Healing Force - Golden Miles
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- Healing Force's one and only single"Golden Miles", a Top 20 hit in Melbourne & Sydney in July 1971, gets my vote for the best Aussie single of all time, played by some of our very best musicians. Starting with the oustanding melody & lyrics by guitarist Lindsay Wells (Chain, Blackfeather), it is embellished no end by one of the most memorable organ riffs ever committed to vinyl & created by Mal Logan (Dingoes, Renee Geyer Band, Little River Band), and all topped off with an outstanding lead vocal by New Zealander Charlie Tumahai (Friends, Mississippi, Be Bop Deluxe). When you add the solid work of bass player Gus Fenwick (Pleazers, Bootleg Family) & drummer Laurie Pryor (The Twilights, Chain), there's really nothing NOT to like (Aust#31-19 Melb#16-15 Syd#18-14 Bris# - Adel#28-12 Perth# - Hob#36: Thanks to David Kent & Gavin Ryan for the chart placings)
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Hi GMs fans, better throw my bib in after all this time. It was definitely Charlie who played bass on GMs and everything else we did and John Pugh had just rejoined the band after the recording was released and it's a shame we broke up before his talents as a player and singer were made available to the band and public. The main reason we broke up was we were worn out from relentless touring and barely making enough to live. The scoundrel who bought the record company ripped us off and offererd no opportunity to record an album and as I wrote all of the originals we played to that point it still breaks my heart that I let Healing force disintergrate. Someone stole my lyrics book in 1973 but at least we have GMs, The Gully and Poem of Joy, they were fabulous musicians and as I am still a performing Pro, I will always remember and be inspired by our time together, love you all, Lindsay
Thank you for this incredible gem of music and sharing a bit of your history!
Good to hear how things went down, but a god awful shame the band broke up. I can remember Healing Force playing back up on the Kinks tour in Brisbane. Healing Force stole the show! Absolutely amazing!
Lindsay, you really had the Cream Clapton look going on there - thought it was him for a minute!
That is if you're the guy on the SG!
Lindsay is your last name Field?
Golden miles and seasons of change by blackfeather were the two best songs in 1971 and that year had sooo many hits. They do not make good songs like that anymore.
I rate this as one of the very best songs ever recorded in Australia. The brilliant vocals and keyboards lift this track to a classic.
Same here,💯% agreed 👍
Agreed.
Along with Eagle Rock and the Real Thing.
And Black and Blue (Chain)
, and Evie PTS 1,11, & 111!
Should have been a world wide hit.
Yes.
I think it was. I think Seals and Crofts "Summer Breeze" is a rip off of this song.
@@camtinley Bit of a stretch. Some little nods, yes.
@@camtinley Hmmm.... Interesting ❗
one of the best australian singles ever.
Except its a Kiwi song!
@@darrenturner6679 Charlie Tumahai was a kiwi, the band formed in Melbourne 1970. But you can have Russell Crowe if you want!
An Aussie Lindsay Wells “wrote it “and played guitar!
When you're old like me, memories are long and nostalgia is that well worn overcoat you leave in a crumpled heap inside the wardrobe. But every now and again when the temptation is too tempting, you pick up that overcoat, dust it off and instantly you're transported back in time.
And we find ourselves in 1971. I'm a 15 year old pimply faced schoolboy who's just discovered Australian progressive rock bands and can't quite believe how lucky I am.
There were some bands and tunes that just stick with you like glue from that galaxy so, so long ago. Like Healing Force and the song Golden Miles. The screaming vocals of bass player Charlie Tumahai, keyboard player Mal Logan's incredible melodic riff and Lindsay Well's lyrics for a song that is an Australian classic. Well to me it is.
Mal Logan had to borrow keyboards from Warren Pig Morgan but it was no impediment to creating what many Australian music critics believe was our finest hour.
Sadly, Charlie is no longer with us but his vocals will always be.
I’ve still got the 45!
That's incredible. That's almost 53 years old now!
Were there other songs apart from this by Healing Force on the 45?
