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  • This stuff is great, and being a Newcastle boy makes it even better. Thanks for posting Noz!!

    

  • @TheNosferatu1969 no worries ;-)

  • I feel sorry for all the underage groupies that were victims of Glam rockers.

  • Gawd they were awful then and still awful now.....sorry Dave!

  • saw these guys play live at nobbys beach in the 70's one of newcastles finest but i'm from newcastle

  • dave evans biggest mistake - he quit ACDC (i was told coz they wearn't pretty boys like him lol ) forcing them at the last minute to throw one of the roadies in, as lead singer - and a legend was released (bon scott forever)

    and then he came back a year or so later with rabbit i seen them live they just didnt have the magic to go with the glam..........................­...

  • nzoz - geez youve taken me back with all this music, im loving it

  • We had Rabbit play at School in 76 and poor Dave Evans set his hair on fire while doing a bit of fire breathing.

  • Poor bugger stage right gets no camera time

  • i never knew joan baez ever branched out into designing her own line of off-market amplifier stacks! though she was always so hard rock i guess it was pretty inevitable she'd do something like that.

    i feel like i sorta shouldn't like this video, but i do.

  • @highway234 joan's amps were the best in the business...i bought one in 74

  • @diamondog99 that's cool man! i didn't start playing until the 80s and i was always keenly aware that i'd missed the golden age of guitar tone and real rock, i would love to have ruptured some eardrums in '74. consider yourself envied.

  • @highway234 .......ha!!! not only others but my own...those things had 4 x 6550 tubes in them , they were as loud as fuck...beautiful amps ..made out of a shed in newcastle back in the day...

  • @diamondog99 I was thinking watching this it's a classic old school guitar sound. Amp and mic placement were an art back then unlike now where it's just through an effect a lot of the time. Nice guitar solo too. Reminiscent of Angus on LTBR album even though this predates it

  • **** ... Message to nzoz1976 ... **** You have some of the BEST music clips I've EVER seen ... Just wanted to acknowledge my appreciation here ... Many thanks for the memories I'm re-living ... I was 15 in 1976 ... Rabbit supported TMG in Townsville where I lived back then but I wasn't allowed to go to the concert. I made up for lost time when I was 17 ... Saw hundreds of bands then!! Anyway Thanks Again. *** You're a Legend *** : )

  • @AnnieDelico Thank you Annie... much appreciate your message!

  • @nzoz1976 ... Well ... The way I see it ... You do one heck of a lot of work to get all these clips up onto YouTube for all the fans to enjoy for FREE ... More work than anyone realises I'm sure ... & how often does anyone even bother to say a simple "Thank You"? ... I'm sincerely grateful. Your clips have brought me so much joy ... in all the years you have posted - SO MANY - Too many to count. Thanks again ... so very much : )

  • @AnnieDelico it can be an overwelming amount of work, but still... thank you for such great feedback!!!!

  • Its Phil Screen on drums..

    Leslie

  • This is pretty awful stuff.

  • @p00lman so is your music.

    I checked!

  • @nzoz1976 You watched all of my videos? I appreciate it!

  • Is that Virgil Donati on drums...???

  • BABBIT GROSSE GROSSE GROSSE MERDE

  • I can see why people went into Punk Rock in the mid 70s. The early 70s produced hard edged heavy music like Black Sabbath that expressed the fustrations of people who were poor, working class, etc. By the mid 70s the Stoner music gave way to party rock like this and people needed an anger outlet. Dust was a failed 70s hard rock band and the 2 founders produced KISS (Glam Rock) and one became the drummer for the Ramones who founded Punk Rock.

  • @SupernautG The Ramones didnt invent punk. Sabbath were not a peoples band singing about lay offs, recession and Social justice. Your right about punk being angry. The oils sang " were gettin sick of the music of middle aged queens gettin fatter and fatter and splitten their jeans, its all the same were out in the cold, the good ones died the others just got old- 'everythings set, everythings fine you just gotta stand in line (the dole cues at the CES -Commonwealth Employment agency) Late 70's

  • @euqsabtnatillim Sabbath were a peoples band singing about social justice. Read the lyrics for War Pigs for example.

  • @SupernautG "the ramones founded punk rock" ludicrous and inacurate statement man, and to insinuate that kiss produced glam rock just shows your musical naivette is in full bloom.....marc bolan was doing that stuff while kiss where still shitting yellow.

  • @SupernautG i thought iggy and the stooges pre dated the ramones ? In the 60s !

  • Rabbit WERE Bon Jovi B4 there ever was a Bon jovi! (they were still kids)

    See? WE invented Hair Metal. THIS IS Hair Metal!

    This song is MORE ACDCesque, than Too much...still a great rocker.

    I remember them but i forgot HOW fucking GOOD these blokes were!

  • @ace69er this is glam rock music and rabbit were nowhere near the first to do something like this

    part of the guitar riff in this song is a rip of "can I sit next to you" too

  • They remind me of The Sweet

  • good!!!!very very good

  • This is Dave Evans at his best.

