Saw Rose Tattoo in Launceston At York Park in 1984. Big Festival over the weekend. We were all blown away by The Divinyls. And then came Rose Tattoo. The loudest Band I've ever heard in the Town. Just ear splitting and so so heavy. And they closed the show with Astra Wally which brought the house down. Words can't say enough.
Divinyls at that time were kickass. Mark McEntee was a great rhythm guitarist, riffer, and writer. And Christina Amphlett was pretty gritty in her lyrical content. And we all know how rhythmic & gritty the Tatts were. Wow, must have been quite the show.
Its amazing that i hear rock n roll and metal and hard rock like a maniac since 1982 ...and i never listen to them until last year ....what a fool i was !!!!!
I saw these in a tiny club in Dublin Ireland around the same period. Gig was stopped after Anderson downed a bottle of spirits and passed out. One of my favorite bands back then.
1:00 - Bad Boy for Love 5:58 - Rock n Roll Outlaw 9:40 - Can't be Beaten 13:23 - One of the Boys 17:50 - Butcher and Fast Eddie ("true tale...tragically so") 25:47 - Juice on the Loose 30:10 - Rock n Roll is King 35:05 - Branded 41:28 - Scarred for Life
The best live version of this band from what I can remember -when I saw them playing in the Sydney pubs in the early 80's on the 'never too loud tour' sounded much like this recording - LOUD !!! thanx for the memories, (my ears are still ringing 43 years later) - they used to cook
@@MatineeIdyll129 no, but I used to see the Hoo doo Gurus as well, it was over 40 years ago, at venues like the Manly Vale Hotel - they all played there - Rose Tattoo has to be the loudest band I ever heard live.
@@MatineeIdyll129 one time at North Sydney I was a teenager with these 2 hot ladies, we saw some band I can't remember, but Angry was there and pissed az, and he was trying to impress these young ladies , to go back to his hotel room with him, but they wouldn't have a bar of him, I had to laugh 😃 ,it was funny, in the clip he's explaining his lack of ability in getting laid , I have to laugh at that. Because it was true,👍
@@davidfaulkner2254 Tatts back then is a band I wish I was around for, their double J live show at the last night of the Bondi Lifesaver would be a killer gig too. There's a Cold Chisel live album recorded at the Manly Vale Hotel in 1980 which is killer too. Split Enz in the 70s is another band I'd travel back in time to see
Harry vanda and George Young did a damn good dandy job at producing this gem when they were under the same management as AC/DC at around the same time that POWERAGE was being recorded.
Hey Greg, listening to this again. I grew up in Freo at a time when street 'cred' was a black AC/DC t shirt and a pair of black DB's. Freo takes AC/DC pretty seriously. No one fucked with a bloke in a Rose Tattoo shirt. I was about 13
Scarriest band I ever saw - tough guys on stage with even tougher guys in the crowd - as they had a huge bikie following. First time I saw them was when they headlined a "Death To Disco" gig at St Clair Rec Centre (Woodille, South Australia) in 1979 or 19880 (?). The bikies were drinking jugs of beer (not glasses of beer). RT was bloody great that night - blistering hard-rock played very loud.
@@MatineeIdyll129 Saw the Tatts in 78, 79, wild Aussie pub rock, Digger was such an great drummer 🥁, Pete Wells X Buffalo, superb slide, Geordie Slammin bass, They raged!
I was 17, a mate and I met a couple of Melbourne chicks at the Palmy Hotel and we all went up to The Playroom. Tatts were playing. Its a bit blurry but I remember non stop pashing that girl through two sets and intermission right in front of the front of house speaker, Tatts blasting in our ears, sweat and saliva soaking our faces and chests. My first pub pickup.
BLOODY HELL what a blast ….. thank you for finding this little gem! Was at this gig. Dave Brown was right, friging cold. Man they were the good olde days!!!!!!!!!!!!!! such a good set list
I was oon holiday in Sydney in 83 and saw them in a small club . Id seen them beforehand in london in 81 and 82. Saw them open up for rainbow at the rainbow london. They were supposed to play two nights. On the first noght angry told the crowd to smash the place and seats up. So we did and on the second night they didnt play
Have this hooked via amp and speakers ,the surrounding neighbours are now aware of the antipodean phenomenon know as Rose Tattoo ,get the beers and turn up loud !
Yes ,with the right support and management Rose Tattoo could've been worldbeaters. Unfortunately that didn't happen but at least they got to tour oversees a bit. Pete Wells previous great band Buffalo didn't even get that priveladge.
not sure i agree they did and still do well in Europe i was lucky enough to chat with phil manning a few years ago about the industry and managers and his comment was R/T were big in Germany and the promoter (another former Aussie muso made heaps as a result) - i don't see Angry complaining about being broke
@@jamesw4895Yeah , that's the problem even now with Americans , image is more important then substance or talent. Look at the pitiful Taylor Swift or the rap stars.
