Shirl doesn't get enough respect as one of the great frontmen this country has produced. Always mixed charismatic performance with large doses of humour :D
They were bloody brilliant! The 'novelty' value of their persona will always be remembered but they were damn good musicians, all of them, and their lyrics were often quite insightful- 'Living in the 70s' and 'Horror Movie' for instance. I miss Shirl- gone too soon x.
‘Love on the Radio’ and ‘Carlton’ are both fine pieces of musicianship. The novelty value and dirty lyrics got us in, but we’ve stayed for the music all these five decades. Five decades. Fuck.
Aaahhh ..... those wild, wild days. I remember seeing Skyhooks at the Bondi Life Saver all those years ago, they were so good that I actually did remember seeing them ;)
Such memories...Skyhooks - yeah! Benefits of being tall and looking older than I looked allowing me to sneak into a pub underage. Blue eyeshadow. Treads. Fluffy ducks. Kaluha and milk. Vodka and OJ. Malibu and Coke.... Great laughs and fun times. But now I understand the lyrics to some of the songs... Oh dear! Lol!
I went to one of these first reunion shows, in Melbourne at Festival Hall, this looks like it might be from those shows. OMG I was so excited because I was too young to see them at pubs etc when they first appeared but I was just besotted with them. I still love them! But now, as an older person and professional musician I get to rewatch, re-admire and understand better the amazing musicianship of each member of this quintet that was summed into the brilliant music (and theatre of this band). Another bonus of being older and a musician is that I can have my own private and personal experience and greater appreciation through learning how to play Skyhooks songs. Here is my acoustic version of the Skyhooks song, Carlton. I hope you enjoy it! @0aEA
First time I saw Skyhooks they were the backup band for Matt Taylor's release of his Brisbane To Beechworth album at the Wangaratta Town Hall. We were all pretty stoned and we were suddenly met with the full force of the original Skyhooks from before they had to 'tone it down a bit' for the mainstream. I still remember the about 10 minute drum solo that still echoes in my head.
One of the main bass guitarist's 'big goose' (Barry Sullivan from Matt Taylor's CHAIN lived here in Caloundra,Sunshine coast Qld,they where also great as pub rock,I'm friends with his son who is a drummer & also teaches drums...
Great Aussie Song for a Great Aussie Day Like 2Day 26th January 2010 Cheers Red Greg Bongo Freddie and the Voice Shirl is RIP, Kickass today Boys... Long Live Skyhooks xx 2J..
This is a great clip ... love the strobe effect part ... what a buzz ... great band, great guitar parts, great drumming, great bass playing, top it off with Shirl and what do ya get ?
Hey Mindrolling 😊---You said beautifully 😎---I met Shirley, briefly 1 time & he gave me a signed copy of the 12 inch vynle single of Duke Box In Siberia 😎---He was a magnificent human being 😎---;but Heaven needs Aussie talent too (that's why it's Heaven 😊)---KEEP HAVING A BALL SHIRL😊
@Jules5 Hi mate - They filmed 5 songs from this gig. Fest hall melb 83. I fluked front row. . Though there firt warm up gig was at The Jam Club in Morwell with Red and Shirl both BACK. Chockers and sweat dripping on mic from the ceiling. To find others from this look for Bongos - ( and Reds ) distinctive clothes. Bongo had some sort of grid iron thing on???
No worries mate, yeah and Skyhooks is a great ausie band as well :) i think Shirl was on better homes and gardens years ago as well as a carpenter i am sure :)
@MazterGuitarz Re Mercedes ladies - to my knowledge as a single that was US only. It was a gr8 track though . (as were all on the debut album ) Their lyrics were of the wall and funny. America had Flo and Eddie and Zappa and Yankovic we had The Skyhooks- ( and yes - Daddy Cool. ) Yes ABBA made it here - but for I think 24 weeks - Livin was the N0.1 national album. Replaced only by Ego . Go figure. Cheers for posting
Skyhooks. The cover of a Juke magazine had Kiss on the cover and the headline read- Kiss America,s Skyhooks? For once we thought we were better than the imports! Great band that wrote the soundtrack to Australian Culture!
@@52Rambler I think you have missed the point completely ? The fact that Kiss were new and they were being compared to Skyhooks ( meaning Skyhooks were the measuring stick ) was cool. There are many that did not catch the USA but that is okay as most Australian Bands are far better than the Yanks .
