May 21, 2024 • 6 mins
Hoodoo Gurus debut album Stoneage Romeos is turning 40 and to celebrate, the band are doing a couple of gigs at The Astor in December, Lead singer Dave Faulkner called Clairsy & Lisa to reminisce about the album and tell them what to expect from the shows.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Winner of Best Debut Album at the nineteen eighty four
Countdown Awards.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Stone Age Romeos.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is a classic, and the Hoodi Gurus are performing in
its entirety later this year at the Asta Theater because
it is turning forty and Dave Faulkner's with us.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now, Good morning, day.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Dave Lisa, how are you clearly? Good night?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I'm good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow, forty is hey?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
December thirteenth show is sold out, so an added show
on December twelve.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now it justs to show how popular the and was.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And also there's going to be another show added on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, so the second shows that be sold out as well,
so don age weekend real, yes, jeez, we're going to
do a residency.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah oh yeah. I love this.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
When you you groovy guys are sitting in the studio
there with producer Alan Thorn. All those years ago, were
you and Brad and James and Clyde thinking we've got
a hit record here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, far from it. We just made a record purely
to amuse ourselves and having We're having fun. You like
kids in a candy shop kitchen sink sound we could
think of and overdubs of harmonies and percussion and what
have you? Just just having the time of our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think you were enjoying yourself when you were, you know,
thinking about the title and the album cover and so on.
The title, of course, is taken from a Three Stooges
short film. The album color is a very one million
years b C. But tell me what is this I
hear about Green Acres influencing the album.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, we we're very fans of like the sitcoms, especially
about Back Then. We're writing a lot of songs inspired
by that. And there's you know, the song inspired by
Get Smart, for example, in the Echo Chamber inspired by
the Groovy Guru. Of course, you know we got the
guru part of that. Basically, we dedicate the album to
a bunch of different people and one of them was
Arnold Zipfel. That picked from Green Back Kids was.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The Place to Be with Greenacres.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I love Greenacres. The spin off for the Beverly Hill
was can Better.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think yeah, I think I can still sing every.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Come on, I'm not a singer.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Goodbye My Wife's, Goodbye City Live.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You have.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I'm sure we've touched on this before, but that We
loved that album cover, but it wasn't used everywhere, right,
no America.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Could They changed it because I thought it was a
bit ugly and kind of a bit you know, garish.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
They didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They put this took this really nice kind of you know,
eighties style pastel thing with crayon dinosaurs on the front.
Was really loudy. But and at the end of the
tour is very funny, like we kept two of the
US and that year with that album, and all the
fans were buying the import copy from Australia because they
preferred the cover and also the song order. They changed
the order of the songs as well. They really by
(02:45):
the end of Yeah, so by the end of the
tool we mostly signed Australian import copies and the record
company said it was well, we don't think the cover
changed the sales at all, And so the obvious retort
to that is, then why the hell did you do
it and take the sales?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, don't confuse them with logic.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Great, I mean so many great songs.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We just played Tojo which is ripper Leilani my Girl,
I was a Kamakazi Parla Zanbar I Want You Back
was huge, huge hit off the album, and one would
probably think it was about some kind of broken relationship.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But was it about a former band member leaving the group?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You Have was sort of a little bit of a
sneaky you diget our old founding member Rod. He formed
it with me and Kimball. Yeah, Kimball left. Kimball left
to follow his film career, and he's done it ever since.
But Rod wanted to lead his own band. Hit done
it a few times in the past. By the way,
he left a sign us the same way as well,
so he had form in that regard. But but you know,
(03:42):
I just wrote the song as a bit of a
you might be sorry one day, you'll wish you were
back with us, you know, at the same time as
a love song. It's kind of funny because in a way,
the person sings a little bit sad that you think
because they're kind of wishing the person would change their
mind to come back to them.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Songwriter has a band. But as a songwriter, when you
hear like a band like you or my covering your
songs over the years and many many bright times, people
have played cover versions of your stuff, the songs of
such go quality must make you feel great about someone
also playing with those playing those live on stage.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Absolutely. I mean, you know, we like the feeling of
music being continuum, and you know, the music influence influenced us.
