October 22, 2024 • 25 mins
Join Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musicians.
Australian rock icon Diesel takes center stage as he shares the journey of his musical career and the creation of his poignant album, "Alone with the Blues," crafted during the trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join us as Diesel reflects on the unexpected challenges and silver linings of the past few years, expressing a deep gratitude for the return to live music and the exhilaration of touring once again. With captivating stories from the Mundi Mundi Music Festival and a heartfelt appreciation for the breathtaking landscapes of Broken Hill, Diesel's narrative is one of resilience and renewed connection with audiences in the post-pandemic world.
In this engaging episode, Diesel opens up about the inspirations that drive his prolific songwriting and the joy of collaboration, offering a glimpse into his creative process and the legacy he hopes to pass on to budding musicians.
From the influences of his musical family to his first electric guitar, gifted by his siblings, Diesel's passion for music is both palpable and infectious. We explore his strategic approach to crafting diverse and dynamic live performances, including the "Solo Forever Tour" and "Bootleg Melancholy Album Tour" shows with his three-piece band, where he masterfully blends fan-favorite hits with fresh material to create an unforgettable experience.
Whether you're a devoted fan or discovering Diesel for the first time, you're in for a treat as he shares the essence of a career that continues to evolve with each performance.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
That radio chick, cheryl Lee, here.
Welcome to the Still Rocking itpodcast, where we'll have music
news, reviews and interviewswith some of our favourite
Australian musicians and artists.
One of Australia's greatestsuccess stories, diesel, has
spent three decades weaving hisone-of-a-kind musical magic into
his rock and blues-fuelledsounds, both as part of the band
(00:29):
Johnny Diesel and the Injectorsand, more recently, as a solo
artist.
We managed to catch up withMark Lozosh, aka Diesel, as he
has a new album and embarks on anew tour.
To catch up on podcasts fromother favourite artists, simply
go to that radiochipcomau.
You're with Cheryl Lincoln.
(00:49):
I'd like to welcome into theZoom room today, with some
exciting new music news comingup, mark Lazotte or Diesel.
Thank you for joining us today,mark, thanks for having me.
Always a pleasure.
Last time we spoke was 2021.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Wow, I can only imagine what was going on then,
but wow, that was a pretty crazytime.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I think you'd just done Alone with the Blues during
that whole wacky COVID period.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, I probably had, because I think I did that in
2020, going into 21, so yeah, itseems like like another world,
like it didn't happen nowdoesn't it, it's, it does and it
doesn't.
You know what I mean it.
There's a few things that justkind of pop up that you go yeah,
that happened.
You know I mean the records, Iguess for me are a very big
reminder that that's what I did,you know.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
But that's kind of nice, at least I have those
mementos touring wise, iseverything pretty much back to
normal now, three years lateryeah, I mean you can at least go
from um state to state.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, at least you don't have to kind of worry
about quarantining and crossingborders and all that sort of
thing.
So I guess the freedom of beingable to move around has been
restored and I'm yeah, I'mforever grateful for that you
don't sort of realise whatyou've lost till it's gone.
You don't so many things thatyou just take for granted, and I
think only in wartime andextreme sort of conditions and
(02:13):
things that happen on thisplanet do people experience that
.
So it just was, yeah, a reallytelling time, and I realised
what a charmed life I'd had.
You know, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Exactly right.
Last time I saw you perform wasactually just recently at the
Mundi Mundi Music Festival.
Every time we as punters go out, we are just so thankful, and I
think you guys on the stageperforming are as well.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
I definitely felt a kind ofsense of awe and, just so you
know, glad that I was there thatday.
The weather was amazing, thecrowd looked and sounded and
were amazing.
It was just one of those likepinch myself kind of moments.
It's like I just love, love myjob on those days.
So had you done Monday, mondaybefore no, that that was the
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first time I'd done the otherbig desert bash, which is the
big red bash.
I've done that now twice, butthat was my first time outside
of Broken Hill and I love thatarea.
I have to say, a lot of otherpeople I know, my family
included, have been to BrokenHill for doing what they do,
which is my wife is aphotographer producer and my
son's a photographer, so it's aplace that gets used a lot for
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shooting film, tv and and forstills.
But I'd never I'm sure I'd donea gig in brogan hill before,
but I'd never really seen what'soutside in, in the 50 kilometer
, say, radius.
It's amazing.
It's no wonder that they shootso many things there.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
it's just stunning they did mad max there by him
and his partner.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
They brought their car and I think he owns quite a
few sort of vintage muscle carsand he brought his version of
the Mad Max car to the gig and Igot to get a photo with it.
I think the living end actuallygot to do some burnouts in it.
So I was a bit jealous when Iheard that, but it really kind
of added to the whole atmosphere.
When the car was backstage itwas like yeah, here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We're in Mad Max country and there's the car very
cool you are listening to stillrocking it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The podcast with cheryl lee.
We're not from the original madmax movie soundtrack that's all
quite dark really but from madmax beyond thunderdome.
Here is tina turner we don'tneed another hero.
And then back to speak with ourown Australian music hero,
Diesel.
We don't need another hero.
We don't need to know the wayhome.
I was a Mundy Mundy virgin aswell and I loved it too.
(04:35):
We went like this backstage Iwas interviewing Richard Clapton
when he came off and youscooted on and I could hear you
in the background.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That was a great gig I thought.
I've seen Richard a few timesand that one sounded amazing.
His band were incredible.
He has a lot of differentpeople join him on stage.
I don't think anyone would turnback a gig playing with Richard
.
His songs are just so great toplay that particular day.
I just thought it was a really,really stellar gig.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How blessed were we.
It rained once overnight, andthe rest of the time it was just
heaven.
Did you actually?
Stay there Diesel, or did youfly in and fly out?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
We stayed in town, but we didn't camp out.