@@michaelmarshall1713 LMAO, never missed the point at all. Juke magazine a aussie rag mag that's a never was. Juke comparing Kiss to the Skyhooks is like comparing a $800 bottle of wine to a 95 cent bottle. Yep the Skyhooks sound just like that cheap bottle of wine would taste like, VINEGAR. LoL, the Skyhooks were the measuring stick,, the most deluded and funny thing l ever heard.. Yeah that measuring stick of the Skyhooks was very short, many many other Australian bands was meters ahead of them. The only real good band from Aus is AC/DC and three of the band members (Young) brothers and Bon wasn't even born there but in Scotland,, bahaha. You are right on one point, not many bands caught on in yank land, "BECAUSE NOBODY LIKE THEM". Like when the Skyhooks did their U.S. tour and was boo'ed off stage as an opening act. And BTW mate, I'm not American,, just sayin.
@@52Rambler Whatever is wrong with you is no little thing . Skyhooks were great band and musically more taleneted than Kiss (I am a Kiss Fan) but Juke and Ram were for The Australian Music Fans . AC/DC formed in Australia and yes Bon and the Young Bothers from Scotland . But Phil and Mark Australian . The yanks dont understand authenticity.
@@michaelmarshall1713 LoL, The Skyhooks more talented then Kiss, rotflmao think record sales of gold and platinum albums and #1 singles beg to differ on that.. And another deluded comment, the yanks don't know authenticity.. Hmm pretty much every band past and present in almost every genre has had to go to America to make it big. Some make it some don't,, and The Skyhook didn't.. LoL, record companies in the U.S. knew they would never sell them to the world masses except for some minor local city following in Aus and that they was nothing more then a joke/circus show (yeah the aussie fans and mags really helped with that eh). LoL, yeah guess the world wasn't ready for the great Skyhooks with the lame cringy lyrics and lead singers weird voice that sounded like he tried to jump a fence in the outback and got his balls hung up on the fence wire.. Do you know the meaning of the word "logical",, if you do then you may want to use it in your thought process,, just because you like a band/singer don't mean their the greatest or the best. Trying to debate with you is a waste of time,, keep dreamin mate.
In '74, I was 7 yrs old. 10 years later & no longer jailbait, I rocked on with Skyhooks at the 1984 Rocktober concert. Aussie Crawl & Austen Taysus were part of the support. And because of the wonders of modern technology, we had a live hook up between the show & "Hey, Hey, It's Saturday"! Those days were great fun.
+brasschick42 Yeah: 'grouse'- a great word, and 'ace'. Let's start a movement to bring back 'grouse' in the Australian patois. Better than 'awesome' because quite frankly, most stuff dubbed 'awesome' just isn't, is it? Going to try and use it at least once a day.
What a shame they released shit like, 'All My Friends are Getting Married', and it's what a lot of people remember Skyhooks for, not great songs like this. Living in the 70s was their best album.
Saw these clowns warm up for Uriah Heep 40 years ago. Probably the worst band I've ever seen live out of several hundred. They were actually popular? Here they were booed off the stage. :)
Shirl doesn't get enough respect as one of the great frontmen this country has produced. Always mixed charismatic performance with large doses of humour :D
best voice in oz rock history
I completely disagree. He is, was and will always be a fucking legend!
They were bloody brilliant! The 'novelty' value of their persona will always be remembered but they were damn good musicians, all of them, and their lyrics were often quite insightful- 'Living in the 70s' and 'Horror Movie' for instance.
I miss Shirl- gone too soon x.
Yeah their musicianship was outstanding
Best words ever !!!!!! BEST WORDS EVER ...ALL OF THEIR SONGS ROCK ON !!!!
How about the Lygon street limbo? "How low can you go go go. I go street level". That's some serious insight there. Great band.
rip shirl
‘Love on the Radio’ and ‘Carlton’ are both fine pieces of musicianship. The novelty value and dirty lyrics got us in, but we’ve stayed for the music all these five decades.
Five decades. Fuck.
Definitely one of the "Aussie Icon Bands".....100%
Just love this composition. A fantastic riff.😊
There are so many great Aussie bands from this period but Shirl and Skyhooks? What can you say.....they were so fantastic!
Living in the 70s is pound for pound Australia best album
In my opinion
I still have that album.
I practically played it to death back in the day.
