The Boys Next Door - These Boots Are Made For Walking (1978)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1978:

The Boys Next Door's promo-video for the single 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' (Nancy Sinatra cover - March, 1978), taken from the 1978 compilation LP 'Lethal Weapons' (released by Mushroom record's punk offshoot label Suicide).

Quote from Chris Löfvén:
"What a Blast to see that after all this time! A good copy too. I do recall that the set was The Boys' idea and they made the hearts themselves. Do I get a credit as director, cameraman & editor?
Cheers, Chris."

Video produced by: Chris Löfvén
Cameraman: Chris Löfvén
Director: Chris Löfvén
Editor: Chris Löfvén

Band Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Track: These Boots Are Made For Walking
Album: Leathal Weapons compilation
Composed By: Lee Hazlewood
Produced By: Greg Macainsh (Skyhooks)
Label: Suicide (Mushroom's punk offshoot label)
Chart Position:
Release Date: March, 1978
Footage Information: A Chris Löfvén Production
Links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birt...)
- http://www.myspace.com/boysnextdoorni...

Line-up:

Nick Cave -- Vocals
[ Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Man Or Myth? (1983) -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1983-present) -- Grinderman (2007-present) ]

Mick Harvey -- Guitar
[ Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Man Or Myth? (1983) -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1983-2009) -- solo (1995-present) ]

Tracy Pew -- Bass
[ Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Man Or Myth? (1983) ]

Phill Calvert -- Drums
[Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Blue Ruin (1985-1989) -- In Vivo -- The Sunday Kind --Sugarhips -- Bulletproof -- The Enthusiasts ]

Later Member:

Rowland S. Howard -- Guitar
[ The Obsessions -- The Young Charlatans -- Boys Next Door (1978-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Crime & The City Solution (1984-1987) -- These Immortal Souls (1986-1992) -- solo (1999-2009) ]

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NZOZ NZOZ1978 1978 Australia Late Seventies 1970's 1970s 70's 70s

Musical Terms: New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, Noise, Aussie, Old Australian Band

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[nzoz1978]

I would really like the viewers who were in Melbourne around this time and were a part of that Melbourne punk scene to just come forward and make comment. Tell us your memories... I really want to know

[Carlos Tona]

(btw This is my son's name. I'm female.)

Tracy was a lovely guy. Always wore a big black hat. Gentlemanly. Ben W-C was one of the wittiest,smartest people I've ever known: the pick of the crop for mine, Nick Cave...always seemed like a bit of a tosser, to be honest. But he did have talent, as time has shown.

Music was everything. We lived, talked, breathed it. The old rock'n'roll dinosaurs were dead we were overtaking them with brio, iconoclasm, no fear and NO understanding of consequences.

[nzoz1978]

thank you for the comment :-)

Will be reading over it again....

I still haven't gotten hold of The Ballroom book by Dolores San Miguel

[sbskinhead69]

fuckin nick cave....

[nzoz1978]

is that a personal wish of yours?

[nzoz1978]

What are we supposed to read with those question marks?

If you have questions. then do some research.

Shouldn't be too hard... you are on the net, after all.

[João Ramos]

you had fun :)

[nrylthptet]

QUE AMOR NO ?

[Carlos Tona]

I was 18 in 1978, in Melbourne. I knew Nick, and others What can I say? It was youth. We all lived in shambolic share-houses, never had money, went out all the time. We were all artists of one sort or another; most of us were very political.

And we took a lot of drugs.

Many deaths. Not all died from ODs: Tracy Pew (Boys Next Door, Birthday Party) had an asthma attack in the 80s. Tracy was a lovely guy. Ben Wallace-Crabbe (Laughing Clowns, Upside Down House) fell...there were a lot of suicides.

[Rebecca Marsh]

yum

[Rebecca Marsh]

yummy