As a younger fan from the USA I was lucky enough to catch them at the main gig featured on their Live in Texas release. But boy do I envy anyone who got to see them in their prime. Cheers.
I worked in the city in the late 70's and would often see Rob Younger working in a record store in Pitt St during the day then playing with Birdman at night
If I could change one thing about Radio Birdman it would be . . . NOTHING. They were a perfect band. They didn't try to look any way, they didn't care what anyone thought, they were all great at what they did and rocked like almost no one else in 1977. Aloha!
"Didn't try to look any way"?? Birdman weren't preening pop stars, or at the cartoonish end of the punk spectrum, but they were definitely influenced by some Murrrcan rock bands. Birdman had its version of that theme/style in their appearance for many years. On the final gig, for what was _intended_ to be their only full reformation national tour (Galaxy nightclub, Stewart's Hotel, Alex Headland, Qld, '96) Pip Hoyle was incredibly pissed-off at the end, that someone stole his Birdman merch cap. They deffo had a particular look, and it meant something to them. Of course, their own songs were the most important thing - but the logo and colours were part of the deal too. The bands that inspired them, had a style, and 'Birdman inadvertently became leaders of this music/culture movement across Straya, inspiring 100s of local bands in some way.
Rob Younger basically styled himself as 'Australia's Iggy', especially with his stage diving antics. Deniz Tek DEFINITELY brought the Detroit sound over here, too👌 Even their name was a misheard Stooges lyric from 1970: # 'radio burnin' up above #
It took the Aussie's to put some life back into rock and roll with most "hard rock bands" bowing to the disco God and wimping out. Bands like these and especially AC/DC saved us all from the disco/wimp rock curse that had a strangle on rock and roll, especially in America. Love the Austrailians, you guys know how to rock and roll. Good on ya!
I love aussie rock too but come on the stooges saved rock in the us. Pretty evident since radio birdman took their name from a stooges song and they opened this appearance with a stooges cover 😂
Australia invented punk rock? Havent heard that claim before, but fuckit , I'll go along with that haha. Considering a good chunk of the poms reckon AC/DC are a punk band, you might be onto something lol
@shayneoneill1506 maaaaaaate The Saints had a number one hit single in the UK with I'm Stranded 12 months before the Sex Pistols unlike other bands who may have had parts of punk these guys had the sound and the attitude along with Radio Birdman, Razor and others set the standard.
I like how the fans say No nooo they're not punk! then the 1 & 2 songs are covers of Iggy & the stooges + the MC5!! but thats cool I had their 1st album "Radios Appear"
Well, Birdman split up when they were in Wales in 1978. Rob Younger formed New Christs and I've seen each and every one of their line-ups. Current line-up Rob Younger - vocals Jim Dickson - bass Dave Kettley (Shifter, The Dead Set, Radio Birdman) - guitar Brent Williams (Zambian Goatherders) - guitar, keyboards Stu Wilson - drums Paul Larsen (aka Paul Loughhead) (The Celibate Rifles) - drums (replaced Wilson in 2011) 1980-81 Rob Younger - vocals Clyde Bramley (The Hoodoo Gurus) - bass Bruce "Cub" Calloway (The Saints) - guitar John Hoey - keyboards Don McGlone - drums Ken Doyle - drums (appeared on the single) 1983-84 Rob Younger - vocals Chris Masuak (The Hitmen, Radio Birdman) - guitar Mark Kingsmill (The Hellcats, The Hitmen, The Hoodoo Gurus) - drums Tony Robertson (The Hitmen) - bass Kent Steedman (The Celibate Rifles) - guitar Richard Jakimyszyn (Lime Spiders, The Hitmen, Molten Universe) - guitar (replaced Steedman) 1987-90, 1991 Rob Younger - vocals Charlie Owen - guitar Jim Dickson (Railroad Gin, The Survivors, The Barracudas, The Passengers, Deniz Tek Group, Radio Birdman) - bass Louis Burdett - drums Nick Fisher - drums 1992-2001 Rob Younger - vocals Bill Gibson (Hellmen, The Eastern Dark, Pyramidiacs, Loose Pills) - guitar Greg Hitchcock - guitar (left in 1992) Christian Houllemare (The Someloves, Happy Hate Me Nots) - bass Stevie Plunder (The Plunderers, The Whitlams) - guitar Peter Kelly (Flies, Vanilla Chainsaws, No Man's Land) - drums Tony Harper (Voodoo Lust) - guitar (replaced Plunder) Mark Wilkinson (Lime Spiders, The Girlies - guitar (replaced Gibson) Al Creed (Aberration, The Panadolls, Hell Crab City) - guitar (replaced Harper) Nik Rieth (Celibate Rifles, Brother Brick, Tumbleweed) - drums (replaced Kelly) Stu Wilson - drums (replaced Reith) The New Christs leased a revolving door for tax purposes. LOL!! In loving memory of The Excelsior Hotel.
