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Mick

About Me

Used to live in the UK and moved to Oz at the end of 2006 after deciding life was too short and precious to spend in a place that simply didn't feel like the right place to be anymore! Now a resident of Melbourne. Australia. Rowville if we are being precise and a fine place it is too.Played for ten years with a very fine rock n roll outfit in the UK called SKUNK (www.themightyskunk.co.uk). We made a couple of albums and toured in Germany a lot. It was great fun, good luck lads and keep on rolling.Pleased to have thrown my hand in with Melbourne blues rockers Swamp Donkey. If you like Classic Rock n Roll, you'll love the Donkey! Hard edged maximum rock n blues - no prisoners taken, no compromise!This site has my own solo noodlings which - I hope you like!From a Skunk to a Donkey! Funny old world innit?

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Member Since: 17/01/2007
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Influences: Influences, wow where do you start?Band wise - Mott the Hoople (who?), the Stones, Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Creedance, Counting Crows, Crowded House, Kings of the Sun, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and the John Butler Trio are knocking me over at the moment. I should also mention the mighty Skunk here I guess!Guitarists - Electric - Mick Ronson, Rory Gallagher, Keith Richards. Acoustic - Nils Lofgren, John Butler, Nick Harper and the Wiggles are gonna struggle now Greg has left in my honest opinion.Song writers - Ian Hunter, Dylan, Phil Lynott, Tom Waits and anyone who can tell a good yarn really. Just discovered Paul Kelly who's getting some heavy rotation on the stereo right now.Singers - Otis Redding, Frankie Miller, Rod Stewart before he started taking the mick, Robert Plant, Steve Marriott (God bless), Steve Tyler, that bloke from Clutch, Dan McCafferty, John Waite, Spike and obviously both Telf's!Frontmen - see that's different from singers! Ozzy, Bon Scott, Alex Harvey & Dave Lee Roth....enough said!Best gig ever attended - The Georgia Satellites at the Newcastle Mayfair (sadly missed venue), Counting Crows at Glastonbury, Hunter Ronson Band in London, Thin Lizzy farewell gig at the Reading Festival in 83, Grand Slam at The Whitehouse in Whitehaven, Clutch at the Hi Fi in Melbourne, the list goes on.......
Sounds Like: Sound a lot like.......me! Let me know what you think.........
Record Label: That Richard Branson bloke just keeps hounding me!

My Blog

Rave about your favourite album ever

Here the bit where you can rave about one of those albums that you think is just mindblowing and you can't understand why it isn't on everybodies toptastic playlist. Share with us why.......... Me fir...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:15:00 GMT

Who is the luckiest musician ever?

This one set of as a conversation in a pub quite a while ago and has rolled on ever since. My money has always been on Ringo Starr, as John Lennon said 'Best drummer in the world! He's not even the be...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:27:00 GMT

Mick Ronson

Hello and welcome to the blog! Someone e mailed me to ask who Mick Ronson was! Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWYGR3xy2Y&eurl=  and hopefully this video will shed some light. Could do ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:51:00 GMT