Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa (live, HQ)
have a look at this video,it is an amazing rendition of Africa (toto)
for more stuff on TOTO, click here and you will go to “LESTER’S MUSIC LOUNGE” where you can purchase anything from a plectrum to a set of drums.Your one stop shop to everything musical…
Rachel,my niece suggested I check out this song,it rips.It sounds like an old MOTOWN style of song…i like it..thanks Rachel.
Duffy – Mercy – Official Music Video
When Black Friday comes
I’ll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
When Black Friday comes
I’ll collect everything I’m owed
And before my friends find out
I’ll be on the road
When Black Friday falls you know it’s got to be
Don’t let it fall on meWhen Black Friday comes
I’ll fly down to Muswellbrook
Gonna strike all the big red words
From my little black book
Gonna do just what I please
Gonna wear no socks and shoes
With nothing to do but feed
All the kangaroos
When Black Friday comes I’ll be on that hill
You know I willWhen Black Friday comes
I’m gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it ’til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop’s gonna sanctify me
And if he don’t come across
I’m gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I’m gonna stake my claim
I’ll guess I’ll change my namelyrics by donald fagen/walter becker
Fee Waybill
“We had this engineer at the time, Humberto Gatica. He was Davids’ engineer. The band would always ask Humb ‘What’s this? What’s that? What does this do? What does that do? Humberto would NEVER answer you. He’d always say ‘talk to ya later. I’ll talk to ya later.’ It was his way of avoiding answering dumb ass questions! So I thought that was funny. So I said let’s call it “Talk to Ya Later”. We wrote and recorded the song by the time the band showed up at 3 o’clock. At one point Foster called in Prairie Prince and told him to come in early to play some drums. Lukather played guitar, bass and the leads. Prairie played drums. I didn’t really do a vocal. I was working on lyrics. But by the time the band came in we had the whole fuckin’ track done! When the band came in they said ‘Wow, jeez man. How long you been working on that?’ I told them TWO HOURS! They said ‘WOW!’ That’s amazing!’ There’s just no denying it. It’s a great tune. That’s kinda how we became friends.”
Then we did it again on the next record. We did the same kinda thing. David said ‘it worked so well that let’s do it again.’ So we wrote “She’s a Beauty” the second time again with Steve, David and me. It was in the same ridiculous amount of time. And the band just went ‘fuck, Jesus Christ!’ That’s how we met. We’ve crossed paths from time to time. We’ve actually played gigs together over the years. We were both at Fitzgerald/Hartley for many years. We stayed in touch. We kept writing. I moved to Sherman Oaks and he was living on Vineland. So we just lived down the street from each other. So we used to hang out. This was before he was married to Shawn, when he was raising the kids, Trevor and Tina by himself. I wrote some Toto songs with him.”
“Back in ’97 The Tubes did another studio record and Luke wrote another song with me, “Big Brother Still Watching”. We went to his house and sat down with an acoustic guitar. He fuckin’ whipped out the lick in ten minutes. It’s a joke! He’s AMAZING! In 2001 the band did a live record “Tubes World Tour 2001”. It was live but we didn’t want to do the same old thing. We were working with Greg Ladanyi and we wanted to write a couple of studio tracks. By this time Foster had quit writing and quit producing. He was running a record company at the time. He was running “143” this Atlantic Division Records. I think it was Atlantic. I called Foster out of the clear blue sky and said, you know Dave it’s been 20 years since we first wrote together! Let’s do a 20 year reunion! You, me and Luke write a song together for The Tubes record. He said ‘Sure, okay’. He hadn’t produced in a long time. As a matter of fact he had just broken his wrist and was whacked out on Vicodin. He was in such pain that he couldn’t play. So we went out to his studio in Malibu, Chartmaker and wrote another song “Loveline” which is on ‘The Tubes Live World Tour 2001’.”
Did you know when you wrote “Talk to Ya Later” and “She’s a Beauty” that they would be such huge hits?
