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AC/DC Bon Scott era - Live! video

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Australian tour poster, December 1977.   1976-77 Australian tour (audio only), duration: 4hrs 22.24 minutes.  Introduction One of the greatest rock concerts the present writer ever experienced was AC/DC live at Wollongong Town Hall on Friday, 10 December 1976 (see poster above). It was part of the December 1977 - February 1978 A Giant Dose of Rock & Roll Australian tour, and the Wollongong show was very much a live presentation of the relatively new  Let There Be Rock LP, featuring songs such as Whole Lotta Rosie and the famous title track. It was a powerful recording and an awesome performance, with AC/DC just having returned from their second UK tour which had followed on their first US tour. Bon, Angus and the band were tight as, and at their peak. The writer was 21 at the time, and remembers the Town Hall security telling us that we had to stay seated  during the performance Nevertheless to day, we didn't. This was the height of ...
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Peter Green - Live Bluesbreakers 1967

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Peter Green: Give Up Livin' | John Mayall's Bluesbreakers 1965-7 | Live 1967-70 | Live Bluesbreakers 1967 | Munich 1970 | 1. Introduction The Real Blue Vimeo site contains a set of five audio recordings from 1967 featuring Peter Green and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers live in England. They were posted during 2018-2019 and feature accompanying detailed descriptions of the circumstances surrounding their creation by the 16 year old Tom Huissen. These so-called liner notes (from a CD edition?) are taken from a variety of sources, such as Frans ten Kleij (Mr. French), a blues guitarist with John the Revelator . Those descriptions, along with the five recordings, are brought together below. The recordings are as follows: Ram Jam Club, Brixton, London , 1 February 1967 The Marquee, London , 27 April 1967 Klooks Kleek, West Hamstead, 28 April 1967 Bromley Court Hotel, 29 April 1967 Manor House, 5 May 1967 The quality is very good for t...
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Bulli's black panther & Australian spirit big cats

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| Aboriginal Dreaming Stories | Black Panther | Cook's Australian Fairy Tales | Ida Rentoul Outhwaite bibliography | Faërie in Australia | Peck's Australian Legends | Picnic at Hanging Rock - Faërie Realm | Picnic - Path of Light | Picnic - C3 & C18 | Disappearance @ Hanging Rock | Trees & nature spirits | We [the Big Cats in Britain Project] were determined to find an explanation that wasn't supernatural (Coggan 2020) 1. Black Panther in OZ Big cats appear in countries and places around the world were they should not be and are not native. A notable example is the Black Panther in Australia and Great Britain. In the world of cryptozoology , they are one amongst many such mysteries. This article looks specifically at their historic presence in Australia, alongside more general aspects such as totemic elements and communication. A Black Panther is actually a black jaguar - stocky, muscular, and with a short tail; or a bla...
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