Member Since: 5/8/2007
Band Website: this is it! .com
Band Members: Rod Appleton - vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ, drums, tambourine.Jason Buchan - vocals, bass, guitar, organ, piano, maracas.
Influences: the Beatles, the Jam, Motown, Robert Johnson, Radio Birdman, the Nazz, George Harrison, 60's Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Saints, Frank Zappa, Gomez, Muddy Waters, Beck, Nuggets, Eels, Velvet Underground, Jeff Lang, Mudhoney, Elliott Smith, Miles Davis, Epoch, Led Zep, the Easybeats,John Lennon, the Purple Avengers, Beasts Of Bourbon, Bob Marley, James Squire, Burt Bacharach, Motorhead, PJ Harvey, Jane's Addiction, the Byrds,Paul McCartney,Billy Bragg,Tom Waits, You Am I, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Cash, Hoodoo Gurus, the Who, Small Faces, Herbie Hancock, 13th Floor Elevators,Chopper Division, David Bowie, the Lime Spiders,Nick Drake, the Stooges, Quaid, Buddy Holly, Nirvana, MC5, Ace, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Stems, Blowhard, Billy Thorpe, Jefferson Airplane, Howlin' Wolf, Rocket Science, Jodi Phillis, Syd's Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello, Charlie Parker, Celibate Rifles, Beastie Boys, Count Five, Pixies, Dallas Crane, Supergrass, the Stranglers, Paul Keating, Elvis, the Hives, Split Enz, early Grateful Dead, the Riptides, John Williams, Traffic, Big Star, the Kinks
Sounds Like: a watermelon cut into tiny pieces, sprayed with musk and painted in watercolours by elephants and hedgehogs, and then put back together by upside-down chimpanzee's on acid wearing expensive Che Guevara t-shirts and top hats........................................................
............................YOU MUST Watch this video to one of the world's coolest EVER songs!!!!
Here's one of our favourite bands in a classy 80's video...
a good live version of an awesome song(with great sunnies...)for all you pogonophobiacs, don't watch this(check out young John Howard in the front row at the start, getting his first grope of Janette-he was 39 at the time...)
Record Label: etc...records
Type of Label: None