Masters Apprentices : 'Elevator Driver' - music video

[TweetyAliceHippies]

A truly psychedelic song - also love their heavy metal song 'Future of our Nation'. Playing Melbourne Friday night but short set according to Jim

Tweety

[mddawson1]

@TweetyAliceHippies You can find their 1971 live album Nickelodeon which has 'Future of our Nation' at redtelephone66

[TweetyAliceHippies]

A truly psychedelic song - also love their heavy metal song 'Future of our Nation'. Playing Melbourne Friday night but short set according to Jim

Tweety

[newellgirl]

Ah a version of Melbourne long gone..i think the clip makes this song for me...

[ochrered]

So great to go back in time to this great music

[MottTheWot]

Superb!

[immortalpop]

I just hope that hot girl running around in her nightie wasn't run over by the tram

[sirlordwhitman]

Choice Cuts and a Toast to Panama Red have some of the best 70s hard rock music I've heard Easy to Live, The Lesson so Listen, Memories of Saint Kilda are all riff heavy monsters.. check them out if you haven't already.

[Wellveryinteresting]

I have to admit, as a person from the U.S. & knowing most of the music and artists from the late 1960's onward, until I saw the Masters Apprentices' vids here on youtube I had never heard of them. Listening to them, though now, I do wonder if they had been promoted better in the U.S. from what I'm hearing I could have seen them becoming as big as Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin did -- too bad for the lack of promotion in the U.S. for a very worthwhile sounding group.

[mddawson1]

In the 60s the UK was seen as the country where Aussie bands could "make it big". The Masters Apprentices, The Easybeats, The Twilights & probably many others went to the UK. Strangely it was really only a folk group The Seekers who dig make it big there.

[Wellveryinteresting]

You forgot about the Bee Gees, who also did break through in the states. (Although, at that time I'd consider the Bee Gees to be more pop music {along the lines in the states to say, Dionne Warwick or Gary Puckett & The Union Gap or Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost} than rock music -- but the Bee Gees did have some rock songs -- unfortunately those weren't what became early hits for the Bee Gees).

[Wellveryinteresting]

And one more follow up awaiting the other comment to be posted: It would be nearly a full decade after the late-1960's that an Australian rock band would hit it big in the states, & that's the Little River Band in the late 1970's (and AC/DC doesn't quite count, because even though they had somewhat of a cult following in the states before the Little River Band came on the scene -- AC/DC didn't quite hit it big in the states until very early in the 1980's).

[mddawson1]

Don't forget Olivia Newton John & Helen Reddy, Air Supply, Rick Springfield were all pretty big in the US during the 70s. Also a lot of Aussie songwriters have done well there. A few of Tina Turner's later hits were written by an Aussie.

[joemgeek]

Yep- Steve Kipner out of Steve and the Board/Steve and Stevie wrote genie in a bottle for Christina Aguilera!

[mddawson1]

You may have seen these clips here on YouTube but if not check out Russell Morris and Doug Parkinson clips.

[deeflee007]

LRB gave Britain a wide berth, after Aussie bands seemed to be banging their heads on a brick wall over there. So, they specificlly targeted the US. AC/DC's breakthrough album in the US was "Highway to Hell", in 79.

Btb, Daddy Cool was also an Aussie band who thought aiming for the US market was a better option than the UK. Very US rooted orientated music. Especially one of my faves "Bom bom". Their classic song is "Eagle rock" which was inspiration to Elton John's persona. You Tubes of these.

[paintedship]

the easybeats had some success for sure when they went to the UK but nowhere near what they had in Aus

[VoodooFlintstone]

@mddawson1: Though, the Twilights recorded their greatest album in Australia.

[Ribzypunk]

@Wellveryinteresting

I also am surprised, as a record collector and musician, that I have only just discovered these guys. But even with proper promotion here I think they would still be as known or obscure as tortured genius Arthur Lee and LOVE.

[captnswing]

They say true art will pass the test of time. Great song. Sounds as new as the day it was recorded. Utterly brilliant!

[victoriadaniel]

excelente saludos desde peru

[brandon2270]

1:03 looks like the bassist of shortstack

[brandon2270]

sorry 1:02

[kenphilips2003]

Can anyone pls explain to me how this great aussie band did not make it big when they went o/s 1970? how did the world miss them - this, undecided, war or hands or time, buried & died, turn up your radio, 5.10 man, because i love you, rio de camero ... it goes on & on

[Wellveryinteresting]

Lack of promotion in the U.S. is probably the best explanation. Read my comments when they get posted about that issue.

[bencrea1]

fuck the usa, i like that this one of our bombs we can show people now.

[QueenetBowie]

yeh it's ashame the u.s beats australia at everything though, you guys had what the bee gees, acdc and maybe the easybeats? for music, good job....and steve irwin...that's australia in a nut shell

[bencrea1]

lol, steve irwin , well maybe i went a bit overboard. we are not better , just as good.

[QueenetBowie]

lol i'll shake to that

[JulieJedi]

Don't forget the population of Australia is 20 million - and the USA, 200 million???? You ought to have more famous bands. We do just fine thanks. Aussie forever

[Orpheusbeach]

Hmm . . . Go Betweens, Triffids, Nick Cave, Paul Kelly, the Saints (and all things Ed Kuepper), nowadays Augie March, Panics, Sleepy Jackson, Drones. On a per capita basis Oz chews up the U.S. and spits it back out into the Pacific Ocean. And I'm a Yank!

[Orpheusbeach]

Oops, I forgot the Church.

[QueenetBowie]

you guys are silly

[therealgaryhill]

What a great clip, they really look the buisness in this one, so many classic songs

from these guys but this one really stuck in my head,pop psych perfection !!!

[Annie1962]

Kendokunti didn't know Mr Cadd wrote this.. gosh what a songwriter when you consider all of the songs he wrote! Yes this song does remind me of early Pink Floyd and also 'green tambourine'.

[chrisb1953]

Sad to think of how popular and influential this band was in Australia then to consider that in the '70's after all those hits they were still penniless......thanks to corrupt management.

At least Glenn Wheatley got some of it back when he went into R&R management. That is until recently when "Project Wickenby" struck.

[fireplace911]

reminds me of an early Pink Floyd video, except this song is 10 times better !

[dottorphibes]

Insieme ai Missing Links...i migliori in Australia!

[letspretendweremarri]

That tambourine. *sigh* That banging drum. Awesome.

[kendokunti]

great brian cadd song from this alltime great aussie band.

[realdinho]

great one! more in a freakbeat pop-sike vein, eh?

agai n thanks for these brilliant early clips...