  • Great Aussie Rock...The 70s in Oz was such a cool time to grow up.

    ...now we are old !

  • does anyone know where i could get both rabbit cds thanks

  • Lotta good bands come out of Newcastle. I bet the Jets know who Rabbit are.

  • ha,ha

    everybody knows everyone around here..

    see those BAEZ amps,i know the bloke who makes them.

    the Singer was the original AC/DC singer Dave.

    now all there is in most venues are pokies.

  • I love AC/DC and Rabbit too...Rabbit has a more classy'sound but they still rockin' the parlour!!!

  • No, nothing to do with Yes.

    The leadsinger is Dave Evans; who was AC/DC's singer before Bon Scott.

  • nice reminds me of Sweet

  • lol OMG Rabbit were one of my favorite bands at school

  • Online Radio station im involved with recently interviewed Dave Evans..i wouldnt be too quick to criticise...go check him out.....

  • Its a good song for dancing rock n' roll parties\m/

  • It's called Glam Rock people, it's supposed to be cheesy, kitschy and over the top, it is not meant to be taken seriously. It might look silly today, but you need to put it in the context of the time it's from. The early-mid '70s was a time where silly Pop music was embraced. And I don't think Evans is all bad. I actually like his version of Can I Sit Next To You, Girl? with AC/DC.

  • thing is...evans did take himself seriously...which is why he was booted from ac/dc

  • Kinda looks like the twin to The Sweet......I was looking for the Band Rabbit that Trevor Rabin played for before Yes. Is this the same band?

  • Im looking for them too and this isnt them

  • @rfdtexas WAS he Aussie? NO!

    Please read descriptions!

  • Thank God AC/DC did NOT employ this guy!

    cheesy lyrics and vocals. All Preparation and no "H"

  • no wonder ac dc got rid of him he sucks big time man

  • I dig Dave Evans! He is what he is. Rabbit was influenced no doubt by Sweet/T Rex..etc. No matter what...Dave Evans was the first official lead singer of AC/DC..he is on the first recordings and that enough puts him in the rock and roll history books.

  • I think the singer's chest hairs got singed at the end? Gnarly band ha ha!

  • holy shit that ending was crazy

  • wow dave evans ruins it and in ac/dc

  • This is one of the reasons why we needed punk... god damn that was a load of wank

  • punk is a load of wank

  • this guy sings great but he was too gay for acdc

  • this song is brilliant. I have to say I like ac/dc better though, but this band sound great too. I can vaguely remember seeing them on countdown in 75 or 76 as a kid. They were singing a song called too much rocknroll

  • Yeah, that song's on this account is you have a look.

  • Hey NZOZ, I'm reuploading all the songs I have previously uploaded to youtube to a different account. Could you remove the video responses that don't work? You'll know which ones they are as I'll post new video responses to the appropriate videos.

  • yeah, no worries!

  • Thanks. By the way, Do you have footage of Rabbit playing songs from their first album other than the jam of Lady La Di Da? I saw some "Catch Rabbit Live" Footage on YT but Bigbadbees' accounts have all been closed.

  • Nah... the only thing Rabbit stuff I have is a set they did for the 'Too Much Rock 'n' Roll' album and the 'Lady La Di Da' clip.  That's all of Rabbit I have.

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  • Does anyone have a vid of a band called Wrabbit , or tracks from their album. This is what I was looking for when I came across this post. There was also a band called Lynx that I used to listen to. Haven't found anything on them either .

  • are you sure its not spelled Wrabit? I have the LP by a canadian band. I am now very interested in finding LYNX

  • I think you are right about the spelling , definetly not this band on here.

  • aussie mid 70s glam.dave evans AC/DCs original singer.similar to other aussie bands of the time in Hush and Supernaut

  • bon totaly kicks this guy as as a front man.. he just stands in one spot and waves his hands

  • South African band from the 1970's was named Rabbitt. Two "t"'s at the end. Pretty big in South Africa. At one point I think they were selling better than the Beatles. Trevor Rabin from Rabbitt ended up in Yes.

  • was CHARLIE one of there songs?

  • Dave Evans really agrivates me, the fact that he dances really gay and thats probably why every1 thought AC/DC were a gay band and just cuz he was an asshole to the Youngs.

  • Still one of the best album covers of all time, cracker of a photo

  • Was he the orginal vocalist for ACDC?

  • yes

  • give them a break, its glam rock style. its pretty good for its category. even i have to admit the song is pretty catchy.

  • good style aussie rock

  • If you want to hear Dave Evans singing something heavy, You might want to look up "Hot Nights" From "Dave Evans and Thunder Down Under"

  • probably a stupid question but is rabbit considered a glam band?

  • I think that's a fair question. They may well be considered a glam band. There's a lot of Sweet influences that comes through some of their tracks. The band are dressed a little flashy too. I'd say it's fair to say they're glam-rock or glitter-hard-rock...

    However, they're not as glam as Supernaut... check them out on this account!