@@Joe-ol5bq Tek was jamming with ex-Stooges and ex-MC5 members on return trips to Michigan while Birdman were still in their earliest days. And after Birdman split up, ex-Stooges, Birdman and MC5 members all hooked up to form the band New Race, named after the Birdman song.
@@mickdestiny6542 Yes really. It's what Deniz told me. They were scheduled to play the night before with the Flaming Groovies, the latter however cancelled that night, and RB got on the bill with VH the next day.
@@nomadnomad9517 One of the Flaming Groovies wiped out and hurt their leg or something, and they couldn't do the show. I checked the Paradiso list of performances. And yes it's true.
They always tell us never meet your heroes. Never meet your fans is more revelent here . These Ironically Stupid people must have seen the Bill Grundy Interview with the Sex Pistols. The Real stars of course where Radio Birdman with the most Incinedery Version of Iggy Pops TV Eye I have ever Heard. Great MCS Kick out the jams also.
I have to disagree with that. If anything, those awkward moments of exchange display a clear example of exactly how difficult the mainstream found this suddenly emerging juggernaut phenomenon of organically spawned rock and roll music. Music that, like any true artistic movement, through the sheer strength of the band's combined skill, talent and dedication. irrepressibly rose from the obscurity of the streets and onto the only stage that would have them where they then flourished, because Radio Birdman was not the product of an industry, seeking to dictate the next big thing, (which they sorely missed), but were propelled by the people themselves, normal everyday working class Australian people, like unshackled convicts, who identified with Radio Birdman on a primal level, for their exciting, melodically emotive and atmospheric songs, coupled with the drive of their sheer, raw power and the honest authenticity of their desire to express themselves, (such as what it is that's sure to make any artist great). In Radio Birdman, the public encountered a truth, as opposed to the mainstream over produced disco cloning machine spewed repetitions of what other musicians of the day aspired to, and tried, dismally, to be, to succeed. Radio Birdman weren't trying to make you come along for the ride. They made you realise you'd been standing there waiting by the side of the road for them to come along. Not everyone got on board but that didn't matter. Radio Birdman were already where they wanted to be-moving forward. Radio Birdman were a cultural premonition, uniquely reflecting our contemporary situation, wherein the organic rise of 'amateur' musicians, through home recording and independent online distribution, determine, to a larger than ever seen before extent, what the public end up listening to, representing a transformation of the once hugely dominating power that the recording industry wielded over the range of available listening choices. You could say the lyric-'There's gonna be a new race, the kids are gonna start it up' representative of a psychic prediction of this notion, (if so inclined). The enduring strength of what Radio Birdman were, and are, is that they were a cultural movement representing the predominating tastes of the people, rebelling to instead appreciate the essence of rock and roll, during a time when they were expected to get with the program and get down and di$co. Without being punk, Radio Birdman truly embodied, more honestly than many of their sold out contemporaries, the DIY punk aesthetic sentiment, and as such, few knew what on earth to do with them and even less how to relate to them at the time. One day they'll take their place front and center in the consciousness of the Australian rock and roll appreciating public in the manner in which they rightfully should have from the beginning. But, thanks to the tall poppy syndrome, most likely only at a time least advantageous to any of the members of the band. But hey, well, that's Australia for ya!
