Ahead of this Friday’s Clairsy & Lisa’s Perth Pub Crawl at Pinocchio’s, the guys chatted with John Webster and Dave Cook from The Motors/Formula 1. Topics discussed included the band’s surprising Singapore connection as well as the band’s favourite venues, The Charles Hotel’s sticky carpet. Plus the band’s ‘Almost Famous’-Esque emergency landing in farmer’s wheat field.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Really be singing a man at work song to twelve
hundred people, and men at work could be down the road.
I don't need to the people party in the venue,
but the bands.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Was a Wavelock colesy Li says per pub Crawl at
Pinocchio's Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only
Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in
the heart of the city.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Pub Crawl guests this morning are from the Motors, John
Webster and Dave Cook. Good morning, coming in the motors
and Formula one car fans.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Body ch what's going on there? How did the names
come about?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
There's probably our agency that put that together. Brian Davidson
at Focus had had the idea to put together a Yeah, Dave, yeah, man,
he's a good fella. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
So there's just a name.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
It's marketing little strategies of those motors.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Yeah, absolutely seem to work.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, mate, I can't believe this, John, it's we're taking
your back. But by playing that song you just walked
in and where we haven't heard this for a while.
What year did that one come out? And is there
a story behind that? Song in the Winner.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, that would have been about eighty two. I
think we had that sort of recorded. It was written
by the guy that produced our album, a guy by
named Gary Keady.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
He's a.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Music producer, film producer.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, one of his little little catalog songs that
he had.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You recorded an album at Planet Studios, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
It's yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, that was nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
At eighty two.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, it was at the original location of Planet, which
was in Perth because after they moved to.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, but you guys were playing four nights a week.
You were a really solidly performing on that circle back
in those days.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
How exhausting was it.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It was a full time job.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We were we were working four nights a week, and
we were rehearsing two days a week on the days off,
and we had one day left where we learnt new
material and wrote new material. So it was pretty much
seven days.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Yeah. Yeah, you've got to be obsessed, especially when you're
young and hungry. Yeah. They've got about influencers. Who were
you guys influenced by?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Uh, well, pretty broad I suppose, because the band was
basically a cover band, so we just we followed the charts.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, like a lot of stuff coming out of the
UK was good, which is which is exciting and suited
our playing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I think what we were playing didn't necessarily reflect our
own personal choices, but that was that was what we
were doing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But you were you guys were big on writing and
performing your own stuff as well, weren't you, And you
must have I feel like at that time you might
have had to push.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Back a bit to be able to do that. Because
Perth loved to cover a bat in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We really did so, but only because we you know,
we didn't have You probably thought, well, you know, we
can give them both and they will come round to it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Did you have to push back a bit?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yes, certainly.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
There was always a crowd killer when you're playing a
live gig just to bring out one of.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Your own Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I guess we had the concept to just persist with
that so that people would gradually grow to it and
learn it.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
But yeah, it was always a battle.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I would have thought with the
the you know, the places that you were playing at
as well, the owners of them, they probably wanted you
to you know, play all the covers as well.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Absolutely for sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, John, Can you tell us of Singapore connection with
the band and what went down there.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
My our manager was Jimmy Lee, right, and he was
from Singapore and he had a good mate who owned
the WA Records in Thailand.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
W A, yeah, the label in your mind.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So he did a deal with them to record the
album and then we were going to release it in
Asia through WA Records, and we were then going to
do a tour all through Asia right up to Japan
as support for the release of the album. And then
(04:26):
WA Records in Sydney found out that an Australian band
had signed with w A in Thailand and claimed the
rights because some sort of corporate rule that they had,
and then they seized the tapes for our recording and
locked them in a bank vault in Melbourne. We lost
(04:49):
access to our own album.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They must have been terribly frustrating you to sort of
be the victim in the middle of this, you know,
sort of suit fight going on as a bit of
a you know what, swinging competition between these two sides.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, it was. And at the same time we were
going through that transition that you were just referring to,
where we were trying to play more of our own
material to actually support that album that we were bringing out.
So and we'd also been forced right in the middle
of that to change our name to Formula one because
it was a band in very frustrated in the UK,
(05:30):
you called themselves the Motors. So it all started to
slow down very quickly at that point.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, but frustrating for you guys being creative types and
getting caught up in the business, politics and the rest
of its exactly frustrating, and then getting an album warehouse
like yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, it's funny how musos are so into their music
that they tend to not be totally aware of what
their management is up to.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, we were still consumed by our own passions. Yeah,
and it was all just sort of falling exactly area of.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, yeah, an expertise.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So we had some great venues in the in the
early eighties that all the bands were playing at seven
nights a week.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
You could go and see a band. Where were some
of your favorites to play?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Oh well, we played played like a ranger plays. The
overflow was on a Thursday night, was a ye, it
was a bust. It was pretty huge at the Marley park,
so back before it become the generator was just yeah,
Charles was a.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Raffles.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
They still haven't cleaned the carpet.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The Charles.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Stick to it exactly. Yeah, it was good all those places.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Plus every Wednesday we'd often do like a runout like
at the Kelgooley or Albany. Bumbury was a yeah, the
bustle was a staple.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Actually funny.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You should mention those rural the regional sort of times.
