HOW MANY TIMES by MICKEY NEWBURY. Story by Luke Davies.
I didn’t know what was popular amongst my peers, didn’t really care. It didn’t bother me if I was considered weird.
I didn’t know what was popular amongst my peers, didn’t really care. It didn’t bother me if I was considered weird.
Listening to most music has been so much harder for me since the stroke and I had not been keen on revisiting older recordings and demos of ideas stashed away on various hard drives.
No sending a link on your phone back then. It took time and dedication to record a LP to a tape for one of your mates.
Years later I would come to see and hear what a talent Broderick Smith was, mixing various music styles into his sound, always with some nice blues influenced harmonica licks thrown in.
Every now and then there’s a song that comes along at a time in your life when you’re most ready to respond to it.
Christmas songs and carols are often a reminder of the ideal family experience, but that is not the case for many.
I had been making instruments from reclaimed objects for a few years by then and came up with the mad idea of getting a band together to play them. I had to make a few more instruments often with bits sourced from op shops and garage sales.
I came across a song that I hadn't listened to for ages, a song that when I first heard it, was a real life changing moment.
So with the help of the University of YouTube my new music adventure began.
It was a bit of an eye and ear opener. Not that I haven’t heard some of those Springsteen songs before, but I wasn’t really listening at the time.