One of them is Jules Normington, founder of Phantom Records (store and independent label, released the first Sunnyboys EP, etc), another is Johnny Kannis of The Hitmen. Consider yourself a few clues less in the red.
The "fans" are the perfect embodiment of that scene. Posers, too cool in their own minds, lacking of any substance and just playing t being nihilists for show. Too funny. I am sure the "musicians" were pretty much the same.
One of my favourite ever TV performances. TV Eye is a great track, but TV Eye as performed by Radio Birdman is simply blistering. 🎸
He he, nice to see my face of 1977 again in colour. R B was so cool, Funhouse and all. Still got their live tapes for the memory of it all.
As a younger fan from the USA I was lucky enough to catch them at the main gig featured on their Live in Texas release. But boy do I envy anyone who got to see them in their prime. Cheers.
Which one are you ?
I worked in the city in the late 70's and would often see Rob Younger working in a record store in Pitt St during the day then playing with Birdman at night
Cool
Phantom Records!
I bought a Birdman t shirt from him at that little pitt St shop. He was dancing and jumping around listening to records between serving customers.
I think even before Phantom he worked at White Light in Martin Place of all places.
My favourite stooges song played by one of my favourite Aussie bands ❤
Pip was my doctor in Harrington NSW and ended p as chief doctor of Taree Base Hospital
One of the biggest bands we ever witnessed. Hail to the kings, Radio Birdman
These guys could play so well. So hard and fast but always perfect timing. And they were ours!
If I could change one thing about Radio Birdman it would be . . . NOTHING. They were a perfect band. They didn't try to look any way, they didn't care what anyone thought, they were all great at what they did and rocked like almost no one else in 1977. Aloha!
Saints, Radio Birdman. Hi Seth!
"Didn't try to look any way"??
Birdman weren't preening pop stars, or at the cartoonish end of the punk spectrum, but they were definitely influenced by some Murrrcan rock bands. Birdman had its version of that theme/style in their appearance for many years.
On the final gig, for what was _intended_ to be their only full reformation national tour (Galaxy nightclub, Stewart's Hotel, Alex Headland, Qld, '96) Pip Hoyle was incredibly pissed-off at the end, that someone stole his Birdman merch cap. They deffo had a particular look, and it meant something to them.
Of course, their own songs were the most important thing - but the logo and colours were part of the deal too. The bands that inspired them, had a style, and 'Birdman inadvertently became leaders of this music/culture movement across Straya, inspiring 100s of local bands in some way.
@@assininecomment1630
Spot on
Rob Younger basically styled himself as 'Australia's Iggy', especially with his stage diving antics. Deniz Tek DEFINITELY brought the Detroit sound over here, too👌
Even their name was a misheard Stooges lyric from 1970: # 'radio burnin' up above #
Sensacional
It took the Aussie's to put some life back into rock and roll with most "hard rock bands" bowing to the disco God and wimping out. Bands like these and especially AC/DC saved us all from the disco/wimp rock curse that had a strangle on rock and roll, especially in America. Love the Austrailians, you guys know how to rock and roll. Good on ya!
Yes! We are Bogans.
I love aussie rock too but come on the stooges saved rock in the us. Pretty evident since radio birdman took their name from a stooges song and they opened this appearance with a stooges cover 😂
I agree, Iggy was the original punk but we gotta give some credit to guys like link Wray and the Sonics to just mention a few.
@@Liddledriver you should also be sure to check out Link's rural rock albums from the mid-70s. The Three Track Shack era, great stuff.
Yeah, mate.....you guys started it all in the late 50s and we took off where the pompous wimp left us in the late 70s !!! Our duty & pleasure !!!
Up there along with the Saint's (also doco I'm Stranded) who laid the groundwork and architecture of the indie music scene in Oz.
