August 13, 2025 • 6 mins
Clairsy’s Tragic Music Box opened and closed for the final time. He took a trip down memory lane, sharing some of his favourite concerts, unforgettable moments, and iconic WA events like Telethon. Don’t miss the very last edition of this beloved segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Delving deep into the archives of Earth music history. Crazy
Tragic Music Box. Can I have the little opener as
my ringtime now? Absolutely? If you want to every time,
I'm going to call that all okay, Well I want
some passive income, so that'll cost you. Now, the Final
Tragic Music Box is not from one particular year. Least
(00:22):
we'd have a bit of Oh it's bits of the box. Yeah,
it's bits spaces. So as you say, I collect everything,
I've got information and junk everywhere in this box is
it's getting bigger. So I thought, for the Final Tragic
Box episode from my unforgetable four and a half years
here at ninety six, I pluck a few favorite things.
It's a few of my favorite things that are popped up.
My nineteen eighty nine tax return in there. It was yeah, yeah,
(00:42):
well someone that did the attacks. I know, thank you.
I'm so responsible, mister sensible, is that what you're calling me? Now?
If I can be self indulgent, I'm going to start
with a few of my favorite gigs in Perth over
the years. So I have to start with my first
ever concert. I've never been to a gig. I was
fifteen and kiss finally came to Australia in nineteen eighty
at the Old Entertainment Center, and I vividly remembered not
only we're excited to be there, but the heat coming.
(01:05):
I was in the rafters. I was right up the
back right and I could feel the heat coming from
those giant buns and burners, the pyro gear that they
had on stage. And also how the crowd was so
quiet during the first song Detroit Rock City. I could
not believe how quiet they were, because we were basically
all kids, never been to a gig before, and it
was like we couldn't believe. We're in shock that the
boys were here. The face painted four oh and by
(01:26):
the way, it was bloody lad long time ago night
and eighty yes, indeed next was next week. Remember to
nineteen eighty six and Dire Straits played eight straight nights
at the Entertainment Center and that massive Brothers and Brothers
in Arms of World two incredible. How Mark Noofle's fingers,
how brilliant he is on guitar right, How his fingers
of I playing guitar like that eight nights in a row.
(01:48):
I don't know, because a lot of music haven't night
off in between or they played two and do you
know anyone who went to all eight shows? No? I didn't. Yeah, yeah,
the Distrates head because that was such a huge album.
The one thing I remember is queuing up for tickets
the previous year for Diastrates and having the well so
(02:08):
called sleep outside the ent sand and then on the
night my girlfriend and I had a barneie about halfway through,
and I went through the bloody show after waiting for
six months and killing Juliet. Oh well, there was somewhere
in there something like that. So Diastrates incredible nineteen eighty six.
I told you it was going to be self indulgent.
I had to mention my favorite band, Steely Dan, who
(02:30):
never used to never used to really tour for some reason,
and all of a sudden they started touring and they
came to Perth in two thousand and seven. Finally they
came here. I couldn't believe it. They played at Sandorford Winery.
I have told you this story before that I never
buy merchandise, and I bought merch I went nuts. I
wore a cap. I never wore a hideous green T
shirt like a really horrible green playing card. I bought
(02:52):
a pack of Steely Dann playing cards that I never played,
never had a game off with them. I think, I
just know, I think, I just we've got time now,
But I reckon, I just went through the merchantself. I've
won one of those, one of those. I was buying
Lolly's like a little kid at the Delhi and as
I walked down the hill to my seat there at Sandleford,
the boys opened with a song called Time out of
Mind Steely Dan, so smooth and I because I love
(03:16):
them so much, I felt like I was walking on air.
And you know, you go to a gig with some
of your love, there's nothing better. Yours up full of merch,
drop my play cards, Someone's oh god, yeah, that was great,
Time out of Mine Steely Dan. Now we mentioned a
few priced comparents at Parison's over time in the Tragic
Box Lease, but my absolute favorite was from nineteen eighty three,
and I did this fairly recently. It was the year
(03:37):
I started in radio. Eighty three was the time we
did rent a house in beautiful Shendon Park for seventy
five bucks a week. You could also buy a three
bedroom townhouse and como for fifty nine grand or if
you wanted to build a new family home, your head up, Alexander,
drive to the new suburb of Balladura, snap up a
seven hundred meters square block for under thirteen thousand dollars. Now,
(03:57):
I know we're talking about forty two years ago, but
how bizy is it? It's really I think the rates
were that much this month, exactly, exactly. One thing I
really want to mention in the final Tragic Box is
telethon because I've been lucky enough to be involved in
thirty six telethons. Yeah. The first one I did was
I was in Bunbury. I got on the TV in
Bunbury and I thought I was famous. Well, as soon
(04:18):
as you see a bar take you very much for
you really did staying up watching it, I know how incredible.
