twilight mysterioso
meet the band
adrian hoffman on bass guitar guitar and b vox
a tall blond geezer of about 20
adrian is a very talented bloke actually
hes got his own bloody band, hasnt he…?
writes and sings his own bloody songs, doesnt he
he is a cool calm collected and wry humoured type
shaun hoffman on drums about fortyish i guess
hes in charge (a bit) i guess booking flights etc
he is reliable and amiable and a little on the wry side too
a very individual drummer and very good too
on the guitar is ricky maymi
talk about a mercurial character
one of the best musicians ive ever seen
absolute encyclopaedic knowledge of rock music
i dont mean rock trivia neither …..i mean the actual music
watching a video of him playing at notes in newton is a revelation
the way he plays the guitar and the way he moves with his music
ricky would be an asset to any rock band on any fucking axe you like
hes an amazing drummer too
hes got energy motivation verve and pizazz
he helped me put this david neil thing together
on 12 string occasional bass and vox is me
i need no introduction here i suppose
old sk you know
the guy from the crunch
anyway
i fly off to perth one day last week
our rehearsal is drowned out by the pounding rain
our first gig is a party
thats right i’ll play yer fucking party
or write you a fucking song or whatever
if you can but come up with the dosh
so yeah we played at this very nice blokes fortieth
it was at a gig in a hotel
the bloke came in and said ” can we get ya anything?”
ricky quick as a flash says the name of some drink
the bloke goes off and comes back with a bottle
we drink it with orange slices and much bonhomie is had
we play pretty good i guess
the crowd at the party like us dont they
more drinks more bonhomie
ricky even sings happy birthday in a dean martin voice
(how BJM is that??!!)
ricky and i stay at a beautiful house in fremantle with felicity and otis
on sunday afternoon i meet up with david kenworthy a sculptor
im gonna do some music for an installation
he gave me a fantastic piece
which is jelly babies set into black and lit from within
a real stunner it is
now i own 2 david kenworthy pieces
he also had a neat house in this strange suburb
i felt very relaxed there it was nice
that night we played in freo at a bar called mojos
we certainly rocked
they liked us
we did an impromptu gloria
and ricky turns it into a bit of a happening
he gets down on the floor and plays with the pedals
the guitar sits in its stand mildly feeding back
and ricky manipulates the sound twiddling the knobs
a series of telegraphic tremolo blips …its fantastic
the next gig in sydney is more problematic
its at the beach road in bondi
my neck of the woulds
its a free gig and i dont like it because of that
it actually wasnt as bad as i feared
but still……
i kept my head down n was glad when it was over
the next night at notes was different again
we had johnny z joining us in sydney on the double bass
he played on the DN record
notes was a good gig and left a nice taste in yer mouth
then melbourne at the cherry bar
this was a hip little venue in melby and very rocknroll
so we rocked and as a guest we have evil graham lee on pedal steel
he plays on the record too
seemed kinda crowded there and we went down well
the next night was ho-bart the capital of tas-mania
wow a bleak cold remote city reminding one of norway
a strange but good gig there
ricky and co stay at a house
where theyre filming a tasmanian macbeth
that was not a joke
the gig was cool i enjoyed it
ok …..next:
new zealand
ps i will be sending david neil albums to all subscribers
who have paid one hundred dollars in the last year
this is the beginning of sk premium…details soon!
