70s SA rock nostalgia (was Re: What are you listening to right now...)

Ray

X-rated Bob wrote The Radio Rats - Into the Night We Slide

East Rand gothic! The hit single "ZX Dan" is probably the best known/remembered song here, but there's some great rockers here, notably "You Know I'm Not Like That" and the mighty "Law and Order".

Why you boil up the nostalgia bru?

Bob-Dubery

Ray wrote
X-rated Bob wrote The Radio Rats - Into the Night We Slide

East Rand gothic! The hit single "ZX Dan" is probably the best known/remembered song here, but there's some great rockers here, notably "You Know I'm Not Like That" and the mighty "Law and Order".
Why you boil up the nostalgia bru?

Nostalgia is in the mind of the nostalgist ?

I just think this is a tit record. I've thought that for .... shooo.... decades now.

But maybe you can tell me.... "Plague Palace", is that some piece of imagining or is about a real place in Springs?

Squonk

X-rated Bob wrote
Ray wrote
X-rated Bob wrote The Radio Rats - Into the Night We Slide

East Rand gothic! The hit single "ZX Dan" is probably the best known/remembered song here, but there's some great rockers here, notably "You Know I'm Not Like That" and the mighty "Law and Order".
Why you boil up the nostalgia bru?
Nostalgia is in the mind of the nostalgist ?

I just think this is a tit record. I've thought that for .... shooo.... decades now.

But maybe you can tell me.... "Plague Palace", is that some piece of imagining or is about a real place in Springs?

Springs was pretty scarey in those days, I had family in Daggafontein.

Jonothan Handley was a quite a creative dude in his time. Saw the rats a couple of times, I think once when I saw them they were billed as Marconi's Mice.
That album was a good one, have you got it on CD Bob? Do you know where we can get it?

Ray

Squonk wrote That album was a good one, have you got it on CD Bob? Do you know where we can get it?

I've got it. try rhythmrecords and take2 (takealot)

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote Springs was pretty scarey in those days, I had family in Daggafontein.

Which leads us to the old question.... ?

I recall going to the Riebeeck Hotel with James Phillips and Rats/Corporal Punishment drummer O'Henry (or was it "Ou Henry"?). It was a colourful place and they told me that the weekend before somebody had tried to start a fire during a Corporals gig.

Springs suddenly and unexpectedly threw up several bands in the late 70s. I remember Hogs Norton well. A couple of years ago David Allen of the Hogs turned up at TJs. I was amazed and delighted to see him playing after so long. There was a whole SA punk thing happening in Springs.

Jonothan Handley was a quite a creative dude in his time. Saw the rats a couple of times, I think once when I saw them they were billed as Marconi's Mice.
That album was a good one, have you got it on CD Bob? Do you know where we can get it?

I can't remember where I got mine TBH. It's a reissue - it has extra tracks on it. I'm seldom wild about the extra tracks thing and in this case they jar a bit - different line up, different production, different sound. See Ray's post.

Bob-Dubery

Great thing of me forgot. Many years ago I was a friend's apartment in ... that tall aparment block in the middle of Hillbrow. With the Fontana and other shops at the bottom. Anyways.... other side of Pretoria Street there was another building with a sort of mezzanine a couple of floors up (restaurants and stuff) and a sort of jutting out balcony.

So we're sitting in Eddie's flat listening to The Wall or something (Eddie being a big Pink Floyd fan) when there's this loud racket. We run to Eddie's balcony and there, across the road on the jutting out bit, are the Rats giving it full wellie - a surprise free show in the middle of Hillbrow. The okes from Baxtop were there too, so we were expecting a good afternoon's entertainment and sent Eddie's kid brother to the bottle store to get some beers.

However, the SAP showed up pronto and closed the whole thing down after the Rats had played one number.

Things were like that back then. Only a couple of weeks ago Wild Youth had given a free show in Durban, but they'd done it on the back of a truck which made it's way slowly along West Street.

Ah! Got it. That apartment block was called High Point (and probably still is).

Bob-Dubery

Not 70s by now, but this morning in the X-mobile it's Sunny Skies by James Phillips and the Lurchers.