10-14/9/1985 Big Jake'll tell ya...
These updates are starting to get onerous now... Still I will persist.
Persistance starts with the 10 September 1985, a Tuesday and quite a busy day. Apart from that old work shite and lunch with Pip, the real action started on the phones, so generously supplied by my employer. My diary commanded me to pay the rent; phone Cathy Newell re:publicity; phone Triple Zed re: getting info on air for next Friday's show; phone Jim Courtney (whoever he was?), and; find Jivin' Gene Vincent. Jivin' has a tick next to him, so I guess he was found.
After work, Anne Jones drove me to Buffy Lavery and Damien Ledwich's abode in the gritty depths of Main St, Woolloongabba - I took her car to get Pip and motored to collect a paper from Megan Redfern en route to Triple Zed, where I made a spot for next Friday night's La Bamba - a black Friday spectacular called, Cookin' Up A Mess O' La Bamba-Billy, loosely conceived as a rock-a-billy extravaganza. The spot I made is one of my all time favourite little production gems, which I fortunately have rescued a murky copy of...
Voiced by my alter-ego of the time, Big Jake McGeever, who apart from doing several Triple Zed live to airs, including the Red Carpet at the Rialto Theatre for Triple Zed's 10th Birthday Gala with Christopher Plimsoll, another alter-ego, was most famously lauded as the MC of the Phantom Club's ball at the well-appointed Colossus Reception Lounge in West End.(Known to us at the time as the Mario Colossus Hall - in honour of the wrestlers, Mario Milano and Spiros Arion - you know!)
After the spot it was back to Main St where I found myself smack-bang in the middle of a Cane Toad Times editorial meeting which ended around midnight.
The Wednesday was a nothing day - washing and and an early night following the heady heights of artistic productivity achieved the day before.
Thursday the 12th September 1985 has me searching for pieces for a guitar I had purchased sometime earlier. I remember it now as a beautiful small acoustic guitar with a country and western motif screen printed on the body and a rope style strap, but it was sadly missing a string and a tuning head, which wasn't a huge problem as I was sadly missing the ability to play guitar, but it was beautiful and perfect Big Jake McGeever accoutrement. I purchased a guitar-shaped belt buckle from RM Williams and still managed to deposit $300 into my 'going overseas' account.
Friday 13th September brought to 1985 one of the more memorable La Bamba shows. Cookin' Up A Mess O' La Bamba-Billy featured several country-billy bands, most notably a scratch band of John and Rick Caskey with Michael Whelan, and The Rockadiles - a real deal rock-a-billy band. Jivin' Gene Vincent's Travelling 60's Dance Classes were a hit and the evening was hosted by myself disguised as Big Jake McGeever and Deb Brown who may, or may not have worn her hair in plaits and had a costume heavily featuring gingham. The show went particularly well according to 1985 me.
Saturday was a day to skive off work apparently. Did some shopping in the afternoon with Pip at Lutwyche and we threw an impromptu dinner party for Maria Cleary and John Caskey in the evening. Took Pip home later in the evening and spent some quality chat-time with Pip's landlord, Ruth Propsting who was in town.