So that was pretty cool. So thirty six telethons, so
I've been very lucky you. But I want to talk
about some of the incredible real stars who helped raise
over six hundred and eighty eight million bucks. Michael Jackson,
Stevie Wonder, Cliff Richard, Harry, Coonock Junior, Young Whitney Houston,
(04:39):
even younger Celine Dion. She wasn't a huge day yet,
but she was on the way. Tina Turner and Sammy
Davis Junior of course stole the show. It feels like
one hundred years ago. What did entertainer A Sammy Davis,
I know where you're laughing at the real stars of Telethon,
the Telethon kids and you the people of Western Australia,
the most generous people on the Absolutely, there's no doubt
(05:01):
about it. Soon it recently with our caring coats and
I want to wrap up today and I think you
know where this are going because this would not be
fitting up. But I didn't do this song in front
of me. Yeah, I did. I put a false song.
There was a decoy. In March of nineteen ninety, American
rock band Heart took an old Dobie Gray song and
completely smashed the lyrics. They did. They change the lyrics. Look,
we joke about it all the time. Let's be honest.
(05:23):
It's a musical crime to change a sweet love song
into the story of a desperate woman who seduces a
hitchhiker just in order to get pregnant without ever telling
a partner. Then one day the dude rocks up and
he's got the same eyes as the kid, what were
you thinking? So damn creepy. So I thought that was
a perfect way to finish the final Tragic Music Box.
Couldn't be more perfect with one of our favorite this
(05:44):
bloody songs, It's Heart. All I want to do is
make love to you, and I think it's appropriate. Lace up,
we blow up the Tragic Music Box for the final time.
What do you reckon? Hit it again before it says
Delving deep into the archives of Earth music history. Crazy
Tragic Music Box. Can I have the little opener as
my ringtime now? Absolutely? If you want to every time,
I'm going to call that all okay, Well I want
some passive income, so that'll cost you. Now, the Final
Tragic Music Box is not from one particular year. Least
(00:22):
we'd have a bit of Oh it's bits of the box. Yeah,
it's bits spaces. So as you say, I collect everything,
I've got information and junk everywhere in this box is
it's getting bigger. So I thought, for the Final Tragic
Box episode from my unforgetable four and a half years
here at ninety six, I pluck a few favorite things.
It's a few of my favorite things that are popped up.
My nineteen eighty nine tax return in there. It was yeah, yeah,
(00:42):
well someone that did the attacks. I know, thank you.
I'm so responsible, mister sensible, is that what you're calling me? Now?
If I can be self indulgent, I'm going to start
with a few of my favorite gigs in Perth over
the years. So I have to start with my first
ever concert. I've never been to a gig. I was
fifteen and kiss finally came to Australia in nineteen eighty
at the Old Entertainment Center, and I vividly remembered not
only we're excited to be there, but the heat coming.
(01:05):
I was in the rafters. I was right up the
back right and I could feel the heat coming from
those giant buns and burners, the pyro gear that they
had on stage. And also how the crowd was so
quiet during the first song Detroit Rock City. I could
not believe how quiet they were, because we were basically
all kids, never been to a gig before, and it
was like we couldn't believe. We're in shock that the
boys were here. The face painted four oh and by
(01:26):
the way, it was bloody lad long time ago night
and eighty yes, indeed next was next week. Remember to
nineteen eighty six and Dire Straits played eight straight nights
at the Entertainment Center and that massive Brothers and Brothers
in Arms of World two incredible. How Mark Noofle's fingers,
how brilliant he is on guitar right, How his fingers
of I playing guitar like that eight nights in a row.
