singemonkey wrote:
A lot of cool stuff here. But I wonder how much potential greatness we lost due to Apartheid radio restrictions. If the BBC wasn't that wild about the excesses of the Rolling Stones, I can only imagine that stuff had to be pretty unthreatening to get airplay in SA. And a fair number of these are pretty lame pop numbers - Eurovision style stuff. Hard to imagine AC/DC arising out of SA as they did out of Australia.
As far as the blogger goes, he's casting his net wider than what Springbok radio played. He's got James Phillips's "Shot Down" which was never going to get anyway near the radio at the time Phillips was actually performing it.
A lot of stuff got released with no chance of getting radio play. Just about anything on Shifty Records pre-1990 would fit that definition. Roger Lucey's stuff attracted a lot of attention from the special branch and the censors, and the records were banned outright or heavily censored, but the master tapes survived and so the music wasn't lost - though it never got to be fired at it's target either.