We stayed in a very nice,comfortable hotel in town, a
really nice breakfast at thiscafe, which was quite surprising
.
Broken Hill is a very civilisedtown for the size that it is.
I'd ask anybody to go there forwhat it has to offer, for
tourism and stuff.
It's a great spot.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, you were in luxury.
We camped for five days withone shower.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I've done it, so I know what that's like.
It makes coming home feel evenbetter.
That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
One more thing before we get on to the exciting news
coming up Coincidentally.
The thing I love most aboutFacebook is the memories that
come up.
Yeah, and do you know what wewere doing, you and I, seven
years ago today?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Seven, seven, so that's always a good number.
Seven, no, I can only make aguess at that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You performed at the Gov seven years ago, your
30-year thang tour.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And I was there up the front.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow, your 37-year thang now yes.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You've just announced the bootleg Melancholy album
tour.
I think it starts this month,goes through to next year.
You're going everywhere, man,yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We get to go to Darwin and Hob hobart, so that's
pretty good, and new zealandtoo in march, so I'm happy about
that you saved the best tilllast, actually, and you're in
adelaide in may.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, two dates adelaideans norwood concert hall
on the friday the second, andthe shagley theater added
elizabeth, saturday the third.
So this is your 17th studioalbum, bootleg Melancholy from
late last year.
Who have you got playing withyou on this record and this tour
?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, this record is primarily myself and that's
about it, besides my drummer,lee, who came in when we were
allowed to have people in ourhouse, because I started the
record in the second lockdown,which thankfully didn't kind of
last, yeah.
So Lee came in and did somedrums and the rest is pretty
much an album like other albumsthat I've made in the past where
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I just play everything on it.
It's one of those.
Alone With Blues was completelythat I didn't get anyone in on
that record A process that Iactually quite enjoy.
I enjoy the indul of theindulgent sort of side of like
being able to just really dig inand get into the kind of nitty
gritties of production.
And yeah, I mean, I imagineother heroes of mine are like
well, stevie Wonder for onePrince.
(07:34):
You know, these are how they'vedone their records.
So that's kind of like abenchmark for me and it might
sound like a weird lonelyexperience, but it's actually
quite really, you know, quiterewarding and even fun, and you
don't have to argue with anybody, I'll just I do.
I have internal dialogue.
I have to be quite tough onmyself.
It's part of the process.
(07:55):
Sometimes I have to actually bethe opposite too and just and
say like enough is enough, let'sstop and let go.
Thankfully, not too many times,but occasionally, yeah, yeah, I
will just get obsessed withsomething and just think you
know what it's.
That's what it's going to be,and it's not a case of accepting
imperfect, but I am aperfectionist and sometimes you
know, imperfections are whatmaybe it needs to be about.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So still rocking the podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl lee.
Mark mentioned his alone withblues album from 2021.
This is one of my favouritesongs from it.
Six Steel Strings and we'll beback to speak some more to
Diesel soon.
Is Richie joining you on bassfor the tour?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, richie and Lee have been with me now for
20-something years, so it's mylong stalwart band, which people
around the country and aroundthe world for that matter have
gotten to know.
So, yeah, I'm really happy tosay that that's who's going to
be joining me.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Fantastic and it's a 17-date national run starting in
Brizzy in the nice warm weatheragain.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, 17 albums, studio albums.
Where do you keep finding theinspiration, mark?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, you know, it's like how do you keep getting up
in the morning and going over tothe kettle?
I guess it's like you know, aslong as I'm upright and moving
and mobile and living andbreathing on this planet, I feel
like I will want to make things.
I guess I like making theprocess of playing with words
and melodies and chords andsongwriting I guess you'd call
(09:26):
it, that's what it is it's likethe building blocks of
songwriting is a fascinatingthing for me and I'm still kind
of beguiled like a child with arattle that looks up and sees
that kind of floating um mobileabove their cot and just keeps
like wanting to grab it.
I'm like that with withsongwriting.
You know, I still haven't kindof gotten to the point where I'm
finished playing with it.
(09:46):
So I don't know if that'll everhappen, to be honest, because
it's just there's somethingreally mysterious about the
process.
I don't quite understand thewhole thing and if I did, I'd
probably just like maybe Iwouldn't write at all, maybe I
would just write like an albumevery day or something, because
once I figured out the secret toit, I do have to kind of wait.
I don't know if waiting is theword, but I tend to just write
(10:08):
when I feel.
Having said that, I do a lot ofcollaborating with a lot of
young artists especially whocome and want to write for their
projects and stuff.
On those days I have to justactually turn it on.
You know, and that's where myexperience of how many things
that I've done and my kind ofbasically hindsight and just
pulling stuff out and wanting tolike give them something and
(10:29):
wanting to them to leave thisstudio with something that they
feel really connected to, Ithink if you're going to
collaborate with someone,especially if the song is
ultimately going to be for them,you need to kind of like tap
into their psyche and kind ofyou know, to have some empathy
for what their experience mightbe, but at the same time, you
want to sort of kind of want itto be as strong and potent and
(10:51):
everything as possible.
So if there's things that youneed to sort of go how, you know
what about this?
You know you have to questionthings and be kind of the judge
and jury, adjudicator orwhatever.
That's all part of the process.
But you also have to understandthat, especially when these
people have only just startedwriting themselves, that
collaborating with someone elsecan be either a really good
experience or a very scarringkind of experience.
(11:13):
And I've already talked to afew people that have just said,
oh yeah, I work with you, knowsomeone, and they kind of like
left me kind of feeling mefeeling really like I wasn't
very good or whatever, or itmade me really question them.
So your job is to kind of buildup the confidence too, and this
is all stuff that I feel likeI've got kind of experience now
after safety, comfortable, kindof little womb that I was in.
(11:34):
Yeah, it's not for everyone.
