Meatloaf

[Xtreme]

While Brady would have been better than Meatloaf, so would a 3 year old bashing some pots and pans together. Nothing in football is more tired, cliché and just plain boring as Mike Brady wailing out the same handful of average songs year after year.

Keep it simple, spend less money on foreign washed up hacks and give more support to local talent who can actually perform, are relevant in this century and have even the barest interest in the game.

Your first paragraph is very negative, yet your second paragraph indicates that Mike Brady would be an ideal pick for pre match entertainment.

Would love a Lionel Richie / Mike Brady double act

 

[Underdog]

Your first paragraph is very negative, yet your second paragraph indicates that Mike Brady would be an ideal pick for pre match entertainment.

Not sure Brady is particularly relevant to the newer generation of football fans.

 

[Donakebab]

Mike Brady is not relevant. Up There Cazaly has been done to death, resurrected, only to then be done even further to death. If thrashed football songs are a must, get Greg Champion.

 

[nicky]

I don't understand why the AFL insists getting has-beens or stale local 'legends' for pre-match entertainment? Is it because they think it would appeal to the potential buyers of $1500/head GF packages?

A poster in this thread coined the phrase "baby bommer rock"

 

[market]

Actually, thinking about it more, its not Meatloaf's fault....he just goes out delivers what he can and take it or leave it....

unfortunately, the person who made the decision to "take it", is the one that is at fault...Meatloaf is at home counting the cash...

definitely needed a plan B on standy...

Once the Loaf started, the eliminate button should have been hit, the stand opens up and swallows the entire band...and Act B appears to try calm the masses...

 

[CrowdedHouse]

This guy sounded better and would have come cheaper...








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[Inspector Malceski]

Vlad is being a typical dictator, defending all his decisions.

if it cost 500k for Meatloaf, it may only cost 300k for Adele!! and is a clearly better choice.

I think maybe Nicky Webster is a better choice

 

[flyinghi64]

2 out of 3 ain't bad.
MMmmmm that was 0 out of 3, epic fail.

When are they going to get some modern pre game entertainment at the AFL GF rather than getting performers who peaked before half the players were even born.
Oh I know, they were peaking when Vlad was playing.

 

[Hawthorn United]

Mike Brady is not relevant. Up There Cazaly has been done to death, resurrected, only to then be done even further to death. If thrashed football songs are a must, get Greg Champion.

They had him for the Collingwood vs Hawthorn game during the season. If you were there for that, you'd wish he never set foot on stage ever again.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Bring "The Commodores" out next year.

 

[Big Wilbur]

True. You would have to leave those bits out of your recording and hope the crowd followed their cue or else those silences would be pretty embarrassing. He also chimed in half way through the crowd bit.

Fairly sure that was a live performance.

I seem to recall it pretty much the same as you but (and I don't want to name drop) I was told this by Mike Brady who I spent some time with at the MCG on Saturday. He was pretty certain. Perhaps it was a mixture of live and pre-recorded...however that might work.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

I seem to recall it pretty much the same as you but (and I don't want to name drop) I was told this by Mike Brady who I spent some time with at the MCG on Saturday. He was pretty certain. Perhaps it was a mixture of live and pre-recorded...however that might work.

The band might have been using a backing track.

 

[SSSSSS]

Hunters and Collectors for 2012? Bring back the 'Holy Grail'!

 

[Kram]

His tone sort of reminded me of the way the South Park guys sing songs on their show, except not as a joke..

 

[Xtreme]

Mike Brady is not relevant. Up There Cazaly has been done to death, resurrected, only to then be done even further to death. If thrashed football songs are a must, get Greg Champion.

Not sure Brady is particularly relevant to the newer generation of football fans.

But he is part of footy folklore!!

You can't have him taken out the back and shot, Andy D is already butchering everything else, let us have our classic songs!

 

[DTRAIN87]

They had him for the Collingwood vs Hawthorn game during the season. If you were there for that, you'd wish he never set foot on stage ever again.

He couldabeen Champion but instead he played like a hasbeen champion.

 

[Underdog]

But he is part of footy folklore!!

You can't have him taken out the back and shot, Andy D is already butchering everything else, let us have our classic songs!

The song was recorded in 1979. Cazaly played in the 1920's

It's not relevant.

 

[thatwasmymistake]

I vote for Mike Brady, but how about something a bit different from Up There Cazaly. I propse this:

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[Valve Bounce]

I'm sure others have posted it but I can't trawl through 32 pages to find out how many; but Cold Chisel with Jimmy Barnes would have been super compared to the meatloaf dud.

 

[baja]

The song was recorded in 1979. Cazaly played in the 1920's

It's not relevant.

Most Victorians grew up with Up There Cazaly, was it the same for you guys in W.A? (or your parents I dunno how old you are)

 

[Korn]

Pay $1 million for Green Day to come.

 

[Underdog]

Most Victorians grew up with Up There Cazaly, was it the same for you guys in W.A? (or your parents I dunno how old you are)

Most know it.

It's relevance to the newer generations is pretty minimal however.

Personally, I have no attachment to the song. I'm 26.

 

[baja]

Most know it.

It's relevance to the newer generations is pretty minimal however.

Personally, I have no attachment to the song. I'm 26.

The song 'Up There Cazaly' was everywhere back in the day, even the B side of the record(yeah record) was known to all 'The Winners March'..
The song was played at many Grand Finals and the hair would stand up on the back of your neck when the whole crowd sung it...

FWIW, The shouts of "Up There Cazaly: were shouted when going for high marks but the famous pic of Cazaly one hand going up for the ball was a ruck tap.

*useless bit of history info

 

[Xtreme]

Most know it.

It's relevance to the newer generations is pretty minimal however.

Personally, I have no attachment to the song. I'm 26.

I'm 29, it was the catch cry for many of us taking a speccie during primary school football and vickick (now Auskick obviously) .

 

[Rockman928]

The band might have been using a backing track.

Lionel Richie's band definitely used a backing/sequenced track for at least the 'Dancing on the Ceiling (synth/pad sounds)' and 'All Night Long (drum machine/percussion/steel drum parts)' portions of the medley, and I'm fairly certain that the backing tracks included some backing vocals as there were times (All Night Long chorus for example) when there was only one (or two at most) band members singing, yet the backing vocals sounded very layered and studio-perfect. But really this sort of thing is very common nowadays. As far as the lead vocal goes, that was definitely all live. There were a lot of ad-libs and sections where he changed the vocal melody from the original seemingly off the cuff. At one point he was jumping while singing and the tone of the vocals at that particular moment changed accordingly.

We all know the AFL wants an artist who has a lot of mainstream appeal and has hits that are well-known to a wide demographic, so with that in mind I'd like to see Bryan Adams, Foreigner or Icehouse.