Did you have an almost famous moment with an emergent
he landing in a plane somewhere? I mean, that's a
great rock story, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
It was a funny thing because we're going up. I
got a mate who was a was a pilot at
the time and he needed to get get his hours up,
so he said, jump on the plane and flew up
the Jeryalton. But we got caught up by a dust
storm terrific. Oh, and we couldn't progress, So we had
the land in the middle of some farmer's paddock.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And that's so rock and roll, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
The door of the plane came open while we were
flying along and it buckled with the fourth I wouldn't close.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Oh my god, so get a bowful of dust.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I took my shoe off and got the shoelace out
of my shoe and tied it around the handle to
the door. John, that's exactly right. Tied the door up.
Then do an emergency landing in a farmer's wheatfield.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Having lived in Merit and Bunery early days radio for me,
have you guys like you guys come down and play?
It was a big deal in a country town to
have bring was much more of a country town back there,
but likes of Merriton and Cow it was a really
big deal.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Was a whole town would turn out to see a
lot gig? Yeah, for sure. When the bands would visit
from Perth, very.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Cool, well, good times it was was great.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Your very fond memories got too with the mentals at
one stage. Remember really that that was the way.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That the Focused Promotions put the band together. Yep. And
then they sent us to Carl Gooley for two weeks
and said here put a repertoire together. Yeah, and your
first gig in Perth in two weeks time. So we
went off to cal Gooley and we started rehearsing every
(08:48):
day and then adding more songs and working in Calgoley
until we actually had a repertoire together, and then we
came back and did our first gig at the Herdsman.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
The Herdsman, Yes right, and then spent the next week
after that supporting Metal was anything.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Am straight on tour after our first gig.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Memories, and then after that.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We went straight on tour with rene Ga and did
another two weeks with rene Ga, and of course the
whole time we were doing all the main gigs in
front of a thousand people every time. So by the
time we eventually got around to coming back to birth
and doing what of our own gigs, they booked us
into the carrn Up tabin and I remember we drove it.
(09:35):
It was just starting to rain a little bit when
we got there and there was this queue coming out
of the tavern across the car park and then round
the corner and down the store. And that was to
our first gig after those.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
That's pretty good and.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Then we knew so it was amazing. We came back
to town and we were just sort of like a
big band.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Brilliant stick Well.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It has been lovely to reminisce with you this morning
on our pub crawl.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Thanks boys, we're really good the case. Thanks for having us.
All the best
Really be singing a man at work song to twelve
hundred people, and men at work could be down the road.
I don't need to the people party in the venue,
but the bands.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Was a Wavelock colesy Li says per pub Crawl at
Pinocchio's Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only
Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in
the heart of the city.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Pub Crawl guests this morning are from the Motors, John
Webster and Dave Cook. Good morning, coming in the motors
and Formula one car fans.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Body ch what's going on there? How did the names
come about?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
There's probably our agency that put that together. Brian Davidson
at Focus had had the idea to put together a Yeah, Dave, yeah, man,
he's a good fella. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
So there's just a name.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
It's marketing little strategies of those motors.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Yeah, absolutely seem to work.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, mate, I can't believe this, John, it's we're taking
your back. But by playing that song you just walked
in and where we haven't heard this for a while.
What year did that one come out? And is there
a story behind that? Song in the Winner.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, that would have been about eighty two. I
think we had that sort of recorded. It was written
by the guy that produced our album, a guy by
named Gary Keady.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
He's a.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Music producer, film producer.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, one of his little little catalog songs that
he had.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You recorded an album at Planet Studios, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
It's yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, that was nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
At eighty two.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, it was at the original location of Planet, which
was in Perth because after they moved to.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, but you guys were playing four nights a week.