Aaahhh ..... those wild, wild days. I remember seeing Skyhooks at the Bondi Life Saver all those years ago, they were so good that I actually did remember seeing them ;)
Risque for my seventeen years old ears to hear back in 1975. Brilliant stuff.
Such memories...Skyhooks - yeah! Benefits of being tall and looking older than I looked allowing me to sneak into a pub underage. Blue eyeshadow. Treads. Fluffy ducks. Kaluha and milk. Vodka and OJ. Malibu and Coke.... Great laughs and fun times. But now I understand the lyrics to some of the songs... Oh dear! Lol!
Simply brilliant. God I miss them!
Born in 1997, this is fucking glorious. My new favourite song
Never be another 'Hooks
Thanks for the great reminder of how much fun it was.
RIP Shirl. Still miss ya!
A fun band that told the story of what we wanted to say, as teenagers, in the 70s.
I went to one of these first reunion shows, in Melbourne at Festival Hall, this looks like it might be from those shows. OMG I was so excited because I was too young to see them at pubs etc when they first appeared but I was just besotted with them.
I still love them! But now, as an older person and professional musician I get to rewatch, re-admire and understand better the amazing musicianship of each member of this quintet that was summed into the brilliant music (and theatre of this band).
Another bonus of being older and a musician is that I can have my own private and personal experience and greater appreciation through learning how to play Skyhooks songs. Here is my acoustic version of the Skyhooks song, Carlton. I hope you enjoy it! @0aEA
First time I saw Skyhooks they were the backup band for Matt Taylor's release of his Brisbane To Beechworth album at the Wangaratta Town Hall.
We were all pretty stoned and we were suddenly met with the full force of the original Skyhooks from before they had to 'tone it down a bit' for the mainstream.
I still remember the about 10 minute drum solo that still echoes in my head.
One of the main bass guitarist's 'big goose' (Barry Sullivan from Matt Taylor's CHAIN lived here in Caloundra,Sunshine coast Qld,they where also great as pub rock,I'm friends with his son who is a drummer & also teaches drums...
love the strobe lights. Skyhooks cant beat em!
Gosh I can still remember the concerts! :) Awesome and so so much fun!
I'm good in bed,
I can sleep for hours at a time!!!
Absolutely no one on this planet could sing like Shirl. RIP mate
Timeless!
Shirl is the best!! I still miss him!
Look at how much fun the guys were having, must have been a great night!
Only in Australia!
Apparently true. :D
Great Aussie Song for a Great Aussie Day Like 2Day 26th January 2010 Cheers Red Greg Bongo Freddie and the Voice Shirl is RIP, Kickass today Boys... Long Live Skyhooks xx 2J..
This is a great clip ... love the strobe effect part ... what a buzz ... great band, great guitar parts, great drumming, great bass playing, top it off with Shirl and what do ya get ?
top song ***** skyhooks live to rock...😯😁
rip shirl. was too young to know about u and so wish I wasnt. very, very good performer.
Not just an awesome singer but a really nice guy. Even now, he's truly missed.
kerryn67 That is true. Not a week goes by that we don't remember him; he was ne of a kind. R.I.P. Shirl, we love you and miss you.
Banger
This band is freaking awesome. Just found about them.
Soak up as much as you can, they were AWESOME. I was at this concert. :)
1970s rock. They sang about my home town MELBOURNE!!! So many Aussie rock bands would sing American songs until these.
chris i did too around march cant believe i missed them i just love them
Do yourself a favour and get the Living in the 70s Album on vinyl - it's out there still.
It's fantastic fun and not one bad song on it.
ThePaulv12 i did i found all of theirs lol
Fricken awesome !!
All my friends are getting married ... best album
Red's guitar playing was on point
Saw these guys at Korrumburra festival with Madderlake and Kush....... Fantastic....
Oh the memories...did the support at the 6 Thebarton Theatre shows in Adelaide.
Just heard Keith Urban say he and Nicole played this at their wedding! Fantastic!! LOL!