Some people just don't want toever collaborate with anybody
and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I love that you know you're giving back in that way
and helping the youngergeneration make their mark as
well.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Absolutely.
Music is not.
I don't own it exclusively, andI feel like I have to pass on
whatever I have had.
Just keep passing the baton,you know.
Keep passing it back.
Maybe it's kind of a mortalitything.
I just feel like I've got allthis information and wealth of
knowledge and if I don't pass iton it's just useless, you know.
So I feel like I need to do adownload before I leave this
(12:19):
planet.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You are listening to Still Rocking it the podcast
with Cheryl Lee I think we'llhave one of Diesel's early
collaborations.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Back in 1994, he wrote this song with Guy Davies
All Come Together.
It was released as the firstsingle from the third studio
album, Solid State Rhyme,picking at number 17 in
Australia, and part sales of thesingle were donated to World
Vision.
Back to chat again to Dieselshortly.
(12:52):
And it clearly is somethingthat is definitely in your DNA.
You're from a very musicalfamily, dad musical.
You're the youngest of sevenchildren.
Yeah, I take my hat off to yourmum.
I've got five.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, it's pretty big .
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Did they get together and buy you your first guitar?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
My brother and sister , next closest in order of the
family.
They did exactly that theybought my first electric guitar.
That would do me pretty welluntil I got something, you know,
a little bit more professional.
I guess, it was a.
It was kind of a entry model,you know, and the tuning wasn't
so great after I sort of startedwearing it out, but it
certainly was the best thing inthe world when I got it.
(13:37):
That's all I can say.
I love the smell of it, thelook of it, the feel of it.
You know, I can still smell theway the paint smelled on it
when I got it.
That's all I can say.
I love the smell of it, thelook of it, the feel of it.
I can still smell the way thepaint smelled on it when I took
it out of the box.
It's like it'll never leave mymemory.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's definitely something that you're so
passionate about and, as I say,in your DNA, the retirement word
would not be in your vocabulary.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I feel like I have had so many parts of my life
where I get to experience likepure relaxation or or having
time off to the point where it'slike, you know, I just can
forget about everything for abit and that that's enough for
me.
I can't imagine doing that allthe time.
To be honest, it's like it'snot really it's very attractive
to me, but hey, who knows, Maybethat'll come later.
But no, I mean, I'm just well,I do what makes me happy, and
(14:22):
making music for people, withpeople, is what makes me happy,
so why would I want to stop?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Exactly.
It sounds like I know theanswer to this question already.
Was there ever, ever a plan Bif, like this music thing hadn't
worked out for you?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I wouldn't know about a plan B, but I probably would
have moved into some kind ofarts type thing graphic,
something to do with design andarts probably.
But thankfully I wasn't leftalone.
There was always somethingtapping me on the shoulder to do
in music.
It took traction.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Luckily you were pretty good at it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, I mean, I think I've gotten better.
Definitely that might be like apretty kind of broad sweeping
statement, but yeah, it'ssomething that I've been working
on.
I didn't just instantly getreally good I I think I showed a
lot of promise at an early age.
Yes, there was like it was.
Definitely you could see thatthere was raw talent.
But raw talent needs to be kindof refined and and hon into
(15:21):
something that takes time, theold 10,000 hours thing that they
say.
So I feel like, as far as mycraft goes, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You've honed it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, and it's something that I just keep
working on, where I don't feellike there's any kind of like
achievement factor, where it'slike, right, I've reached that
level now, like now, I want toget to that level.
It's just, you know, keepexploring, keep exploring and
keep expanding.
I think like the universeexpands outwards.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's my goal is just to keep expanding
showcasing your enigmatic liveshow as part of your solo
forever tour.
Your 2025 performances featurea three-piece band and you're
going to have the back catalogueand the new songs yeah, I'm
going to be doing some thingsoff the bootleg melancholy.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I've actually, with the some of the solo shows that
I've got sprinkled amongst theseband shows, I've been doing
some things off the blues albumas well, alone with blues I've
actually been starting my setwith a double bass and ending my
set almost with a double bassas well.
So I just try to make it asdiverse as I can.
Diversity over like especiallyquite a long theatre show, I
feel is really really important.
(16:28):
I don't want to just have thesame kind of foghorn sound going
the whole time.
I want to make lots ofdifferent soundscapes for people
and having differentinstruments really helps that.
So I've been doing that.
The band is like a real luxurykind of machine, but I feel my
solo shows are just as wide anddynamic as the band.
Because, you know, solo issomething I've been doing for
(16:48):
quite a long time now and forall different types of
environments too.
But the theater show, thatwhich is what we're bringing to
Adelaide, is really I'd almostsay it's kind of my favourite
environment, besides playingoutdoors, which you saw at Mundy
Mundy.
But I really love playing inthese theatres because they're
just made for performance,they're made for sound and as a
musician like I've played enoughplaces I feel that are maybe
(17:12):
not designed for sound, thatsound absolutely terrible.
But you just do your best andyou hope for the best.
But I want to give people theultimate experience.
I really do, and these type ofrooms are designed for that.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Still Rocking it podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee, from the debut soloalbum, hip Fidelity Tip of my
Tongue, diesel's highestcharting single.
The album Recorded in LA andMemphis.
The album peaked at number oneon the ARIA charts, went on to
sell more than 20,000 copies.
(17:43):
Not only did the album win bestalbum, but Diesel won best male
artist in 1993 as well.
Back to speak some more to theARIA award-winning Mark Blazot.
After this, with multiplenumber one ARIA chart albums and
(18:07):
six ARIA awards, there is amassive body of work to choose
from over the last 30-plus years.
Obviously you want to play thenew songs, but then how do you
pick from the back catalogue?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
oh well, I stick to the signpost.
You know the singles.
There's a lot of singles, yeah,thankfully I've got a lot of
singles that I still love toreally play.
