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Sunday, 22 December 2019

Post 725 - Mental As Anything - Silent Night - Wooden Heart


Mental As Anything doing a Live, acoustic and busking set on “Good Afternoon Australia”, Dec 21 1984. Mental As Anything, now consisting of Greedy Smith (vocals/keyboards), Martin Cilia (guitars), Jacob Cook (drums), Craig Gordon (vocals/guitars) and Peter Gray (vocals/bass), played a special 40th anniversary show at Surfersaurus in Sydney, during October 2018. Smith was by this point the only original member of Mental As Anything to still be playing with the group. Sadly "Greedy" Smith died of a heart attack on 2 December 2019, in Sydney. Smith's final show with the band -- and the band's last show to date -- took place on 23 November in Werrington, New South Wales.
UPDATE - Unfortunately this is the only Christmas post for this year, I have had a few technical issues   with computers more than I would like to mention but fingers crossed the Blog will be up and running full steam in 20/20. Wishing you all a fantastic Christmas and a great New Year. Ozzie. Flac

7 comments:

AssEClark said...

Thank You, i watch everyday, Love your posts, Merry Xmas, Thanks again.

AussieRock said...

Thanks Gary and Merry Christmas to you as well
Hope Santa can fix your computer issues !
cheers mate

kimbo said...

I've been getting withdrawal symptoms from you lack of posts. Now I understand. Hopefully the gremlins will stay away. Keep them coming mate. I love your blog

rockindoc said...

Have a great 2020 …..

ozrebel said...

Glad to see you up and posting again brother, although it's so terribly sad that it's a post about the death of Greedy.
I remember interviewing him back in my radio days, and he was a thoroughly entertaining, lovely bloke.
A great loss to the Australian music scene.
Tony

jonder said...

Hi! Is there any chance that you have Darryl Cotton's 1981 single "Nice Girls"? Would love to hear it. Best wishes for the new year!

Deb M said...

Thanks for all the effort you go to keeping this project alive. It is truly appreciated.