Good ol 70s, you were the best Shirl
We miss you shir what a loss to way of life
another great aussie band the way they used to be
awesome so luvit
who is still listening in 2020
Hey Mindrolling 😊---You said beautifully 😎---I met Shirley, briefly 1 time & he gave me a signed copy of the 12 inch vynle single of Duke Box In Siberia 😎---He was a magnificent human being 😎---;but Heaven needs Aussie talent too (that's why it's Heaven 😊)---KEEP HAVING A BALL SHIRL😊
Bought the lp when it came out!!!
no one can ever take away the love we shared, xxxxxxxxx
such a great awesome song
Damn if the Skyhooks didn’t have rhythm. Just listen to the guitars behind Shirl on all of their tracks. There’s pure Rock n’ Roll genius here.
LoL, if you say so.. That's why they made it so big right?? with pure Rock n" Roll genius..
My theme song... back in the day.. RIP SHIRL
Absolutely...lol xxx
@Jules5 Hi mate - They filmed 5 songs from this gig. Fest hall melb 83. I fluked front row. . Though there firt warm up gig was at The Jam Club in Morwell with Red and Shirl both BACK. Chockers and sweat dripping on mic from the ceiling. To find others from this look for Bongos - ( and Reds ) distinctive clothes. Bongo had some sort of grid iron thing on???
When I was a kid I used to watch the singer and a crow in a tree house in the mornings- anyone know what show that was?
Hi Mate i think that show was called " Shirls Neighbourhood, Shirly Strachan and Claude the Crow"
Gavin M
Hey mate, yeah! that's the one. Thanks
No worries mate, yeah and Skyhooks is a great ausie band as well :) i think Shirl was on better homes and gardens years ago as well as a carpenter i am sure :)
i love sky hooks and there songs especially the one thats called u only like me cause im good in bed :-)
classic album .
Oh gosh I miss Shirley heartbroken 💔
when was this video taken?? plz tell me!! :D
@MazterGuitarz Re Mercedes ladies - to my knowledge as a single that was US only. It was a gr8 track though . (as were all on the debut album ) Their lyrics were of the wall and funny. America had Flo and Eddie and Zappa and Yankovic we had The Skyhooks- ( and yes - Daddy Cool. ) Yes ABBA made it here - but for I think 24 weeks - Livin was the N0.1 national album. Replaced only by Ego . Go figure. Cheers for posting
Yepppp! !
I'm glad they act like they know it's all a barrel of laughs. The lead singer reminds me of Will Ferrel. Thanks fly...
Oh yes please!!!!
Skyhooks. The cover of a Juke magazine had Kiss on the cover and the headline read- Kiss America,s Skyhooks? For once we thought we were better than the imports! Great band that wrote the soundtrack to Australian Culture!
And how did that work out for them. Right, pretty much only known in Aus, LoL.
@@52Rambler I think you have missed the point completely ? The fact that Kiss were new and they were being compared to Skyhooks ( meaning Skyhooks were the measuring stick ) was cool. There are many that did not catch the USA but that is okay as most Australian Bands are far better than the Yanks .
@@michaelmarshall1713 LMAO, never missed the point at all. Juke magazine a aussie rag mag that's a never was. Juke comparing Kiss to the Skyhooks is like comparing a $800 bottle of wine to a 95 cent bottle. Yep the Skyhooks sound just like that cheap bottle of wine would taste like, VINEGAR. LoL, the Skyhooks were the measuring stick,, the most deluded and funny thing l ever heard.. Yeah that measuring stick of the Skyhooks was very short, many many other Australian bands was meters ahead of them. The only real good band from Aus is AC/DC and three of the band members (Young) brothers and Bon wasn't even born there but in Scotland,, bahaha. You are right on one point, not many bands caught on in yank land, "BECAUSE NOBODY LIKE THEM". Like when the Skyhooks did their U.S. tour and was boo'ed off stage as an opening act. And BTW mate, I'm not American,, just sayin.
@@52Rambler Whatever is wrong with you is no little thing . Skyhooks were great band and musically more taleneted than Kiss (I am a Kiss Fan) but Juke and Ram were for The Australian Music Fans . AC/DC formed in Australia and yes Bon and the Young Bothers from Scotland . But Phil and Mark Australian . The yanks dont understand authenticity.