That is that I don't kind ofhave to cringe and go, oh god, I
really don't like that songanymore, but I have to play it
because people want it you know,I've heard other people that do
so.
I'm really lucky about that.
But yeah, I just I try to dokind of like something from from
(18:42):
this last experience.
Always it's like this iscurrent, something kind of maybe
that I haven't played for awhile, that a little bit of it I
guess you call it a raritythrow something like that in and
, of course, like just lots oflike big old hits.
You know.
So you know, that's what we wantyeah, I mean that's apparently
I mean everyone's different, butI guess, yeah, people want
songs.
I get that.
I'm not going to deny them.
(19:03):
I also feel like if you come toone of my shows, you know you
have to kind of know, and youand you probably do know that
I've made 17 albums and youhaven't come along this way with
the journey with me, with withnot wanting to hear something
that you haven't maybe heardbefore, at least in a live sense
, and walk away with some newexperience as well, like because
change is the only constant,after all, in this world that's
(19:23):
right.
Leave having seen some nicesurprises and some nice memories
and I feel my crowd is sogenerous in that department.
As far as, like being musiclovers, I can play something
it's like hey, you may neverheard this before, but I'm gonna
lay it on you, and the way theyreact is like I can tell it's
like they love it.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So I'm thankfully, I don't feel like I'm putting them
through pain when they have tolisten to a song they haven't
heard before to get on to bothof those sets of dates the solo
shows and the bootleg melancholyalbum, tour dates best place to
go to?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
dieselmusiccomau I think that's a good sort of
all-round kind of place to goand from there you can link on
to the venues and the ticketingand everything.
And you can find my merch, youcan find my youtube channel.
You can find everything thatpretty much is about me from
that website, dieselmusiccomauget onto there, get the tickets,
adelaide.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Don't leave it to the last minute, like you usually
do.
We're known for that becausethey're reasonably small venues.
They will sell out, won't they?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
but I hope so.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Put a reminder in your calendar and just forget
about it I was at the norwoodtown hall the other day to see
the fabulous caprettos.
That's a great venue and you'regoing to barnsley's old
stomping ground.
The shedley added elizabeth,have you been there before?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I've been somewhere near elizabeth, like I guess
gawler is out that way.
I did play at a pub out there,god, many years ago, so I have
been out there and I know whatit looks like with the red dirt
and it reminds me of wa,actually reminds me a lot of
outside of perth.
I like that part of Adelaide.
It's different and interestingto me and I feel like I've seen
the city enough times.
So I don't like it or anything,but I'm looking forward to
(21:03):
something different.
And this theatre I've had alook at it.
I've not set foot in it, butI've had a look online.
It looks like a really, reallynice theatre.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The people that run it have really been great and
looking forward to thatexperience.
You are listening to StillRocking it the podcast with
Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well, we were talking about collaborations earlier,
and here he is collaboratingwith his brother-in-law Jimmy
Barnes and Mark Lazotte aremarried to sisters and he's
heading to Barnsley's countryfrom Barnsley's Double Happiness
album Still Got A Long Way ToGo.
And then we're back to sayfarewell to Diesel, and I've
(21:43):
still got a long way to go.
I don't know how we're goingfor time, mark, have you got
time for one more question?
Absolutely.
I'm just reading what the girlsgave me about an upcoming tv
series.
Now.
Is that days like these days?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
like these was for the abc, that did its thing, so
we did 13 or I think, eps ofthat.
This is on sbs, it's calledgreat australian concepts but
it's done by the same production, people.
So very similar concept.
We talk about a concept.
We interview people that werethere on stage.
We basically put a point ofview onto that night and that
(22:21):
period and that whole experienceand I find out what it was like
for the people that were onstage and give it ultimate
insight.
Instead of just watching aconcert from an audience point
of view, you get to be kind oflike fly on the wall, a sneak
peek behind the curtain totally.
You get the whole sort ofshebang about what was happening
that night.
It makes for great watching.
Of course you get to hear andwatch that see the music happen
(22:44):
as well can you give us thescoop?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
can you tell us any of the artists that you'll be
featuring?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I don't want to give anything away, but there's some
amazing ones this season.
I'm really, really excited,really excited.
There's still so many artiststhat we haven't gotten to, and
this country, so I don't thinkthat that's the definitive list
or anything, but I don't thinkanyone's going to be that
disappointed.
What the ones that we have.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Put it that way, do you know an eta, when we can
expect that on our screens?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
it should be rolling out between now and christmas,
and then it'll be on for quite alot.
I can't't tell you how long,but it'll be on running on free
to view, of course, as well.
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I love that concept.
One last quick one what's onyour playlist when you can
listen to whatever you want?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's a tough one.
I listen to kind of new musicand I find myself listening to
you know things like CharlieParker.
I kind of oscillate betweensuper new artists and jazz and
blues Lightning Hopkins, I waslistening to this week.
Booker White I'm stilldiscovering blues artists, to be
honest, that I know, but Ihaven't really dug into their
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catalogue.
It's a deep well, such a deepwell.
I should at least name one newartist.
It's an Australian artist bythe name of Thelma Plum.
I'm really, really, reallyenjoying her album and her
songwriting is just.
It's always been like stellar.
Yeah, whatever she's released,I've always been like it's just.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
she nails it every time with every everything she
makes have you got a favoriteThelma Plum track and we might
go out with that?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
it was one that I listened to a lot on a car trip
across California.
Oh the, the Backseat of my Mind.
Yeah, I know it's not thelatest, but I do love that song.
I love just the title.
Yeah, backseat of my Mind justmakes you want to listen
straight away.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It does so good.
You want to introduce that forus.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Hey, this is Diesel and you're listening to Thelma
Clum's Backseat of my Mind.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee.
Well, I don't think that songneeds any more introduction than
that.
