🎵 Another Song From Jonesy's Old Band 'Bad Element' Has Been FOUND!

Let us introduce you to... 'Too Young, Too Pretty'.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nation okay strapping, give me in case people have just
joined us, give us the backstory to your band, Bad Element.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, I dug up an old tape of a garage
band that I was in called Bad Element, and at
the time was eighteen. And at the time every pub
was playing great rock bands in excess midnight, all the angels,
you know, a cold chisel, they were all doing.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
And you wanted a point of difference.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
We want. We wanted what those guys had. We don't
want to work, you know. And the sewers making concrete
and all that joke that we used to do. That's
not my digestive system. By the way we put concrete
on the walls and the sewers, we wouldn't go down
there and make concrete anyway.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
You were told it tough enough.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Our dream, Our dream was just to get paid to play.
And I played drums.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
And you there were three of you, there were three
of me.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Of us.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
There's that ego. There were three of me.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
There's me on drums, Omo on guitar and vocals, and
Bizz on bass. And we had a We pulled all
our money together, six hundred dollars back then.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Is this to book some recording.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Time, recording time to record an EP.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And so you wrote the songs together.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
You play drums and occasionally sing years years, yes.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
And we've heard so the first song that you unleashed.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, unfortunately, So I have a cassette player at home
and I was just being nostalgic. I dug up this cassette,
started playing it and it was working until it didn't
and that snapped the tape. So I had to re
splice the tape. So what we had so far was
no lies did sing.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
It, And then there was Forgetful Nights.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I was on backups on that one. All right, we've
had those. Then the tape broke, some might say mercifully anyway,
And now now I'm too excited to speak. This is
the most recent song from Bad Elements.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So you splice the tape back together to get some
kind of boom box in here.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Thanks to Jeff and Steve, I've managed to get a
cassette player put into the studio. But also now it's
studio quality. It's going straight through the desk. And this
particular songs is called too Young.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
To pre is what's the story.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
The story is about young people, young girls having to
go up to King's Cross to sell their wares for drugs.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I've never heard that genre before of a song.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
This is too young, too pretty. This is the way
I to splice it together. Want yes and rocks. You
have good qualities.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, so it supplies when my meercy applies.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
When you giant like friends, it's like being all nodding
and din after pipe, just warm, say you're just there
on drugs.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Whist on the board, pound you dying, take the barn,
little fail in the price. It's real as it's you, old.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Girl, young.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
R what drums?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Tell me?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Why the jobs always don't.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Bring yady yngs?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Pretty two yards? That's a rocking air you.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Even you sound bored. I'm intrigued because it doesn't. You
haven't gone with rhymes. Why did you say they don't know,
they don't know that if it's been wrong and right,
why don't you say right and wrong?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Because you weren't rhyming anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
We have to talk to about that. That was one
of his He wrote that bredy and I did more.
What about this name?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I hear that bit? Agan? What's your nickname? Well? Brandon?
And had you seen the plight of these young girls.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, yeah, we got across. No, no, they didn't touch it.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Did the flight touch you?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah? We were thinking these kids are the same age
as that, and they're just wandering the streets.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Not the guys, are just the girls. This is such
a boy trope, isn't it from teenage boy trope? I
love it?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know now you can't do anything King's Cross, it's
all closed down.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
No friend, Well that's song number three.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
That's song number three. I don't song number We've got
a bit of trouble with the tape tapes.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Because there is one more song, isn't there.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
I put one more splicing for the last song. Okay,
so we've got three so far, three songs.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
We're going to get that EP happening.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
On the way too. I'm almost hearing reunion vibes from
the band because we're all tragically alive, so

Speaker 3 (05:30):
The rigors of life haven't touched you too hard.