We're passing on to the next lot of people as
well and keeping that same spirit of live. So anyone
that plays our songs or the songs that influence us,
we're excited.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Is tojo the song that audiences lose their mind over
most when you're doing it live.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It is one that keeps being like yelled out at me. Yeah,
so yes, it's got a weird you know following. I
don't know why that song is clicked so much. I
mean the one song, the one song. My father liked
that every song. He hated rock and roller. He liked
the subject matter because he was a World war that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I'll be in good company because yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Japanese's got the paper in New Guinea, though they didn't
make it all the way, that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But also the songs about cyclone Tracy In my brother
was living there at the time, so I kind of
remembered that very well.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, Santa didn't make it to day. We said, I
may tell you've got a lot of playing in a
lot of recording to do over the next few years.
But in the future, I mean we're talking about the
past here, but in the future, is there any chance
of a who do Hologram? Could you be on stage
kiss style in the future? Kiss an Abba.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Some people might prefer that we should do some you know,
some photoshop magic and you know, get rid of the
wrinkles like they did with Abra. I'm sure, yeah, Younger.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Soels it's work working the long hair.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Love it, that's right, Absolutely, it lives again.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So, as we said, the show will be stone Ae
Romeos in its entirety, but I believe some other hits
as well.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, we're going to do a very long show. It's
going to so we've got room for everything that night.
We're not going to just do that one album, but
that's where the show is going to start, the whole
Suner's Romeo.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You're great, Yeah, all the way through.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You can't have a gig without anything from Mars as well.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Last night two thirds, Oh of course, I mean that's
actually gonna be the first song we do as a
next song. Yeah, we're not going to do it continuously
in chronological order, but there's going to be a bittersweet.
I think it'll be the next thing to go roo. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, the Festival of stone Age Romeos is in December
at the ASTA. Another show has just been added and
the tickets are available through ticke Tech.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We can't wait, Dave. Thanks guys,
Winner of Best Debut Album at the nineteen eighty four
Countdown Awards.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Stone Age Romeos.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is a classic, and the Hoodi Gurus are performing in
its entirety later this year at the Asta Theater because
it is turning forty and Dave Faulkner's with us.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now, Good morning, day.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Dave Lisa, how are you clearly? Good night?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I'm good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow, forty is hey?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
December thirteenth show is sold out, so an added show
on December twelve.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now it justs to show how popular the and was.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And also there's going to be another show added on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, so the second shows that be sold out as well,
so don age weekend real, yes, jeez, we're going to
do a residency.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah oh yeah. I love this.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
When you you groovy guys are sitting in the studio
there with producer Alan Thorn. All those years ago, were
you and Brad and James and Clyde thinking we've got
a hit record here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, far from it. We just made a record purely
to amuse ourselves and having We're having fun. You like
kids in a candy shop kitchen sink sound we could
think of and overdubs of harmonies and percussion and what
have you? Just just having the time of our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think you were enjoying yourself when you were, you know,
thinking about the title and the album cover and so on.
The title, of course, is taken from a Three Stooges
short film. The album color is a very one million
years b C. But tell me what is this I
hear about Green Acres influencing the album.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, we we're very fans of like the sitcoms, especially
about Back Then. We're writing a lot of songs inspired
by that. And there's you know, the song inspired by
Get Smart, for example, in the Echo Chamber inspired by
the Groovy Guru. Of course, you know we got the
guru part of that. Basically, we dedicate the album to
a bunch of different people and one of them was
Arnold Zipfel. That picked from Green Back Kids was.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The Place to Be with Greenacres.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I love Greenacres. The spin off for the Beverly Hill
was can Better.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think yeah, I think I can still sing every.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Come on, I'm not a singer.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Goodbye My Wife's, Goodbye City Live.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You have.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I'm sure we've touched on this before, but that We
loved that album cover, but it wasn't used everywhere, right,
no America.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Could They changed it because I thought it was a
bit ugly and kind of a bit you know, garish.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
They didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They put this took this really nice kind of you know,
eighties style pastel thing with crayon dinosaurs on the front.