(01:48):
I don't know, because a lot of music haven't night
off in between or they played two and do you
know anyone who went to all eight shows? No? I didn't. Yeah, yeah,
the Distrates head because that was such a huge album.
The one thing I remember is queuing up for tickets
the previous year for Diastrates and having the well so
(02:08):
called sleep outside the ent sand and then on the
night my girlfriend and I had a barneie about halfway through,
and I went through the bloody show after waiting for
six months and killing Juliet. Oh well, there was somewhere
in there something like that. So Diastrates incredible nineteen eighty six.
I told you it was going to be self indulgent.
I had to mention my favorite band, Steely Dan, who
(02:30):
never used to never used to really tour for some reason,
and all of a sudden they started touring and they
came to Perth in two thousand and seven. Finally they
came here. I couldn't believe it. They played at Sandorford Winery.
I have told you this story before that I never
buy merchandise, and I bought merch I went nuts. I
wore a cap. I never wore a hideous green T
shirt like a really horrible green playing card. I bought
(02:52):
a pack of Steely Dann playing cards that I never played,
never had a game off with them. I think, I
just know, I think, I just we've got time now,
But I reckon, I just went through the merchantself. I've
won one of those, one of those. I was buying
Lolly's like a little kid at the Delhi and as
I walked down the hill to my seat there at Sandleford,
the boys opened with a song called Time out of
Mind Steely Dan, so smooth and I because I love
(03:16):
them so much, I felt like I was walking on air.
And you know, you go to a gig with some
of your love, there's nothing better. Yours up full of merch,
drop my play cards, Someone's oh god, yeah, that was great,
Time out of Mine Steely Dan. Now we mentioned a
few priced comparents at Parison's over time in the Tragic
Box Lease, but my absolute favorite was from nineteen eighty three,
and I did this fairly recently. It was the year
(03:37):
I started in radio. Eighty three was the time we
did rent a house in beautiful Shendon Park for seventy
five bucks a week. You could also buy a three
bedroom townhouse and como for fifty nine grand or if
you wanted to build a new family home, your head up, Alexander,
drive to the new suburb of Balladura, snap up a
seven hundred meters square block for under thirteen thousand dollars. Now,
(03:57):
I know we're talking about forty two years ago, but
how bizy is it? It's really I think the rates
were that much this month, exactly, exactly. One thing I
really want to mention in the final Tragic Box is
telethon because I've been lucky enough to be involved in
thirty six telethons. Yeah. The first one I did was
I was in Bunbury. I got on the TV in
Bunbury and I thought I was famous. Well, as soon
(04:18):
as you see a bar take you very much for
you really did staying up watching it, I know how incredible.
So that was pretty cool. So thirty six telethons, so
I've been very lucky you. But I want to talk
about some of the incredible real stars who helped raise
over six hundred and eighty eight million bucks. Michael Jackson,
Stevie Wonder, Cliff Richard, Harry, Coonock Junior, Young Whitney Houston,
(04:39):
even younger Celine Dion. She wasn't a huge day yet,
but she was on the way. Tina Turner and Sammy
Davis Junior of course stole the show. It feels like
one hundred years ago. What did entertainer A Sammy Davis,
I know where you're laughing at the real stars of Telethon,
the Telethon kids and you the people of Western Australia,
the most generous people on the Absolutely, there's no doubt
(05:01):
about it. Soon it recently with our caring coats and
I want to wrap up today and I think you
know where this are going because this would not be
fitting up. But I didn't do this song in front
of me. Yeah, I did. I put a false song.
There was a decoy. In March of nineteen ninety, American
rock band Heart took an old Dobie Gray song and
completely smashed the lyrics. They did. They change the lyrics. Look,
we joke about it all the time. Let's be honest.
(05:23):
It's a musical crime to change a sweet love song
into the story of a desperate woman who seduces a
hitchhiker just in order to get pregnant without ever telling
a partner. Then one day the dude rocks up and
he's got the same eyes as the kid, what were
you thinking? So damn creepy. So I thought that was
a perfect way to finish the final Tragic Music Box.
Couldn't be more perfect with one of our favorite this
(05:44):
bloody songs, It's Heart. All I want to do is
make love to you, and I think it's appropriate. Lace up,
we blow up the Tragic Music Box for the final time.
What do you reckon? Hit it again before it says
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