Fee: “Honestly I’d have to say yes. Some tunes you just know. The day we wrote “Talk to Ya Later” I was so excited about it. The band was excited about it too, on one hand. On the other hand they were kinda pissed off because they didn’t write it. It was a song written outside the band. But there was just no denying the song. I remember a guy named Ricky Farrar at the time was managing us. This was before Fitgerald/Hartley. It was the last record that he managed. I was living in San Fransisco at the time. But I was staying down here in Los Angeles at his house in Toluca Lake. I came home at like two o’clock in the morning. I was so jazzed! I went into his bedroom and woke him and his wife up! I said Ricky you have to listen to this. Lukather and I wrote this fucking song! It’s incredible! I was so excited! He said ‘What? Can’t it wait until the morning’? I said NO it can’t wait until the morning! So I drug him into the living room and played the track for him. I said this is going to be big! At the time we had just been released from A&M for NEVER having a hit! We had just signed to Capitol, Bobby Colomby. He had put us together with David Foster. It was the first time that we ever worked with a producer that was as high end as David Foster. The guy is a genius,you know! We write this song and I go, Oh my God! That is a hit! I told Ricky that this song is going to be a hit! We finally have a hit! Radio is going to love this song! They’re going to go crazy! And sure enough it went to #1 on Rock radio in pretty much every country in the world! Then we did “She’s a Beauty” and it was the same kinda feeling! I just went, oh man, this is going to be a hit too! And Foster said the same thing! ‘This is a hit. This song is going to be #1’! You have this feeling. You just know! I haven’t had that feeling since! “(laughing)
Fee Waybill
I recently listened to the Steve Lukather album “Candyman” that you worked on with Steve. I had forgotten how great that album is. Can you tell us about that experience?
Fee: “I pretty much wrote all the lyrics on that record. I think I wrote all but one or two songs. I wrote the whole record with him and then I went in and recorded with him. I sang a lot of background vocals. Luke was working with Dave Garfield at the time. It was really cool. Everything was kinda relaxed. There was no rush. we had the studio locked out. I was in a very metaphysical spot when I wrote that song “Hero with a 1,000 Eyes” and other songs, “Extinction Blues” and stuff. It was very weird. It was one of the best lyrical concepts writing wise that I’ve ever done. I really enjoyed making that record with him. Just from the very beginning Luke said ‘Look man, I just want you to write ALL the lyrics on the whole fuckin’ record!’ I think there was one instrumental. There was one song he had recorded already. He said ‘I’m just too busy! I don’t have time to deal with this’! So from the very beginning I just felt very involved. Not like it was a one off deal. Write the song, see ya later. It was like every day going to the studio. It was really a great, great project! I still love that album! I still listen to that. It’s fuckin’ cool! I’m trying to remember. There were a lot of great players on that record. Garfield, Simon Phillips and John Pena. It was a really good time!”
A few years ago I saw you and another Luke musical partner, Edgar Winter at a Doves of Fire gig to see Luke play. You guys are true fans of each others work. Tell us about that.
Fee: “Oh, ya we always have been fans of each other. I loved that Doves of Fire gig! It was incredible! I’ve always wanted to do a group with Luke. As a matter of fact we were in a band together for a day! Did he ever tell you that story? We were in a band together for ONE DAY! It was after ’86. I had left The Tubes. Toto had kinda split up at the time. Bobby had left Toto. Luke called me up one day and said ‘Let’s have a band’! I’ve always wanted to be in a band with Steve. He’s probably the best guitar player I’ve EVER heard play! So we were in a band called the “Screaming Whities”. Gosh, it had to be ’88. Something like that. Larry Kline was the bass player, Mike Landau was the other guitar player. So we had the two best guitar players in all of L.A.! Carlos Vega was the drummer. I’m trying to remember if David Garfield was the keyboard player or not. I can’t remember. We booked a rehearsal session. We just fuckin’ noodled around all day long. You know those guys! I don’t think we wrote a single song! They just kept playing licks back and forth and back and forth. I was just sitting there saying, fuck, Jesus! When are you going to play a song? Go to a verse! Stop playing leads so I can figure something out! What the fuck! That was it. We did one rehearsal session and I don’t know what happened. Landau went off with James Taylor. Luke went off with somebody else. We never had a second session. So the “Screaming Whities” lasted one day!”
“Steve and I have always been very close. There’s always been this thing about hanging out. We really enjoy it. I haven’t seen him for a while. Since he had the baby. He’s been very busy. We’ve crossed paths across the world. I saw him once in Germany. It’s kind of a mutual admiration society. I used to go hang out at his house. I remember about a year ago the last time I was at his house. Toto was getting ready to go out to Europe with Lee Sklar and Greg Phillinganes in March of ’07. I went to the last rehearsal session and Luke said ‘We’ve gotta hang’! So he took me to “Sushi Dan”, this Rock ‘n’ Roll sushi place. I have never been so fuckin’ drunk in my whole life. I mean we ate and ate and ate and drank sake and beer. And we drank more sake and more beer. We just got hammered out of our gords! It was unbelievable! He said let’s go to the house and continue the party. It was an occasion so I agreed. I ended up passing out on his couch at like 3:30 in the morning dead to the world with my clothes on. I was out cold! I didn’t wake up until the next morning. Luke just left me laying there and went to bed! The next morning I just went, what happened? What did we drink? What happened? I didn’t remember anything! I was just so hammered out of my mind! We have a lot of great memories. I haven’t seen him in awhile. I haven’t talked to him in awhile. I think the last time I saw him is when they had come back from the European Tour in 2007. Actually I did talk to him when after had the baby in September. So even though we don’t talk all that regularly we remain close. We’ve just got so much history and there’s so much love. He’s sat in with us quite a few times over the years. He’s played “Talk to Ya Later” and “She’s a Beauty” with us as a special guest. I think the world of the guy. He’s just incredible. I’m also really proud of him the way Trevor and Christina have turned out. He’s a really good dad and really raised those kids. Trevors’ a great guitar player also. I think the world of the guy!”
