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About Me

Blues, country, swampy bayou rhythms.. These are the ingredients of the primordial ooze from where Rock Music crawled. And a Hard Way gig is a revisitation to the Jurassic roots of Rock. Raw-boned guitar, throbbing bass, howled vocals and the incessant drums, thumping like a jungle telegraph in the dark of the night. In the small, smoky bars and clubs that Dave Miles and The Hard Way frequent, the sound is the perfect backdrop for the evolution of the species, musical and otherwise. So get down and dirty and covered in swamp mud...

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Member Since: 12/10/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/mojobros2mantrio
Band Members: DAVE - Lead Vocals and Guitar*** JEFF - Bass*** Lincoln-Drums*** (myspace.com/linchdrums) ............................................................ .........................Dave uses Fender, Ibanez,Gibson and Yamaha guitars, and Vox amps Jeff uses MusicMan basses and Warwick bass gear Lincoln uses and endorses Pearl Drums and hardware, Evans Skins, Zildjian Cymbals and Vater Sticks
Influences: DISCOGRAPHY -THE JACKALS"Deaf Mute in a Phone Box" (P McCarthy) 1986"Performing Seals" (P McCarthy) b/w "Power"(D Miles) 1986"Lucys Falling Backwards" (recorded in Melbourne) 1987 -CAPITAL RADIO -"Bless This Mess" 1992 -SVENGALI -"Svengali" 1997 -THE HARD WAY -".... You and the Horse You rode in on" 2002
Sounds Like: Stones meet AC/DC, catch up with Hank III, get blind on tequila, and watch Johnny Cash armwrestle with Tex Perkins, with Nick Cave and Gram Parsons as the referees.............Then again, maybe it's like Social Distortion and Rose Tattoo having an all-in brawl..........
Record Label: unsigned, but if you wanna talk distro........
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

gigs in December

The Hard Way go interstate!! Saturday December 29th at Beaches in Thirroul (Wollongong for the uninitiated) with the Friday 28th spot still unconfirmed. So we hope to see some 'Gongers before they wip...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:24:00 PST

life is funny, innit??

OK, so now Oct 12 isn't going to be a album launch, cos the album ain't ready!! The better half had a look at the credit card balance and said,"Not bloody likely this month!!", so it will be Novemberi...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:29:00 PST

album launch

OK, so it didn't get out on July 29th.... But the launch is on the 12th October, at the Barleycorn Hotel in Colling wood, a delightfully grimy place on Johnston St between Hoddle and Smith Streets. St...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:14:00 PST

up and at 'em....

OK, ladies and germs, time to get busy... album will be released July 29th (big Sis's birthday) and I'm in the process of booking a warm-up and launch here in Melbourne, with a NSW launch gigs to be c...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:46:00 PST

still here....

Yes folks, we're still here. And making incremental progress...The release of the new album, "These Blue Miles" edges closer with a rough release date of late July. There will be a limited number avai...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:08:00 PST

Mojo Bros 2Man Trio

Jeffery has been busy of late, and so we have quite a few Mojo Bros 2Man Trio gigs. That's the name we will use for this from now on, and we will be joining the MBAS and entering the Blues Performer o...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:38:00 PST

Ladies and gentlemen, introducing......Lincoln Harlen...

I'm glad to say that Lincoln Harlen, drummer extraordinaire, has joined the Hard Way in a more permanent fashion as from... well, now.Jeffery and I would like to publicly thank Jonnoe and Fish for all...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:24:00 PST

RIP Dave "Shaky" Brody

Just got a very sad email from an old bandmate in Paul McCarthy of Groove Magazine, in which was the unexpected (for me) news of the passing of Shaky, who spent a few years entertaining us as our road...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:51:00 PST

The King of the Country Western Troubadours

So, you think you know what country's about, do ya?? Well, do ya, punk?? Then you are in for an edu-ma-cation.... Check these outhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPtHVTFqOCA&mode=relat ed&search=...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:14:00 PST

Vale Billy Thorpe

We lost the pioneer of Australian blues-rock this week. Billy Thorpe was a giant of Oz Rock, a groundbreaker, a ballbreaker, an earsplitter--- a fucking legend.From this band comes our heartfelt sympa...
Posted by The Hard Way Band on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:13:00 PST