  • oh yeah those guys were glam all the way. thanks for the answer dude, i didn't really follow dave evans too much after ac/dc so i was just curious. in my opinion dave evans fit in better with rabbit than ac/dc. dont get me wrong dave has a great voice and he can sing well but ac/dc wasn't the glam type so he didn't really fit in with them.

  • Rabbit reminds me of a glammy Status QUo

  • Yeah, they were glam. Watch their live performance of "Let's go rockin tonight" Which is on Newcastlebands' account (Check out my subscriptions to find him)

  • One of the first 45's I ever bought - I still have it! Funnily enough I got to know Jim Porteous the bass player and his wife quite well at a gym I worked at in Newcastle - saw him play a few times in the Heartfelt Rodneys - sensational band!!

    Drop me a line thru youtube if you are out there Jim

    Rich

  • I uploaded their entire first album to youtube. Don't mark this as spam, This is a good thing.

  • I wont! I didn't even know their first album could be downloaded!

  • Yeah, I found out where you can download both albums. It took a lot of searching on Google. I'll send you the link!

  • Thank you... I'll let Dave know that his album is downloadable. I'm sure he'll appreciate that his old catelogue can still be listened to and enjoyed.

  • Let him know I'm enjoying his music and am going to try and find the singles so I can enjoy them too!

  • sure thing!

  • Great song..this song was defintly underated

  • Trevor Rabin's South African bunny band was called "RABBITT" 2 x B and 2 x T.

  • I love Rabbit so much, but damn they might have just called themselves Potato Chip

  • Physically hes the perfect cross between Bon Scott and Brian Johnson. HAHA

  • Interresting. Love this song. It could have been written by Chinn & Chapman...Sounds like Sweet, huh?

  • i remember rabbit..they burst on to the scene and were gearing up to be huge ..then the fire trick bacfired on the guy and he got badly injured, that seemed to finish their career.

  • Is that what happened, bbadcompany? I have to know!

  • yeah it sure did..he was badly injured and I heard no more from them.

  • They were in a band a few years later, Known as "The heroes". I have one of their songs favorited in my channel, You can check it out.

  • the drummer was burnt doing his fire breathing trick, burnt his face.

  • I thought that fire trick was dangerous. I even said it in one of my comments here before I asked you about it.

  • love to know wot happened to him?

  • He survived it. You can find videos of him in other bands on here, Although there are no close ups of his face in any of the videos I've seen. I haven't watched them all, though.

  • Hey, I found a more recent video with Phil and Mark. Look for "The Tex Pistols: Sad Country Song"

  • man, its cool but MUST'VE hurt!

  • I just thought Wow, that whole fire breathing thing in the end was dangerous.

  • Wouldn't it be crazy if Dave was still AC/DC's singer? I wonder what would have happened

  • They wouldn't have been around for 2 years if bon scott didn't show up.

  • Yea, thats true

  • V acca dacca

  • Wasn't Trevor Rabin (Yes) in this band at one point?

  • No, that's the South African band Rabit - which I think has a spelling with one 'b'.

  • Hey, There are five people in this video! Usually there are only four. In the "Lady La Di Da" Video, There is only the Drummer, the singer, The bassist and the lead guitar player. But in this one I guess someone is playing a Rythm guitar. Wikipedia doesn't have any info about the mysterious player, I looked and commented in the discussion page.

  • mate youve got massive problems but this is from the Newcastle band data base..Greg Douglas (v) -1974

    Dave Evans (v) 1975-

    Mark Tinson (g, v)

    Dave Hinds (g, v)

    Jim Porteus (b, v)

    Phil Screen (d)

    Barry Leytton (d)

  • It was the truth at the time, Wikipedia didn't have any info about him until I updated the page.

  • yeah but Rabbit are an Obscure Newcastle 70`s band..how?why?

  • What do you mean by the why? I found out about david hinds on dave evans's site. I forgot to say that I updated the page on wiki..

  • Tinno is cool

  • they arent from new jersey dude they are aussies most of them are from newcastle my home town!

  • tino on the right :) he rockssssssssssssss

  • To similar AC/DC

  • Jim Porteus (bass) ended up working for the Dept Of Social Security and was in a band called "The Smart Artists". Luvvv the boots in this one Jim !

  • Looks incredibly glam...

  • And you wonder why AC/DC got rid of that guy as singer? In the words of a one Biff Tannen, "Think McFly, think."

  • Hey, they dressed like that to get the crowds attention. They actually stopped dressing in those clothes when Kiss came out because everyone accused them of copying them even though Rabbit was there first.

  • I saw that on Dave's website, he has a link to the pictuer gallery, and he has that album's cover up, and says "This was pre-KISS folks".

  • A fellow Dave fan huh? Have you heard his new album?

  • is this the rabbitt that ex-yes lead guitarist trevor rabin was once a member? he is not in this video.

  • No, it's not. I've recently written a statement saying it wasn't. The South African Rabbit added an extra T in the band's name.

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