The Tubes 2008
Could you tell us what you and The Tubes are currently up to.
Fee: “I’ll probably talk to Luke now because I’m kinda working on a solo record again with Richard Marx here and there recording in the studio. I actually wanna write a tune or two with Luke for that. Not that it will sell any records but he doesn’t give a shit! He enjoys writing I’m sure. So I’m kinda working on that in my spare time. I’ve been really busy. Polo season is in full swing so I’ve been playing a lot of polo. Also The Tubes are coming out with an anthology DVD that we’ve been working on for about three years. Mike Cotten has been putting together a lot of footage and interviews from the old days. We’ve got some great stuff with Luke! We’re planning to release a two DVD package called “White Punks on Dope”. We just got a big time producer involved in the project. This producer who did “Dogtown and “Z Boys”, “Riding Giants” the surf documentary and the last documentary on The Who. Having a big time producer really kicks it up a notch.It’s really exciting. So we’re in the process of doing that. The Tubes are just doing dates, weekends. We don’t wanna work too hard. We play about 35-40 shows a year. I invested in a commercial property management company with my ex. So I do that during the week. We have five commercial properties and I manage about 2,000,000 square ft. of property. It’s pretty much a full time job. So on the weekends we’re either playing gigs or playing polo.”
Official The Tubes Web Site: thetubes.com
that’s honky in the middle,myself on your left and john carpenter on your right,his brother graham carpenter was one of honky’s best mates.we were at the bar having a couple of cold one’s.This image of tony was taken in the late 80’s,as you can see, where not happy enough,the waves that day were unbelievable…
this image is the surf at pasta point on that day…
what do you reckon,not bad is it.
The word legend get’s thrown around a bit too much these day’s,but calling “TONY HUSSEIN HINDE” an legend is an understatement as he was the father of surfing in the maldives.that’s HONKY on your right and myself beside him,on our way to an amazing place he took me to on this great day,in his rubberducky.This place was a fair way from his Island,we weaved through a number of smaller atoll’s to get to his secret place,wow so beautiful,fish everywhere,fantastic stuff…
Back in the early 70’s Tony or “HONKY” as he is known to all his close friends from MAROUBRA and around the world was sailing with his best friend MARK(scano) SCANLON,both jumped on a sailing boat in GALLE,(pronounced “gaul”),colombo and were to sail to SOUTH AFRICA, but 2 days out of colombo they ran aground on a reef in the maldives in the middle of the night.
With nothing to do but wait until the morning or first light they were awakened by a group of MALDIVIAN local natives on outriggers or (donis)as they are called in the maldives, that were actually bodysurfing the waves on the surrounding reef near their boat and were rescued and taken onto land.
Honky who was so amazed by this place, surrounded by insane rideable reef breaks, decided to stay on and surf the local reefs.In this time Honky met up with this elderly local and his family,and in turn,spent the next 12 years or so with them,the elderly maldivian became like his second father.
From there he made his mark as a true surfing legend by opening up the first Island based surfcamp that was later on to be called ATOLL ADVENTURES…he in turn named all the most famous surfbreaks in his area.examples are:pasta point…sultan’s…honky’s…chickens…cola’s.jailhouse rights just to name a few…Pasta Point his private lefthander on the Island that he ran is such a fun wave,I remember the first time I ever surfed the place,feeling really keen to get out there as soon as I got off the boat,he pretty much begged me to sit around with him for a while,just to get the feel of the place, which I did,for he showed me everything from what rocks on the reef were the best one’s to stand on, to jump into the incoming set’s that were about to hit you bigtime,to the way the wave would double up on the inside part of Pasta Point,the way that when the tide changed, the rip that ran around the reef would differ in an heartbeat from pulling you backwards to taking you out in a matter of seconds,he had that place so wired it was greatknowledge to have.
