I love the bass player...

Watch the bass player... this guy took soloing
to new heights in the 40s.

I wouldn't be surprised if he played with his teeth,
set the thing alight then smashed it up.

I LOVE this video.

My 'garbo' said to me...

I was out at my letter box this morning when my
'garbo' (kerb-side household trash collection
practitioner, if you prefer) yelled at me from
his garbage truck;

"Hey Bear... where's ya bin?"

"Oh... I've been in Townsville."

"Nah... where's ya wheelie bin?"

"Yeah... I've really been in Townsville."



And here's the pics to prove it;

Two planes and one day each way.


A pleasant place to be.








I hope I get to go back and do some sightseeing.

Cheers.

Whad'YaKnow... Butch must be home.

What other reason could there be...

for the end of this rainbow being on my house?

I took that shot as I headed home from work this
afternoon, and it reminded me of this video...


...and of you, Butch.

Soundtrack to my youth...

I was just killing time when I decided to search
YouTube for clips from the late 60s to the early
70s, my teen years or thereabouts, and here's
some clips that stood out for me...


A couple of favourite songs from a favourite artist.

This clip shows a little of the scene around my home
town of Melbourne in the early to mid 70s.

The band is Lobby Lloyd's Coloured Balls, or maybe
the Wild Cherries with Lobby Lloyd. There was a real
divide in Melbourne between Sharpies and anyone
with long hair... the trouble was, Lobby Lloyd was
popular to both sides of the divide and there were
many brawls at venues where they played and
the audience mixed.

By the way, the above clip was made by Greg
Macainsh the base player for Skyhooks (white
suit in this clip). So here's a song from them...

Not sure why I've put all this here... but enjoy anyway.

Cheers.

Oh Well...

One of my favourite quotes comes from this
song, from this late 60's band.

I hate to admit this, but, in 1970 I had a shirt just like
Peter Green's. (The singer in this clip)

If you've read my profile then you'll have read these lyrics.


Cheers.

Dali and Melbourne...

Currently there's a Salvador Dali exhibition on in my
city... marvellous Melbourne.

Our art and entertainment centre, which
extends across the river.

Dali is a favourite of mine and I've always been fascinated
by his work... I love it. Well you can imagine my excitement
when one of my son's sent me a text message asking if I
would like to go to the exhibition. Of course I would.

So I sent an invite around to the rest of the family with a date
and time, asking all and sundry to join us. My son immediately
sent a text back saying "Why are you inviting the riff raff...?"
(Borderline elitist, that one.) Well as it turned out he needn't
have worried because he got offered some overtime at work,
which he accepted, and which prompts me to wonder where
culture actually sits with him.


Anyway, we went...

...here.... to see a portion of the life's work of
this man...
Salvador Dali.

Don't you just love him? You know that you're in for a
treat from someone that looks like that.

Going in...

The exhibition was excellent and had a lot of pieces that
excited me... but how do you do justice to a body of work
from a prolific artist that kept working well into his 80s?
You can't possibly have all the iconic works, but what was
there showed his growth and style changes from Dali's early
sketches and paintings as a 13 year old all the way through
his life. It wasn't all surrealism either.

One of the things I like about Dali and his work, is the humour.
Self deprecation and irony played a big part in his art, and he
embraced multimedia before the word was even invented.

Some self portraits...

At age 15.

At about 20.

Salvador being silly.

Salvador being clever.

Salvador 'hangin loose'

Salvador immortalised (tattoo).



He collaborated with many others over the years,
including this man...

Dali & Disney... what an unlikely combination... or was it?

One thing to come out of their 1949 meeting was a plan to
do an animation together, but alas it didn't get into
production... not until Disney's son decided in 2003 to revive
the project and complete it. Below is what he produced.

Destino.





Now for some more of his works...











Mouseover... to see detail of skull.
This is detail from a poster Dali did for the Army,
warning of sexually transmitted deceases.


Dali's wife, Gala, was the model for most of
his work... including this one.



The ruby heart in this broach has a movement behind
it to make the heart beat. It looks incredible.









Take a closer look at the bust of the old lady.
(Ummm, I mean the statue's head in the middle
not the bust on the lady on the left... tehe. You'll
need to find a larger image on the internet, but
its actually people standing in front of a hole
in the wall.)


Coming out...


After the gallery, we went and had lunch in a cafe
over the river... on the way back I stopped on the
bridge and took the short video below...

A bit windy and a lot of traffic noise...
but you can hear the busker across the the street.

Cheers.