The Saints - Ghost Ships (1984)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1984:

The Saints' promo-video for the hit single 'Ghost Ships' taken from the 1984 album 'A Little Madness To Be Free'.

This is the closest the Saints had gotten to the original 1974-1976 line-up that recorded the Punk classic '(I'm) Stranded' with Kim Bradshaw (bass) and Ivor Hay (drums) to rejoining Chris Bailey. Ed Kuepper also joined The Saints in this particular year.

However, this is not the distinctive sound of the original Saints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saints_(band)

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NZOZ NZOZ1984 1984 Australia Mid Eighties 1980's 1980s 80's 80s

Extended Tags: Chris Bailey

Musical Terms: Country, Folk, Heartland, Rock, Aussie, Old Australian Band

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[SWTSHP]

The guy on the far left at 2:15 looks exactly like Tracy Pew...

[nzoz1984]

@SWTSHP Somebody mentioned that Tracy Pew had also appeared in Cold Chisel's 'Flame Tree' video.... kinda spooky, if it was him.

[TheDavinskiCode]

My how times change thanks to our shitty Australian leaders selling us all out, ya dont see many old timers these days in the pub enjoying a few ales in their retirement days most of them are sitting at home freezing in winter and struggling to put food on their table, it says alot for our Nation... *Going down the gurgler*

[NewWaver80014]

@iloveknitting1 Tracy Pew was the bass player for The Boys Next Door (later The Birthday Party) who were contemporaries of The Saints - he died of an injury sustained during an epileptic seizure.

[StrangerToEarth]

@iloveknitting1

This song really got to you, didn't it?

[iloveknitting1]

This song makes me so sad that I will end up like one of these people. I am now doing Honours in politics at uni and I still fear ending up like a hopeless drunk

[iloveknitting1]

Who the hell is Tracy Pew?? What have I missed and how did he die>>

[iloveknitting1]

dear God, let me aware of my own sentinence

[iloveknitting1]

WHAT REALLY UPSETS ME IS THAT THEY HAVE NO IDEA THAT THEY ARE THE SUBJECT OF THE SONG. THEY LIVE AND DIE WITH NO IDEA....

[MeatCloud]

Why do I feel like a schooner now?

[gustavmarie]

@nzoz1984 I believe it is Tracy Pew...he was touring bassist for The Saints around this time...

[lozarok]

Wicked Song , Cheers for posting !!

[lilynick1]

I remember this clip playing on the telly. 'Beatbox' on ABC. It was a hot saturday morning way back in '84. Theres something nostalgic about it for me. Many of the pub 'locals' no longer with us I suppose ........ except in this clip? ....