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It's the audio of one of the countless bootlegs. This one is the gig at Washington Wax Museum, held on 12th Dec. 1982. I think my oldest bootleg in my private collection is taken in 1976 but really worse audio quality.
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without Mick Cocks on the rythm guitar, I'm afraid....not sure Pete Wells is here...after Assault and Battery, the magic left with both great musicians.... what's that fucking flange on Butcher's lead solo?
+Martine Taratartine The band lost nothing when Mick left. Rockin Rob Riley (The Beast!) played rhythm and occasional lead on this tour and has been in and out of the band ever since. A great guitar player.
ok, so Mick Cocks rythm guitar is underrated... listen to his work on Rock and Roll outlaw and Astra wally, I'm a guitar player and I can tell you Cocks had an exceptional strumming right hand, and his solo on butcher and fast eddy is inspired. Lazy Riley just does the minimum! when Cocks left they lost a major musician , a composer and the best right strumming hand Rocking Australia produced.
No doubt Mick was great player. Very quick on the right hand, although I reckon Malcolm Young is the best we've produced. Don't forget RRR came up with We Can't Be Beaten. He is a fucking legend
They were with Alberts in Oz, and they sold a deal/tried to sell a deal to Warners I think. There is a doco about Alberts somewhere where Angry talks about meetings with US record exec's. The exec's apparently hadn't realised they were not an 'act'
@@spiked1002 U.S. record exec have never really got a handle on a lot of Aussie bands. They wanted to promote Daddy Cool as an Aussie Sha-Na-Na, who were just a high profile novelty act at best while Daddy Cool was a band of quality musicians. They wanted to promote Cold Chisel as who-the-fuck-knows-what, so when they ran out of ideas, they schemed to separate Jim Barnes from the rest of the band, because they wanted to promote him as some sort Aussie Bruce Springfield, based on Springfield's bullshit Noo Joisey, working class everybody. It's anybody's guess what their take was on the Tatts, but you can bet Melbourne to a Territory cattle tick it would have some brain dead repeat take of a band that had long disappeared from sight. Seppos just don't get our very best bands and probably never will.
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Saw Rose Tattoo in Launceston At York Park in 1984. Big Festival over the weekend. We were all blown away by The Divinyls. And then came Rose Tattoo. The loudest Band I've ever heard in the Town. Just ear splitting and so so heavy. And they closed the show with Astra Wally which brought the house down. Words can't say enough.
Divinyls at that time were kickass. Mark McEntee was a great rhythm guitarist, riffer, and writer. And Christina Amphlett was pretty gritty in her lyrical content. And we all know how rhythmic & gritty the Tatts were. Wow, must have been quite the show.
My ears are still ringing 41 years later - they used to cook
Its amazing that i hear rock n roll and metal and hard rock like a maniac since 1982 ...and i never listen to them until last year ....what a fool i was !!!!!
Pete Wells on slide at his best. What a band at their peak
Played bass for Buffalo
@@youturd55 yes Buffalo we're heavy, Angry X Buster Brown, Left hook Phil Rudd ON Drums, AC⚡️DC
Saw them in Edinburgh supporting Rainbow - absolutely bangin
@@youturd55 And what a band that was too!
I comment this whenever I see a mention of Pete Wells.
@@Warrenm70 Pete was a Seriously Seriously under rated musician may he never be forgotten
I saw these in a tiny club in Dublin Ireland around the same period. Gig was stopped after Anderson downed a bottle of spirits and passed out. One of my favorite bands back then.
respect.
😆
I was there! I recall him strangling himself with the mike cord , It was McGonagle's in South Anne street.
Goddamn what a fucking incredible band. The Tatts, Thin Lizzy, and AC/DC have been my top three since I was single digits. And it hasn't changed since
1:00 - Bad Boy for Love
5:58 - Rock n Roll Outlaw
9:40 - Can't be Beaten
13:23 - One of the Boys
17:50 - Butcher and Fast Eddie ("true tale...tragically so")
25:47 - Juice on the Loose
30:10 - Rock n Roll is King
35:05 - Branded
41:28 - Scarred for Life
Excellent!!!
That is a very good bootleg. Thank you so much. The tatt's were a great rock band, the real deal, no bullshit faux bad boys. They were hard bastards.
The best live version of this band from what I can remember -when I saw them playing in the Sydney pubs in the early 80's on the 'never too loud tour' sounded much like this recording - LOUD !!! thanx for the memories, (my ears are still ringing 43 years later) - they used to cook
No worries mate, you wouldn't happen to be the Dave Faulkner from Hoodoo Gurus would you?
