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Sunday, 25 September 2005
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Just back from an excellent evening at the Bacchus wine bar with the Hiptones.
Got groped by women, had too much to drink, dug the music, refreshed
aquaintances with Chook (photographer and guitarist) and Ron (69 year
old Pom punter) and met Ron's wife. I hadn't seen Chook for several
months; he's been off the scene due to a death in the family. I can dig
that. I promised him that next time he phones me to play at the Monday
night blues jam at the Grace Emily, I'll be there.
The Hiptones were excellent, if a little loud.
The Hiptones' usual sound man was not there, which I thought strange at first. John had been a technical production student at Salisbury TAFE (and stage manager for AC/DC before that) and was always the sound guy for the Hiptones.
He turned up later; he'd been at the Grand Final! He told me that he
and his ten year old son Nathan had gone to Melbourne with no ticket to
the game, and no accommodation organised! They had milled around the
MCG with a sign around John's neck saying he needed two tickets.
Scalpers offered tickets at $600 each.
Eventually one man approached John and Nathan, asking who the tickets were for. John said, "Me and my ten year old son."
The man said, "Correct answer", and sold him the tickets at cost. So they spent the game together.
Eventually John and Nathan needed accommodation and finally lobbed at a
travellers' hostel, where John played and sang to entertain the
international travellers.
Cool.
11:27:26 PM 
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