Blackfeather - Seasons of Change- Sunbury Music Festival Week Day 3
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- So here is a band who mixed it up with psychedelic heavy rock and then we have a surprising bonus track too!
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Bloody hell this takes me back! I was fresh out of highschool, working as a stage sound roadie in Melbourne Australia. My band supported Blackfeather at one of the big venues... I just remember that the pianist had the heaviest and most archaic speaker that we had to load in, and indeed use mikes on in order to get it to the foh sound-desk! Ah, those were the days. They were bloody good too.
Im from the 60's, grow up on aussie rock and this song is one of best songs ever,But its a sad song about a block who had no home no where to go and was found dead in the snow,so sad.
Great band. Great song. We had it so good back then, and the rest of the world had no idea.
Sounds like prog rock at its finest! 🎶✌️
Boppin the Blues……ah! A 12 year old’s memories! ❤️
Me too! 🤣😂🤣
@@evaadams8298 bloody hell…that’s nearly 51 years ago! Aaaggghhh!
Great album
Back in the 70s you could find pen friends through NME and Sounds magazines. One guy sent me a vinyl copy of "Mountains of Madness" from Australia, I still have it, and it means a lot. Very, very nostalgic,
I was at Sunbury ‘73. I remember Thorpie & the Aztecs and not much more. I😂😂
When this started I knew it from my childhood… my sister had the single. I think it is probably still in my record collection. The studio version is so much better… the mix was a bit rough but the studio version is great and actually haunting. Love this week so far guys… thank you!!!
Black Feather were the first rock band I ever saw live, supporting the Ted Mulry Gang. 1976
I saw Blackfeather in NZ, in 73 at a thing AT Te Rapa race racecourse. Along with Slade, caravan, Status quo, lindisfarne. It was a great gig. I was quite fond of Blackfeather at the time. I think I saw them more than once, 70s are. Bit blurry. I loved Boppin the Blues 😊
Loved Blackfeather back in the day and these two tracks took me back to my early years as a fan of Aussie music. It’s interesting you mentioned Bon Scott’s early band. If you ever get the chance have a listen to the early AC/DC TNT album ( the Australian release). Bon sings a terrific version of Chuck Berry’s’School Days’. I’m sure your Oz rock guru Chris might able to track it down for you. Great reactions guys, as always. Cheers Rod & Kaz 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🎸🎼
"Bopping the Blues"..... doesn't it put a smile on your face 😆
Their At The Mountains Of Madness album is amazing. The studio version of this song, featuring Bon Scott on recorder and with some strings is brilliant. Boppin The Blues infected the airways for ages in 1972, it takes me back to living in the western suburbs of Sydney then.
Boppin the blues infected the airwaves for the next 20 years, not just 72 😂
I’d never realised Seasons Of Change was even Australian, and I didn’t know who did Bopping The Blues. Always something to learn here.
Thanks, Sue!!
The original studio album with John Robinson (a true gun) on guitar was awesome in it's day
Bobbing the Blues.... One of the best foot-tapping songs around!
Came for the Ajax bong, stayed for Blackfeather. Another great stroll down memory lane, guys 😁👍
Legend!
This is a very different arrangement of Seasons Of Change to the recorded version, which doesn't have the piano intro, and still had John Robinson on guitar unlike here. Bon Scott also played recorder on the Blackfeather version as well as Fraternity's.
Sorry boys 74 was very hot and 75 was rained out. Your comments on the tents are great that was Sunbury also. The Sunbury 30th anniversary DVD is great and gives a great insight. Love your reactions, keep it going.
All good... take care
Them 12 bar blues are a constant during the 60's and 70's your A,D,E or B,A,E or C,Bb,F are the favorite chords and easiest to play Blackfeather were a great band going back to my teen years so many memories going to the local town hall or the pub so many bands local or interstate they played the halls and pub's even at football grounds when 7 or 8 would put on a local concert 2 or 3 dollars to get in the memories and Deep Purple was in 75 because I was at Mev Cargill's house when he repaired Richie Blackmore's guitar it was damaged during the flight to Australia
Bon Scott also sang this in a band called fraternity,there's a clip out there
Yeah, they said that.
Chris Gags Fraternity and Blackfeather were on the same label. John Robinson told Bon, who played on "Mountains Of Madness", that Blackfeather wouldn't release it as a single. After Fraternity's success in Adelaide, the label decided to release the Blackfeather version as a single also.
