past the hour. So we might start doing the windup. Gary, what we will do if we can when your new album comes out with Dr. Bombay, we’d love to get you back on the show and talk us through that.

Gary Slater:
I would

Curly:
That

Gary Slater:
love

Curly:
would

Gary Slater:
that.

Curly:
be

Gary Slater:
I would really love

Curly:
awesome.

Gary Slater:
that.

Curly:
And I think also potentially there’s a guitar special that we should do so that you guys

Gary Slater:
You can try

Curly:
can

Gary Slater:
and get

Curly:
just

Gary Slater:
Tarnian if you want.

Curly:
go.

Gary Slater:
Let’s

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
take the Tarnian

Curly:
Yeah.

Braggy:
Yeah?

Gary Slater:
together. I just

Curly:
and

Gary Slater:
gotta quickly mention the band Grumpy too, like sorry, but after I moved back up to Brisbane, I had a whole bunch of songs, 30 or 40 songs I’d written and I was rehearsing them with Skater, like Skater and I were gonna do something together. Then he got offered to go to England with his sister to play guitar, who’s really talented and doing well. And I came up to Brisbane and I started a band then called Grumpy with all these songs I’d written. And we played for four or five years as well. So,

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
just wanted to throw that in there as well. But yeah, that was, yeah. Andrew Holt was a bass player and he was in 3B2 all those years before.

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
But you know, we played around for five years as well in that band. So,

Braggy:
Need to

Gary Slater:
yeah,

Braggy:
write

Gary Slater:
thanks

Braggy:
a book,

Gary Slater:
for that.

Braggy:
need to write a book, Gary.

Curly:
Absolutely.

Braggy:
Like some of our other people we’ve had on here.

Gary Slater:
Yeah, I’m

Curly:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
not

Rossy:
This

Gary Slater:
going to

Rossy:
is

Gary Slater:
do

Rossy:
just

Gary Slater:
it.

Rossy:
an example. This is an example. Yeah, exactly. This is an example of work ethic though, isn’t it?

Braggy:
Yes,

Curly:
It

Rossy:
Really?

Curly:
is, it is,

Braggy:
yes.

Rossy:
It’s

Curly:
it’s…

Rossy:
work ethic.

Braggy:
Yep.

Curly:
yeah.

Gary Slater:
I

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
said, you know, I mean, I just, that’s the only reason I want to get it. I mean, not because it’s like, wow, but you know, that was another band where man, they’re a lot of work went into that. A lot of songs

Rossy:
Yeah.

Gary Slater:
and a lot of gigs and you know, and you know, yeah. Ray and Dave, the guitar playing drummer. I was actually, I was at the big day out and I just moved up here and I had Iggy Pop Raw Power T-shirt on and I was walking along and I had a hat on, Sonny’s and that. And this guy goes, man, that was a great tour, you know? And I lifted up my shirt and I said, yeah, but what a support band. Because ViruLust supported Iggy

Curly:
Hehehe

Gary Slater:
Pop.

Braggy:
Ha ha.

Gary Slater:
I only had one gig, but nonetheless we were supporting hip hop. So,

Rossy:
Do you support a K-Pop?

Gary Slater:
and

Rossy:
Yep.

Gary Slater:
he goes, he goes, what band was that? And I left up my glasses, I said, Foodie Glass. And he goes, oh man, I love foodie glass. He was a guitar player in a band called Love Child.

Curly:
Ah,

Rossy:
Ah, no

Curly:
oh,

Rossy:
them.

Curly:
you love child, yeah?

Gary Slater:
And yeah, so him and his brother Dave were the guitar playing drummer for Love Child. So I got a band going with him. And then we were put in for a bass player. And lo

Braggy:
Uhhh

Gary Slater:
and behold, after this coincidence, his place going, yeah we’ve worked through these songs and we just put an ad for bass player and the first guy that comes along we open up the door and it was Andy who was the bass player all his years beforehand from 3b2. It was just

Curly:
Wow.

Gary Slater:
like what the

Curly:
It was meant to be. So

Gary Slater:
hell.

Curly:
the band,

Gary Slater:
So yeah, hate all those guys.

Curly:
awesome. So Gary, thanks so much for joining us tonight. I’ll make sure

Gary Slater:
experiment.

Curly:
I’ve got a link in the show notes to the Facebook page of Dr. Bombay.

Gary Slater:
Thank you.

Curly:
And if I can navigate the other Dr. Bombay’s out there, I’ll put some links to some of your music as well.

Gary Slater:
Dr Bombay Rock and Roll, Dr Bombay Australia seems to help a little.

Curly:
Okay,

Rossy:
Yeah

Curly:
no worries. If you’ve liked the show, everyone, please like, subscribe, leave a review. That’s always good. We’re on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok. We’ve got a website at UnfilteredUndiscovered.com. Don’t forget every song we talk about, we try to put them into our Spotify playlist. Unfortunately, I can’t put any Voodoo Lust songs into that playlist.

Gary Slater:
to Bombay.

Curly:
They’re not on Spotify, but where we can. Make sure you check it out. I think where it, I’ve given up 235 songs are in that playlist now. So that’ll

Gary Slater:
All

Curly:
keep.

Gary Slater:
of our stuff will be on Spotify. When the new album comes out, it will be. We did have it

Curly:
Awesome.

Gary Slater:
on there for a while and we took it off, but it’s all going to go up.

Curly:
Excellent,

Braggy:
Excellent.

Curly:
excellent. So that’s Dr Bombay.

Rossy:
Looking forward to it.

Gary Slater:
Councilor.

Curly:
And, and as always lyrics from the playlist from that fantastic band from Perth called The Stems. I’ll be your motor in your car. I’ll be the fire in your flaming star. I’ll be your water in your waterfall. Cause when I get this feeling, I feel 10 feet tall. Thanks for tuning in everyone. Thanks once again, Gary. And Go Queensland tomorrow night. Hey Rossy.

Gary Slater:
See you guys. Thank you.

Braggy:
See

Rossy:
Hahaha!

Braggy:
ya.

Rossy:
See ya!

107- Gary Slater – Voodoo Lust & Dr Bombay

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