What song are you listening to?
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love a weeping riff
Rock Hopper Steve
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So sad, all the legendary axe pluckers gone or just hanging on, it was a golden age.
still enjoy a trumpet saxophone riff ,90's Pommy scar 🙂
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Champion @innsaneink, that sure was a time like no other, bands all across Sydney.
I would love to see the band from the Manly Vale Hotel - "Biggles First Case" - brilliant band name, I wonder what they sang like.
pawsandclaws1
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It's gold.
Good song eh...haunting
Never saw them either ...rarely went northside...mainly Bondi Coogee the city and occasionally punchbowl and rydalmere
upthetigers
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When I discovered this song I had it on repeat for months
westielife
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Aneurysm by Nirvana
Leck
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When I was at uni, I lived in a share house in Newtown, across the road from Tim Freedman’s terrace. At the time, I didn’t know much about The Whitlams, other than that he would regularly have late night jam sessions and the occasional open house street party. It wasn’t really my thing, but I eventually added some of his songs to my Spotify playlist. One came on today while we were driving to the shops, and it reminded me how much I’ve come to appreciate his talent since then.
upthetigers
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I am trying to remember things correctly
Are The Whitlams the band that had the "fck the pokies" song?
Leck
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The song was Blow Up the Pokies. His bandmate and good friend Andy got into huge debt and took his own life because he couldn't see a way out. It's tragic, from what I understand he had a young child at the time.
upthetigers
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Yeah gambling addiction is brutal.
It's the only addiction that makes you think doing more of it is the way out.
Those bastard machines are designed to addict you. It's criminal really. At least with drugs you have fun. With gambling and pokies in particular you're just feeding a machine money for the most part.
Leck
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Yeah, gambling hits both of our feel good chemicals in the brain. Dopamine when you win, and then serotonin when you're feeling pumped up, regardless of whether you win or lose.
I was a young kid when the government banned all cigarette advertising. The ARL then had to find a new sponsor and change the name of the Winfield Cup.
I've just Googled it, and apparently smoking rates dropped by around 20% following the advertising ban. I'm not sure whether that's still the case today, particularly with the rise of vapes and black market Chinese cigarettes.
The government may need to take a similar stance when it comes to gambling advertising and how they restrict the pokies for people that struggle.
