Hi Nigel,
was that in Brighton? or there abouts?

Little did you know they'd be famous one day . haahaa

No we all grew up in Rutland Ave in Mt. Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula. Guy McDonough lived just down the road.
Guy was magic and was the major song writer. Guy and James were a great combo.


Note the red 60s Fender Jazzmaster Guy is playing in this video. I earlier played in a band with the previous owner Peter Van Der Sluys who is also dead now from cancer. Now Guy is dead. Maybe that guitar is jinxed .... darn cos it is such a great guitar. It is now owned by Guy's brother Bill McDonough who was the drummer in Australian Crawl but no-one plays it now. Maybe that is best.

Hi Dennis,
that sounds really nice, doing a tribute.

I actually got to meet him back in 91/92, I think it was, round about the time the Korg O1W was around..

I used to do a bit of casual work for a music store. On the odd occasion if someone wanted a hand with working out the functions on a particular keyboard or workstation they used to get me to come in for an hour or so and go thru it with them. ( walking , talking , startup manual)
Fortunately they didn't pre warn me who the client was, or I would have chickened out. Nerves would have gotton to me . haahaa
The usual 1 hour sort of extended to 3. Really nice guy , so unpretensious.

Hope you're wrong about the 3, though it does appear to happen quite often.

So young.....He's now in that great Rock band in heaven.

Thanks for Sharing Rikki and my condolences....

p.s. Rikki, you weren't caught up on those Aussie Floods, were you? I pray not!

Hi Nigel,
lovely place Mt Eliza. Used to be somewhere you'd go for vacation, now it's a quick trip down the freeway ( tollway actually, they charge you haahaa)
Went there a while back, it's grown.

Hi Al,
thank you.

No, not caught up in the floods. They're about 500 miles north ( Queensland), & 500mls south of us ( Victoria). We're in the middle in NSW.
It's been really horrible for these poor people. Miracle not more have died. Can't beleive a capital city like Brisbane can just flood like that within a matter of hours. They've just had so much rain up north, and currently , it's mid summer.

Synthzone's being a great distraction at the moment, one just feels so helpless when there's nothing one can really do to help.

Thank you for asking.

And here is Harvey James playing very tasty guitar with the Richard Clapton band. RIP Harvey. The band I played in back then opened for this band dozens of times so I got to talk with Harvey quite a lot.

gr8 tune Nigel, I had forgotten that one. Didn't know Harvey James had played on it. I seemed to remember this vid on Countdown, would that be correct?

Dennis

Yep you are right Dennis. It's just a pity Harvey is behind the door in most of the video. But awesome guitar playing. Richard Clapton with Harvey James .... wow what a powerful combination of talent. That band was always magic. Such a shame they didn't release their music internationally.

Hi Nigel,
amazing, Richard hasn't changed that much since that clip.

Still had that dark hair .

Used to quite often see him in the shopping centre in Turramurra & in the music store.
Guessing he may have lived in the area.
Never got to meet him though.
Some customers were off limits. haahaa

Amazing clip.