"Rhymes" - Rock Melons (1987)

Sydney based great Australian funk band from the late '80s featuring the fantastic vocals of John Kenny.

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Music

Tags:

• Rock
• Melons
• Rhymes
• funk
• rock
• Sydney
• '80s
• John
• Kenny
• Australia

[cooperloo27]

I have been looking for this forever...this is the funkiest song, and love you John Kenny!

[stipica71]

@vinniesvideos The electronic voice thingy is what got me too, fantastic hook. Bought this as a single, was a 16 year old 1st year apprentice. Spent most of my wages on records.

[woolyhairs]

This is a brilliant song, but you can't get it on Itunes or anything

[ThexBorg]

It was and is a great song...

[swanstep]

@vinniesvideos . Cool, thank for that info.

[TheFatAussieBarstard]

@vinniesvideos ok...wow....I,ll have to catch up with him...might invite u guys up here to the ranch in Noosa for a beer and a jam one weekend.....what do u think?...

[vinniesvideos]

@swanstep The instrument was an electrified dulcimer, an invention of its player, the great Jonathan Jones.

[vinniesvideos]

@TheFatAussieBarstard John Kenny is alive and well and living on the south coast of NSW.

[vinniesvideos]

This was filmed in an abandoned Industrial building in Redfern, where the band rehearsed. The animation is by Matthew Martin, cartoonist with the Sydney Morning Herald. I am playing keyboards.

[swanstep]

So happy to hear/see this again: Rockmelons were lots of fun live in Sydney '87/'88. They made pretty awesome dance music, and had someone who played a nifty slide-guitar-like thing that made twangy, Chic-like sounds that really made them sizzle. Good memories. Thanks for posting this.