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Re: The Instrumental
Yep, the track on Other Enz is the same Finn/Judd composition, but it's not a genuine Split Enz recording as such. It was released as the B-side of a 1980 single by Graham Brazier (ex Hello Sailor) and credited to "A Ripper Bunch of Blokes." The "blokes" who played on the recording included Mike Chunn, Eddie Rayner, Rob Gillies, and Mal Green. Part of the tune was later used in "I Wouldn't Dream of It" on True Colours .
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
1. Favourite singer - Tim Finn, Maynard James Keenan, Chris Cornell 2. Favourite guitarist - Phil Judd, Jimmy Page 3. Favourite bassist - Mike Chunn 4. Favourite keyboardist - Eddie Rayner 5. Favourite drummer - Danny Carrey 6. Favourite multi-instrumentalist - Ian Anderson
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Re: Enz LIVE on the WWW (Holmes)
I hate to say it, but Tim didn't seem to be in particularly good voice. They played "129", "Dirty Creature", and "History" - the last sounded the best because Neil took the lead vocal! The line-up was Tim, Neil, Eddie, Mike, Noel, Emlyn, Rob, and an eighth guy I didn't recognise--Wally Wilkinson or Geoff Chunn, maybe?
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Re: How cute is Neil in the jamboree clip!!!
In Stranger Than Fiction Mike Chunn refers (p.127) to Neil wearing "fake glasses" on stage, which suggests they were props. Interestingly, in the photo on p.59 it looks like Tim is wearing reading glasses. Hmm, maybe I need to get out more often.
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Re: KGSR-FM webcast
i think i just heard chunn doing the bassline to split ends - actually, might've been for you, im crap
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Re: What Split Enz live material is available on cd?
Actually, surprisingly many do exist. Mike Chunn apparantly has quite a collection, as does Eddie Raynor. I'm also sure that Split Enz recorded many of their gigs themselves. I guess it's really different people and maybe they don't want it released. It's a shame, as they are an amazing band live if you can find the unmentionable 'B' word.
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Re: Yin v. Yang
yin ? yang ? i think neil is the fiery spontaneous one, tim is the deep cool ocean and someone like paul hester or mike chunn or eddie could be the luke-warm water hello cleveland
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Re: Who'z yer favourite drummer (out of enz)?
Geoff Chunn is probably my favourite. I love his fills in the original 'Spellbound'. I think it's a shame they never stuck with him. He was somewhere in between the technical style of Crowther and the simple and solid style of Mal Green. Perfect, but it was not to be.
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Re: Time For A Change guitar solo question.
I think Mike Chunn said in STF that one of the irritating things about Wally Wilkinson's guitar work was that he sounded robust on stage and like a twanging rubber band in the studio. If I think of a guitar line that sounds like a twanging rubber band, it's the "Time For A Change" solo on Mental Notes. . I don't know how to explain this, but you can *hear* when Phil Judd is playing electric guitar as opposed to others. The Second Thoughts solo sounds like Judd in the attack and...
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Re: Time For A Change guitar solo question.
My money's on Wally Wilkonson playing the solo on mental notes. And to be fair on him, Mike Chunn quite clearly states that the engineer didn't care about doing his job properly, in STF there's a bit about Wally playing 'a' solo over and over again, with screaming distortion in the booth, but only a twanging rubber band coming out in the control room. Sounds a bit like TFaC doesn't it? One of the Enz webcasts mentioned that Dave Russell played the fast guitar lines in Maybe... And on Neil...
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Re: Nambassa
Apart from finding time to look up the info, I've hesitated replying to this because I'm not from NZ. But no one else has answered so here goes with what I've come across... The info is from:- 'Stranger Than Fiction - the life and times of Split Enz' by Mike Chunn 'Stranded In Paradise - New Zealand Rock 'n' Roll 1955-1988' by John Dix 'New Zealand Film 1912-1996' by Helen Martin and Sam Edwards The first 'Nambassa Music, Crafts & Alternative Festival' was in January 1978 at Golden...
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Re: Early Enz musical influences
Mike Chunn in Stranger than Fiction mentions a prog-rock band called 'Family' that he lumps in with Led Zep, Tull and Yes. I've never heard them, but the guys were apparently fans. Hendrix and Clapton were influences to Wally Wilkinson at least, which you can hear in Mental Notes. And Eddie used to do Bowie covers...