@@MatineeIdyll129 no, but I used to see the Hoo doo Gurus as well, it was over 40 years ago, at venues like the Manly Vale Hotel - they all played there - Rose Tattoo has to be the loudest band I ever heard live.
@@MatineeIdyll129 one time at North Sydney I was a teenager with these 2 hot ladies, we saw some band I can't remember, but Angry was there and pissed az, and he was trying to impress these young ladies , to go back to his hotel room with him, but they wouldn't have a bar of him, I had to laugh 😃 ,it was funny, in the clip he's explaining his lack of ability in getting laid , I have to laugh at that. Because it was true,👍
@@davidfaulkner2254 Tatts back then is a band I wish I was around for, their double J live show at the last night of the Bondi Lifesaver would be a killer gig too. There's a Cold Chisel live album recorded at the Manly Vale Hotel in 1980 which is killer too. Split Enz in the 70s is another band I'd travel back in time to see
Seen Rose Tattoo many a time with various line ups
Australia's 1 and only Rock'n'Roll band !
Thanks for sharing
Harry vanda and George Young did a damn good dandy job at producing this gem when they were under the same management as AC/DC at around the same time that POWERAGE was being recorded.
Eddie Muniz Vanda and Young also produced "The Angles"
"No way. Get fucked. Fuck off"
I'll see your face again... in Marseilles...
Toughest Rock and Roll band in the world, hands down, no contest.
Spike Hooker fuckin oath, as we say here
Hey Greg, listening to this again. I grew up in Freo at a time when street 'cred' was a black AC/DC t shirt and a pair of black DB's. Freo takes AC/DC pretty seriously. No one fucked with a bloke in a Rose Tattoo shirt. I was about 13
Scarriest band I ever saw - tough guys on stage with even tougher guys in the crowd - as they had a huge bikie following. First time I saw them was when they headlined a "Death To Disco" gig at St Clair Rec Centre (Woodille, South Australia) in 1979 or 19880 (?). The bikies were drinking jugs of beer (not glasses of beer). RT was bloody great that night - blistering hard-rock played very loud.
Skin heads loved them the tatts wrote a song about us = butcher and fast Eddy
GEORDIE & DIGGER! THE BEST, PETE, SLIDING & SLICING😁👍💪
Word has it Digger flew choppers in Vietnam
@@MatineeIdyll129 Saw the Tatts in 78, 79, wild Aussie pub rock, Digger was such an great drummer 🥁, Pete Wells X Buffalo, superb slide, Geordie Slammin bass, They raged!
Was at this gig. Dave Brown was right, friging cold. Man they were the good olde days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really....so lucky
NYE 1980. Forster/Tuncurry Pub. Blew the place apart. My hearing hasn't been the same since. AC/DC wasn't the ONLY heavy band out of Australia.
Aussie power rock , saw them in 82, Angry was a beast, 😁
Rickin' Rob Riley ripping it on ''The Butcher and Fast Eddie''..top stuff
This really has to go up in the best Pub rock shows ever. You lucky Seppos, you.
Rock n roll is king
BLOODY HELL what a blast ….. thank you for finding this little gem!
I was 17, a mate and I met a couple of Melbourne chicks at the Palmy Hotel and we all went up to The Playroom. Tatts were playing.
Its a bit blurry but I remember non stop pashing that girl through two sets and intermission right in front of the front of house speaker, Tatts blasting in our ears, sweat and saliva soaking our faces and chests.
My first pub pickup.
BLOODY HELL what a blast ….. thank you for finding this little gem!
Was at this gig. Dave Brown was right, friging cold. Man they were the good olde days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
such a good set list
and their on fire balls to the wall this is/was the model for G'NR
i taped this the night it played live on dc101. pat travers was the headliner.
I was oon holiday in Sydney in 83 and saw them in a small club . Id seen them beforehand in london in 81 and 82. Saw them open up for rainbow at the rainbow london. They were supposed to play two nights. On the first noght angry told the crowd to smash the place and seats up. So we did and on the second night they didnt play
im speechless
This is ace!!
seen the Tatts many a time this is just ROCK n ROLL at its best
This show is kickass. Thanks for posting this.
yeah it might be winter, and I might be freezing my ass off, but this is what's giving me goosebumps.
I think that Angry stands on one level with the great late Bon Scott
les années cheveux longs !
la vie était alors devant nous .
qu'elle bon temps !...
la vie est toujours devant nous , et les cheveux longs sont poivre et sel ...
as they said. badass rock and roll.