I'd really love to find out.💯✅️
Yes, on the flip side is ‘The Gully’ another good track! Those were the days!
@jude11355 cheers on the reply, I just listened to it here on YT and what a banger of a song.🧨
I was three when Healing Force released these, but I have no recollection of ever hearing their music despite living in Sydney.
I did see on the 45 cover that it was made and recorded in Melbourne.
These guys should've been as big as The Masters Apprentices but I think because Charlie was Maori there was an issue with that culturally here in Australia, I'm being circumspect here and we'll never know now but it would be a tragedy if that were the case as all these guys had great musical artistry and skill.
✌️Stay cool 😎
Think I was about 15, long time ago now! Actually, healing force played at the school dance but I think the lead singer at that function was Leo de Castro?
Almost makes me cry for the days, magnificent
Agree, this is the best Aussie song of all-time.
Great song im 15 again, now 68 and still playing OZ blues vinyl. ❤❤❤
Same here .. Brother.
Great Aussie music in those days.
The late great Charlie Tumahai
Another unique Oz/kiwi song and performance. Great Organ, great Charlie Tumahai
I'm not Australian but some say that this should be the unofficial Aussie national anthem.
A very special part of Australian music history.
I like this so much, if only I could do this! Takes me back to the '70's, we took it all for granted back then!
You get my vote
This song kept happening during my adolescence
So sad the singer died young
One of the most classic songs of all time. . . So much more than a song, for me it's become an anthem. . . A brilliant elegant masterpiece. . . Blessings. . .
Golden Miles, what a fantastic memory.....What a line up of talent
Leo De Castro and Healing Force produced one of the best songs to come out of Oz and had that unmistakable East Coast California sound with that cool Hammond Organ and prog rock drum beat.
Leo wasn't a member of Healing Force
@@Dimster6666 it was Charlie Tumahi buddy on vocals and fabulous bass
Another great song from 1971 I was only nine going on ten
Definitely up there with the best. Don't know if I could pick 'the best', but this would definitely be on the short list. A great piece of music and performance.
Amazing voice
ahh but so have you my friend
The late Charlie Tumahai, I don't know why his voice wasn't utilized much more while he was in Be-Bop Deluxe.
@@ra5aus agree ! He should have been the lead !
Always loved this what a great band these guys were and wow Charlie.
all time classic,great song!
100% -->> #Peace
One of a kind song straight from the heart . . Pure joy. . .
Thanks so much for this upload! Wow what a blast from the past! I recall these guys performing in the early hours at Sunbury 73 Rock Festival at Diggers Rest just out of the township of Sunbury. I was 15 and it was my one and only Woodstock-like experience. This song brings back memories of a more innocent and uncomplicated time of peace, love and lots of dope and that Aussie version of "the Summer of Love". Always think of hot days spent at Portsea sitting out on the lawn sipping on a nice cold beer and smoking a three paper spliff. Ahhh what memories ... wouldn't trade them for anything!
My family moved to Australia from Macon Georgia my dad was steel player hooked up with red Selena see a local local favorite no reg Lindsay I went on finished bicycle went on the road as a bass player during the time when healing Forest than many other wonderful Australian bands for on TV and playing the bars I always dial-up Golden Miles because of it everything great the vocals especially but every musicianship instrumentation just incredibly beneficial vibe what what a time to be playing in Australia
i became a musician after hearing golden miles in melbourne 1971 i was following le orme an italian group with the same organ sound but ended up playing piano in night clubs and fell in love with bossa novas but true love healing force sound thank you for putting it up on u tube xxx
Can't add to your assessment, spot on, it's a masterpiece.
In the 70's you would never cover an Aussie (Australasian) song .... now this is a cool song in the repertoire.
Melbourne Australia from 68 to 778
Love the guitar chord sequence at the end of the song, perfect without being a flashy look at me solo. A fantastically written and performed song in every way.
Have watched this so many times and realize its the only ever live version of this Oz iconic song , absolutely
Anyone else got another ? Thanks
Well, it's live in the sense that they are pretending to play/sing.
Love this song!
