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HOME arrow NEWS arrow Angry Anderson, 35 years a Tatt, a live review by David Williams
Angry Anderson, 35 years a Tatt, a live review by David Williams
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Monday, 14 December 2009

ImageAngry Anderson '35 years a Tatt' was a great show; just Angry centre stage on a bar stool (sometimes used as a drinks table), either side were Dai (Daffyd?) Pritchard (the most wicked sounding slide guitar I've heard in a while & acoustic) guitar & Randall Waller (mulit-linguist, adjudicator & database of information - including translator - I didn't know 'bon-Ami' was Mexican for cleaning product?) Both also provide backing vocals & witty interludes, & damn fine playing. Angry treated us to a history lesson for each of the tracks featured: songs included, Bad boy, Outlaw, (Bad boy was not considered the definitive track to represent the Tatts sound, as explained by Angry - but it was 'Outlaw ' that established the Tatts style) - continuing...,also played were I wish, Branded, Scarred, Beaten, Butcher & House of Pain, but the highlights (for me anyway) Stuck on you, with a very emotional Angry describing how the song came into being, with a simple blues riff played by Pete Wells in the Alberts studio on his dobro guitar, the producers (Vanda & Young) requesting the band play on & put some lyrics to it - bang, 'Stuck on you' is born, tonight it bought a few tears to a few of us long term fans - a haunting track, particularly the second half of the track, great chords. Best moment I thought was 'Once in a lifetime' from 'Blood Brothers', Angry reminding us the song was a sort of memorial to Pete, similar to Outlaw, it has an enormously powerful chorus & key change, the boys nailed it tonight! A small but appreciative crowd were on hand to witness this 'different' view of the Tatts music (it's only a small, but intimate venue), but they were sent on an emotional ride, lots of humour, plenty of educational quips (thanks to Randall) a history lesson, & some reminders of the long list of Tatts members who have succumbed to illness over the years. A DVD should be made of these shows & played on prime time TV to educate the public on what a genuine guy Angry is & to give the masses an insight into one of the most important Aussie rock n' roll bands in history...


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  Comments (6)
 1 Written by dave, on 12-03-2010 10:12
for 'Barry - 27-12-2009'  
sorry for delay - the venue was a small, intimate theatre, old style ('Elizabethan' maybe - with 2 levels), if you'r familiar with the Enmore Theatre in Sydney? Same but smaller: just outside the city of Newcastle NSW, in the suburbs, about 300m from my home: being a smaller venue, the whole audience felt like part of the show: Hope this helps?
 2 Written by Buford, on 07-02-2010 08:43
Angry. How is it you seem to have been able to keep up the rock n roll life while so many of the other lads have fell by the wayside? I'm not being condescending I'm of the same cloth.
 3 Written by DAZZA, on 25-01-2010 12:50
I would just like to say that angry has been a huge influence on my life from my teenage years to now. I am 48 I have had the chance to meet angry and speak to him and Pete not that he would remember it was in the early days.Yes he is a nice man and so was Pete and all the boys I finally got my mum and dad to think so too. I hope he finds the strength to rock on after such another huge lose in Mick.
 4 Written by dusty, on 16-01-2010 06:46
Reading 1981 was the best gig ever pure rock n roll mick u are a legend and im sure u will meet up with the others one day and rock heaven like you did on earth.thanks for everything London England loves you forever rest in peace im so gutted and low
 5 Written by Barry, on 27-12-2009 19:52
David what a great review.Sounds like a brilliant night.What was the venue.
 6 Written by mr o, on 14-12-2009 13:44
sounds like it would of been a great show to be at. its a pity that reaginal australia misses out again.

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