The second song, "Boppin' The Blues" sounds a bit lightweight now I guess. However, when it came out in 1972, in a world where 45rpm singles dominated the airwaves (and hence the cultural landscape for young people), I thought it was refreshing and lively (I was 12 at the time, and just getting into Slade).
BTW…. Neal Johns is still performing with Blackfeather….Saw then in 2012 at a Benefit concert…
The Blackfeather that played at Sunbury had changed dramatically from this band, only the vocalist Neale Johns remained and they played more 50's style rock & boggie woogie.
Love to hear about your past adventures! It would have been great if you added on Fraternity with Bon Scott as frontman doing Seasons of Change. Yes, flute who would have thought. Fraternity won Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds in Adelaide (if I remember rightly) with their version. Blackfeather's version is ace though. Glad they decided to release their own song after Fraternity's. Totally forgot they sang Bopping the Blues.
Bon played the recorder, not the flute. You're right about the Battle of the Sounds though.
@@stevemurrell6167 thanks for the correction
Saw Fraternity play ‘Seasons of Change’ more than once live, including my school ‘social’ in Adelaide in 1971 I think.
@@davidburne9477 Wow! ✌️
As a bonus, I would have liked "Fugitives", with a 14/15 year old Stuart Fraser on lead guitar. RIP Stuart.
Listening to Bop the Blues always brings a smile to my dial. TBH though I don’t remember Season of Change. Maybe I was too young to appreciate it (I wold have been 15 years old)
Harry Brus, the bass player is still around.
That Ajax bong story was hilarious! 😂😂.
It Smelt like Switzerland!
OMG all of these magnificent songs from here that we don't hear anymore - keep them coming boys your doing a great job,
I'm fortunate enough to have a good long term memory and remembering hearing this song on the radio as a three year old while in our family lounge room my mum used to have the radio on while doing domestic chores during the day just being a housewife traditional old fashioned way back in 1971 a lot more simple back than compared to today's hectic world
Check out Bon Scott with the Valentines singing My Old Man is a Groovy Old Man….He is the other singer ….It Will take a couple of looks….
James Banfield Yeah. The other guy (Vince Lovegrove) went on to manage Cold Chisel and Divinyls.
@Sue Boardman The Baby Blue Jumpsuits.....And of course Zoot had the Pink Jumpsuits...lol
Boppin' The Blues, if you are having a bad day, put this track on.
It’s funny, I know Blackfeather did this but I reckon I heard the Fraternity version much more often, or that’s my memory anyway. Blackfeather I think of Boppin the Blues, in Dads car with it coming on the AM radio.
I think it depended which state you lived in. Probably WA Vic SA heard the fraternity version more
I think Bon sings this better in the fraternity version. I’m no expert but there is a warmth and richness to his vocals at this time before he joined AC/DC I think. Well worth checking out.
Love it. On another tack, if you enjoy boogie piano, there's a bloke called Henri Herbert who played in the Jim Jones Revue (mad band, brilliant like a shooting star, their philosophy was rock music didn't need to progress from 1960's style rock n' roll, just get louder & more distorted) You should check out a clip of Henri playing the public piano at St Pancras Station. He slays it. One comment I read was after he finished playing the piano lit a cigarette and had a contented, exhausted look on it's face.
Jim Jones Revue a great band to react to. I'd suggest "Premeditated" or "Seven Times Around The Sun" or "High Horse" as great starters.
I did like Blackfeather back then.
Hey Spy vs Spy track called credit card a subject that is very relevant today
Compare this song with their massive #1 Hit "Boppin' The Blues" and you'd swear they were done by different Bands.
"Seasons of Change" by Blackfeather is a Watershed moment in Australian music.
Sebastian Hardie is a similar type of Australian Band.
Love love Blackfeather, however, I prefer Fraternity's version better 👌, and Boppin The Blues is definitely to me at least, a feel good song to this day💃🏼💃🏼
This and Healing Force, Golden Miles. 2 quinteesential Oz songs of the early 70s. You have to have the studio versions though
I'm a younger Australian who wasnt alive in the 70's. But this is the first artist in your Sunbury list I havent heard of. (admittedly I only know Mississippi as the forerunner to LRB). I don't know if this one has stood the test of time: I've certainly never heard them on the radio, unlike Billy Thorpe, Spectrum, Skyhooks, or Little River Band.
Bon Scott was a real hippie at that time.
