The Ferrets

[Croat tiger]

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[Timmy from Thomastown]

Billy Milller is a forgotten genius.

 

[Croat tiger]

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[skilts]

I met Billy Miller about five years ago. He looks a little the worse for wear, but don't we all thirty years on? He was playing in a cover band called 'The Interchange Bench', with Sean Kelly and Andrew Duffield from 'The Models'. They used to play one gig a week, just to keep their hands in, at a pub on the corner of High & Chapel Sts in Prahran.

Billy was a wonderful guitar player, and with his wah-wah pedal wailing fiercely, he provided great counterpoint to Sean Kelly's more jazz-based picking. Duffield is a keyboard genius. It was a privilege to see such consumate musicians bouncing off each other, at such close quarters, with no hint of ego to disrupt proceedings. As you could imagine, they were also great singers and never a note out of place. The most stunning thing I took away from watching them was that they all used to look as though they were going to miss their cues during songs, seemingly distracted, but they never did.

BTW, tigerboyz, you and Sean Kelly would get on well, he's a devoted Tigers fan, thus the name of the band. Thanks for posting the vid.

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh don't fall in love.......

BILLY MILLER - Footscray

"Footscray, oh Footscray, you're the pearl of the south," Billy Miller sings, "I know cause I heard it from Ted Whitten's mouth. Not a hard place to get to, but hard to get out, I'll probably die here in Footscray."

Whether he's playing guitar in Dave Graney's band or in a Beatles cover band, Billy Miller will always be the guy from the Ferrets, the Melbourne band that had a hit with Don't Fall In Love in 1977.

But even by then he'd written hundreds of songs, great sheaves of them to sit in his piano stool unrecorded until a few years ago. He finally dusted off the best of them for his most recent CD, Elsternwick '69, which aptly describes the time and place of their origin.

"Six O'Clock Train is about a bloke going to meet his girlfriend at Elsternwick Station and he goes through all the stations on the Sandringham line from Richmond.

Me and my mate Gary (Adams) just used to write songs about what we were doing each day."

He dislikes American names in songs. "I remember when Axiom brought out Arkansas Grass. Stuff like that really pissed me off.

"Three ibis are flying down the Maribyrnong," he sings. "Cars on the Westgate will be home before long. In my backyard I'm singing this song, as the sun sets over Footscray."

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I saw Billy Miller once when he was in a band called the Great Blokes. Supported Jon English at the Chevron. Dont remember much about the gig, but I do recall he did a Hendrix and played the national anthem on his guitar.

 

[goatsby]

I remeber watching the song
Looking at You

well looking at his sisters doing back up I thought the youngest one would like a pork baloney sausage.

 

[goatsby]

Nice pic ofhis little sister in schoolgirls uniform in this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-4y2O0dJI

she is probably a milf these days

 

[SunKing]

Don't fall in love..cool

They also made a ripper clip for a song called Janey may? It was just them singing the song in a old 70's train but it's

 

[oxx]

genius.

 

[Croat tiger]

Don't fall in love..cool

They also made a ripper clip for a song called Janey may? It was just them singing the song in a old 70's train but it's :cool:

WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A LOOK AT THE FIRST THREAD?.

 

[SunKing]

WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A LOOK AT THE FIRST THREAD?.

I assume you mean the OP?

I have a crap dial up connection so usually bypass youtube videos or clips.

Chill

 

[sandeano]

Frankston train line, is it?