I leave it behind in thebackseat of my mind.
Well, we shall see you down thefront, either at Norwood or
Elizabeth, or both.
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Sounds good.
Editor's note our Zoom visionjust dropped out.
I can't see you, but I'll saysee you.
Thanks for your time, thank youfor yours.
Bye.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, we could not finish this chat without playing
a song from the new album.
How about the title trackBootleg Melancholy from Diesel's
brand new album?
Please enjoy Bootleg Melancholy.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Is it right or is?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
it wrong.
You're with Cheryl Lee, thatradio chick.
Thank you so much for joiningme on the Still Rocking it
podcast.
Hope to catch you again nexttime.
Get out when you can supportAussie music and I'll see you
down the front.
That radio chick, cheryl Lee, here.
Welcome to the Still Rocking itpodcast, where we'll have music
news, reviews and interviewswith some of our favourite
Australian musicians and artists.
One of Australia's greatestsuccess stories, diesel, has
spent three decades weaving hisone-of-a-kind musical magic into
his rock and blues-fuelledsounds, both as part of the band
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Johnny Diesel and the Injectorsand, more recently, as a solo
artist.
We managed to catch up withMark Lozosh, aka Diesel, as he
has a new album and embarks on anew tour.
To catch up on podcasts fromother favourite artists, simply
go to that radiochipcomau.
You're with Cheryl Lincoln.
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I'd like to welcome into theZoom room today, with some
exciting new music news comingup, mark Lazotte or Diesel.
Thank you for joining us today,mark, thanks for having me.
Always a pleasure.
Last time we spoke was 2021.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Wow, I can only imagine what was going on then,
but wow, that was a pretty crazytime.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I think you'd just done Alone with the Blues during
that whole wacky COVID period.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, I probably had, because I think I did that in
2020, going into 21, so yeah, itseems like like another world,
like it didn't happen nowdoesn't it, it's, it does and it
doesn't.
You know what I mean it.
There's a few things that justkind of pop up that you go yeah,
that happened.
You know I mean the records, Iguess for me are a very big
reminder that that's what I did,you know.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
But that's kind of nice, at least I have those
mementos touring wise, iseverything pretty much back to
normal now, three years lateryeah, I mean you can at least go
from um state to state.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, at least you don't have to kind of worry
about quarantining and crossingborders and all that sort of
thing.
So I guess the freedom of beingable to move around has been
restored and I'm yeah, I'mforever grateful for that you
don't sort of realise whatyou've lost till it's gone.
You don't so many things thatyou just take for granted, and I
think only in wartime andextreme sort of conditions and
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things that happen on thisplanet do people experience that
.
So it just was, yeah, a reallytelling time, and I realised
what a charmed life I'd had.
You know, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Exactly right.
Last time I saw you perform wasactually just recently at the
Mundi Mundi Music Festival.
Every time we as punters go out, we are just so thankful, and I
think you guys on the stageperforming are as well.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
I definitely felt a kind ofsense of awe and, just so you
know, glad that I was there thatday.
The weather was amazing, thecrowd looked and sounded and
were amazing.
It was just one of those likepinch myself kind of moments.
It's like I just love, love myjob on those days.
So had you done Monday, mondaybefore no, that that was the
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first time I'd done the otherbig desert bash, which is the
big red bash.
I've done that now twice, butthat was my first time outside
of Broken Hill and I love thatarea.
I have to say, a lot of otherpeople I know, my family
included, have been to BrokenHill for doing what they do,
which is my wife is aphotographer producer and my
son's a photographer, so it's aplace that gets used a lot for
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shooting film, tv and and forstills.
But I'd never I'm sure I'd donea gig in brogan hill before,
but I'd never really seen what'soutside in, in the 50 kilometer
, say, radius.
It's amazing.
It's no wonder that they shootso many things there.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
it's just stunning they did mad max there by him
and his partner.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
They brought their car and I think he owns quite a
few sort of vintage muscle carsand he brought his version of
the Mad Max car to the gig and Igot to get a photo with it.
I think the living end actuallygot to do some burnouts in it.
So I was a bit jealous when Iheard that, but it really kind
of added to the whole atmosphere.
When the car was backstage itwas like yeah, here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We're in Mad Max country and there's the car very
cool you are listening to stillrocking it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The podcast with cheryl lee.
We're not from the original madmax movie soundtrack that's all
quite dark really but from madmax beyond thunderdome.
Here is tina turner we don'tneed another hero.
And then back to speak with ourown Australian music hero,
Diesel.
We don't need another hero.
We don't need to know the wayhome.
I was a Mundy Mundy virgin aswell and I loved it too.
(04:35):
We went like this backstage Iwas interviewing Richard Clapton
when he came off and youscooted on and I could hear you
in the background.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That was a great gig I thought.
I've seen Richard a few timesand that one sounded amazing.
His band were incredible.
He has a lot of differentpeople join him on stage.
I don't think anyone would turnback a gig playing with Richard
.
His songs are just so great toplay that particular day.
I just thought it was a really,really stellar gig.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How blessed were we.
It rained once overnight, andthe rest of the time it was just
heaven.
Did you actually?
Stay there Diesel, or did youfly in and fly out?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
We stayed in town, but we didn't camp out.
We stayed in a very nice,comfortable hotel in town, a
really nice breakfast at thiscafe, which was quite surprising
.
Broken Hill is a very civilisedtown for the size that it is.
I'd ask anybody to go there forwhat it has to offer, for
tourism and stuff.
It's a great spot.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, you were in luxury.
We camped for five days withone shower.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I've done it, so I know what that's like.
It makes coming home feel evenbetter.
That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
One more thing before we get on to the exciting news
coming up Coincidentally.
The thing I love most aboutFacebook is the memories that
come up.
Yeah, and do you know what wewere doing, you and I, seven
years ago today?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Seven, seven, so that's always a good number.
