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The National Living Treasures

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Member Since: 22/02/2007
Band Website: www.thenlt.com.au
Band Members: appearing at the launch of the double album will be simon starr - guit, vox john skovron - guit, voxjonathon 'the lion of' zion - bass, vox haydn meggitt - drumsscott griffiths - keys, voxother legends of the game who appeared on the album are: dave beck, john castle - drums brett canning, simon starr - bass steve magnusson, doug de vries, simon starr - guitars luke howard, simon starr - keys javier fredes, simon starr, john castle - percussion simon starr, johnathon skovron, haydn meggitt, brett canning, rosie paez, tony floyd, troy macmillan, zohar starr - bvs simon starr, tim watson, martin breeze, troy macmillan - lead vs
Influences: the B's ( beatles, beach boys, byrds, buffalo springfield, big star, bruce springsteen)the Stones til mid 70's, the Who, the Faces, the Kinks, Joni Mitchell,Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, CSNY, Police, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sly and the Family Stone, Shuggie Otis, Prince, early Jacksons, Otis Redding, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Jorge BenJor, Milton Nascimento, Maria Rita, Lenine, Dollar Brand, Manu DiBango, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Blanton, Jaco Pastorius, Harold Land, Cold Chisel, Dave Holland, Wayne Shorter, Louis Armstrong, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, bert Jansch, Leo Kottke, Joe Zawinul, steely dan, XTC, Madness, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Little Feat, Nile Rodgers, Glyn Johns, Quincy Jones, George Martin, Jerry Wexler,-------------------------------------PETER DAICOS, gary ablett, michael jordan, magic johnson, ricky barham, jason kidd, geoff hunt, pele,
Sounds Like: us
Record Label: VITAMIN.NET.AU
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

hello everybodeee - tour diary pt II

i love grover, and no one could be prouder. and if you can not hear it, i'll shout a little louder.anyway, where was i?my tongue is covered in spots from eating too much sugar. in addition to the lepr...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:50:00 GMT

The National Living Treasures Now on Itunes!

National Living Treasures album now available on iTunes!!! Melbournes unashamedly Bourgeois rock outfit The National Living Treasures have just dropped their eagerly anticipated sophomore album on th...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:30:00 GMT

digital release

my prends, at last, the product has been reduced to 1s and 0s, and the bird album is accessible to all (bourgeois enough to have access that is). please download, perhaps fall asleep with your nose on...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:31:00 GMT

tour diary entry no.1

i love it when people love me. to quote ray parker jnr, it makes me want to get my guitar, and play with it all night long.was he being metaphorical there? did he mean ( and i think i should just say ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:49:00 GMT

review of the double album on music blog

The National Living Treasures  Self Titled (2009) 2009 August 17 tags: 2009, album, national living treasures by Alexandra Multi-instrumentalist ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:48:00 GMT

THE LAUNCH OF THE DOUBLE ALBUM

howsit y'all. writing to you from somewhere else. the launch was unreal. a taut 5 pce played the shit out of the tunes, sang good, remembered the words, and broke a sweat which for melbourne winter de...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:22:00 GMT

deja vu

last night, after playing at bennett's lane, i drove out to bundoora to pick up some ayur-vedic cough medicine, as all the other stuff wasn't doing a whole lot other than making me feel like a beatnik...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:27:00 GMT

new album

the new album is nearly upon me. mercy.in just one month, with a total of 4 rehearsals for 2 different rhythm sections playing 21 songs, of which they had heard only 2 before, at all, ever, i have thi...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:29:00 GMT

new tunes

 i have put a couple of roughshod demos up, from the upcoming double album . ok, so maybe it won't go to double, but there are 22 rhythm tracks put down, all of them good enough to use. i had song dia...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:42:00 GMT

salty mouth

too many frankfurts, what was i thinking? now in a chilling repeat of history, i will call a proctologist tomorrow morning, having forgotten the excesses of the night before and wondering why the toil...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:38:00 GMT