Kalgoorlie Roos
Draftee
- Sep 12, 2014
- 9
- 123
- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
Ullo Gaso, I couldn't get to the '96 as I was playing with my rocknroll group in Sydney. (Tours are booked months in advance and canning gigs messes up a lot. Well it did back then when we wuz pop stars). We had an all-ages show in the arvo, which I at the very least refused to start until the game was over. The club, The Metro on George St, decked out our dressing room in colours and a big TV to watch. With two gigs that day I 'd pledged not to start the suds til' at least the siren, however Glenn Freeborn ruined that lil' pledge Gorblessim. Anyways we were half an hour late to start the kids show. Can't remember a thing as I was so deliriously happy. The night show, whoa boy. The first two rows were folks in Swans gear flippin me off the whole show as I had a guernsey and scarf draped over my amp. I couldn't help look at 'em with benign pity. They pay to see a rock show and the bloody lead singer is a North lifer. Bugger 'em. Got back home to Leichhardt (i was livin up there then) watched the game over with my missus and drained a lotta bubbles. Felt enormously....empty. No sold out rock show, let alone two, could get anywhere near the feeling of being there. My story of '99 is equally piquant but that's one for a round table, some tins, and a looooong afternoon. See ya at the Town Hall. Soon. Best to ya. And i hope fake Tim was at least, fragrant and witty.I sat near Tim Rogers that day