Australians: please tell me about Dave Thomas of Bored!, etc.

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Have always thought that his work on Magic Dirt's "Friends In Danger" was one of the highlights of rock guitar, and then this year his old band Bored! has a CD reissue compiling their EP, mini-album, and some odds and ends.

Uneven, but at its best (like on the completely crushing cover of Final Solution) it's just about everything I hoped it would be: basically a distillation of the Stooges side of Magic Dirt and without Adalita's vocals to boot.

So I see he's been in other bands and that Bored! had other albums, but before I start sending more money across the pond, what else in this family tree is worth checking out?

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hi!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

i know a lot of people are really into his new thing Tiger By The Tail but i haven't heard it. I don't like In Vivo, which he was also associated with. he was also in the Dirty Lovers who released one pretty good 45 before their singer died.

he was from the 'long (geelong)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

full disclosure: i think "friends in danger" as a whole is the worst thing magic dirt released

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

bored! are great - but the powdermonkeys are better (features 2/3rds of bored! i think)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

(but not dave thomas)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

bored! is like any other au-go-go type australian band in that their 7"s and EPs are great but the full length albums leave a lot to be desired.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

and adalitas vocals rock. you just need to see magic dirt live. they dont work so well on record

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I liked them well enough before she learned to sing!

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

...and I can't argue the fact that Friends in Danger really killed them dead in the US, but what a record! Maybe just way too hard to get into (took me years). One of the few times I'm aware of where a monster guitar sound got the production it deserves, no apologies needed. Anyways, thanks ESOJ for the tips...will have to look into Tiger By The Tail.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

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