How Good, once you go birdman you don't go... since my first listen over thirty years..ageless this is nearly the same age as me . Oz Rock
❤❤❤❤ uffffff Yeahhhhhh!!!!!
Rob Younger....one of Australia's greatest rockers along with Bon Scott, Jimmy Barnes, etc.
He put my name on the door for their gig in Brisbane on their reunion tour back in the early 'naughties' - a gentleman indeed
And Johnny Dole
É mesmo. É. É .
@@leowanker2186 Johnny Dole & The Scabs if memory serves
@@dougwoellner9216 It must
Aussie Punk hard core no safety pins no spiked hair just original Punk from the land that invented it
🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Yep Australia invented punk rock...
Australia invented punk rock? Havent heard that claim before, but fuckit , I'll go along with that haha. Considering a good chunk of the poms reckon AC/DC are a punk band, you might be onto something lol
@shayneoneill1506 maaaaaaate The Saints had a number one hit single in the UK with I'm Stranded 12 months before the Sex Pistols unlike other bands who may have had parts of punk these guys had the sound and the attitude along with Radio Birdman, Razor and others set the standard.
the sound is amazing, espescially the bass for no reason.
Them and feedtime had the sickest, most grueling bass tones ever moulded and presented to mankind. That’s not limited to Australia at all, either.
Flatwound bass strings, a pick, no treble and play like a muthafucker!
Immortal
How I miss the days of ROAR !
Yeah hup!
Radio Birdman : Alone in the End Zone
The Bird is the Wird!
Merci les gars! Such an awesome band.
The Birdman flys
The 13th lives
Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive Alive
Brilliant band
Merci.
Just wild ! . . .
One of the best .
brilliant version of 'kick out the jams' MC5
Legends.
The lead singer reminds me of an unmodified Catman with really grouse hair.
Rest in Peace Catman.
🙏🏻
the mc5 and the doors had a love child
I like how the fans say No nooo they're not punk! then the 1 & 2 songs are covers of Iggy & the stooges + the MC5!! but thats cool I had their 1st album "Radios Appear"
Não me esqueço ...
love it
Ron Keeley is the greatest ever Australian drummer
YES O YES
Uma mistura de sons, meio punk, meio psicodélico, meio progressivo... Diferente!
Real Aussie stuff . After Bon Scot died , this band stood alone . Bit like the Doors , totally original and perfect .
Well, Birdman split up when they were in Wales in 1978.
Rob Younger formed New Christs and I've seen each and every one of their line-ups.
Current line-up
Rob Younger - vocals
Jim Dickson - bass
Dave Kettley (Shifter, The Dead Set, Radio Birdman) - guitar
Brent Williams (Zambian Goatherders) - guitar, keyboards
Stu Wilson - drums
Paul Larsen (aka Paul Loughhead) (The Celibate Rifles) - drums (replaced Wilson in 2011)
1980-81
Rob Younger - vocals
Clyde Bramley (The Hoodoo Gurus) - bass
Bruce "Cub" Calloway (The Saints) - guitar
John Hoey - keyboards
Don McGlone - drums
Ken Doyle - drums (appeared on the single)
1983-84
Rob Younger - vocals
Chris Masuak (The Hitmen, Radio Birdman) - guitar
Mark Kingsmill (The Hellcats, The Hitmen, The Hoodoo Gurus) - drums
Tony Robertson (The Hitmen) - bass
Kent Steedman (The Celibate Rifles) - guitar
Richard Jakimyszyn (Lime Spiders, The Hitmen, Molten Universe) - guitar (replaced Steedman)
1987-90, 1991
Rob Younger - vocals
Charlie Owen - guitar
Jim Dickson (Railroad Gin, The Survivors, The Barracudas, The Passengers, Deniz Tek Group, Radio Birdman) - bass
Louis Burdett - drums
Nick Fisher - drums
1992-2001
Rob Younger - vocals
Bill Gibson (Hellmen, The Eastern Dark, Pyramidiacs, Loose Pills) - guitar
Greg Hitchcock - guitar (left in 1992)
Christian Houllemare (The Someloves, Happy Hate Me Nots) - bass
Stevie Plunder (The Plunderers, The Whitlams) - guitar
Peter Kelly (Flies, Vanilla Chainsaws, No Man's Land) - drums
Tony Harper (Voodoo Lust) - guitar (replaced Plunder)
Mark Wilkinson (Lime Spiders, The Girlies - guitar (replaced Gibson)
Al Creed (Aberration, The Panadolls, Hell Crab City) - guitar (replaced Harper)
Nik Rieth (Celibate Rifles, Brother Brick, Tumbleweed) - drums (replaced Kelly)
Stu Wilson - drums (replaced Reith)
The New Christs leased a revolving door for tax purposes. LOL!!
