About Me
I have always been a musician.
I started out playing drums with a singing nun in Adelaide in 1974 and a couple of years later I moved on to play with Precious Memories legendary space-blues band,before hooking up with Dave Graney and Steve Miller to form The Sputniks.In 1978 .The band hightailed it to Melbourne and eventually formed The Moodists with Chris Walsh and Mick Turner,splitting to the UK in 1983 on a wing and an independent record deal and touring extensively in Europe and USA.In 1986 Dave Graney decided to go "solo" and we formed The Coral Snakes before returning to Australia around 1990.In the following 5 or 6 years we hopped a white knuckle ride in "Major Label Land" and after we stopped throwing up forged ahead undaunted to form "The Dave Graney Show","The Royal Dave Graney Show" and more recently "Dave Graney and the The Lurid Yellow Mist " I guess ,in all I have made about 20 albums and many eps.
Apart from drums ,I play the Vibraphone,keyboards and sing , use Protools and Logic in order to make my own cds.The latter two being easily the most difficult to master, however,learning them enabled me to co write the soundtrack to the Tony Martin film"Bad Eggs"with David Graney which was a thoroughly tremendous experience.
Im not sure how many gigs Ive done ,but I imagine would be in the vicinity of 2500 or so,therefore I am rarely having a weekend off and am unfamilliar with the concept of the holiday and this is how it should be if you call yourself a musician I believe.
In the future Im hoping to organize a tour of the magnetic poles and Pondoland.
I play music live in many different circumstances and situations. dave graney, clare moore , the Moodists, dave graney and the coral snakes, dave graney and the white buffaloes, the dave graney show, the royal dave graney show, dave graney and the lurid yellow mist, dave graney and clare moore...featuring the lurid yellow mist.
Other musicians I play with are...Henry Manetta and The Trip,Kaye Patterson,Crystal Thomas,The SandPebbles,Charlie Marshall.Discography.......WE WUZ CURIOUS: The lurid yellow mist ...featuring dave graney and clare moore,Keepin it Unreal: Dave Graney and Clare Moore...featuring le comte d'Alucard aka Stu D,
Rock Formations : SALMON,
Hashish and Liquor,(double disc w/Dave Graney.Reverberation 2005)
The Brother who lived, (the Royal Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2003)
The soundtrack to the movie Bad Eggs (David Graney and Clare Moore,Liberation,2003)
Two Fisted Art (the Moodists, WMinc, 2003)
Heroic Blues (the Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2002)
The Third Woman (Clare Moore solo CD, Chapter Music 2001)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (the Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2000)
The Dave Graney Show (the Dave Graney Show, Festival 1998)
The Devil Drives (Coral Snakes, Universal 1997)
The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Coral Snakes, Universal 1995)
You wanna be there (Coral Snakes, Universal 1994)
Night of the wolverine (Coral Snakes, Universal 1993)
Lure of the tropics (Coral Snakes, Torn and Frayed 1992)
I was the hunter and I was the prey (Coral Snakes, Fire 1992)
My life on the plains (White Buffaloes, Fire, 1990)
Double Life (the Moodists, 1985)
Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, 1984)
Engine Shudder (the Moodists, 1982)