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Re: Tim the Temp
Well it's pretty easy for most people to be truthful and still be tactful. Sadly thats not an artform that Nick has mastered. I'll have to disagree that CH was even partly Nicks band. Neil was always in total control. He hired Nick, fired Nick for a time, and only when Neil felt ready did he invite Nick back. When Tim joined, Nick and Paul didn't get a say in it, they were just told by Neil. CH breaking up wasn't a band decision, Neil just decided that was it and told the others. Paul, Tim...
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Re: Early Australian Articles-some details
Here's another from 1975, this one's from RAM in July '75 (details at bottom). I love Phil's reference to Brian Finn - early days indeed! It�s slow work being a new band with a new sound No doubt about it, Split Enz is a strange band. They walk out on stage like a collection of clockwork scarecrows and their music is like a berserk mechanism. There are six musicians, a spoon player cum dancer and sound effects guy. And every one of �em follows their own line of idiosyncratic action. Rhythms...
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Re: Early Australian Articles-some details
I've got a cutting from 27th Sept 1975, which is labelled as from a paper called 'Star'. The photocopy was from a penfriend I've now lost touch with, sadly. It's called "Just middle-class boys from Sacred Heart" and begins, "A third-form friendship at Sacred Heart College was the first step in the career of New Zealand's most original rock band, Split Enz. "Jonathan Chunn, from Auckland, and Brian Finn, from Te Awamutu, boarders at the school, shared an interest in music." I don't have time...
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Re: Upcoming Split Enz shows on NZ Radio
Well, failing that, can you include entire versions of rarities in your doco - like the acoustic versions of Under the Wheel that M Chunn said were lying around at Mandrill etc? Other radio docos (wireless - early 70's) have rare pieces playing in the background and only then in part. Out of interest did Phil Judd grant you an interview?
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Re: Upcoming Split Enz shows on NZ Radio
Guess 'easy' is the wrong word. What I meant was good timing - that the show promotes the CD and visa versa. Mental Notes' 30th is approaching and I recon a remastered re-issue together with extra CD of unreleased tracks, demos, interviews etc would be great. I keep hearing about lack of sales not making this not a 'hot' item but I think in NZ it would be a different matter. Anyway - this is art for art sake. How about another Govt grant? At the time of Mental Notes release the Enz were a...
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Re: Neils vocal range
Absolutely! :-) They even say that in the books written about them..."Tim took the high part, Neil the low..." Might have been from the Mike Chunn book. I've always thought that *technically* Tim was the better singer but that Neil was the more heartfelt, if that makes sense....and I've always appreciated Neil's turn of a phrase from a songwriting point of view. Other singers that I like that happen to sound like Neil are Michael Penn & Matthew Sweet and of course John Lennon, who...
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Re: 'Nothing Wrong With You' NZ Musician
In the STF book, Mike Chunn commented that Neil's writing process was pretty arduous in that he starts of with a lyrical idea and then VERY SLOWLY shapes a song around it, investigating unusual chord progressions ... So my guess is that they have a fair idea what they're doing, though not to the extent that it becomes too 'clever' (Natasha Bedingfield, anyone?).
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Re: Officially lost Enz recordings
It would seem that a lot has been lost from this era of the enz. I remember reading that they had many demo-ed songs that could not make it onto albums because of re-recording Mental Notes. Chunn refers to many songs played live but never recorded. I would imagine that if they existed they would be on the Enzology series. Of course there is nothing stopping them getting together and recording them now but thats another story.
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Re: Officially lost Enz recordings
Hey Incognito...for the band's 10th anniversary, Tim had wanted to get all the past Enz members together with the 5 guys in the band at the time (Dec 1982) to do a big concert. There was a live album and movie planned. Alas, only Mike Chunn, Rob Gillies and Paul Crowther turned up, and the Enz Of An Era shows that did eventuate had a mixed reaction from the crowd. I assume that new live renditions of past classics would have been recorded had Tim's idea gone ahead. I know that there was a...
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Re: why no reunion after ten years
If Neil Finn wanted to call it Crowded House, then yes it would be. Afterall, Tim Finn, Phil Judd, Eddie Rayner, Mike Chunn, Noel Crombie and Emlyn Crowther were Split Enz, and so were Neil Finn, Eddie Rayner, Noel Crombie, Nigel Griggs and Paul Hester. Look at King Crimson: 1969 Robert Fripp, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Mike Giles, Peter Sinfield 1970 Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Greg Lake, Mike Giles, Peter GIles, Peter Sinfield 1970 Robert Fripp, Peter SInfield, Gordon Haskell, Mel Collins,...