In loving memory of The Excelsior Hotel.
Totally original, this is a stooges cover version. And the mc5s kick out the jams its all copied.
No. The Doors were musicians. these guys are just meaningless noise.
@@alanstrom2221 Thank you for that detailed information about all the different line-ups over the years! 😊
Wow I didn't know RB did Kick Out the Jams, all right!
3:08 BADASS!
They should have been huge
Ah ok well that depends on your definition of huge? Huge stadium huge or huge beloved by many huge?
They are huge, in Australia.
Funny to see a band taking in the influence of Detroit (Stooges and MC5) about 7 years later
Deniz Tek was from Michigan, which just may have something to do with it.
@@charvolant That tracks
@@Joe-ol5bq Tek was jamming with ex-Stooges and ex-MC5 members on return trips to Michigan while Birdman were still in their earliest days. And after Birdman split up, ex-Stooges, Birdman and MC5 members all hooked up to form the band New Race, named after the Birdman song.
@@snoblenet Awesome bit of music history right there. Thanks for sharing!
😍
These guys SO should've toured the States. Could you imagine these guys on the same bill with maybe The Ramones or The Dictators?
They played here (Amsterdam) opening for Van Halen ! 1978 or so.
@@TonySlug WOW! Really? What a night that would have been. I bet they gave an in their prime Van Halen a run for their money..
@@mickdestiny6542 Yes really. It's what Deniz told me. They were scheduled to play the night before with the Flaming Groovies, the latter however cancelled that night, and RB got on the bill with VH the next day.
@@TonySlug Jesus.
@@nomadnomad9517 One of the Flaming Groovies wiped out and hurt their leg or something, and they couldn't do the show. I checked the Paradiso list of performances. And yes it's true.
Whuaaa trovoada
NO SAFETY PINS!! BUT MASCARA!!! LOL
Smoking hot!!!!!!
Check out Deniz Tek's incredible new effort with James "Raw Power" Williamson "Two To Five"!
3:29 is pretty awesome. hahaha
Is the guy on guitar Val kilmer? Looks very much like the original iceman if you ask me!!!!!
😅
@Paul Coote ... The guitarists in this clip were Deniz Tek, Chris Masuak & Warwick Gilbert was playing Bass Guitar. 😊
Where's Pip?
They always tell us never meet your heroes. Never meet your fans is more revelent here . These Ironically Stupid people must have seen the Bill Grundy Interview with the Sex Pistols. The Real stars of course where Radio Birdman with the most Incinedery Version of Iggy Pops TV Eye I have ever Heard. Great MCS Kick out the jams also.
😂😂
NY Dolls, Doors & Stooges
Yeah...nah
Is that Cyrus?
Shit..............we are in shit today.....this music,...good music, is getting scarce.....
LOL!
Delusion is one hell of a drug.
Band starts at 1:20. Believe me, the intro is worthless.
Not if you value a little context, which makes your post worthless (either way).
You don’t get the inside jokes, worthless comment IMO
I have to disagree with that.
If anything, those awkward moments of exchange display a clear example of exactly how difficult the mainstream found this suddenly emerging juggernaut phenomenon of organically spawned rock and roll music.