Thanks for this my mate
Have this hooked via amp and speakers ,the surrounding neighbours are now aware of the antipodean phenomenon know as Rose Tattoo ,get the beers and turn up loud !
such a good set list
how good is this, what a rockin combo, to finish with branded and scarred they cant be beaten.
They'll hear us comin when they hear the mighty roar👊🇦🇺👊
Digger on drums
GREAT!!!
Saw them open for somebody in Pittsburgh 83 ish
Aussi Rock is kickin ass of wimps and Posers, regards from Germany
Du Trés Bon Vieux Rock Australien THE BEST
DJ Erick Perard vieux?pur jus!
0:55 - Bad Boy for Love
41:27 - Scarred for Life
Rock,n roll
No one attacks a guitar like an Australian. Angry Anderson.
Yes ,with the right support and management Rose Tattoo could've been worldbeaters. Unfortunately that didn't happen but at least they got to tour oversees a bit. Pete Wells previous great band Buffalo didn't even get that priveladge.
I dont think they were pretty enough to become mega huge. They scared the shit out of the yanks. Kinda like motorhead. No pretty boy in the band.
not sure i agree they did and still do well in Europe i was lucky enough to chat with phil manning a few years ago about the industry and managers and his comment was R/T were big in Germany and the promoter (another former Aussie muso made heaps as a result) - i don't see Angry complaining about being broke
@@jamesw4895Yeah , that's the problem even now with Americans , image is more important then substance or talent. Look at the pitiful Taylor Swift or the rap stars.
AUSSIE PUB ROCK.
GREW UP WITH IT $5 COVER CHARGE, 50CENT POTS , NO MORE IN THESE DAYS, THANK U FOR SHARING THIS,
how good is this, what a rockin combo, to finish with branded and scarred they cant be beaten.
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nothing better
This is great- thanks for posting! One of Australia's best. How the hell did you get hold of this audio?
It's the audio of one of the countless bootlegs. This one is the gig at Washington Wax Museum, held on 12th Dec. 1982. I think my oldest bootleg in my private collection is taken in 1976 but really worse audio quality.
+wepo59 thanks mate.
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0:55 - Bad Boy for Love
41:27 - Scarred for Life
les années cheveux longs !
la vie était alors devant nous .
qu'elle bon temps !...
Fan fucking tastic!!!
The Real Deal intense live life Music-Living Music Fun
Never got to see these blokes. Bummer.
Did they open for Pat Travers on this gig? I seen them in Madison,Wisconsin on this tour.
Not quite sure tbh, there wasn't much info given with the bootleg. But judging by the shortness of the set I'd say it's possible
without Mick Cocks on the rythm guitar, I'm afraid....not sure Pete Wells is here...after Assault and Battery, the magic left with both great musicians.... what's that fucking flange on Butcher's lead solo?
+Martine Taratartine The band lost nothing when Mick left. Rockin Rob Riley (The Beast!) played rhythm and occasional lead on this tour and has been in and out of the band ever since. A great guitar player.
ok, so Mick Cocks rythm guitar is underrated... listen to his work on Rock and Roll outlaw and Astra wally, I'm a guitar player and I can tell you Cocks had an exceptional strumming right hand, and his solo on butcher and fast eddy is inspired. Lazy Riley just does the minimum! when Cocks left they lost a major musician , a composer and the best right strumming hand Rocking Australia produced.
No doubt Mick was great player. Very quick on the right hand, although I reckon Malcolm Young is the best we've produced. Don't forget RRR came up with We Can't Be Beaten. He is a fucking legend
did billy thorpe try to promote rose tattoo, in america?
They were with Alberts in Oz, and they sold a deal/tried to sell a deal to Warners I think. There is a doco about Alberts somewhere where Angry talks about meetings with US record exec's. The exec's apparently hadn't realised they were not an 'act'
@@spiked1002 U.S. record exec have never really got a handle on a lot of Aussie bands. They wanted to promote Daddy Cool as an Aussie Sha-Na-Na, who were just a high profile novelty act at best while Daddy Cool was a band of quality musicians.
They wanted to promote Cold Chisel as who-the-fuck-knows-what, so when they ran out of ideas, they schemed to separate Jim Barnes from the rest of the band, because they wanted to promote him as some sort Aussie Bruce Springfield, based on Springfield's bullshit Noo Joisey, working class everybody.
It's anybody's guess what their take was on the Tatts, but you can bet Melbourne to a Territory cattle tick it would have some brain dead repeat take of a band that had long disappeared from sight. Seppos just don't get our very best bands and probably never will.
Autenticos
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It's all a pose, can't you tell?
Angry Anderson, or as he is more known now, Not So Angry Anderson is trying to get into politics here in Australia. Wish him the best of luck.
No, that wouldn't be good.