You were a really solidly performing on that circle back
in those days.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
How exhausting was it.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It was a full time job.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We were we were working four nights a week, and
we were rehearsing two days a week on the days off,
and we had one day left where we learnt new
material and wrote new material. So it was pretty much
seven days.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Yeah. Yeah, you've got to be obsessed, especially when you're
young and hungry. Yeah. They've got about influencers. Who were
you guys influenced by?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Uh, well, pretty broad I suppose, because the band was
basically a cover band, so we just we followed the charts.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, like a lot of stuff coming out of the
UK was good, which is which is exciting and suited
our playing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I think what we were playing didn't necessarily reflect our
own personal choices, but that was that was what we
were doing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But you were you guys were big on writing and
performing your own stuff as well, weren't you, And you
must have I feel like at that time you might
have had to push.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Back a bit to be able to do that. Because
Perth loved to cover a bat in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We really did so, but only because we you know,
we didn't have You probably thought, well, you know, we
can give them both and they will come round to it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Did you have to push back a bit?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yes, certainly.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
There was always a crowd killer when you're playing a
live gig just to bring out one of.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Your own Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I guess we had the concept to just persist with
that so that people would gradually grow to it and
learn it.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
But yeah, it was always a battle.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I would have thought with the
the you know, the places that you were playing at
as well, the owners of them, they probably wanted you
to you know, play all the covers as well.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Absolutely for sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, John, Can you tell us of Singapore connection with
the band and what went down there.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
My our manager was Jimmy Lee, right, and he was
from Singapore and he had a good mate who owned
the WA Records in Thailand.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
W A, yeah, the label in your mind.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So he did a deal with them to record the
album and then we were going to release it in
Asia through WA Records, and we were then going to
do a tour all through Asia right up to Japan
as support for the release of the album. And then
(04:26):
WA Records in Sydney found out that an Australian band
had signed with w A in Thailand and claimed the
rights because some sort of corporate rule that they had,
and then they seized the tapes for our recording and
locked them in a bank vault in Melbourne. We lost
(04:49):
access to our own album.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They must have been terribly frustrating you to sort of
be the victim in the middle of this, you know,
sort of suit fight going on as a bit of
a you know what, swinging competition between these two sides.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, it was. And at the same time we were
going through that transition that you were just referring to,
where we were trying to play more of our own
material to actually support that album that we were bringing out.
So and we'd also been forced right in the middle
of that to change our name to Formula one because
it was a band in very frustrated in the UK,
(05:30):
you called themselves the Motors. So it all started to
slow down very quickly at that point.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, but frustrating for you guys being creative types and
getting caught up in the business, politics and the rest
of its exactly frustrating, and then getting an album warehouse
like yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, it's funny how musos are so into their music
that they tend to not be totally aware of what
their management is up to.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, we were still consumed by our own passions. Yeah,
and it was all just sort of falling exactly area of.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, yeah, an expertise.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So we had some great venues in the in the
early eighties that all the bands were playing at seven
nights a week.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
You could go and see a band. Where were some
of your favorites to play?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Oh well, we played played like a ranger plays. The
overflow was on a Thursday night, was a ye, it
was a bust. It was pretty huge at the Marley park,
so back before it become the generator was just yeah,
Charles was a.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Raffles.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
They still haven't cleaned the carpet.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The Charles.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Stick to it exactly. Yeah, it was good all those places.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Plus every Wednesday we'd often do like a runout like
at the Kelgooley or Albany. Bumbury was a yeah, the
bustle was a staple.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Actually funny.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You should mention those rural the regional sort of times.
Did you have an almost famous moment with an emergent
he landing in a plane somewhere? I mean, that's a
great rock story, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
It was a funny thing because we're going up. I
got a mate who was a was a pilot at
the time and he needed to get get his hours up,
so he said, jump on the plane and flew up
the Jeryalton. But we got caught up by a dust
storm terrific. Oh, and we couldn't progress, So we had
the land in the middle of some farmer's paddock.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And that's so rock and roll, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
The door of the plane came open while we were
flying along and it buckled with the fourth I wouldn't close.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Oh my god, so get a bowful of dust.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I took my shoe off and got the shoelace out
of my shoe and tied it around the handle to
the door. John, that's exactly right. Tied the door up.
Then do an emergency landing in a farmer's wheatfield.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Having lived in Merit and Bunery early days radio for me,
have you guys like you guys come down and play?
It was a big deal in a country town to
have bring was much more of a country town back there,
but likes of Merriton and Cow it was a really
big deal.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Was a whole town would turn out to see a
lot gig? Yeah, for sure. When the bands would visit
from Perth, very.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Cool, well, good times it was was great.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Your very fond memories got too with the mentals at
one stage. Remember really that that was the way.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That the Focused Promotions put the band together. Yep. And
then they sent us to Carl Gooley for two weeks
and said here put a repertoire together. Yeah, and your
first gig in Perth in two weeks time. So we
went off to cal Gooley and we started rehearsing every
(08:48):
day and then adding more songs and working in Calgoley
until we actually had a repertoire together, and then we
came back and did our first gig at the Herdsman.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
The Herdsman, Yes right, and then spent the next week
after that supporting Metal was anything.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Am straight on tour after our first gig.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Memories, and then after that.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We went straight on tour with rene Ga and did
another two weeks with rene Ga, and of course the
whole time we were doing all the main gigs in
front of a thousand people every time. So by the
time we eventually got around to coming back to birth
and doing what of our own gigs, they booked us
into the carrn Up tabin and I remember we drove it.
(09:35):
It was just starting to rain a little bit when
we got there and there was this queue coming out
of the tavern across the car park and then round
the corner and down the store. And that was to
our first gig after those.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
That's pretty good and.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Then we knew so it was amazing. We came back
to town and we were just sort of like a
big band.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Brilliant stick Well.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It has been lovely to reminisce with you this morning
on our pub crawl.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Thanks boys, we're really good the case. Thanks for having us.
All the best
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