Rose Tattoo Interview 1981 + Rock n Roll Outlaw 1979 Paramatta Jail

Interview just after the Reading Festival appearance in 1981. Also Video from 1979 in Paramatta Jail with Neil Smith ( Ex AC/DC) on bass and Chris Turner on rhythm guitar.

[@CailenCambeul]

The Australian music industry never woke up to Rose Tattoo. Rose Tattoo, on the otherhand, woke up to the Australian music industry and gave them the finger!

[@billyshane3804]

Pete Wells, Ian Rilan, Lobby Lloyd, Mick Cocks, Digger Royal RIP
Rose Tattoo - Good Honest Rock'n'roll

[@vjenkins6815]

Bloody legends of real rock n roll. Thank you for uploading!

[@GodsOnlyGospel]

Nothing will ever surpass that first album

[@user-wc5gi2lz3n]

Scarred for Life is just as good

[@vjenkins6815]

Scarred For Life is good, but Rose Tattoo's debut album is one of the best rock n roll records ever made. Track for track.

[@gillesbourgeois5348]

@@vjenkins6815 correct! The sound is a bit fatter than the second album Assaut & Battery. Angry gives really all he has in the first album, the apex is Astra Wally. In this video Michael Cocks is replaced by Chris Turner on RNR Outlaw, which is too bad. Noone will have that right hand downstroke strumming anymore...They re- recorded new versions of RNR Outlaw, Remedy and Astra Wally, but without Cocks, the rythm guitar sounds weak, though creative. Pritchard has a very sharp and huge sound and that's great.

[@vjenkins6815]

@@gillesbourgeois5348 I used to play a Fender strat because of Fast Eddie Clarke, from Motörhead.
Once I saw Cocks with a Les Paul I switched! 😂

[@chriscampbell9191]

Understood. My favorite is Assault and Battery. Maybe because Mick Cocks wrote half of it (the music, anyway). I think Peter Wells wrote the music to Manzil Madness, Magnum Maid, and a couple others, but Mick wrote the music to Out of this Place, Suicide City, Let It go..... And the stories in the songs.... But it's hard to rate one against the other, really. The first album definitely was the shot across the bow. I remember playing it for a buddy of mine back then, a guy who'd never heard of the Tatts, and as soon as he heard the first few riffs to Rock N Roll Outlaw he turns to me and says "Fuck! That's rock and roll!" No kidding...

[@THERRYtheBERRY]

THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD

[@FrankFairlane-qz6qh]

Thanks for this

[@craigsandry6737]

Donnie Sutherland ?

[@Itdontmatter69]

Honestly I haven’t heard of them until not long ago.

[@gillesbourgeois5348]

Because AC/DC was more commercial in 1978

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

@@gillesbourgeois5348 but, in 1978, even at 8 years old, my friends and I were getting sick of hearing AC/DC, and Rose Tattoo was the new thing!