To celebrate Harry's 75th birthday on Tuesday 23/4/24, here is his 2020 interview in replay. My guest today is bass player Harry Brus.
Born in Austria, Harry and his family moved to Australia when he was 7 years old.
Inspired by Hank B Marvin and The Beatles, Harry first picked up the guitar as a teenage.
In '65 his band The Amazons scored a record deal with Festival Records and since then he has never stopped working as a professional musician.
In '67 Harry jumped at the chance to play lead guitar for pop idol Johnny Young, and later joined Tony Gaha And The In People. A fortunate encounter with sax great Geoff Oakes started Harry's lifelong love affair with soul music. During these years Harry discovered bass-giant, James Jamerson, whose legendary bass style became Harry's true inspiration on the bass. Jamerson, the great Chuck Rainey and Jerry Jemmott became the three gentlemen of bass who inspired Harry's own unique bass style.
Harry has played with a host of Australian and NZ greats. Mother Earth, Renee Geyer, Kevin Borich, Australian Crawl, Tommy and Phil Emmanuel, Barry Leef, Marcia Hines Jimmy Barnes and countless others.
A workhorse of a musician, a true Australian music legend, this has kept Harry in the game for 53 years and counting.
This one’s a cracker. So sit back back and open your ears to some of the life and times of Mr Harry Brus.
This conversation was recorded 05/10/2020.
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