Was really loudy. But and at the end of the
tour is very funny, like we kept two of the
US and that year with that album, and all the
fans were buying the import copy from Australia because they
preferred the cover and also the song order. They changed
the order of the songs as well. They really by
(02:45):
the end of Yeah, so by the end of the
tool we mostly signed Australian import copies and the record
company said it was well, we don't think the cover
changed the sales at all, And so the obvious retort
to that is, then why the hell did you do
it and take the sales?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, don't confuse them with logic.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Great, I mean so many great songs.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We just played Tojo which is ripper Leilani my Girl,
I was a Kamakazi Parla Zanbar I Want You Back
was huge, huge hit off the album, and one would
probably think it was about some kind of broken relationship.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But was it about a former band member leaving the group?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You Have was sort of a little bit of a
sneaky you diget our old founding member Rod. He formed
it with me and Kimball. Yeah, Kimball left. Kimball left
to follow his film career, and he's done it ever since.
But Rod wanted to lead his own band. Hit done
it a few times in the past. By the way,
he left a sign us the same way as well,
so he had form in that regard. But but you know,
(03:42):
I just wrote the song as a bit of a
you might be sorry one day, you'll wish you were
back with us, you know, at the same time as
a love song. It's kind of funny because in a way,
the person sings a little bit sad that you think
because they're kind of wishing the person would change their
mind to come back to them.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Songwriter has a band. But as a songwriter, when you
hear like a band like you or my covering your
songs over the years and many many bright times, people
have played cover versions of your stuff, the songs of
such go quality must make you feel great about someone
also playing with those playing those live on stage.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Absolutely. I mean, you know, we like the feeling of
music being continuum, and you know, the music influence influenced us.
We're passing on to the next lot of people as
well and keeping that same spirit of live. So anyone
that plays our songs or the songs that influence us,
we're excited.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Is tojo the song that audiences lose their mind over
most when you're doing it live.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It is one that keeps being like yelled out at me. Yeah,
so yes, it's got a weird you know following. I
don't know why that song is clicked so much. I
mean the one song, the one song. My father liked
that every song. He hated rock and roller. He liked
the subject matter because he was a World war that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I'll be in good company because yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Japanese's got the paper in New Guinea, though they didn't
make it all the way, that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But also the songs about cyclone Tracy In my brother
was living there at the time, so I kind of
remembered that very well.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, Santa didn't make it to day. We said, I
may tell you've got a lot of playing in a
lot of recording to do over the next few years.
But in the future, I mean we're talking about the
past here, but in the future, is there any chance
of a who do Hologram? Could you be on stage
kiss style in the future? Kiss an Abba.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Some people might prefer that we should do some you know,
some photoshop magic and you know, get rid of the
wrinkles like they did with Abra. I'm sure, yeah, Younger.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Soels it's work working the long hair.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Love it, that's right, Absolutely, it lives again.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So, as we said, the show will be stone Ae
Romeos in its entirety, but I believe some other hits
as well.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, we're going to do a very long show. It's
going to so we've got room for everything that night.
We're not going to just do that one album, but
that's where the show is going to start, the whole
Suner's Romeo.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You're great, Yeah, all the way through.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You can't have a gig without anything from Mars as well.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Last night two thirds, Oh of course, I mean that's
actually gonna be the first song we do as a
next song. Yeah, we're not going to do it continuously
in chronological order, but there's going to be a bittersweet.
I think it'll be the next thing to go roo. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, the Festival of stone Age Romeos is in December
at the ASTA. Another show has just been added and
the tickets are available through ticke Tech.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We can't wait, Dave. Thanks guys,
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