Studio version is so superior one of the great songs growing up. For me along with King of the World..I loved this era
The first song, the singers voice was awesome, but it almost sounded like it was seperate to the song itself because the instruments from every band member was so amazing it sound like too different bands, a singer from another band singing another song and the band playing instruments, from another song, incredible, my ears are still trying to combine the too, that era makes sense not to make sense but this takes it to another level, maybe I just need to take what they were taking back then and see the small wizards and it will sound as one, but bloody awesome, ai had never heard of them besides I was only 4 or 5 at the time.
@ Alex don’t wash with Dr Squatch Pine Tar, it may give you adverse affects, the Bourbon Dr Squatch might take care or your Ajax nightmares! For me it’s Janola, it’s like Supermarket acid, it will clean the arse off anything and make a Matron blush and burn a hole through your double thick shagpile and don’t use it in the Lava lamp, it will not end well trust me!😂
My understanding is that Queen were booed off for being poofs (aah, the 70s) rather than poms. Also nobody knew who they were. I don’t think Deep Purple suffered this indignity.
great set by Queen on 27th Jan 1974 (not really). Procession, Father to Son. Son and Daughter, Ogre Battle, Hangman, Great King Rat, Keep yourself alive. Liar, Jailhouse Rock, Shake Rattle and Roll and Stupid Cupid. Poorly performed, nobody had heard their music. Poorly conceived idea to sell this band as a great rock band (especially when they looked and sounded like poofs) to the punters.
Deep Purple were long established and people knew what they were getting.
You can even watch Jerry Lee Lewis doing a couple of his hit accompanied by Jeff Healey at the same concert
No way. Will search that. Thanks Rick
I'm pretty sure it was 1975 when it rained all the time.
It washed out the show and sent the promoter broke, because many people did turn up.
Deep purple were paid around 200k while every one else missed out because the ticket sales were so poor.
Never heard a band go backwards? Guys from Pearl Jam were scrounging through a second hand record shop and found a 50s song "Last Kiss".....
Never listened to one Pearl jam track ever!
Then you are missing out! I don't like every Pearl Jam song, but they have had a lot of crackers!
I still have both singles. The studio version of “Seasons of Change” was quite haunting.
Cool.... I need a jukebox
Oh shit bum and shit again. I'm 66 next week, haven't heard Seasons of Change for near 40 years AND I remembered the words. Sign of alzheimer's maybe?
John Robinson was the key creative driver, downhill after he left.
you are right about that. John Robinson - creater of Blackfeather.
A couple Blackfeather songs that would probably be more you guys’ style are On This Day That I Die and Long Legged Lovely. Also definitely check out the studio version of Seasons Change, it is arranged very differently to how it is in the video you watched.
Hi guys I agree the first track, keep it up, Alex, Ajax bottle your kidding keep up the good work Cheers
I want to ask him why that is the bottle they had at a festival! Who takes Ajax camping!
watch fraternity do this with Bon Scott and his recorder. better than the one you just watched
I like the Fraternity/Bon Scott version better as well.
Vocals on the studio version is superior.
They went from Uriah Heep to Racey.
Yep!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but Bon Scott sang the original with a band called Fraternity in 1971 ua-cam.com/video/WEDzyFS0Avs/v-deo.html
Well, George and Alex, watching your intro, I wasn't sure if we were leading into a reaction video or an instruction video. I'm not sure that a recorder can be used as an Instrument of pain, other than aurally. I guess it would only be painful if someone had a grip like Noddy's or was used by a former Fraternity band member ... now that I think about it, I remember a Christmas Day like that in London in 1990.
I don't know Blackfeather, yet there were times when I felt like I knew the song. As usual, I put it down to the melody lines. These are so classic, so contrived and also, so beautiful. I loved this video. This is golden vision of a time past. I hope that people in 40 years' time can still watch the music that is current today and appreciate it in a similar way.
I love the theme of this week; it is real time capsule stuff. I appreciate learning about bands that are new to me, and I will see if I can track down some other music of theirs. Sue and Chris, you both are giving me so much great music that I can hardly keep up. Don't slow down, I will just have to lift my viewing game.
Keep the good stuff coming.
Possibly have some more Blackfeather coming on the channel (not for Sunbury, but in general), really emphasises the variance they had between styles. I shall get off my bum and reply to your email soon mate, but you're generally spot on.
@@christhecurator I look forward to seeing more of Blackfeather, they are before my time, yet right in the slot for me. I hope we see more.
On the other point, I will keep going then. I have 2.5 down and working on the rest.
I can assure you that the recorder can be used as a instrument of pain - especially the descant recoder when you are forced to learn it. In my music subjest at a tertiary intstitution I nearly failed my exam due to my refusal to practise this revolting instrument but luckily upped my marks in playing the guitar and got a pass.
