Johnny Dole & The Scabs - Aggro (Dole/Mullany) (1977)

[kingofkongisland]

wish i could hear it better

[thescabs1977]

Turn it up!!

[slxaus]

I remeber having to borrow a safety pin from Johhny at the Bondi Astra so my jeans wouldnt come udone during X's first ever gig. Good to see this, brings back the memories....

Steve Lucas

[thescabs1977]

Johnny was always happy to help!!

[77CITYPUNK]

citypunk radio /nimbin....ex cityram---- diggit man !!

[od666666]

Fucking great, I wanna find out about more Aussie punk this good!! Gret video!!

[thescabs1977]

Thanks.

[madcowthebandvideos]

I agree, he is SENSATIONAL!!

[thatsrighttheband]

What a geat drummer!!

[rortydog]

Great clip, thanks for posting. There's been a few Aussie 70s punk clips popping up on YT lately which is good to see. I used to watch bands at the Grand Hotel & other venues in the late 70s. Don't recall ever seeing the Scabs however. I remember they would always get a mention in the tabloid papers whenever there was a story about punk.

[thescabs1977]

It's surprising you never saw Johnny Dole & The Scabs at the Grand considering they were the band that played there the most and booked the other bands that played there. Perhaps you went there after the band split? Glad you liked the clip.

[rortydog]

Perhaps I didn't start going there until 1979? I think I was a late comer. As I recall it was $1 to get into the back room where the bands played. There was one guy who ran that, forget his name but he put out a roneod fanzine called 'Suck Shit' which I used to have a copy of.

[thescabs1977]

Yeah The Scabs stopped playing there by early 1979 and as far as I know never played there again. I was booking the bands for a while but when I got "asked to leave" the band I never went back so I have no knowledge of bands after that. Don't remember that Fanzine either, do you still have it?

[rortydog]

I know I still had it in 96 because I have a scan I made of the front cover then. I never threw it out so I'm hoping to turn it up one day, probably by accident. There wasn't much to it, only 4 or 6 pages. I recall it was titled 'Suck Shit. The first & probably the last' It was printed on one of those roneo machines they used to have in schools that gave a blue/purple ink colour. They were prone to fading & I'm worried that by the time I find it it will just be paper with some faint blue marks.

[rortydog]

Did Johnny Dole live in Hurstville? Around 1979 I was visiting my cousins there & we were walking down the street at night & my cousin pointed to some guy & said "That's Johnny Dole, he lives around here." I always wondered if that was true or he was just making it up.

[thescabs1977]

When I joined the band he was living at Marrickville and then went to live with Peter (the guitarist) at Woolloomooloo. He had a girlfriend that lived in the Sutherland Shire (she and I went to the same school) and she may have moved to the Hurstville area so it's possible it was him. Peter also had family that lived in the St George area so he may have been visiting? All very domestic isn't it, doesn't sound very Punk does it?

[jaymusseato]

i'm breathless after watching this.

i thought i knew...

...wot punk was...

[thescabs1977]

I hope you've gotten your breath back by now??

[decaysvegan]

Absolute classic Australian Punk. How can we force all the young kids to listen to bands like this to get them appreciate the true essence of Punk Rock, and not the pre-packaged safe product so much of it has become today ?

[thescabs1977]

No chance I would think.

[PoserExposer]

fuckig great! im glad this survived!

[thescabs1977]

Me too, thanks.

[ee1961960]

Saw these guys at Sydney Uni Refectory supporting The Saints in May 77, a night that blew my mind.Ivor Hay was on the door.Amazing flashback of a clip,great work for digging it up.

[thescabs1977]

Unfortunately I can't remember much of that night but I'm glad you can. I remember meeting Ivor and Chris but that's about it. Thanks.

[davidvirginvideo]

Great to see Johhny, Pete and the boys young and angry, thank for putting this vid up,,,

David Virgin

[thescabs1977]

No problem Dave.

[ozredneck22]

Johhny Dole and the Scabs gets a mention today in the Sydney Morning Herald 21-06-08 on page 14. It talks about them being featured at The Oxford Funhouse at Darlinghurst. I think I can remember watching them at The Grand Hotel on Broadway. I do remember watching The Kelpies, Urban Guerillas and Kaos at the Grand.

[XrayVisionGlasses]

fuck, i never knew there was a scabs vid, and a pretty cool one at that.

hey 'only true punk', i used to fuck guys like you in prison :)

[theonlytruepunk]

Only because your grandpa and daddy were fucking you since you were 5, bitch!

[laldan]

love abit o aggro aint never heard o you guys before like

[warpigswitch]

that was pretty good

i started with low expectations beacus of that doods long shaggy hair

but it was a goodsong

[thescabs1977]

I just figure I'll take the good with the bad!

[theonlytruepunk]

WILL SOMEONE GET HIM A FUCKING EGGROLL SO HE WILL SHUT THE FUCK UP? "Eggroll, eggroll, eggroll....enough already. Geez

[thescabs1977]

Thanks for your comments, it's always nice to hear from the disabled. Being Dyslexic, it must be so difficult to communicate with people, but I understood what you meant.

[theonlytruepunk]

Hahahahahaha...any chance of a reunion??? I can get some wheelchairs for you guys....hahahaha

[thescabs1977]

Chris, no not Dave, Greg Morris the drummer from The Scabs here!!

[theonlytruepunk]

Hey Greg...you looked fucking old back then, how old are you now???? Like 100??? Hahahahaha...just fucking with ya.  Love the song and the band.

[thescabs1977]

So you think you are the only true punk? Are you old enough to be that? You are right though, I did look old back then, imagine what I look like now?

[theonlytruepunk]

Jesus Christ, I bet you look older than my grandfather, and he has been dead for 15 years...hahahahaha....it's ok, I am getting up there in age,too. I fucking hate getting old..

[thescabs1977]

Getting old isn't the problem, it's the turning into your father that is the worry!!

Anyway 43's not old, I'm 50!!

[theonlytruepunk]

You are still a kid. I am at heart. I went to a gig last night...the funny thing is, that the uniforms never change over the years, just the people. Thanks for the awesome vid...I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[thescabs1977]

Hi Dean, thanks for your comments, not many people knew about the clip, I guess we all felt it was long gone.

[thescabs1977]

Hi Chris, thanks for your comments, I loved that speaker box, if you go to the web site there are pictures of it with and without the Scabs written on it. Enjoy.