Music that, like any true artistic movement, through the sheer strength of the band's combined skill, talent and dedication. irrepressibly rose from the obscurity of the streets and onto the only stage that would have them where they then flourished, because Radio Birdman was not the product of an industry, seeking to dictate the next big thing, (which they sorely missed), but were propelled by the people themselves, normal everyday working class Australian people, like unshackled convicts, who identified with Radio Birdman on a primal level, for their exciting, melodically emotive and atmospheric songs, coupled with the drive of their sheer, raw power and the honest authenticity of their desire to express themselves, (such as what it is that's sure to make any artist great).
In Radio Birdman, the public encountered a truth, as opposed to the mainstream over produced disco cloning machine spewed repetitions of what other musicians of the day aspired to, and tried, dismally, to be, to succeed.
Radio Birdman weren't trying to make you come along for the ride. They made you realise you'd been standing there waiting by the side of the road for them to come along. Not everyone got on board but that didn't matter. Radio Birdman were already where they wanted to be-moving forward.
Radio Birdman were a cultural premonition, uniquely reflecting our contemporary situation, wherein the organic rise of 'amateur' musicians, through home recording and independent online distribution, determine, to a larger than ever seen before extent, what the public end up listening to, representing a transformation of the once hugely dominating power that the recording industry wielded over the range of available listening choices.
You could say the lyric-'There's gonna be a new race, the kids are gonna start it up' representative of a psychic prediction of this notion, (if so inclined).
The enduring strength of what Radio Birdman were, and are, is that they were a cultural movement representing the predominating tastes of the people, rebelling to instead appreciate the essence of rock and roll, during a time when they were expected to get with the program and get down and di$co.
Without being punk, Radio Birdman truly embodied, more honestly than many of their sold out contemporaries, the DIY punk aesthetic sentiment, and as such, few knew what on earth to do with them and even less how to relate to them at the time.
One day they'll take their place front and center in the consciousness of the Australian rock and roll appreciating public in the manner in which they rightfully should have from the beginning. But, thanks to the tall poppy syndrome, most likely only at a time least advantageous to any of the members of the band.
But hey, well, that's Australia for ya!
Ron E Sparks was a big deal in those days. You could see he dug the group and enjoyed whole segment. He was always really into music.
Was this on GTK ?
Gtk had finished by about 74 l think....love to know what show this is tho.
@@hanajinks1044 Pop Goes The Music I think The Saints had their first tv appearance on this show
@@TheFairway8
Countdown wooda started in either late 74 or early 75....so I'm surprised I've never heard of this.
Far superior to The Doors. I'm American...by the way
Not Punk. Too clever, too much dynamics. Something wonderfully Aussie.
Not the most intelligent fans.
They were taking the piss, deliberately messing with the "interview", why does this need to be explained to you?
One of them is Jules Normington, founder of Phantom Records (store and independent label, released the first Sunnyboys EP, etc), another is Johnny Kannis of The Hitmen. Consider yourself a few clues less in the red.
@Massimo Barcella You missed one ;-) ruclips.net/video/YFQemkZAqso/видео.html
They are just too cool to participate in mainstream stuff like conversation and interviews man, even though they agreed to do it before hand. So edgy.
We vary imtelligent! 🤔
The "fans" are the perfect embodiment of that scene. Posers, too cool in their own minds, lacking of any substance and just playing t being nihilists for show. Too funny.
I am sure the "musicians" were pretty much the same.
The lead guitarist is a surgeon
erm, no audience is better?
Any more cliches?
This makes me regret ever liking the band
Ooh, you mean you've flipped your thumbs up to a thumbs down? The utter devastation you must feel. Poor baby.
why?
RB Never liked you I’m sure
I see number 1 on your playlist is gentle running water Sounds for relaxing and meditation
There you have it
just terrible...
Yes, there's shit trolling, then there's less than that, the latter category obviously being your preferred playground.
@@KevKavanagh Loving your replies to these idiot trolls Kev!
You were not there.
Great band.
Wow