Sad that we have only this vision of Charlie
@@rustyboy9790 thanks ! Wonder what the back story to that is ?
@@rustyboy9790 hey it IS Charlie, he is way better than the lead guy! And more memorable! Thanks
Check out “Friends” on YT, Charlie, Leo de Castro, Will Greenstreet,Ray Oliver,Duncan McGuire,sorry I forgot the drummers name-typical
@@middayson Mark Kennedy was drummer in Friends
Wow still like song after 51 yrs incredible! Saw the band healing force play at st. Kilda one Saturday nite..opus?
Always loved this tune.
Love this track - it holds an unexplainable magic - even the tape stretch! I also love Charlie Tumahi's subsequent bass playing with Bill Nelson's BeBop Deluxe and feel mighty privileged to have seen them live on the Sunburst Finish tour. Sigh...
Hard to believe this performance is almost 53 years ago.
You were fortunate to have witnessed this in yours and their prime. 💯✅️✌️
What a great track this is.
Shame this band only made this one single. They had a lot of potential.
love it so much. No time or age can dampen great songs.
Early 70's Australian music also gave us Jeff St. John.
"Teach me how to Fly" 1970
Spectrum and its successor Ariel, Daddy Cool, Blackfeather, The Flying Circus, Tully, Tamam Shud, Russell Morris, Jeff St John & Copperwine, Chain, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Headband, Company Caine, Kahvas Jute, Country Radio, Max Merritt & the Meteors, The La De Das, Madder Lake, Stevie Wright (ex-The Easybeats), Wendy Saddington, Ayers Rock, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and The Dingoes.[1]
Yes I know The La De Das were from New Zealand.
Sunbury 1972
Blackfeather
The Bushwhackers & Bullockies Bush Band
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
Glenn Cardier
Carson
Chain
Company Caine
Greg Quill & Country Radio
Friends
Healing Force
Highway
Indelible Murtceps
The La De Das
MacKenzie Theory
Phil Manning
Max Merritt & the Meteors
Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band
Barrie McAskill & Levi Smith's Clefs
Pilgrimage
Pirana[23]
Wendy Saddington
SCRA
Spectrum
Tamam Shud
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
Total Fire Band
Wild Cherries
Here's the LINK for Sunbury Music Festival
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbury_Pop_Festival
Absolute legends.
I'm with you on your assessment of this, Micko! Fantastic track. Heard it live in Melbourne in '71.
Agreed. Key changes, rhythm changes and melodic as well (always loved the octave guitar solo on the outro).
Agree
Gus Fenwick on Bass you say & yet clearly Charlie is playing Bass in this clip.. Gus took over Bass detail after Charlie had left the band in early '72
Was in Melbourne as a young teenager at the time. For me, this is THE one single that I feel is, overall, my most memorable from my youth. It has great balance, good lyrics, a tight band playing confidently, and of course what a lead singer! His death was most unfortunate as far as deaths go, but this one song (though Healing Force had other good ones) is a wonderful legacy for others to enjoy.
awesome
I agree.. Golden Miles, Season s of Change..t,he 2 greatest Oz singles of all time..Wooo
My ex, who l met in 1976, in WA, after l had moved from Victoria, told me he had worked as a roadie with a Lindsay Wells, someone he had liked very much - and had many a story to tell - esp about LW's sister who was well known for winning Miss World, or something like that.
I CANNOT BELIEVE HE DIDN'T TELL ME HIS FRIEND HAD PLAYED IN THIS BAND, CHAIN or BLACK FEATHER!!!!. This is my favourite era of Aussie music, after the initial delight of the Easybeats.
PLUS this is one of my very favourite songs of all time!!!!!!! AND it was written by Lindsay!!!!!
MAYBE my ex didn't know what Lindsay moved on too. MAYBE he had come up in our conversation because of his sister winning her competition. I wonder what year that was???
One thing l know - is that l now have something that l would be happy to have a conversation with him about if l saw him again. There certainly wasn't before.