Seven, no, I can only make aguess at that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You performed at the Gov seven years ago, your
30-year thang tour.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And I was there up the front.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow, your 37-year thang now yes.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You've just announced the bootleg Melancholy album
tour.
I think it starts this month,goes through to next year.
You're going everywhere, man,yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We get to go to Darwin and Hob hobart, so that's
pretty good, and new zealandtoo in march, so I'm happy about
that you saved the best tilllast, actually, and you're in
adelaide in may.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, two dates adelaideans norwood concert hall
on the friday the second, andthe shagley theater added
elizabeth, saturday the third.
So this is your 17th studioalbum, bootleg Melancholy from
late last year.
Who have you got playing withyou on this record and this tour
?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, this record is primarily myself and that's
about it, besides my drummer,lee, who came in when we were
allowed to have people in ourhouse, because I started the
record in the second lockdown,which thankfully didn't kind of
last, yeah.
So Lee came in and did somedrums and the rest is pretty
much an album like other albumsthat I've made in the past where
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I just play everything on it.
It's one of those.
Alone With Blues was completelythat I didn't get anyone in on
that record A process that Iactually quite enjoy.
I enjoy the indul of theindulgent sort of side of like
being able to just really dig inand get into the kind of nitty
gritties of production.
And yeah, I mean, I imagineother heroes of mine are like
well, stevie Wonder for onePrince.
(07:34):
You know, these are how they'vedone their records.
So that's kind of like abenchmark for me and it might
sound like a weird lonelyexperience, but it's actually
quite really, you know, quiterewarding and even fun, and you
don't have to argue with anybody, I'll just I do.
I have internal dialogue.
I have to be quite tough onmyself.
It's part of the process.
(07:55):
Sometimes I have to actually bethe opposite too and just and
say like enough is enough, let'sstop and let go.
Thankfully, not too many times,but occasionally, yeah, yeah, I
will just get obsessed withsomething and just think you
know what it's.
That's what it's going to be,and it's not a case of accepting
imperfect, but I am aperfectionist and sometimes you
know, imperfections are whatmaybe it needs to be about.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So still rocking the podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl lee.
Mark mentioned his alone withblues album from 2021.
This is one of my favouritesongs from it.
Six Steel Strings and we'll beback to speak some more to
Diesel soon.
Is Richie joining you on bassfor the tour?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, richie and Lee have been with me now for
20-something years, so it's mylong stalwart band, which people
around the country and aroundthe world for that matter have
gotten to know.
So, yeah, I'm really happy tosay that that's who's going to
be joining me.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Fantastic and it's a 17-date national run starting in
Brizzy in the nice warm weatheragain.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, 17 albums, studio albums.
Where do you keep finding theinspiration, mark?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, you know, it's like how do you keep getting up
in the morning and going over tothe kettle?
I guess it's like you know, aslong as I'm upright and moving
and mobile and living andbreathing on this planet, I feel
like I will want to make things.
I guess I like making theprocess of playing with words
and melodies and chords andsongwriting I guess you'd call
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it, that's what it is it's likethe building blocks of
songwriting is a fascinatingthing for me and I'm still kind
of beguiled like a child with arattle that looks up and sees
that kind of floating um mobileabove their cot and just keeps
like wanting to grab it.
I'm like that with withsongwriting.
You know, I still haven't kindof gotten to the point where I'm
finished playing with it.
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So I don't know if that'll everhappen, to be honest, because
it's just there's somethingreally mysterious about the
process.
I don't quite understand thewhole thing and if I did, I'd
probably just like maybe Iwouldn't write at all, maybe I
would just write like an albumevery day or something, because
once I figured out the secret toit, I do have to kind of wait.
I don't know if waiting is theword, but I tend to just write
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when I feel.
Having said that, I do a lot ofcollaborating with a lot of
young artists especially whocome and want to write for their
projects and stuff.
On those days I have to justactually turn it on.
You know, and that's where myexperience of how many things
that I've done and my kind ofbasically hindsight and just
pulling stuff out and wanting tolike give them something and
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wanting to them to leave thisstudio with something that they
feel really connected to, Ithink if you're going to
collaborate with someone,especially if the song is
ultimately going to be for them,you need to kind of like tap
into their psyche and kind ofyou know, to have some empathy
for what their experience mightbe, but at the same time, you
want to sort of kind of want itto be as strong and potent and
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everything as possible.
So if there's things that youneed to sort of go how, you know
what about this?
You know you have to questionthings and be kind of the judge
and jury, adjudicator orwhatever.
That's all part of the process.
But you also have to understandthat, especially when these
people have only just startedwriting themselves, that
collaborating with someone elsecan be either a really good
experience or a very scarringkind of experience.
(11:13):
And I've already talked to afew people that have just said,
oh yeah, I work with you, knowsomeone, and they kind of like
left me kind of feeling mefeeling really like I wasn't
very good or whatever, or itmade me really question them.
So your job is to kind of buildup the confidence too, and this
is all stuff that I feel likeI've got kind of experience now
after safety, comfortable, kindof little womb that I was in.
(11:34):
Yeah, it's not for everyone.
Some people just don't want toever collaborate with anybody
and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I love that you know you're giving back in that way
and helping the youngergeneration make their mark as
well.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Absolutely.
Music is not.
I don't own it exclusively, andI feel like I have to pass on
whatever I have had.
Just keep passing the baton,you know.
Keep passing it back.
Maybe it's kind of a mortalitything.
I just feel like I've got allthis information and wealth of
knowledge and if I don't pass iton it's just useless, you know.
So I feel like I need to do adownload before I leave this
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planet.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You are listening to Still Rocking it the podcast
with Cheryl Lee I think we'llhave one of Diesel's early
collaborations.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Back in 1994, he wrote this song with Guy Davies
All Come Together.
