Buster Brown - Something To Say (Rare Aussie Boogierock 1974)
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The roots of Rose Tattoo, AC/DC and everything else that's good about working class Australian rock has been reclaimed, remastered and re-released: a doomed band who pre-dated a rock trend that continues to burn strongly today.
Angry Anderson. With hair. The photos on this superbly packaged CD are almost worth the price of admission alone, but the allure of finding the missing link in the progression from the hard blues of Chain and Billy Thorpe to the 'outlaw' hard rock of Rose Tattoo and AC/DC also features highly.
Back in 1973, Gary 'Angry' Anderson formed a new band, featuring one guitarist who loved Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore, another who loved the Allman Brothers and a drummer who dug Led Zeppelin, among others. The full tale of the band's roots and their shortlived career are laid out in the superb liner notes provided by Australia's best and most reknowned music historian and archivist, Ian McFarlane.
Musically, you're not getting Rose Tattoo: the Early Days here, what you're getting are the very beginnings of the style of music later tagged 'outlaw rock' - of which Angry is seen as the high priest - worshipped by everyone from Guns'n'Roses to Aerosmith and every other leather-clad tattooed bunch of rockers since.
Title track/theme song Buster Brown showcases the roots of Australian heavy blues-rock and Angry's penchant for writing lyrics that address growing up tough on the wrong side of an Australian suburb; Young Spunk and Apprentice do the...