@@michaelmarshall1713 LoL, The Skyhooks more talented then Kiss, rotflmao think record sales of gold and platinum albums and #1 singles beg to differ on that.. And another deluded comment, the yanks don't know authenticity.. Hmm pretty much every band past and present in almost every genre has had to go to America to make it big. Some make it some don't,, and The Skyhook didn't.. LoL, record companies in the U.S. knew they would never sell them to the world masses except for some minor local city following in Aus and that they was nothing more then a joke/circus show (yeah the aussie fans and mags really helped with that eh). LoL, yeah guess the world wasn't ready for the great Skyhooks with the lame cringy lyrics and lead singers weird voice that sounded like he tried to jump a fence in the outback and got his balls hung up on the fence wire.. Do you know the meaning of the word "logical",, if you do then you may want to use it in your thought process,, just because you like a band/singer don't mean their the greatest or the best. Trying to debate with you is a waste of time,, keep dreamin mate.
Me mate witnessed the crash RIP
I know your comment is 8 years old but I feel for your friend witnessing the death of a very very much loved Aussie. RIP Shirl.
Was listening to ironmaiden song another life and recognised similarities so this even inspired iron maiden the riff
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shirl u always be remered rip
My Aunty had that t-shirt. It used to scare me
I can see how split enz would have modelled themselves on skyhooks
the surf larrikin culture of 70's Melbourne...it's in Shirl the curl.
AH yes the early 70's my era go the Hooks
In '74, I was 7 yrs old. 10 years later & no longer jailbait, I rocked on with Skyhooks at the 1984 Rocktober concert. Aussie Crawl & Austen Taysus were part of the support. And because of the wonders of modern technology, we had a live hook up between the show & "Hey, Hey, It's Saturday"! Those days were great fun.
That's funny no longer jail bait what mage you think of that
Rocktober! God I had forgotten that... Absolutely grouse!!! ( btw have not used that word in YEARS)
+brasschick42 Yeah: 'grouse'- a great word, and 'ace'. Let's start a movement to bring back 'grouse' in the Australian patois. Better than 'awesome' because quite frankly, most stuff dubbed 'awesome' just isn't, is it? Going to try and use it at least once a day.
excellent aussie band
R.I.P. Shirl ...
i still miss your phone calls,, loving you, with all my heart , xxxxxxxxxxxxx ,
hummed it to me self
I nevee got solit enze. But Shirl ❤❤❤❤
I always thought that Red played the bass guitar
Oh Red Symons, I was in love with you when I was 14!
Quote Red Symons: "The Only Member of Skyhooks who can play his instrument well..... Like, REALLY well is Freddie (Freddie Strauks on drums)"
R.I.P Shirl
dad hated this song. 1970s parenting
r.i.p shirl..
i so miss you not lying next to me xxxxxxxxxxxxx
no special effects no dancers just a bunch of guys singing...how simple. back then you went to see a band and thats what you got...
@queentoni22
hahaha shirls neighbourhoood
I used to send claude the crow my toenail clippings hahahahahahahaha
Apologies .. it was "Ego is not a dirty word" !!!
Looks like it’s coming down on me, looks like it’s coming down on me, looks like it’s coming down on me , down on me, down on me , down on me.
Pity that's an Angel's song dickhead
@@BH-kl2rn
Can you hear the wind going straight through your head? looks like you’re the dickhead idiot smh
rest in pease SHIRL {beer for all}
Ah! So! This is the song, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, had played in the middle of their wedding song!
i had no idea tha red was such a good guitar player
What a shame they released shit like, 'All My Friends are Getting Married', and it's what a lot of people remember Skyhooks for, not great songs like this. Living in the 70s was their best album.
AUSTRALIA WAS AMAZING BACK THEN /......................WHERE ARE YOU AUSSIE ROCKERS ...NEW WORLD ORDER GOT YA DAY DA BALLSS ...........
GO SHIRL
Yeah 😂 that's what your girlfriend said 💪
Geezus Shirl had magmatism!
I had a girlfriend who only liked me cause I was good in bed. Talk about exhausted!!!!
double j :)
lol He must have been a sag. r.i.p
I mean, being good in bed is not unimportant.
The most gosh awful band of hundreds I've seen live. Had to check back 4 decades later. Yep, they still suck.
Yet.....here you are commenting on a skyhooks video about how much you think they suck, 😂😂😂 closet skyhook fan
More Skyhooks rubbish ! lol
WOW ! you must be a rocket scientist....lol
What about a kangaroo named Norm
Saw these clowns warm up for Uriah Heep 40 years ago. Probably the worst band I've ever seen live out of several hundred. They were actually popular? Here they were booed off the stage. :)
Massive here in Australia!!
Rumour is you are the douche with an asshole the size of a dinner plate!