It was released as the firstsingle from the third studio
album, Solid State Rhyme,picking at number 17 in
Australia, and part sales of thesingle were donated to World
Vision.
Back to chat again to Dieselshortly.
(12:52):
And it clearly is somethingthat is definitely in your DNA.
You're from a very musicalfamily, dad musical.
You're the youngest of sevenchildren.
Yeah, I take my hat off to yourmum.
I've got five.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, it's pretty big .
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Did they get together and buy you your first guitar?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
My brother and sister , next closest in order of the
family.
They did exactly that theybought my first electric guitar.
That would do me pretty welluntil I got something, you know,
a little bit more professional.
I guess, it was a.
It was kind of a entry model,you know, and the tuning wasn't
so great after I sort of startedwearing it out, but it
certainly was the best thing inthe world when I got it.
(13:37):
That's all I can say.
I love the smell of it, thelook of it, the feel of it.
You know, I can still smell theway the paint smelled on it
when I got it.
That's all I can say.
I love the smell of it, thelook of it, the feel of it.
I can still smell the way thepaint smelled on it when I took
it out of the box.
It's like it'll never leave mymemory.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's definitely something that you're so
passionate about and, as I say,in your DNA, the retirement word
would not be in your vocabulary.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I feel like I have had so many parts of my life
where I get to experience likepure relaxation or or having
time off to the point where it'slike, you know, I just can
forget about everything for abit and that that's enough for
me.
I can't imagine doing that allthe time.
To be honest, it's like it'snot really it's very attractive
to me, but hey, who knows, Maybethat'll come later.
But no, I mean, I'm just well,I do what makes me happy, and
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making music for people, withpeople, is what makes me happy,
so why would I want to stop?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Exactly.
It sounds like I know theanswer to this question already.
Was there ever, ever a plan Bif, like this music thing hadn't
worked out for you?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I wouldn't know about a plan B, but I probably would
have moved into some kind ofarts type thing graphic,
something to do with design andarts probably.
But thankfully I wasn't leftalone.
There was always somethingtapping me on the shoulder to do
in music.
It took traction.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Luckily you were pretty good at it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, I mean, I think I've gotten better.
Definitely that might be like apretty kind of broad sweeping
statement, but yeah, it'ssomething that I've been working
on.
I didn't just instantly getreally good I I think I showed a
lot of promise at an early age.
Yes, there was like it was.
Definitely you could see thatthere was raw talent.
But raw talent needs to be kindof refined and and hon into
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something that takes time, theold 10,000 hours thing that they
say.
So I feel like, as far as mycraft goes, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You've honed it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, and it's something that I just keep
working on, where I don't feellike there's any kind of like
achievement factor, where it'slike, right, I've reached that
level now, like now, I want toget to that level.
It's just, you know, keepexploring, keep exploring and
keep expanding.
I think like the universeexpands outwards.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's my goal is just to keep expanding
showcasing your enigmatic liveshow as part of your solo
forever tour.
Your 2025 performances featurea three-piece band and you're
going to have the back catalogueand the new songs yeah, I'm
going to be doing some thingsoff the bootleg melancholy.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I've actually, with the some of the solo shows that
I've got sprinkled amongst theseband shows, I've been doing
some things off the blues albumas well, alone with blues I've
actually been starting my setwith a double bass and ending my
set almost with a double bassas well.
So I just try to make it asdiverse as I can.
Diversity over like especiallyquite a long theatre show, I
feel is really really important.
(16:28):
I don't want to just have thesame kind of foghorn sound going
the whole time.
I want to make lots ofdifferent soundscapes for people
and having differentinstruments really helps that.
So I've been doing that.
The band is like a real luxurykind of machine, but I feel my
solo shows are just as wide anddynamic as the band.
Because, you know, solo issomething I've been doing for
(16:48):
quite a long time now and forall different types of
environments too.
But the theater show, thatwhich is what we're bringing to
Adelaide, is really I'd almostsay it's kind of my favourite
environment, besides playingoutdoors, which you saw at Mundy
Mundy.
But I really love playing inthese theatres because they're
just made for performance,they're made for sound and as a
musician like I've played enoughplaces I feel that are maybe
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not designed for sound, thatsound absolutely terrible.
But you just do your best andyou hope for the best.
But I want to give people theultimate experience.
I really do, and these type ofrooms are designed for that.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Still Rocking it podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee, from the debut soloalbum, hip Fidelity Tip of my
Tongue, diesel's highestcharting single.
The album Recorded in LA andMemphis.
The album peaked at number oneon the ARIA charts, went on to
sell more than 20,000 copies.
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Not only did the album win bestalbum, but Diesel won best male
artist in 1993 as well.
Back to speak some more to theARIA award-winning Mark Blazot.
After this, with multiplenumber one ARIA chart albums and
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six ARIA awards, there is amassive body of work to choose
from over the last 30-plus years.
Obviously you want to play thenew songs, but then how do you
pick from the back catalogue?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
oh well, I stick to the signpost.
You know the singles.
There's a lot of singles, yeah,thankfully I've got a lot of
singles that I still love toreally play.
That is that I don't kind ofhave to cringe and go, oh god, I
really don't like that songanymore, but I have to play it
because people want it you know,I've heard other people that do
so.
I'm really lucky about that.
But yeah, I just I try to dokind of like something from from
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this last experience.
Always it's like this iscurrent, something kind of maybe
that I haven't played for awhile, that a little bit of it I
guess you call it a raritythrow something like that in and
, of course, like just lots oflike big old hits.
You know.
So you know, that's what we wantyeah, I mean that's apparently
I mean everyone's different, butI guess, yeah, people want
songs.
I get that.
I'm not going to deny them.