myself,being a man who has plenty of respect for my elders,I took it all onboard with gratitude and from then on into my stay I was in control,well as best as HUEY would let me be that is,ha ha ha…because HUEY(the wave god) is a tough man to deal with from time to time,that’s for sure…
I remember one particular surf Honky and I had,it was at sultan’s,a beautiful righthander which is across the large channel from his Island.As if he was predicting the future,Honky said to me,we will go and surf sultans today from 12.00pm (when mostly everyone is on land or in there boats having a break,lunch,etc).he said Dicko, you will not believe what is going to happen at sultans today.,He had a huge cheeky smile on his face.So 12.00pm hits and we are over there and into it when pretty much like clock work the wind that was blowing just stopped completely,the waves were about 4 to 6 feet and absolutely perfect, barrelling and spitting.It was incredible,with just a few of us out their.So I take off on this wave half way out,my first wave and as I turn off the bottom to set my self up for the inside section,I just stood straight up in amazement,for looking down the line on this wave you could see on the face of the wave the reflection of the reef,fish,rocks, starfish, etc,mirrored on to the wall of the wave,it freaked me out,and I lost my equilibrium.It was just so strange and new to me.
Tony,who was watching me,cracked up,pissing himself laughing at me as I got sucked up and over the falls.We both paddled back out the back together and he explained to me to focus on the nose of my board and then you should be ok,so,next wave I did as he said,from then on for the next hour or so until the sun changed position we were getting Barrelled off our brains in a kaleidescope of colours spinning around our heads,I will never forget that surf,we were hooting and hollowing…2 big kids in a candy store,insane…
To go further into HONKY’S journey is in itself a book of hundred’s of pages as HONKY has lived a blessed life, in that he has lived his ULTIMATE DREAM ,and let’s face it,in this day and age,it’s pretty bloody hard to do that,as there alway’s seems to be something to mess your grand plan up. So peace to you my friend and what a pleasure it was to know you and spend great times with you in the maldives,so long buddy from your old mate,Dicko…
The Director will alway’s be here at PASTA POINT…
…TAKE IT AWAY “HONKY”…
this is a quote from the song,
Home At last,
from the album AJA,
from the band “STEELY DAN”
well the danger on the rock’s is surely passed
still I remain tied to the mast
could it be, that I have found my home at last
home at last
Donald Fagen/Walter Becker.
PLEASE NOTE:THIS IS A TRUE STORY…..
losing a real close friend is never easy,and losing him in very suspect circumstances is even worse, THIS IS A TRUE STORY…that happened to me a few years ago now,but I remember it like it was yesterday…My real close mate Tim Dunne had died some months earlier and on this particular day. I was thinking of him all day when it got to the stage when I just stopped work and put some music on that he used to enjoy.so I am having a few drinks at home on this particular day,listening to some fine music we both used to enjoy together when I had this intense feeling telling me to go up to the bar at the resort where I was living at the time…
Now where I used to live was a townhouse in a resort.Before I go on I should explain to you all, what the resort is like.as you enter the resort there is a lake that basically circles the whole resort and at the entrance to the resort there is an reception area,then near the entrance there is a lagoon off and below the restaurant/bar and you could walk down to a large pontoon where you can fish/have a drink as the sun goes down/rent a canoe or boat and have a paddle or just hang their and do absolutely nothing…so back to the story;
so with this very strong feeling I had,I walked up to the bar and bought a drink or 2 or 3 and as the sun was setting,on a perfectly clear night I wander down to the pontoon for a quiet 1 and reflect on the great times Dunny and I used to have in days gone by.I remember the night became so quiet you could here a pin drop,not many birds chirping,pretty much all you could here was the fish jumping around in the water.
6.30pm it was because I glanced down at my watch,sat down at the end of the pontoon and looked up at the sky,with the stars all starting to appear everywhere,then suddenly I see this moving object off into the distance and at first just thought it was a plane coming towards me, though the colour intrigues me and so I keep watching this as it slowly get’s closer,then as I begin to stand up,the night sky becomes this bright yellow,orange colour and you could actually see major sparks coming from it’s longish tale.it came from the northwest and just kept getting bigger and longer and visibly clearer,at this time you could imagine how I was feeling with my mate all around me on that day,I started yelling out GO DUNNY,you little BEAUTY.at the same time all the patrons at the resorts restaurant/bar all came out to witness this amazing spectacle with me.With everyone yelling and yahooing around me,the comet continued on into the night sky untill it finally disappeared over the horizon and then it was gone…to me it felt like It all happened in slow motion.beautiful.
In conclusion with all the terroism and chaos in the world these days it is easy to forget that we live in an absolutely fantastic world and that these special moments should never be taken for granted,but should be treasured for all and always…to TIM (dunny)Dunne,you are always with me buddy in fact I am going to have a nice glass of red for you right now mate and look out and into the stars on my verandah overlooking KIRRA BEACH and who knows, you might show yourself once again on a
…Comet over Australia…
p.s I welcome you all to reply to this true story…thank you.
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