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Re: Favorite Bassists
Mike Chunn - The basslines in the early Enz stuff far outweigh the later recordings (in my opinion of course...) I always find that a good bassline consists of notes that shouldn't fit...but do. Sweet dreams middle part is a perfect example. Mike had a great sense of 'weird but good' basslines. Macca - It's not because he is Paul of The Beatles. I can understand how people can be retrospective and think "Wow, he's Paul of The Beatles, he's a great bassplayer", especially teenagers just...
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Re: Favorite Bassists
Peter Gifford, the force behind Midnight Oil's classic 80's albums, Place Without a Postcard, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and Diesel and Dust Bones Hillman, for that bass line in "Counting the Beat" and all his work in the later stages of Midnight Oil, including the brilliant bass driven track "underwater" on the Breathe album Mike Chunn, for the ingenious early enz bass lines, and Nigel Griggs, for the ingenious later enz bass lines, and Adz and me, i can play the bass pretty well for an...
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Re: Tim Finn Couldnt Be Done & 7 track
Another month yet to wait Seany... Looking forward to the DVD though, Time For A Change has got me intrigued what with Mike Chunn playing guitar on it (presumably something akin to the original demo fo Time For A Change?). Do any of us seriously believe the music charts mean anything?
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Re: Tim Finn Couldnt Be Done & 7 track
Mike & Tim both emailed me a month or so ago and asked if I was able to record Mike's guitar in a studio here at RNZ. Are you kidding? Of course! Sadly, in the end my schedule didn't fit in with Tim's and they recorded it elsewhere. Ah well. Would have been a real buzz for me. (Maybe I'll get to work on Phil's version one day!)
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Re: Crowded House - live from Roundhead Studios Friday 13th July
Glad you enjoyed the radio session. It was the first recording Crowded House as a band have done at Roundhead. We did it in Studio A . For soundcheck they ran through 'Heaven That I'm Making'. For the broadcast it was: Pour Le Monde People Are Like Suns Fall At Your Feet and a brief snatch of the Madness song 'My Girl' while Mark and Liam tuned their guitars. This was pre-recorded, beginning just before midday and finshing at about 12.45pm... and I had to rush it down to Radio New Zealand...
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Re: Crowded House In New Zealand.
Excellent. That Supergroove eh !. Looking forward to the Welly gig. Thank You for the heads up on 'Where Are They Now?' Gryphon (aka P.G.). Now there's a Split Enz link there with Space Waltz, not just Eddie Rayner. But wasn't Alastair Riddell once asked to join Split Enz, but declined ?. All promoters should have been in a band like Brett Eccles. The Chunn brothers, a who's who of the N.Z. music scene. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.vi...e&friendid=109290948 So all...
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Re: Split Enz New Zealand Tour 2008.
The Enz have had a great string of drummers...Geoff Chunn, Croth, Mal, Crom, Hessie. All great guys. Is anyone else finding it weird that they're bringing in an outsider to play drums?
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Re: Split Enz New Zealand Tour 2008.
Absolutely. Plenty of good Enz drummers on hand - so many have been, er, drummed out over the last 30 years. Crowther or Chunn I say!!!
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Re: Split Enz New Zealand Tour 2008.
I totally agree. The only explanation for not asking Chunn or Crowther that I can think of would be (I'll admit it's a lame excuse but it's the best thing I can think of) then they'd have a drummer from a different era of the Enz. Crombie might not have felt like drumming on tour, who knows. It still doesn't explain why Mal wasn't invited back this time. It's a shame, because it reminds me of when other groups have reunited without some of their original members (either due to death or...
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Re: So This Is Love?
Hi Bryan. I've often wondered how your cover of this song came about. Offered to you by Phil or by Mike Chunn?
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Re: So This Is Love?
That's a good question..we arrived at Marmalade Studio's with no clear idea on what we were going to record..we had several of our own songs we thought we might but do, but Stewart MacPherson and Jay lewis sat us down and said we have got this great song of Phil Judd's that Split Enz are not going to use..We have their permission for you guys to do your own version. I remember we listened to the song a couple of times and went back into the studio and started working out a version that would...
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Re: 40th anniversary wishlist
You mean the TV broadcast hosted by Paul Holmes? That was Geoff Chunn on mandolin as I recall.