THANKS so much for sharing this video and providing so much interesting info. STILL STUNNED!!!
i see lindsay wells regularly both at gigs and socially...he recently turned 70 and plays better than ever and would give mick jagger a run for his money with his youthful exuberence...a true champion. Search youtube channel 'Danprawn Lindsay Wells EC Revival' for a recent interview i did with him.
@@prawnswithhorns Thanks for your neat response to my ramble. I will. Where, and who with, does he play these days?
@@allymayful Hi guys it Lindsay Wells here. I played Healing Force, Chain with Charlie and 1973 with Blackfeather and went on to later play with Rene’Geyer and Sanctuary with Mal. It’s unfortunate for all of us of that era that we never had the support needed for success but we practiced long hours and played hard and although with regrets am very proud to be a part of that era LW
@@LindsayWells-o9x Re reading the comments l noticed that l didn’t mention my ex’s name. Trevor Butler, very tall guy whose father Harry went on to become well known as a conservationist.
I agree. This song brings back great memories.
Grouse Aussie Rock. This song is probably the progenitor ... the BASE of it all. Good onya, Micko (Y)
Hey Micko. This would bee even better if someone could dub a CD quality copy of the sound. This is miming the single anyway.
I'll have a go
THE BEST Aussie song of all time?? COME on now you can't maker a statement like that!!
I'm guessing you're talking about thestudio recording when you say Gus played bass, as Charlie is obviously playing it on this clip.
ageless joy
I could've done this song at Workpower Rockstar Music Rocks Australia for a tribute term!
in the groove
¡¡¡Una joya!!!
wow - that afro is straight out of the 1970s love and peace era - yeah, ima guy and my hair was about 18" long in the early 1970s
Charlie had a great voice..
Love this song. But why does it remind me of a Bill Paech documentary
Ah ha ha or maybe what was that errr ASK THE LEYLAND BROTHERS? ☺
Good Shit :)
Amazing song! His voice sounds like Paul Rodgers to me
Paul Who?...you mean ..Tay Tay West don't Ya?...Just Jokin....
Charlie's on Bass here..not Gus.
Did the Stranglers rip this off with their 'Golden Brown'
No and neither did Bowie with Golden Years, or the Beatles with Golden Slumbers, or The Golden Girls....
'Golden Miles' nothing to do with 'Golden Brown'. Latter was actually written by Dave Brubeck in the early 60s. The Stranglers did a straight forward cover of it in 1982. The original worth checking out. Has a swing to it that just didn't translate in The Stranglers version
Charlie Tumahai joined Leo later. fact check required...
+Laurie Prosser Just checked. Charlie was with them in 1971.
+1990 cheers. my comment related to suggestion that Leo De Castro was with Healing Force. That was never the case. They (Leo and Charlie) were in Friends or another band later
I see. Thanks for confirming that.
+1990 You might enjoy King Harvest 'Witchita Lineman'. Rob MacKenzie on guitar...
I'll give it a listen, Laurie. Thanks.
If this is the greatest aussie song of that era, material from there must have been really weak. Its ok, but its only a hit if there was nothing else to compete with. I'm from Canada and the Guess Who - not that big of a fan, but im familiar with their catalogue - I would say have 40, maybe 50 songs better than this one
It certainly wasn't the biggest hit of that year..in fact it barely made Top 20. But as you can see, many people have fond memories of this song..not too familiar with Guess Who out here..they certainly had hits but it was an odd situation with them. I grew up listening to..& loving Albert Flasher, American Woman which did well in Melbourne but not Sydney. But they had hits by the band I never heard.. and Adelaide different hits again. It was rare to find a Guess Who hit that truly charted nationally as each of the 7 states & their radio stations went for different tracks.
Wow.. in a word "annoying"
Kent Madin u wouldn’t know good music if it slapped u in the arse mate !!!!
Yes you are
Fool you are.
Don't be a dickheaded stooge
@@trevortagliabue5650 Ok.. let me rephrase. Not so much annoying as amateurish and boring. Trying to be fair. But hey, in it's defense, you can't dance to it. Maybe I should have been willing to listen to the end but, well... my ears hurt and my attention wandered.
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@marktanner :)