(19:03):
I also feel like if you come toone of my shows, you know you
have to kind of know, and youand you probably do know that
I've made 17 albums and youhaven't come along this way with
the journey with me, with withnot wanting to hear something
that you haven't maybe heardbefore, at least in a live sense
, and walk away with some newexperience as well, like because
change is the only constant,after all, in this world that's
(19:23):
right.
Leave having seen some nicesurprises and some nice memories
and I feel my crowd is sogenerous in that department.
As far as, like being musiclovers, I can play something
it's like hey, you may neverheard this before, but I'm gonna
lay it on you, and the way theyreact is like I can tell it's
like they love it.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So I'm thankfully, I don't feel like I'm putting them
through pain when they have tolisten to a song they haven't
heard before to get on to bothof those sets of dates the solo
shows and the bootleg melancholyalbum, tour dates best place to
go to?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
dieselmusiccomau I think that's a good sort of
all-round kind of place to goand from there you can link on
to the venues and the ticketingand everything.
And you can find my merch, youcan find my youtube channel.
You can find everything thatpretty much is about me from
that website, dieselmusiccomauget onto there, get the tickets,
adelaide.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Don't leave it to the last minute, like you usually
do.
We're known for that becausethey're reasonably small venues.
They will sell out, won't they?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
but I hope so.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Put a reminder in your calendar and just forget
about it I was at the norwoodtown hall the other day to see
the fabulous caprettos.
That's a great venue and you'regoing to barnsley's old
stomping ground.
The shedley added elizabeth,have you been there before?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I've been somewhere near elizabeth, like I guess
gawler is out that way.
I did play at a pub out there,god, many years ago, so I have
been out there and I know whatit looks like with the red dirt
and it reminds me of wa,actually reminds me a lot of
outside of perth.
I like that part of Adelaide.
It's different and interestingto me and I feel like I've seen
the city enough times.
So I don't like it or anything,but I'm looking forward to
(21:03):
something different.
And this theatre I've had alook at it.
I've not set foot in it, butI've had a look online.
It looks like a really, reallynice theatre.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The people that run it have really been great and
looking forward to thatexperience.
You are listening to StillRocking it the podcast with
Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well, we were talking about collaborations earlier,
and here he is collaboratingwith his brother-in-law Jimmy
Barnes and Mark Lazotte aremarried to sisters and he's
heading to Barnsley's countryfrom Barnsley's Double Happiness
album Still Got A Long Way ToGo.
And then we're back to sayfarewell to Diesel, and I've
(21:43):
still got a long way to go.
I don't know how we're goingfor time, mark, have you got
time for one more question?
Absolutely.
I'm just reading what the girlsgave me about an upcoming tv
series.
Now.
Is that days like these days?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
like these was for the abc, that did its thing, so
we did 13 or I think, eps ofthat.
This is on sbs, it's calledgreat australian concepts but
it's done by the same production, people.
So very similar concept.
We talk about a concept.
We interview people that werethere on stage.
We basically put a point ofview onto that night and that
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period and that whole experienceand I find out what it was like
for the people that were onstage and give it ultimate
insight.
Instead of just watching aconcert from an audience point
of view, you get to be kind oflike fly on the wall, a sneak
peek behind the curtain totally.
You get the whole sort ofshebang about what was happening
that night.
It makes for great watching.
Of course you get to hear andwatch that see the music happen
(22:44):
as well can you give us thescoop?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
can you tell us any of the artists that you'll be
featuring?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I don't want to give anything away, but there's some
amazing ones this season.
I'm really, really excited,really excited.
There's still so many artiststhat we haven't gotten to, and
this country, so I don't thinkthat that's the definitive list
or anything, but I don't thinkanyone's going to be that
disappointed.
What the ones that we have.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Put it that way, do you know an eta, when we can
expect that on our screens?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
it should be rolling out between now and christmas,
and then it'll be on for quite alot.
I can't't tell you how long,but it'll be on running on free
to view, of course, as well.
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I love that concept.
One last quick one what's onyour playlist when you can
listen to whatever you want?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's a tough one.
I listen to kind of new musicand I find myself listening to
you know things like CharlieParker.
I kind of oscillate betweensuper new artists and jazz and
blues Lightning Hopkins, I waslistening to this week.
Booker White I'm stilldiscovering blues artists, to be
honest, that I know, but Ihaven't really dug into their
(23:46):
catalogue.
It's a deep well, such a deepwell.
I should at least name one newartist.
It's an Australian artist bythe name of Thelma Plum.
I'm really, really, reallyenjoying her album and her
songwriting is just.
It's always been like stellar.
Yeah, whatever she's released,I've always been like it's just.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
she nails it every time with every everything she
makes have you got a favoriteThelma Plum track and we might
go out with that?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
it was one that I listened to a lot on a car trip
across California.
Oh the, the Backseat of my Mind.
Yeah, I know it's not thelatest, but I do love that song.
I love just the title.
Yeah, backseat of my Mind justmakes you want to listen
straight away.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It does so good.
You want to introduce that forus.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Hey, this is Diesel and you're listening to Thelma
Clum's Backseat of my Mind.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee.
Well, I don't think that songneeds any more introduction than
that.
I leave it behind in thebackseat of my mind.
Well, we shall see you down thefront, either at Norwood or
Elizabeth, or both.
(24:55):
Sounds good.
Editor's note our Zoom visionjust dropped out.
I can't see you, but I'll saysee you.
Thanks for your time, thank youfor yours.
Bye.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, we could not finish this chat without playing
a song from the new album.
How about the title trackBootleg Melancholy from Diesel's
brand new album?
Please enjoy Bootleg Melancholy.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Is it right or is?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
it wrong.
You're with Cheryl Lee, thatradio chick.
Thank you so much for joiningme on the Still Rocking it
podcast.
Hope to catch you again nexttime.
Get out when you can supportAussie music and I'll see you
down the front.
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