@@barnowl5774 I imagine the music instructor has suffered a lot of pain as well.
@@lencooke944 More a look of disbelief. Karma got me back when I became a teacher and had to let my grade 3&4's practise their descant recoder music. I tried to get out of it saying I couldn't play but the reply was, 'we know how,' and away they went. I had to suffer in silence.
EEEEEK ! Boppin the Blues ". As being one of a cast of thousands who passed through this band , i hate this song. It's followed me everywhere like a demented stalker. Somebody please line this song up against the wall and call the firing squad.
Wonder if the first video was filmed in an unheated studio in the middle of winter -- keyboard player in a fur coat, guitarist in a long overcoat? Oh, yes, the song was good, too! Bonus seemed like a tribute to Little Richard and/or Jerry Lee Lewis . . . it was ok, but not special.
I agree
neale johns-brilliant singer, but my goodness that bass playing stole the show
True. Just amazing
If you like Boogie Woogie piano check out Ladyva.
I think I saw Blackfeather once - in Lismore northern NSW. I was not a fan. Their sets included a few Led Zeppelin songs. (who were current at the time), and they were pretty good. But I think Seasons of Change was a bit pretentious.
The main problem with lots of bands then, including Blackfeather, was they tried to do it as a 3 piece group (or 3 piece + singer), and you had to be pretty good to carry it off with only 1 lead instrument. Cream and Jimi Hendrix Experience could do it, but no others were in that league.
The best band in Australia at the time was Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. After that I would say, the La De Das. I hope you do them.
Check out Larry Gowan at Ronnie Hawkins 60th birthday doing good golly Miss Molly if you want Boogie Woogie
Deep Purple played in 1975, Not 1974.
Interesting. I prefer the first track, because it surprises me. A real piano did not fit in and I loved it for that. If that makes any sense. The second track was a bit too "normal" for me. And if you want to know, if a hook in the head is a bad thing, don’t ask me, ask a fish🍣.
:)
BOOM! BOOM!
The pianist on this was Paul Wylde who died at an early age from drug abuse. The original writer of this cover, Carl Perkins, sued Blackfeather's publishing company. this was too much trouble for Chappel Music so they dropped this bogus band from their roster. j.
Sounds tough
I know it's too late as the Sunbury week will be filled, but if you can get this in as a bonus, or put it on later, this song is f****** brilliant & the footage of Sunbury is a great look back at the crowd & their antics(& their own percussion instruments lol) It's from Sunbury '73 & has heaps of crowd footage!👍👍😎 The song is Boogie.
It is fronted by the legend that is Broderick Smith..of Carson,The Dingoes,Broderick Smith's Big Combo,Backsliders, & King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
It goes for over 9mins but that ain't long enough for this track imo. Kick ass! ❤️
Yes,some substances may have entered their bloodstreams 😉, but it enhanced their performance😁👍
Cheers boys 🍻✌️❤️🇦🇺
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It didn't make the cut this time round sorry Wook, but the thought did cross my mind, we have another 3 years of 50th anniversaries of Sunbury, so I'm sure it'll get a look at some stage! The King Gizz link is there but it's only the one album, but A+G are fans!
@@christhecurator yep no worries cob. Fkn love the track 👍
Cheers from over ere🍻✌️
Yeah, I was disappointed the Carson Boogie at Sunbury didn't get played.Although it was not very original, a sort of a copy of Canned Heats boogie.
No doubt this gave some cred to every nerdy 10 year old kid taking piano lessons….
Ha ha
And a few years later they gave us black betty
At the Mountains of Madness is a great album.
Also, a band called Fraternity covered this with Bon Scott on lead vocals - love the original, but I think the Fraternity version just shades it.
Oh, and don’t believe the commenters pointing you to Boppin’ the Blues - it’s the only stain on an otherwise great output by Blackfeather - horrible song.
Don't ever, ever, ever knock Bon Scott and his recorder. That legend could f* rt the song it it would be brilliant.
is your curator still taking psychedelics? that 2nd track was embarrassing, there are recordings of Black feather from Sunbury but without the video, next time can you play the guy scratching his fingernails down the blackboard in jaws instead, asking for a friend.
This song didn"t do anything for me. Didn"t understand who they were trying to be musically. Just didnt do anything for me.
Sorry.
UMMM.. this line up is MIMING to the original LINEUPS version.. Only the singer in this clip was on the original recording. The TWAT left the group and registered the name before the guitarist did and formed this Blackfeather version 2.