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Re: 40th anniversary wishlist
You mean the TV broadcast hosted by Paul Holmes? That was Geoff Chunn on mandolin as I recall. many thanks, for second I thought it was Judd in disguise lol!!
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Re: 40th anniversary wishlist
'Twas Geoff though he looks like Wally with those specs on! Here's a clip from that show... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJL_um0aPSw
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Re: Is Steel City any good?
Dug out my CD and the booklet says "All tracks by T.Finn except track 12 by T.Finn/M. Chunn, and tracks 6 and 14 by T. Finn/M. Azcona. It then goes on to detail producers and players for each track. I could photograph the booklet and email it to you if you'd like. I don't know how to upload pix to this new(ish)-look forum unfortunately.
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Re: enz catalog overhaul
I agree with all that's been said. Personally I think Mental Notes and Dizrhythmia are prime candidates for remastering (Mental Notes needs remixing as well IMHO). Luton would be good too, but what about the rest of the Auckland concert that Nightmare and True Colours came from? I would imagine most people aren't fortunate enough to have heard it, but it does contain nearly all the songs from Mental Notes and Second Thoughts, and IIRC Late Last Night has an extra verse or chorus (Plus you...
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Re: enz catalog overhaul
Aye, you heard right, laddie. Tim Finn with Mike and Geoff Chunn. Demos recorded at Stebbings studios in 1969 and 1970. I've asked Mike for the one-off record that he recorded with Geoff in '67 or '68, mentioned in the book. He responded with a comment about me being a naughty boy. I still haven't heard it.
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Re: Favorite Frenz Book
Two books that leapt to mind that perhaps should be on the list: "The mechanics of popular music : a New Zealand perspective" - Mike and Jeremy Chunn (self-explanatory) and "Stranded in Paradise" by John Dix (a history of rock 'n' roll in New Zealand with several chapters on the Enz, The Swingers etc). I'd tend to think Book Enz should be on the list (author was Nigel?) and I must admit (shock horror) to have not yet read Something So Strong... so would have to vote for Seven Voices (out of...
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Re: Incognito
You know Pete, with all that charm and sophistication, you could become a first rate Australian Journalist. Actually, I have been privelleged enough to meet Tim on a few occassions. I certainly wouldn't claim to know him. But on each of the occassions I met him, he was super friendly and very amicable. Hardly grumpy, or the monster that Phil paints him out to be. By the way, in case you still haven't figured it out yet, when I called Phil grumpy, it was jokingly and affectionately meant. I...
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Re: Incognito
He also slagged off Paul Hester, Neil Finn, Noel Crombie and Mike Chunn. Did I miss anyone........... Hester ,Crombie I agree.The others.DON'T make things up! mate At least Tim doesn't resort to slagging Phil off to other fans, or tell tales out of school. How wrong you are.I myself have heard him trash phil-onstage in front of a large crowd my friend! Phil seems to really resent both Tim and Neil, simply because they're famous and he's chosen to be a recluse. Wrong. He cares not a piffle.He...
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Re: Lesser Known Enz...
The Luton version of "Next Exit" has more energy, but is a bit thinner in sound. The David Tickle-produced version done before this is even bigger in sound, with better rhythm tracks (if my memory serves me right.) That one hasn't been released either. The Luton recordings of the songs you've heard on the Aylesbury tape are fairly similar to the live performances. "I'm So Up" sounds a little dated now... and is now getting confused in my head with the Mike Chunn /Greg Clark solo version.
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Re: Lesser Known Enz...
Hi Jeremy, Thanks for the reply. You mention the Aylesbury tape, I presume this is the same tape I have (and quite a few others around the world). Mine's edited and only has the tracks I'm So Up, Play It Strange, Home COmforts, Best Friend, Bergun Aun Zee. I might be getting you confused with someone else, but has Mike Chunn kindly given you some enz stuff? I'm just curious about what it's like, I'm NOT asking you for a copy, I understand why you can't. Is it a complete copy of the concert...
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Re: Lesser Known Enz...
Have you seen the following Mike Chunn interview? http://www.i5ive.com/article.cfm/new_zealand_music_scene/6553 QUOTE: "There are demo tapes from Mandrill studios recorded just before Enz went to Australia and they�ve just been refound. A beautiful version of Under The Wheel with Tim and Phil singing in unison, singing in harmony through it, so one day they might leak out from somewhere."
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Re: Where are they now?
Hmm, maybe you need to add a bit about Mike Chunn, Deb? http://www.nzmusic.org.nz/pag.cfm?i=225